Gina Baucom
@gbaucom.bsky.social
UMich professor who studies resistance and persistence (in plants)
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Yes, and likely to be coyote-wolf hybrids. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...
Coywolves Are Taking Over Eastern North America
Coywolves are not 'shy wolves'—they are coyote-wolf hybrids (with some dog mixed in) and now number in the millions
www.smithsonianmag.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Yes, and likely to be coyote-wolf hybrids. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
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today is for the ladies to have fun. its new years eve not new year's steve
December 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
today is for the ladies to have fun. its new years eve not new year's steve
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
Surprising zero people, my choice
Surprising zero people, my choice
December 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
Surprising zero people, my choice
Surprising zero people, my choice
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The National Science Foundation starts 2026 with a new management structure that affects every scientist with--or applying for--NSF funding. Here's what you need to know. www.science.org/content/arti...
The National Science Foundation just had a big reorganization. Here are five things to know
Divisions and rotators disappear as more career staff become supervisors
www.science.org
December 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The National Science Foundation starts 2026 with a new management structure that affects every scientist with--or applying for--NSF funding. Here's what you need to know. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Spittle bugs on the cover!
In our #VirtualIssue on #Herbivore-derived elicitors of plant responses we bring together New Phytologist articles that highlight recent developments in the study of how plants respond to herbivores 👇
📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
#PlantScience
📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
#PlantScience
December 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Spittle bugs on the cover!
My Friends
The Correspondent
Sirens
The Safekeep
The Correspondent
Sirens
The Safekeep
What were the best fictions you read in 2025?
My top 3:
Orbital
Martyr!
Intermezzo
My top 3:
Orbital
Martyr!
Intermezzo
December 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
My Friends
The Correspondent
Sirens
The Safekeep
The Correspondent
Sirens
The Safekeep
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No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.
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In case you need a positive reminder:
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
In case you need a positive reminder:
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy
Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies an ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695989v1
December 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy
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I’ve wondered about the polymorphism for years, but I never got around to doing anything about it. I look forward to reading this.
A final new paper out from the lab, work from Steve Johnson, @joannarifkin.bsky.social & @stepheniwright.bsky.social
We asked what maintains the striking variation in floral color, size, and shape within and among populations of Dame's Rocket, Hesperis matronalis
We asked what maintains the striking variation in floral color, size, and shape within and among populations of Dame's Rocket, Hesperis matronalis
Color, size, shape: The drivers of floral variation in Hesperis matronalis (Dame’s Rocket)
Evolutionary biologists have long been intrigued by the factors that sustain genetic and phenotypic variation within and among natural populations. Polymorphisms underlying components of floral displa...
www.biorxiv.org
December 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I’ve wondered about the polymorphism for years, but I never got around to doing anything about it. I look forward to reading this.
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Wishing everyone a Merry Chirstmas with many snacks and walks. Peace out.
December 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Wishing everyone a Merry Chirstmas with many snacks and walks. Peace out.
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“I voted once for Trump in 2016 — I’ve learned right wing media is just a propaganda machine… ask yourself if the principles of this administration are actually in line with the teachings of Jesus. All they’re doing is exploiting the poor for the benefit of the billionaires.”
December 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“I voted once for Trump in 2016 — I’ve learned right wing media is just a propaganda machine… ask yourself if the principles of this administration are actually in line with the teachings of Jesus. All they’re doing is exploiting the poor for the benefit of the billionaires.”
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See, this is how I know I'm not built to have a proper "star" career, because if this had happened to me, I would've left. (Not a value statement.)
December 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
See, this is how I know I'm not built to have a proper "star" career, because if this had happened to me, I would've left. (Not a value statement.)
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Look some people just have this, and like I said, more power to them, but to EXPECT this of some scholars when other scholars don’t have to experience this (or to the same degree) is just WILD and is a definite explanation for underrepresentation at some universities
THIS…more power to her but the WILD amount of self-regard? commitment to the work? comfort with a lack of community? you’d have to have to continue to do stellar work under these conditions? I simply could not (also, no judgement)
December 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Look some people just have this, and like I said, more power to them, but to EXPECT this of some scholars when other scholars don’t have to experience this (or to the same degree) is just WILD and is a definite explanation for underrepresentation at some universities
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Yeah, it was from our cover article on stickleback parasites, not AI in writing. Thanks for the nod. And my $0.02 on reviews and opinions for whatever it is worth- they shouldn't be viewed as something in lieu of data papers, but an addition that enriches our understanding through synthesis.
December 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Yeah, it was from our cover article on stickleback parasites, not AI in writing. Thanks for the nod. And my $0.02 on reviews and opinions for whatever it is worth- they shouldn't be viewed as something in lieu of data papers, but an addition that enriches our understanding through synthesis.
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I’m at the stage in my career when I’m already starting to see people forget papers exist. Being a reliable aggregator is sometimes important! Opinions and reviews can be helpful.
December 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I’m at the stage in my career when I’m already starting to see people forget papers exist. Being a reliable aggregator is sometimes important! Opinions and reviews can be helpful.
From @veroiriart.bsky.social !! 🎉 🎉🎉
A widely-used class of herbicides can disrupt initiation of the legume-rhizobia nitrogen fixation symbiosis— but rhizobia strains vary in their susceptibility to that disruption
Can the right partner mitigate harm? Rhizobial strains vary in their mediation of herbicide stress in a plant-rhizobia mutualism
Pesticide presence in the rhizosphere—the area surrounding plant roots—can disrupt beneficial plant-microbe symbioses, such as those between leguminous pla
buff.ly
December 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
From @veroiriart.bsky.social !! 🎉 🎉🎉
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I think reviews from trusted voices will become even more important.
