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Nominations open for the 2022 Molecular Ecology Prize
From the Molecular Ecology Prize Committee: We are soliciting nominations for the annual Molecular Ecology Prize. The field of molecular ecology is young and inherently interdisciplinary. As a consequence, research in molecular ecology is not currently represented by a single … Continue reading
Recent reading: 29 April 2022
How is this month already almost over? Four weeks ago I was just starting to realize that an unexpected, astonishingly good flowering season for Joshua trees meant I needed to shoehorn in some fieldwork, eyeing the data analysis I needed … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, evolution, genomics, horizontal gene transfer, journal club, microbiology
Tagged cuckoo, host-parasite, human diversity, rhizobia, Richard Lewontin
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Recent reading: 1 April 2022
April Fool’s Day is no one’s favorite holiday, as far as I can tell. I do remember a time when it was sort of fun to be listening to Morning Edition over breakfast and slowly realize that the totally serious-sounding … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, evolution, journal club
Tagged community genetics, landscape genetics, plant-pollinator interactions
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Nominations open for the 2022 Harry Smith Prize, recognizing early career research published in Molecular Ecology
The editorial board of the journal Molecular Ecology is seeking nominations for the Harry Smith Prize, which recognizes the best paper published in Molecular Ecology in the previous year by graduate students or early career scholars with no more than five years … Continue reading
Recent reading: 18 March 2022
In the last fortnight, I saw one long-gestating project finally published, and got to be a small part of the publication of what’s arguably the biggest-ever study of adaptive evolution. I subjected an SUV full of students to a botany-themed … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, evolution, journal club, quantitative genetics
Tagged cowpea, diversity in STEM, g matrix, Ipomoea hederacea, symbiosis
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Recent reading: 4 March 2022
It’s now two weeks since I resumed in-person teaching, and so far, so good. It’s shockingly refreshing to actually interact with students directly, even with everyone masked, and to be able to just improvise with a specimen picked up on … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, ecology, evolution, journal club
Tagged milkweed, monarch butterflies, Muller's ratchet, mutualism, Red Queen, STRUCTURE
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Recent reading: 18 Feb 2022
Fieldwork in the spring is always a bit tricky, but I’ve fortunately been able to put my teaching commitment aside for a week to help plant Joshua tree seedlings in an ongoing experiment in climate adaptation. It was a scramble … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, climate change, Coevolution, ecology, evolution, journal club
Tagged adaptationism, Antonovics, host range
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Recent reading: 4 Feb 2022
It’s been an eventual two weeks in evolutionary biology. Meanwhile, I’ve somehow kept a lab-field course on track with minimal in person engagement, planned a bit for actual fieldwork in a couple weeks from now, and started wrangling a couple … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, ecology, evolution, journal club
Tagged convergence, drosophila, mutualism
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By association
Update, February 1, 2022: Less than a week after I published this post, Stacy Farina — an evolutionary biologist at Howard University — and her husband Matthew Gibbons published an extensive look through E. O. Wilson’s correspondence with, and active … Continue reading
Posted in community, politics, population genetics, Science Communication, Science History
Tagged E.O. Wilson, scientific racism
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Recent reading: 21 Jan 2022
The period between semesters is supposed to be quiet. I’ve been mentally dumping things to do into this one — paper revisions, reviewing service, analysis of long-awaited new data, a first draft of a new grant, writing my (eek) application … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, ecology, evolution, genomics, howto, journal club
Tagged dispersal, mutualism
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