🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️

Looking forward to giving this talk this Thursday! Apologies for having to re-schedule...

PolyAdapt STN@polyadapt-stn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Due to illness, the seminar is postponed to next Thursday. We will use the same Zoom link (see polygenic-adaptation-network.org/seminars/). I apologize for any inconvenience, and still looking forward to Sam's seminar and seeing many of you online next Thursday.

So happy to see the news that Takahiro Sakamoto has been awarded an ASN Early Career Investigator Award!! Very well deserved www.amnat.org/announcement... -- he brings a creative and insightful approach to a wide range of theoretical and methodological questions in Evolution

I attended my first CSEE meeting 19 years ago in Toronto and am excited to be returning this year...fantastic meetings and organization promoting E&E in Canada!

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

Great to see Gabriele's paper out in MBE. I was really interested that we found large differences in ancestry maintained across opposite sides of a single valley (presumably with high gene flow). Strong divergent natural selection on cool/wet N-facing vs. hot/dry S-facing slopes.

Gabriele Nocchi@gabnocgenomics.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy to share this paper with @samyeaman.bsky.social, now published in Molecular Biology and Evolution! Using replicated hybrid zones, we explored patterns of local adaptation and introgression in spruce and found strong signals even at very fine geographical scales! doi.org/10.1093/molb...

I tried replicating question 8 in chatGPT, and it got 5/5 correct (quiz reports getting it right 1/10). Didn't attempt any of the others yet

Adam Kucharski@adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When AI tools do well - or badly - at a task, it’s tempting to explain it away with the benefit of hindsight. But can you anticipate how well they’ll do before you see the outcome? Have a go here – and then see how your estimates compare with 1000+ others: quiz.wholesum.tech

Roll call on Simons Foundation Ecology & Evolution LOIs. Anyone get the nod? Here's an overview of our declined LOI on detecting repeated adaptation across 110,000 sequenced samples from >300 species of plants, animals, and fungi

Glad we have this kind of leader in Canada...sobering and realistic take on where we're at.

Just bumping this up again -- I'll be making a decision on who to nominate for the internal competition on Jan 21st, so please get in touch ASAP if you're interested.

Sam Yeaman@samyeaman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Want to study the genomics of repeated adaptation with data from hundreds of species? New funding for non-Canadians @ grad or postdoc level. Internal competition at UCalgary with very short deadline so please get in touch ASAP!! sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...

Want to study the genomics of repeated adaptation with data from hundreds of species? New funding for non-Canadians @ grad or postdoc level. Internal competition at UCalgary with very short deadline so please get in touch ASAP!! sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...

I actually tell them this -- use it as a study aid, and if you're not confident you can assess what AI is saying as correct/incorrect, that's a sign you need to study that more

Eryn McFarlane@erynmcfarlane.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm so back and forth on this. I think it really does depend on the student's level of subject matter expertise. If they can tell that AI is giving them nonsense [writing or code], then they might be okay. If they can't tell, because they're supposed to be answering themselves, then it's problematic

Will it go away if we ignore it? We need to train them to think critically alongside it. Still trying to figure out how, but I don't see any viable alternative. Unfortunately, training them to use AI effectively requires small class sizes and lots of interaction, which nobody wants to pay for

Marty Kardos@martykardos.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I still don't see how AI could be anything other than a disservice to students' abilities and confidence.

I think we want to push students to use AI competently. So if they're presenting, reduce the presentation time and increase the time where we ask questions and the students need to demonstrate comprehension and synthesis.

Jen Perry@jennyperry.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Me too. Even presentations. Last year some students presented content that was clearly AI generated and read aloud AI-generated notes.

I'm doing regular practice writing assignments (minor participation marks for completion) throughout the term where AI can be used, and then an in-class writing assignment towards the end of the year, where AI will not be available.

Dan Baldassarre@evornithology.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Steadily removing all writing assignments from my courses to avoid confronting AI-generated horseshit. This is the inevitable result of the embrace of AI by higher education. We will produce a generation of students that can't write or think for themselves.

I'm declining to review for Nature Communications Biology. This is for-profit publishing attempting to control too much of the "market" and I'm not supporting it.

I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.

Wait, we're supposed to be reading them?

Jeremy Yoder says no war@jbyoder.org · 9mo ago

Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not discovered a foolproof way to evaluate colleagues’ work that doesn’t involve reading the paper

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

I'll be reviewing applications for this in a few days, so there's still time to get touch if you're interested.

Sam Yeaman@samyeaman.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

It's always fun to work with Tom! In this one, we ponder how the answer to this question can tells us something about the kind of architecture underlying adaptation

Tom Booker@tombooker.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Check out this short piece on the genomics of local adaptation. Abi Brown (not on Bluesky) and I wrote it with @samyeaman.bsky.social ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Any input you say have would be welcomed!

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

I'll start reviewing applications in a little over 3 weeks for this PhD position. You could be doing fieldwork here! (or focus only on dry lab work if that floats your boat)

Sam Yeaman@samyeaman.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

University of Calgary is hiring a tier I CRC professorship in crop genomics. Come work in one of the most beautiful corners of the world! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...

Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Translational Crop Genomics in Sustainable Agriculture in Calgary, ...

Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Translational Crop Genomics in Sustainable Agriculture in Calgary, ...

careers.ucalgary.ca

Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

Field work is so tiresome. I have to climb up every time to ski back down.

David A Knowles@davidaknowles.bsky.social · 12mo ago

That is one hell of a recruitment photo!

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

Really great to see this out -- and so interesting to see strong signals of adaptation to North vs. South facing slopes across a single valley in spruce!

Gabriele Nocchi@gabnocgenomics.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I am happy to share my second paper with @samyeaman.bsky.social and collaborators! If you are into hybrid zones and tree genomics, this is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Miles gave a fantastic talk about this last year at SSE, I'm looking forward to reading the published version!

Emily Josephs@emjo.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey, Miles' @milesroberts.bsky.social beautiful paper showing that sequence diversity missed by standard methods contributes to Lewontin's paradox is officially published in @evolletters.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Temperatures are soaring, and there's a limit to what plants can handle. Scientists are figuring out how to engineer crops to take the heat so they can get into the kitchen. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...

Soaring Temperatures Threaten Crops, So Scientists Are Looking to Alter the Plants

nytimes.com

If your grant application needs some justification on why we should study adaptation in wild plant species... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Can wild plant adaptations help crops tolerate heat?

Wild plant species harbor a vast but largely unknown diversity of temperature stress solutions

science.org