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Lucas Albano @lucasjalbano.bsky.social · Sep 3

Incredibly proud to be a part of this amazing and ambitious collaboration and looking forward to putting all of the data together and exploring the results in the coming months!

Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yesterday was the last day of data collection for our scarlet monkeyflower project involving a resurrection study in 3 latitudinally arrayed common gardens. With tons of support from family, friends, and colleagues along the way, the literal seeds of this project developed in 2010.

Photo of several people crouching to collect data in an experimental garden of scarlet monkeyflowers

Photo of many scarlet monkeyflowers growing in an experimental garden

Photo of a hummingbird perched on a faded pink pin flag, with several blooming scarlet monkeyflowers all around, and a blue pin flag and environmental data logger visible in the background

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Lucas Albano @lucasjalbano.bsky.social · Aug 15

Bittersweet to be completely finished field work at the beautiful Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, the site of the southern common garden of the PERSIST project on adaptation to climate in scarlet monkeyflower with @seemasheth.bsky.social. On to the central garden next!

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Pooja Nathan @pothebug.bsky.social · Jul 16

Now out in Oecologia! Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Lucas Albano @lucasjalbano.bsky.social · Jul 14

Very honoured to be involved in this huge collaboration investigating global invasion in ☘️ by contributing fitness data from the transcontinental common garden experiment I completed during my PhD with @evoecolab.bsky.social! Well done to @brandonhendrickson.bsky.social and many many others!

Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Jul 9

Whole-genome sequences and field experiments focusing on the global invasive forage crop, white clover, show high levels of genetic variation across continents and parallel signatures of selection in five haploblocks www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Haploblocks contribute to parallel climate adaptation following global invasion of a cosmopolitan plant - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Whole-genome sequences and field experiments focusing on the global invasive forage crop, Trifolium repens, show high levels of genetic variation across continents and parallel signatures of selection...

www.nature.com

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Acer VanWallendael @aceraceae.bsky.social · Jun 24

Hi #evol2025, our paper came out yesterday and I'd love to chat about it. We used an underused tool for studying parasite local adaptation, the Host Reciprocal Transplant, to study switchgrass and its fungal rust.

doi.org/10.1111/nph....

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Lucas Albano @lucasjalbano.bsky.social · Jun 21

Presenting the first paper to come out of my postdoc with @seemasheth.bsky.social at #Evol2025 tomorrow. Results from a growth chamber experiment on adaptation to heatwaves in Mimulus cardinalis, led by Robin Bingham! Adaptation IV in Athena CD at 5pm! 🔥

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Lucas Albano @lucasjalbano.bsky.social · Jun 17

Very excited to see this final product from a cool study led by @brandonhendrickson.bsky.social that adds to the story of the invasion success of white clover across the globe 🌎☘️🌏☘️🌍

Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · Mar 27

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Evolution of drought resistance strategies following the introduction of white clover (Trifolium repens L.)
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · Jun 10

Despite everything else going on, I'm proud of what everyone in the lab has accomplished. I got behind on updating our lab news, and just updated the past 1.5 years that were missing 🫠 Thankful to work with this amazing bunch! seemasheth.weebly.com

The Sheth Lab

Lab news Spring/Summer 2025 We had lots of fun interacting with Emily Josephs during her GGA seminar at NC State. Thanks to the Guerrero Lab for hosting! Lucas Albano received a Global One Health...

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · May 26

Preprint of our first manuscript from the PERSIST project (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species In Space and Time), with @lucasjalbano.bsky.social and many other co-authors not on BlueSky

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · May 26

Evolutionary responses to historic drought across the range of scarlet monkeyflower https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.20.655098v1

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · May 13

Checkout new pre-print led by postdoc @lucasjalbano.bsky.social describing results from experiment led by sabbatical visitor Robin Bingham from Western Colorado U!

Lucas Albano @lucasjalbano.bsky.social · May 7

🚨New preprint with @seemasheth.bsky.social! A resurrection experiment led by Robin Bingham (Western CO) showed that Mimulus cardinalis responded favourably to a heatwave treatment, plus enviro-specific divergent evol responses to a recent natural extreme heat event.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Range-wide responses to an extreme heat event in Mimulus cardinalis

Premise: Extreme events are an understudied aspect of ongoing anthropogenic climate change that could play a disproportionate role in the threat that rapid environmental shifts pose to natural populat...

www.biorxiv.org

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Lucas Albano @lucasjalbano.bsky.social · May 7

