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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 8d

Northrup: polar bears are hard to count cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....

Estimating the abundance of a polar bear subpopulation at their southern global extent

Climate warming is causing global biodiversity loss, with impacts to ecosystem function. Warming in the Arctic outpaces global averages, and projected declines in Arctic sea ice have led to prediction...

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 9d

NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
and please spread the word!!!!

Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

laurenkuehne.github.io

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Rosie Mestel @rosiemestel.bsky.social · 14d

A great piece by Elie Dolgin on the use of epigenetics clocks in conservation. Really interesting, a pleasure to edit and I do love the banner art! 🧪

Meaghan Jones @meaghanjones.bsky.social · 14d

A new article in @knowablemag.bsky.social that highlights some of @levinewediuk.bsky.social's PD work with me and @colingarroway.bsky.social, along with many other efforts to bring epigenetic clocks into conservation efforts.

knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

The clock is ticking: How epigenetics could help save wildlife from collapse

In polar bears, dolphins, baboons and more, molecular signatures of aging are changing how conservationists assess population health, resilience and risk

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Meaghan Jones @meaghanjones.bsky.social · 14d

A new article in @knowablemag.bsky.social that highlights some of @levinewediuk.bsky.social's PD work with me and @colingarroway.bsky.social, along with many other efforts to bring epigenetic clocks into conservation efforts.

knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

The clock is ticking: How epigenetics could help save wildlife from collapse

In polar bears, dolphins, baboons and more, molecular signatures of aging are changing how conservationists assess population health, resilience and risk

knowablemagazine.org

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Emily Puckett @eepuckett.bsky.social · 24d

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

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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 25d

MSc position in my lab. Come study the evolutionary & behavioural ecology of insects!
@stfx-university.bsky.social

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Jocelyn Poissant @jocelynpoissant.bsky.social · Sep 5

Great seminar by @albrechts-h.bsky.social at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine today. Thank you for visiting us and sharing your research with us!

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Matt Betts @mattbetts42.bsky.social · Sep 3

Science is rarely a linear path from hypotheses to published papers. Here, I tell the story of our many ups and downs during the discovery of pollinator recognition. Hope you enjoy it! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Simon Evans @sevans.bsky.social · Aug 30

Academia is all over this. It’s an ugly irony that nobody values tertiary education less than a professor seeking a field assistant with a biology degree to work unsalaried and covering their own travel costs.

Thaddeodrome 📼🥵🤯😵 @thaddeus.zone · Aug 28

this "passion tax" appears all over the place & should be talked about more. you see it in book stores and game stores all the time

excitement for particular work is constantly weaponized to depress wages & pit workers against each other

screenshot of a paragraph from op's linked article

Claudy pointed to what he calls the “passion tax.” Game workers, he said, often get paid less than their tech industry counterparts because they’re passionate about what they do, and passion can be taken advantage of. Microsoft is a tech company, making discrepancies all the more arbitrary.

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Colin Garroway @colingarroway.bsky.social · Aug 23

Super cool! 🧪🧬 🌎

Aryn Wilder @arynwilder.bsky.social · Aug 21

Excited to share our new paper on genetic rescue in the Pacific pocket mouse! To conserve this endangered species, we sought to understand whether small populations at risk of outbreeding depression are better managed in isolation or with gene flow. @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fitness benefits of genetic rescue despite chromosomal differences in an endangered pocket mouse

Two-thirds of Earth’s species have undergone population declines, leaving many vulnerable to genomic erosion and inbreeding depression. Genetic rescue can boost the fitness of small populations, but p...

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Aryn Wilder @arynwilder.bsky.social · Aug 21

Excited to share our new paper on genetic rescue in the Pacific pocket mouse! To conserve this endangered species, we sought to understand whether small populations at risk of outbreeding depression are better managed in isolation or with gene flow. @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fitness benefits of genetic rescue despite chromosomal differences in an endangered pocket mouse

Two-thirds of Earth’s species have undergone population declines, leaving many vulnerable to genomic erosion and inbreeding depression. Genetic rescue can boost the fitness of small populations, but p...

www.science.org

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Colin Garroway @colingarroway.bsky.social · Aug 23

Got that one right for all the wrong reasons... I assume :)

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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · Aug 21

If you are at #ESEB2025 and you are interested in predicting evolution 🧬📈 - retrospectively and into to the future - then you are in luck! Symposium 42 organised by @joelpick.bsky.social and Lizy Mittell is on today, and S24 by myself and @sevans.bsky.social tomorrow!

Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · Apr 11

What do you think, can we forecast evolution❓

@sevans.bsky.social and I would love to hear your thoughts, so if you are going to #ESEB2025, submit a talk to our symposium (S24: Forecasting evolution in natural populations) and join @colingarroway.bsky.social and Patrik Nosil!

Deadline April 25.

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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · Aug 21

Unfortunately, our invited speaker @colingarroway.bsky.social is stuck in Canada, but on the upside you will get to hear more about the work by Timothée Bonnet, who is taking over his slot, and from Lizy Mittell about her super relevant work on the invisible fraction! You won’t want to miss this!

Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · Aug 21

If you are at #ESEB2025 and you are interested in predicting evolution 🧬📈 - retrospectively and into to the future - then you are in luck! Symposium 42 organised by @joelpick.bsky.social and Lizy Mittell is on today, and S24 by myself and @sevans.bsky.social tomorrow!

Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · Apr 11

What do you think, can we forecast evolution❓

@sevans.bsky.social and I would love to hear your thoughts, so if you are going to #ESEB2025, submit a talk to our symposium (S24: Forecasting evolution in natural populations) and join @colingarroway.bsky.social and Patrik Nosil!

Deadline April 25.

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Colin Garroway @colingarroway.bsky.social · Aug 17

a man in a white shirt is standing next to a red van and says " not jealous "

ALT: a man in a white shirt is standing next to a red van and says " not jealous "

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Colin Garroway @colingarroway.bsky.social · Aug 17

No 😭. Tried but couldn't. You go WestJet or find a way?

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Colin Garroway @colingarroway.bsky.social · Aug 17

Strike cancelled too?

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Dr. Julia K. Baum @baumlab.bsky.social · Aug 5

Attention Climate Solutions Scholars! @uvic.ca seeks its next Canada Excellence Research Chair 🇨🇦: www.uvic.ca/research-inn...

You: world class scholar, looking to make a move

Us: #5 in world for climate action, collegial, stunning location (B.C.) w award-winning climate policy

Pls share widely!

Canada Excellence Research Chair - University of Victoria - University of Victoria

Find information about applying to be Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Victoria

www.uvic.ca

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Meaghan Jones @meaghanjones.bsky.social · Aug 5

I was on the news! Talking about our ongoing work on epigenetic aging in polar bears in response to climate change www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0...

Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Experts say warming climate raises fire risk, threatening polar bears

Experts say increased wildfire smoke that comes alongside a warming climate threatens polar bears. Alex Karpa reports.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Denis REALE 🇨🇦 @denisreale.bsky.social · Aug 3

Urbanite woodchuck (Marmota Monaco). This one lives on Mont-Royal Avenue; Plateau Mont-Royal. She loves her apartment, nearby restaurants and grocery stores, but complains about the rising rents in the area. #UrbanWildlife

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Dr. Kiyoko Gotanda @photopidge.bsky.social · Aug 2

Want to come work in beautiful wine country by Niagara Falls and the Niagara escarpment? You can!! Canada Excellence Research Chair in Sustainable Agriculture for Grape and Wine Professor or Associate Professor, Tenured ‪@brocku.ca‬ brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...

Canada Excellence Research Chair in Sustainable Agriculture for Grape and Wine Professor or Associate Professor, Tenured

This position is part of the BUFA (Employee Group) Brock University is located on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, many of whom continue to live and work here to...

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Drew Sauve (he/him) @sauvedrew.bsky.social · Jul 30

Some recently published work with Amy Chabot and @denisreale.bsky.social out in Biological Conservation here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV9p_9CgT...

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Denis REALE 🇨🇦 @denisreale.bsky.social · Jul 31

That populations could evolve rapidly was a surprise to many. Even fewer believed that zoo animals could evolve too. We show they actualy do so in this great paper with @sauvedrew.bsky.social and Amy Chabot.
For more info ⬇️

Drew Sauve (he/him) @sauvedrew.bsky.social · Jul 30

Some recently published work with Amy Chabot and @denisreale.bsky.social out in Biological Conservation here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV9p_9CgT...

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Pedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · Jul 30

🌿 PhD Opportunity in Biodiversity Sciences 🌿

Join our lab to explore the processes shaping biodiversity across space and time. Competitive stipend, flexible project design, and membership in the vibrant @qcbs.ca network.

Montreal | Concordia | MSc/PhD

Details: bit.ly/3UCmDMB

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · Jul 25

Was just sent this, author unknown. There's plenty to debate but they're right about evolutionary ecology. 🌏

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