Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
@mrebolleda.bsky.social
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One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Massively parallel interrogation of the fitness of natural variants in ancient signaling pathways reveals pervasive local adaptation
The nature of standing genetic variation remains a central debate in population genetics, with differing perspectives on whether common variants are almost always neutral as suggested by neutral and n...
www.biorxiv.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Paper is finally out!! Thanks to reviewers we dig deeper on the differences between domestication events -spoiler alert: it doesn't matter that much. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Paper is finally out!! Thanks to reviewers we dig deeper on the differences between domestication events -spoiler alert: it doesn't matter that much. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
I keep finding really cool papers to teach in @evolletters.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I keep finding really cool papers to teach in @evolletters.bsky.social
I have to confess that sometimes I do blame the victim... If a coyote eats your pet, it was an accident; if a coyote has eaten three of your pets in the last two years, it is your fault!
June 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I have to confess that sometimes I do blame the victim... If a coyote eats your pet, it was an accident; if a coyote has eaten three of your pets in the last two years, it is your fault!
I would love to host a PhD student on my lab with strong quantitative training interested in projects integrating ecology and evolution, or cell physiology and ecological dynamics
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www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
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June 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I would love to host a PhD student on my lab with strong quantitative training interested in projects integrating ecology and evolution, or cell physiology and ecological dynamics
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
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The fantastic work of @kampova.bsky.social is finally out in PNAS: weather sensing and programmed cell death in anther dehiscence and opening. Cool science and awesome microscopy! @svosolsobe.bsky.social @handle.invalid @moritznowack.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The fantastic work of @kampova.bsky.social is finally out in PNAS: weather sensing and programmed cell death in anther dehiscence and opening. Cool science and awesome microscopy! @svosolsobe.bsky.social @handle.invalid @moritznowack.bsky.social
This is cool!!! Evolution will never stop surprising me
🚨New paper alert!🚨
We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵
📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
#ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology
We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵
📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
#ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology
Supplemental Feeding as a Driver of Population Expansion and Morphological Change in Anna's Hummingbirds
Bird beaks are highly adaptable, with the potential to undergo rapid morphological shifts in response to environmental change such as climatic variation or food availability. Anna's Hummingbirds (Cal...
dx.doi.org
May 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This is cool!!! Evolution will never stop surprising me
Gran presidente!
May 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Gran presidente!
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Make your voice heard – join the tri-society Week of Action for NSF! Call and write congress, and tell colleagues, friends, and family about the importance of NSF funding. Find how to get started in our Media Tool: shorturl.at/i7WfU
May 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Make your voice heard – join the tri-society Week of Action for NSF! Call and write congress, and tell colleagues, friends, and family about the importance of NSF funding. Find how to get started in our Media Tool: shorturl.at/i7WfU
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Totally unexpected development: my employer is responding to a financial crisis by implementing new bureaucratic measures that not only waste a ton of faculty time but serve to increase, rather than decrease, administrative staffing needs.
April 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Totally unexpected development: my employer is responding to a financial crisis by implementing new bureaucratic measures that not only waste a ton of faculty time but serve to increase, rather than decrease, administrative staffing needs.
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
Exciting news! @wcratcliff.bsky.social and I published an essay last week in @nature.com reviewing the substantial contributions of 'long-term' studies to evolutionary biology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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March 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Exciting news! @wcratcliff.bsky.social and I published an essay last week in @nature.com reviewing the substantial contributions of 'long-term' studies to evolutionary biology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We suggest that a combination of traditional and machine learning methods make measuring selection on the transcriptome an achievable task-- even in the field, at manageable sample sizes.
paper link: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
paper link: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
Predicting Fitness-Related Traits Using Gene Expression and Machine Learning
Abstract. Evolution by natural selection occurs at its most basic through the change in frequencies of alleles; connecting those genomic targets to phenoty
academic.oup.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Are you an early career researcher looking to establish your own group with as fellowship? Come and join us at @ucllifesciences.bsky.social!
Interested in a starting PI position at University College London to work on Genetics, Evolution or the Environment? My department has opened the call for expressions of interest for sponsorship of independent fellowship applications.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Are you an early career researcher looking to establish your own group with as fellowship? Come and join us at @ucllifesciences.bsky.social!
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
Awwww yeah, check this out: snowflake yeast making their cover debut!
www.nature.com/nature/volum...
We have two papers in this issue:
1) A paper examining whole genome duplication in the MuLTEE
2) A review of long-term experiments in evolutionary biology led by @jameststroud.bsky.social 🧪
www.nature.com/nature/volum...
We have two papers in this issue:
1) A paper examining whole genome duplication in the MuLTEE
2) A review of long-term experiments in evolutionary biology led by @jameststroud.bsky.social 🧪
March 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Awwww yeah, check this out: snowflake yeast making their cover debut!
www.nature.com/nature/volum...
We have two papers in this issue:
1) A paper examining whole genome duplication in the MuLTEE
2) A review of long-term experiments in evolutionary biology led by @jameststroud.bsky.social 🧪
www.nature.com/nature/volum...
We have two papers in this issue:
1) A paper examining whole genome duplication in the MuLTEE
2) A review of long-term experiments in evolutionary biology led by @jameststroud.bsky.social 🧪
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
#mevosky
Last semester: reading group on micro evolution - trying to understand in natural communities. Wanted to share! 🧬🦠
1. Start with THE classic paper on MAGs
Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
Last semester: reading group on micro evolution - trying to understand in natural communities. Wanted to share! 🧬🦠
1. Start with THE classic paper on MAGs
Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment - Nature
Nature - Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
#mevosky
Last semester: reading group on micro evolution - trying to understand in natural communities. Wanted to share! 🧬🦠
1. Start with THE classic paper on MAGs
Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
Last semester: reading group on micro evolution - trying to understand in natural communities. Wanted to share! 🧬🦠
1. Start with THE classic paper on MAGs
Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
This is amazing!!! Find all the new posts with papers of people you follow in seconds.
