Gut microbes may help wild horses evolve to survive harsh Canadian winters | Science News | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Gut microbes may help wild horses evolve to survive harsh Canadian winters

Study is first to show that the bacteria in an animal’s gut can give it an evolutionary leg up

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Sable Island horses featured on new silver coin from Royal Canadian Mint #NovaScotia www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

Sable Island horses featured on new silver coin from Royal Canadian Mint

The Royal Canadian Mint has released a one-ounce silver coin featuring Nova Scotia’s Sable Island horses.

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Our new @sihorses.bsky.social microbiome preprint was just featured in the Science news section! 😀🐴🦠 www.science.org/content/arti...

Gut microbes may help wild horses evolve to survive harsh Canadian winters

Study is first to show that the bacteria in an animal’s gut can give it an evolutionary leg up

science.org

Jocelyn Poissant@jocelynpoissant.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you are interested in fitness and microbiomes in wild animals, you should definitely check this one out. New @sihorses.bsky.social preprint by @mstothart.bsky.social

Thanks to @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social for awarding me the Best Landscape Photo! Picking a photo was a tough choice as Sable Island offers so many stunning views 🌊 Stay tuned for more photos from Sable, with the upcoming field season starting 13 July 🐴 @sihorses.bsky.social

Dr. Aurelia Strauß@aureliastrauss.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Joining the photo contest with our Sable Island horses: LANDSCAPE 🏝️ Breathtaking beach views of Sable every day. SCIENTISTS IN THE WILD 👩‍🔬 3-7 weeks continuous field require rest. FIELDWORK 🐴 Horses commuting along the beach to limited freshwater ponds. #CSEEinFocus @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

If you are interested in fitness and microbiomes in wild animals, you should definitely check this one out. New @sihorses.bsky.social preprint by @mstothart.bsky.social

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Host genetics and social relationships jointly shape fitness-associated microbiome variation in a population of feral horses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.27.740960v1

First in-person, multi-institution Summit since COVID in the books. Long overdue... Great to reconnect, with plenty of catching up and productive discussions with @aureliastrauss.bsky.social @jocelynpoissant.bsky.social @victoriacrozier.bsky.social @mickyahn.bsky.social @weronikaklecel.bsky.social

New @sihorses.bsky.social publication by @mstothart.bsky.social on the toxicity of Beach Pea on Sable Island doi.org/10.22621/cfn...

And also @mickyahn.bsky.social for his honourable mention @sihorses.bsky.social photo 😍🐴

Time to complete the move and introduce myself to 🦋: I am a behavioural ecologist and just started as postdoc at the lab of @jocelynpoissant.bsky.social at UCalgary. I will work on microbiome-behaviour interactions in wild 🐎 @sihorses.bsky.social 🐎 hence, my profil picture will be updated soon 🐦‍⬛➡️🐎

Congratulation to Dr. Julie Colpitts 👩‍🎓 for (very) successfully defending her PhD thesis on genomic variation in @sihorses.bsky.social today 🎉🎉 And a big thank you to co-supervisor Philip McLoughlin and external examiner @colingarroway.bsky.social

Hello! I'm Micky, a PhD Candidate at the University of Calgary studying the ecology and evolution of parasites in Sable Island horses using DNA metabarcoding. I spent 3 summers on a deserted island as a glorified poop picker and amateur horse photographer.

The first paper from my PhD is out in Parasitology! Using DNA metabarcoding, I show patterns of parasite infection in Sable Island horses! It's open access, so go check it out! doi.org/10.1017/S003...

Mixed strongyle parasite infections vary across host age and space in a population of feral horses | Parasitology | Cambridge Core

Mixed strongyle parasite infections vary across host age and space in a population of feral horses

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I guess I should reintroduce myself! I’m a PhD candidate on the @sihorses.bsky.social project at @usask.bsky.social, and did my MSc on the Ram Mountain bighorn sheep project at @usherbrooke.bsky.social Currently working on density-dependent carry-over effects on SI horse life history traits

🦋 intro: The Sable Island project is a long-term individual-based study of feral/wild 🐴 in 🇨🇦. >1500 horses have been monitored yearly since 2007 (current pop size ~500). Research focusses primarily on the causes and consequences of ecological and individual variation. #ecology #evolution #consgen

We’re still marooned on Sable Island, but at least the sky’s putting on its happy face. So, it’s official: the only thing more trapped than us right now are those who haven't migrated to 🦋! Follow us for updates from the long-term study on the ecology, evolution and conservation of Sable Island 🐴