Is a nickel a day enough to protect nature? I think we get so much more - fresh air, water, nourishment, jobs, inspiration, beauty - than a nickel a day. While "Canada's Strategy to Protect Nature" is a major $3.8B boost (yay!), it's still only a nickel a day per person in 🇨🇦

Check out media coverage on polar bear climate change adaptations paper published in Ecological Monographs by @colingarroway.bsky.social and colleagues!!

I think this is our lab's first paper in a proper ecology journal. We are now card carrying ecologists!

Special Feature in AmNat @asn-amnat.bsky.social just out on Genomic Forecasting. "Collectively, the articles underscore both the promise and the limitations of genomic forecasting while [showing] predictive performance is context dependent" 🧬🧪👨‍🔬🖥️🌲🐋🌿 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Very cool work based on an amazing long term study of bighorn sheep: No Pedigree, No Problem: Genomic Inbreeding Tracks Genetic Rescue With High Resolution - Mitchell et al: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Neither Conservative nor Liberal Canadian gov'ts understand how university research works. They think that a few top people are key, don't provide increased funding once these hotshots move in, so that more proposals are chasing the same $. Lots of 🇨🇦 talent unfunded and unseen. 🧪

My lab’s first publication is out now! MSc student Tia Attfield reviewed the current captive rearing literature in salmonids and provides perspectives on how epigenomics can help. Huge thanks to all our co-authors for their expert insights! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!) link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are warmer oceans good or bad for #fish? 🐟 The answer is a dangerous paradox. Our new paper in @natecoevo.nature.com shows how marine heatwaves may create “fake” fish gains that mask a large-scale crash. Read our findings here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @mncn-csic.bsky.social #ClimateChange

Thank you to @theguardian.com for doing such a fantastic job communicating our findings to the public today. You can read their coverage here: @mncn-csic.bsky.social @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social @csic.es www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New paper alert! "Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps" suggests that we have thousands of bee species left to describe and decades of taxonomic work ahead of us. We also provide the methods needed to apply more broadly :) doi.org/10.1038/s414...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

‪ @eveliendegreef.bsky.social's latest is out in the @asn-amnat.bsky.social feature exploring the challenges of genetic forecasting😀 "Identifying Areas of Potential Risk Based on Future Genetic Adaptability in Three Arctic Whale Species" doi.org/10.1086/738889 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio

Congrats to Samantha Barrette for publishing her honours thesis! 🎉👏 While are many ways to get host DNA from fecal pellets, the effectiveness of different approaches is rarely compared. We tackled this in caribou using a full factorial design and a new qPCR assay: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟

NEW PAPER (OPEN ACCESS): How could future climate scenarios may affect the distribution of dolphins and porpoises in the North Atlantic? Here, we modeled the current and future distributions of small cetaceans in the North Atlantic under 3 climate scenarios: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧪🌎 #ConservationBiology #biodiversity

📣 Join us - we’re hiring an engagement officer for the CAN BON 🍁 initiative! An effort to transform Canada’s capacity to mobilize its knowledge about the changing state of nature. See the job posting here👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

We have compiled a special issue for @evolappjournal.bsky.social on Effective population size in Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring, dedicated to the late Michael W. Bruford. This SI is a must read for everyone who struggles with what "effective population size" means. #consgen

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

We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing

Interested in genetic diversity-area relationships as a potential proxy for genetic diversity? Check out Chloé Schmidt's latest 😀 @chloology.bsky.social 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio with Sean Hoban, @debbiemleigh.bsky.social, & Walter Jetz onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Happy New Year CSEE Community ! 📣We are excited to announce that our January #ECO.EVO.EDU webinar on Mentoring Early Career Writers takes place on Jan 13th! CSEE Members: check your emails for more information + webinar link. (Please note: English event). csee-scee.ca/event/mentor...

