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1/🧵 Did you know that #Coca is not a #drug, & much more than just the plant that yields #cocaine? But the plot thickens, and as our new research discovered, identifying cultivated cocas from wild species using traditional methods is very difficult 🌿 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41…

Losing your voice is the world telling you to shut up and listen. Just to many wonderful people to talk to at #Evol2024

Lineage diversification & rampant #hybridization among subspecies explain taxonomic confusion in the endemic Hawaiian #fern #Polypodium pellucidum New #AJB research by Jonas Mendez-Reneau, Joseph Richards, Nicholas Kooyers, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1… #botany Wiley Plant Science

Read our latest paper highlighting long-term ecological research networks for evolutionary research! rdcu.be/dPLqx Out now in NatureEcoEvo! This was a huge collaborative effort that I was fortunate enough to be a part of. Also led by @MeghanAvolio and...

LOST AND FOUND!! During IBC2024 I found this ring on the floor in IFEMA. It seems to be a wedding ring with an inscription on the inner side. I thought I put it in a pocket but it went somehow missing. I just found it back a few days ago. Can you please help me find the owner?

Professor Ben Blackman has asked me to broadcast this search for a tenure-track Assistant Professor at UC-Berkeley in Plant Developmental Biology within in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04554

Smithsonian NMNH is hiring two Research Botanists! The Department of Botany seeks candidates with demonstrated expertise in, and a commitment to, collections-based research centered on plant systematics and evolution. The full announcement is available on USAJOBS: usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDet…

. Louisiana Board of Regents is holding budget hearings this morning, discussing each individual higher education system and what a potential $250M cut next year could mean for campuses and programs. The hearings are online: youtube.com/watch?v=_QWcqJ… #lalege #laed

🚨The biggest project of my PhD thesis with Marc Johnson is now available in preprint form! We conducted a transcontinental common garden experiment to ask questions about local adaptation, species invasion, and responses to environmenal change in ☘️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New BIEN tools available: the (Plant) Native Status Resolver (NSR). This tool infers native status of a species in a given locations, and provides information on the decision. R package is up on CRAN cran.r-project.org/package=NSR and a web version is at: nsr.biendata.org

Someday I hope to be as cool as Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D . What a great idea!

I started gathering a list for REUs/Summer research opportunities for undergraduate students in Ecology/Conservation/Evolutionary Biology. Feel share to share with any undergraduate students who may be interested in participating in *PAID* research. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Happy to share a new paper on the role of admixture with cultivated species on invasion success, this time, sunflower in Argentina 🌻🇦🇷 Thanks all co-authors, some of them in X Boris Vercellino Ale Presotto Marco Todesco onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Interested in target capture sequencing? @madiraibullock and I are happy to announce a new service at TTU. Send us DNA, get reads enriched for your probes. Angiosperms353, GoFLAG, Compositae1061 & more! Funds go to grad student stipends and tuition! mossmatters.com/blog/TargetCap…

I have funding available in my lab at NC State for a graduate student interested in plant evolutionary genetics, especially in weeds. Please email me by Dec 20 for full consideration. Details and contact info on the lab website: avanwallendael.github.io/#joining-the-l…