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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our new work (bit.ly/4nlB0RU) demonstrates how environmental cue reliability can drive the evolution of adaptive maternal effect plasticity. We evolved nematodes in random environments and populations receiving a reliable cue adapted to an otherwise unpredictable environment.

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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · Jan 3

#Asilomar2025 @asn-amnat.bsky.social Set up and ready for you to register!

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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · Jan 2

The American Naturalist conference at Asilomar starts tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing many of you there! #AmNatAsilomar

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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · Nov 19

There is still time to register for the coziest, chat by the fire with your colleagues sort of EcoEvo conference, the @asn-amnat.bsky.social meeting in Asilomar, California. The meeting is Jan 3-6, 2025, and you still have a few weeks (until Dec 1) to get your abstracts in!
asnasilomar2025.org

A leather couch, wooden craftsman style furniture and lamps in a large hall with a blazing fire flanked by stacks of wood.

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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · Nov 6

guess i'll just leave the halloween decorations up.

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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · Nov 6

It is 4 pm pacific time, which means the cats have been eagerly awaiting the closing of the refrigerator signaling the food bowls are about to be revealed.

two cats striding intently and hopefully towards the camera. The cats are similar looking green-eyed tabbies with grey and black stripes. A cat water bowl and window is in the background.

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Géza Meszéna @gezam.bsky.social · Oct 11

🧪,🌍, #ecoevo

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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · Sep 10

If you haven't yet registered, now is your chance! The best meeting to have a fire side chat with a vibrant group of scholars!

Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · Sep 10

What is the best scientific meeting in ecology and evolution? I nominate the @asn-amnat.bsky.social meeting in Asilomar, California. Intimate venue. Lots of interaction. Nice beach! Sea otters!

Sign up for the 2025 edition now:
asnasilomar2025.org/default.html

ASN Asilomar 2025

The American Society of Naturalists invites graduate students, postdocs, faculty and other professionals from ecology, evolution, behavior, genetics, physiology, and associated fields to join us for o...

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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · Jul 30

Coming to the super social at #Evo2024? Don’t forget to bring your badge – it’s your ticket to the social! See you at the Grand Quai!

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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · Jul 26

#Evol2024 IDEA plenary by @coreywelch.bsky.social starts by tracing his preparation as a field biologist to his Indigenous heritage, "seeing what you see" and "scanning" the landscape around him.

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · Jul 25

Excited to attend my 1st in-person @sse_evolution meeting since 2017. Check out postdoc @lucasjalbano.bsky.social’s talk about dissertation work Sun 28 July, 3:30 PM in 520B “Adaptation to environmental variation and manipulation in a cosmopolitan plant” #Evol2024

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · Jul 25

So excited and proud of all the #MoreauLab talks happening at #Evol2024 this year! Be sure to check them all out! #ProudPI

List of all the Moreau Lab presentations happening at the Evolution Conference 2024

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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · Jul 25

Attending this weekend’s @evolmtg.bsky.social #Evol2024 ?

Pass by room 525AB on July 28th 11:20-11:45 for some nice results and discussions surrounding virulence evolution and parasite transmission presented by yours truly :) from my postdoc in Koella lab

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Colautti Lab @colauttilab.bsky.social · Jul 25

Please join us at the Evolution2024 meeting in Montreal to discuss why we cite who we cite and why it matters.
#Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social

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Maria E. Orive @meorive.bsky.social · Jul 26

Happy to be in Montreal for #Evol2024 !

Stop by the @evo-journal.bluesky.social booth during the Monday afternoon coffee break to say hi or talk about the Evolution journal (I’m an AE).

And my talk is Tuesday morning - great symposium on evolutionary rescue!

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Dr. Stepfanie Aguillon 😷 @s-m-aguillon.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm excited to give an @asn-amnat.bsky.social Early Career Investigator talk at #Evol2024! Come check out the award talk session on Sunday from 4:15-5:45pm (Rm 516C) to learn about what I've been up to during my postdoc and what my lab will be working on now that it's open!

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European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social · Jul 24

We are very excited for the kick-off of the in-person part of the Joint Congress this week in Montreal!

Safe travels everyone and follow @evolmtg.bsky.social for conference updates

#Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social

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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · Jul 21

We're excited to see in-person attendees in Montréal on Friday!

Don't forget to download the conference app and check out the schedule.

#Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · Jul 18

I am OVER THE MOON that our paper is out at Am Nat today!

We find phylogeny & biogeographic contingency shape functional diversity in cichlid radiations.

It's my first as co-first author, & Chris Martinez was an A+ co-lead. We had an amazing team-I am so proud of this work!

doi.org/10.1086/731477

gif depicting a suction feeding strike of the cichlid fish Boulengerochromis microlepis. The fish swims towards its prey, expands its jaws, and sucks in a small prey item.

An image of a figure from the manuscript. The figure depicts a principal components analysis as a scatterplot demonstrating the axes of diversity of feeding kinematics among cichlids fishes. The Neotropical cichlids are very diverse, and access unique regions of kinematic space, while the distribution of kinematics among Lake Tanganyikan cichlids fully encompasses the younger radiation of Lake Malawi cichlids, and likewise, the distribution of kinematics of Lake Malawi cichlids fully encompasses the younger radiation from Lake Victoria.

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · Jul 18

This year’s SSE Presidents’ Award goes to Dr. Samarth Mathur for his paper, “An evolutionary perspective on genetic load in small, isolated populations as informed by whole genome resequencing and forward-time simulations.” Congratulations Dr. Mathur! shorturl.at/f45PN
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Jul 17

Prime Day, Schmime Day. Hey, listen, indie bookstores are out there being awesome every day. And they tend to ship directly to you, even if you're not local to the store. They're where the books live! And booksellers are book wizards! Bonafide bibliomancers fast with the recommendations.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · Jul 12

The heck? Both Esquire and the NYT have put out "best books" lists, and THE FIFTH SEASON is on both! Is there a holiday coming up or something? Anyway, yay! Esquire's is SFF-specific (#4) and the NYT's is this-century specific (#44). www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

See if your favorites made our expanded list.

www.esquire.com

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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · Jun 29

I also find myself looking for natural history stories that i can use on animal behavior or evolution midterm exams.

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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · Jun 28

the call for symposia at the am nat meeting in january is open!

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