The guy who artfully removes the knobs from the Tour de France roads so TV viewers will not be shocked by infantile graffiti.

Laurent Peraldi@tintamarre.bsky.social · 2w ago

Quand tu passes derrière @kvcpl.eurosky.social

I am recruiting a PhD student to study the causes and consequences of gut microbiome variation in wild caribou using shotgun metagenomics, with a start date in 2027. This opportunity is currently limited to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Feel free to email me for details if interrested!

The perils of bilingualism. Or of spectacular incompetence. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Unfortunate typo prompts removal of French-language posters from downtown Ottawa | CBC News

An unfortunate typo on French-language posters promoting a public space improvement program has prompted their swift removal from Ottawa's downtown.

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For colonization success, should hosts 🌱 and microbes 🦠 travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way? Excited to share a new paper with Jerry Yu and @mfrederickson.bsky.social in which we test how microbial partners alter plant performance upon natural introductions: tinyurl.com/8u4268n6

For colonization success, should hosts and microbes travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way?

Experimental co-introduction of duckweeds (Lemna japonica) and their microbiome in a common pond.

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New preprint from PhD student Emily Dovydaitis with @chloology.bsky.social: We need to better account for symbionts in #biodiversity studies. Happy to hear feedback! #SymbioSky

EcoEvoRxiv@ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'Symbiont interactions bias measures of arthropod biodiversity' doi.org/10.32942/X2N...

Interested in collaborating with our lab? Why not visit? Visitors have published chapters, got new ideas and made new collaborations. At @scienceanu.bsky.social we have much to offer, including joining for cool field work and seeing great wildlife. Details here: sites.google.com/site/drfarin...

Home - Visit the lab

We welcome visiting PhD students and postdocs in the lab Since 2016, I have hosted dozens of visiting students. Together, we have completed many chapters and published many papers. These visits have ...

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Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Is a nickel a day enough to protect nature? I think we get so much more - fresh air, water, nourishment, jobs, inspiration, beauty - than a nickel a day. While "Canada's Strategy to Protect Nature" is a major $3.8B boost (yay!), it's still only a nickel a day per person in 🇨🇦

Check out media coverage on polar bear climate change adaptations paper published in Ecological Monographs by @colingarroway.bsky.social and colleagues!!

Ecological Society of America@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our new media tip sheet is out! Explore fresh research from our journals on: 🐦a new metric for migratory birds 🦊mid-sized carnivore scavenging 🐻‍❄️polar bear adaption 🌲European forestry for birds 🦫& beavers reshaping the Arctic Read it here: https://ow.ly/O5eU50YAEwh

I think this is our lab's first paper in a proper ecology journal. We are now card carrying ecologists!

Mark Bitter @markcbitter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Really excited to see this work out now in Ecology Letters! May be particularly interesting to those thinking about life-history trade-offs and eco-evolutionary feedbacks, and how those may interact to maintain variation within natural populations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Special Feature in AmNat @asn-amnat.bsky.social just out on Genomic Forecasting. "Collectively, the articles underscore both the promise and the limitations of genomic forecasting while [showing] predictive performance is context dependent" 🧬🧪👨‍🔬🖥️🌲🐋🌿 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Very cool work based on an amazing long term study of bighorn sheep: No Pedigree, No Problem: Genomic Inbreeding Tracks Genetic Rescue With High Resolution - Mitchell et al: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

No Pedigree, No Problem: Genomic Inbreeding Tracks Genetic Rescue With High Resolution

With increasing habitat fragmentation and population isolation, inbreeding becomes a pressing concern for the persistence of wildlife populations. Detailed inbreeding monitoring is crucial for assess...

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Neither Conservative nor Liberal Canadian gov'ts understand how university research works. They think that a few top people are key, don't provide increased funding once these hotshots move in, so that more proposals are chasing the same $. Lots of 🇨🇦 talent unfunded and unseen. 🧪

Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Absolutely essential reading for anyone considering those "unicorn" hiring positions in Canada. Observations from researchers who are already there: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

My lab’s first publication is out now! MSc student Tia Attfield reviewed the current captive rearing literature in salmonids and provides perspectives on how epigenomics can help. Huge thanks to all our co-authors for their expert insights! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Epigenetics in Captivity: Restoring Wild Phenotypes in Captive‐Reared Salmonids

Captive rearing is a common practice for the stocking, conservation, and supplementation of fish species worldwide, but captive-reared fish can exhibit altered phenotypes leading to reduced fitness i...

