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Beatrice Landoni
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🌿 ecology & evolution
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1/How do maladaptive responses to novel environments influence trait evolution? With field & lab studies, we (@jpvelotta.bsky.social & @mstager.bsky.social) explored this in deer mice along an elevational gradient. And...it's complicated! 😱

academic-oup-com.silk.library.umass.edu/evolut/artic...
October 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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“Overall, the message from this survey is positive; evolutionary biologists are readily employable outside of academia, generally well-prepared for those jobs, and report high levels of satisfaction” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Leaving Academia: Insights from Evolutionary Biologists on Their Career Transitions and Job Satisfaction
Many who have obtained PhDs in evolutionary biology will ultimately pursue careers that fall outside a narrow definition of an academic career. At the same time, PhD students and supervisors of PhD st...
www.biorxiv.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Global phenology maps reveal the drivers and effects of seasonal asynchrony | Nature share.google/GZ5X7WR40b8K...
Global phenology maps reveal the drivers and effects of seasonal asynchrony - Nature
A global land surface phenology map predicts complex geographical discontinuities in flowering phenology, genetic divergence and harvest seasonality across a range of taxa.
share.google
September 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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The dissertation! 150 pages of prairie, history, & more pawpaws than you'd expect.

I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.

Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
May 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Hey #StatsSky, what are you favorite papers to cite when you need to justify something that is obvious (I once had a reviewer ask we justify the use of logistic regression on a binary outcome)
or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?
January 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Interested in (studying) biological #clocks?

Here is a brilliant and concise introduction to the field, focussing on #ciradian clocks, and stressing the #adaptive nature of clocks.

And it's #OpenAccess !

#chronobiology 🧪 @doabooks.bsky.social

doi.org/10.21827/686...
On the Essential Principles and Practice of Circadian Biology: A Road Map – Simple Book Publishing
Circadian Biology is about the adaptation of life to our rotating world, to the Earth’s 24-hour rhythm of day and night. Not surprisingly, the field has attracted considerable popular and scientific ...
doi.org
July 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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June 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Over the last couple of years I have been writing individual chapters of what I call

𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲

Each chapter covers a specific, basic, but for some reason special and interesting aspect of #PlantScience research.

Have a look here 👇🧵
May 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Between 1637 and 1697, people who died at Milan's biggest hospital were dropped into underground vaults. Now their remains (including nearly 3 million bones & preserved brains) are helping archaeologists reconstruct the lives, diet and drug habits of people historians often overlook. @science.org
Thousands buried in 17th century Italian crypt reveal lives of working poor
Remains recovered from beneath a Milan hospital shed light on health, diet, and drug habits during the 1600s
www.science.org
May 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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If you haven't heard it, RadioLab did a really great piece on the small government grant that led to the discovery of Taq polymerase Listen to: The Age of Aquaticus - one.npr.org/i/fis-452538...
🔊 Listen Now: The Age of Aquaticus
Radiolab from WNYC Radio on NPR One | 43:00
one.npr.org
April 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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📜 PHOTOPERIOD 1 enhances stress resistance and energy metabolism to promote spike fertility in barley under high ambient temperatures

🧑‍🔬 Tianyu Lan, @simonrdg.bsky.social, Maria von Korff, et al.

📔 @plantphys.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #Barley #PlantStress
PHOTOPERIOD 1 enhances stress resistance and energy metabolism to promote spike fertility in barley under high ambient temperatures
The major barley photoperiod response gene PHOTOPERIOD 1 enhances stress resistance, thereby maintaining spike carbon metabolism to drive floret and grain
academic.oup.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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1/35 New paper out! @jamesTstroud and I dive into why long-term studies are crucial for understanding evolution. They reveal processes impossible to detect in short timescales and capture rare events that transform our understanding of evolutionary dynamics.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Latitudinal clines in the phenology of floral display associated with adaptive #evolution during a biological invasion

New #AJB research by Mia Akbar, Dale Moskoff, Spencer Barrett & @colauttilab.bsky.social

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience #globalchange
March 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Stable whole gene duplication—persisting over evolutionary timescales—shown in the Long Termm Evolution Experiment.

