Simon Joly

For Canadian scholars, the reality is bleak .
Ottawa is dangling money for American researchers, but what about our own? #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Greater chestnut weevil

Rediscovery of the greater chestnut weevil by community science observations. This specialist seed predator of the American chestnut was thought to have been extirpated by the collapse of its host in the 20th century because of introduced plant pathogens.
#coextinction
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Si vous êtes à Montréal mercredi, vous devriez venir écouter le séminaire de @stephenbheard.bsky.social sur l'utilisation de l'IA en rédaction scientifique! 🧪

If you are in Montreal on Wednesday, you should definitely come to @stephenbheard.bsky.social's talk on AI in scientific writing! 🧪

Oh, that’s so frustrating!

Dégustation de 76 variétés de tomates 🍅!

Aujourd’hui au Jardin botanique de Montréal. #JardinNourricier

Please repost and amplify !

We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!

Check us out and come be our colleague!
sc.edu/study/colleg...

Deadline for applications is Oct 1

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

😃 🔎 🌿 🦋 🐾 🦊 🐜
Mettre en valeur la #biodiversité du territoire pour mieux le défendre, ça vous dit?
👉 Samedi 2 août - 10h, on vous attend pour le Bioblitz de la Mob! L'événement est organisé en collaboration avec @apdp.bsky.social ,entomologiste + la participation de plusieurs experts. #Montréal

Please share!

Amazing opportunity at @mcgill.ca

We are looking to recruit an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary scientist with a strong track record in innovation and research to direct a new program in climate, environment, and health

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

I’m also thrilled to announce that I will be starting a faculty position with @centreecomgmt.bsky.social @ U of Guelph this fall!

I will be recruiting students & postdocs for 2026 - please reach out or come find me at #CSEE2025 if you’re interested in theory, global change & fisheries ecology 🐟

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

Also at the poster session, Malo Archambault is presenting on the impact of urbanization on 🌱 taxonomic and functional diversity using a large collection of community surveys from northeastern North America.

He is showing that geographic distance among sites affects the patterns.
#CSEE2025

At the #CSEE2025 poster session, go and see @sufflox.bsky.social poster on the conservation genetics of Jaccob’s ladder (Polemonium vanbruntiae). 🌱

She’s interested in measuring the extent of clonal structure in population using genomics.

A little teaser of some collaborative network graphs

I’ll be at #CSEE2025 talking about patterns of collaboration in the Canadian eco/evo research community 🇨🇦

If you’re a eco/evo prof in Canada, odds are you were one of my data points… so come check it out! Wednesday - 4:30 - Science in action

@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

You have to come and see the talk of @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social that will test if urbanization affects natural selection by pollinator on flower shape.
#CSEE2025

It is at 11:00 in Rivière Coaticook

Tuesday morning at the #CSEE2025, you don’t want to miss @stephinscience.bsky.social that will be talking about how urbanization structures plant reproductive strategies using an impressive collection of plant community surveys.

🕙 10 am, Rivière Coaticook

I also encourage you to attend the symposium organized by Isaac Eckert: Turning over a new leaf: the rapidly growing role of natural history collections in modern biodiversity science. 🧪
#CSEE2025

Today at the #CSEE2025, I’ll be presenting results from former PhD student Marion Leménager.

She tested the hypothesis that pollination generalists should have greater diversification rates in islands ecosystems. 🧪

🕔 Lac Megantic, 5 pm

The Joly lab has a strong presence at the Canadian society for ecology and evolution meeting. #CSEE2025

Follow this 🧵 for info of the lab activity.

Oh Sherbrooke! Tu es si accueillante pour les coureurs ! 🤩
#SCEE2025
Oh Sherbrooke! You are so welcoming for runners ! 🏃
#CSEE2025

Check out this very cool study from our lab on flower adaptation to urban environments!

Huge contribution by @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social.

All comments are welcomed on the preprint!

But the most irritating part is announcing “the rebirth of the once extinct dire wolf, the world’s first successfully de-extincted animal”. This is an over statement, to put it mildly. 15 gene edits are clearly not enough to change a gray wolf into a dire wolf, two species that diverged 2.5 mya.

One think I don’t like much is this approach of publishing science in the form of a press release. Science is really cool, but the data is not presented adequately and not available.

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Not sure what to think about the efforts to de-extinct dire wolves (and other animals), but I have to say that it is very impressive what science can do!

Who would have thought that this would have been possible only a decade ago!

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Meet Romulus and Remus, two cloned gray wolves that contain 15 gene modifications that have been selected to make them more similar to the dire wolves, a species that has been extinct for > 12,000 years! 🧪

Press release: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

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I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

The figure explaining the contrasting outcomes for diversity and local and landscape scales in continuous vs. fragmented landscapes. The right column (panel d) shows the cases where increasing inter-fragment diversity (increasing beta diversity among fragments) compensates for loss of local (alpha) diversity results in an increase in regional (Gamma) diversity. Fragmentation is 'bad' for diversity when loss of alpha and beta diversity combine to cause landscape-wide declines in gamma diversity.

New key finding:
Landscapes of fragmented habitat have lower diversity, at all scales, than do unfragmented landscapes.

Habitat fragmentation does not compensate for the loss of local (alpha) diversity by increasing the diversity among fragments (beta diversity).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!

To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

🌿 #CSEE2025 Symposium Highlight 🌿

"Turning over a new leaf: the rapidly growing role of natural history collections in modern biodiversity science."

🔬 Discover how natural history collections are transforming biodiversity research, from understanding biogeography to informing conservation efforts.