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A running thread of articles, blog posts, and more about the Government of Canada’s proposal to fast-track “major projects” and weaken federal environmental laws and regulations.

Pressed plant specimens collected centuries ago and stored in herbaria around the world could play a key role in facilitating the tracking of genetic change and extinction risk in plants, a McGill University-led study indicates. Learn more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5eB

This is awesome news! Continue to make yourself heard on the topic. Contact your MPs, respond to the discussion paper. For more info on the subject, read the formal response of the @csee-scee.bsky.social : csee-scee.ca/wp-content/u....

Voici un article rédigé avec mes collègues Laurence Feyten et Fanie Pelletier qui souligne plusieurs enjeux environnementaux majeurs reliés au projet de réforme réglementaire proposé par le gouvernement fédéral. lp.ca/7arRBM?shari...

Thursday morning at #CSEE2026, M.Sc. student Sufia Khader (@sufflox.bsky.social) is going to present her work on the characterization of the extent of vegetative reproduction in the endangered plant Polemonium vanbruntiae using genomics. Don’t miss this! 📅 Thursday 🕚 11am 📍 BA-1240

Hey #SCEE26! Ph.D. student Dongjuan Zhang is presenting a poster tonight where she is exploring how abiotic environment affect flower shapes in the Antillean Gesneriaceae.

It’s about significant weakening of federal environmental laws in Canada. www.wcel.org/media-releas...

Is anyone at the #CSEE2026 meeting in Toronto interested in going out to watch the hockey game tonight? DM me if you're interested! #GoHabsGo 🏒

How useful can #herbarium collections be for genetic monitoring? 🌿 We show that Earth’s currently digitized herbarium specimens can be clustered into HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of historical “populations” suitable for population genetic studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🧵

Lots of good memories of CSEE meetings, but here are two with pictures: 1) the trad music in Saint-Boniface at #beepeg23 where I danced with colleagues and 2) view of the lake Massawippi in early morning during a trail run organized by Dominique Gravel and Victor Cameron in 2026! #SCEECSEE20

There is a lot of work from many lab members within this great paper by Jérôme!

CIHR funding rate: 13.6%. Early 2000s: 30%+. Canada’s new $1.7B Impact+ program recruits talent — but without increased Tri-Council base funding, we risk further strain on an already stretched system. We’re calling for $1B over 5 years. Support here: tinyurl.com/33c5av46

For Canadian scholars, the reality is bleak . Ottawa is dangling money for American researchers, but what about our own? #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Rediscovery of the greater chestnut weevil by community science observations. This specialist seed predator of the American chestnut was thought to have been extirpated by the collapse of its host in the 20th century because of introduced plant pathogens. #coextinction www.cell.com/current-biol...

Si vous êtes à Montréal mercredi, vous devriez venir écouter le séminaire de @stephenbheard.bsky.social sur l'utilisation de l'IA en rédaction scientifique! 🧪 If you are in Montreal on Wednesday, you should definitely come to @stephenbheard.bsky.social's talk on AI in scientific writing! 🧪

Dégustation de 76 variétés de tomates 🍅! Aujourd’hui au Jardin botanique de Montréal. #JardinNourricier

Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague! sc.edu/study/colleg... Deadline for applications is Oct 1 #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

😃 🔎 🌿 🦋 🐾 🦊 🐜 Mettre en valeur la #biodiversité du territoire pour mieux le défendre, ça vous dit? 👉 Samedi 2 août - 10h, on vous attend pour le Bioblitz de la Mob! L'événement est organisé en collaboration avec @apdp.bsky.social ,entomologiste + la participation de plusieurs experts. #Montréal

Please share! Amazing opportunity at @mcgill.ca We are looking to recruit an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary scientist with a strong track record in innovation and research to direct a new program in climate, environment, and health mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

I’m also thrilled to announce that I will be starting a faculty position with @centreecomgmt.bsky.social @ U of Guelph this fall! I will be recruiting students & postdocs for 2026 - please reach out or come find me at #CSEE2025 if you’re interested in theory, global change & fisheries ecology 🐟

✨ 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

I’ll be at #CSEE2025 talking about patterns of collaboration in the Canadian eco/evo research community 🇨🇦 If you’re a eco/evo prof in Canada, odds are you were one of my data points… so come check it out! Wednesday - 4:30 - Science in action @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

The Joly lab has a strong presence at the Canadian society for ecology and evolution meeting. #CSEE2025 Follow this 🧵 for info of the lab activity.

