Tanja Pyhäjärvi

University of Helsinki is hiring tenure track Assistant/Associate Professors. A main theme is Future Food and candidates with plant and crop breeding and genomics profile are encouraged to apply. Please share to potential candidates! The call closes November 16th. www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...

New research in #GENETICS combines theory and forward-in-time simulations to understand polygenic adaptation and quantitative trait evolution. 🔗 buff.ly/QHquAsn

Jenni Siréns great work on adaptive changes in gene expression of Betula. How does it look like when we are comparing populations that are close to each other in a clinal setting? @jennisiren.bsky.social

Luke (Natural Resorures Institute Finland) is hiring a PhD student for our project on conifer embryo mortality, inbreeding depression, somatic embryogenesis and self-incompatibility. Join our team of TreeDeath! valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese...

Great opportunity. I absolutely loved my visit there — great people and good science and a cool town. And if this wimpy southern Californian enjoyed Helsinki in January you can hack it no problem.

Job Opening. Faculty Position in Plant Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Davis in the Department of Evolution and Ecology (EVE, my home department). More detail here. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777

Come back soon Yaniv! Preferably in June, so you can do some Scots pine crosses yourself!

#smbe2026 was a blast! Especially with these good friends and colleagues. @susanjohnston.bsky.social @alisondawnscott.bsky.social

Our brilliant PhD students are at #SMBE2026 ! S22: P334 Rachel Carboni with snMultiomics S22: P339 @xindih.bsky.social with epistasis vs modularity in GRNs (w/ @fishcongen.bsky.social) S22: talk at 17:45 @jennisiren.bsky.social with GxE in gene expression (w/ main sup @pyhatanja.bsky.social)

We are looking for a PhD researcher to work for the “ClimatePine” -project, conducted in collaboration among Natural Resources Institute Finland, Metsähallitus Forestry Ltd and University of Helsinki. More info: valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese...

#SMBE2026 MBE Editor Symposium @molbioevol.bsky.social 🗓️ Wed Jul 1, 3:50pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme Talks by: Daniel Falush @hlouchova-lab.bsky.social Hie Lim Kim Li Liu Flavia Mascagni @pyhatanja.bsky.social Tianqi Zhu

How is fertilisation different between flowering plants🌺 and naked-seed plants, like conifers🌳? This illustration has been commissioned by @pyhatanja.bsky.social and Robert Kesälahti and is now freely available on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY 4.0 licence Link: bit.ly/4w9pyhq 🧪 #SciArt #EduSky

Registration for the International PhD School Plant Development 2026 is up and running, half the places have been already booked! So don't wait until the deadline to register raissiglab.org/plantdevosch... ! Cost: €350.- for conference, accommodation, meals, and a wine tasting in a local winery 🍷

That time of year again! If you'd like an example of job apps in academia or industry, here's a good resource. If you got a job in industry or academia in the last few years, please consider adding yours! github.com/RILAB/statem...

🌿 PhD opportunity in forest molecular ecology! Study how trees and their microbiome respond to climate stress in the ECOSENSE forest 🌳 🧬 RNAseq | qPCR | Fieldwork | Interdisciplinary research 📅 Deadline: April 20, 2026 @uni-freiburg.de

We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Thank you for hosting, Uppsala Universitet!

What a memorable day to give and listen to inaugural lectures of new professors at University of Helsinki! Here we are after the lectures with colleagues Fred Stoddard and Anne-Maria Pajari and the dean Ritva Toivonen from the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. @helsinki.fi

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It is a little bit depressing that 80 % of papers applying population genetic methods typically estimate π (nucleotide diversity per bp) wrong, and even worse, do not realize that when looking at the point estimates.

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Baffling failure of a well-studied trade-off in plants to survive the transfer from greenhouse studies to the open field. Intriguing study from @derekseveri.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social and colleagues in @plosbiology.org

We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers or doctoral researchers for: (i) Remote sensing advised country-wide genotype-phenotype linking, and (ii) Country-wide study of genetic adaptation and population structure dynamics in a changing climate. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

You know over the years what I have been really bothered by? When I was in college, bryophytes were taught as if they were relics of the past. Its sole purpose was to demonstrate trait progression leading to angiosperm, w/o mentioning their importance in nature, research, or potential in biotech.

