Chloé Schmidt

two very tiny sea creatures balance on a frond of coral

"Ladybugs of the sea" in formation 💃 These beauties took the top honors of the 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year contest.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/2025...

This isn't how birding is supposed to work!

Looking for a PhD? 2 open positions in a fun lab, with an awesome advisor!! 👇

Chloé Schmidt

hello! Could I be added to the list? Thanks www.dal.ca/faculty/scie...

A blue poster describing opportunities to join the Bernhardt Lab -- for more information please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨

Please spread the word!

www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

#CSEE2025

Authors of iDiv paper awarded W.S. Cooper Award ESA’s 2025 Cooper Award Honors Groundbreaking Work on Taxonomic Harmonization in Biodiversity Research

The 2025 Cooper Award @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social has been awarded to the authors of “Harmonizing taxon names in biodiversity data: A review of tools, databases and best practices”.
Congratulations to Matthias Grenié, @smartenwinter.bsky.social & all co-authors! 🥂🎉
www.idiv.de/cooper-award...

Post your art or photo by May 15 to enter!

Wildlife Research Analyst position with Ontario MNR. Focus on combining telemetry and genomics datasets. Apply by May 1st: www.gojobs.gov.on.ca/Preview.aspx...

Could I be added to the contributor list? Thanks!

I’m recruiting a PhD student in macrogenetics at Dalhousie University 🇨🇦! Focus will be on the biogeography of vertebrate genetic diversity or urban evolutionary ecology.
Full ad: www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/macrogenetic...
If the ad is up, applications are still open.
Please share widely! 🧬🧬

Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart Open positions

🦤🧬🧑‍🔬 Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics Wanted! 🪲🌿🔬
Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections.

🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen
⏰ Deadline: June 15th
📩 Contact me!

🚀 Excited to explore new horizons!
Please share 🕊️

Squirrels are good!

a photograph of four feral pigeons walking toward the camera, framed by a bag of French fries

a photograph of a fox on a pedestrian bridge in Bristol

From swimming guillemots and sun-dappled Scots pines to a coy seal and ravenous pigeons, the winners of this year’s British Wildlife Photography Awards celebrate the diversity of animal life across Great Britain. 🐦

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/brit...

hiiii come chat with me about how to make stellar presentations to tell your science stories 🥲🫶🏼

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A new and exciting @nature.com Communications study reveals baleen whales operate the planet's largest nutrient transport system, moving tons of nitrogen and carbon from polar feeding grounds to tropical breeding areas. Great job @jjkiszka.bsky.social and coauthors ✨

Scientist in the field sampling DNA

Protected Areas are important for global conservation. However, their impact on genetic diversity has long remained unclear.

Check out our new paper lead by @chloology.bsky.social which answers this question for mammals and fish. 🧪

lnkd.in/ePDzJeef

#ProtectedAreas #Science #Biodiversity

The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size This is a reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne), inspired by a classic, self-published manual of automotive repair ‘for the compleat idiot’...

Immediately assigning this new paper to my pop gen students! Waples publishes some real hits - "What is a population?" is another instant classic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhD Advertisement that reads: I am recruiting a PhD student to join MacroSize, a new international research network advancing hypotheses and theories on intraspecific body size variability in fish. The selected candidate will co-develop the project, analyze large datasets, and collaborate closely with MacroSize members, including co-leads Pablo Tedesco, Ignasi Arranz, Xingli Giam, and Juan Carvajal-Quintero. To apply, Send your CV and a motivation letter to juan.carvajal@dal.ca. Applications are open now and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Start date September 2025 (flexible).

PhD project alert! 🚨 I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab and the MacroSize network to investigate the trends, patterns, and processes driving intraspecific variation in fish body size in the Anthropocene. Exciting opportunity to explore ecological dynamics in a changing world! :) 🌎🐟🐠🐡

✨International fieldwork bee/fly Honours degree opportunity✨
I am happy to be able to share an opportunity with myself and a few others at the Uni of Wollongong to undertake an Honours research degree with field work in Fiji!
You will get a scholarship on your CV but must be an Australian Citizen
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This is a paid fellowship to draw mushrooms in upstate New York this summer. Seems relevant to some of y’all’s interests. 🍄

An adult California ground squirrel holding a California vole between its paws and consuming its head

Vole hunting: novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels

In our new video article in the Journal of Ethology we document the emergence of this exciting behavior following a population explosion of California voles doi.org/10.1007/s101...

Marty Kardos

Lukas Keller, Chris Funk, and fury toothy friend.

What can genome sequence data reveal about population viability? (And equally important, what CAN'T it reveal??) These are key questions that @martykardos.bsky.social, Lukas Keller, and I address in our new paper in a Molecular Ecology special issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#congens

🧪🧬We're hiring for three new tenure-track positions🧪🧬

We're a friendly and collaborative department @umanitoba.bsky.social with lots of great research happening. Into genetics, dev bio, cell bio, specialized metabolism… we'd love to hear from you!! 🧪🧬🌎

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Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Calling all artists & creatives!
Help shape the face of Conservation Letters! We're seeking iconic, stylized art that captures the beauty & diversity of conservation science for the new cover of @consletters.bsky.social. 🎨📸🌍
#conservation #ecology #artcompetition

Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"

It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social

🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

Gene behind orange fur in cats found at last After 60 years, scientists know why gingers, calicos, and tortoiseshells look the way they do

important cat news www.science.org/content/arti...

Ummm… I had to.

It was a fun visit! Thanks for the invitation!

Check out this new paper just out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on better understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation.

doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

#conservationgenetics #PopulationGenetics