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Hitchhiking of deleterious mutations within chromosomal inversions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Had a wonderful time visiting Lund University. Big thanks to Stefan Andersson for taking the time to discuss Göte Turesson, the Great Alvar of Öland, and his modern work on plant ecotype evolution.

Interested in speciation and from the UK? Apply for this PhD studentship to study speciation in snapdragons at UCL, supervised by Sean Stankowski and co-supervised by me! 👉 lnkd.in/eUBZBR-e Fieldwork in Spain, visits to Austria and much fun and flexibility to design your own projects guaranteed.

Current status in Copenhagen. Bluebird skies.

(🧵 1/2) On the cover of our #LatestIssue: The Cutleaf Monkeyflower (Mimulus laciniatus), with its characteristic lobed leaves, grows in patchy moss found across the alpine granite slopes of Yosemite National Park, California, United States. Image is courtesy of Jill M. Love.

*** please share widely *** Georgia Tech is hiring an ecologist tinyurl.com/GT-eco-coasts - general search - submit by Dec 1 - come join us, we have a growing group of excellent + collegial eco eco folks (e.g., @armanafzadeh.bsky.social, Sean Anderson, @jameststroud.bsky.social, Lauren Speare)

Great show. Misunderstood at the time. Looking forward to this.

The GMI @gmivienna.bsky.social of the @oeaw.bsky.social seeks to appoint a Scientific Director (f/m/x) to lead one of Europe’s premier research institutes in plant biology. Apply by Nov. 15 via GMI.search.director@oeaw.ac.at. More information: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...

Floral bilateral symmetry: one axis, many details #TansleyInsight by Ya Min (闵娅) @minyaaa.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

New preprint out of the lab natural variation in pollen heat susceptibility in Mimulus. Key finding: An restricted alpine endemic species, Mimulus tilingii, has universally high pollen susceptibility, while the widespread M. guttatus is much more variable. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.

Interesting “resurrection experiment” with flowers by @gbaucom.bsky.social and colleagues shows emergent constraint and environmental mismatch over a decade. Their conclusion: not great for climate adaptation academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

My inbox is being flooded with fully AI-generated emails from prospective students. I tried to work out why I can't bring myself to read them, and ended up with some thoughts and advice for writing cold emails in the age of AI. My new post: blekhman.substack.com/p/why-i-am-n...

I'm hiring a postdoc to help build tools for inferring complex speciation histories with genomic data. strong computational skills are a must, but this is a training opportunity. 60K$+ salary, 2 years, details flexible. please reach out! (and repost) ad here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/53150

We are hiring! 🧪 Tenure-track position in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Great colleagues, nearby mountains, and of course a certain lake... Application info: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... www.unr.edu/biology #evolution #EEB #ecoevo #evolsky #academicjobs

Rice University invites applications for multiple tenured and tenure-track positions at the senior and junior levels in #EnvironmentalHealth. Join our team! apply.interfolio.com/193813

The UGA Genetics Department is hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Associate Professor/Professor in Genetics, Synthetic Biology, and Biological Engineering. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA!

The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783

As is so often the case, I feel like Star Trek, and particularly The Next Generation, presents the best model for how humanity can coexist with AI systems. The Federation ship computers are basically more powerful versions of the LLMs we have today (give me a little rope here).

Are there key discoveries made with spatial RNA seq? Or what are your favorite spatial rna seq papers? Pls reski!

Hot take: I agree with this list.

The monkeyflowers, including all those things we call Mimulus, have now been collapsed (along with some other small families) into the Orobanchaceae. This lumper couldn’t be happier. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We're hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology in my department at the university of Houston @uh-ecoevo.bsky.social Come be my colleague careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...

MSU is looking for the next Director of AgBioResearch! This position is an upper admin admin position and the successful candidate will report to the Associate Provost and Dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. wittkieffer.com/positions/a1...

Happy Equinox. May you all have a wonderful fall.

Fantastic Asst Professor positions open across multiple UC Berkeley departments @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Plant/Algae/Microb aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522 Plant/Env aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Gen/Dev/Evo aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481 Eco aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489

#MSU labs. If you haven't seen it, new warning from IPF about possible power surge sometime between midnight and 3 am. Unplug sensitive equipment if not on surge protector! I'll copy email below.

The AI Discourse in Academia is Toxic. It Doesn’t have to be. My new post: blekhman.substack.com/p/the-ai-dis...