Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

🧪🐺 #biology #wildlife #genetics

Want do look at the population genetics of wolves in northern Canada? Apply for this 3 yr postdoc position at UNBC! Details in link or screenshots. gounbc-my.sharepoint.com/personal/jgo...

Come work with us! We are seeking a tenure-track botanist, preferably in the areas of non-vascular, systematics, physiology or cell. Happy to answer questions. unbc.njoyn.com/CL/xweb/xweb... 🧪🌱 #botany

New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾

A few orchids that are still in flower at home. Two Phalaenopsis, one Dendrobium & one Paphiopedilum. #orchids #botany 🧪🌱

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Some light reading between exam invigilation

I know everyone gets busy but it drives me crazy when people accept a review invitation & then never submit. I implore you to ask for extensions or let the editor know you can’t do it so they can begin trying to find an alternate. #peerreview 🧪

🚨Our new package {galaxias} is released in R & Python today! 🚨 📦 galaxias makes it easy to standardise data to Darwin Core, the accepted format for sharing ecological data with infrastructures like @gbif.org and the Atlas of Living Australia galaxias.ala.org.au #rstats #python 🧪🌏🐟 A thread 🧵👇

Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share! Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu

I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort! We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!

Diuris porrifolia - the small eared donkey orchid 🧪🌱#orchids

I was so excited when I saw this one! Pterostylis recurva - the jug greenhood. Only just processing photos now… a year later 🤣 🧪🌱 #orchids

Found this slug having a good munch on this puffball mushroom yesterday. 🍄🧪

The database of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Australia is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... You can access data summaries via the website www.ausamf.com We have data from 610 sites with data from another 500 locations to be added by the end of the year! Thanks to all collaborators

Spent a few days camping before coming back to the office to run ridiculously long run-time analyses. Camping was better. Enjoy this Platanthera orbiculata orchid. 🧪 #orchids

I always underestimate how long it takes to submit a manuscript. I mean, why would anyone think it takes 2.5 hrs to upload some files? Anyway, let’s celebrate that small win with this orchid pic!

Just some pretty Cypripedium montanum (mountain lady’s slipper) to brighten your day. 🧪🌱 #orchids

Orchids are safe & sound in their new home. Next mission = fill this greenhouse cell with orchids 🤣 #orchids

Packing up 130 native orchid plants so they can travel to their new home at UNBC. #orchids

Just heard @erc.europa.eu will increase funding for grantees relocating to #Europe. Researchers based in the US or elsewhere in the world, can apply for €1 million beyond the usual max amount to set up a lab or #research team, if scientifically justified. Now to be €2 million. 🧪 #grants #academic

Excited to say that I will now be a Senior Editor for the Journal of Biogeography (JBI). Love getting back to the roots of phylogeny & phylogeography

Really proud of the team I am working with at the moment. We attended an ‘ideas lab’ & pulled together a solid set of ideas into something that could help the future of biodiversity in BC. We did it all in the crazy timeframe of two weeks. No matter the outcome, the effort from the team was huge.

What a massive two weeks. Big grant development & application & final exams. Enjoy this orchid while catching a breath. Dendrobium ‘Frosty Dawn’ #orchids

In Vancouver for a few days, hanging out with a bunch of genomics folk. Good to see some old friends and some new ones.

NEW: Apply for COMPASS Pathfinders Program! www.compassscicomm.org/compass-path... Eligibility: * You work in conservation in North America (incl. Caribbean) * Your work is directly informed by science &/or Indigenous knowledge (incl. research, policy, comms, partnerships) Deadline April 7. 🧪🌎🦤

Please share 🧪 We seek 2 postdocs to work on Vancouver Island marmots in the following areas : 1 - demographic models. 2 - conservation genomics. Positions based at UNBC, working with MRF. Full details here marmots.org/recovery-eff... #conservation #jobs

“These data, although scanty…” My new goal - use scanty in a published paper 😆

10 days left to submit an abstract. Slots for oral presentations heavily dependent on date of submission, so get on with it! event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pag...

Ok, no more reading for a while. The past two weeks have been nuts - 25 assignments, 30 scholarship applications & 6 undergrad theses. Officially on grading strike for the rest of the week.

Just presented some plant-insect work for the BC Parks e-summit. Great diversity of talks with topics from social sci, management & more. 🧪 #biodiversity

The University of Northern British Columbia is seeking TWO Postdoctoral fellows to collaborate with us on Vancouver Island marmot recovery research! One will focus on Population Growth and Viability Modelling & one on Conservation Genomics. marmots.org/recovery-eff... (Cute marmot for attention)

Science folks 🧪 We seek 2 postdocs to work on Vancouver Island marmots in the following areas : 1 - demographic MVP models. 2 - conservation genomics. Positions based at UNBC, working with MRF. Full details here marmots.org/recovery-eff... #jobs #conservation

Nova Scotia is looking for Internationally trained Healthcare Professionals #NovaScotia #Recruitment #Canada #Healthcare www.nshealth.ca/support-inte...

Reference writers, if the guidelines state that gender neutral & non-identifying info be used in the reference, you really need to do this. It helps to remove bias - it’s not just the agency being difficult. #science

It's officially out! I have been working behind-the-scenes helping to develop this new journal for a while now. Thank you to everyone who has gifted me their time so far. Keen to keep connecting with researchers and communities in this space! Photo below is mine, snapped in eastern Ontario.

I truly hate not being an administrator of my own computer. As someone working with a lot of different software that constantly changes, requesting every install, which takes days, is insane. Thus, today I work across 3 laptops.

Posted with alt text bc I fricking love this. No I couldn't find a pronunciation

Many of the most influential researchers worldwide in scientific fields, including chemistry, are achieving ‘implausibly high’ publication rates - producing hundreds of papers each year and gaining hundreds to thousands of new collaborators annually. www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-w...

American Eco-Evo types! Looking for a conference where Equality Diversity and Inclusion are celebrated, not hidden? Interested in opportunities for collaborations, grad studies, postdocs, faculty jobs in Canada, a functioning democracy? THIS IS IT: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pages

A solid week of running things in R. I’m not the best with R so I always feel it is a love hate relationship. Should probably try 🐍 but I also feel code-language saturated.

So fascinating!

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Woke up to this pretty little thing! Miltoniopsis. #orchids

#academicSky #PhDSKy

JOB ALERT: We're recruiting research technicians to participate in a resurvey study examining butterfly ecological and evolutionary responses to climate change. Physiology lab work based in Seattle, WA and field work in a central WA ghost town! huckleylab.github.io/opportunities