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Shout out to Amy Angert for her wisdom and collaboration, and thank you to NSERC, @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social and @asn-amnat.bsky.social Graduate Student Research Awards for your support in setting up a new experimental system using duckweeds! 🦆🌱

Update! The posting for the postdoc opening in my lab is up! Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...

Very proud to be part of the "Tree Evolution Colloquium" at the Cumberland Lodge in Great Windsor Park, England. For three days, we discussed whether evolutionary rates in trees are underestimated or not.

I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social about Kathryn Paige Harden's new book, an attempt to popularize the eugenics of criminality. I read it as a gambit to build liberal support for the project animating far right politics today, inspired by Replacement theory.

I am hiring a popgen postdoc! Looking for a creative scientist to join us at USC to investigate recessive variation and complex traits in model or non-model species. The project is funded by a multi-year NIH grant, contract can be renewed. Job add & details 👇🏽 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

We are looking for a postdoc to help with a project on eelgrass genomics, in collaboration with the O'Connor and Rieseberg labs at UBC - see ad here tinyurl.com/2yd487p4! Come and join us in beautiful Vancouver 🌊🌾🏔️

SING Canada application are now open! Please share with Indigenous students and community members interested in the science and politics of genomics 🧬 All expenses paid. Details on this year’s theme will follow in a few weeks. @singcanada.bsky.social

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

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!

Check out this preprint. Tianlin Duan led this project during her postdoc with me and Mike Whitlock. It’s got a lot of stuff in it for those who are interested in the genomics of adaptation

I strongly suggest this read on the topic and LLM antropomorphism: The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

A must read for conservation geneticists on the utility (or not??) of using molecular diversity to predict adaptive potential 👇🏻

#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140

if microsoft just made outlook search not suck they'd see triple the productivity gains of any AI integration

This program is great, and has a terrific track record of helping prepare folks for tenure track positions. If you are interested in applying to be hosted in my group, feel free to drop me a line!

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.

Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu

🚨CSEE 2026: Call for Symposium & Workshop Proposals! Got a great idea for a session? Now's your chance to shape the CSEE 2026 program! 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 3, 2025 @ 9:00 PM 📋 Submit via: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026 Full instructions + selection criteria on the site.

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

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!

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

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/...

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.

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

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.

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.)

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

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.

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.

Absolutely incredible

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.

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...

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/...

[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...

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...

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...

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

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/...

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

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...

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...

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

I recently developed & taught a 1-credit graduate course titled Computer Programming for Biologists. The students produced some fantastic projects! For the course & for you, I developed tutorials in the Julia programming language. I share these here: darreni.github.io/JuliaProgram... #julialang

This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨‍🔬🧬🖥️

Nominations are open for the 2025 Molecular Ecology Prize! Nominate scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of molecular ecology with a 250-word statement & candidate CV sent to committee chair Kay Hodgins by April 11 Details: www.molecularecologist.com/2025/02/11/n...

Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell has signed the pledge for Canada. She joins thousands of leaders, artists, activists, Canadians who will resist the gangster in Washington. Have you signed the pledge to stand up for our values? True.North. Strong. Free. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

Add one more to the "GenAI is a net social negative" list. GenAI chatbots show systemic bias in what kinds of responses they give to prompts about environmental challenges. Short piece below by my colleague @profhvdv.bsky.social based on his published research.