Oh Sherbrooke! Tu es si accueillante pour les coureurs ! 🤩 #SCEE2025 Oh Sherbrooke! You are so welcoming for runners ! 🏃 #CSEE2025

Check out this very cool study from our lab on flower adaptation to urban environments! Huge contribution by @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social. All comments are welcomed on the preprint!

Meet Romulus and Remus, two cloned gray wolves that contain 15 gene modifications that have been selected to make them more similar to the dire wolves, a species that has been extinct for > 12,000 years! 🧪 Press release: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20... 1/n

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

New key finding: Landscapes of fragmented habitat have lower diversity, at all scales, than do unfragmented landscapes. Habitat fragmentation does not compensate for the loss of local (alpha) diversity by increasing the diversity among fragments (beta diversity). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

🌿 #CSEE2025 Symposium Highlight 🌿 "Turning over a new leaf: the rapidly growing role of natural history collections in modern biodiversity science." 🔬 Discover how natural history collections are transforming biodiversity research, from understanding biogeography to informing conservation efforts.

Want to present your research at #CSEE2025 in Sherbrooke? 📅 Submit your abstract by March 15! 🔗[ event.fourwaves.com/fr/scee2025/... ]

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A must read: Harnessing artificial intelligence to fill global shortfalls in #biodiversity knowledge www.nature.com/articles/s44... Led by Laura Pollock and a brilliant team of coauthors all part of the AI and Biodiversity Change Global Center www.linkedin.com/company/abc-...

Le colloque du CSBQ c’est terminé avec un panel très relevé sur le rôle des statistiques vs. l’intelligence artificielle en écologie et évolution. Les panélistes @comecology.bsky.social, Andrew MacDonald et David Rolnick ont présenté les enjeux d’une façon dés divertissante et pertinente! #CABQ2025

This morning at #QCBS2025, Sean Hoban from the Morton Arboretum is presenting simple indicators for assessing genetic diversity in order to inform conservation. He shows that genetic indicators are feasible and helpful!

Hier avait lieu la première journée du colloque annuel du #CSBQ2025 qui traitait de conservation et restauration au Québec. Voici quelques bonnes nouvelles en matière de biodiversité au Québec qui ont été présentées pendant la journée. Un 🧵!

Check out our new method for summarising BEAST trees. The CCD0-MAP tree gives much more accurate results than MCC tree. It returns the tree that maximises the product of sampled clade probabilities regardless of whether that tree was sampled. Highly recommend :) journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

What I am reading from colleagues from the United States on federal funding is appalling! It is hard to believe that government funding of research could be completely halted and I cannot imagine the impact on research, researchers and students. This is tragic! 💔

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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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!

In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)

[1/4] What is the status of plant conservation in Canada? 🌿 In this study led by JL McCune, we surveyed 243 practitioners in plant conservation, ecology or evolution to answer the question. We came up with seven recommendations. ➡️ www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2023-0216 📷 : JL McCune

Proposez un symposium ou atelier pour la rencontre 2025 de la Société Canadienne de l'Écologie et de l'Évolution à Sherbrooke en juillet! Date limite le 31 janvier event.fourwaves.com/fr/scee2025/...

Québec créé le parc national Nibiischii, dont l'exploitation sera assurée par la Première Nation crie de Mistissini. Il protège ainsi le lac Mistassini, qui est le plus grand lac naturel du Québec! 💚💙

Many plants can heat their flowers to increase pollination success, but several thistles do the opposite in hot Mediterranean environments. Their capitula can often be 10 C cooler than the ambient temperature! Cool!