Unfortunately, this is going to amplify certain privileges/barriers.
I think the only other way for this to work, is to have post-publication commentary become more informed. Currently, it's merely a search for image fraud.
Unfortunately, this is going to amplify certain privileges/barriers.
I think the only other way for this to work, is to have post-publication commentary become more informed. Currently, it's merely a search for image fraud.
December 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I think reviews from trusted voices will become even more important.
Unfortunately, this is going to amplify certain privileges/barriers.
I think the only other way for this to work, is to have post-publication commentary become more informed. Currently, it's merely a search for image fraud.
Unfortunately, this is going to amplify certain privileges/barriers.
I think the only other way for this to work, is to have post-publication commentary become more informed. Currently, it's merely a search for image fraud.
I haven't written a ton of reviews over my career. ~3? Two from me & one from a lab effort.
I don't have a good reason for this other than I prefer to focus on the data...Something something produce papers the tax payers have subsidized, and I don't have all the time in the world. Crankypants.gif
I don't have a good reason for this other than I prefer to focus on the data...Something something produce papers the tax payers have subsidized, and I don't have all the time in the world. Crankypants.gif
December 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I haven't written a ton of reviews over my career. ~3? Two from me & one from a lab effort.
I don't have a good reason for this other than I prefer to focus on the data...Something something produce papers the tax payers have subsidized, and I don't have all the time in the world. Crankypants.gif
I don't have a good reason for this other than I prefer to focus on the data...Something something produce papers the tax payers have subsidized, and I don't have all the time in the world. Crankypants.gif
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Very excited to share the capstone of my postdoc work with @stepheniwright.bsky.social, co-led by Wright lab grad student Cassandre with contributions from many others.
We combined new methods with high-quality Rumex assemblies to dive into the remarkable history of rearrangement in this genus.
We combined new methods with high-quality Rumex assemblies to dive into the remarkable history of rearrangement in this genus.
Rapid evolution of synteny associated with multiple origins of dioecy and XY sex determination
Chromosomal rearrangements are a major driver of evolutionary innovation, shaping processes including local adaptation, speciation, and sex chromosome evolution. Multispecies synteny datasets are rich...
www.biorxiv.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Very excited to share the capstone of my postdoc work with @stepheniwright.bsky.social, co-led by Wright lab grad student Cassandre with contributions from many others.
We combined new methods with high-quality Rumex assemblies to dive into the remarkable history of rearrangement in this genus.
We combined new methods with high-quality Rumex assemblies to dive into the remarkable history of rearrangement in this genus.
A final new paper out from the lab, work from Steve Johnson, @joannarifkin.bsky.social & @stepheniwright.bsky.social
We asked what maintains the striking variation in floral color, size, and shape within and among populations of Dame's Rocket, Hesperis matronalis
We asked what maintains the striking variation in floral color, size, and shape within and among populations of Dame's Rocket, Hesperis matronalis
Color, size, shape: The drivers of floral variation in Hesperis matronalis (Dame’s Rocket)
Evolutionary biologists have long been intrigued by the factors that sustain genetic and phenotypic variation within and among natural populations. Polymorphisms underlying components of floral displa...
www.biorxiv.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A final new paper out from the lab, work from Steve Johnson, @joannarifkin.bsky.social & @stepheniwright.bsky.social
We asked what maintains the striking variation in floral color, size, and shape within and among populations of Dame's Rocket, Hesperis matronalis
We asked what maintains the striking variation in floral color, size, and shape within and among populations of Dame's Rocket, Hesperis matronalis
New preprint from the lab on bioRxiv, led by Grace Zhang!
Quick summary: Lots of studies have examined costs and benefits associated with resistance. Most focus on a single stressor, leaving unclear how resistance shapes fitness and evolution under multiple interacting stresses.
Quick summary: Lots of studies have examined costs and benefits associated with resistance. Most focus on a single stressor, leaving unclear how resistance shapes fitness and evolution under multiple interacting stresses.
Context dependence shapes the evolution of glyphosate and herbivory resistance in Ipomoea purpurea https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.20.695696v1
December 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
New preprint from the lab on bioRxiv, led by Grace Zhang!
Quick summary: Lots of studies have examined costs and benefits associated with resistance. Most focus on a single stressor, leaving unclear how resistance shapes fitness and evolution under multiple interacting stresses.
Quick summary: Lots of studies have examined costs and benefits associated with resistance. Most focus on a single stressor, leaving unclear how resistance shapes fitness and evolution under multiple interacting stresses.
Newly posted updates to recent resurrection work from the lab, led by Sasha Bishop (w/ @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social )
A resurrection experiment reveals reduced adaptive potential in a common agricultural weed
Adaptive evolution is critical to population responses under accelerating anthropogenic global change. Although theory and some empirical work suggest that contemporary rates of environmental change c...
www.biorxiv.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Newly posted updates to recent resurrection work from the lab, led by Sasha Bishop (w/ @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social )
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Curator of Education job (tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder! Salary $90-$100K, 9 month full time position. Apply by Jan 21. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Assistant Professor - Curator of Education (Tenure-Track)
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December 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Curator of Education job (tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder! Salary $90-$100K, 9 month full time position. Apply by Jan 21. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...