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ella martin

@ellmartin.bsky.social

PhD candidate at UofT studying ecology and evolution in cities 🌱🏙

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ella martin @ellmartin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Collage as part of the scientific process aka thinking about urbanism and interdisciplinarity by gluing together pieces of Spacing and GEO magazines

A collage of different types of buildings with the text: "A place to grow?" "As good a place as any" "we built it"

A collage of the Toronto skyline with the text "What do you want to bring to the urban environment in Toronto?"

A collage of a photograph of a church surrounded by trees and encircled by a town on top of a photograph of sheep on a hillside. Text reads: "Collaborative approach to transforming old spaces"

Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Every map of Toronto is the same map of Toronto: an ongoing series. (To be clear, this is not a criticism of the research, which literally notes that there is a correlation with socioeconomic status.) www.thestar.com/news/gta/pla...

Map from the Toronto Star showing the "Best neighbourhoods to play"

Damien Moule@damienmoule.bsky.social · last yr.

Hmmmmm feels like I've seen this map before. But where? Oh well, can't place it.

ella martin @ellmartin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Part one of my common garden experiment is out today in Nature E&E!! We compare how urban and rural environments affect selection on HCN production, local adaptation, and eco-evo dynamics in white clover doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Effects of urbanization on local adaptation and eco-evolutionary feedbacks in white clover - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Evidence of adaptation to the urban environment remains limited. Using reciprocal transplants of white clover in urban and rural environments, this study shows divergent selection on an antiherbivore ...

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ella martin @ellmartin.bsky.social · last yr.

Yesterday was the last day of my 3-year long field experiment, and the last of my fieldwork for my PhD! I did some drawings and wrote a bit about my thoughts and feelings about it in the latest issue of the EEB Quarterly theeebquarterly.github.io

ella martin @ellmartin.bsky.social · last yr.

Superstars!

Marc Johnson (he/him)@evoecolab.bsky.social · last yr.

Congrats to our awesome summer undergrads for completing their projects, & to Apekshya, Mariana & Johanna for winning best presentation & poster awards at the undergrad summer research day. You've all learned a lot & we are proud of what you've accomplished @utmbiology.bsky.social @utm.utoronto.ca

Tilly S Scott @tillysscott.bsky.social · last yr.

We started today with a wonderful talk on how cordyceps fungus generates zombie ants. Then on to modelling, egg laying timing & brood number, white clover in rural and urban environments, young active SINEs in Italian sparrow, TE content in ferns 🧵1/2 #eseb2025 #eseb #sciart

Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · last yr.

Converting previous land-uses to parks *can* provide many benefits, but doesn't erase environmental injustice. New interdisciplinary work drawing from urban forestry, historical ecology, and environmental justice - really glad to see this one out! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

ella martin @ellmartin.bsky.social · last yr.

(Some of) the lucky clovers of the week

ella martin @ellmartin.bsky.social · last yr.

So cool to have seen this paper come together and so glad it's finally out!

Dr. Elizabeth Carlen@ecarlen.bsky.social · last yr.

I am thrilled that this manuscript is now out in the world! If you saw my talk at #Evol2025 you may remember me discussing how religion, politics & war shape urban evolution & now you can read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

ella martin @ellmartin.bsky.social · last yr.

Third and final generation of my clover children all potted up ☘ coming soon to a backyard near you (if you are in the GTA)

Greenhouse room full of pots of white clover plants

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · last yr.

Post your art or photo by May 15 to enter!

Evolution Students@ssegrad.bsky.social · last yr.

🦋 Call for Submissions!!! 🪸 We are announcing the 2025 Evolution Art/Photography Competition and Exhibition. Students and postdocs are invited to submit evolutionary biology themed artwork or photography for an award. 🐦 Submission Deadline: 11:59 PM Eastern Time (UTC−05:00), May 15th, 2025.

ella martin @ellmartin.bsky.social · 2y ago

The new issue of The EEB Quarterly (my first as EIC) is online now!! Feat. news, photography, stories, and essays by @hayden-fargo.bsky.social @noam-harris.bsky.social @pothebug.bsky.social and more! @eebtoronto.bsky.social Read it here: theeebquarterly.github.io (Vol.6 Issue 1)

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ella martin @ellmartin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi Bluesky! 👋🌱✌

Marc Johnson (he/him)@evoecolab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Welcome to @ellmartin.bsky.social who just joined BlueSky! Ella is a PhD student in the EvoEco Lab @uoft.bsky.social studying socio-eco-evo dynamics in cities - very cool stuff! Follow Ella to learn more about their research. #ecology #evolution #phd