Googlen NotebookLM on alkanut tehdä suomenkielisiä pocasteja. Nais-AI:n ääni kuulostaa karmivan samalle kuin Tuija Pehkonen. Pehkonenhan on ollut radiossa paljon äänessä.

We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers or doctoral researchers for: (i) Remote sensing advised country-wide genotype-phenotype linking, and (ii) Country-wide study of genetic adaptation and population structure dynamics in a changing climate. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Who started this ridiculous habit of using K for thousands? 10K run? 10 kelvin run is freezing! And now in scientific writing too. I know there are big battles going on now, but I will focus on this one instead.

The de-extinction of the dire wolves? "Colossal Baloney"— @stemcells.bsky.social www.latimes.com/business/sto... @latimes.com by @hiltzikm.bsky.social

The NSF discontinuing “misinformation” research b/c it threatens free speech is laughable. 9/

Still waiting for a reimbursement from a US University that invited me there to give a talk last August. My advice: do not ever pay the travel expenses yourself when invited and promised reimbursement.

Me to my lab members: "No need to stress about your Lab Meeting presentation. Just show us where you are at in your project". Also me: *spending 8 hours to prepare my own lab meeting presentation and getting nervous about it*.

Today I have spoiled myself with reading just single review paper all day, taking pauses to think. Luxury!

I'm excited to share our new preprint on the molecular evolution of heterodichogamy in two wingnut genera of Juglandaceae. Heterodichogamy features two morphs synchronously alternating male and female flowering phases in time to generate disassortative mating. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

"Yleisradion perinteiset alueelliset iltapäivälähetykset Radio Suomessa ovat loppuneet." "[---] Ylen johto tapaa parhaillaan aluetoimitusten henkilöstöä ja kertoo heille heidän työsuhteensa kohtalosta." www.lapinkansa.fi/yle-lopetti-...

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The newer sequencing tech, Oxford Nanopore, is traded on the London exchange as part of the FTSE 250, and it is likewise having a rough day, down 10% today so far, 42% since Trump took office. These tools are how we genotype cancer, flu, measles, etc., by the way.

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

I do not talk about politics a lot here. But the way Trump and Vance talked to Zelenskyi is the most disgusting thing I have seen for a long time. So sad, we are not able to really stand up for Ukraine. We could do so much more.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Watched meeting between Trump and Zelensky and all I can say is that I have never ever seen something like that. IMO, disrespectful were Trump and Vance, not Zelensky. And not only to the US but to Ukraine and Europe as well.

seriously, how did nobody question (from the ethics review stage to publication) this 🔽 research using and abusing rats! #AnimalEthics #AnimalWelfare

A few warm days stimulate early-flowering trees. This hazel alder, Alnus serrulata, has opened long yellow catkins - male inflorescences - to release pollen to the wind. The red female inflorescence opens a bit later on an individual tree to minimize self-pollination. Are you seeing tree flowers?

Tutkijat hei! Miten käytettä tekoälyänne työssänne vai käytättekö lainkaan? Kysymystä sopii jakaa.

Not all is well in the academic system, but one thing that continues to surprise positively is the improving research assessment here. New guidelines take a stronger stance still & explicitly forbid even mentioning IF in CVs, applications etc julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/user...

People that use Mac, and have to deal with exchange/outlook and google calendars! Is there a solution, where only one calendar application would allow you to see, sync, invite and RSVP all accounts? The multiple calendar sync issues ruin my life and mental health!

We are searching broadly for a PhD candidate interested in the evolvability of heat tolerance and the interaction between evolution and plasticity in 🐦🐣, based at @biologylu.bsky.social. Be great if you could re-post. Details 👇 #ERC #HotLife @ercresearch.bsky.social

I organized a roundtable about this a couple of years ago: sfdora.org/2023/06/06/p...

Highly multiplexed spatial transcriptomics in bacteria https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr0932

For something uplifting... Mimulus is kind to its kin! We add to the growing evidence that plants sense their neighbours and respond differently to kin vs unrelated individuals! Congratulations to @isabeaulewis.bsky.social 🧪🌾 #evolution #mimulus #botany royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...