Many organisms, including humans, reshape their environments in ways that influence the conditions faced by future generations. We ask whether this can favour biological variation with @irisprigent.bsky.social in our new paper. Thanks to @dee-unil.bsky.social @snsf.ch
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
We are offering a fully funded two-year postdoctoral position focused on sex chromosome evolution and speciation in the *Jaera albifrons* species complex. Please find the advertisement attached. We welcome applications from interested candidates. Join us :-)
I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961
So excited to have been accepted to write this piece. Thanks to all who have entertained my ramblings over the years and have encouraged me in my passion for #ecophysiology and #evolution 🙏
#IAmABotanist 🌱
Are you anywhere in the world (other than Canada) and want to do a PhD in my lab in Canada at Queen's University? We have a prestigious scholarship for 3-years of PhD funding. Get in touch, applications due early February. Must love plants and evolution!
friedmanlab.ca
Forgot to include the wonderful @rosischmickl.bsky.social ... Sorry Rosi!
@yu1cheng.bsky.social, in collaboration with Filip Kolar and me, published an article looking at how the genetic architecture of unreduced gametes and environmental factors can affect autopolyploidy evolution.
Congrats Yu!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Jantar de Rainhas e Reis do FLOWer Lab na boa companhia de muitas das caras-metade dos membros do FLOWer Lab! Um 2026 cheio de ação, biodiversidade e interações planta-polinizador!
Queens and Kings Dinner, wishing for a 2026 full of action, biodiversity, and plant–pollinator interactions!
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Canadian universities received a big federal funding package to recruit international research leaders. Here is the call at my university, Queen's University, Ontario. If you are looking to move to Canada, this is the time!
First round of review begins January 9, 2026
www.queensu.ca/vpr/recruitm...
Check out our new paper! :)
Distribution of standardized quantitative trait loci (QTL) estimated additive and dominance effects in Arabis F2 progeny. The figure displays the distribution of standardized estimated additive and dominance effects for QTLs associated with ecologically relevant traits identified in the F2 population.
Contemporary hybridization among Arabis floodplain species creates opportunities for adaptation
Rahnamae et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It’s that time of the year again: we are looking for a new cohort of @jevbio.bsky.social editors. Join our board and support your #SocietyJournal!
Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology:
🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑💻🪸🦎
Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
Happy to see this out - started with some crosses almost 15 years ago... finally ready to share this resource with the community. Massive team effort over the years to make the NIL panel. Special shout out to fantastic post-doc Sam Mantel for leading the charge on the experiment and manuscript.
If you're in Ghent tomorrow ! I'll be sharing our recent progress deciphering the sRNA-based dominance/recessivity interactions at the self-incompatibility locus in Arabidopsis 🌱
Hi Folks !
Just a few more days to register for the POPGROUP meeting (deadline = this Monday 10/11/2025).
Join us in the beautiful city of #Lille just across the Channel for three exciting days of science and more !
www.hautsdefrancetourism.com/destinations...
--> populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk
Thank you, Ayush, I hope everything is going well on your side!
Autopolyploid establishment under gametophytic self-incompatibility: the impact of self-fertilization and pollen limitation
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
The second Ph.D. chapter of Diane's thesis is out as a preprint. She studied the joint evolution of autopolyploidy and self-fertilization under a gametophytic self-incompatibility context.
Feel free to comment, and congratulations, Diane!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Autopolyploid establishment under gametophytic self-incompatibility: the impact of self-fertilization and pollen limitation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685356v1
#PhD Position: Interested in the evolutionary and ecological impacts of whole genome duplication?
Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social
and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids
Details: shorturl.at/nQ8UW
The #PolyploidyWebinar series is back for another season! 🧬 Join us for talks at 9AM Pacific on the second Thursday of each month. Are you working on something exciting in polyploidy? We'd love to have you speak! Sign up for open dates at the link below. Looking forward to the great research ahead!
Happy to share that our study on heat-induced secondary dormancy is now published! 🌱
Here we studied how natural populations differ in their dormancy response to heat, and how this natural variation can shape local adaptation and future range shifts.🌦️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📣CALL FOR PAPERS!
Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges
Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg
More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...
Very happy to announce that the next POPGROUP meeting will take place in Lille on 7-9 January !
Follow @popgroup2026.bsky.social for all updates.
📢 Please share widely ! 📢
Exciting news!
The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris.
This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics.
More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk
See you there !
Out First Release in @science.org this week:
A large scale analysis of the epigenetics of transposable elements in Arabidopsis shows transgenerational stability
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
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
