Jesse Lasky

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Faculty Penn State Bio. Director Penn State Herbarium. He/him. laskylab.org

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Academic conference-attendees everywhere find themselves involuntarily wincing in sympathy.

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My lab is looking for a postdoctoral scholar. See image or t.co/bdIxT8eE6n If you're a plant geneticist or mol biologist and appreciate the wonders of evolution this is a position for you. We can teach dry lab or genomics so plz consider if you want to learn a new skill!

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📢📢PhD in coral 🪸physiology and 🧬genomics📢📢 Come join our team! sites.bu.edu/davieslab/jo... Reach out with Q's and please share widely!

Join the Lab | The Davies Marine Population Genomics Labsites.bu.edu

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My dept is hiring in Evolutionary Genomics psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Evolutionary Genomics Tenure Track Faculty Position in Biology Departmentpsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

My dept is hiring in Evolutionary Genomics psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

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Job alert!! Join Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of global change biology with emphasis on the Ecology and Evolution of Host-Microbe Interactions (pathogens, mutualists, microbiomes). aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476

Assistant Professor - Global Change Biology- Department of Integrative Biologyaprecruit.berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Wildlife Protections Take a Back Seat to SpaceX’s Ambitionswww.nytimes.com A New York Times investigation found that Elon Musk exploited federal agencies’ competing missions to achieve his goals for space travel.

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We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest on recent papers and journal updates. ✅ Research on all areas of evolutionary biology ✅ Society-owned (Society for the Study of Evolution) ✅ Free publication for SSE members Read the latest papers and submit your research at academic.oup.com/evolut

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Two years ago, we initiated a special issue, Eco-evolutionary dynamics in changing environment for @jevbio.bsky.social. It has now been published - the authors contributed a great set of papers: ow.ly/8bXr50Ssp0T; editorial: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/.... Tereza Nekovářová drew the cover art for us. 💙

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in changing environments: integrating theory with dataacademic.oup.com While the debate on whether the ecological processes are separated from evolutionary processes was very active in the second half of the last century (Anto

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🌱Annals of Botany announces a new special issue entitled "Stress Physiology of Root Systems", edited by Hannah Schneider and Doris Vetterlein. This call for papers is in conjunction with the International Society of Root Research Conference to be held in Leipzig during June 2024. 🧵(1/4)

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“New satellite data confirms that every corner of the earth has the incorrect quantity of water,” the report read in part, noting that even though the total amount of water on the planet seemed to be about right, the distribution of that water across the globe was “way off.”

Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Waterwww.theonion.com RESTON, VA—A new global report released Monday by the U.S. Geological Survey revealed that every place on earth currently has the wrong amount of water. “New satellite data confirms that every corner...

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This is five times the annual budget of the NSF. Its like funding the Manhattan project and ending up with …. nothing.

It's pretty incredible to think they somehow spent fifty BILLION dollars on this as of a year or two ago and not only can I not fathom where that money went, but we barely even talk about it because it's overshadowed by even stupider wastes entirely by guys named Sam.

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The Roles of Drift and Selection on Short Stamen Loss in Arabidopsis thaliana along an Elevational Gradient in the Spanish Pyrenees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.12.598645v1

The Roles of Drift and Selection on Short Stamen Loss in Arabidopsis thaliana along an Elevational Gradient in the Spanish Pyrenees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.12.598645v1 www.biorxiv.org Traits that have lost function sometimes persist through evolutionary time. These traits may be main

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New preprint on my molecular evolution work with @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social and @mfrederickson.bsky.social! Inspired by work in parasite literature, we looked for evidence of increased rates of molecular evolution in mutualistic interactions. What did we find?

Elevated rates of molecular evolution genome-wide in mutualist legumes and rhizobia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.10.598267v1

Elevated rates of molecular evolution genome-wide in mutualist legumes and rhizobia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.10.598267v1 www.biorxiv.org Rates of molecular evolution vary greatly among even closely related species. Although theory predic

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I am hiring a postdoc to work on sorghum resistance to the parasitic plant Striga. Gates Foundation funded project involving ecophys (especially roots) and genetics. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Postdoctoral Scholar - Lasky Labpsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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If you want to know what's happened with Dr. Priyanga Amarasekare at UCLA, here is the full account in her words. tl;dr: An institution continues to punish a woman of color who spoke about biases within the institution. The "Why this Website" tab has a lot of info www.pamarasekare.org

Home | My Site 3www.pamarasekare.org

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You don't need another reason to never, ever publish in an MDPI journal. But in case you do, consider this one: pretending it's OK to plagiarise a thesis because it isn't "prior publication"

“the publisher said the behavior did not amount to plagiarism because the prior work was a thesis.” I’m sorry WHAT (Adding a citation might be the right fix, but the journal needs to move a LOT faster — and if there’s verbatim copying a citation won’t fix it) retractionwatch.com/2024/06/03/a...