🚨New preprint with @seemasheth.bsky.social! A resurrection experiment led by Robin Bingham (Western CO) showed that Mimulus cardinalis responded favourably to a heatwave treatment, plus enviro-specific divergent evol responses to a recent natural extreme heat event.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Range-wide responses to an extreme heat event in Mimulus cardinalis

Premise: Extreme events are an understudied aspect of ongoing anthropogenic climate change that could play a disproportionate role in the threat that rapid environmental shifts pose to natural populat...

www.biorxiv.org

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · Mar 28

Excited for @kalebgoff.bsky.social's 1st dissertation chapter to be out w co-authors M Oldfather, J Nachlinger, B Smithers, @mikoontz.bsky.social, J & C Bishop & M Burke. Limited Directional Change in Mountaintop Plant Communities over 19 years in Western North America
doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

Photo of Primula parryi, a robust alpine plant with magenta flowers, with mountains, clouds, and sky visible in the background

Photo of Polemonium chartaceum, a small alpine plant with purple flowers, with mountains, snow, and blue sky visible in the background

A photo of two plant ecologists standing on the top of White Mountain peak and holding a sign that says "White Mountain Pk. 14,252'". The top of the mountain is rocky and there are many clouds in the sky.

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Kaleb A. Goff @kalebgoff.bsky.social · Mar 28

Today I am elated to announce that the first chapter of my dissertation— is out today in Ecosphere! Click the link, read the story, and let me know what you think! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · Mar 18

Our department (@EEBUofT) is searching for a Post-Doc! Post-docs funded by this fellowship are independently supported, with research funds available. We invite applications from innovative, collaborative candidates. See the job ad here:

eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...

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Lucas Albano @lucasjalbano.bsky.social · Mar 13

🚨New preprint! I conducted a large field experiment with @evoecolab.bsky.social and Nic Kooyers, manipulating precipitation and herbivory in Ontario and Louisiana to study effects on ☘️. Wrapping my head around the complex results was an adventure, so I'm excited to hear what others think. Pls share!

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Mar 12

A field experiment assessing the roles of drought, herbivory, and local climate on cyanogenesis cline formation and local adaptation in Trifolium repens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.07.642096v1

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Lucas Albano @lucasjalbano.bsky.social · Feb 13

Happy to chat if there's anything you're curious about!

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Lucas Albano @lucasjalbano.bsky.social · Jan 21

Very excited to become a member of the Botanical Society of America's Early Career Advisory Board for 2025-2027 (along with labmate @kalebgoff.bsky.social) and being a part of the publication process for some highly impactful society journals!

@botsocamerica.bsky.social

botany.org/home/publica...

BSA Early Career Advisory Board

leading scientists and educators since 1893

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Marc Johnson (he/him) @evoecolab.bsky.social · Jan 7

Looking for recommendations on the best instrument to use to measure flower colour in the field. What would you recommend? #botany #ecology #evolbiol

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Lucas Albano @lucasjalbano.bsky.social · Dec 19

Earlier this week at the oCUBE Unconference, I gave my first ever pedagogical presentation, on causes and consequences of high school grade inflation for undergrads. I think it went well, but also definitely still learning in the teaching realm, so please reach out if want to chat #HigherEd with me!

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · Dec 17

Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!

TT Assistant Professor of Plant Evolutionary Biology

The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in Plant Evolutionary Biology. This position is a 9-month, ten...

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Lucas Albano @lucasjalbano.bsky.social · Dec 4

Last month I gave a virtual talk about my PhD work with @evoecolab.bsky.social in the BSA virtual symposium on Plant Resilience and Conservation for a Changing Climate. The recording is now available so check it out here if you're interested in rapid adaptation across space and time in ☘️!

2024 BSA Climate Change Symposium: Day 1, Session 1 - Contributed Talk AND Q&A: Lucas Albano

YouTube video by Botanical Society of America Videos

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CSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · Dec 3

CSEE is now on Bluesky! We’ll be posting information about upcoming events, including our AGM, webinars and more, and news about the society. #Ecology #Evolution

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Kaleb A. Goff @kalebgoff.bsky.social · Dec 3

A few weeks ago I presented to an absolutely massive audience of 250+ people on zoom as part of the Botanical Society of America Virtual Symposium on Climate Change! I was very nervous and very stoked. Here is the link:

youtu.be/AlYQrYM9OAo?...

2024 BSA Climate Change Symposium: Day 2, Session 1 - Contributed Talk: Kaleb Goff

YouTube video by Botanical Society of America Videos

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Lucas Albano @lucasjalbano.bsky.social · Nov 25

Would you be able to add me as well? Recent PhD in EEB grad. Thanks!

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