Stephen Proulx

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Our new work (bit.ly/4nlB0RU) demonstrates how environmental cue reliability can drive the evolution of adaptive maternal effect plasticity. We evolved nematodes in random environments and populations receiving a reliable cue adapted to an otherwise unpredictable environment.

#Asilomar2025 @asn-amnat.bsky.social Set up and ready for you to register!

The American Naturalist conference at Asilomar starts tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing many of you there! #AmNatAsilomar

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There is still time to register for the coziest, chat by the fire with your colleagues sort of EcoEvo conference, the @asn-amnat.bsky.social meeting in Asilomar, California. The meeting is Jan 3-6, 2025, and you still have a few weeks (until Dec 1) to get your abstracts in!
asnasilomar2025.org

guess i'll just leave the halloween decorations up.

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It is 4 pm pacific time, which means the cats have been eagerly awaiting the closing of the refrigerator signaling the food bowls are about to be revealed.

🧪,🌍, #ecoevo

If you haven't yet registered, now is your chance! The best meeting to have a fire side chat with a vibrant group of scholars!

Coming to the super social at #Evo2024? Don’t forget to bring your badge – it’s your ticket to the social! See you at the Grand Quai!

#Evol2024 IDEA plenary by @coreywelch.bsky.social starts by tracing his preparation as a field biologist to his Indigenous heritage, "seeing what you see" and "scanning" the landscape around him.

Excited to attend my 1st in-person @sse_evolution meeting since 2017. Check out postdoc @lucasjalbano.bsky.social’s talk about dissertation work Sun 28 July, 3:30 PM in 520B “Adaptation to environmental variation and manipulation in a cosmopolitan plant” #Evol2024

List of all the Moreau Lab presentations happening at the Evolution Conference 2024

So excited and proud of all the #MoreauLab talks happening at #Evol2024 this year! Be sure to check them all out! #ProudPI

Attending this weekend’s @evolmtg.bsky.social #Evol2024 ?

Pass by room 525AB on July 28th 11:20-11:45 for some nice results and discussions surrounding virulence evolution and parasite transmission presented by yours truly :) from my postdoc in Koella lab

Please join us at the Evolution2024 meeting in Montreal to discuss why we cite who we cite and why it matters.
#Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social

Happy to be in Montreal for #Evol2024 !

Stop by the @evo-journal.bluesky.social booth during the Monday afternoon coffee break to say hi or talk about the Evolution journal (I’m an AE).

And my talk is Tuesday morning - great symposium on evolutionary rescue!

First slide of my talk titled "Understanding the speciation process through phenotypes, genotypes, and behavior." The slide includes my name (Stepfanie Aguillon), my email (aguillon@ucla.edu), and my lab website (www.stepfanieaguillon.com). Additionally my adorable lab logo which includes a flicker and a swordtail growing out of a DNA strand is included.

I'm excited to give an @asn-amnat.bsky.social Early Career Investigator talk at #Evol2024! Come check out the award talk session on Sunday from 4:15-5:45pm (Rm 516C) to learn about what I've been up to during my postdoc and what my lab will be working on now that it's open!

We are very excited for the kick-off of the in-person part of the Joint Congress this week in Montreal!

Safe travels everyone and follow @evolmtg.bsky.social for conference updates

#Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social

We're excited to see in-person attendees in Montréal on Friday!

Don't forget to download the conference app and check out the schedule.

#Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social

gif depicting a suction feeding strike of the cichlid fish Boulengerochromis microlepis. The fish swims towards its prey, expands its jaws, and sucks in a small prey item.

An image of a figure from the manuscript. The figure depicts a principal components analysis as a scatterplot demonstrating the axes of diversity of feeding kinematics among cichlids fishes. The Neotropical cichlids are very diverse, and access unique regions of kinematic space, while the distribution of kinematics among Lake Tanganyikan cichlids fully encompasses the younger radiation of Lake Malawi cichlids, and likewise, the distribution of kinematics of Lake Malawi cichlids fully encompasses the younger radiation from Lake Victoria.

I am OVER THE MOON that our paper is out at Am Nat today!

We find phylogeny & biogeographic contingency shape functional diversity in cichlid radiations.

It's my first as co-first author, & Chris Martinez was an A+ co-lead. We had an amazing team-I am so proud of this work!

doi.org/10.1086/731477

Headshot of Samarth Mathur. Text: Samarth Mathur, An evolutionary perspective on genetic load in small, isolated populations as informed by whole genome resequencing and forward-time simulations, Society for the Study of Evolution SSE Presidents' Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper in Evolution.

This year’s SSE Presidents’ Award goes to Dr. Samarth Mathur for his paper, “An evolutionary perspective on genetic load in small, isolated populations as informed by whole genome resequencing and forward-time simulations.” Congratulations Dr. Mathur! shorturl.at/f45PN
@journal-evo.bsky.social

Prime Day, Schmime Day. Hey, listen, indie bookstores are out there being awesome every day. And they tend to ship directly to you, even if you're not local to the store. They're where the books live! And booksellers are book wizards! Bonafide bibliomancers fast with the recommendations.

The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time See if your favorites made our expanded list.

The heck? Both Esquire and the NYT have put out "best books" lists, and THE FIFTH SEASON is on both! Is there a holiday coming up or something? Anyway, yay! Esquire's is SFF-specific (#4) and the NYT's is this-century specific (#44). www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I also find myself looking for natural history stories that i can use on animal behavior or evolution midterm exams.

the call for symposia at the am nat meeting in january is open!

at the most recent evolution meeting they did have a pin available that said "i struggle to recognize faces". it was a nice addition to the additional pin options.

Policy report: “Inclusion and Advancement of LGBTQ+ People in STEM Fields” Posing with Alli Mattheis after we spent the day recruiting survey participants at Twin Cities Pride, way back in 2013. (jby) Last May I was invited to Washington, DC, for a symposium and workshop …

I'm excited to see "Inclusion and Advancement of LGBTQ+ People in STEM Fields" out today — it's a comprehensive evidence review and policy report from a think tank event I joined last year

My quick intro post: lab.jbyoder.org/2024/06/12/p...

And the full report: drive.google.com/file/d/1mjFr...

IITE webinar

William Campillay-Llanos (University of Talca, Chile):
Body size impact on trophic dynamics: mathematical modeling and biological control in a three-level food chain

11 June, 2024, 9 a.m. Pacific

Zoom: liu-se.zoom.us/j/63158449287
Web: iite.info/seminar/

🧪,🌍, #ecoevo

EvoAllies 2024 We are recruiting new EvoAllies for the Evolution meetings as part of our SafeEvolution initiative. The goal of the program is to improve the climate at the meetings, making them more welcoming for ev...

The SafeEvolution initiative is recruiting new EvoAllies for the Evolution meetings. The goal of the program is to improve the climate at the meetings, making them more welcoming for everyone (1/2).

IITE webinar
Géza Meszéna (Eötvös University, Budapest):
What is niche-space? The exact and intuitive theory.
28 May, 2024, 9 a.m. Pacific
Zoom: liu-se.zoom.us/j/63158449287
Web: iite.info/seminar/
🧪,🌍, #ecoevo