I don't want to "do more, less well," but rather the opposite. And I think the opposite would be way better for science! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts
Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.
nature.com
Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
nytimes.com
Come work with me! We are hiring a Research Program & Operations Coordinator to administer a new CREATE training program and support other EEB initiatives at U of T. Please circulate to great people in Toronto looking for an academic admin position: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Research Program & Operations Coordinator
Research Program & Operations Coordinator
jobs.utoronto.ca
🧪🐛🐝🐜🦋Come work with me! @romtoronto.bsky.social is hiring a Curator of Insects & Arachnids!!! #insects royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/mdMTpA...
Curator of Insects & Arachnids - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page
Apply to Curator of Insects & Arachnids at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com
Botany friends: cool job alert. We're searching for a new Director for the UC & Jepson Herbaria here at UC Berkeley. Share with nice people. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405 🌿🌺🌵
Associate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley Herbaria
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
Fantastic news, but @usuitakuji.bsky.social will be deeply missed in Toronto!
Takuji Usui | 薄井拓路@usuitakuji.bsky.social · last mo.I am incredibly thrilled to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Prof at Yale EEB in January 2027!! 🎉🎊 Stay tuned for student and postdoc openings, and please feel free to reach out to me if you are interested in eco-evo, range dynamics, species interactions, and global change! 🌐🌱🦠🧬
A tough end to the tournament, but we could not be prouder of Team Canada. 🇨🇦 Thank you to the thousands of fans who joined us to cheer them on and make #UofT one of the top spots in the city to watch history unfold. #UTogether
On this last day of #Evol2026, a reminder to sign up for the ASN Stand Alone meeting, on the East Coast of the US for the first time! www.amnat2027.org Registration is open. It's a small conference and spots are limited.
ASN Stand Alone Meeting 2027
Jan 8-12 - Long Island, NY. Learn more about the conference and register here!
amnat2027.org
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.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Now out in @newphyt.bsky.social, led by postdoc @usuitakuji.bsky.social with former undergrad Jerry Yu. Plant microbiomes affect colonization success in the wild!
New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · last mo.For colonization success, should hosts and microbes travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way? Usui et al. @usuitakuji.bsky.social @mfrederickson.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
HALF-TIME: CANADA LEAD 3-0 AGAINST QATAR 😎 Cyle Larin and Jonathan David (2) with the goals 💪
Canada is up 3-0 at the half at BC Place. Just incredible!
Shout out to Amy Angert for her wisdom and collaboration, and thank you to NSERC, @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social and @asn-amnat.bsky.social Graduate Student Research Awards for your support in setting up a new experimental system using duckweeds! 🦆🌱
What an incredible new paper out today in @science.org, led by Frederickson Lab member @usuitakuji.bsky.social (from his PhD work with Amy Angert)! Competition increased adaptation to warming across replicated miniaturized "landscapes" using duckweeds as a model plant community
Takuji Usui | 薄井拓路@usuitakuji.bsky.social · 2mo agoExcited to share our new paper in which we test how competition alters adaptation at a warming range edge @science.org We find that competition can increase adaptation to warming when there is a shared evolutionary response to both biotic and abiotic drivers of selection: tinyurl.com/3j8s9t8b
Another new preprint from my lab, led by Erin McHugh in collaboration with Megan Bontrager. Mutualism has long been thought to expand a species' niche, an idea supported by case studies. We found support (mostly) for this idea across 2600+ legumes from around the globe: doi.org/10.64898/202...
doi.org
New preprint from my lab, led by fantastic postdoc @kevinricks.bsky.social! The evolution of a more beneficial host-microbe mutualism does not always require a host--microbes can evolve to benefit hosts even when free-living. Feedback welcome!
Kevin Ricks@kevinricks.bsky.social · 2mo agoPreprint of some of my postdoctoral research with @mfrederickson.bsky.social examining the evolution of beneficial microbial symbionts in duckweed www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Day 2 at #CSEE2026 featured a Presidential Award Plenary by @aerinj.bsky.social , poster sessions on the ice rink, and a lively student mixer! 🎉📊⛸️ Thank you to all presenters, students, and attendees!
Day 3 at #CSEE2026 featured a public talk at the ROM by David Evans on "Deciphering Dinosaur Lives from Disease and Injuries" 🦖🏛️ & Day 4 featured Presidential Address by @juliabaum.bsky.social & a SWEEET Symposia on Equity and Access in EEB.
Our annual conference last week was a great success and our biggest meeting ever! Here are some highlights from the meeting. Day 1: We kicked off the conference with opening remarks and an inspiring plenary from Elizabeth Clare and an opening reception at the ROM. #CSEE2026
UVic is hiring a Terrestrial Plant Ecologist Assistant Professor! Come join our department! We're nice and Victoria is awesome. www.uvic.ca/science/biol...
Faculty Position in Terrestrial Plant Ecology - University of Victoria
Department: Biology                 &am...
uvic.ca
My first #CSEE meeting was in 2012. At that meeting my introduction to the ecology and evolution community in Canada could not have been more memorable than being a part of over 1000 scientists from #CSEE2012 that marched on Parliament Hill as part of the #DeathOfEvidence march in #SCEECSEE20.
CSEE_SCEE@csee-scee.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20
The 2017 meeting in Victoria (which gave rise to my omnipresent and somewhat dated headshot) is up there among the top meetings I've ever attended. Just a wonderful and supportive community of scholars with boundless enthusiasm for discovery.
CSEE_SCEE@csee-scee.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20
We drove from Boston to the inaugural meeting of CSEE in Montréal in 2006 @christianlandry.bsky.social. We reunited with Louis Berbatchez’s lab. We also went to Toronto in 2007. Graham Bell gave a fantastic chalk talk. I was elected on council in 2010, edited the newsletter for a bit. #SCEECSEE20
CSEE_SCEE@csee-scee.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20
Happy anniversary CSEE! I co-organised the first meeting with Graham Bell, in Montréal, in 2006. It was exciting to see the birth of this new Society. Now CSEE has reached maturity and I’m getting closer to retirement! Sad I’m not joining you this year
CSEE_SCEE@csee-scee.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20
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Rachel Germain@gerlame.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy fav memory was a road trip with @tessgrainger.bsky.social and Natalie Jones from San Diego to the Victoria meeting, and running out of gas (like, pedal stopped working) while driving in the fast lane of a highway. How many PhDs does it take to remember to fill the gas tank 🤔
My first @csee-scee.bsky.social meeting was the second one in 2007 in Toronto. #SCEECSEE20 Here's a photo of all of us attending from the Barrett Lab at the time @nicrodemo.bsky.social @colauttilab.bsky.social @shaky-dingo.bsky.social #CSEE
CSEE_SCEE@csee-scee.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20
I was at the inaugural meeting of the CSEE at @uqam.ca (Montreal) back in April 2006. That same year (August), I moved to Montreal as a faculty member; so this also marks 20 years for me in this wonderful city. #SCEECSEE20
CSEE_SCEE@csee-scee.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20
I secretly snuck into the first #SCEECSEE20 meeting! I had just come back from six months of backpacking and landed in Toronto a couple of days beforehand. @ariannealbert.bsky.social I subsequently attended and paid for (well, @sarperotto.bsky.social grants paid for) many more in grad school. 1/2
CSEE_SCEE@csee-scee.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20
