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Jannice Friedman
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Associate Professor, Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada
Research: evolutionary biology, plant reproduction
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Folks, it is University Press Week! @ijpsjournal.bsky.social has been published by the non-profit @chicagojournals.bsky.social since 1896. Were it not for their support @ijpsjournal.bsky.social might not be celebrating its 150th birthday in 2025. 🎂

#UPWeek #PlantScience
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Nov 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social featured cover article:

🚨Undergraduate research🚨

Viral-induced flower colour breaking reveals that turnip mosaic virus infection prevalence increases with urbanization in H. matronalis

Kaitlyn Dawson et al

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#PlantScience
Hesperis matronalis is an ornamental mustard plant introduced from Eurasia that has becomewidely naturalized throughout North America. Flowers of this species (pictured here) can be violet, pink, or white;however, upon infection by turnip mosaic virus, petals may display a striking flower color change referred to as“color breaking” or “variegation.” Research by Dawson et al. (in this issue, pp. 412–426) used the appearance offlower color breaking to investigate whether urbanization influences the prevalence of viral infection withinand among naturalized populations of H. matronalis. Field surveys of more than 38,000 plants from132 populations across Ontario, Canada, revealed that populations in areas of greater human activity weremore likely to be infected, independent of population size. Photograph by Kaitlyn Dawson
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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supportourscience.bsky.social
Investing in Canada’s research! Support Our Science welcomes Budget 2025’s focus on next-gen researchers: $133M for PhDs & postdocs, plus funding for chairs, faculty & infrastructure.

#SupportOurScience #cdnpoli

Read more: www.supportourscience.ca/post/support...
Support Our Science Welcomes the Focus on Research and Innovation in Budget 2025
News ReleaseFrom Support Our ScienceNovember 5, 2025OTTAWA, ON - Support Our Science, an organization dedicated to advocating for increased funding for Canada’s 300,000 graduate students and postdocto...
www.supportourscience.ca
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
jannicefriedman.bsky.social
I have an old edition of Darwin's Origin of Species that I bought as a PhD student. It sat in my office at @utoronto.ca at 25 Willcocks St. Today I looked up the original owner from the bookplate - Ronald R. Hart. I discovered that he was born in 1888 living at, you guessed it, 25 Willcocks St!
Photo of old edition (~1900) of Darwin's Origin of Species Photo of bookplate with name "Ronald R. Hart" and signature Text reads: Ronald Reid Hart was born on September 8, 1888 in Toronto to parents Samuel Richmond Hart & Janet Hay Wyllie. At the time of Ronald’s birth the family was living at 25 Wilcox St. near the corner of Huron St. in Toronto. The house no longer exists, and the property is now part of the U of T Campus. Ronald Hart grew up at 25 Wilcox St. with his family and attended the University of Toronto. He was married in Toronto on 17 August 1915 to Edna Juanita Cromarty.
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
🌱Check out this new #AJB Review!🌱

The #polyploid continuum & the landscape of polyploid genomic variation

By Alex Twyford, Justin Conover, Jeff Doyle, Annaliese Mason, Douglas Soltis, Pamela Soltis & Jonathan Wendel

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #polyploidy @soltislab.bsky.social
Expected outcomes at either end of a polyploid continuum.
November 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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waynemaddison.bsky.social
The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social
subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
The Passing of the Tree of Life Web Project
The Tree of Life Web Project began its journey almost 40 years ago, and was formally announced in early 1996. It has served thousands of pages of information about the evolutionary tree of life and…
subulatepalpomere.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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rishonavemulapalli.bsky.social
I am happy to share my first publication is out in the scientific world. Based on my undergraduate honours biology thesis research at Queen’s University (2024), we explore how urbanization and host-plant gardens impact the occupation of its specialist herbivores. You can check it out here! 🌿🐛
respublications.bsky.social RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 8d
New #OpenAccess work in #RESInsectConsDiv by @graydongillies.bsky.social, @rishonavemulapalli.bsky.social & C.G.Eckert reports that Common #milkweed gardens increase occupancy by #MonarchButterflies & other specialist herbivores towards an urban centre
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70033
November 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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New paper by PhD student Aly Van Natto! 🌾🧪

Ever wondered if a plant's early start (seed vs. clonal fragment) affects the rest of their life's trajectory? We did! So we tested it over 3 yrs. Seedlings grow & flower fast but die young, while clones play the long game
#PlantScience #ecology #evolution
biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 12d
Seasonal life-history trade-offs differ between plants derived from seed versus rhizomes in Saponaria officinalis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.685121v1
October 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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smwadgymar.bsky.social
Wow! In the ~1.5 years since we launched the EEB section of microPublication Biology, we have published 69 articles with another 10 in review or revision. 🎉 🧪

Thanks to authors and reviewers for supporting the effort! 🙏🏼
smwadgymar.bsky.social Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · Apr 15
📣 Introducing 📣

microPublications in Ecology and Evolution!

Please help support this effort by spreading the word and submitting and reviewing papers!

