Peter Innes
@peterinnes1.bsky.social
plant evolutionary genomics 🌻 🧬 postdoc, Kane lab at University of Colorado, Boulder
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Can we predict gene expression evolution? In flour beetles, transcriptome-wide selection predicts expression change, with indirect selection acting strongest on pleiotropic, network-central genes—linking co-expression architecture to adaptation.
academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... Photo: Udo Schmidt
academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... Photo: Udo Schmidt
December 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Can we predict gene expression evolution? In flour beetles, transcriptome-wide selection predicts expression change, with indirect selection acting strongest on pleiotropic, network-central genes—linking co-expression architecture to adaptation.
academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... Photo: Udo Schmidt
academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... Photo: Udo Schmidt
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Why do selfing rates vary across a species’ range? In alpine monkeyflower, self-fertilization increases away from the range center, supporting the abundant center hypothesis over historical range expansion in shaping reproductive assurance.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Why do selfing rates vary across a species’ range? In alpine monkeyflower, self-fertilization increases away from the range center, supporting the abundant center hypothesis over historical range expansion in shaping reproductive assurance.
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Photo Credit: Brewbooks
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Photo Credit: Brewbooks
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I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...
December 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...
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Climate drives variation in optimal phenology
Clark et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MCQ8GR...
Clark et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MCQ8GR...
December 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Climate drives variation in optimal phenology
Clark et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MCQ8GR...
Clark et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MCQ8GR...
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Thanks nature news for featuring our recent preprint on 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘣𝘢 led by @hbrappap.bsky.social
(check out preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...) #protistsonsky
(check out preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...) #protistsonsky
This single-celled amoeba can thrive at temperatures that kill all other known eukaryotic life
go.nature.com/4452LXP
go.nature.com/4452LXP
‘Fire amoeba’ survives in hotter conditions than any other complex cell
The single-celled organism can grow at 63 °C, a record for eukaryotic life.
go.nature.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Thanks nature news for featuring our recent preprint on 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘣𝘢 led by @hbrappap.bsky.social
(check out preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...) #protistsonsky
(check out preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...) #protistsonsky
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🌻 Sharing this preprint where we assembled 3 new chromosome-level genomes, including the first for Asteraceae's South American sister Calyceraceae! Asteraceae uses all the tricks when it comes to being the most ecologically successful family of flowering plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🌻 Sharing this preprint where we assembled 3 new chromosome-level genomes, including the first for Asteraceae's South American sister Calyceraceae! Asteraceae uses all the tricks when it comes to being the most ecologically successful family of flowering plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Excited to share our review on alternative splicing evolution, with @peterinnes1.bsky.social and Nolan Kane!
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/6) Evolutionary genetics of alternative splicing in plants
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/6) Evolutionary genetics of alternative splicing in plants
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Excited to share our review on alternative splicing evolution, with @peterinnes1.bsky.social and Nolan Kane!
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Evolutionary #genetics of alternative splicing in plants
#TansleyInsight by @peterinnes1.bsky.social, Nolan C. Kane and @chriscrsmith.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience #speciation
#TansleyInsight by @peterinnes1.bsky.social, Nolan C. Kane and @chriscrsmith.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience #speciation
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Evolutionary #genetics of alternative splicing in plants
#TansleyInsight by @peterinnes1.bsky.social, Nolan C. Kane and @chriscrsmith.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience #speciation
#TansleyInsight by @peterinnes1.bsky.social, Nolan C. Kane and @chriscrsmith.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience #speciation
Thanks to @chriscrsmith.bsky.social for the invitation to write this Tansley Insight together! First pub in one of my favorite journals @newphyt.bsky.social 🌱 🥹
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/6) Evolutionary genetics of alternative splicing in plants
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/6) Evolutionary genetics of alternative splicing in plants
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Thanks to @chriscrsmith.bsky.social for the invitation to write this Tansley Insight together! First pub in one of my favorite journals @newphyt.bsky.social 🌱 🥹
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Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book.
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
Applied Biostatistics
ybrandvain.github.io
October 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book.
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
@ecoevorxiv.bsky.social Excited to read this review, “Genomic insights into the origin of ecotypes”, by Johannesson et al ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Genomic insights into the origin of ecotypes
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October 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
@ecoevorxiv.bsky.social Excited to read this review, “Genomic insights into the origin of ecotypes”, by Johannesson et al ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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Check out our new preprint! This was such a great paper to work on with @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social and the rest of the team!
