We are excited to announce that tidypopgen – a new package for rapid population genetic workflows in R – is now available at evolecolgroup.github.io/tidypopgen/ 🧬💻 Read more in the preprint describing its features here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #popgen #Rpackage #genetics 1/2

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Ok class, now plot the population of snowshoe hares

I highly recommend this new paper published by a colleague to anybody interested in #popgen #movementecology #fishecology. Bouchard et al. elegantly compared the population structure of two anadromous salmonid species to study effective dispersal patterns. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Venney lab is unpacked, cleaned, organized, and ready for a few years of omics research until our renovated space is ready 🤓

Terrific work published by my great colleague Florent Sylvestre, who just defended is PhD thesis ! peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with #extinction doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The changing nature of future Arctic marine heatwaves and its potential impacts on the ecosystem #heatwaves #Arctic #ecosystems #ClimateCrisis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Some new Great Slave Lake Lake Trout genomics work from the Fraser lab ! Bernos, Gibelli, Michaelides, Won et al. 2024. Widespread admixture blurs population structure and confounds Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) conservation even in the genomic era. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For her PhD work, Carla Bautista in our group discovered that yeast hybrids adapted slower to stressful conditions, and she figured out why. See what she found here. #evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New #phylogeography preprint is out, just in time for the holidays! Here we explore glacial lineages, mito-nuclear discordance and local ancestry tract detection using low-coverage WGS (2X), all in Arctic Char of course! 🐟🏔️ @jeansebmoore.bsky.social @michaelmhansen.bsky.social #PopGen

Good ocean news 🌊 Wisdom the Laysan albatross (the oldest known bird) laid another egg 🥚 It's been 4 years since her previous partner, Akeakamai, disappeared. Now she has a new mate and they've just become parents. We'll know early 2025 if their egg safely hatches 🦑🧪🌊 www.forbes.com/sites/amanda...

Divergent reference genomes compromise the reconstruction of demographic histories, selection scans, and population genetic summary statistics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.26.625554v1

Amazing fossil alert. Jurassic salamander from China. You can see the soft tissue of the eye, gills, limbs, even the folds of its tail. And its last meal its stomach… 🧪 #evolution #paleontology

Digging through old #coregonids literature in the library is always exciting ! Fascinating to see the extant of work done on these fishes over the years. #whitefish #oldliterature #freshwaterfishes

Here, a summary of our previous work revealing evolution in action in #Chornobyl frogs. 🧪 #EvoBio theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl... (and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)

New paper by @roberta-gargiulo.bsky.social on extinction debts and #popgen. A bottleneck test is also a test for a genetic extinction debt 1/ at mutation-drift equilibrium Ne predicts allelic richness AR and gene diversity He and vice versa

3/ An extinction debt also occurs when gene flow in a metapopulation drops below 1 MPG. This doesn't reflect a deviation from mutation-drift equilibrium, but from migration-drift equilibrium in the metapop. A drop in gene flow reduces the realized inbreeding Ne of the subpopulation.

Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵

👀 Working on a #StarterPack for early career researchers (PhD students & Postdocs) in #genomics & #bioinformatics 🧬🖥️ Please share! Happy to add those working in this area so please suggest. Seeing a lot of PIs on here but would love to see more students 🎓🚀

University of Calgary is hiring an assistant professor in modelling, ecology, and water. Evolutionary biologists with a focus on aquatic organisms/ecosystems and modelling should also apply! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1497629...

The call for symposia/workshops for the 2025 meeting of the Can Soc for Eco and Evo in Sherbrooke (!!!) is now open - deadline Jan 31. Looking forward to seeing you in the Eastern Townships next year! 🧪 event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pag...

Extremely happy to share our latest work on the functional genetic basis of maturity age variation in Atlantic salmon! 🖥️🧬🦑🧪🐟 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Great evidence that posting weird bugs in iNaturalist really does help us do a better job detecting invasive species. entomologytoday.org/2024/11/19/c...

Hi Bluesky 🔵 Glad to appear in this new social zone! I'm Charlotte, working as a 3rd year Ph.D candidate at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in University of Calgary on woodland caribou genomics and microbiome in Western Canada. I'm interested about wildlife conservation and population ecology.

Great paper led by my colleagues Anne Beemelmanns, Raphaël Bouchard & Sozos Michaelides. In this study, SNP panels were designed for Lake Whitefish, Brook trout & Arctic Charr for usage in indigenous-led & commercial fisheries management initiatives, including mine 😎. doi.org/10.1111/1755...

We’re hiring for NINE jobs at Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC): www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar... Some have flexible location anywhere in 🇨🇦. Reading NCC’s website (esp. strategic plan, geographic & thematic work, recent annual reports) always helps to prepare. #ConservationJobs

Mummified sabre-toothed kitten found in Siberian permafrost stuns scientists .... new at BBC Wildlife www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-...

I was always hoping there was a way to find the salmonid scientists on here easily. Now there is! Please comment to be added, it is (very) incomplete 🙏 #salmon #FishSci go.bsky.app/GSn7fKy

Hey ! I'm Phil, a PhD student studying lake whitefish genomics in Great Slave Lake. I like looking at animals (especially birds) and taking picture of them. Also into quiz , politics and rock music.

Interested in fish ecology, management and geomatic? We are looking for a student for a master project in my lab! The project aim to modelize the impact of water level management in reservoir on lake trout spawning bed. (follow the link for the ads, in French) www.creae-uqac.ca/opportunites...