Amy Parachnowitsch
@evoecoamy.bsky.social
evolutionary ecologist trying to understand flowers and my teenager | occasional fireweed spotter | 🇨🇦 / 🇸🇪 | enjoying sabbatical | I should be writing
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Happy birthday, Chuck.
Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it
Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it
February 12, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Happy birthday, Chuck.
Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it
Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it
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In 2018, Ilja Van Braeckel created a font based on Charles Darwin's handwriting for #DarwinDay. It was based on 12,000 pictures of Darwin's original manuscripts!
Link rot happened, and the original files are missing. I have put it up again here: drive.google.com/file/d/14Kcn...
Happy Darwin Day!
Link rot happened, and the original files are missing. I have put it up again here: drive.google.com/file/d/14Kcn...
Happy Darwin Day!
February 12, 2026 at 1:50 PM
In 2018, Ilja Van Braeckel created a font based on Charles Darwin's handwriting for #DarwinDay. It was based on 12,000 pictures of Darwin's original manuscripts!
Link rot happened, and the original files are missing. I have put it up again here: drive.google.com/file/d/14Kcn...
Happy Darwin Day!
Link rot happened, and the original files are missing. I have put it up again here: drive.google.com/file/d/14Kcn...
Happy Darwin Day!
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Botany valentine. Another oldie.
February 9, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Botany valentine. Another oldie.
As someone who has spent a career measuring flowers, I'm curious to see how they compare to these protocols
Finally, standardised protocols for measuring reproductive plant traits! This handbook covers 58 traits across flowers, fruits, seeds & seedlings. Designed for global applicability across diverse ecosystems and enables large-scale research 🌼
📖 buff.ly/TcagpiT
📖 buff.ly/TcagpiT
February 5, 2026 at 1:16 PM
As someone who has spent a career measuring flowers, I'm curious to see how they compare to these protocols
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In the January 2026 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social
Spatiotemporal variation in selection on floral traits related to abortion rate, predispersal seed predation, and fitness variance
@evoecoamy.bsky.social, Monica A Geber
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience
Spatiotemporal variation in selection on floral traits related to abortion rate, predispersal seed predation, and fitness variance
@evoecoamy.bsky.social, Monica A Geber
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience
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January 27, 2026 at 12:25 AM
In the January 2026 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social
Spatiotemporal variation in selection on floral traits related to abortion rate, predispersal seed predation, and fitness variance
@evoecoamy.bsky.social, Monica A Geber
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience
Spatiotemporal variation in selection on floral traits related to abortion rate, predispersal seed predation, and fitness variance
@evoecoamy.bsky.social, Monica A Geber
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience
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Looking for something new to integrate into an #evolution or #microbiology course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework?
Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.
Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.
Excited to share new #program, STEPS, which can simulate #dynamics of the E. coli Long-Term Evolution Experiment (#LTEE) or other microbes in serial transfer regime.
telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/s...
STEPS developed by @devinmlake.bsky.social, Zachary Matson, Minako Izutsu, and me.
telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/s...
STEPS developed by @devinmlake.bsky.social, Zachary Matson, Minako Izutsu, and me.
STEPS To It
Announcing a new program, called STEPS, to simulate the dynamics of evolving microbial populations.
telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Looking for something new to integrate into an #evolution or #microbiology course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework?
Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.
Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.
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A resurrection study of scarlet monkeyflower populations across the species' range finds relatively little adaptive response to a seven-year drought event, showing that evolutionary rescue is not as predictable as we might hope 🌿
buff.ly/L8o4hhr
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December 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A resurrection study of scarlet monkeyflower populations across the species' range finds relatively little adaptive response to a seven-year drought event, showing that evolutionary rescue is not as predictable as we might hope 🌿
buff.ly/L8o4hhr
buff.ly/L8o4hhr
Almost 20 years in the making! So happy to see this in print!
AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social
Spatiotemporal variation in selection on floral traits related to abortion rate, predispersal seed predation, and fitness variance
@evoecoamy.bsky.social, Monica A Geber
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience
Spatiotemporal variation in selection on floral traits related to abortion rate, predispersal seed predation, and fitness variance
@evoecoamy.bsky.social, Monica A Geber
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience
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December 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Almost 20 years in the making! So happy to see this in print!
