ggplot2 4.0.0 is out and the new `paper`, `ink`, `accent` theme variables look super cool! Just pick 2-3 colors 🎨 to make your plots look great! I'm excited to hook this up to brand.yml 😉

With Jeff Barrick's return to #MSU, the #LTEE was restarted today after a short pause (frozen) for the move. Today was daily transfer 12,301. With ~6.6 generations per day, they are now at ~82,007 generations. 100,000 generations is fast approaching! Are you ready, #Spartans? @msumgi.bsky.social

Today, my @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social BIOL 2F03 course started our first labs with a canoe trip through Cootes Paradise to learn about the ecosystem. We saw egrets, ospreys, & great blue herons! The students had a blast & for some it was their first time canoeing!

A male mountain bluebird, one of several spotted this morning. #yql #Alberta #birds #birding #wildlife 🪶🇨🇦

I found this history fascinating, especially how the US under Bush I a) pushed to create the IPCC to center government representatives, not scientists, in UN climate action; b) used the IPCC to block binding emission targets and carbon taxes on rich countries, which seemed imminent in 1988.

Canada’s plant hardiness zones receive update vist.ly/45ck4 #cdnag #westcdnag

This is just B A N A N A S. Hymenopteran genetics, amirite? www.science.org/content/arti...

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

I'm super happy to share our newest preprint on whooping crane genomics 🐣🧬 🚨Persistent genomic erosion in whooping cranes despite demographic recovery🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Extremely thankful to @hernmoral.bsky.social and all co-authors! #conservationgenomics #genomics #whoopingcranes

Beatriz Vicoso: Artemia brine shrimp have complete dosage compensation of their Z chromosome. She proposes that they're using a system similar to MSL for Drosophila X. Cool contrast to e.g. birds, whose ZW are doing something different entirely. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... #eseb2025

The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

OK, I've not yet managed to attend an #ESEB conference, but this looks really intriguing. Can the "hub" model reduce environmental impact of conferences, but still be vital and interactive? We should be trying out lots of things!

We're kicking off our #ECO.EVO.EDU series with our annual webinar focused on NSERC scholarship & fellowship applications. This session is specifically tailored for our student & postdoctoral members who are navigating the evolving NSERC funding landscape. More info here: csee-scee.ca/event/nserc-...

There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading ‘Economic History of the Scientific Revolution’ but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an ‘epidemiological’ model of how ideas spread like disease

A new PNAS Special Feature combines speciation genomics and conservation biology to address habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss. The articles explore how monitoring and restoring gene flow can support resilient ecosystems in the Anthropocene. Learn more: www.pnas.org/topic/574.

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

👋 Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment? #evolution #genetics Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇 devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...

Hey #ESEB2025 folk! I'll be presenting my work on describing evolution in finite populations at 11:30 am on Tuesday in S-03. Drop by to learn how taking ecology and variable population size seriously changes classic pop gen descriptions like the Price eqn, revealing novel directional eco-evo forces.

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣Online NOW! 📄Estimation of demography and mutation rates from one million haploid genomes 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 @jgschraiber.bsky.social @jeffspence.github.io @docedge.bsky.social

After 4+ years of working on getting urban heat work up and running in the lab, we finally have the first few papers out (back to back!). Reminder that it takes a while for that momentum to gain, and the products *will* come eventually!

I am thrilled to share this paper outlining some ideas I’ve been thinking about for a little while on a simple but powerful approach for predicting risk of inbreeding depression from long runs of homozygosity and non-ROH heterozygosity. 1/n @klohmueller.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Finally is this story out public!! With an amazing historical dataset from IMR (@havforskningsinstituttet) we demonstrate how human perturbations impact the genomic signal in one of the largest cod stocks in the world: the northeast arctic cod | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌿 PhD Opportunity in Biodiversity Sciences 🌿 Join our lab to explore the processes shaping biodiversity across space and time. Competitive stipend, flexible project design, and membership in the vibrant @qcbs.ca network. Montreal | Concordia | MSc/PhD Details: bit.ly/3UCmDMB

Some recently published work with Amy Chabot and @denisreale.bsky.social out in Biological Conservation here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV9p_9CgT...

