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Jesús Martínez-Gómez
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Assistant Professor in EEMB @ UCSB | Evo-Devo • Botany • phylogenetic comparative methods • meristems https://www.martinezgomezlab.com/
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Jesús Martínez-Gómez @jesusgm.bsky.social · Jul 25
A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025

Reach out!

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Martinez-Gomez Lab
Plant Evo-Devo
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Cathy Hernandez @cathyhernandez.bsky.social · 6h
Very happy to share that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina in January! My group will be working on environmental phage ecology and evolution, and I am recruiting for the upcoming year (more info below).
A graphic advertising phage ecology and evolution research at the University of South Carolina, showing a central image of a tide pool flanked by a photo of an agar plate containing diverse microbes and a TEM image of a virus particle.
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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 16d
We are excited to share GPN-Star, a cost-effective, biologically grounded genomic language modeling framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of variant effect prediction tasks relevant to human genetics.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ana Ignatieva @anaignatieva.bsky.social · 5d
Delighted that our paper about the distribution of genomic spans of clades/edges in genealogies (ARGs), and using this for detecting inversions and other SVs (and other phenomena that cause local disruption of recombination) is out in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (1/n)
The Length of Haplotype Blocks and Signals of Structural Variation in Reconstructed Genealogies
Abstract. Recent breakthroughs have enabled the accurate inference of large-scale genealogies. Through modelling the impact of recombination on the correla
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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · 7d
Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment.

#iamabotanist

Details (+ application portal) here:

lnkd.in/eVsbe7K5
Photos of past Burpee postdocs with some of our great students at Bucknell.
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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 2d
UNC Chapel Hill is hiring an Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Per Jeff
Dangl MPMI candidates are also highly desired in the search. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
Assistant Professor
The Department of Biology at UNC Chapel Hill (https://bio.unc.edu/) is searching to hire a tenure track Assistant Professor to study critical questions in Plant Molecular Biology.We seek candidates wh...
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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 22d
In the midst of the darkness, I am pleased to announce that UCLA will be hosting the upcoming Southern California Evolutionary Genetics (SCalE) conference on November 1! Registration & abstract submission is here: www.scalemeeting.org/home Deadline is October 13! Hope to see you at UCLA!
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The SCalE Meeting is a free, one day regional academic meeting focused on evolutionary genetics and genomics. This year's SCalE Meeting is hosted by UCLA, sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative ...
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👻Sewall Fright🎃 @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 10d
New — with @joannarifkin.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social, and many more — we created seven new high-quality genomes and explored pangenomic variation in the emerging oilseed crop pennycress (Thlaspi arvense). 1/
Structure and sequence evolution in the pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) pangenome
Summary · Eukaryotic genomes harbor many forms of variation, including nucleotide diversity and structural polymorphisms, which experience natural selection and contribute to genome evolution and biod...
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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 13d
We're on a roll: Super proud of this paper lead by Dr. Megan Frayer & GS Hagar Soliman (with a major contrib from GS Pia Schwarz): Introgression and Parental Conflict Shape Repeated Occurrences of Postzygotic Isolation @hybridzones.bsky.social @hagarsoliman.bsky.social @pfschwarz.bsky.social
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 12d
GRFP call is out: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Deadlines pushed back to Nov.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 13d
I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
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Christopher Krieg 🌿 @ckrieg.bsky.social · 16d
🚨 1 Week Left to Apply! 🚨
The Krieg Lab is hiring a Research Professional in Plant Ecophysiology & Evolution.

📅 Deadline: October 1, 2025
📧 Sending materials (Cover Letter, CV, References) to: kriegc[at]wfu.edu
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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · 19d
Awesome: Undergraduate and professor discover several new species of violets in the mountains of Virginia.

“Put very simply, we looked."

#iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW

www.ohio.edu/news/2025/09...
A botanical breakthrough: OHIO undergraduate and professor discover several new species of violets in the mountains of Virginia
OHIO senior Collin Thacker, under the mentorship of professor Harvey Ballard, discovered four new species of violets in the mountains of Virginia, including two tucked away in Shenandoah National Park...
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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 19d
Friday Flower 005: Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱✨

A tiny flower, but a giant in research, thale cress enabled our understanding of flower development through the "ABC Model".

