New out in Molecular Ecology! In which we show that small males try harder when it comes to seminal fluid proteins. w/ @ju-morimoto.bsky.social @iremsepil.bsky.social @becks-seascience.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Join us for our 2nd 5KM #Solidarity Run/Walk Invitation! When: Wednesday, September 17 at 9:00 AM. Where: Meet at the front entrance of the SUB. The route will pass all picket lines. Pace: All paces welcome. Keep Dal Strong @dalfaculty.bsky.social #InSolidarity #keepdalstrong

MSc position in my lab. Come study the evolutionary & behavioural ecology of insects! @stfx-university.bsky.social

Come study forest pests with Jantina & me on the east coast! @stfx-university.bsky.social

We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇

Ever heard of the Nous Group? A consulting firm that desperate universities hire to help with cost-saving and restructuring? Turns out they are actually vampires who parasitize tertiary education: drive.google.com/file/d/1_1Fk...

I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.

Thanks @adriatica.bsky.social !

This is a cool study!

Come see Soumya's poster at #eseb2025 ! P02.361: Does temperature affect the adaptive value of male harm in Drosophila melanogaster?

Interested in joining the lab? The Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships are designed to bring outstanding scholars from around the world to UBC. I can nominate one person, and help with application materials. More information at www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam... DM if you are interested!

Good morning to you, conference app giving me orders in all caps #eseb2025

if you're a teacher who wants to bring science to life in the classroom, @skypeascientist.bsky.social brings scientists to your class. Sign up at: www.skypeascientist.com

🚨 Exciting news for #ESEB2025! Join us in Barcelona for our symposium: Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08) 📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025 🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)

Ecologist friends: we want to measure the rate of decomposition of animals (fish & insects) on the water surface. Tips & tricks welcome ! Can measure mass loss, but tricky with soggy things

Field season winding down

Looks like irreproducibility is not reproducible

#CSEEinFocus The Perry lab fieldwork chronicles! 1 - Charlotte, disappointedly looking into a net full of mud. 2 - Cody, disappointedly pulling his boot out of the mud. 3 - Emillie, not disappointed at all, very happy about this water sample.

Do you fish in freshwater? Please share or/and complete our survey gathering data on observations of insects for our study on aquatic insect population declines! The link to our survey is here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VXLMY89. Please share if you know anyone who might be interested in participating!

Who knows their internal parasites? This crawled out of a water strider yesterday 😱

We had fun at the Acadian Entomological Society meeting last week. Big congratulations to people's choice talk award winner Charlotte 🎉🎉 @stfx-university.bsky.social

Niche question about ring lights on Leica dissecting microscopes. Does anyone have an LED2000 stand? Do you like the built-in illumination? Seems like less flexible lighting than with the separate ring light where you can control each segment of the ring light?

Field season 💚

Last day to register for the Acadian Entomological Society's annual meeting, happening in Moncton June 11-12. A mere $40! I'll be there. www.acadianes.ca

Well that's not great. time.com/7280114/dona...

Big week for our lab! Another new paper, led by lab alum Isabella Martinez. We used hemiclonal analysis in #Drosophila to investigate the fitness consequences of variation in mating duration. Longer matings increased male fitness but were costly to females! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why publish in JEB? ✅ Society-owned and not-for-profit model ✅ Dedicated submission support - in-house Managing Editor ✅ Range of article types ✅ Modern Open Science policies - our own Data Editor ✅ Large editorial board with wide-range of expertise #societyjournal @eseb.bsky.social

We are excited to announce the release of our fourth year of data for the #openscience #dogagingproject. The latest release, available to scientists around the world, includes over 80 million data points on 50,000 dogs! 🧵 1/n

Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...

The logical endpoint of the arguments, promoted by the "heterodox" crowd, that peer review is "censorship" & academic freedom is equivalent to freedom of speech 👇 Science dies, because science depends on evaluation of evidence (peer review) & criticism of bad ideas (not counter to academic freedom)

Post a warning

This is super important. I volunteer with a local riding association. A big part of election success is getting out the vote. Volunteers make that happen. You can make a real difference!

A question for my 🇨🇦 🧪 colleagues. Were about to have an election in 🇨🇦. We know that recent elections have had consequences for our colleagues elsewhere. So, 🧪folks, what are you doing to help elect a candidate in your riding who shares your values?

Mononucleotide repeats

Do you run a journal club in your 3rd or 4th year class? I'd love to hear your top tips

Jaw-dropping revelations in The New York Times on the most recent Trudeau-Trump calls. Report says that Trump, alongside rehearsing familiar list of grievances against Canada, told Trudeau he wanted to revise the US/Canadian border. He offered no justification.

We’re growing the network of voting researchers in Canada. 🍁 Join us. Follow us. Share the message. On grandit le réseau de chercheur.e.s qui votent au Canada. 🗳️ Rejoignez-nous. Suivez-nous. Partagez le message. core-coeur.ca #VotonsRecherche #ResearchersVote

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Bring back Canadian heritage minutes 🇨🇦 #elbowsup

Can we get an Elbows Up emoji on @bsky.app?

Excellent timeline cleanse rn

Houston's government wants to directly influence what is taught in NS universities by increasing its direct say in research goals and noting that the gov't can withhold funds if the government does not agree with the uni's "sustainability plans". To protest, a rally at Province House tomorrow.

Symposium alert! I'll be there!

@acoyne.bsky.social is right. We must prepare for the worst. Canada should move to a wartime footing, economically & militarily. There is no time to wait. Trump is a threat to our sovereignty. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Rethinking the relationship between the sex ratio and sexual selection doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @gcmcdon.bsky.social, @daniedmunds.bsky.social, @stuartwigby.bsky.social, and @jennyperry.bsky.social 📷: Dani Edmunds

Submit abstracts for the ESEB 2025 Symposium on "Cooperation, Conflict and the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials" by April 25, 2025, in Barcelona. Details: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/ #conference

Laser vibrometry: if anyone has experience using it to measure surface waves, I'd be grateful for a chat. We'd like to measure surface vibrations produced by water striders

Sexual selection was consistently stronger on males vs females, however our results reveal that changes in sex ratios do not equal changes in sexual selection. @daniedmunds.bsky.social @ju-morimoto.bsky.social @stuartwigby.bsky.social @jennyperry.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Does the ratio of males to females predictably influence the ability to monopolise mating partners? Is male sexual selection more intense when femaleIs are rare? 🪰 We investigated by manipulating sex ratios in polyandrous fruit flies in our new #OA manuscript published in @evolletters.bsky.social