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IRBV @irbv.bsky.social · Sep 9

📢 Prochain séminaire // Next conference

AI tools in scientific writing: Should you? And how?

👨‍🔬 Stephen B. Heard, U New Brunswick
📅 Mercredi, 10 septembre 2025, 13:30
📍 Centre sur la biodiversité, B-104

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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · Sep 9

Si vous êtes à Montréal mercredi, vous devriez venir écouter le séminaire de @stephenbheard.bsky.social sur l'utilisation de l'IA en rédaction scientifique! 🧪

If you are in Montreal on Wednesday, you should definitely come to @stephenbheard.bsky.social's talk on AI in scientific writing! 🧪

IRBV @irbv.bsky.social · Sep 9

📢 Prochain séminaire // Next conference

AI tools in scientific writing: Should you? And how?

👨‍🔬 Stephen B. Heard, U New Brunswick
📅 Mercredi, 10 septembre 2025, 13:30
📍 Centre sur la biodiversité, B-104

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IRBV @irbv.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢 Prochain séminaire

👩‍🔬 Silvana Martén Rodriguez, UNAM

🧪 Changing tracks towards the summit: pollination and breeding system shifts along tropical mountain gradients

📅 Mercredi 27 août 2025 à 11h30 à l’IRBV (B-354).

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Kathleen Kay @kathleenmkay.bsky.social · Aug 8

Is the Most Effective Pollinator Principle a zombie idea? How do plants adapted to one pollinator shift to another without traversing an adaptive valley? How should we measure fitness in pollinator selection studies? We explore these questions and more in a new review doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Beyond the Grant–Stebbins model: floral adaptive landscapes and plant speciation

AbstractBackground. Floral diversity, a striking feature of angiosperm evolution, provides the impetus and rationale for linking pollinator-driven selectio

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Joelle Lafond, PhD @joellelafond.bsky.social · Jul 8

Interested in sex chromosomes evolution and want to wrap up today’s talks on a colorful note? Come see my presentation on guppy sex chromosomes today, July 8th! 🐠

#CSEE2025
⌚16h15, 📍 Lac Memphrémagog

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Jérôme Burkiewicz @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hey #CSEE2025 interested in flowers, natural selection, urbanization or any combination of the three?
I’m presenting results of my thesis at 11am today in the urban ecology session (Rivière Coaticook)

Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · Jul 8

You have to come and see the talk of @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social that will test if urbanization affects natural selection by pollinator on flower shape.
#CSEE2025

It is at 11:00 in Rivière Coaticook

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Jérôme Burkiewicz @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social · Jun 16

In the field, phenotypic plasticity masked the genetic differences observed in the common garden.

Urbanization influenced flower morphology through both plastic and genetic changes!

This counter-gradient variation means the environment dampens genetic adaptation—making evolution harder to detect!

Jérôme Burkiewicz @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social · Jun 16

Bumblebee size was also positively correlated with the genetic component of sepal size.

This suggests that bumblebee size is a key selective agent acting on Impatiens capensis sepal size

But wait—there’s more!

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Jérôme Burkiewicz @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social · Jun 16

The difference in bumblebee size between urban and natural sites wasn’t the same in every city.

Interestingly, the genetic component of sepal size paralleled this result, the variation in sepal size following the one in bumblebee size.

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Jérôme Burkiewicz @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social · Jun 16

We combined field and common garden experiments to study flower evolution in natural and urban habitats, disentangling plastic from genetic responses.

We surveyed pollinators and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis in 16 populations across the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto regions.

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Jérôme Burkiewicz @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social · Jun 16

Urbanization alters species richness, abundance, and even evolution—especially of pollinators.

Since pollinators form mutualistic interactions with plants, shifts in their diversity, abundance, or traits can drive selection on flower morphology.

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Jérôme Burkiewicz @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨 My first first-authored paper is out on bioRxiv!

🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis.

🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations.

🧵 More below ⬇️

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Jun 16

Urbanization drives genetic and plastic responses of the spotted jewelweed flower morphology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.10.658901v1

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Joelle Lafond, PhD @joellelafond.bsky.social · May 6

Je suis heureuse d’annoncer l’obtention d’une bourse postdoctorale du FRQ pour mon projet sur les conséquences de la perte de recombinaison génétique chez les guppys, dans le labo de Judith Mank (UBC)! Je présenterai ces travaux au #SCEE2025 à Sherbrooke cet été – au plaisir de vous y voir!

