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Rebekah Oomen
@rebekahoomen.bsky.social
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Marine evolutionary ecologist 🐟🧬🎶 Associate prof & researcher @ University of New Brunswick Saint John, U. Gothenburg, U. Agder, & U. Oslo 🇨🇦🇸🇪🇳🇴 Co-founder of TORSKETROMMING www.rebekahoomen.com she/her
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Rebekah Oomen @rebekahoomen.bsky.social · Jan 21
Hi 🦋!

I'm a marine ecologist and evolutionary biologist fortunate to lead a transatlantic research lab in 🇨🇦🇸🇪🇳🇴 focused on how fishes respond to their environments. We love combining experiments and fieldwork with genomics, tracking, bioacoustics, and deep learning to forecast population responses!
Atlantic cod and other fishes swimming near a sandy bottom Four researchers in a boat on an icy pond Five researchers next to an Atlantic bluefin tuna Five researchers in lab coats smiling
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Rebekah Oomen @rebekahoomen.bsky.social · Jul 8
Poster details 👇
#CSEE2025 #SCEE2025
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Rebekah Oomen @rebekahoomen.bsky.social · Jul 8
Hey #CSEE2025 #SCEE2025!

We have a whopping SIX presentations from our Transatlantic Fish Lab today! Find us at Marine Ecology 1&2, Macroevolution, and the poster session to learn about adaptation, speciation, and chromosomal inversions in Atlantic cod and bluefin tuna.

Talk details 👇
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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · Jul 7
✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨

Please spread the word!

www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

#CSEE2025
A blue poster describing opportunities to join the Bernhardt Lab -- for more information please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
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Cecilia Helmerson @ceciliahelmerson.bsky.social · Jun 17
Torsketromming @rebekahoomen.bsky.social at Skagerrakseilasen.
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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · Apr 17
Salmon migration affected by drug pollution in water from antianxiety medication

Nice article by @cnn.com on our new paper in @science.org!

Read it here 👉 edition.cnn.com/2025/04/16/s...

Read the paper here 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Apr 11
New paper!

Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should.

This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠

academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should
ABSTRACT. Social media tools have revolutionized how people communicate with one another. A 2018 paper in Fisheries summarized the use of Twitter, Facebook
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · Mar 31
Are you a member of the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE)? I'm holding zoom chats during which I will get your feedback and thoughts about what the society can do for you and for the field! Everyone is welcome to join -- sign up for a time and pls RT this!!
Join the conversation with incoming SSE President! Have thoughts about the future of evolutionary biology? Want to provide feedback on how the Society for the Study of Evolution can best serve its members? Join one of our guided chats with SSE President-Elect Regina Baucom! Upcoming Sessions: 4/4, 4/11, 4/25, 5/2, 5/23, 5/30 Where: Zoom (link provided upon RSVP) Who: SSE members of all career stages Topics include: Vision for SSE's future How SSE can best advocate for evolutionary biologists Ways to get involved in SSE, build community, & network! RSPV Now! https://forms.gle/ef6adb9rtUTHVoPv8
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · Mar 31
On this #TransDayOfVisibility I've been reflecting on how much more fear I have being visibly and loudly trans+ lately (and how afraid my trans siblings and peers are lately)--we now have a local bathroom ban, forced misgendering of students and teachers, etc.

But we're still here, still wonderful
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · Jan 22
Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird!

Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️‍⚧️
Photo of SK in a forest in Pennsylvania, wearing a tie dyed field shirt from the 2017 grassland bird Konza Crew and holding a large sparrow that is black on one side of the body and brown on the other.
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Lee = MS squared 🐟🌊🏳️‍⚧️ @aquaticenby.bsky.social · Mar 29
I like to think if I was turned into a fish, I'd be a sarcastic fringehead, but in reality I'd probably be this guy. So for #FishOfTheWeek let's talk about flatfishes. They are much cooler than you think
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A flatfish lays on sand with a decidedly grumpy look on his face, much like me when my nap gets interrupted. It's tan, with white and orange spots, helping it to blend into its sand bed
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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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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · Mar 19
[Please share widely]
Come work at the U. of Oslo. We are advertising a 3-year postdoc in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics. If working with plant evolution in the Galápagos, pangenome and structural variants sounds exciting for you - this may be your chance!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics (277333) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics (277333), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, April 9, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
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Rebekah Oomen @rebekahoomen.bsky.social · Jan 23
Thank you Darren! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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Rebekah Oomen @rebekahoomen.bsky.social · Jan 23
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Rebekah Oomen @rebekahoomen.bsky.social · Jan 23
Thank you @animalecology.bsky.social editors for this incredible recognition! This paper originated from my 1st PhD chapter conceived >10 yrs ago. I hope this encourages someone to dust off that draft laying around! 🙏Jeff Hutchings for encouraging me to publish.

Congrats to all shortlisted authors!
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Jan 23
The 4th Sidnie Manton Award Winner is Rebekah Oomen!
🐟 you can find her paper here: buff.ly/3PJAgaB
📝 a blog post with more details here: buff.ly/40tYMBd
🥼 all shortlisted papers here: buff.ly/4asHQjg
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Rebekah Oomen @rebekahoomen.bsky.social · Jan 23
Yes please 😊 thanks!
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Rebekah Oomen @rebekahoomen.bsky.social · Jan 21
Hi 🦋!

I'm a marine ecologist and evolutionary biologist fortunate to lead a transatlantic research lab in 🇨🇦🇸🇪🇳🇴 focused on how fishes respond to their environments. We love combining experiments and fieldwork with genomics, tracking, bioacoustics, and deep learning to forecast population responses!
Atlantic cod and other fishes swimming near a sandy bottom Four researchers in a boat on an icy pond Five researchers next to an Atlantic bluefin tuna Five researchers in lab coats smiling
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Rebekah Oomen @rebekahoomen.bsky.social · Jan 8
So excited for you 🤗