The first-ever Gordon Research Conference on Urban Evolution and Ecology focusing on "The Intersection and Emergent Properties of Ecology, Evolution and Human Social Environments in Cities" is now open for applications! www.grc.org/urban-evolut... #UrbanEcology #UrbanEvolution #UrbanEcoEvo 🧬🔬🥼🔭

Major projects should not come at the expense of safeguarding communities & the environment. CSEE President Julia Baum, VP Marc Johnson & incoming VP Sarah Otto explain why in their @ca.theconversation.com article: theconversation.com/canadas-majo... @juliabaum.bsky.social @evoecolab.bsky.social

Excited to share our new paper: Predictions from evolutionary theory for urban environments. We brought together empiricists and mathematical theorists to find common ground on where and how we can work together to better understand urban evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Il nous reste encore quelques billets pour le Banquet 2026 de la SCEE ! 🎉 Joignez-vous à nous pour une belle soirée d’échanges, de célébration et de communauté. Ne manquez pas ça, nous aimerions beaucoup vous y voir ! Procurez-vous vos billets ici : csee-scee.ca/fr/csee-merc...

We still have a few tickets left for the CSEE 2026 Banquet! 🎉 Join us for a great evening of conversation, celebration, and community. Don’t miss out, we’d love to see you there! Get your tickets here: csee-scee.ca/csee-merchan...

At the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution meeting in Toronto, so many great talks using Song Meters to quantify avian biodiversity in urban and rural environments across Canada. @csee-scee.bsky.social @wildlifeacoustics.com

The meetings of the CSEE/SCÉÉ have benefitted from hundreds of volunteers who helped further ecology and evolution research in Canada. Here are those from the 2025 meeting in Sherbrooke. My contributions were to talk others into doing most of the work and suggesting the color of the T-shirts.

It might be #SCEECSEE20 anniversary, but it's also St. John's, NL 10th anniversary! We had rain, fog, a Newfoundlander dog at the mixer, a baby on a SWEEET panel, row houses, icebergs, gannets, screech ins, and more. It was a time! Photo credit to folks on that other app using the conf. hashtag.

I love starting my day with my #SCEECSEE20 mug. Happy birthday @csee-scee.bsky.social!

Ma première rencontre de la SCEE remonte à 2012. À ce moment-là, mon introduction à la communauté d’écologie et d’évolution au Canada n’aurait pas pu être plus marquante: j’ai fait partie de plus de 1000 scientifiques qui ont marché sur la Colline du Parlement #DeathOfEvidence #SCEECSEE20

Every CSEE meeting is a fave memory for us, and this picture of Council at #CSEE2013 in Kelowna brings back fond memories. Thanks to past-prez Spencer Barrett for amassing a treasure-trove of memories about ecology and evolution in Canada and beyond barrett.eeb.utoronto.ca/groups/ #SCEECSEE20

Chaque congrès de la SCEE est un souvenir préféré pour nous, et cette photo du Conseil à #CSEE2013 à Kelowna nous rappelle de très beaux moments. Merci à l’ancien président S. Barrett d’avoir rassemblé un véritable trésor de souvenirs sur l’écologie et l’évolution au Canada et ailleurs. #SCEECSEE20

Happy anniversary CSEE! I co-organised the first meeting with Graham Bell, in Montréal, in 2006. It was exciting to see the birth of this new Society. Now CSEE has reached maturity and I’m getting closer to retirement! Sad I’m not joining you this year

🎉💚La Société canadienne d’écologie et d’évolution célèbre ses 20 ans en 2026. À l’approche du congrès annuel, nous vous invitons à partager vos souvenirs préférés, photos et moments marquants des anciens congrès et événements de la SCEE! Identifiez votre publication avec hashtag #SCEECSEE20

🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20

My first #CSEE meeting was in 2012. At that meeting my introduction to the ecology and evolution community in Canada could not have been more memorable than being a part of over 1000 scientists from #CSEE2012 that marched on Parliament Hill as part of the #DeathOfEvidence march in #SCEECSEE20.

A fond post-CSEE meeting memory was meeting with Prof. Graham Bell after #CSEE2025 in Sherbrooke, co-founder and the first president of CSEE. As we sipped espresso at his favourite cafe in Montreal he shared with me the story of how CSEE came to be 20 years ago. A magical moment #SCEECSEE20

A highlight of every CSEE meeting for me is getting to see so many past and present members of our lab, and seeing the amazing things they have done and outstanding ecologists and evolutionary biologists they have become. This photo from a few years ago in Montreal #SCEECSEE20

🗳️CSEE elections begin today, Monday 27 April 2026. Members, please keep an eye on your email inbox for a link to the ballot with candidate bios. More information here: mailchi.mp/csee-scee.ca...

Nora Kroeger from the Johnson lab takes home the #Atwood2026 Golden Blurb!

Is what is in the air in the genome?…Irtaqa Arif from the Johnson and Ness labs tells us about the effects of air pollution on inherited mutation rate 💨🧬 #Atwood2026

☘️New paper!☘️ Very excited that my 3rd and final data chapter of my PhD with @evoecolab.bsky.social is now published in JEB! We manipulated precipitation and herbivory at field sites in Ontario and Louisiana to test their effects on white clover HCN chemical defense phenotypes

Joyeuse Journée internationale des femmes! Nous sommes reconnaissants envers les femmes extraordinaires qui dirigent (et qui ont dirigé) la SCEE, ainsi qu’envers toutes les femmes écologistes et biologistes de l’évolution à travers le Canada pour leur travail essentiel.

