The two owlets in a side canyon behind the Reserve, have moved from the nest to a nearby ledge (see earlier post). Video: Sicco Rood

My lab is hiring two summer field techs to help resurvey our forest dynamics plot.

Please pass to interested individuals. $20-22/ hour + benefits
details here: mspaso.wixsite.com/traitecology/j…

Congratulations to the new members of the National Academy of Sciences, elected in Evolutionary Biology for 2024!

Adriana Briscoe
David Queller
Ray Huey
Nick Barton, International Member

OK, I think we're close to decisive evidence that US bovine H5N1 had a single origin from birds, and that when related viruses from birds *have* been found, they are jumps from cattle back into birds.

Grackles, blackbirds, chickens all show mammalian adaptation like PB2 M631L.

Thanks everyone! It’s a wrap on our 12th annual Yosemite Symbiosis Workshop!

It was awesome y’all! Thanks for bringing your amazing symbiosis science. Thanks especially to our keynote speaker Kabir Peay!

Join our EEOB Department at UC Riverside! We're looking for a new Academic Coordinator to help run our Dynamic Genomes lab courses: aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01853

UC Riverside is a great place to work!

That amazing paper you spent years on? That amazing breakthrough you had? Very likely you built this following the work of others (very few exceptions), just as others will build off yours. Science is a continuum. Want to leave a lasting legacy in science? Be generous & be kind.

Drought free California from space.

What a sight.

Thus is huge.

An algae with a nitrogen-fixing organelle.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

News release 🐸🧬🦠🍄 on Mark Yacoub, Rebecca Clemons lead work from Stajich Laboratory Lillian Fritz-Laylin Erik Kalinka Rabern Simmons, PhD 🔬🍄 and Tim James news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/… for our paper cell.com/current-biolog…

UC Riverside CNAS

We have a few spaces left. Early bird registration has been extended to March 7. Register now before we run out of space for the Yosemite Symbiosis Workshop.

What?! That’s crazy for such a rich institution!

The culmination of 4 years of hard work, 1 PhD and 1 postdoc. We show that a legume can be excluded from parts of it native range by the absence of its bacterial symbiont alone!
Omri Finkel עמרי عُمري 🎗️
and twitterless Efrat Sheffer and Yoni Waitz nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

I think y’all need to see this gorgeous culture 🍄🧫 of the honey mushroom Armillaria gallica growing in my lab!

We released a bacterial genome annotation pipeline, Beav, from the Weisberg Lab (Alexandra Weisberg).

GitHub: github.com/weisberglab/be…

The preprint is also out: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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A cactus wren near the Reserve (Photo: Sicco Rood).

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