With this knowledge, their flowers can be essentially reprogrammed to produce micro-roses 🧬🌹
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Erica H Lawrence-Paul @ehlawrence-paul.bsky.social · 22d
Honored to have been selected for this award! 😊 Happy national postdoc appreciation week everyone!
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Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social · 22d
Happy to announce @plantpostdocs.bsky.social
#Sahyadri #OutstandingPostdoc 2025 during
National Postdoc Appreciation Week #NPAW2025

🎉Congratulations!!
Erica Lawerence-Paul, PSU
Penelope Lindsay, OSU
Elena Perry, LBNL

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 22d
Annnnd first lab meeting + first lab photo done! Here’s my baby lab with 1 undergrad, 1 masters student, 1 PhD student, 1 postdoc, and 1 PI! 😁👩🏻‍🔬👨🏻‍🔬 #newPI
Group photo in the conservatory, we are all setting on a wooden bench with plants in the background. Left to right is Emma, Sam, Minya, Yudi, Angelique
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 23d
Okay, gonna try something new (for me). Im gonna send a few colonies of Agrobacterium to @plasmidsaurus to see if agro has my plasmid, via their zero prep service. Typically this is done with ecoli so not sure if results will be guarenteed but this will save me months of guessin
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 26d
The origin & diversification of #Amaryllidaceae: A phylogenetic & biogeographic analysis

New #AJB research by Zoë Dennehy-Carr, Kálmán Könyves, Chris Yesson, John David & Alastair Culham

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#plantscience #biogeography #FossilFriday #evolution
Members of each Amaryllidaceae tribe, showing examples of morphological variation across the family. Photos belong to Zoë Dennehy-Carr, Alastair Culham, and John David, except for Calostemmateae.
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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 26d
Friday Flower 004: Hibiscus trionum 🌺✨

Hibiscus trionum displays a dark bullseye in the center that acts as a landing pad for pollinators 🎯

The bullseye is made by a developmental boundary delineating distinct cell shapes and pigments.
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CoreyWelch_STEM @coreywelch.bsky.social · 29d
After a 4 yrs, colleague & I in collab w/ grad college to revive our GRFP grant writing workshop we ran through the ISU+KU SACNAS chapters, 2016-2021.

Friday evening: lightning talks.
Saturday: grant writing panel, broader impacts 2025, & 1on1 coaching with faculty for Grad students/Senior UGs.
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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 29d
The LSRF post-doc fellowship is open (due Oct 31)!

The LSRF is a supportive and kind community. We *always* celebrate each other.

On a personal level, they've always greeted me with open arms and an abundance of kindness.

If you are thinking of applying and have questions, feel free to reach out!
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 29d
oh hey, I just learned that the ~2005 website we made to function as a fully illustrated, HTML-based key to California's arthropods is STILL THERE, a miracle in this age of linkrot essigdb.berkeley.edu/biokeys/inve...
blurry ancient jpg logo of "UC Berkeley BioKeys" featuring a cute bug under a magnifying glass
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tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku.bsky.social · Sep 5
Excited to share a new paper! "Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution". Part of some work I've been doing on modelling the evolution of polymorphic traits in fossil echinoderms.

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Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution
Abstract. Intraspecific phenotypic variation provides the basic substrate upon which the evolutionary processes that give rise to morphological innovation,
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Sep 5
Applications for the 2026 Pivot to Plants Fellows Program at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are now open.

Location: St. Louis, MO
Application Deadline: October 15, 2025
Dates: Jan. 5, 2026 – Dec. 23, 2026
Estimated Stipend: $37,275

Learn more: www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
Pivot to Plants: Training Program for Plant and Data Science | Danforth Plant Science Center
The Pivot2Plants Fellows Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science or data science but have limited research experience.
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Adam Steinbrenner @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social · Sep 5
More fruits of studying natural variation in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris): an interesting genetic basis for insensitivity to caterpillars' In11 elicitor 🐛

Our new bioRxiv preprint from star technicians Brian Behnken and Wesley George below 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · Sep 4
My department is hiring a Plant-Fungal Assist Prof!! As the newest #NewPI here, don't get me started on how wonderful my colleagues, how smooth my onboarding has been, how supportive the school and the department are, how nice my brand new lab is, and how convenient living in Champaign Urbana is!
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Steven Burgess @sjb287.bsky.social · Sep 4
We are hiring! The #PlantBio department at UIUC is looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Plant-Fungal interactions. Application deadline is October 31st @dallingjim.bsky.social see the link below for more details:
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Assistant Professor- Department of Plant Biology
Duties & Responsibilities
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