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Tom Booker @tombooker.bsky.social · 1d

Short story even shorter: traits underlying local adaptation are probably complex, with complex architectures. Methods to study the genetic basis of traits and adaptation are heavily biased towards alleles with big effects. So there is missing local adaptation, but we don’t really know its magnitude

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Tom Booker @tombooker.bsky.social · 1d

Check out this short piece on the genomics of local adaptation. Abi Brown (not on Bluesky) and I wrote it with @samyeaman.bsky.social

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Any input you say have would be welcomed!

What fraction of the genomic basis of local adaptation are we missing?

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Stephen I Wright @stepheniwright.bsky.social · Aug 27

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · Aug 20

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
yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

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Asad Hasan @asadh.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · Jul 26

Building pangenomes for domesticated and wild tree species: genomic complexity and strategies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.22.665893v1

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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · Jun 26

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.

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Tom Booker @tombooker.bsky.social · Jun 2

Congrats Jeff, this is great news!

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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · May 8

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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Nicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · May 5

Just three more days to apply to this post-doc position (Deadline 8 May 2025). Not only is the subject matter stunning 🤯 but, you know, life in Montpellier is great too 😎.

Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel

Nicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · Apr 14

#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers #TransCan These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894

Post-Doctoral Researcher – Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel (M/F)

- work environment: Host-Pathogen-Environment Interactions Laboratory (UMR5244 IHPE), Montpellier - main mission:

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · May 1

Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.

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Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · Apr 28

Like over 7 million Canadians, I voted already last weekend. But if you are a Canadian and 18+ and you haven't voted yet, please go vote tomorrow. Elections matter, and your vote counts. We're lucky to live in 🇨🇦 where elections are free and fair, and our politicians will accept the results.

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Mike-ghoul Half-man @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 25

Absolutely incredible

On a clear day @icanseeforever1.bsky.social · Apr 25

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

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Lynda Delph @ldelph.bsky.social · Apr 23

Hearty congratulations to Anurag Agrawal, Amy Angert, and Graham Coop upon their election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, for their work illuminating the natural world around us. This recognition is very much deserved.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Mar 7

This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...

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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · Apr 12

The idea of replacing environmental regulation under the ESA with gene editing is just fallacious. The reasons are not complicated. Brenna Forester, Tanya Lama, and me in Science in 2023:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · Apr 14

[Please share] 📢‼️

I have 2️⃣ postdoc positions advertised at the Swedish Museum of Natural History:

Postdoc on "Theory of adaptive radiation"
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

Postdoc on "Homoploid Hybrid Plant Genome Evolution"
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · Apr 12

We are looking for new manager for our computing unit! If you have experience in both biology and computers, this might be the perfect job for you! UBC is a lovely place, and Zoology is a fantastic, collaborative and kind department. Apply by May 4th at ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcstaffjobs...

Biosciences Computing Manager

Staff - Non Union Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Profile AAPS Salaried - Information Systems and Technology, Level D Job Title Biosciences Computing Manager Department Administrative Leadership | Dep...

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CSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · Apr 5

Science benefits humanity in countless ways. CSEE condemns the current U.S. administration’s efforts to dismantle science. Read our full statement in support of U.S. scientists and science here: csee-scee.ca/current-bull...

CSEE Current Bulletin

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CSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · Apr 9

Early Bird ends April 15!
Join us in Sherbrooke, QC for CSEE's 2025 Annual Conference (July 6–9)!

Register now & apply for travel bursaries!

Travel Awards:
csee-scee.ca/awards/stude...
Registration: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/reg...

#CSEE2025 #Ecology #Evolution

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Tyler Kent @tylervkent.bsky.social · Apr 7

Excited to see the final version of this paper with @samurscicop.bsky.social and Daniel Matute out in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social!

We took a dive into the complicated demographic history of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and its impact on the distribution of genetic diversity
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

Demographic history, genetic load, and the efficacy of selection in the globally invasive mosquito Aedes aegypti

Abstract. Aedes aegypti is the main vector species of yellow fever, dengue, Zika and chikungunya. The species is originally from Africa but has experienced

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Mar 24

Accessible, realistic genome simulation with selection using stdpopsim https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.23.644823v1

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WarrenCM.bsky.social @warrencm.bsky.social · Mar 19

Exciting Job Opportunity! UBC is hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences. Accepting applications until April 30.

ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) - Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences

Academic Job Category Faculty Bargaining Job Title Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) - Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences Department Dept Forest & Conservation Sciences | Faculty of Forestry (Ri...

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · Mar 6

Worth highlighting as folks occasionally repost "data science" factoids by "Cremieux", unaware that he's also trying to mainstream racist & eugenics views (as Lasker in real life) based on a laughably poor understanding of genetics
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Jordan Lasker, AKA ‘Cremieux’
One of the speakers at the conference is billed under a social media alias, Cremieux, but the Guardian has corroborated that the account is apparently run by Jordan Lasker, a long-time proponent of eugenics.

The @cremieuxrecueil X account has been boosted or engaged with dozens of times by that platform’s proprietor, Elon Musk, often on the topic of falling birthrates.

On 27 November, Musk reposted a Cremieux comment on falling birthrates, adding: “With rare exception, all countries are trending towards population collapse.”

On 29 April, Cremieux posted: “Only about a third of the world even meets replacement rate fertility. This is the biggest problem of our time.” Musk responded: “Yes.”

Musk has also boosted or responded favorably to Cremieux posts on other rightwing hobby horses such as crime in Portland, Oregon, and allegations that Democrats had created loopholes in the asylum system.

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northernastrophoto.bsky.social @northernastrophoto.bsky.social · Feb 28

Watching a member of Parliament tell a Putin loving fascist to fuck off is the greatest thing ever

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Feb 27

Unlike the Maga-Maple Conservatives I don't feed coffee and donuts to trolls.
Especially when they show up to harass peaceful protesters at the Russian Embassy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF6N...

Charlie Angus Takes on Troll Mob at Russian Embassy, Ottawa

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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