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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 4d

The genomic response to drought across spatiotemporal scales in Amaranthus tuberculatus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.02.679894v1

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Jannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social · 6d

New paper by former MSc student @christeinecke.bsky.social! ⭐ A behemoth effort to apply artificial selection on clonal reproduction in #Mimulus guttatus. We show that clonality evolves quickly, but not symmetrically in both directions, and multivariate life history traits are altered too! 🧪🌾

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 7d

Life-history evolution under artificial selection in a clonal plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679824v1

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Julia Kreiner @jmkreiner.bsky.social · 16d

Fun to synthesize some exciting future directions for spatiotemporal genomics in this Tansley perspective.

Check er out!

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 16d

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

The genetic architecture and spatiotemporal dynamics of adaptation across human-modified landscapes
doi.org/10.1111/nph....

(🧵 1/6) What determines how quickly species adapt to changing environments?...

Fig. 1 Temporal genomic approaches for measuring selection coefficients from allele frequency change vary in power and accuracy depending on sampling design, sample size, and dominance. SLiM design.

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · 21d

A stunning day to be in the field in Southern Ontario today, at the Koffler Scientific Reserve, @ksrjokershill.bsky.social

The Raymond Moriyama pavilion at the Koffler Scientific Reserve, with goldenrods in the foreground, a pond, and willows fringing the pond.

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 21d

High-throughput developmental assay of cold tolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.14.676146v1

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · 21d

Congrats to Yash Singhal, a new grad student @utoronto.ca in EEB.

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 21d

Congrats to the 2025 Young Botanist Award Recipients! 🌱 🎉

These awards honor outstanding graduating seniors in the botanical sciences.

Learn more here: botany.org/home/awards/...

Make sure to nominate outstanding graduating seniors you know in 2026!

#BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · 23d

Congrats to Dr. Meng Yuan, who defended her PhD on the genome-wide potential for ploidy & sexual conflict in plants! Many thanks to @judithmank.bsky.social for serving as her external examiner. A fun collaboration w/ @stepheniwright.bsky.social and also @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social for a paper!

Photo of Dr. Meng Yuan (center), and Aneil Agrawal, Megan Bontrager, John Stinchcombe, Judith Mank, Stephen Wright, and Asher Cutter.

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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 25d

MSc position in my lab. Come study the evolutionary & behavioural ecology of insects!
@stfx-university.bsky.social

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tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku.bsky.social · 26d

I am recruiting a PhD student this application cycle to explore questions on the evolution of morphological variation and phylogenetics. I'm especially seeking folks interested in fossil marine inverts. Please reach out to me if interested! Portal opens Nov. 1 eeb.utoronto.ca/education/gr...

Admissions - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Resources For More Information Please contact: [email protected]

eeb.utoronto.ca

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · 29d

Hmm... Since the test has only existed since 1992, "worst scores since 1992" as teased at the top of the article really means "worst scores in the history of the test."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

Reading Skills of 12th Graders Hit a New Low

www.nytimes.com

John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · 29d

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · Sep 4

I like coat color in Labrador retrievers! Many people are familiar with them, and its a relatively simple set of phenotypes to explain.

(I also had a Dudley yellow lab, the double-recessive with pink skin and nose, so I'm partial to them).

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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · Sep 3

Toronto in a nutshell.

The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · Sep 3

Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane

TORONTO - Eyewitnesses today confirmed reports that a pedestrian was walking in the road because a cyclist was riding on the sidewalk because a car was parked in the bike lane.

www.thebeaverton.com

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · Sep 1

My latest blog posts: The abilities and character traits required to do well in a PhD program.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/phd-level-...

PhD-level abilities and character traits

It's not all about intelligence

blog.genesmindsmachines.com

John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · Aug 29

This paper by John Kelly and Patrick Monahan is a nice illustration of how epistasis contributes to additive genetic variance, and potentially the response to selection:

(No humans or twins here, but the q.g. is top notch)

journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · Aug 28

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Please repost!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 27

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

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Stephen I Wright @stepheniwright.bsky.social · Aug 27

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · Aug 26

Editorial Manager is impossible. A few years back, I wrote to a few journals to ask them to delete my accounts entirely so that I could start over.

I've had success w/ a few where-- after resetting the PW and finally logging in-- I link it to either ORCID or web of science.

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · Aug 20

and, @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social !

My favorite part of this paper: the collaboration started after I sent Meng a biorxiv preprint from Stuart's lab.. She contacted him with questions about that work, and the collaboration grew from there.

Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · Aug 20

Yuan, @stepheniwright.bsky.social‬, @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social‬, et al. examined signatures of selection across life stages in the angiosperm Rumex hastatulus and the moss Ceratodon purpureus.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf138

#genome #evolution #PlantSky

Testing for the Genomic Footprint of Conflict Between Life Stages in an Angiosperm and Moss Species

Abstract. The maintenance of genetic variation by balancing selection is of considerable interest to evolutionary biologists. An important but understudied

doi.org

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · Aug 16

Sadly, I'll be missing #ESEB2025 because of the labor disruption affecting @aircanada.bsky.social ...

Flight attendants went on strike as of last night, and my outbound flight was cancelled this arvo despite the Feds ordering binding arbitration to send parties back to work.

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · Aug 12

New work from Josephs lab grad student Asia Hightower
@puffballove.bsky.social
w/ Dan Chitwood & many many others on general, flexible methods for analyzing leaf shape variation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Procrustean pseudo-landmark methods in Python to measure massive quantities of leaf shape data

Premise When examining leaf shapes that are different from one another, it can be difficult to compare both the overall leaf shape and points along the leaf margin in biologically and statistically me...

www.biorxiv.org

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Amanda Rawstern @arawstern.bsky.social · Aug 11

Come check out my presentation on what community properties can predict microbiome resistance to drought today! #ESA2025 COS 015 BCC 336 3:30-5:00

Picture of presentation title slide showing a soil landscape.

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · Aug 7

Something that might help: change the culture where editors are expected to make decisions on resubmissions based on a revised manuscript & cover letter.

Most ms are sent for re-review, and if the original reviewers are unavailable (or fatigued), it gets new reviewers... and new objections.

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