Jasmine Veitch

A comparison of protocols for isolating and extracting host DNA from caribou (Rangifer tarandus) fecal pellets - Conservation Genetics Resources Conservation Genetics Resources - Fecal samples are valuable for wildlife genetic studies where invasive tissue sampling is difficult, expensive, or negatively impacts welfare. However, fecal DNA...

Congrats to Samantha Barrette for publishing her honours thesis! 🎉👏 While are many ways to get host DNA from fecal pellets, the effectiveness of different approaches is rarely compared. We tackled this in caribou using a full factorial design and a new qPCR assay: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland?

Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social

Reach out to chat more!

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New research using 46 GPS datasets from 17 wildlife species to validate our pan-Canadian connectivity model rdcu.be/eMWN5

Organizing SWEEET is such a rewarding experience, plus lots of fun with awesome people!
Please consider joining the committee to help plan next year’s symposium ✨

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 🐟

📢 Don’t miss the SWEEET Symposium at #CSEE2025 on July 9 in Sherbrooke!
This year’s theme: Breaking Barriers in Science Communication — advancing equity, accessibility & inclusion through language and visualization.
#SWEEET #EquityInScience #SciComm

We can’t wait to dig in to this topic with some amazing speakers! We will explore barriers to effective and inclusive communication in different settings, and identify ways to address them.

Stay tuned for more details!

A family history: Effects of parental age on offspring life-history traits in bighorn sheep Abstract. Long-term fitness effects of parental age could affect population dynamics, as age structure can vary considerably over time. Few studies of wild

🚨 Excited to share my 1st paper in @behavecol.bsky.social
Grateful to PI @marcofesta.bsky.social & Limoilou-Amélie Renaud for this long-term bighorn sheep🐏 study. How does parental age affect offspring success? Find out 👇
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TWS Journals We used an umbilicus-based method to estimate reliable birth dates in a wild population of harbour seals living in the St. Lawrence estuary between 1998 and 2023. We show that our method is accurate ...

🚨 Paper alert 🚨

My first MSc chapter is finally published!

If you wonder how we accurately and precisely estimate age and birthdates of harbour seal pups, read this very cool paper we did! 🦭

Stay tuned for chapter 2!

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a note of encouragement - these data were originally collected in 2013-2015. It's never too late.

Unlike our previous deer mice research, we found that temporal infestation trends primarily drove co-occurrence patterns between a chigger mite and different flea species. Can't wait for folks to check out our findings!

Thrilled to share my third first-author paper from my master's work with @albrechts-h.bsky.social and @jeffcbowman.bsky.social - this time diving into ectoparasite community dynamics of North American red squirrels! 🐿️
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Happy International Women’s Day! CSEE is fortunate to have many women who lead our society and are making Canada a world leader in ecological and evolutionary research

Territoriality Modulates the Effect of Conspecific Encounters on the Foraging Behaviours of a Mammalian Predator We monitored the movements and behaviours of Arctic foxes using neighbouring home ranges and evaluated if conspecific interactions influenced where they foraged. The probability of encountering consp...

New paper out! We looked at the effect of the probability of encountering conspecifics on the foraging behaviours of territorial and non territorial Arctic foxes.

with @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social @fredericddb.bsky.social and Marie-Pier Poulin

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Congratulations to PhD student and bighorn sheep wrangler Jasmine Veitch @jsmveitch.bsky.social for taking home to top prize at the University of Calgary Images of Research competition 📸🐏🎉

Registrations and submissions for #CSEE2025 are now OPEN! Don’t miss your chance, submit your abstract and register before March 15th. Registration: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pages. Accommodation: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pag...

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Do you want to help advance the profile of #ecology, evolution, & conservation in Canada? Do you want to be part of a team that gets things done on behalf of a broader community? Run for CSEE Council! Nominations due April 18. Learn more here: csee-scee.ca/elections/ #evolbiol 🌎 #PhD #postdoc

Vous voulez faire progresser l’écologie, l’évolution & la conservation au Canada? Alors, présentez votre candidature aux Conseil de la SCEE! Les candidatures sont acceptées jusqu’au 18 avril. Pour en savoir plus : csee-scee.ca/fr/elections/ #evolbiol #ecology 🌎 #PhD #postdoc

Excited to announce the publication of the first chapter of my PhD in Biological Conservation! We evaluated individual behavioral variation and its implications for delineating intraspecific units for the conservation of caribou. Read more here:
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🌟 Welcome to SWEEET! 🌟
We’re excited to introduce the Section Working for Equity in Ecology and Evolution Today (SWEEET), a section of @csee-scee.

Mixed strongyle parasite infections vary across host age and space in a population of feral horses | Parasitology | Cambridge Core Mixed strongyle parasite infections vary across host age and space in a population of feral horses

The first paper from my PhD is out in Parasitology! Using DNA metabarcoding, I show patterns of parasite infection in Sable Island horses!

It's open access, so go check it out!

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🌟 Hi everyone, excited to join the BlueSky community! I am a wildlife biologist interested in the little things that run the world (in this case, macroparasites, viruses, microbes). I am currently working on my PhD at the University of Calgary to investigate the gut microbiome of bighorn sheep 🐏