@ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social
Professor of Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics at McGill University
Years ago, I attempted a self-assessment of my potential gender biases in an academic research setting:
ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt...
Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out
We are hosting a session at ASLO-SIL in Montrรฉal (www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-2026/) May 2026, and are soliciting talks or posters for the session
Eco-evolutionary feed-backs in limnology and oceanography
Organizers: Derry, Hendry, Fisher, Beaulieu, and Fortin-Archambault
Deadline: 19 November 2025.
they were spared that experienced!
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Great #postdoc opportunity at the Natural History Museum @uio.no! Develop your own project to work here for three years๐คฉ
I am happy to answer questions! Deadline June 23rd.๐งช
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Current status - #stickleback field work, Haida Gwaii, BC.
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๐๐๐๐We're delighted to announce 3 new @royalsociety.org Fellows here in Zoology!
Dr Gregory Jefferis, Prof Claire Spottiswoode and Dr Marta Zlatic are all now FRS.
Many, many congratulations!
Read more: bit.ly/3H4rCCk
New OA paper out this week!๐จThis one is particularly meaningful for me as it is the final part of my dissertation to be published, and it is the project I set out to do when I started my PhD โ Did African Jewelfish alter the Everglades aquatic food web? 1/n ๐งช๐๐๐งต
doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
A few months ago, this guy went viral online, proving once again that people yearn for cool invertebrates!
Now, follow its journey to the Smithsonian, where this specimen is helping scientists better understand life in the deep Gulf: ocean.si.edu/human-connec...
Photo credit: Mark Lehtonen ๐๐ฆ๐งช
Here's the first episode of my new podcast about the science of aging. I talk to two scientists who have a long-running bet about whether someone alive today will live to 150. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... & Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0o4P...
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Having fun at the Evolutionary biology course discussion session - Uppsala, Sweden.
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Congratulations to Alexis Heckley on her recent successful defense of her PhD thesis:
"How predictable is intraspecific variation? Insights from guppies and stickleback"
Check out our paper on time-lapse imagery from camera traps to assess bird communities - a test from Haida Gwaii, BC.
Led by Sarah Sanderson.
INFERRING BIRD COMMUNITIES ON REMOTE FRESHWATER LAKES THROUGH TIME-LAPSE IMAGERY
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
Check out our latest paper on phenotypic variation in guppies - led by Alexis Heckley.
"Abiotic environmental factors contribute to spatial variation in boldness and exploration in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1095...
Check out our latest paper on the genetic basis of snake colour variation.
GTP cyclohydrolase II (gch2) and axanthism in ball pythons: a new vertebrate model for pterin-based pigmentation
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Congratulations to Paola Carrion-Aviles on today's successful defense of her PhD thesis:
The terroir of the finch: spatio-temporal dynamics in the evolution and ecology of Darwinโs finches.
You would think they would have considered sending this on April 2 instead.
02.04.2025 00:18 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Well, then, at least I have my health.
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Live near New Haven, CT, and looking for something interesting to do April 23?
I am giving the Bass Distinguished Lecture, titled โThe World Without Evolution?โ taking place Wednesday, April 23 at 5 pm in O.C. Marsh Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
peabody.yale.edu/news/hendry_...
Arnold Clifford, Navajo Botanist, holds up a pressed herbarium specimen of an undescribed species of thistle found in Carrizo mountain.
The roof of Carrizo Mountain Herbarium caving in, leaving herbarium cabinets inside vulnerable to snow and rain.
๐จUrgent: Help Save Decades of Work by Navajo Botanists๐จ
For decades, Arnold Clifford has built up the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. Now, this collection is at riskโsnowstorms are causing the roof to cave in, putting >30,000 specimens in danger.
