Heather Clendenin
@littlemuseums.bsky.social
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PhD candidate w/ @eepuckett.bsky.social Working on conservation genomics, landgen, and carnivore eco-evo (mostly 🐻, some 🐺, and an affinity for 🐈), excited about urban biodiversity & coexistence. Graduating SP26 and looking for a postdoc!
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littlemuseums.bsky.social
Really excited to share this paper! We show that the threat of genetic erosion doesn’t just come down to diversity, genetic load, population size, or even inbreeding— it has to do with the evolutionary context in which those patterns arise and contemporary demographic changes doi.org/10.1111/eva....
Linking Measures of Inbreeding and Genetic Load to Demographic Histories Across Three Species of Bears
Historic and contemporary demography affect deleterious variation and inbreeding depression, meaning that measuring genetic diversity alone does not capture the nuances of genetic erosion. Contrastin....
doi.org
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esajournals.bsky.social
Check out the #OpenAccess study, from Ecology's #TheScientificNaturalist series, here: doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
anthropocenemag.bsky.social
Vulture nests serve as 600-Year archives of human and environmental change.

Spanish researchers catalogued thousands of remains from 12 ancient nests, showing how scavenger behavior can provide new data for archaeology, toxicology, and ecosystem studies.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/?p=238885
Vulture nests serve as 600-Year archives of human and environmental change
Spanish researchers catalogued thousands of remains from 12 ancient nests, showing how scavenger behavior can provide new data for archaeology, toxicology, and ecosystem studies.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
littlemuseums.bsky.social
fabrovillalobos.bsky.social
Just published in @journal-evo.bsky.social: Different diets, different speciation rates in the most ecologically diverse family of mammals, the amazing Phyllostomidae 🦇

tinyurl.com/5xd3p3mz

Para un pequeño resumen, ve las figuras 👇
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Reposted by Heather Clendenin
sarahmackattack.bsky.social
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
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y2y.bsky.social
Stop the repeal of the Roadless Rule protecting 58 million acres of U.S. National Forest. A major slice of wilderness is at risk of mining, logging and road construction.

Send your comments by Sept. 19! yellowstonetoyukon.nationbuilder.com/protectroadl...
A view of the Bitterroot Mountains: a blue lake with high mountains around it and many green evergreen trees
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nasonline.org
How do we measure life on Earth? 🌍🌱 The new summary report from the 2025 US-UK Forum on Measuring Biodiversity, hosted by the NAS and @royalsociety.org, explores tools, challenges, and solutions for tackling the #biodiversity crisis.

Read here: bit.ly/460RB7R
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bio-diverse.bsky.social
Are you tracking developments in #biodiversity monitoring and its applications?

We wrote a paper on addressing the challenges:
Data to Decisions: the Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework (BMSF). Creating a cycle of trust from field data to policy reports 🧵
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
The Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework is a linked sequence of steps defined by the standards that each step adopts within a set of well-defined needs, principles and ethical guidelines (center). Every monitoring workflow would achieve an overall standard rating (potentially tiered) based on the standards adopted in each step. The monitoring workflow is implemented (right) once the necessary resources, human capacity, technologies, and data architectures have been adopted. A tiered approach allows countries to start with simpler methods and progressively adopt more sophisticated ones as capacity grows. These standards need not be costly or infeasible to adopt, but they do need to be defined a priori to create trust and confidence in the trends reported.
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genomebc.bsky.social
🚀 We’re excited to share
@genomecanada.ca 's
new white paper on The Convergence of Genomics and Artificial Intelligence—now live

This is the first in a series of publications we’ll be releasing this fall to spotlight key opportunities for Canadian genomics:
genomecanada.ca/wp-content/u...
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eepuckett.bsky.social
I'm recruiting two PhD positions in my lab for Fall 2026. 1) evolutionary genomics that will focus on constructing and utilizing pangenomes; 2) conservation genomics focused on pop structure and adaptation of Pacific coast Am. black bears.
Details: puckettresearch.org/people/posit...
Positions in the Lab – Puckett Research Lab
puckettresearch.org
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
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When a parrot wanted to connect with a distant friend, a touchscreen showed a selection of other birds available online. The parrots learned to activate the screen, designed specially for them, by touching it gently with their tongues rather than pecking aggressively with their beaks.
"We had 26 birds involved," said Hirskyj-Douglas. "They would use the system up to three hours a day, with each call lasting up to five minutes." The interactions ranged from preening and playing with toys to loud vocal exchanges.
"When we went through the data, we found that most of these parrots had favourite friends," said Hirskyj-Douglas.
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bmaher.bsky.social
Inspired by Fred Rogers, @nature.com asked readers to help us 'find the helpers' amid the crisis in American science. What emerged were inspiring stories of researchers, legal experts, data hounds and government scientists who are fighting the dismantling of the US research enterprise. 🧪🧵1/6
littlemuseums.bsky.social
Even with multiple neighbors who TNR, still living this trope over here 🙃
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levinewediuk.bsky.social
New article covering our study on epigenetic aging in polar bears! You can also read the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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ryankbrook.bsky.social
Trying to figure out the mystery of who bent over the T-post that my trail camera is attached to. There have been a couple of subtle clues.
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evoecolab.bsky.social
"Urbanization" leads to frequent genome-wide signatures of selection specific to both urban & rural habitats. Read the latest paper from our group led by @jssantangelo.bsky.social & Rob Ness: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... #urbanecology #urbanevolution 🌎 @utmbiology.bsky.social
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jofrhwld.bsky.social
The Zotero browser plugins + its integration with RStudio & Quarto is game changing quarto.org/docs/get-sta...
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Reposted by Heather Clendenin
pnas.org
A new PNAS Special Feature combines speciation genomics and conservation biology to address habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss. The articles explore how monitoring and restoring gene flow can support resilient ecosystems in the Anthropocene. Learn more: www.pnas.org/topic/574.
PNAS Special Feature. Monitoring and Restoring Gene Flow in the Increasingly Fragmented Ecosystems of the Antropocene.
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wbooker.bsky.social
My company is hiring a computational biologist! This role is the same position as mine, and will involve building genomic prediction models, some bioinformatics, and a lot of independent research on developing new methods to improve our crop development initiatives. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
Avalo, Inc hiring Computational Biologist in North Carolina, United States | LinkedIn
Posted 10:54:33 PM. Location: On-site in Durham, NC (RTP area)Company: AvaloCompensation: Commensurate with experience…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
www.linkedin.com
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evolappjournal.bsky.social
Day 2 of #ESEB2025 🌟
We had some fantastic talks this morning at the Symposium #23 on Evolutionary Genomics & Climate Change 🌱🌎🧬

👨‍🔬 Here's Prof. Luciano Beheregaray, Associate Editor of EVA, reminding everyone of the special issue with Molecular Ecology!

📅 Deadline: February 28, 2026