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Sep 19

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Apr 14

🌧️🌵 Climate extremes are reshaping the world of pollinators!

A new study reveals that a decrease or excessive increase in water availability can negatively affect the reproductive potential of plant species & pollinators collecting their nectar. 🌍🧪

Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extreme events induced by climate change alter nectar offer to pollinators in cross pollination-dependent crops - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Extreme events induced by climate change alter nectar offer to pollinators in cross pollination-dependent crops

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · Mar 25

Exciting news! @wcratcliff.bsky.social and I published an essay last week in @nature.com reviewing the substantial contributions of 'long-term' studies to evolutionary biology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · Mar 20

Really excited to say that my lab's paper on color transitions in Mimulus sect. Erythranthe is out! We found that some traits demonstrate evolutionary convergence in phenotype & genotype, while others are divergent, & that - as Bob Vickery found - bees prefer yellow!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Within-species floral evolution reveals convergence in adaptive walks during incipient pollinator shift - Nature Communications

During evolution, how adaptive walks cross fitness valleys remains unclear. This integrative study on monkeyflowers reveals that convergence in large steps (floral color and gene expression) drives a ...

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Kaz Ohashi @kazohashilab.bsky.social · Jan 31

Moir et al. (2025) asked how pollinators drive geographic floral divergence in Brunsvigia gregaria with a generalist pollination system. Style length correlates with the body length of locally important pollinators, highlighting their critical role in floral evolution. #Ecology

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The title of the paper, 'A test of the Grant–Stebbins pollinator-shift model of floral evolution,' published in New Phytologist.

Graphs showing how floral morphology in B. gregaria aligns with pollinator body size and contact probability. The first two graphs show that mean style length increases with pollinator body size (weighted mean pollinator body length and the mean body length of the most important pollinator group). The other two graphs show the probability of contact with floral reproductive parts by ubiquitous pollinators: honeybees contact them more often at short-style sites, while bee flies show no significant difference among sites.

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Kierzkowski Lab @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social · Jan 21

JOB ALERT:
Join us @irbv.bsky.social , the Univeristy of Montreal to develop your research program related to quantitative genetics where #plants are the object of study or an integral part of the studied system.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Assistant Professor in Quantitative Genetics - IRBV is located in the Montreal Botanical Garden, one of the largest in North America. job with Université de Montréal / IRBV | 12835129

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position to develop a research program related to quantitative genetics of plants or plant-associated systems.

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Nov 27

New work reveals the impact of anxiety & depression on PhD students.
"Anxiety and depression can have a substantially detrimental impact on graduate students’ experiences [..] and likely also contribute to increased time to degree and student attrition."
nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Nov 14

We’ve put a lot of work into making Bluesky a healthier social network. This app is designed to give you a choice — in what you want to see, what you don’t want to see, and how you want to interact.

Some tips on how to customize your experience:

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Jérôme Burkiewicz @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi Brian, thanks for the list. Can I also be added please ?

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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · Jul 28

The Joly lab at #Evol2024 today…

Jérôme Burkiewicz (@jeromeburkiewicz) is presenting some of his PhD work on the genetic and plastic effects of urbanization in flower chape of the jewelweed.

📌 4:15, room 525AB (Floral Evolution), Sunday 28th

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · Feb 19

Guest blog from me on Dynamic Ecology, a guide for beginning grads on developing a reading habit and project ideas! Super grateful for reposts :)

Non-definitive guides on developing a reading habit & generating project ideas

Note from Meghan: This is a guest post by my colleague Gina Baucom on a topic that's sure to be of interest to lots of readers! *** I lead a graduate-level professional development seminar* where we r...

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Support Our Science @supportourscience.bsky.social · Feb 5

Stagnant investments in training and research compromise Canada’s economic growth

Read this new commentary (and see the numbers) written by Professor Marc Johnson, Chair of our Board of Directors, in @theglobeandmail.com:

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com... #SupportOurScience

Opinion: Stagnant investments in training and research compromise Canada’s economic growth

Canada invests just 1.55 per cent of gross domestic product in research and development, which pales in comparison to peer countries

www.theglobeandmail.com

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