And another freshly published article by van Kolfschoten & Vallejo-Marín: Getting hooked? Testing the function of anther spurs in Vaccinium myrtillus: doi.org/10.26786/192...
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And another freshly published article by van Kolfschoten & Vallejo-Marín: Getting hooked? Testing the function of anther spurs in Vaccinium myrtillus: doi.org/10.26786/192...
"The fate of pollen in two morphologically contrasting buzz-pollinated Solanum flowers" by Vasquez-Castro et al. freshly published! doi.org/10.26786/192...
Very nice study… and surprised that I am just learning that Pontederia (Eichhornia) crassipes is an allotetraploid. Go polyploids!
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (March-June). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Thanks Lilian! I think this one will be really nice from the little bits that I have seen so far!
Bee and flower
Stay tuned for the release of this new documentary at the end of the month! I think our buzz pollination clip might have just made the cut!
Bruno Liljefors
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🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #WildlifeArt #art #wildlifepainting
Text: The Evolution Exchange, a monthly conversation series from the Society for the Study of Evolution. Outlines of cartoon heads with speech bubbles.
💬 In the second installment of The Evolution Exchange, retired NSF Program Officer Dr. Sam Scheiner returns to discuss how to craft a successful research proposal. Watch or read the transcript here: www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...
We are happy to announce that the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN has funding available to support several small travel grants for early-career researchers to enable them to visit another laboratory. What is this for? This funding is intended to enable early-career researchers – PhD students, postdocs, and junior research fellows – to visit another laboratory. In so doing, they can learn a new method or approach and/or initiate novel collaborations in the form of manuscripts, grants, or fellowship proposals. We envision that these visits are short stays (a week up to a month) but longer stays are also permitted. Who can apply? Early-career researchers, i.e. PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and up to junior research fellows (i.e., those in tenure-track positions but not tenured yet). Priority will be given to ESEB members and to trips that reflect novel collaborations (i.e., between people who have not previously collaborated, defined by co-authorship). ESEB membership is cheap (€40 annually, €20 for students) and discounts are available for residents of low to upper-middle economy countries (see ESEB website for details). Membership also comes with additional benefits such as reduced fees for conference attendance. What can be requested? Applicants can request funding to support a short research visit at another institution. The maximum amount of support that can be requested is €1.000, to be used for travel and accommodation. The provided funding cannot be used to cover research costs, wages, and/or stipends. ESEB policy states that we should minimize the environmental impact of e.g. travel; therefore, we will only support travel by airplane if the distance travelled exceeds 500 km and the travel time with alternative forms of transport would be more than 6 hours. How to apply: Download the application form and fill it out. Obtain two short letters of support, one from your supervisor/line manager and one from the host research group explai…
Are you an early career researcher who want to visit another lab to collaborate on a project on internal conflicts?
Apply for our ECR Research Visit Grant!
Deadline is April 30.
Buzzdetect, a new open‑source AI tool, uses simple microphones and machine learning to continuously detect pollinator activity. A new study shows how the tool can offer researchers and growers a low‑cost way to "listen" for bees in real time.
Please help me spread this postdoc position with me at Stockholm University, Sweden!!!! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Bombus sibiricus
Bumblebees of the Asian steppes - Sibiricobombus - our latest global revision of a bumblebee subgenus out today:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Matthew Pace, Associate Curator of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, was part of a team of orchid researchers who published a new paper focusing on the evolution of the leafless mycoheterotrophic orchid Stereosandra from Asia, the first genetic data ever produced for the genus.
Illustration of two common Eastern North American nuthatch species in a characteristic head-down pose on a tree trunk.
Red-Breasted and White-Breasted Nuthatches (Sitta sp.). From A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale Univ. Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ducks #LongIslandSound #birds #BirdArt
A comic-style portrait of Charles Darwin dreaming about the tree of life Illustration by Dorota Paczesniak
#DarwinDay is celebrating how Darwin’s scientific work, perseverance and intellectual bravery made biology the scientific field we know today, united through the concept of #evolution 🧪🐡
Dark blue dry beans held in my hand.
Several years ago, I managed to come up with this blue seeded variety of beans.
Since then, I've been trying to figure out how to make a blue bean with a paler color. Something like a sky-blue shade.
I am looking for someone interested in a 6-month post as research assistant, ideally to start at the beginning of March. The job is to conduct an experiment with flowers and robotic actuators to study buzz pollination. Job description and application here:
uu.varbi.com/what:job/job...
Free access to our paper on how plants dose their pollen when visited by buzz pollinating bees. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/8WWHWE...
New #PhD on #bees (BeeHd?)! Despite the ad saying "UK Students only", a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!
@fburki.bsky.social notice the blue sky!
Snowy landscape
Not a bad day for being out. This is Hammarskog natural reserve. You can ski here from Uppsala. Haven’t tried to do that yet though!
BTW, do not be put off by what might sound as unreasonable expectations for an assistant professor stated in some parts of the ad. The hard requirements is what you must have. We are looking for all excellent researchers that are excited to make the Evolutionary Biology Centre their academic home!
Do it! It's a great university set in a lovely city, and the Evolutionary Biology Centre is world class. The photo is genuine, not AI, and is not narrowly framed to show the only pretty part of town; Uppsala really does look like that.
Uppsala in late autumn
Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Three photos of a pale purplish flower, from different viewpoints, with a dissected flower (top right). It has a tubular corolla about 5 cm long and densely hairy inside. What looks like a stigma poking out (marked with a yellow arrow) is a densely glandular staminode (sterile stamen). The stigma (green arrow) has two flattened lobes, and there are four fertile stamens (blue arrow). The glandular hairs of the staminode secrete a mix of oils and fragrant chemicals that appear to have a range of possible functions mostly linked to bee pollination (see Guimares et al. 2008, doi:10.1093/aob/mcn152)
Jacaranda trees (Jacaranda mimosaefolia, Bignoniaceae) have been flowering in Nelson NZ for several weeks and I took these photos today. It's just as well I did a dissection, because what I thought was the stigma isn't. Explanation in ALT. 🇳🇿🌱 #bloomscrolling
Black field with a macro image of a bright orange lichen Xanthoria in one of the corner. Little diagrams showing a structure of a lichen thallus with different layers in grey and green, a phylogenetic tree, and an alphafold generated structure of a protein. White text says "PhD position in Stockholm University / SciLifeLab. Lichen Biology, Symbiosis, Microbial Ecology & Evolution,Meta-omics Fully funded for 4 years. Start Apr-Sep 2026. Deadline for application: Feb 1st."
⚡️Fully funded #PhD position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in #lichens, #symbiosis, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Five pictures of insect pollinators in flowers, arranged into two rows. In the top row, from left to right, bumble bee, hoverfly and small leaf-cutter bee. In the bottom row, two sweat bees
These are the champions. Four bees and one hoverfly. The five most abundant pollinators in Cazorla, which account together for ~14% of all individuals and flower visits, yet they represent a tiny 0.6% of all species (845).
[Yep, no honeybee, lucky me]
Their names in the response post.
Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
Deadline extended! You now have more time to apply for our Communicating Your Science workshop (15–17 April).
Apply today and take your communication skills to the next level: genetics.org.uk/grants/comm-...