Hello world! We are building *personalized* feeds to help you make sense of research discussions on BlueSky! Pin our first feed below, which shows posts about papers from accounts you follow! Follow this account for more updates!
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March 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is amazing!!! Find all the new posts with papers of people you follow in seconds.
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An eclipse …. Seen from the Moon!
Out of this world footage captured from the Moon by the #BlueGhost lander during the solar eclipse.
Credit: @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social
📷 flic.kr/p/2qRZAUk 🧪🔭 #BGM1
Credit: @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social
📷 flic.kr/p/2qRZAUk 🧪🔭 #BGM1
March 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
An eclipse …. Seen from the Moon!
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And why?
Most people who are talking about this blame it on either trade policy, "too many regulations," or both. US farms & food companies just can't compete, you see. Therefore we must have isolationist policy and drop labor & environmental protections.
The thing is... none of that is true.
Most people who are talking about this blame it on either trade policy, "too many regulations," or both. US farms & food companies just can't compete, you see. Therefore we must have isolationist policy and drop labor & environmental protections.
The thing is... none of that is true.
March 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
And why?
Most people who are talking about this blame it on either trade policy, "too many regulations," or both. US farms & food companies just can't compete, you see. Therefore we must have isolationist policy and drop labor & environmental protections.
The thing is... none of that is true.
Most people who are talking about this blame it on either trade policy, "too many regulations," or both. US farms & food companies just can't compete, you see. Therefore we must have isolationist policy and drop labor & environmental protections.
The thing is... none of that is true.
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
March 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
When students were attacked by cops in the México City protests of 68, UNAM’s Rector - Javier Barros Sierra - stayed silent for fear of jeopardizing university funding.
Just kidding. He ordered all flags to 1/2 mast, led 80,000 down Av. Insurgentes, & gave an epic speech defending free expression
Just kidding. He ordered all flags to 1/2 mast, led 80,000 down Av. Insurgentes, & gave an epic speech defending free expression
March 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
When students were attacked by cops in the México City protests of 68, UNAM’s Rector - Javier Barros Sierra - stayed silent for fear of jeopardizing university funding.
Just kidding. He ordered all flags to 1/2 mast, led 80,000 down Av. Insurgentes, & gave an epic speech defending free expression
Just kidding. He ordered all flags to 1/2 mast, led 80,000 down Av. Insurgentes, & gave an epic speech defending free expression
Another incredible piece of work by @wcratcliff.bsky.social and team, and the good thing is that if you do not want to read the paper you can read the blsky version in only 46*~400 characters 🤣. Congrats!!!
1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment - Nature
In the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment, diploid yeast evolve to be tetraploid under selection for larger multicellular size, revealing how whole-genome duplication can arise due to its...
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Another incredible piece of work by @wcratcliff.bsky.social and team, and the good thing is that if you do not want to read the paper you can read the blsky version in only 46*~400 characters 🤣. Congrats!!!
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
Please help spread the word. Open tech position. My lab at Loyola University Chicago.
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/31037
A project to improve eDNA resources and use eDNA to study fish diversity in Illinois's Fox River.
@danielbolnick.bsky.social
@ambikamath.bsky.social @ericrlarson.bsky.social
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/31037
A project to improve eDNA resources and use eDNA to study fish diversity in Illinois's Fox River.
@danielbolnick.bsky.social
@ambikamath.bsky.social @ericrlarson.bsky.social
Research Assistant II
Loyola University Chicago (LUC), College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology invites applications for a full-time laboratory technician with experience in ecological and/or molecular genetics,...
www.careers.luc.edu
February 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Please help spread the word. Open tech position. My lab at Loyola University Chicago.
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/31037
A project to improve eDNA resources and use eDNA to study fish diversity in Illinois's Fox River.
@danielbolnick.bsky.social
@ambikamath.bsky.social @ericrlarson.bsky.social
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/31037
A project to improve eDNA resources and use eDNA to study fish diversity in Illinois's Fox River.
@danielbolnick.bsky.social
@ambikamath.bsky.social @ericrlarson.bsky.social
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
ISME supports students and postdocs to further develop their academic knowledge and skills in a host institution outside of their country of study. Submit your application by 31 March 2025.
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
February 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
ISME supports students and postdocs to further develop their academic knowledge and skills in a host institution outside of their country of study. Submit your application by 31 March 2025.
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
I saw @fernpizza.bsky.social present some of this work on the Evolution conference last year and I was really impressed. I am so excited to see it out!
I'm so happy that I can finally share the results of my first postdoc paper with @baym.lol!!! Turns out plasmids are an amazing system to study multi-scale evolution and we can track within-cell and between-cell dynamics!
(1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...
(1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...
Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics
Conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution, from populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements in microbes. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-r...
www.biorxiv.org
February 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I saw @fernpizza.bsky.social present some of this work on the Evolution conference last year and I was really impressed. I am so excited to see it out!
Can't wait to read!!! Seems awesome!
Experimental evolution of evolvability | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Experimental evolution of evolvability
Evolvability—the capacity to generate adaptive variation—is a trait that can itself evolve through natural selection. However, the idea that mutation can become biased toward adaptive outcomes remains...
www.science.org
February 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Can't wait to read!!! Seems awesome!