Scott Burgess

Things I would tell you as a statistician if I weren’t afraid of hurting your feelings:

- you can’t answer that question with the available data

Read about invasive #bryozoans in Norway by @malihr.bsky.social www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... and other supercool finds in her documentation of our #Artsdatabanken funded project NorDigBryo! www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...

This infographic describes the main results from a survey of members of 14 scientific societies. There is a pie chart showing that both academic (58%) and non-academic (42%) responded to the survey. It lists statistics: 85% of respondents reported uncertainty about the future; 71% reported federal training programs were "very" or "extremely important"; 83% reported negative impacts or irreparable harm on their field of science. There is a word cloud summarizing open-ended responses with the largest words "student research fund federal grant". Eight major themes in the responses are listed: disruption of research with societal important; concerns of closure of the USGS Bird Banding Lab; Early Career Bottleneck; Restricted Freedoms including travel and speech; Decline in Government Efficiency and Expertise; Concerns about Biased/Removed Data and Data Gaps; Concerns about the Ability to Meet Legal Mandates; and From Positive Impact to Irreparable Harm. There are icons for each participating society and a QR code for website and data availability.

Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

Hello bluesky community!

I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325

Fitness consequences of marine larval dispersal: the role of neighbourhood density, arrangement, and genetic relatedness on survival, growth, reproduction, and paternity in a sessile invertebrate Abstract. Dispersal can evolve as an adaptation to escape competition with conspecifics or kin. Locations with a low density of conspecifics, however, may

Sperm dispersal leads to high multiple paternity and reduces the fitness costs of limited larval dispersal in a sessile invertebrate

@scottburgess.bsky.social

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Close up of a pale brown colored Pocillopora coral colony, which is the holotype specimen for Pocillopora tuahiniensis

We described and named a new species of coral - Pocillopora tuahiniensis. Tuahine means sister in Tahitian. Can only ID it using genetics, looks the same as other species! So far, its only been sampled from French Polynesia and east. Most common around 20+m depth.

www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

Job Alert: Florida State University is searching broadly for an Evolutionary Biologist (asst prof / tenure track). The Ecology and Evolution group here is an unusually collegial and supportive group (people matter!). Great facilities and resources.
 
Details: www.bio.fsu.edu/current_facu...

This paper looks very cool, Mark!

The Majoris Lab at TAMU-CC is open and recruiting a PhD student to study intra- and interspecific variation in larval dispersal traits.

Full details at: www.johnmajoris.com/graduate-stu...
@sicb-dedb.bsky.social

Come be our colleague! LSU is searching for a population geneticist.

You'll have lots of awesome collaborators:

www.lsu.edu/science/bios...

Applications due Oct 30
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0646...

@brantfaircloth.bsky.social and I are on the committee - please reach out with questions

Our new paper in Methods Ecol Evol announces marineomics.io, a website sharing tools for rigorous, reproducible genomics in non-model & marine species

We outline the site's resources, how they're made, and how you can contribute! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Folks, please retweet. We have 3 entry level tenure track positions available here at monash. Field ecologists and experimental ecologists of any particular habitat focus and phytoplankton ecologist. careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Find out how adult corals interact with settlers - species specific inhibition and facilitation. Amazing effort by Carrie Sims and fun times in Palau 😊 bit.ly/meps_720_39

Why do marine species often have large scales of dispersal (kilometers)?

Not necessarily because there is selection for it, but as a by-product of traits that increase retention when larvae are lost downstream in coastal currents

Our new paper in Am Nat
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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