Rafael Candido Ribeiro
@rafaelcr.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow @UBCforestry - Booker/Aitken lab. Studying climate adaptation in trees. I love diversity (especially all levels of biodiversity)
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Huge congrats to @rafaelcr.bsky.social for his excellent PhD defense yesterday! Rafa has made large contributions to our understanding of local adaptation to drought in Douglas-fir and the underlying genomic architecture of climate adaptive traits as part of the CoAdapTree project.
I simply stood on the shoulders of giants. I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be doing what I love. I could not have asked for a better supervisor @sallyaitken.bsky.social, lab mates, faculty @forestry.ubc.ca, and university! This journey has been amazing! Thank you, Sally!
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¿Hiciste tu doctorado en México? ¿Quieres hacer un postdoc en California? ¿Te interesa la genética evolutiva? ¡Checa esta beca y mándame un mensaje! alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/research-and...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships - University of California Alianza MX
Submitting an Application Current Fellows 2025 Cohort Additional Information Humberger Toggle Menu Interested in applying for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship? Eligibility The program seeks applican...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
¿Hiciste tu doctorado en México? ¿Quieres hacer un postdoc en California? ¿Te interesa la genética evolutiva? ¡Checa esta beca y mándame un mensaje! alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/research-and...
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We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
September 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
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I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
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August 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
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I am happy to share my second paper with @samyeaman.bsky.social and collaborators! If you are into hybrid zones and tree genomics, this is for you!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The genomic basis of local adaptation in the white x Engelmann spruce hybrid zone
Hybridization between species can occur along repeated zones of contact, providing a powerful natural laboratory for studying the interplay between migration and selection, and for identifying loci in...
www.biorxiv.org
August 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I am happy to share my second paper with @samyeaman.bsky.social and collaborators! If you are into hybrid zones and tree genomics, this is for you!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Excited to finally have the pre-print up for this work on evolutionary rescue from my PhD at UBC!
Previous theoretical work on the effects of negative density-dependent growth on evolutionary rescue has uncovered inconsistent results, leading to an incomplete understanding of its influence.
Previous theoretical work on the effects of negative density-dependent growth on evolutionary rescue has uncovered inconsistent results, leading to an incomplete understanding of its influence.
Evolutionary rescue in a consumer-resource system: Adaptation and persistence depend on the affected ecological traits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.04.668505v1
August 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Excited to finally have the pre-print up for this work on evolutionary rescue from my PhD at UBC!
Previous theoretical work on the effects of negative density-dependent growth on evolutionary rescue has uncovered inconsistent results, leading to an incomplete understanding of its influence.
Previous theoretical work on the effects of negative density-dependent growth on evolutionary rescue has uncovered inconsistent results, leading to an incomplete understanding of its influence.
I simply stood on the shoulders of giants. I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be doing what I love. I could not have asked for a better supervisor @sallyaitken.bsky.social, lab mates, faculty @forestry.ubc.ca, and university! This journey has been amazing! Thank you, Sally!
Huge congrats to @rafaelcr.bsky.social for his excellent PhD defense yesterday! Rafa has made large contributions to our understanding of local adaptation to drought in Douglas-fir and the underlying genomic architecture of climate adaptive traits as part of the CoAdapTree project.
June 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I simply stood on the shoulders of giants. I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be doing what I love. I could not have asked for a better supervisor @sallyaitken.bsky.social, lab mates, faculty @forestry.ubc.ca, and university! This journey has been amazing! Thank you, Sally!
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Save the Date! North American Forest Genetics Society #NAFGS June 15-19 2026 in Quebec City, Canada🍁
More information coming soon at www.nafgs.org/conference2026
Join us next year!
More information coming soon at www.nafgs.org/conference2026
Join us next year!
June 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Save the Date! North American Forest Genetics Society #NAFGS June 15-19 2026 in Quebec City, Canada🍁
More information coming soon at www.nafgs.org/conference2026
Join us next year!
More information coming soon at www.nafgs.org/conference2026
Join us next year!
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If your grant application needs some justification on why we should study adaptation in wild plant species... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Can wild plant adaptations help crops tolerate heat?
Wild plant species harbor a vast but largely unknown diversity of temperature stress solutions
www.science.org
June 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
If your grant application needs some justification on why we should study adaptation in wild plant species... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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For American students planning to start grad school who are reconsidering their USA offers (or had offer rescinded), my Canadian university #QueensU announced a special funding call. Want to join my lab to study #plant #evolution? Get in touch!
