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How do spatial eco-evolutionary processes shape phenotypic plasticity at the range edge?! Co-lead david lerner, myself and an ~incredible~ team of co-authors wrote a new perspective piece out now! 👇👇 🎉🥳🍾🪩

Congratulations to CSEE Doctoral Research Award winner Takuji Usui! Takuji’s research explores how eco-evolutionary feedbacks scale up to shape species geographical ranges and coexistence, using the experimental evolution of duckweed communities.

Sonoran Desert sentry

Good Morning 🌵☀️

This is most certainly the softest creature I've ever handled. 🥹 I almost missed him when checking my black light. He began life as a Tragic Carpet, and those formidable defenses served him well, but now he's just pure floof. 🤎 6/9/23

This Barbie has a Nobel Prize 💖 He’s just Ken

Read a new Weekend Essay by Joe Garcia, on listening to Taylor Swift in prison: nyer.cm/OjXOKVs

Desert tortoises are out in the East Mojave Desert. Drive carefully.

Excited to share a new preprint from my PhD chapter with Amy Angert! Here, I use experimental evolution to test how selection from a spatial temperature gradient alters the eco-evolutionary dynamics of range expansion. Happy to chat about results! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I too am recruiting graduate students, postdocs, and a lab technician for my group at UChicago, starting fall 2024! We will be doing exciting work to uncover the limits of plant adaptation in changing environments.

Excited to share a preprint for my 1st PhD chapter with Amy Angert Nathalie Isabelle Chardon (she/her) Kavya Pradhan & Janneke Hille Ris Lambers. We test for demographic lags and microclimatic buffering as drivers of apparent range stasis under climate change.

So exciting! The culmination of my time in the Angert Lab at UBC, where I worked with duckweeds to study their resource acquisition strategies. Check it out :) 🦆🌱

In case anyone is still on Twitter to see this (?), I'm really excited to be starting a lab at the University of Toronto University of Toronto EEB in July 2024! For more details, see here: freedman-lab.ca.

Do you think about range expansions, dispersal evolution, invasions?? Check out our new preprint: "Environmental gradients mediate dispersal evolution during biological invasions" doi.org/10.1101/2023.1…

We have a new paper out on the ecological basis of hybrid incompatibilities! We argue, via literature review, two meta-analyses, and simulations that epistatic incompatibilities might underlie much of what is known as 'extrinsic' post-zygotic isolation cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/early/… 1/n

rewatched Point Break last night and was struck by how inhabited Swayze’s performance is—you really buy Bodhi as a guy who’s had his brain rattled around by the ocean and the jumps and certainly some drugs, who also has a legitimate spiritual practice, who also could kill you

"Revisiting Reality Bites now, the movie isn’t exactly dated… It’s more like watching a foreign film, the product of a culture w different values. It's deeply concerned with the concept of selling out, but it doesn’t feel the need to define what it is" texasmonthly.com/arts-entertain…

Very excited that my first ever paper is out now, with Amy Angert and Takuji Usui | 薄井拓路! Using duckweed, we examined how R*, a resource-acquisition trait that represents competitive ability, varies across temperatures and genotypes 🦆🍃 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

*Highly niche* crossover content for knitters and Stardew fans here… but I am inordinately proud of this new project for a friend’s little guy! (Pattern my own) 🎮 🧶

My final two PhD papers are out in the world as pre-prints, if you are interested in plant evolutionary ecology, genomics, range expansion and/or reproductive assurance please take a look! Also part of team #mimuluspropaganda biorxiv.org/content/10.110… biorxiv.org/content/10.110…