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Katie Solari @kasolari.bsky.social · 1d

Very excited to share that our work assessing the genomic diversity of snow leopards has come out today in PNAS! Spoiler alert - they have the lowest genetic diversity of all big cats!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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@petrovadmitri.bsky.social @elliecat.bsky.social

Exceedingly low genetic diversity in snow leopards due to persistently small population size | PNAS

Snow leopards (Panthera uncia) serve as an umbrella species whose conservation benefits their high-elevation Asian habitat. Their numbers are belie...

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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · 29d

🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark.

Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025

For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD

Reposts appreciated 😁

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Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · Aug 26

#JobAlert!
Resource Conservation Manager II with Parks Canada in #Yukon. PM-05. Indeterminate, full time.
$96-104k/year + isolated post allowance. A degree and/OR recent and significant experience req'd.
emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...
Closes Sep 2, 2025.
#biology #conservation #jobs

Resource Conservation Manager II

Closing date: 2 September 2025 - 23:59, Pacific Time

emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · Jul 4

See you soon, #CSEE2025!

I’m teaching two workshops and giving a talk in SWEEET.

Get in touch if you want to chat about conservation science, what it’s like to work at an ENGO, research partnerships with @ncccnc.bsky.social, etc.

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Becky Taylor @beckystaylor.bsky.social · Jun 23

We have a preprint reviewing how genomics has been used to inform evolutionary significant units globally, find inconsistencies, and give recommendations. Genomics is a powerful tool and hopefully can be used more effectively for conservation of ESUs! #consgen #popgen www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nicholas Per Huffeldt @nphuffeldt.bsky.social · May 29

Be my new colleague! 3 jobs at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources

Apply or share!

Postdoc: macroplankton and ecosystem acoustics 🦑

Environmental Advisor: terrestrial biology 🌍

Researcher: GIS & Remote Sensing 🌱🌾

natur.gl/about-us/ava...

Available jobs - Greenland Institute of Natural Resources

You can find available jobs below:

natur.gl

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Becky Taylor @beckystaylor.bsky.social · May 21

Interested in measuring genetic load? We have a new paper out providing a modified version of GERP which is more user friendly in wildlife species and with scripts to automate making input files and pulling out derived alleles in your species #consgen #popgen star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4202

Cell Press: STAR Protocols

STAR Protocols is an open access, peer-reviewed journal from Cell Press. We offer structured, transparent, accessible, and repeatable step-by-step experimental and computational protocols from all are...

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Drew Sauve (he/him) @sauvedrew.bsky.social · May 15

New review article out in Molecular Ecology today! We outline how fitness surfaces might help improve species conservation programs! It was a lot of fun to write this with @hthomp.bsky.social, Amy Chabot, & @denisreale.bsky.social

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Joachim Mergeay @jmergeay.bsky.social · Mar 25

#Consgen postdoc position for 2-3 years on Vancouver Island to work on saving a fluffy endemic marmot. and its in Canada!
engage.iucn.org/group/iucn-s...

Postdoc Fellow - Conservation Genomics

The Vancouver Island marmot is Canada’s most critically endangered endemic mammal and has been the focus of intense conservation efforts for almost 30 years. The wild population reached a low of less ...

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Rebekah Oomen @rebekahoomen.bsky.social · Mar 19

Join us! A 3-year Postdoctoral position on population genomics of coastal fish (mostly cod) stocks at Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, University of Gothenburg. Application deadline April 7th: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

A small Atlantic cod fish and large lumpfish below kelp.

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Andy Foote @andrewfoote.bsky.social · Feb 28

The 2nd publication from @bellareeves.bsky.social PhD thesis finds a genetic rescue effect from admixture between distinct killer whale lineages. Likely the cause of high genetic diversity in regions with low killer whale density. Open access in Mol Ecol: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Canadian Women in STEM @cdnwomenstem.bsky.social · Feb 18

Looking for a faculty position? How about a postdoc position?