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For American students planning to start grad school who are reconsidering their USA offers (or had offer rescinded), my Canadian university #QueensU announced a special funding call. Want to join my lab to study #plant #evolution? Get in touch!
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April 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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For American students planning to start grad school who are reconsidering their USA offers (or had offer rescinded), my Canadian university #QueensU announced a special funding call. Want to join my lab to study #plant #evolution? Get in touch!
🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴
For American students planning to start grad school who are reconsidering their USA offers (or had offer rescinded), my Canadian university #QueensU announced a special funding call. Want to join my lab to study #plant #evolution? Get in touch!
🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴
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IRES's Dr. Kai Chan will be one of the expert panelists speaking alongside Keynote Speaker Lisa Brideau, author of Adrift (winner of the 2024 Evergreen Award) and senior sustainability specialist with the City of Vancouver!
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May 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
IRES's Dr. Kai Chan will be one of the expert panelists speaking alongside Keynote Speaker Lisa Brideau, author of Adrift (winner of the 2024 Evergreen Award) and senior sustainability specialist with the City of Vancouver!
botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/news-events/...
botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/news-events/...
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Hi everybody! Welcome to my page :) I'm a MSc student at UBC. I'm currently studying the evolution of genome structure in Douglas-fir. More broadly, I'm interested in evolution, genomics, climate change & forest genetics!
May 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Hi everybody! Welcome to my page :) I'm a MSc student at UBC. I'm currently studying the evolution of genome structure in Douglas-fir. More broadly, I'm interested in evolution, genomics, climate change & forest genetics!
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Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)
May 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)
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Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change
Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...
www.science.org
May 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Excited to see our article on the cover! @drk-lo.bsky.social
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Molecular Ecology Resources: Vol 25, No 4
Molecular Ecology Resources is a broad journal publishing computer programs, statistical & molecular advances & more for studies in evolution, ecology & conservation.
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April 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Excited to see our article on the cover! @drk-lo.bsky.social
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Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
March 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
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An analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with #ClimateChange.
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3QLYhyc
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3QLYhyc
March 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
An analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with #ClimateChange.
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3QLYhyc
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3QLYhyc
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Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high political tensions
For the second time in weeks, a Canadian icon has emerged as the unlikely victor in an existential battle on the ice.
Mervyn Sequeira, an…
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March 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
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Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.
I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.
I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Canada’s new Rural Community Immigration Pilot offers permanent residence to skilled workers who want to work and settle in rural and more remote communities.
14 pilot communities will approve certain employers to hire for jobs that they can’t fill with local workers.
More info here:
14 pilot communities will approve certain employers to hire for jobs that they can’t fill with local workers.
More info here:
Rural Community Immigration Pilot - Canada.ca
How to apply for the Rural community immigration pilot as a candidate.
www.canada.ca
February 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Canada’s new Rural Community Immigration Pilot offers permanent residence to skilled workers who want to work and settle in rural and more remote communities.
14 pilot communities will approve certain employers to hire for jobs that they can’t fill with local workers.
More info here:
14 pilot communities will approve certain employers to hire for jobs that they can’t fill with local workers.
More info here:
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A new study from Colorado State University reveals that tree ranges in the interior US West are contracting due to climate change, with limited expansion into cooler, wetter areas. The study highlights the potential need for human-assisted tree migration.
phys.org/news/2025-02...
phys.org/news/2025-02...
Climate change outpaces tree migration, human intervention may be needed: Study
A new Colorado State University study of the interior U.S. West has found that tree ranges are generally contracting in response to climate change but not expanding into cooler, wetter climates—sugges...
phys.org
February 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
A new study from Colorado State University reveals that tree ranges in the interior US West are contracting due to climate change, with limited expansion into cooler, wetter areas. The study highlights the potential need for human-assisted tree migration.
phys.org/news/2025-02...
phys.org/news/2025-02...
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I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council
February 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council
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Yerba mate makes the third-most popular caffeinated drink in the world, but it’s unrelated to tea and coffee. The first reconstruction of its genome is helping us understand how multiple species have evolved to synthesise caffeine.
https://buff.ly/4jnWk82
https://buff.ly/4jnWk82
January 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Yerba mate makes the third-most popular caffeinated drink in the world, but it’s unrelated to tea and coffee. The first reconstruction of its genome is helping us understand how multiple species have evolved to synthesise caffeine.
https://buff.ly/4jnWk82
https://buff.ly/4jnWk82
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Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!
TT Assistant Professor of Plant Evolutionary Biology
The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in Plant Evolutionary Biology. This position is a 9-month, ten...
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December 17, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!