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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September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Check out our new preprint! This was such a great paper to work on with @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social and the rest of the team!
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Plant genome sequencing needs to go tropical. Check out this commentary I wrote with Felipe Zapata (UCLA) and María José Sanín (Montgomery Botanical Center) out today in Nature Reviews Biodiversity 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Plant genome sequencing needs to go tropical
Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Whole-genome plant sequencing is heavily biased towards species from temperate regions and species with utilitarian values. An expansion of efforts to include tropical...
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August 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Plant genome sequencing needs to go tropical. Check out this commentary I wrote with Felipe Zapata (UCLA) and María José Sanín (Montgomery Botanical Center) out today in Nature Reviews Biodiversity 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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The Todesco lab at MSL UBC is looking for a Research Tech to help us run the lab and do fancy science! Good wet lab skills and enthusiasm for plant research are required, experience with genomics and bioinformatics is a plus. See ad below, please spread the voice! 🧬🌻🧪🌱🔬🧫
tinyurl.com/5bnfyadw
tinyurl.com/5bnfyadw
Research Assistant/Technician 3
Staff - Non Union Job Category Non Union Technicians and Research Assistants Job Profile Non Union Salaried - Research Assistant /Technician 3 Job Title Research Assistant/Technician 3 Department Rese...
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August 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Todesco lab at MSL UBC is looking for a Research Tech to help us run the lab and do fancy science! Good wet lab skills and enthusiasm for plant research are required, experience with genomics and bioinformatics is a plus. See ad below, please spread the voice! 🧬🌻🧪🌱🔬🧫
tinyurl.com/5bnfyadw
tinyurl.com/5bnfyadw
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Hello bluesky community!
I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The department of Biology is a large, unified department with strong undergraduate degrees, nationally-ranked graduate programs, and world-class research spanning the breadth of biological questions a...
indiana.peopleadmin.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Hello bluesky community!
I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
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Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution
jobs.colorado.edu
August 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social
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The final version of our paper on the evolution of supergenes and mechanisms underlying distyly in Linum is now up at New Phytologist doi.org/10.1111/nph....
July 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The final version of our paper on the evolution of supergenes and mechanisms underlying distyly in Linum is now up at New Phytologist doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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maybe my favorite paper I've written, I have a synthesis out today early access in @asn-amnat.bsky.social today that attempts to answer a simple but slippery question: what is an elevational range? doi.org/10.1086/737130
June 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
maybe my favorite paper I've written, I have a synthesis out today early access in @asn-amnat.bsky.social today that attempts to answer a simple but slippery question: what is an elevational range? doi.org/10.1086/737130
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In case you couldn't bear to read all the way to the end (understandable), here is the proposed picture for the BIO Directorate.
May 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In case you couldn't bear to read all the way to the end (understandable), here is the proposed picture for the BIO Directorate.
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How bad will it be? Catastrophic.
Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.
But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.
Speak up now before it is too late.
(inflation adjusted $-s below)
Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.
But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.
Speak up now before it is too late.
(inflation adjusted $-s below)
May 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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May 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Great writing from @elinck.bsky.social touching on the biological, philosophical, and legal questions surrounding “de-extinction” and the Endangered Species Act www.hcn.org/articles/de-...
‘De-extinction’ isn’t real, but the conservation questions it raises are - High Country News
In the age of gene editing, what does it mean to protect a species?
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May 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Great writing from @elinck.bsky.social touching on the biological, philosophical, and legal questions surrounding “de-extinction” and the Endangered Species Act www.hcn.org/articles/de-...
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Upset about federal funding cuts in the US? Want some ideas of what to do? I wrote a long-ish blog post about it here
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com
summarizing things I learned meeting with Senate & House aides this week with the @aibsbiology.bsky.social Congressional Visits Day event.
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com
summarizing things I learned meeting with Senate & House aides this week with the @aibsbiology.bsky.social Congressional Visits Day event.
Eco-Evo Evo-Eco
Academic musing by Hendry, Bolnick, Gotanda, and awesome guests.
Opinions and statements expressed on this blog are the views of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent endorsement by the blog...
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Upset about federal funding cuts in the US? Want some ideas of what to do? I wrote a long-ish blog post about it here
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com
summarizing things I learned meeting with Senate & House aides this week with the @aibsbiology.bsky.social Congressional Visits Day event.
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com
summarizing things I learned meeting with Senate & House aides this week with the @aibsbiology.bsky.social Congressional Visits Day event.