Advances in computational methods for inferring networks from #genome-scale data and guidelines for deriving biological insights from #phylogenetic networks www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...

Important new paper on dynamics of seasonally dry tropical forests in Peru

Everyone should read this. I met Dan Janzen when he gave a lecture to @biology.ox.ac.uk I think in the late '80s. I spoke to him afterwards and he said, you know we could save all of the rainforest with a ten cent levy on every cup of coffee sold worldwide....
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New publication out! 🆕 📤

"No evidence of transposable element bursts in the Galápagos Scalesia adaptive radiation despite hybridization, diversification and ecological niche shifts"

mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#TransposableElements #Speciation #AdaptiveRadiation #Genomics

And couldn't have been done without amazing team Rosalía Piñeiro, James A Nicholls, Flávia Pezzini , Audrey Farbos, Gwilym P Lewis, Jens J Ringelberg , Catherine Kidner, Alex Twyford , Kyle Dexter & @tobypennington.bsky.social

🌳⚠️Out now in Systematic Biology⚠️🌳
We find rampant reticulation in Inga, the blindingly rapid Amazonian tree radiation! ⚡

BONUS: We also find introgression and selection on genes underlying chemical defences, helping Ingas resist relentless insect herbivory 🐛☠️🌳

academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Check out our new paper led by the amazing @benkuhnhaeuser.bsky.social in @science.org, exploring how the extraordinary diversity of Asian rattan palms was assembled 🌴