Lucas Eckert
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PhD candidate at McGill University 🍁 Evolutionary ecology and genomics 🐟 www.lucaseckert.ca 🌱
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Hi everyone! I’m a PhD candidate at McGill University, studying the ecology and genomics of rapid adaptation of stickleback in Alaska 🐟 Excited to meet some new people and hear about cool research!
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Grant Haines
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Got some new stuff out with
@sarahsanderson.bsky.social
@ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social
and Rosalie Morin-Nadeau 🐟
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Evolution of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) defensive traits following the stocking of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739174
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Daniel Bolnick
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This is a fantastic new preprint, one of the first papers from our replicated whole lake experimental evolution study with stickleback.
alaskastickleback.com
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Grant Haines
23 days ago
Submissions page for
#stickleback
collection "Celebrating three decades of stickleback research in the Canadian Journal of Zoology" is up! Deadline is March 30, 2026 🐟
cdnsciencepub.com/topic/cjz-st...
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Jeff Groh
24 days ago
Work led by Marius Roesti, "A species interaction kick-starts ecological speciation in allopatry" now published - Varying degrees of divergence associated with presence/absence of a single interacting species predicts strength of prezygotic RI in freshwater stickleback
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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A species interaction kick-starts ecological speciation in allopatry | PNAS
Adaptation to different environments is thought to play a key role in speciation. However, speciation typically begins in allopatry, where reproduc...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2506625122
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Stephen I Wright
2 months ago
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
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What can
#herbarium
collections tell us about genetic responses to global change? A lot!! 🌿 Check out our viewpoint, out now in
@newphyt.bsky.social
- genetic monitoring, extinctions, adaptation, GEAs, and more! ⬇️
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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Using herbarium collections to study genetic responses to global change
Earth's c. 406 million herbarium specimens represent a largely untapped resource of genetic data that could transform our understanding of global plant populations. Advances in DNA sequencing have ma...
https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70454
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Evolution Letters
3 months ago
Dynamics of infection and immunity over 50 years as marine stickleback adapt to freshwater
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
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@evolletters.bsky.social
by Pranav Sriramulu et al. 📷: Gilles San Martin
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Evolution
3 months ago
July Editor's Choice article: "Parental care drives the evolution of male reproductive accessory glands across ray-finned fishes" Lucas Eckert, Jessica S Miller, John L Fitzpatrick, Sigal Balshine, Benjamin M Bolker
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
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So crazy to see my first ever publication on the cover of
@journal-evo.bsky.social
! Obviously it’s all thanks to Sigal,
@bbolker.bsky.social
, and our amazing coauthors Please check it out! Parental care drives the evolution of reproductive accessory glands in fishes:
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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Botany
4 months ago
Our latest Editor's Choice led by Isaac Eckert
@laura-pollock.bsky.social
@mcgill.ca
reminds us of the power of our natural history collections and
#herbariums
🌱 Read it Free Access for the next month:
buff.ly/d4BfrbB
#PlantSci
#Botany
#PlantNiche
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In case you missed my talk at
#CSEE2025
, you can explore your own collaborative networks and see a little summary on my website!
www.lucaseckert.ca/side-project...
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Today! 430! Don’t miss it!
#CSEE2025
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I’ll be at
#CSEE2025
talking about patterns of collaboration in the Canadian eco/evo research community 🇨🇦 If you’re a eco/evo prof in Canada, odds are you were one of my data points… so come check it out! Wednesday - 4:30 - Science in action
@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social
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CSEE SCEE Meetings
5 months ago
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#CSEE2025
Photo Contest Submit your best shots on Bluesky, X, or Instagram using
#CSEEinFocus
and tag us or submit here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📅 Open until July 1st!
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Recently back from fieldwork - so I might as well submit some pics to
#CSEEinFocus
@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social
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This map ⬇️ is from a challenge I designed that encourages people to go out and observe the major group of taxa 🐟🍄🐍🪲🦫🪻 that is unusually under-represented in their county 🇨🇦
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Katherine Hébert
5 months ago
One week until Blitz the Gap (
www.blitzthegap.org
) starts - a Canada-wide event to fill biodiversity data gaps with iNaturalist!
@laura-pollock.bsky.social
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Blitz the Gap 2025
https://www.blitzthegap.org
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I’ve been helping plan this meeting so I can guarantee it’s gonna be a fun one 🐟🐟🐟
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Collective behavior diverges independently of the benthic-limnetic axis in stickleback 🐟 Led by Kevin Neumann Check it out!
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
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Collective behavior diverges independently of the benthic-limnetic axis in stickleback - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Comparing populations across replicate environments or habitat types can help us understand the role of ecology in evolutionary processes. If similar phenotypes are favored in similar environments, pa...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03599-z
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Sam Yeaman
6 months ago
Are you interested in the genomic basis of repeated adaptation? The RepAdapt group now has >70 members working to re-run their whole genome shotgun datasets through a common SNP calling pipeline, sharing VCFs, and working together to analyse data. Please contact me if you'd like to contribute!
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And please check out the Blitz the Gap website for more info on this initiative and how to get involved! I helped design some of the *challenges* targeted at specific places, habitats, or species where we need more data
blitzthegap.org
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Janay A. Fox, PhD
6 months ago
How fast can brains epigenetically respond to predation stress? We found that brain DNA methylation in guppies can shift within 30 minutes of predator exposure — with different time courses between males and females. New paper from my PhD now out! 🧠🐟
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
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Rapid Neural DNA Methylation Responses to Predation Stress in Trinidadian Guppies
DNA methylation (DNAm) is a well-studied epigenetic mechanism implicated in environmentally induced phenotypes and phenotypic plasticity. However, few studies investigate the timescale of DNAm shifts...
http://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17774
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Ever wondered why (some) fish have prostates? Find out now in
@journal-evo.bsky.social
⬇️ Surprisingly, it has more to do with parental care and less to do with sperm competition 🐟 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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Parental care drives the evolution of male reproductive accessory glands across ray-finned fishes
Abstract. Reproductive accessory glands are organs involved in reproduction that do not directly produce or release gametes but can play crucial roles in s
https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf062
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Andrew Hendry
7 months ago
Live near New Haven, CT, and looking for something interesting to do April 23? I am giving the Bass Distinguished Lecture, titled “The World Without Evolution?” taking place Wednesday, April 23 at 5 pm in O.C. Marsh Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
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Cameron So
10 months ago
My lab (Anna Hargreaves) is hiring ~3 undergrad field assistants for this summer! Work in 1 of 3 study systems : White trillium (ON & QC), Sundial lupine (ON, QC, USA) and Yellow rattle (AB). Job ads available at
annahargreaves.wixsite.com/home
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Anna Hargreaves, evolutionary ecologist
Anna Hargreaves conducts research on the ecology and evolution of plant-animal interactions and the limits to species' geographic distributions
https://annahargreaves.wixsite.com/home
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Hi everyone! I’m a PhD candidate at McGill University, studying the ecology and genomics of rapid adaptation of stickleback in Alaska 🐟 Excited to meet some new people and hear about cool research!
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Alexis Heckley
11 months ago
How does fibrosis (an inflammation and tissue repair response) affect dispersal? We investigated this question with stickleback in a mark-recapture experiment in Alaska:
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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Does Motility‐Restricting Fibrosis Influence Dispersal? An Experiment in Nature With Threespine Stickleback
Factors that affect dispersal can have important eco-evolutionary implications. Here, we show that an inflammation and tissue repair response—peritoneal fibrosis—does not influence threespine stickle...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70697
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