‘A disturbing experience’: Postdoc fights to have work that plagiarized her thesis retractedretractionwatch.com Solange Saxby In December, Solange Saxby, a postdoctoral research fellow at Dartmouth Health in Lebanon, New Hampshire, was notified by her friend of a paper published in the MDPI journal Nutrients…

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Think about this next time you work on that Case for Support 'We report on a field experiment (and) find that withholding proposal texts from panellists did not detectibly impact their proposal rankings' link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometricslink.springer.com Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report...

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Excited to share this work on maize root domestication & adaptation to global water availability! 🌱💧🧪 🌍 Thanks to Peng Yu and all collaborators 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01761-3 In addition, there are some cool root water models in use 😉 #CPlantBox #GRANAR-MECHA #MARSHAL

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I didn’t know half this stuff

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Maladaptation in cereal crop landraces following a soot-producing climate catastrophe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.18.594591v1

Maladaptation in cereal crop landraces following a soot-producing climate catastrophe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.18.594591v1 www.biorxiv.org Soot-producing global catastrophes such as nuclear war, super volcano eruption, or asteroid strike,

Our new paper developing continuous wavelet transforms of spatial/landscape genetic data is out academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Estimating scale-specific and localized spatial patterns in allele frequencyacademic.oup.com Geographic patterns of relatedness and genetic variation can be used to learn about evolutionary processes. However, many modeling approaches are not flexi

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Botanists scour US-Mexico border to document forgotten ecosystem split by giant wall botany.fyi/wql4wv Near the towering border wall flanked by a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle, botanist Sula Vanderplank heard a quail in the scrub yelp. Then silence. #Botany #PlantScience

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Previously unmeasured genetic diversity explains part of Lewontin's paradox in a k-mer-based meta-analysis of 112 plant species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.17.594778v1

Previously unmeasured genetic diversity explains part of Lewontin's paradox in a k-mer-based meta-analysis of 112 plant species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.17.594778v1 www.biorxiv.org At the molecular level, most evolution is expected to be neutral. A key prediction of this expectati

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🗃️ Y'all I appreciate the Lincoln quote but we have to stop telling the story this way. Lincoln was not just reacting to a heinous decision, he was telling a vital truth about how people of the era understood constitutionalism. Near universal acceptance of judicial supremacy is a 20th c phenomenon 1/

New in PN: Lincoln warned that if government policy "upon vital questions affecting the whole people… is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of SCOTUS… the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.” It's like Abe was addressing the Roberts Court.

Lincoln's warningwww.publicnotice.co It's like he was talking specifically about the Roberts Court.

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Amy Angert & I are recruiting 2 field technicians for demographic surveys of scarlet monkeyflower in late summer-fall. Please spread word to any potentially interested candidates! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/202...

Plant Ecology Field Technicianjobs.ncsu.edu The Sheth evolutionary ecology lab in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina; USA) and the Angert Lab in the Departments of Botany an...

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Discover the impact of past #climate on present-day plant diversity in this fascinating #OpenAccess study that assesses climate-based delimitation of a tropical alpine #ecosystem. #PlantScience #evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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What assurances can university leaders provide that the disciplining and arresting and beating of their students is not directed by politicians, lobbying groups or billionaire group chats?

Exclusive: A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post.

Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats showwww.washingtonpost.com A WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy Americans after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack reveals their focus on New York Mayor Eric Adams and their work with Israeli officials to shape U.S. opinion of the Gaza...

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2024 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Michael Whitlock, for foundational contributions to the study of population genetics in space www.molecularecologist.com/2024/05/15/2...

2024 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Michael Whitlock, for foundational contributions to the study of population genetics in spacewww.molecularecologist.com The Molecular Ecology Prize Committee has announced the 2024 recipient of the award, which recognizes an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to the still-young field of mol…