Curious about how polyploidy shapes plant evolution and adaptation? 🌿
Our lab is looking for postdoc candidates to apply for the Juan de la Cierva fellowship (PhD awarded between Jan 2024 – Dec 2025) through @ageinves.bsky.social
Join us to explore ecology, and evolution in polyploid plants! ✨

Really nice study on the evolutionary dynamics of TEs in maize by @jrossibarra.bsky.social and colleagues 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🌿 El congreso #SEBOT2025 ha reunido en la #UPO a la comunidad científica y amantes de la #botánica para reflexionar sobre la diversidad vegetal y el futuro de su conservación.

👏 Gracias a todos y todas las participantes por convertir Sevilla en el epicentro de la botánica durante estos días.

@minutoides.bsky.social hoy en #SEBOT25 contándonos sobre sus Brachypodium anuales y el trabajo que conlleva el estudio de sus pangemonas!

#iamabotanist #herbarium #botany2025

A single domestication origin of adzuki bean in Japan and the evolution of domestication genes | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

BEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inference www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/beast-dev/be...

What a community, what a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere, what a location! Thank you @snsf.ch, CSF @ethz.ch, @newphyt.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social and @cerealcell.bsky.social for supporting us.
🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾
Grazie mille - Thank you so much
Forza Brachy - Go Brachy

A little piece of my PhD journey was shared today at #IBRC2025! I presented insights into the population genomics and evolutionary origins of Brachypodium hybridum, and offered a glimpse into my ongoing work on the pangenome of B. stacei.

Thanks to everyone who joined the session!

A Palearctic divide, niche conservatism and host-fungal endophyte interactions shaped the phylogeography of the grass Brachypodium sylvaticum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.24.661274v1

Exploring genomic diversity and reproductive strategies in three expansion phases of the superdominant Brachypodium rupestre in high mountain grasslands https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.05.657980v1

I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑‍🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!

Stoked about this manuscript, many years in the making. We present an original resource of ~700 highly curated plastid MAGs of marine pelagic algae. Among these we found a novel deep branching group of plastid genomes; we informally call them leptophytes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A barley pan-transcriptome reveals layers of genotype-dependent transcriptional complexity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out this impressive potato genome (graph) study, with @zbao.bsky.social as co-first author! I especially liked the authors' idea of a 'broken window' effect of deleterious SVs, which seem to attract more deleterious mutations (SVs and SNPs) nearby.
#plantscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New phylogenomic study of #Magnoliidae: so excited to see this out at last!

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Gordon Research Conference on Chloroplast Biotechnology; Engineering Plastids for Better Crops and New Functions🌱

👉https://eventform.plantae.org/plantae.calendar/detail/1367/1743368400000

#PlantScience

Friends don't let friends make bad graphs repo has been updated!

Friends don't let friends use boxplot for binomial (bimodal) data. Is your box plot hiding something from you?

#DataVisualization

github.com/cxli233/Frie...

Hey there, revolutionaries of Bluesky!

I'm Miguel, an evolutionary biologist currently doing my PhD at the Unizar. My work focuses on whole genome analyses, gene expression data in Mediterranean species 🌾.

Here's a glimpse of a Brachypodium hybridum from our experimental garden at EPSH!!