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[8 Nov 2025] Another roundup of #ConservationJobs, mostly in 🇨🇦.
All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions.
Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed!
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions.
Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed!
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
[8 Nov 2025] Another roundup of #ConservationJobs, mostly in 🇨🇦.
All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions.
Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed!
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions.
Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed!
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
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By popular demand, I'm offering "More #MONARCHS - No #Monarchy!" shirts and mugs at cost (no profit, just joy). Spread the word, decent quality for <$20
monarchs.printful.me
#NoKings #butterfly #peace #naturalhistory #plantinsect
monarchs.printful.me
#NoKings #butterfly #peace #naturalhistory #plantinsect
November 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
By popular demand, I'm offering "More #MONARCHS - No #Monarchy!" shirts and mugs at cost (no profit, just joy). Spread the word, decent quality for <$20
monarchs.printful.me
#NoKings #butterfly #peace #naturalhistory #plantinsect
monarchs.printful.me
#NoKings #butterfly #peace #naturalhistory #plantinsect
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Let's start Monday with some whimsy. These delightful grasshoppers (possibly also katydids?) are from a water jar created by Makuzu Kōzan in 1870. To see full size images: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
October 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Let's start Monday with some whimsy. These delightful grasshoppers (possibly also katydids?) are from a water jar created by Makuzu Kōzan in 1870. To see full size images: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort!
We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!
We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!
October 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort!
We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!
We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!
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Great RadioLab interview with Ella al-Shamahi, about her journey from religious anti-evolutionism into evolutionary biology. New perspective but also familiar if you (like me) grew up among Christian creationists; really moving on what faith, even "denialist" faith, means to people
Creation Story
The most unlikely origin of an evolutionary biologist.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Great RadioLab interview with Ella al-Shamahi, about her journey from religious anti-evolutionism into evolutionary biology. New perspective but also familiar if you (like me) grew up among Christian creationists; really moving on what faith, even "denialist" faith, means to people
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Come be my colleague! Tenured Associate Professor position opening in Plant Ecology at my department @stockholm-uni.bsky.social www.su.se/department-o...
DEEP seeks Associate Professor in Plant Ecology – apply now! - Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
DEEP seeks Associate Professor in Plant Ecology – apply now! - Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
www.su.se
October 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Come be my colleague! Tenured Associate Professor position opening in Plant Ecology at my department @stockholm-uni.bsky.social www.su.se/department-o...
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🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity
Professorship in Biodiversity.
The University of Gothenburg hereby announces a unique and prestigious position – the
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October 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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Did you know that Europe names a Tree of The Year? Looks like Quercus spp. do quite well. Here's the 2015 winner, a ~150 year old Oak tree in Estonia that footballers have learned to play around. #bloomscrolling
Oak tree on a football field – Tree of the year
Is there a place in the world where you can find a stadium which has an oak tree in the middle of it? For the locals in Orissaare its a common thing, but this tree is at heart of the community. Before...
www.treeoftheyear.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Did you know that Europe names a Tree of The Year? Looks like Quercus spp. do quite well. Here's the 2015 winner, a ~150 year old Oak tree in Estonia that footballers have learned to play around. #bloomscrolling
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Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.
I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
October 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.
I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
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I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.
September 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.
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Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research
Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research
The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.
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September 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research
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"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line
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This thread is a delight.
#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
1🧵
#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
September 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This thread is a delight.
So happy with this one!
JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social
Spatiotemporal variation in selection on floral traits related to abortion rate, predispersal seed predation, and fitness variance
@evoecoamy.bsky.social, Monica A Geber
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
#PlantScience
Spatiotemporal variation in selection on floral traits related to abortion rate, predispersal seed predation, and fitness variance
@evoecoamy.bsky.social, Monica A Geber
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
#PlantScience
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September 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
So happy with this one!
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Please help us spread the word! Please amplify!
We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics
careers.uoguelph.ca
August 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Please help us spread the word! Please amplify!
We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
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Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Canada #academicjob careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...
Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in
Calgary,
...
Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in
Calgary,
...
careers.ucalgary.ca
August 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Canada #academicjob careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...