Over the holiday, while folks were on well-deserved breaks, our new book was released! Mentoring writers is hard - we can make it easier for you. Please help spread the word - repost this, tell your colleagues, etc. scientistseessquirre... 1/2

Please RT: we are looking for a PhD student to work on macrogenetics and quantitative genetics of South African proteas. Amazing collaborative project with @plantecology.bsky.social @debbiemleigh.bsky.social & others, embedded in @terra-cluster.org. Dream project if you love molecular biodiversity!

Do I know any journalists interested in covering a story about a highway and the last population of a frog? Please message me

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

Looking for an easy end-of-year gift? CSEE memberships for your students ✔️ www. csee-scee.ca

I'm excited to share memes that my students made this year in my undergraduate #Evolution class #popgen #consgen #evolbiol . "When a batesian mimicry species comes to the party: hello fellow harmful species" "I found on all-encompassing way to define species"

Chonker of a squirrel getting ready for winter, contemplating competing in the Fat Bear contest

How bowhead whales live for centuries—and how we might borrow some of their biology to extend our healthy lifespan. Gift link to my new column: nyti.ms/4hyD9ry

Northrup: polar bears are hard to count cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....

NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/ and please spread the word!!!!

A great piece by Elie Dolgin on the use of epigenetics clocks in conservation. Really interesting, a pleasure to edit and I do love the banner art! 🧪

A new article in @knowablemag.bsky.social that highlights some of @levinewediuk.bsky.social's PD work with me and @colingarroway.bsky.social, along with many other efforts to bring epigenetic clocks into conservation efforts. knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

I'm recruiting two PhD positions in my lab for Fall 2026. 1) evolutionary genomics that will focus on constructing and utilizing pangenomes; 2) conservation genomics focused on pop structure and adaptation of Pacific coast Am. black bears. Details: puckettresearch.org/people/posit...

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

Great seminar by @albrechts-h.bsky.social at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine today. Thank you for visiting us and sharing your research with us!

Science is rarely a linear path from hypotheses to published papers. Here, I tell the story of our many ups and downs during the discovery of pollinator recognition. Hope you enjoy it! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Academia is all over this. It’s an ugly irony that nobody values tertiary education less than a professor seeking a field assistant with a biology degree to work unsalaried and covering their own travel costs.

Super cool! 🧪🧬 🌎

Excited to share our new paper on genetic rescue in the Pacific pocket mouse! To conserve this endangered species, we sought to understand whether small populations at risk of outbreeding depression are better managed in isolation or with gene flow. @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you are at #ESEB2025 and you are interested in predicting evolution 🧬📈 - retrospectively and into to the future - then you are in luck! Symposium 42 organised by @joelpick.bsky.social and Lizy Mittell is on today, and S24 by myself and @sevans.bsky.social tomorrow!

Unfortunately, our invited speaker @colingarroway.bsky.social is stuck in Canada, but on the upside you will get to hear more about the work by Timothée Bonnet, who is taking over his slot, and from Lizy Mittell about her super relevant work on the invisible fraction! You won’t want to miss this!

Attention Climate Solutions Scholars! @uvic.ca seeks its next Canada Excellence Research Chair 🇨🇦: www.uvic.ca/research-inn... You: world class scholar, looking to make a move Us: #5 in world for climate action, collegial, stunning location (B.C.) w award-winning climate policy Pls share widely!

I was on the news! Talking about our ongoing work on epigenetic aging in polar bears in response to climate change www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0... Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Urbanite woodchuck (Marmota Monaco). This one lives on Mont-Royal Avenue; Plateau Mont-Royal. She loves her apartment, nearby restaurants and grocery stores, but complains about the rising rents in the area. #UrbanWildlife

Want to come work in beautiful wine country by Niagara Falls and the Niagara escarpment? You can!! Canada Excellence Research Chair in Sustainable Agriculture for Grape and Wine Professor or Associate Professor, Tenured ‪@brocku.ca‬ brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...

Some recently published work with Amy Chabot and @denisreale.bsky.social out in Biological Conservation here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV9p_9CgT...

That populations could evolve rapidly was a surprise to many. Even fewer believed that zoo animals could evolve too. We show they actualy do so in this great paper with @sauvedrew.bsky.social and Amy Chabot. For more info ⬇️