🌱🐋🦫🦋🧪🗃️🧠 #EvoBio
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 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Try our new in silico PCR (sPCR) tool sharkmer- github.com/caseywdunn/s.... You give it primers and fastq reads, it gives you sequences that would be amplified by PCR. Works in minutes on a laptop for high copy regions like rRNA, great for species id etc. Feedback welcome. #bioinformatics #ngs
GitHub - caseywdunn/sharkmer
Contribute to caseywdunn/sharkmer development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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When will hybridization bring long-term benefits? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.16.633403v1
January 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/39789

A follow up to my post on the rate of species description. It is usually the next question people ask but not so easy to answer. 🧪
#botany #taxonomy #systematics @diimoffatt.bsky.social
There are more plant taxonomists today than there have ever been
In a previous post I proposed that the rate of plant species discovery had not significantly changed in the last fifty years despite enormous changes in technology. A comment was made that this might ...
stories.rbge.org.uk
January 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Experimental validation of genome-environment associations in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.08.631904v1
January 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Day 16 in Evin for Cecilia Sala.

#FreeCecilia
January 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Compare these results with Jim Whiting's paper on genes with signatures of repeated local adaptation, where they tended to be more central in co-expression networks (high pleiotropy), also consistent with migration-selection theory!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Global distribution of a land plant by means of oceanic dispersal https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.28.629971v1
December 29, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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"How gene regulation occurs is one of the hardest and most complicated problems... the logic of gene regulation is fuzzy and collective, involving whole committees of molecules that are none too fussy about... who talks to whom."

Brilliant, lyrical @philipcball.bsky.social
nautil.us/how-life-rea...
How Life Really Works
Just as I uncovered a new way to understand life, I got news about my own.
nautil.us
December 27, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...
December 16, 2024 at 9:25 AM
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Describing the phenotype of a long-lived plant can be tricky. My recent paper in @eco-aeet.bsky.social shows that shapes of lifetime fecundity schedules of individual lavender shrubs differ widely among individuals and is subject to phenotypic selection [paper in English]

doi.org/10.7818/ECOS...
El fenotipo de las plantas como una trayectoria: seguimiento de 38 años revela que la historia vital de fecundidad está bajo selección en un arbusto mediterráneo | Ecosistemas
La definición de un fenotipo resulta a veces problemática para organismos no unitarios de estructura modular y crecimiento indeterminado, como son las plantas. Este artículo presenta una prueba de concepto de la importancia evolutiva de considerar las trayectorias de vida de plantas individuales como un elemento de sus fenotipos. Durante un período de 38 años se registró el tamaño de la planta y la producción de inflorescencias durante toda la vida reproductiva de N = 128 individuos del arbusto leñoso mediterráneo Lavandula latifolia (Lamiaceae) para abordar las siguientes preguntas: ¿Existieron diferencias entre individuos en sus trayectorias vitales de tamaño y fecundidad?, ¿Los parámetros que describen las trayectorias individuales estuvieron relacionados con la reproducción acumulada durante la vida? Los individuos difirieron ampliamente en fecundidad acumulada a lo largo de la vida y en cada uno de los parámetros empleados para describir el cronograma de fecundidad a lo largo de la vida (edad en la primera y última reproducción, longevidad, y la media, varianza, asimetría y curtosis de la distribución temporal de la producción de inflorescencias a lo largo de la vida). El análisis de selección fenotípica reveló relaciones significativas entre los parámetros que describen los programas de vida individuales y la estima empleada para describir la aptitud relativa de los individuos (producción acumulada de inflorescencias durante toda la vida dividida por el promedio de todos los individuos). Los gradientes de selección obtenidos demostraron la existencia de selección direccional positiva y negativa, así como casos de selección no lineal sobre algunas variables. Ello vino a demostrar que plantas cuyas curvas de fecundidad durante la vida poseen ciertas formas tenían una ventaja de aptitud sobre las otras. Estos resultados apoyan la idea de que la forma de las trayectorias vitales de las plantas individuales conforma parte de sus fenotipos.
revistaecosistemas.net
December 14, 2024 at 8:14 AM