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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · 7d

Some days, this is my job. Scouting for a field lab.

Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · 9d

My car cloned itself while I was at work! But I’m confused as an evolutionary biologist bc I thought only hybrids did that, and it’s electric! Is my car a plant? Was it parthenogenesis, gynogenesis, or kleptogenesis? Mysteries abound!

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · 11d

Oh no! This usually happens for me at the end of the semester

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · 16d

Writing all those documents is so horrible…

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · 18d

This is really good advice! I always encourage people to think about the distinction between "working" and "being at work". Because once you get that boundary sorted, it's much easier to maintain balance, hobbies, relationships, etc.

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · 29d

Oh, I needed turtle pics today. Thank you!

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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 29d

Peer review ✍️, when done properly, remains an excellent mean to improve manuscripts ✔️. Special thanks to two anonymous reviewers that helped us put together this new version!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Sep 7

Ooh let’s pick an actual time!

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Sep 7

We still need to get a joint study going! I keep thinking, what about the fish?!

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Nicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · Sep 2

Still possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier.
Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET)
How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs.
Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity

Nicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · Jul 10

3-year #postdoc position at Centre de synthèse et d'analyse de la biodiversité (CESAB) in Montpellier to work on how taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS

FRB｜Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité @frbiodiv.bsky.social · Jun 4

[📢 Postdoc offer in Montpellier] Work on intraspecific diversity & translocation in Nature-based Solutions 🌿

Join the EVOLUTION Knowledge-Hub at the #FRB-CESAB

🔗 More informations: bit.ly/43uRz6Z

@cnrs.fr @inrae-france.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Sep 3

The very stupidest. Cartoon supervillains.

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Aug 13

Very cool! The more we learn about the biology of sex determination, the more interesting and complicated it gets. (I rescind my previous snarky comments that birds are "simple and boring" in this department.)

Dominique Potvin @silvereyedom.bsky.social · Aug 13

Newest lab research:
Up to 6% of the wild birds - in all 5 species we looked at - showed a different sex morphology than what their blood tests (read: chromosomes) told us. Sex is not simple!
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Prevalence and implications of sex reversal in free-living birds | Biology Letters

The ability to unequivocally identify the sex and reproductive status of individuals is crucial across many fields of study. Recent evidence indicates that avian sex determination is more flexible tha...

doi.org

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Eryn McFarlane @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social · Aug 13

Shirley Chen's paper from my lab on the dilution and amplification hypotheses regarding the biodiversity-disease relationship.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Reappraisal of the Dilution and Amplification Effect Framework: A Case Study in Lyme Disease

The biodiversity–disease relationship posits two hypotheses: the dilution effect (where there's a negative relationship between biodiversity and disease risk) and the amplification effect (where ther...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Aug 2

This is a books recommendation thread. The air is smoky and things are dark right now, but I just finished a lovely book (“To Be Taught, If Fortunate”, by Becky Chambers). I’ve been really enjoying beautiful speculative fiction. What have you read recently that you love?

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Jul 30

Today the air quality index where I live is 168 due to drifting smoke from wildfires. I canceled my trail run. My kid is mad at me for not letting her attend soccer camp, but really, we should all be mad at our leaders. We need climate science and clean energy policies, not cuts.

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Jul 23

So in short, exciting new fish bio results, and I'm so proud of my students and thankful for ongoing collaborations. Sharing exciting new science is one of the best parts of my job.

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Jul 23

We also found high rates of hybridization (~30% of individuals sampled), which could potentially be related to human alteration of fish habitat in agricultural or urbanized areas.

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Jul 23

We'd previously known that these species probably hybridized, but not much genomic work had been done... until now! We found that many of the hybrids were phenotypically cryptic, meaning that if we'd only identified them based on appearance, we would've gotten it wrong.

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Jul 23

The quick version: we used genomic data to describe ancestry of individual minnows in Ontario streams, and found LOTS of hybrids between 9+ species. Wow!

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Jul 23

I'm thrilled to share more cool fish genetics, led by former MSc student Amanda Meuser, and with former student Amy Pitura and collaborator @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social. This one is about minnow hybrids!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Extensive multi-species hybridization between Leuciscidae minnow species

Anthropogenic disturbances can disrupt ecosystems and alter species population dynamics. Interspecific hybridization is common between genetically related organisms, especially once reproductive barri...

www.biorxiv.org

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · Jul 15

Applications now open for the SSE GREG Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! These grants provide up to $3500 to expand your dissertation work. Submit your proposal by September 15!
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants. Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards, Deadline: September 15, 5:00 PM Eastern.

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Jul 2

It's easy! Save their numbers in your phone and make calling a habit. Call the ones you agree with and the ones you don't - positive feedback when they do the right thing is just as important as critical feedback when they're doing something you don't like.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Jul 2

“If you’ve never called your Member of Congress, today is the day to do it.”

@ezralevin.bsky.social joined @democracynow.org to explain why Trump’s Tax Scam could be the worst bill in modern American history.

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Jul 2

Michiganders, I just called my Republican congressional representative to express my opposition to the budget bill, and got right through to a staffer. That's not right, his phone should be ringing constantly. If you're in the UP, represented by Bergman, and oppose the budget bill, give him a call!

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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · Jun 30

Job alert! We have a postdoc position available in the Stelkens Lab at Stockholm University. Join us and apply experimental evolution and comparative genomics in the model system yeast to test for parallel climate adaptation. Apply through this link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 15 August.

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Jun 30

We found that the part of the genome that predicts sex in one species does NOT predict sex in another closely related species - and these species hybridize! We also found hints that within a species, sex-determining genetic loci can vary.

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