#IndigenousScience #Conservation #MutualAid #botany
3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals
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We are seeking to appoint a fulltime field assistant to work on the Wytham Tit Project for 4-8 weeks in spring 2025. Duties will include (i) collecting standardised data from nest-box breeding populations of tits, (ii) setting up equipment to monitor foraging behaviour of great tits (e.g. cameras, proximity loggers), (iii) fitting proximity tags and accelerometers to adult great tits (iv) inputting data collected in the field. The start date and duration of this position is flexible, depending on availability of the successful candidate. The post could last up to 8 weeks, starting in mid-April, or c. 4 weeks, starting in early May. All fieldwork will take place in Wytham Woods, near Oxford. The work is variable in intensity and will at times require long days in the field, and working some weekend days, but this will be balanced out by a quieter period at the start and end of the season. Successful candidates must have (or be qualified to obtain) a BTO permit to ring adult great tits, be able to demonstrate skill and enthusiasm for biological research as well as experience of fieldwork under arduous conditions, and both lone work and working as part of a team. Due to the short-term nature of these posts, successful applicants must already have the right to work in the UK. Salary & Accommodation: Field assistants will be paid at grade 5.2 (ยฃ17.02/hour) and responsible for finding their own accommodation. It will be possible to hire accommodated at the Wytham Chalet, a research station within Wytham Woods. Alternatively, field assistants can find private accommodation locally and use their own transport to commute to the woods (approx. 30 min by car or bike, depending on location). Please submit an application, consisting of (1) a covering letter explaining relevant experience and motivation, (2) a CV (max 2 pages), and the names of two people who can be contacted as referees, by Tuesday 11th March 2025 to eleanor.cole@biology.ox.ac.uk. Inquiries to same email.
We're hiring a fieldworker to help with some of our projects in Wytham Woods this spring. Wonderful place to work (and live), especially in the spring. Get in touch if you'd like to know more.
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Things are so chaotic and stomach-churning in our world right now. I find a lot of solace out in nature. I want to share a tiny slice of that with you.
My book, #Phenology is available today! You can purchase it for 30% off *today only* with code MITP30 through penguinrandomhouse.com
Fabulous Astichus arithmeticus ๐คฉ
One of my favorite chalcidoid wasps.
Using her ovipositor she's probing a bracket fungus for beetle larvae within and lays eggs into them so her larvae can feed on them 1/2
#hymenoptera #chalcidoidea #eulophidae #parasitoid #parasitoidwasp #macro #macrophotography
GarLab team members at Minnesota State Fair in front of the Fishes of Minnesota poster at the MN DNR fish pond exhibit. Weโre wearing CFANS gar hats, as their exhibit featured our research!
Emerald Bowfin on a Minnesota River floodplain
Shortnose Gars on the Minnesota River
Buffalo and Gars with UMD and Bemidji State researchers on the Minnesota River
Happy #worldwildlifeday from GarLab! ๐
Today we take time to celebrate our under appreciated freshwater species in the wild. ๐
GarLab works together with people all over the country to study and conserve wildlife. We might be biased, but we sure do love and appreciate our freshwater friends!
A good opinion piece from the EiC of FEE: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I find society-owned journals more rigorous, and more supportive to the scientific community. Whenever possible, let's give society journals more support as well @esajournals.bsky.social.
The biggest, most up-to-date, and cleanest version of our database is now officially published in Ecology @ESA_org - check it out.
"This new, curated version has 9263 records collated from 326 studies, 1801 systems, and 428 species."
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Teaching #MathematicalMethodsInPopulationBiology again. This course covers basic methods for deterministic & stochastic dynamical models in population biology. In this thread*, I'll highlight topics from all twenty 90-min lectures.
*Redoing this thread as I didn't complete it in 2024
Peatlands, which cover just 3% of Earth's surface, store 550 billion tonnes of carbonโtwice as much as all forests combined.
However, some 15% of them have been drained for agriculture.
Protecting these carbon sinks is vital #ForPeopleForPlanet.
The importance of the plant mycorrhizal collaboration niche across scales
@natrevbiodiv.bsky.social by Mari Moora and colleagues
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Fantastic parasitic copepods on this grenadier! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 798 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife
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