New paper out in Ecology Letters with Katja Tielbörger, Amaël Daval, and Charles Mullon 🥳!
Using eco-evolutionary models of annual plants, we show that adaptive plasticity in seed germination promotes genetic diversification and ecological speciation.
Excited to share our latest paper on How does gene expression evolve during adaptation? We used experimental evolution in flour beetles to find out. 🪲
Using a joint transcriptomic and quantitative genetics approach, we show that evolutionary changes in gene expression are predictable and largely driven by indirect selection on connected hub genes.
Published now in Evolution Letters @EvolLetters, spearheaded by Eva L. Koch and Charles Rocabert.
#evolution #genetics
https://academic.oup.com/evlett/article/9/6/719/8304032
Our first time using @PeerCommunityJournal -- why would anyone pay for-profit publishers when you can get stuff out OA for free? Literally the same peer review, literally the same article.
If you're a researcher and don't know PCI yet, check them. This is the future.
Last year I joined a bunch of very clever people in Chicago for a few days and we put together the bones for a handbook on how to hire, manage and retain data scientists and research software engineers in academic settings. It's now out!
https://zenodo.org/record/8264153
Boosts are welcome - we hope this will be helpful for a lot of people working in the software-producing corner of academia. Thanks to the folks at ADSA and @us_rse for putting it together!
The importance of data, software, and computation has been recognized in academia and is reflected in the recent rise of job opportunities for data scientists and research software engineers. Big data, for example, created a wave of novel job descriptions before the term Data Scientist (DS) was widely used. Even though software has become a major driver for research (Nangia and Katz, 2017), Research Software Engineer (RSE) as a formal role has lagged behind in terms of job openings, recognition, and prominence within the community. The value of DS/RSE roles is not widely recognized in the academic community yet, and research data, software, and workflows are, in many domains, still regarded as by-products of research. Data Scientists and Research Software Engineers (DS/RSEs) face similar challenges when it comes to careers paths in academia - both are non-traditional academic professions with few incentives and a lack of clear career trajectories. This guidebook presents the challenges and suggestions for solutions to improve the situation and to reach a wide community of stakeholders needed to advance career paths for DS/RSEs.
18 month post doctoral position ecological genomics of aromatic plants
⏱️ deadline June 1
#GWAS in nature #Oligogenic selection #monoterpenes
Max Schmid
Peer Community In
Landscape Ecology Hohenheim
Veli-Matti Karhulahti
Erick Ratamero
Thomas Bataillon
Kim Gilbert