Marc Johnson (he/him)

TL;DR We're looking for biology/evolution instructors in the US and Canada to test the impacts of inclusive evolutionary biology educational materials on undergraduate learning (you will be compensated). Pasting the official recruitment info in thread below. sunybuffalo.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Support Our Science Welcomes the Focus on Research and Innovation in Budget 2025 News ReleaseFrom Support Our ScienceNovember 5, 2025OTTAWA, ON - Support Our Science, an organization dedicated to advocating for increased funding for Canada’s 300,000 graduate students and postdocto...

Investing in Canada’s research! Support Our Science welcomes Budget 2025’s focus on next-gen researchers: $133M for PhDs & postdocs, plus funding for chairs, faculty & infrastructure.

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Effects of urbanization on local adaptation and eco-evolutionary feedbacks in white clover - Nature Ecology & Evolution Evidence of adaptation to the urban environment remains limited. Using reciprocal transplants of white clover in urban and rural environments, this study shows divergent selection on an antiherbivore ...

Part one of my common garden experiment is out today in Nature E&E!! We compare how urban and rural environments affect selection on HCN production, local adaptation, and eco-evo dynamics in white clover doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New paper from PhD student @ellmartin.bsky.social provides compelling experimental evidence that urbanization drives local adaptation, life history divergence and eco-evo feedbacks on a diverse community. Congrats Ella! 🌎🌆 #urbanecology #urbanevolution #evoeco

When your lab dresses up for Halloween as the many versions of their supervisor. It was like looking in a mirror- very spooky! 👻🎃

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

"Urbanization" leads to frequent genome-wide signatures of selection specific to both urban & rural habitats. Read the latest paper from our group led by @jssantangelo.bsky.social & Rob Ness: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... #urbanecology #urbanevolution 🌎 @utmbiology.bsky.social

#LetsGoJays

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The #NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program #GRFP solicitation is coming soon!

The due date for Life Sciences proposals is 27 October 2025.

For more info: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Congrats to our awesome summer undergrads for completing their projects, & to Apekshya, Mariana & Johanna for winning best presentation & poster awards at the undergrad summer research day. You've all learned a lot & we are proud of what you've accomplished @utmbiology.bsky.social @utm.utoronto.ca

This big chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis) came to visit our quad on campus today, perhaps in search of a mate. It didn't find a mate but it did find me, and some curious undergrads who exclaimed "WOW, I didn't know we had those in Canada". In fact, they arrived in North America 120 years ago!

"Urbanization" leads to frequent genome-wide signatures of selection specific to both urban & rural habitats. Read the latest paper from our group led by @jssantangelo.bsky.social & Rob Ness: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... #urbanecology #urbanevolution 🌎 @utmbiology.bsky.social

Diversity and assembly of the microbiome of a leguminous plant along an urbanization gradient Interactions between plants and bacterial communities are essential for host physiology and broader ecosystem functioning, but plant–microbiome interactions can be disrupted by environmental change l...

Excited to see @dmurraystoker.bsky.social's final & very cool PhD paper out in #Oikos today: "Diversity and assembly of the microbiome of a leguminous plant along an urbanization gradient" #urbanecology #urbanevolution #microbiome nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🌎 🏙️ ☘️

Canada plans a 15% budget cut. Scientists are alarmed Cuts could erase promised boost, researchers fear

Shocking development: PM Carney plans to cut Science funding by 15%, which would eliminate most of the planned investments the govt just made last year and set Canada further back: www.science.org/content/arti... #SupportOurScience @supportourscience.bsky.social

@supportourscience.bsky.social's letter of concern covered in @science.org's News today #cdnpoli #cdnsci

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Support Our Science a transmis une lettre de préoccupation aux dirigeants du pays.

Nous demandons au gouvernement de protéger la recherche, les bourses, et l’avenir scientifique du Canada.

Lettre complète : www.supportourscience.ca

#SupportOurScience #Cdnpoli

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Support Our Science has sent a formal letter of concern to Canada’s leaders.
We’re calling on the PM and ministers to protect research, scholarships, and the future of discovery.

Full letter: www.supportourscience.ca

#SupportOurScience #cdnpoli #STEMCanada

Just me and my Cecropia friend, the largest moth in North America!

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

📸 Only a few days remaining for the #CSEE2025 Photo Contest!

Post your best shots using #CSEEinFocus and tag us
OR you can also submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🎉 Prizes will be awarded at the conference for each category!

🗓️ The full schedule for #CSEE2025 is now available online!

🔗 Check it out here: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/sch...

The official 2025 Sherbrooke CSEE-SCEE Meeting logo. Logo includes yellow and green cartoon images of DNA strands, birds, a mushroom, fish, seal, bee and plants.

There’s still time to register for our @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social‬ peer review workshop in Sherbrooke on Sunday, July 6 from 1-2:30 PM EST! 📝

Work through scenarios with your peers and develop skills to perform effective peer review!

Registration link: buff.ly/Xv3D4oq

I'm missing #Evol2025 @sse-evolution.bsky.social this year, but representing the lab is fantastic grad student @isabeaulewis.bsky.social speaking on Mon Jun 23 in Evolutionary Ecology III at 2:45 on kin discrimination in #Mimulus plants!

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Presenting the first paper to come out of my postdoc with @seemasheth.bsky.social at #Evol2025 tomorrow. Results from a growth chamber experiment on adaptation to heatwaves in Mimulus cardinalis, led by Robin Bingham! Adaptation IV in Athena CD at 5pm! 🔥

Saved this little guy from being runover by cars at @uoftmississauga.bsky.social and it repaid my kindness by peeing all over my pants-swear it wasn’t me. Ungrateful reptile 🤣

I think the intent was wind swept white pine

I'm grateful and honoured to receive the Credit Valley Conservation Environmental Awareness Award for our community engagement that connects kids with nature through the Riverwood Junior Naturalist programme and Biology In Your Backyard youtube series. Thanks CVC for the great work you do too!

Nous planifions notre prochaine série de webinaires et nous aimerions avoir votre avis!
Veuillez prendre un moment pour répondre à notre enquête d'ici le 30 mai 2025 (cela vous prendra < 5 minutes). Merci!

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CSEE Voting ends tomorrow! Make sure to cast your vote ASAP 🗳️

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