Each winter, road salt is used as a de-icer and washes into freshwater streams. Research from the Road Salt Project ( www.theroadsaltproject.com ) has shown that the levels of road salt found in streams can harm developing rainbow trout. Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UBC Science grad students Brian Duarte & Cormac Toler-Scott are finalists in NSERC's 2025 Science Exposed People’s Choice photo contest. You can vote for your favourite photo until noon Sept. 21 at bit.ly/4n0Haan Photo: Brian Duarte's "The decisive moment".

Congratulations to Dr. Kayla King who was awarded the 2025 Francis Crick Medal & Lecture by the Royal Society for contributions to the fields of evolutionary biology & genetics of infectious disease. @zoology.ubc.ca @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social @kayla-king.bsky.social @royalsociety.org bit.ly/4lGJrWB

our department @zoology.ubc.ca has a tenure-track faculty position opening at the level of Assistant Professor of Teaching in the educational stream with a focus on Neuroscience! please share! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30389

Congrats to the winners of the Wall Research Awards–Team Faculty, for Smell Steers the Salmon which explores how stressors such as high levels of CO₂ and urban pollutants affect salmon’s sense of smell which harms their ability to spawn. @zoology.ubc.ca @benmatthewslab.bsky.social bit.ly/3Jrt1nT

Come join us at UBC in Vancouver! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30389 @zoology.ubc.ca

“Bioluminescence is light made by living things,” Dr. Chris Harley explains. “The sparkly glow we sometimes see in the #ocean is caused by tiny, single-celled creatures in the #plankton called Noctiluca, which means ‘night light.'” curiocity.com/bioluminesce... @zoology.ubc.ca

“We now have better numbers for that: we estimate 10 billion barnacles and 3 billion mussels [died] just in the strait of Georgia.” Dr. Chris Harley (@zoology.ubc.ca @ubcoceans.bsky.social) discusses the 2021 heat dome and tidal species' surprising resilience via @theguardian.com

Swarms of tent caterpillars haunting your dreams? Don't worry: We’re not due for an infestation for another few years. Dr. Judith Myers (@zoology.ubc.ca @landfood.ubc.ca ) has studied the hairy critters for 50 years via @timescolonist.bsky.social

Join us for our new exhibit 66 Birds/3 Degrees by Natalie Niblack. This project is a visual and sound environment of Pacific Northwest birds that are at risk if global warming is not mitigated. On from August 21st to December 31st.

Now available online in Accepted Manuscript form: "Evidence for ancient selective sweeps followed by differentiation among three species of Sphyrapicus sapsuckers" In the Journal of Evolutionary Biology: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Congrats to lead author Libby Natola!

#UBC zoologist Dr. Judith Myers has spent five decades studying a native moth species and their boom-and-bust population cycles. She discusses her journey, findings from a recent study, and the caterpillars’ surprising resistance to climate change. science.ubc.ca/news/2025-08...

Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague! sc.edu/study/colleg... Deadline for applications is Oct 1 #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

‘Disease detectives’ at #UBC, the Hakai Institute and the University of Washington have discovered the cause of a wasting disease that wiped out billions of sea stars: science.ubc.ca/news/2025-08...

SEEKING: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Ecological Modelling. Joint position at @ubcoceans.bsky.social and @eoas.ubc.ca. Associate Professor/Professor (Tenure) position. DEADLINE: SEPT 11, 2025! ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

Forget the fireworks, why not check out the fireflies this long weekend? Dr. Judith Myers (professor emerita @zoology.ubc.ca and @landfood.ubc.ca) discusses where to find these illuminated insects in B.C. (hint, it's not in Vancouver) via @viawesome.bsky.social

Zoologists look at the complex ways animals responded to the COVID Anthropause in US national parks: “Some species are just more wary of people than others ... while others have learned to associate humans with some benefit.” science.ubc.ca/news/2025-07...

Mosquitoes kill more humans than humans - but should we get rid of them permanently? @zoology.ubc.ca prof Ben Matthews discusses what would be involved in eradicating mosquitoes and the potential consequences with The CRAM podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/7Dt1...

Delighted to finally see the work from my honours thesis out in the world! Thanks, Chris Harley @zoology.ubc.ca, for supporting the ambitious amount of fieldwork that went into studying this tiny non-native anemone. Read it here: doi.org/10.71161/ivb...

Orange you glad to see me, baby? 🐟 🧬 ❤️ A new @zoology.ubc.ca study reveals that the brighter the orange on a male guppy, the more virile it is, solving a long-standing evolutionary puzzle about their flashy colours. news.ubc.ca/2025/07/oran...

It turns out colour isn’t just a fashion statement for guppies. UBC zoologists Drs. Wouter van der Bijl and Judith Mank found that the more orange the male guppy, the more virile it is. @zoology.ubc.ca science.ubc.ca/news/2025-07...

Congratulations @science.ubc.ca @zoology.ubc.ca student @jesslli.bsky.social on an awesome writeup!

@jexpbiol.bsky.social ECR spotlight of @science.ubc.ca PhD Candidate @jesslli.bsky.social talking about life as a graduate student: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

B.C.’s economic strategy talks about reconciliation and climate adaptation as core tenets, and these must remain through turbulent times, says evolutionary biologist Dr. Sally Otto, @zoology.ubc.ca. yhoo.it/3SFCB7Q

“The goal ultimately is to coexist,” said Dr. Sarah Benson-Amram, head of UBC’s urban wildlife project. @zoology.ubc.ca @forestry.ubc.ca theprovince.com/news/stanley...

