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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · 17d

First (annual?) Hamilton lab off-grid camping trip to Bald Eagle State Forest. Good company, scenery, s’mores and so much more. Food for the soul!! I’m a very #luckyPI to work with this amazing group!

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · 22d

A little adventure through the roads around State College this evening while the sky put on a show #happyvalley #nofilter

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Camille Roux @crouxevo.bsky.social · 26d

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 28d

University of Calgary is hiring a tier I CRC professorship in crop genomics. Come work in one of the most beautiful corners of the world!
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...

Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Translational Crop Genomics in Sustainable Agriculture in Calgary, ...

careers.ucalgary.ca

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · Sep 8

Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The Plant Resilience Institute (PRI) at Michigan State University invites applications for multiple tenure-st...

careers.msu.edu

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Unofficial Guardian (UK) Bot @guardian-uk-rss.bsky.social · Jun 26

‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals

Subtle DNA changes in trees demonstrate Charles Darwin’s natural selection – although human help may be needed

www.theguardian.com

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Aug 11

Excited to be in Ottawa this week for the Canadian Forest Genetics Association meeting!! Great to wake up and walk around the national capital to start the morning ❤️🇨🇦

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jul 28

Super sad to be missing out on #Botany2025, but Hamilton Lab is represented by @sammymuraguri.bsky.social - be sure to drop by his poster to learn about the genomic architecture of adaptive introgression across repeated contact zones between two sister Poplar species #PopUpPoplars

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Jul 25

Climate and hybridization shape stomatal trait evolution in Populus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.665994v1

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jul 12

Sporting the ultimate of common garden experiment fashion this year - @krunkg.bsky.social shows how you too can fashion the literally cutting edge of field supply fashion while protecting your trees from hungry little rodents #blackash #commongarden #fieldfun @krlopicc.bsky.social

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 28

Exhausted but so happy!! Thanks so much to all participants near and far for making #forestgenetics2025 a success!! Our community is strong, supportive, and resilient, just like our trees. I’m inspired!!! Until next time…..

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Prof Richard Buggs @rbuggs.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thanks Kew!
The paper itself can be found here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · Jun 27

BIG NEWS! We’ve found that ash trees are fighting back against ash dieback disease! 🌳💪

Scientists at Kew & QMUL ‪@qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍

Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

#PlantScience #SciNews

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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · Jun 26

Rapid polygenic adaptation in a wild population of ash trees under a novel fungal epidemic | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rapid polygenic adaptation in a wild population of ash trees under a novel fungal epidemic

Rapid evolution through small shifts in allele frequencies at thousands of loci is a long-standing neo-Darwinian prediction but is hard to characterize in the wild. European ash tree (Fraxinus excelsi...

www.science.org

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 27

When the Canadian organizes the banquet at the hockey arena obviously the conference logo goes up on the score board 😉#forestgenetics2025

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 26

So impressed by our Featured Student Speakers presenting in the keynote sessions. Just: wow! The future of forest genetics is bright #forestgenetics2025

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thanks so much to our amazing Field Trip team for organizing awesome field excursions for #forestgenetics2025. So many unique forest sites, stories, and applications of forest research and genetics at Rothrock State Forest and Penn Nursery and more #teamwork

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 25

Honored to be appointed a Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Leadership Fellow position. I am deeply grateful and thrilled to provide creativity and leadership within interdisciplinary spaces, emphasizing graduate training and evolutionary biology. www.psu.edu/news/faculty...

Huck announces 2025-26 Leadership Fellows | Penn State University

Faculty members Jill Hamilton, Wenrui Hao and Gustavo Nader have been named the 2025-26 Huck Leadership Fellows. As fellows, they will take part in a yearlong, high-level professional development prog...

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 23

It begins!! Welcome to #forestgenetics2025 - where all the cool kids are hanging! #trees4everyone @michellezavala.bsky.social @diegodelorbe.bsky.social @krlopicc.bsky.social

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 20

Getting ready to go!! Beautiful center pieces courtesy of our PSU graduate students, @michellezavala.bsky.social and @krlopicc.bsky.social at #forestgenetics2025 How well do you know your trees? We’ll find out!! Counting down to welcome all to the Happy Valley!! forestgeneticsconference2025.com

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 16

One week to go!!! So excited to host our colleagues next week in the Happy Valley of Pennsylvania! Over 150 registrants from around the world!! If you’re interested in coming but unable to join in person - email me to learn about virtual options forestgeneticsconference2025.com #forestgenetics2025

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 8

Admittedly we might be a little early in the season - but we are so grateful for the tour and lesson on how to tap trees and make maple syrup at our colleagues Sugar Shack deep in the QC forest #Canadiangold #maplesyruplove @krlopicc.bsky.social @lucieanderson.bsky.social @jacobmazza.bsky.social

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thank you to our amazing hosts from the Laurentian Forestry Center and the University of Laval for the amazing tours of forest research labs, greenhouses, and more. This crew is inspired by the facilities and the diversity of ongoing forest research programs!!

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 4

I’m so lucky to work with an amazing group of undergraduates passionate about tree conservation, creative, and don’t mind getting their hands a little dirty!! excited for the future with these scientists! @jacobmazza.bsky.social @lucieanderson.bsky.social @krunkg.bsky.social and Raquel! #LuckyPI

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 3

Day 2 planting black ash reaches new heights: 1488 trees in the ground with this crew who are feeling a little ‘Hollywood’ with visits from Radio Canada. Stay tuned for great coverage. This all-female led team are rockstars leading innovation in forest genetics & conservation @krlopicc.bsky.social

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Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 2

Day 1 in the books: 1060 trees in their new home! Amazing working alongside friends at Natural Resources Canada and the Forest Gene Conservation Association #blackash #teamwork #commongarden #conservation #internationalcollaboration @krlopicc.bsky.social @jacobmazza.bsky.social @krunkg.bsky.social

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