#evolution 🌎 🌍 🌏 🧪 #PlantScience #conservation
We are thrilled to announce the launch of an Ecology and Evolution section of microPublication Biology! Please support this new venture as an author, reviewer, and/or promoter! microPublication Biology publishes single, validated findings that may be novel, reproduced, negative, or are the result of small projects that may not fit into a larger article. The major goal of microPublication Biology is to rapidly place research findings into the public domain. microPublication Biology only accepts original, high-quality data and work, independent of perceived impact. Review and publication standards align with COPE ethical guidelines. All published articles are published in English and are peer-reviewed by at least one expert reviewer. Articles typically include a short abstract, a main section approximately 1000 words in length, a methods section, one figure (which can have multiple panels), and tables if appropriate. What types of papers are suitable for microPublication? - Exciting new research findings or methods that you want to publish rapidly in the public domain. - Experimental findings derived from small projects. - Preliminary data to cite in grant proposals. - Findings included in an existing publication as “unpublished observation” or “data not shown”. - Publishing results instead of burying them in supplemental materials. - Nature notes and natural history observations. - Successful or unsuccessful replication of published work. - Cautionary information. - Negative results. - If the amount of your data does not fit within one microPublication, you can prepare several submissions, each focused on an independent result, and tie the articles together with an Integrations article, which serves as a summary narrative article (see here for an example). mock microPublication logo depicting a cardinal, orb weaver, oak leaves/acorns, anolis, and shelf fungi.
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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oli-wilkins.bsky.social
New @genomejournal.bsky.social special collection “Early Leads: Plant Biology Side Projects with Big Potential”. We’re looking for short, self-contained studies with big impact. Deadline July 31st, 2026. OA, no pub. fees, ECRs!
Questions? Reach out to us (Olivia and @zoejolylopez.bsky.social)
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
jannicefriedman.bsky.social
New paper by PhD student Aly Van Natto! 🌾🧪

Ever wondered if a plant's early start (seed vs. clonal fragment) affects the rest of their life's trajectory? We did! So we tested it over 3 yrs. Seedlings grow & flower fast but die young, while clones play the long game
#PlantScience #ecology #evolution
biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 12d
Seasonal life-history trade-offs differ between plants derived from seed versus rhizomes in Saponaria officinalis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.685121v1
October 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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supportourscience.bsky.social
🎓 Calling Canadian grad students & postdocs!

#VoicesForScience is a new campaign to spotlight advocacy for fair pay and better research support.

Whether you’ve collected data, organized events, or driven change on campus — your voice matters.

Share: forms.gle/neeWyHyMt7Zi...

#SupportOurScience
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October 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Apparently I made the mistake of using my SNSF grant money to pay for publications from my Ambizione grant in 2023 and 2024.
Does anyone know of possible solutions for retrospective funding to save me from paying 6800 CHF out of my pocket to the SNSF to cover fees paid to journals in 2023 and 2024?
October 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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davidlowry.bsky.social
Nice to see this great write-up about our recent paper in Molecular Ecology. "Chromosomal Rearrangements Might Play a Central Role in Adaptation" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Photographs of coastal perennial (left) and inland annual (right) Mimulus guttatus (yellow monkeyflower). These photographs were taken by David Lowry.
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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nicrodemo.bsky.social
Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
Picture of MEME students on the beach
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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New paper by former MSc student @christeinecke.bsky.social! ⭐ A behemoth effort to apply artificial selection on clonal reproduction in #Mimulus guttatus. We show that clonality evolves quickly, but not symmetrically in both directions, and multivariate life history traits are altered too! 🧪🌾
biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Oct 2
Life-history evolution under artificial selection in a clonal plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679824v1
October 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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dortizba.bsky.social
Excited to share our new paper in
@GeneticsGSA
! We developed "Retriever," a novel method that enables high-quality genotype imputation in non-model organisms. 🧬 Congratulations to Charles on his first PhD paper!

Paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene...

A thread 🧵👇
Chimeric Reference Panels for Genomic Imputation
Abstract. Despite transformative advances in genomic technologies, missing data remains a fundamental constraint that limits the full potential of genomic
doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social

🚨Undergraduate research🚨

Viral-induced flower colour breaking reveals that turnip mosaic virus infection prevalence increases with urbanization in the invasive Hesperis matronalis

Kaitlyn Dawson et al.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

#PlantScience #Botany
www.journals.uchicago.edu
September 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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kdarragh.bsky.social
I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm
Green butterfly sat on a flower.
September 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
🌿 We’re proud to recognize Kyra N. Krakos (Maryville University) as the 2025 recipient of the Samuel Noel Postlethwait Award!

Presented by the BSA Teaching Section, this award honors excellence in teaching botany.

Learn more here: botany.org/home/awards/...

#BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist
Flyer titled Botanical Society of America – Samuel Noel Postlethwait Award, Teaching Section, 2025 Recipient. Background features blue petals. Centered photo of recipient Kyra N. Krakos (Maryville University) smiling. A QR code and BSA logo appear at the bottom.
September 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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stephenbheard.bsky.social
This is true, and funny because it's true, and also an argument for "early writing" - you can write much of your paper, even most of it, well before the work is complete and thus before you're too late for "should have done".
wkhuber.bsky.social Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · Sep 16
Science: only when you write up the manuscript, you realize what you should have done.
September 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
jannicefriedman.bsky.social
Is this platform useful for asking biology questions? 🌾🧪

Question for my plant-peeps:
Is there something newer and better than microsatellites for assessing paternity? (where newer and better means cheaper and easier?) Have field arrays, known parents, need to genotype offspring seed for paternity.
September 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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aussiastronomer.bsky.social
Just arrived back home from Utah - spent most of the second half of the drive realising that this could happen, calculating when to hit the trip button so it would happen, and then waiting for it to happen. 😂😂😂
September 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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crouxevo.bsky.social
Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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jennyperry.bsky.social
MSc position in my lab. Come study the evolutionary & behavioural ecology of insects!
@stfx-university.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM