Sam Yeaman
@samyeaman.bsky.social
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I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.
Wait, we're supposed to be reading them?
Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not discovered a foolproof way to evaluate colleagues’ work that doesn’t involve reading the paper
But what if there are two co-first authors and the first-first author is actually also co-corresponding author with the last author but the second-first author isn’t?
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Wait, we're supposed to be reading them?
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
I'll be reviewing applications for this in a few days, so there's still time to get touch if you're interested.
I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I'll be reviewing applications for this in a few days, so there's still time to get touch if you're interested.
It's always fun to work with Tom! In this one, we ponder how the answer to this question can tells us something about the kind of architecture underlying adaptation
Check out this short piece on the genomics of local adaptation. Abi Brown (not on Bluesky) and I wrote it with @samyeaman.bsky.social
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Any input you say have would be welcomed!
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Any input you say have would be welcomed!
What fraction of the genomic basis of local adaptation are we missing?
ecoevorxiv.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It's always fun to work with Tom! In this one, we ponder how the answer to this question can tells us something about the kind of architecture underlying adaptation
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We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
September 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
I'll start reviewing applications in a little over 3 weeks for this PhD position. You could be doing fieldwork here! (or focus only on dry lab work if that floats your boat)
September 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I'll start reviewing applications in a little over 3 weeks for this PhD position. You could be doing fieldwork here! (or focus only on dry lab work if that floats your boat)
University of Calgary is hiring a tier I CRC professorship in crop genomics. Come work in one of the most beautiful corners of the world!
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...
Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Translational Crop Genomics in Sustainable Agriculture in
Calgary,
...
Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Translational Crop Genomics in Sustainable Agriculture in
Calgary,
...
careers.ucalgary.ca
September 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
University of Calgary is hiring a tier I CRC professorship in crop genomics. Come work in one of the most beautiful corners of the world!
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...
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Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...
August 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...
Field work is so tiresome. I have to climb up every time to ski back down.
That is one hell of a recruitment photo!
August 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Field work is so tiresome. I have to climb up every time to ski back down.
I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
August 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
Really great to see this out -- and so interesting to see strong signals of adaptation to North vs. South facing slopes across a single valley in spruce!
I am happy to share my second paper with @samyeaman.bsky.social and collaborators! If you are into hybrid zones and tree genomics, this is for you!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The genomic basis of local adaptation in the white x Engelmann spruce hybrid zone
Hybridization between species can occur along repeated zones of contact, providing a powerful natural laboratory for studying the interplay between migration and selection, and for identifying loci in...
www.biorxiv.org
August 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Really great to see this out -- and so interesting to see strong signals of adaptation to North vs. South facing slopes across a single valley in spruce!
Miles gave a fantastic talk about this last year at SSE, I'm looking forward to reading the published version!
Hey, Miles' @milesroberts.bsky.social beautiful paper showing that sequence diversity missed by standard methods contributes to Lewontin's paradox is officially published in @evolletters.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
k-mer-based diversity scales with population size proxies more than nucleotide diversity in a meta-analysis of 98 plant species
Abstract. A key prediction of neutral theory is that the level of genetic diversity in a population should scale with population size. However, as was note
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June 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Miles gave a fantastic talk about this last year at SSE, I'm looking forward to reading the published version!
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Temperatures are soaring, and there's a limit to what plants can handle. Scientists are figuring out how to engineer crops to take the heat so they can get into the kitchen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...
Soaring Temperatures Threaten Crops, So Scientists Are Looking to Alter the Plants
www.nytimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Temperatures are soaring, and there's a limit to what plants can handle. Scientists are figuring out how to engineer crops to take the heat so they can get into the kitchen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...
If your grant application needs some justification on why we should study adaptation in wild plant species... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Can wild plant adaptations help crops tolerate heat?
Wild plant species harbor a vast but largely unknown diversity of temperature stress solutions
www.science.org
June 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
If your grant application needs some justification on why we should study adaptation in wild plant species... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🧪
“There’s just no moths on that sheet.” @tessairini.bsky.social writes in the @theguardian.com about #InsectDecline with #DanJanzen, #WinnieHallwachs and the caterpillars of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste #ACG in #CostaRica @gdfcf.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“There’s just no moths on that sheet.” @tessairini.bsky.social writes in the @theguardian.com about #InsectDecline with #DanJanzen, #WinnieHallwachs and the caterpillars of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste #ACG in #CostaRica @gdfcf.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
June 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
🧪
“There’s just no moths on that sheet.” @tessairini.bsky.social writes in the @theguardian.com about #InsectDecline with #DanJanzen, #WinnieHallwachs and the caterpillars of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste #ACG in #CostaRica @gdfcf.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“There’s just no moths on that sheet.” @tessairini.bsky.social writes in the @theguardian.com about #InsectDecline with #DanJanzen, #WinnieHallwachs and the caterpillars of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste #ACG in #CostaRica @gdfcf.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The official program for the 2025 Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics GRS is now live!
www.grc.org/ecological-a...