“Many of the extinctions we think that humans are causing haven’t actually happened yet, says Dr. Sarah Otto of @zoology.ubc.ca. "These are the ‘living dead’ species whose population sizes are small, whose habitats are fragmented. There’s a lot of extinction debt.” www.popsci.com/environment/...

New chapter by Ora E. Johannsson & Aleicia Holland on how anthropogenic activities modify the source, character and role of dissolved organic carbon in the black-water river, the Rio Negro, Amazonia. Link: doi.org/10.1007/978-... in "The Future of Amazonian Aquatic Biota".

Today is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit people, also known as Red Dress Day. The day builds awareness to this ongoing crisis and honours the thousands of victims and their impacted families.

Cats vs. dogs: which are smarter? 🐱🐶 Dr. Sarah Benson-Amram and Stanley Coren of @zoology.ubc.ca @arts.ubc.ca weigh in on BBC Country File: www.countryfile.com/animals/pets...

Join us today for the 2025 Botany Symposium! @ubcbotany.bsky.social @zoology.ubc.ca @science.ubc.ca

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...

We congratulate the winners of this year's recipients of the Killam Teaching Prize in recognition of excellence in teaching: Charissa Fung & Chin Sun, Zoology Jason Hein & Eva Nichols, Chemistry Abel Rosado, Botany @chem.ubc.ca @ubcbotany.bsky.social @zoology.ubc.ca

🙌🏽 Congratulations to Charissa 🤩 and Chin 🤩! Very well deserved 🥳

This air-breathing fish can take up CO2 via the gills and exhale it via the “lung”. New publication by Chris Wood, Bernd Pelster & Adalberto Luis Val. doi.org/10.1007/s003...

Get to know new Dean Dr. Mark MacLachlan in this Q&A about his journey from small town B.C., his priorities for UBC Science, his love of Hawaiian shirts, and more ... science.ubc.ca/news/april-2...

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...

Dr. Mark MachLachlan has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Science for a five-year term, commencing April 1, 2025. academic.ubc.ca/academic-com...

You are invited to attend our Science Education Open House on April 10 at 9:30 am as we celebrate teaching and learning projects across the Faculty of Science. Location: Earth Sciences Building, 1st floor lobby & atrium. Register now: bit.ly/3QR4qZQ

Can we use social evolution to fight pathogens? @asgriffin.bsky.social and I review the evidence for 'cheat therapy' in bacteria and viruses... 🧪🦠 #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 1/3

Excited to see review with @asherleeks.bsky.social out today in Nature Antimicrobials and Resistance. We compare application of social evolution to treatment of infection in bacteria and viruses: very different stories! rdcu.be/eftKw @biology.ox.ac.uk @erc.europa.eu @naturerevmicro.bsky.social

Dr. Sarah Otto of @zoology.ubc.ca says that while the avian flu virus hasn't shown much evidence of human-to-human transmission it was evolving rapidly to spread to other species like cows, and scientists are looking at parts of the virus that could attach to human cells. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

1/3 How long do you think it takes for highly pathogenic avian flu H5N1 sequences to be uploaded to GISAID after collection? How long should it be? In this commentary, we find a median delay of 228 days, with half the countries taking more than 6 months. rdcu.be/eeZGU @naturebiotech.bsky.social

Dr. Sarah Otto of @zoology.ubc.ca says there's an urgent need for Canada and other countries to speed up the pipeline from sampling an infected creature, analysis of the genetic information, and submission to a global scientific database. science.ubc.ca/news/march-2...

With this paper, we are releasing a new Julia package, GenomicDiversity.jl, which was used to conduct analyses and make figures in the paper. GenomicDiversity is officially registered as a Julia package, so can be easily installed like any other package. github.com/darreni/Geno... #julialang

OK who's ready for some science? Do you like speciation? Genomics? Hybridization? Bioinformatics? Then this is for you: Published today: "The Distribution & Dispersal of Large Haploblocks in a Superspecies" Bonus interest if you like ring species and cute greenish birds: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Please join us in welcoming UBC-Zoology’s newest Assistant Professor: Asher Leeks! @asherleeks.bsky.social Today is Asher’s first day as an Assistant Professor of Evolution in the Department of Zoology and the @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca Welcome Asher! 🙌🏽 asherleeks.com

“When temperatures rise, plants lose more water through cuticle than through pores,” says Dr. Sean Michaletz @ubcbotany.bsky.social. “This limits their ability to absorb CO2 & reduces their role as a carbon sink.” @earthdotcom.bsky.social @sloanfoundation.bsky.social www.earth.com/news/plants-...

Our special feature/passion project at AmNat, "Demystifying fundamental theories in ecology", co-organized with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social is out now 🤩 www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/an/2025/...

Meet Dr. Stella Lee, a physiologist by training, who teaches the undergraduate course in Developmental Biology at #UBC. @zoology.ubc.ca youtu.be/Gt6Uw1A24kc

🙌🏽 Congratulations to Kaitlyn @zoology.ubc.ca and to Liang @ubcbotany.bsky.social! 🙌🏽