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Current, former, and future Stinchcombe lab members who were in attendance @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social tgs.bsky.social ... Fun to see the interaction b/w my very first UofT undergraduate research student from Fall 2005 and an entering PhD student for Fall 2026... Super fun meeting! #CSEE

More on the immediate effects of the institution’s support of the attack on Roger Innes www.ipm.org/news/2026-05...

Herbarium collections for the win. Maybe not the time to be dismantling your collections, @duke-university.bsky.social ?

This review by @jonothingeb.bsky.social, a post-doc @utoronto.ca is PURE 🔥. "The book reads like an Eat Pray Love of biotech grifting, designed to make her into a public figure based on her personal journey, now presented as the living impetus for her advocacy." lareviewofbooks.org/article/orig...

Over the moon for @jrossibarra.bsky.social ! A great scientist, colleague, and friend. Still terrible puns though.

Hey Toronto 👇

I'm not sure I get the distinction being suggested here... @jeffollerton.bsky.social have you tried experimenting with www.qedscience.com , as developed (in part) by @odedrechavi.bsky.social ? Many of the preview uses I've seen have been for less ecological fields, and this might be a comparator

Peter Raven, RIP

Epstein Craved Harvard Connections. Many There Were Eager to Help. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

Collections + experiments at 2 field stations, ecology.louisiana.edu and @ksrjokershill.bsky.social , for the win.

Huge congrats to Tess!!!

Hey Asia Hightower's @puffballove.bsky.social cool paper analyzing 1000s of leaf shapes in published in #AppsPlantSci doi.org/10.1002/aps3...

🚨 My first first-authored paper is out in @evolletters.bsky.social 🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis. 🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations. 🧵⬇️

1 billion percent endorse this. My colleague @mfrederickson.bsky.social and I share this paper when teaching field courses....

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!

UofT's field station, @ksrjokershill.bsky.social , in the news: macleans.ca/economy/real...

Dan Kois deep dive on … bar soap? Heck yeah The humble bar of soap used to define the American way. Now it’s dying. I will not let it go down without a fight. slate.com/life/2026/02...

You've got to put the fact you're an Olympic athlete in the first sentence. No prof is getting that far into an email.

Report: Even Grok grossed out by how much Elon Musk is in Epstein Files

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Rittenhouse had a rifle which he brandished, Pretti had a pistol he kept holstered. Rittenhouse shot and killed two people while Pretti didn’t shoot anyone. For that, Rittenhouse became a cause celebre on the right, meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, speaking at TPUSA events, and raising big money.

The ass kissing of Trump by execs of Apple and Amazon and others coupled with ongoing silence from many in the tech and biotech and science areas about ICE and related evil activities is extremely disappointing.

Bill Kristol is making a clearer case for what Democrats can and should do in the minority than Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries ever has

Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

I'd like to thank Slack for hiding configuration tools in : 1, the workspace name & its menus; 2, the gear icon next to the workspace name; 3, the Admin gear icon in the left navigation panel ; 4, the three horizontal lines on the top left (on a PC); 5, the question mark icon on the right.

Trump threatens tariffs on champagne so nobody can celebrate when he dies

We’ve updated Our System to become more *streamlined* and *efficient*! Learn more about it in our 43-page PDF document, or sign up for a two-day training session!

Weird to recall what a bombshell Biden’s fumbling debate performance was and now it’s like, ah yes, the president is demented in public every week, what can you do?

"The power of the less powerful begins with honesty." Bravo, and well-said, Mr. Carney.

A pattern of escalating, unnecessary violence: www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

New paper in Paleobiology! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A must read for conservation geneticists on the utility (or not??) of using molecular diversity to predict adaptive potential 👇🏻

Andrew Gelman: “I have a horrible feeling sometimes that heavily promoted crap research on space aliens, cold showers, mind-body healing…has softened the ground so that the seeds of more evil trees could then be planted and take root.”

Newly posted updates to recent resurrection work from the lab, led by Sasha Bishop (w/ @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social )

Canadian universities received a big federal funding package to recruit international research leaders. Here is the call at my university, Queen's University, Ontario. If you are looking to move to Canada, this is the time! First round of review begins January 9, 2026 www.queensu.ca/vpr/recruitm...

The Entomological Society of Canada is a fantastic supporter of grad students. Congrats Yaseen 🎉 @canentomologist.bsky.social www.stfx.ca/news/Yaseen-...

Took me a year (😱), but I finally published a blog post about our article on the #quantgen variance partition of phenitypic plasticity with @lmchev.bsky.social, published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. 🇬🇧 devillemereuil.legtux.org/quantitative... 🇫🇷 devillemereuil.legtux.org/fr/genetique...

Data sciences postdoc fellowship in EEB @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 23 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us! datasciences.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...

Check out @ent3c.bsky.social and @sashagusevposts.bsky.social 's posts. Good stuff there My guess is there's a generation of evolutionary biologists who read David Houle and Derek Roff's work from the 80s and early 90s who look at h2 = 0.3, and are thinking "what did else did anyone expect?"

Treating emergent traits of the microbiome like quantitative genetic traits of the host reveals how environmentally acquired symbionts can contribute to hosts' adaptation

"Her wit was as sharp as her convictions, and her honesty was refreshing and rare." A wonderfully written (by @gbaucom.bsky.social) obituary for my grad school friend and Auburn University Prof. Vanessa Koelling, who passed away last week. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/m...

How are Pacific NW mountain birds responding to climate change? I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out. but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible" new paper here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Maybe Duke should spend less money on higher administration and a football coach who no longer works there... and use the money for basic research, including an herbarium. Some pretty shocking salaries on this list, including from people claiming the Uni lacks $. dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15 Please share far and wide 🚀 (See thread)

TWO curatorial positions at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada. Curator of Birds, and Curator of Plants and Sustainability... please pass the word and amplify! royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc... & royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...

Amazing profile of the new facilities at @ksrjokershill.bsky.social designed by Montgomery Sisam Architects. azuremagazine.com/article/koff...

I had such fun thinking, reading and writing this Tansley Review on #arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungal mycelia. We need a more fungal-centric view to better understand not only the AM fungi, but also their many ecological roles. @newphyt.bsky.social 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DHGB3S....

"The foundation for our current understanding of how phenotypic evolution operates in natural populations was laid by Lande (1976, 1979, 1982) and Lande & Arnold (1983)." 1. What a topic sentence from Vriend et al.: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... 2. What a collection of papers in a 7 year span!