Sarah W. Fitzpatrick

Huge thanks and congrats to @siluwang.bsky.social and Anne Yoder for organising this amazing special issue. It has been fun contributing and interacting with Silu, Anne and the authors of the other manuscripts, including in a Zoom "tea break" where we presented our projects to each other.

Check out our new special feature: Monitoring and Restoring Gene Flow in the Increasingly Fragmented Ecosystems of the Anthropocene www.pnas.org/topic/574 #biodiversity #evolution #ecology #popgen #ClimateEmergency

Thanks Ellie!

Translocations spur population growth but fail to prevent genetic erosion in imperiled Florida Scrub-Jays Linderoth et al. find that translocations of Florida Scrub-Jays aid the recovery of the species by catalyzing population growth but that reproductive skew dampens accompanying genetic benefits, ultima...

Study led by Tyler Linderoth and wouldn't have been possible without the vision and heroic field efforts of Lauren Deaner (cover photo credit!) and Raoul Boughton nor the genomic resources developed by Nancy Chen and her lab.

Link to paper: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Delayed post, but we are excited to share this study on decades of monitoring of translocations launched by the late Reed Bowman. We show a demographic boost (i.e., rescue!), but success was largely driven by a few individuals leading to erosion of genetic diversity.
www.kbs.msu.edu/2025/05/scru...

If you are a person who cares about the future of science in the US, please take actions this week to #SaveNSF. @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social are leading a week of action - here is a Media Support Tool from the societies docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🧑‍🔬🧬🖥️🦑

Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...

Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...