Happy International Women’s Day! We are grateful to the incredible women who lead (and have led) the Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution, & to all the women ecologists & evolutionary biologists across Canada for their important work. You help make our society, country, & planet a better place!

☘️NEW PAPER☘️ I am incredibly excited to announce that the centrepiece of my PhD was just published in Ecological Monographs! This was a massive transcontinental common garden experiment using white clover with researchers from UToronto 🇨🇦, UL Lafayette 🇺🇸, CNRS 🇫🇷, and SLU 🇸🇪 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Urban dandelions have evolved to be less dispersive in Japan www.science.org/content/arti... #urbanecology #urbanevolution 🌏

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Urban Evolution and Ecology which will be held from Jan. 31 - Feb. 5, 2027. Please save the dates, and we look forward to welcoming you to beautiful Ventura Beach, California!

JOBS IN BIOLOGY: I'm giving a lecture on careers in biology next week for our students. I'd love to hear your perspective on the 3 most important things that you think impress potential employers? #biologyjobs #careers

Fabulous society. Join! And not just Canadians. The annual meeting is my favourite of all conferences and we love to have our non-Canadian friends join us.

Happy holidays from CSEE! ☃️ Now’s a great time to (re)join. Learn more: csee-scee.ca. Faculty: consider gifting CSEE memberships to students & postdocs! They're just $30/person and grant-eligible.

Joyeuses Fêtes de la part de la SCEE! ☃️ C’est le moment idéal pour (ré)adhérer. En savoir plus : csee-scee.ca. Professeur·e·s : offrez des adhésions CSEE aux étudiant·e·s et postdocs — 30 $/personne, admissible aux subventions.

TL;DR We're looking for biology/evolution instructors in the US and Canada to test the impacts of inclusive evolutionary biology educational materials on undergraduate learning (you will be compensated). Pasting the official recruitment info in thread below. sunybuffalo.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Investing in Canada’s research! Support Our Science welcomes Budget 2025’s focus on next-gen researchers: $133M for PhDs & postdocs, plus funding for chairs, faculty & infrastructure. #SupportOurScience #cdnpoli Read more: www.supportourscience.ca/post/support...

Part one of my common garden experiment is out today in Nature E&E!! We compare how urban and rural environments affect selection on HCN production, local adaptation, and eco-evo dynamics in white clover doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New paper from PhD student @ellmartin.bsky.social provides compelling experimental evidence that urbanization drives local adaptation, life history divergence and eco-evo feedbacks on a diverse community. Congrats Ella! 🌎🌆 #urbanecology #urbanevolution #evoeco

When your lab dresses up for Halloween as the many versions of their supervisor. It was like looking in a mirror- very spooky! 👻🎃

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

"Urbanization" leads to frequent genome-wide signatures of selection specific to both urban & rural habitats. Read the latest paper from our group led by @jssantangelo.bsky.social & Rob Ness: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... #urbanecology #urbanevolution 🌎 @utmbiology.bsky.social

The #NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program #GRFP solicitation is coming soon! The due date for Life Sciences proposals is 27 October 2025. For more info: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Congrats to our awesome summer undergrads for completing their projects, & to Apekshya, Mariana & Johanna for winning best presentation & poster awards at the undergrad summer research day. You've all learned a lot & we are proud of what you've accomplished @utmbiology.bsky.social @utm.utoronto.ca

This big chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis) came to visit our quad on campus today, perhaps in search of a mate. It didn't find a mate but it did find me, and some curious undergrads who exclaimed "WOW, I didn't know we had those in Canada". In fact, they arrived in North America 120 years ago!

"Urbanization" leads to frequent genome-wide signatures of selection specific to both urban & rural habitats. Read the latest paper from our group led by @jssantangelo.bsky.social & Rob Ness: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... #urbanecology #urbanevolution 🌎 @utmbiology.bsky.social

Excited to see @dmurraystoker.bsky.social's final & very cool PhD paper out in #Oikos today: "Diversity and assembly of the microbiome of a leguminous plant along an urbanization gradient" #urbanecology #urbanevolution #microbiome nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🌎 🏙️ ☘️

Shocking development: PM Carney plans to cut Science funding by 15%, which would eliminate most of the planned investments the govt just made last year and set Canada further back: www.science.org/content/arti... #SupportOurScience @supportourscience.bsky.social

@supportourscience.bsky.social's letter of concern covered in @science.org's News today #cdnpoli #cdnsci

Support Our Science a transmis une lettre de préoccupation aux dirigeants du pays. Nous demandons au gouvernement de protéger la recherche, les bourses, et l’avenir scientifique du Canada. Lettre complète : www.supportourscience.ca #SupportOurScience #Cdnpoli

Support Our Science has sent a formal letter of concern to Canada’s leaders. We’re calling on the PM and ministers to protect research, scholarships, and the future of discovery. Full letter: www.supportourscience.ca #SupportOurScience #cdnpoli #STEMCanada

Just me and my Cecropia friend, the largest moth in North America!

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...