Jonathan Wendel
@jonathanfwendel.bsky.social
Husband, father, friend, runner, plant evolution and genomics, Iowa State University
Reposted by Jonathan Wendel
Very happy that our research on TE dynamics accross cotton evolution at @cragenomica.bsky.social and in collaboration with @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social et al. is now published in Genome Biology!: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Differential LTR-retrotransposon dynamics across polyploidization, speciation, domestication, and improvement of cotton (Gossypium) - Genome Biology
Background Transposable elements are major components of plant genomes and major drivers of plant genome evolution. The cotton genus (Gossypium) is an excellent evolutionary model for polyploidization...
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Very happy that our research on TE dynamics accross cotton evolution at @cragenomica.bsky.social and in collaboration with @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social et al. is now published in Genome Biology!: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...
This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...
Reposted by Jonathan Wendel
Call your senator TONIGHT or tomorrow morning if they are on the appropriations committee and encourage them to support the subcommittee recommendation - i just did!
🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding.
Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
🧵 1/3
Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
🧵 1/3
Subcommittee Markup of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
www.appropriations.senate.gov
July 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Call your senator TONIGHT or tomorrow morning if they are on the appropriations committee and encourage them to support the subcommittee recommendation - i just did!
Reposted by Jonathan Wendel
Alexandria Declaration coming out from courageous NSF staff.
www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s...
I knew this was it in the works, but did not know the timing. Stay tuned...
www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s...
I knew this was it in the works, but did not know the timing. Stay tuned...
National Science Foundation Workers to Issue “Alexandria Declaration” Decrying “Catastrophic Changes” Under Trump Administration
The new declaration echoes similar efforts from NIH and EPA.
www.importantcontext.news
July 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Alexandria Declaration coming out from courageous NSF staff.
www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s...
I knew this was it in the works, but did not know the timing. Stay tuned...
www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s...
I knew this was it in the works, but did not know the timing. Stay tuned...
Such an amazing story about meiosis in pentaploid roses...
rdcu.be/esxPd
rdcu.be/esxPd
June 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Such an amazing story about meiosis in pentaploid roses...
rdcu.be/esxPd
rdcu.be/esxPd
Reposted by Jonathan Wendel
Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...
April 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...
Reposted by Jonathan Wendel
Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works
May 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works
Reposted by Jonathan Wendel
Check out Tatsuya Nobori’s amazing Tansley Review in New Phytologist on exploring the untapped potential of single-cell and spatial omics in plant biology
www.tsl.ac.uk/news/emergin...
www.tsl.ac.uk/news/emergin...
Emerging technologies to define the status of each cell in a plant
www.tsl.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Check out Tatsuya Nobori’s amazing Tansley Review in New Phytologist on exploring the untapped potential of single-cell and spatial omics in plant biology
www.tsl.ac.uk/news/emergin...
www.tsl.ac.uk/news/emergin...
Harvard Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...
Harvard Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original.
www.nytimes.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Harvard Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...
Reposted by Jonathan Wendel
Explore how hybridisation drives biodiversity! New research shows recurrent hybridisation and HHS shape genetic diversity & create incipient hybrids in Iberian Phalacrocarpum 🌱⛰️
D. Criado, R. Piñeiro, @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social, and G. Nieto. @annbot.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
D. Criado, R. Piñeiro, @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social, and G. Nieto. @annbot.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Homoploid hybrid speciation and recurrent hybridization along the northwestern Iberian mountain chain
AbstractBackground and Aims. Natural hybridisation can lead to diversification and adaptive introgression, among other outcomes. However, the mechanistic u
academic.oup.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Explore how hybridisation drives biodiversity! New research shows recurrent hybridisation and HHS shape genetic diversity & create incipient hybrids in Iberian Phalacrocarpum 🌱⛰️
D. Criado, R. Piñeiro, @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social, and G. Nieto. @annbot.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
D. Criado, R. Piñeiro, @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social, and G. Nieto. @annbot.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Polyploidy Conference: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/evolution...
Registration deadline is fast approaching! (May 19th)
Registration deadline is fast approaching! (May 19th)
Evolutionary and ecological genomics of polyploidy in plants: temporal dynamics across scales of biological organization from molecules to ecosystems
Roscoff (Bretagne), France, September 15-19, 2025Deadline for application: May 5, 2025
www.insb.cnrs.fr
May 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Polyploidy Conference: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/evolution...
Registration deadline is fast approaching! (May 19th)
Registration deadline is fast approaching! (May 19th)
Reposted by Jonathan Wendel
Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
April 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."
Meh too!
I don't like the constant messaging that humans are *naturally* endurance runners. As an abled person who has clawed very hard for years (even being into fitness forever) to be a meh-pace runner, it sends a very... exasperating message that makes one want to give up.
April 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Meh too!
Reposted by Jonathan Wendel
Possibly the largest dandelion in the world? I love it!
Mona Caron, contemporary Swiss-born artist, known for her large scale environmentally themed murals #WomensArt
April 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Possibly the largest dandelion in the world? I love it!
Reposted by Jonathan Wendel
New Article: "Phenotypic and genomic signatures across wild Rosa species open new horizons for modern rose breeding" rdcu.be/egIj3
With News & Views: "An evolutionary bouquet for roses" rdcu.be/egIkd
With News & Views: "An evolutionary bouquet for roses" rdcu.be/egIkd
April 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
New Article: "Phenotypic and genomic signatures across wild Rosa species open new horizons for modern rose breeding" rdcu.be/egIj3
With News & Views: "An evolutionary bouquet for roses" rdcu.be/egIkd
With News & Views: "An evolutionary bouquet for roses" rdcu.be/egIkd
Why we keep going
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Why we keep going
Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately.
open.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Why we keep going
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Reposted by Jonathan Wendel
"This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history." Story on the decimation of NIH by @maxkozlov.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history." Story on the decimation of NIH by @maxkozlov.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
Interested in the autopolyploid - allopolyploid "continuum"? If so, you might like this: rdcu.be/efNSq
Rapid formation of stable autotetraploid rice from genome-doubled F1 hybrids of japonica–indica subspecies
Nature Plants - This study details a process of duplicated (homoeologous) chromosome ‘scrambling’ in newly formed rice polyploids, indicating the possibility of natural...
rdcu.be
March 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Interested in the autopolyploid - allopolyploid "continuum"? If so, you might like this: rdcu.be/efNSq
Polyploidy Conference! Registration deadline is May 5th
cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
Evolutionary and ecological genomics of polyploidy in plants: temporal dynamics across scales of biological organization from molecules to ecosystems | CNRS - Conférences Jacques Monod (CJM)
cjm.sb-roscoff.fr
March 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Polyploidy Conference! Registration deadline is May 5th
cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
Reposted by Jonathan Wendel
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
March 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
Reposted by Jonathan Wendel