I absolutely love mine! They’re such a cool design, so well made and with an important message!

🐍 The world’s smallest snake — just 3–4 inches long — has been rediscovered in Barbados after being lost to science for nearly 20 years! 📏🇧🇧 It’s called the Barbados Threadsnake, and it had only been seen a handful of times before. #FaunaFlora #RewildTheCaribbean

looking for successful examples of applied / practical evolutionary / population / conservation genomics courses, at the graduate or advanced undergrad level. have you taught something like this? what worked?

In #GENETICS, @3rdreviewer.bsky.social‬ and @smishra677.bsky.social‬ show it is possible to estimate recombination solely using the allele frequency spectrum and provide a genealogical interpretation of the results, showing how #MachineLearning can provide insights into biology. buff.ly/emixz9W

🚨 new blog post has been published on "how and why I took more than 22,500 colour measurements in a month and survived" by David Lopez-Idiaquez! 📝 read it in English : buff.ly/jLVeqYS 📝 read it in Spanish: buff.ly/1CuEnjl

The conservation science community lost an amazing soul--Dr. Sheila Colla, the leading expert on wild bees and wild-domestic bee interactions in North America. Sheila was a tremendous advocate for nature and environmental justice. 🧪 www.heritagefuneralcentre.ca/obituaries/S...

Hello #CSEE2025, please check out the following talks from the staff and collaborators of the Research and Conservation team at African Lion Safari. All are applying evolutionary ecology analyses to conservation breeding programs and conservation management!

Feral rabbits exhibit morphologies as seen in domesticated or wild forms, but may also exhibit intermediate ones. Sherratt et al 2025 From wild to domestic and in between: how #domestication and #feralization changed the morphology of #rabbits @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

We have a preprint reviewing how genomics has been used to inform evolutionary significant units globally, find inconsistencies, and give recommendations. Genomics is a powerful tool and hopefully can be used more effectively for conservation of ESUs! #consgen #popgen www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

💫 PLEASE SHARE 💫 I’m hiring a short-term program manager: * Flexible location in 🇨🇦 * Start date ASAP * Apply by Fri June 20 * Must already be legally allowed to work in 🇨🇦 * www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar... #ConservationJobs

Happy to share our newest paper in which we investigated the non-breeding distribution of Australasian gannets #seabirds #ornithology @aurore-counilh.bsky.social www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

This is pretty friggin’ awesome.

i made a new framework for modelling stochastic eco-evolutionary dynamics of multivariate traits !! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

maybe my favorite paper I've written, I have a synthesis out today early access in @asn-amnat.bsky.social today that attempts to answer a simple but slippery question: what is an elevational range? doi.org/10.1086/737130

Very detailed piece of work on the Rensch's rule...

"On not being a naturalist - but being one anyway". A more personal blog post than usual, reflecting on how I both don't, and do, fit in among my colleagues who study ecology and evolution. scientistseessquirre...

Showing off our figure of global conifer leaf-widths & leaf silhouettes highlighting that conifers can be broad-leaved & angiosperms can be narrow/ needle-leaved! 🍃 Our paper: tinyurl.com/mss2me7v @newphyt.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social @botanykat.bsky.social & Matilda Brown

A nice overview of our recent work on the eastern loggerhead shrike recovery program!

While helping out on a cool genomics project recently, I came to realise I’d been taught a pretty big inaccuracy about the events that occur at fertilization. I suspect that almost everyone reading this has the same misapprehension, so let’s do some learning together: 1/

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

Ecologists’ endless quest for automatic inference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/28/e...

A Tale of Two Birds 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢 (L) & 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘢 (R) The puffin got spooked by the razorbill who also wanted some of the limelight, looked at me, & said "hi :))" I love their little personalities 🪶 #puffin #razorbill #birds #wildlife #photography #coast #cliffs #Scotland #fujifilm

Our paper on disentangling assortative mating and indirect genetic effects in empirical datasets has just been accepted in @jevbio.bsky.social ! It has been a long process (5 years in the making!) and I am very proud of the result 🥳 academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...