Beth Roskilly

Well put, Max. Right there with you.

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)?

Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.

U.S. Applicant Week:

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Attention all federal employees!

For Feds, by Feds – It's time to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS and ACCESS YOUR RESOURCES!

Join this FREE webinar series designed by federal workers to support their peers. It's impartial, informative, and designed with you in mind.

The Trump administration’s attacks on scientific funding, restrictions on Federal scientist activities, and indiscriminate firing have caused chaos, panic, and harm. We need *specific* examples of harms caused by these policies to include in an open letter. Grants cut, projects cancelled, jobs lost. Feel free to send news stories, blog posts, or social media posts that mention these, as well as original contributions. Please send to WhySharksMatter @ gmail or DM me

Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help!

We are collecting *specific, clear* examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter.

Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE.

DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

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I'm super excited to share that our article on conservation genomics of Island Oak (Quercus tomentella) is now out in @evolappjournal.bsky.social! This was one of my PhD chapters and funded by CCGP and TNC. 🌾(🧵 below)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In case anyone’s looking for a resource for discussing biases in student evaluations, I made a short slideshow that I use to talk with my students (including ref to the study discussed below). Feel free to use/share! docs.google.com/presentation...

What would you like to see in a 3rd edition of ‘The Scientist’s Guide to Writing’? The second edition of The Scientist’s Guide to Writing isn’t quite three years old, but I’ve been talking with the publisher about a third edition. And I want your help with it. I have to admit tha…

It's time for me to think about a 3rd edition of 'The Scientist's Guide to Writing' (largely because of the rapid spread of "AI" writing tools). If you've read or used the book - what changes/additions would you like to see? scientistseessquirre...

Save the Date! The first ever joint conference between WFGA-SFTIC-NFGA is taking place June 23-27, 2025 in State College, PA #ForestGenetics2025 #forestgenetics #treebreeding #restoration #climateadaptation #restoration

Weak Local Adaptation to Climate in Seedlings of a Deciduous Conifer Suggests Limited Benefits and Risks of Assisted Gene Flow Assisted migration provides a potential solution to mitigate the increasing risks of forest maladaptation under climate change. Western larch (Larix occidentalis Nutt.) is a deciduous conifer species....

PhD chapter published! ✅
In a common garden study outside the natural range, we found weak local adaptation to climate in western larch seedlings and no effects of selective breeding on spring phenology or cold hardiness. With @sallyaitken.bsky.social

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Has anyone found a good chamber solution for measuring short-needled conifers with the LI-6800? Asking for a friend who studies Douglas fir...

Congratulations to @rafaelcr.bsky.social on publishing this paper from his PhD. He assessed seedlings from >70 populations of Douglas-fir from across the range under severe drought experiment and found surprisingly little population differentiation.

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Cool opportunity to study ancient DNA of wolves: Openings for a postdoctoral fellow and a PhD student for a joint project between Hakai Institute on Quadra Island, BC and Trent University, Peterborough ON. Posting for Linda Rutledge, Hakai Institute.
tula.org/about/career... 🧪