Just Published 📰No evidence of skewed or extra variable sex ratio in a Western burrowing owl conservation breeding program 🌎 ✒️Thompson et al. Drew Sauve (he/him) 🔗https://ow.ly/znr250ZhJ5n 📷https://ow.ly/vJuo50ZhJ5m #Conservation #ConservationBreeding #Ornithology

Our paper is out! 📣 we find that molecular measures of genetic variation do not predict heritable genetic variation across species - important implications for the application of genomic data for conservation! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I’m excited to be starting a new role today as an Assistant Professor at Ontario Tech University. @ontariotechu.bsky.social

Still some time to apply to our postdoc position - deadline 3rd July. I'll be at #SMBE2026 if anyone would like to chat about it 😊

Nice work led by @hthomp.bsky.social which is also her first first-author paper!

Fancy working with a massive amount of cool genomics, life history and TB-infection status data from a couple of thousand badgers? Here's the project for you then. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/84... New project and very multi-disciplinary team.

Thanks to @sauvedrew.bsky.social and Mathieu Videlier for organising the fantastic Quantitative Genetics symposium! 🐎 Very happy for the opportunity to present on stress responses in @sihorses.bsky.social 🐎 @jocelynpoissant.bsky.social @ali--wilson.bsky.social #CSEE2026 #MSCA #MSCAfellow

We are launching the Biodiversity Futures Working Groups. The call supports small, focused synthesis groups addressing frontier questions in biodiversity science. We welcome proposals from researchers at any career stage. Deadline: 30 June 2026, 23:00 CET www.maraujolab.eu/2026/05/09/2...

We are looking for someone excited to use thermography to continue and develop some conservation and health related research projects!

A wonderful team to work with!

🐜BugQuest, a nationwide community science project run by the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, invites participants to learn more about insect biodiversity in their local community while contributing to national data. news.uoguelph.ca/2026/04/got-...

Very excited to announce that the #BayesianWorkflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et al publishes in June! routledge.com/9780367490140 #RStats #DataScience #Bayesian

I’m excited to share the final chapter of my PhD published in #ProceedingsB @royalsocietypublishing.org ! 🌳🏙️🪺 We compared Great tit laying date responses to spring temperature between urban and forest habitats across five study systems : royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪

New preprint from the fantastic @sarah-dobson.bsky.social !! Worried about assuming causality when estimating selection? Confused about knowing whether selection is hard or soft? We have the solution for you!

Hello BlueSky 🌞 my group has a large project growing arms and legs, and we've decided to graduate from post-its to a project management software (kanban or similar). Any recommendations from academics? Ideally with clear project roles, a task tracker, and as lo-fi as possible!

Are you interested in domestication selection and conservation physiology? Newest paper @evolappjournal.bsky.social: Highly and Lowly Domesticated Endangered Fish From a Conservation Hatchery Diverge in Their Thermal Physiology, Transcriptome, and Methylome onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@gingerelliott.bsky.social 's new paper published in Zoo Biology. Congratulations!🎉 Elliott measured the degradation of gray ratsnake sperm at 4°C in different extenders. An important step for understanding how we can best preserve samples during transport from the field. doi.org/10.1002/zoo....

Enjoyed reading this Perspective from Tautz and colleagues which calls for a re-engagement on the part of classical genetics with the realities of complex phenotypes as revealed by quantitative genetics academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Led by my talented PhD student @justine-armg.bsky.social we’re running a #meta-analysis of #cross-sex-genetic-correlations in fitness components. If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not appear in a systematic search, please reach out, we’d love to include them! Please share!

Slim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

📣🐦This is a reminder that early bird registration for the CSEE 2026 Conference ends tomorrow, January 30! Register here: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026/reg...

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

Organizing an intensive writing day for a group of experienced & junior scientists!Goals are to outline manuscript, agree on questions/hypotheses, draft sections, start analysis. Team will be split into outlining/writing + stats/analysis group. Tips for max progress & momentum after?