Poster submissions are still open through June 14, 2025.
@jcbnunez.bsky.social
www.grc.org/ecological-a...
Poster submissions are still open through June 14, 2025.
@jcbnunez.bsky.social
2025 Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (GRS) Seminar GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (GRS) will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
May 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The official program for the 2025 Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics GRS is now live!
www.grc.org/ecological-a...
Poster submissions are still open through June 14, 2025.
@jcbnunez.bsky.social
www.grc.org/ecological-a...
Poster submissions are still open through June 14, 2025.
@jcbnunez.bsky.social
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🚨 There is still time to submit a poster for our upcoming Gordon Research Seminar in Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics: Elucidating the Evolutionary Dynamics of Adaptation in Fluctuating Environments! 🧬
Apply now 👉 www.grc.org/ecological-a...
Apply now 👉 www.grc.org/ecological-a...
May 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🚨 There is still time to submit a poster for our upcoming Gordon Research Seminar in Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics: Elucidating the Evolutionary Dynamics of Adaptation in Fluctuating Environments! 🧬
Apply now 👉 www.grc.org/ecological-a...
Apply now 👉 www.grc.org/ecological-a...
Are you interested in the genomic basis of repeated adaptation? The RepAdapt group now has >70 members working to re-run their whole genome shotgun datasets through a common SNP calling pipeline, sharing VCFs, and working together to analyse data. Please contact me if you'd like to contribute!
May 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Are you interested in the genomic basis of repeated adaptation? The RepAdapt group now has >70 members working to re-run their whole genome shotgun datasets through a common SNP calling pipeline, sharing VCFs, and working together to analyse data. Please contact me if you'd like to contribute!
We still have a few spots left for the GRC Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics meeting in Tuscany this summer (July 13-18). Lots of great speakers already lined up, and we'd love to hear from you! www.grc.org/ecological-a...
May 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We still have a few spots left for the GRC Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics meeting in Tuscany this summer (July 13-18). Lots of great speakers already lined up, and we'd love to hear from you! www.grc.org/ecological-a...
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#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers #TransCan These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894
Post-Doctoral Researcher – Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel (M/F)
- work environment: Host-Pathogen-Environment Interactions Laboratory (UMR5244 IHPE), Montpellier - main mission:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
April 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers #TransCan These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894
And this may generate perverse incentives. If I'm paid the same regardless of the quality of my review, then this incentivizes just submitting a "lowest possible effort" review. More hours for same pay = lower $/hour, making it feel like putting in the extra effort isn't worth it.
Some colleagues hate when I point this out, but for tenured/tenure-track faculty, peer review is already compensated work. It is part of the 20% of our jobs that account for service (in 'standard load' positions).
Peer review is essential to robust, reproducible science. Peer review is work. Work should be compensated. Period.
But these costs should not be assumed by the authors. Publishers are making record profits & should invest that in their own products.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
But these costs should not be assumed by the authors. Publishers are making record profits & should invest that in their own products.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
March 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
And this may generate perverse incentives. If I'm paid the same regardless of the quality of my review, then this incentivizes just submitting a "lowest possible effort" review. More hours for same pay = lower $/hour, making it feel like putting in the extra effort isn't worth it.
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Really excited to see this work, led by Mike Grundler, published! It's a new method for inferring the geographic locations of shared genetic ancestors. In the paper, we and use it to infer the geographic history of human genetic ancestry
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A geographic history of human genetic ancestry
Describing the distribution of genetic variation across individuals is a fundamental goal of population genetics. We present a method that capitalizes on the rich genealogical information encoded in g...
www.science.org
March 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Really excited to see this work, led by Mike Grundler, published! It's a new method for inferring the geographic locations of shared genetic ancestors. In the paper, we and use it to infer the geographic history of human genetic ancestry
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I'm excited to be working as an associate editor at Genetics, and looking forward to reading your submissions!
Welcome new associate editor @samyeaman.bsky.social to #GENETICS 👋 Joining the Theoretical Population & Evolutionary Genetics section, his work explores how our assumptions about genetics affect our predictions about evolution, using genomic data to test these predictions. Read more: buff.ly/GrjhDh2
March 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I'm excited to be working as an associate editor at Genetics, and looking forward to reading your submissions!
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The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.
Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
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March 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.