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 ⬇️

🌿 PhD Opportunity in Biodiversity Sciences 🌿 Join our lab to explore the processes shaping biodiversity across space and time. Competitive stipend, flexible project design, and membership in the vibrant @qcbs.ca network. Montreal | Concordia | MSc/PhD Details: bit.ly/3UCmDMB

Was just sent this, author unknown. There's plenty to debate but they're right about evolutionary ecology. 🌏

This looks super cool!! 🧪

Two fully funded #PhD positions on insect #Symbiosis available in our lab: Spiroplasma in Neotropical Arthropods (tinyurl.com/spiroplasma) & Psyllid symbionts (tinyurl.com/psyllids). Please contact me for any questions & share widely #symbiosky #academicjobs

Looking for a PhD? 2 open positions in a fun lab, with an awesome advisor!! 👇

In @elife.bsky.social: Effective population size does not explain long-term variation in genome size and transposable element content in animals doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

New paper out today in @pnas.org presenting near-complete phylogeny of the Grevilleoideae subfamily of Proteaceae plants, representing years of work and huge collaboration from an amazing team - ft. @marcelcardillo.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @austinmast.bsky.social and many others not on bsky

Thanks @latimes.com for covering my latest paper! (this time with a So Cal focus) www.latimes.com/environment/...

Don’t Forget the CSEE general meeting at 5PM 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ N’oubliez pas l’assemblée générale de la SCEE à 17h00 #csee2025 #scee2025 @csee-scee.bsky.social

Fantastic Dream Team of volunteers! #CSEE25

Be sure to check out all of this year's past and present research group member talks and posters #CSEE2025!! @levinewediuk.bsky.social @eveliendegreef.bsky.social @chloology.bsky.social Devon Bath, Liz Patterson, and Bronwyn Selby-Lyons @csee-scee.bsky.social @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

Be sure to check out all of this year's past and present research group member talks and posters #CSEE2025!! @levinewediuk.bsky.social @eveliendegreef.bsky.social @chloology.bsky.social Devon Bath, Liz Patterson, and Bronwyn Selby-Lyons @csee-scee.bsky.social @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

I'm hiring a postdoc! Themes: long-term data, plant reproduction, mast seeding, synthesis, macosystems biology. Also, reproducible tesearch. Target submission deadline: 22 June (for priority review). 1-2 year position, $60K/year. 🌲 🌲 🌲 www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

🚨 Recruiting! I’m looking for two graduate students (MSc or PhD) already based in Canada to join my lab and work on biodiversity research - broadly defined. Based at Concordia University (Montreal) - competitive stipends will be offered. communityandquantitativeecology.weebly.com

New preprint "Drivers of genetic diversity across the marine tree of life" out lead by my former postdoc Rachel Toczydlowski, along with @reidbrennan.bsky.social, Joanna Kelley, Jamie Pringle, @seaprof.bsky.social, and @johnwares.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"I was never a Sauron fan. Did I facilitate Sauron's rise to power by donating most of Isengard’s resources to his reconquest campaign and persuading my legions of Uruk-hai followers to support him? Sure, but that doesn’t mean I agreed with him on everything."

New research: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks to @idiv for funding and hosting our first working group meeting on range edge dynamics (sRED) @kemarshall.bsky.social @joeybernhardt.bsky.social @juancarvq.bsky.social @shaharchaikin.bsky.social @usuitakuji.bsky.social @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social @colingarroway.bsky.social

A new paper from our lab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... All meta-analysts can use this to get extra insights

Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Looking for a great advisor and research topic in a great city? Be sure to get in touch with @chloology.bsky.social !! 🧪🌐🌎 #PopulationGenetics #ConservationGenetics

Looking for a great advisor and research topic in a great city? Be sure to get in touch with @chloology.bsky.social !! 🧪🌐🌎 #PopulationGenetics #ConservationGenetics

I’m recruiting a PhD student in macrogenetics at Dalhousie University 🇨🇦! Focus will be on the biogeography of vertebrate genetic diversity or urban evolutionary ecology. Full ad: www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/macrogenetic... If the ad is up, applications are still open. Please share widely! 🧬🧬

What do you think, can we forecast evolution❓ @sevans.bsky.social and I would love to hear your thoughts, so if you are going to #ESEB2025, submit a talk to our symposium (S24: Forecasting evolution in natural populations) and join @colingarroway.bsky.social and Patrik Nosil! Deadline April 25.

New graduate positions (both MSc and PhD) open in our lab! csee-scee.ca/msc-and-phd-...

"The end of data has broad societal costs" concludes the article. Which, for me, is the primary benefit of data archiving 🤷‍♂️

#2025MMM FINAL ROAR WINNERS: Polar Bear Puma Join us Wednesday 4/2 at 8PM EST for the CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE!

#lirpaloof Since it's already 2025-04-01 for most of the world ... a slightly updated version of the `celebrate` package: `remotes::install_github("bbolker/bbmisc/celebrate")`. (Description: Celebrate your successes and mourn your failures.) Now supports `htest` objects!

New @sihorses.bsky.social publication by @mstothart.bsky.social on the toxicity of Beach Pea on Sable Island doi.org/10.22621/cfn...

writing another review where I point to the Table 2 Fallacy (doi.org/10.1093/aje/... and doi.org/10.1017/psrm...) and say stop interpreting every single coefficient