This seems like a really great initiative! If you know any Trans scientists who might be interested in joining a broader community, please pass along! transscientistcollective.carrd.co

This is a beautiful, hypnotising bit of footage of a lobate ctenophore from @schmidtocean.bsky.social 🧪 🦑 #MarineLife. And no, it's not a jellyfish, it's a comb jelly

Haller, Ralph & Messer present SLiM 5, a major extension of the SLiM simulation framework for simulating multiple chromosomes, enabling a heightened level of realism for full-genome simulations. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf313 #evobio #molbio #compbio

How to work on a draft manuscript with a developing writer - through three stages of manuscript development. You can do less work and be more effective! 🧪

I'm excited to share that our preprint is now available on bioRxiv! Our study challenges the widespread use of molecular genetic diversity as a predictor adaptive potential, with important implications for how genetic data is used to inform conservation decisions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Academia friendly peer-reviewed journals in EEB: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Adaptive tracking with antagonistic pleiotropy results in seemingly neutral molecular evolution | Nature Ecology & Evolution https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02887-1

Within a pitcher plant, bacteria break down prey to feed the plant. As the leaf ages, bacteria become less diverse, but more efficient at degrading insects. It appears that species that are strong degraders are weak competitors. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Biologists who teach: in what order do you teach the four forces of evolution? Genetic drift first or selection first? And I'm still struggling to smoothly fit in HWE so that its utility is emphasized (students focus so much on how likely it is that assumptions are violated). #iteachbio 🧪 #Evolution

🔈 CALL FOR PAPERS IBIS Special Issue Collections-Based Ornithological Research in a Changing World Submission deadline: 30 June 2026 onlinelibrary.wiley.... #ornithology 🪶

Congratulations to Hélène Dion-Phénix and Gabrielle Gingras for publishing this new paper studying why female blue tits add aromatic plants to their nest. @oikosjournal.bsky.social @nordicoikos.bsky.social

I have a new preprint demonstrating a genome-architecture-aware approach to inferring species trees and introgression landscapes from a small number of genomes. If you are interested in phylogenomics, birds, or hybridization, this is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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...

What are the causes & consequences of behavioural diversity loss in a changing world? And how do we harness this knowledge for conservation? New open access paper led by @odedberger-tal.bsky.social with David Saltz and @mrmic1.bsky.social #BobWongLab royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

This is the moment we realised what we were looking at. During @nemo-tools.bsky.social ROV surveys to map gorgonian & coralligenous habitats, the seafloor suddenly turned into a landscape of circular nests, each guarded by a male. We weren’t searching for spawning grounds – we dropped onto one.

Geneviève Bergeron Maryse Laganière Hélène Colgan Maryse Leclair Nathalie Croteau Anne-Marie Lemay Barbara Daigneault Sonia Pelletier Anne-Marie Edward Michèle Richard Maud Haviernick Annie StArneault Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Annie Turcotte Never forgotten #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique

New species of tinamou, the slaty-masked tinamou (Tinamus resonans): mapress.com/zt/article/v... 🪶🧪 (📷Luis A. Morais)

"No one should be made to feel inferior or that they do not belong in science because of their origins." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/48JF6Pg

Study shows genetic drift & gene flow from the wild are driving observed trait changes in an endangered #migratory #songbird - will this affect its breeding program & #reintroduction success? #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #genetics @sauvedrew.bsky.social

Warning to environmental scientists! 🧪🦑🌎🐟 The journal STOTEN has been placed on hold by Clarivate, meaning it is under investigation and may lose its indexing (including impact factor). Consider publishing elsewhere. mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

Ord: interesting comic-book approach explaining evolution using the hunting-induced decrease in horn size of bighorn sheep at Ram Mountain 🧪 www.ordlab.unsw.edu.au/sites/defaul... For the data, see onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This thread contains memorials for some of the trans siblings we lost around the world in the last calendar year, drawn from this website that contains 367 reports from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025. 367 And that doesn't include some of my friends tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...