Got some new stuff out with @sarahsanderson.bsky.social @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social and Rosalie Morin-Nadeau 🐟 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

This is a fantastic new preprint, one of the first papers from our replicated whole lake experimental evolution study with stickleback. alaskastickleback.com

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...

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/...

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

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....

Dynamics of infection and immunity over 50 years as marine stickleback adapt to freshwater doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Pranav Sriramulu et al. 📷: Gilles San Martin

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... @lucaseckert.bsky.social @bbolker.bsky.social

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...

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

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...

Today! 430! Don’t miss it! #CSEE2025

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

📸 #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!

Recently back from fieldwork - so I might as well submit some pics to #CSEEinFocus @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

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 🇨🇦

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

I’ve been helping plan this meeting so I can guarantee it’s gonna be a fun one 🐟🐟🐟

Collective behavior diverges independently of the benthic-limnetic axis in stickleback 🐟 Led by Kevin Neumann Check it out! doi.org/10.1007/s002...

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!

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

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....

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...

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. peabody.yale.edu/news/hendry_...

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 @biomcgill.bsky.social @mcgillscience.bsky.social 1/2

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!

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... @danielbolnick.bsky.social @nataliesteinel.bsky.social @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social