Canadian Women in STEM launches an easy to use Job Board.

canadianwomeninstem.org/job-board/

Canadian Women in STEM - Job Board

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CSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · Feb 12

Registrations and submissions for #CSEE2025 are now OPEN! Don’t miss your chance, submit your abstract and register before March 15th. Registration: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pages. Accommodation: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pag...

#phdsky #evolbiol #ecology 🌎

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Catherine Grueber @cegrueber.bsky.social · Jan 29

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🌍🦤🧬
#consgen #PopGen

Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature

A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...

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Anna Hewett @annamhew.bsky.social · Jan 13

📣 The final chapter of my PhD is now out in @evolletters.bsky.social !! 📣

🦌 Using genomic and fitness data from a long-term study of red deer we investigated the interaction between inbreeding depression and the environment (ID × E)

doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Fine-scale spatial variation in fitness, inbreeding, and inbreeding depression in a wild ungulate

Abstract. Environmental stress can exacerbate inbreeding depression by amplifying differences between inbred and outbred individuals. In wild populations,

doi.org

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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · Jan 7

At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics!

Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics.

Please spread the word!

www.su.se/english/sear...

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Clàudia Fontserè @claudiafontsere.bsky.social · Dec 17

I'm super happy to share our newest preprint on whooping crane genomics 🐣🧬

🚨Persistent genomic erosion in whooping cranes despite demographic recovery🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Extremely thankful to @hernmoral.bsky.social and all co-authors!
#conservationgenomics #genomics #whoopingcranes

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · Nov 30

We’re hiring — this is a great job!

JOB: Director of Conservation (Ontario), @ncccnc.bsky.social

⭐️ Flexible location in Ontario
⭐️ Senior role
⭐️ Apply by 5 Jan 2025
⭐️ www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar...

#ConservationJobs

Screenshot of the top part of the job ad:

NATURE CONSERVANCY CANADA

CONSERVATION DE LA NATURE CANADA

Director of Conservation
Full Time Salaried
Director
ON Home Office, Ontario, ON, CA
Salary Range: $121,174.00 To $136,342.00 Annually

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Dr. Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis @inlewis.bsky.social · Nov 27

PhD opportunity! Dr. Michelle Dileo and myself are recruiting a PhD student to study #pollinator adaptive capacity to #climatechange. Interested in #bees or #butterflies, #genomics, landscape #ecology? Based in 🇨🇦. michelledileo.wordpress.com
See advert for details. Please share! 🧪🐝🦋

A close up image of a yellow flower with a bee foraging in the centre of the flower. A human hand is partially visible, keeping the flower as still as possible.

Photo of PhD position advertisement on pollinator adaptive capacity to climate change

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Bronwyn Harkness @bronwynharkness.bsky.social · Nov 25

I help coordinate the #GenARCC project, a fantastic team of scientists using genomics to help predict impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems. Check out the video below to learn more! 📽️🧬

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKGz...

GenARCC | Will Canadian species be able to adapt to climate change?

YouTube video by Environment and Climate Change Canada

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Becky Taylor @beckystaylor.bsky.social · Nov 23

Any chance you can add me? Thanks!

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · Nov 22

OK I took my first crack at a starter pack. Please let me know if you want to be added or removed.

go.bsky.app/6z3FevF

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Becky Taylor @beckystaylor.bsky.social · Nov 22

It’s a method we use for measuring drops in genetic diversity due to inbreeding in wild populations, so very powerful for seeing if a population is perhaps not doing so well. Our paper is trying to enable this handy measurement with ‘cheaper’ data, always a good thing!

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Becky Taylor @beckystaylor.bsky.social · Nov 22

Yes sure!

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Connor Thompson @cthompson90.bsky.social · Nov 21

I am excited to share that my first Ph.D. chapter has been published in Biological Conservation! We found that avoidance of anthropogenic features by dispersing eastern wolves varied diurnally, seasonally, and across different movement patterns www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Risk avoidance during dispersal: Temporal and behavioral shifts in selection by non-resident eastern wolves (Canis c.f. lycaon)

Dispersal is important for connectivity and persistence of small, disjunct wildlife populations. However, in human-altered landscapes dispersing anima…

www.sciencedirect.com

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