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I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!) link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus

Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet it frequently evolves rapidly, in line wit…

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Are warmer oceans good or bad for #fish? 🐟 The answer is a dangerous paradox. Our new paper in @natecoevo.nature.com shows how marine heatwaves may create “fake” fish gains that mask a large-scale crash. Read our findings here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @mncn-csic.bsky.social #ClimateChange

Thank you to @theguardian.com for doing such a fantastic job communicating our findings to the public today. You can read their coverage here: @mncn-csic.bsky.social @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social @csic.es www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds

Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows

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New paper alert! "Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps" suggests that we have thousands of bee species left to describe and decades of taxonomic work ahead of us. We also provide the methods needed to apply more broadly :) doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps - Nature Communications

Bees are crucial for the maintenance of healthy ecosystems, yet rigorous estimates of their species’ richness are lacking. This study estimates taxonomic gaps for bees around the world and provides a ...

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1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review

The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

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‪ @eveliendegreef.bsky.social's latest is out in the @asn-amnat.bsky.social feature exploring the challenges of genetic forecasting😀 "Identifying Areas of Potential Risk Based on Future Genetic Adaptability in Three Arctic Whale Species" doi.org/10.1086/738889 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio

Congrats to Samantha Barrette for publishing her honours thesis! 🎉👏 While are many ways to get host DNA from fecal pellets, the effectiveness of different approaches is rarely compared. We tackled this in caribou using a full factorial design and a new qPCR assay: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A comparison of protocols for isolating and extracting host DNA from caribou (Rangifer tarandus) fecal pellets - Conservation Genetics Resources

Conservation Genetics Resources - Fecal samples are valuable for wildlife genetic studies where invasive tissue sampling is difficult, expensive, or negatively impacts welfare. However, fecal DNA...

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New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟

Degradation of fish food webs in the Anthropocene

The decrease in body size driven by the selective species turnover is widely altering fish food web topology and function.

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NEW PAPER (OPEN ACCESS): How could future climate scenarios may affect the distribution of dolphins and porpoises in the North Atlantic? Here, we modeled the current and future distributions of small cetaceans in the North Atlantic under 3 climate scenarios: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧪🌎 #ConservationBiology #biodiversity

Andy Gonzalez@bio-diverse.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 Join us - we’re hiring an engagement officer for the CAN BON 🍁 initiative! An effort to transform Canada’s capacity to mobilize its knowledge about the changing state of nature. See the job posting here👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

📣 Join us - we’re hiring an engagement officer for the CAN BON 🍁 initiative! An effort to transform Canada’s capacity to mobilize its knowledge about the changing state of nature. See the job posting here👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

📣 We are hiring! Please share far and wide... I am seeking an Engagement Officer to support the emergence of a Canadian Biodiversity Observation Network (CAN BON). This position is a unique… | Andrew ...

📣 We are hiring! Please share far and wide... I am seeking an Engagement Officer to support the emergence of a Canadian Biodiversity Observation Network (CAN BON). This position is a unique opportunit...

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We have compiled a special issue for @evolappjournal.bsky.social on Effective population size in Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring, dedicated to the late Michael W. Bruford. This SI is a must read for everyone who struggles with what "effective population size" means. #consgen

The Importance of Effective Population Size in Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring

Effective population size (Ne) is a key concept in biology and conservation. Stripped to its bare essentials, it reflects how much genetic drift a population experiences, expressed as a number of ind...

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Come work with us! We are seeking a tenure-track botanist, preferably in the areas of non-vascular, systematics, physiology or cell. Happy to answer questions. unbc.njoyn.com/CL/xweb/xweb... 🧪🌱 #botany

We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing

Interested in genetic diversity-area relationships as a potential proxy for genetic diversity? Check out Chloé Schmidt's latest 😀 @chloology.bsky.social 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio with Sean Hoban, @debbiemleigh.bsky.social, & Walter Jetz onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Happy New Year CSEE Community ! 📣We are excited to announce that our January #ECO.EVO.EDU webinar on Mentoring Early Career Writers takes place on Jan 13th! CSEE Members: check your emails for more information + webinar link. (Please note: English event). csee-scee.ca/event/mentor...