There isn’t all that much information available on how to how to build a research group, and even less on how to build an inclusive, collaborative lab. Here I’ve written about my approach - I hope some other (new) PIs find it useful! #ECRchat franciskadevries.wordpress.com/2024/06/16/thr…

Our work on how genome duplication shaped evolution of a coral symbiont is out in Science Advances! A product of 6yrs of my PhD & postdoc w/ Cheong Xin (CX) Chan, I've never been prouder of a piece of work. Great collab w/ UTS C3 FIU Rutgers SEBS Australian Institute of Marine Science @ace_uq shorturl.at/6kjTN

I'm so excited for the start of the Gordon Research Conferences on Unifying Ecology Across Scales grc.org/unifying-ecolo… I'm hiring a research scientist and looking for students in 2025. Please get in touch if you are at the meeting quantmarineecolab.github.io/join/

Thanks to Beneficial Microbes Meeting for the opportunity to share the key findings from my PhD at McGill Biology Smithsonian Panama 🪸🦠 With an added surprise to see that I was selected for a Student Best Talk Award 🥹🙏🏽

Great opinion piece on #multicellularity, key innovations & genetic drift, suggesting evolutionary priority effects for animals evolving once. The discussion is truly insightful, but I fear we often underestimate the uncertainty in this field. For example, unknown taxa are

"..only 44 percent of female tenured professors are mothers, while 70 percent of male tenured professors are fathers. And women professors, especially women of color, are still underpaid relative to their male colleagues with similar publication records." hechingerreport.org/opinion-we-nee…

Thank so much Ewan Harney for taking the lead on this! It was a great time working with all of you. Check out our review paper if you're interested in epigenetics in natural populations.

📢We are hiring! A post-doc position (computational or wet lab) for 3 years at Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW Wydział Biologii UW in the Narodowe Centrum Nauki #SonataBIS project on #protist & #symbiosis. Apply by 30 September 2024 Please RT & share! 👉 More: ibe.biol.uw.edu.pl/en/projects/sy…

The first week of the 2024 Symbiosis Course Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is in the books! We studied various cnidarian model organisms to study the molecular and cellular bases of symbiosis. So fun! On to squid, sponges, and amoebas this week! #MBLSYM2024 Moore Foundation Inc

I agree that reefs deserve evidence based mgmt, but this piece misses the mark by portraying intervention research as naive heroism. There is a TON of ongoing work aimed at understanding efficacy to inform mgmt that is also generating insight into fundamental biology/ecology

Exploring the thermal trait space of heat tolerant coral symbiont Durusdinium trenchi with multiple experimental evolution frameworks. Your favorite coral symbiont just got more interesting! tinyurl.com/2jyf3xe3 New Phytologist Australian Institute of Marine Science University of Melbourne

For my new followers: in addition to plant biology, I also create & maintain data visualization contents on GitHub, such as "Friends don't let friends make bad graphs" (github.com/cxli233/Friend…) and "online R learning" (github.com/cxli233/Online…). Check out my repo if interested.

Interested in ocean & inland aquatic systems? Important UN position in #fisheries open for your application 'Fishery Officer (Biodiversity Mainstreaming in Fisheries)' for Fisheries & Aquaculture jobs.fao.org/careersection/… Deadline 27 August 2024

🧬Excited to share our latest pre-print! We've developed a rapid eQTL analysis approach using single-cell/nucleus RNA sequencing of Arabidopsis pollen nuclei. This method uncovers cis- & trans-eQTLs, including a master regulator of sperm cell development! 🌱📊 #PlantScience #eQTL

Out today in Biology Letters! doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2… Our #NewPaper documents decade-long behavioural change at a #spawningsite, showing how #fishing disrupts squaretail grouper mating behaviours, causing them to flee w fear, rather than fight w competitors or flirt w mates.

They made a lot of thicc larvae, too… Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)

The Harris campaign figures out how to wound Trump’s ego. His greatest asset has been his greatest liability. THREAD

📣Have you checked out our special issue on microbial ecology? nature.com/nmicrobiol/vol…

How can a species with low genetic diversity thrive in different thermal environments? Molecular Mechanisms of Temperature Tolerance Plasticity in an Arthropod, out GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution) , by @TrineBilde and a huge cast of others! academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16…

Majo y yo publicamos blog post cómo invitados. It has English andand Spanish versions! Guest post: doing ecology on the coast of Ecuador (Haciendo ecología en la costa de Ecuador) dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/08/22/gue… vía Dynamic Ecology