We’re excited to share the Pan-genomes Doorstep Meeting @ #PEQG26! Join this 3-hour workshop on evolutionary applications of pangenomics, covering construction, analysis, phylogenetics, annotation & graph QC. Register separately or as an add-on to PEQG: genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/do...
Woohoo! Go Jill!!!!!
Preprint up now! With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social, we found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity across the altitudinal range of the cutleaf monkeyflower. This experiment was a HUGE personal undertaking. If you give it a read, I’d love to hear your thoughts!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
My amazing colleague Shelley Sianta (not on bsky) is looking for a tech to join her new lab at UT Austin. The position will involve lab, greenhouse, and field work to study local adaptation and speciation in plants. Please share! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book.
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
Out now on the cover of @journal-evo.bsky.social!
Led by Sarah Khalil, we took a genomic approach to investigate the hybrid zone between different-colored Red-backed Fairywren subspecies. We found some interesting candidate genes under selection. Check it out! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Stop this is amazing!!!
Thank Jill!!! Miss ya’ll!
I’m excited to announce that I am starting a postdoc position in the Gompert Lab at USU.
It brings me comfort and joy to study processes of change and adaptation- how boundaries between groups can break down and result in more variable and resilient populations. Catch me learning about 🦋 hybrids!!
I'll be giving a talk today at #Evol2025 at 4:30 pm in Hybridization IV, come through!!!
WOOHOO!!!!! Big congrats Katie!!!!!
My heart goes out to all of the people impacted in this moment. The future feels unknown in so many ways, but I also believe in our collective power as caring and intelligent people.
My first science job was with the USGS during college, and it meant a great deal to return to the program after earning a PhD to continue to do important basic science answering pressing management questions.
I was laid off from my position as Biologist at the US Geological Survey during the mass firings in the government on Friday.
Photograph of perennial Mimulus guttatus along a creek
Image from published paper showing that plants invest in more flowers and more stolons when surrounded by unrelated plants, compared to when their neighbours are relatives.
For something uplifting... Mimulus is kind to its kin!
We add to the growing evidence that plants sense their neighbours and respond differently to kin vs unrelated individuals!
Congratulations to @isabeaulewis.bsky.social 🧪🌾 #evolution #mimulus #botany
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So excited about this cool opportunity to talk about my love of field work and monkeyflowers! And share some picture highlights!!!
Tuning back in after a few months to share my new website with folks! dianatataru.weebly.com
Interested in living and working in Yosemite NP this summer? Do you like working outside with beautiful plants (#Monkeyflowers)?!?! Are you interested in ecology and evolution? Then apply to be a field technician in my lab this spring/summer 2024!!!! Please Repost!!!
#Mimuluspropaganda
Excited to share a new pre-print from our lab that demonstrates surprisingly repeatable genome evolution in replicated Xiphophorus hybrid populations! Led by former postdoc Quinn Langdon with substantial contributions from Jeff Groh from @gcbias.bsky.social's lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I've been searching for the breakpoints of this adaptive chromosomal inversion for 15 years. We have now finally found those breakpoints and have discovered that the inversion contains an even older large inversion. This and more in this new preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A belated goodbye to my last field season (for now) and hello to a new communication platform! Stay tuned for more on complex hybridization, big wall ecology, and more :)
