Dr Sarah Helyar

Thanks to both societies for giving us the opportunity to host it, and trusting us to pull it off!!
See you all in Southampton next year!

The conference team stood outside the venue

And it absolutely would not have happened without all these wonderful folk....

Delegates to the joint FSBI-IFM meeting in Belfast, outside Riddel Hall

Very belated post about the amazing @thefsbi.bsky.social and @ifmfish.bsky.social confernce we just had in Belfast. The science was incredible, the people were amazing. Pretty sure I didn't get to talk to all ~160 of you, but I had the best time, and it's feeling very quiet without you!!

Thanks to both societies for giving us the opportunity to host it, and trusting us to pull it off!!
See you all in Southampton next year!

The conference team stood outside the venue

And it absolutely would not have happened without all these wonderful folk....

Delegates to the joint FSBI-IFM meeting in Belfast, outside Riddel Hall

Very belated post about the amazing @thefsbi.bsky.social and @ifmfish.bsky.social confernce we just had in Belfast. The science was incredible, the people were amazing. Pretty sure I didn't get to talk to all ~160 of you, but I had the best time, and it's feeling very quiet without you!!

Having just slept for 11 hrs (!) I'm up for anything 😆

‘Highly‐Informative’ Genetic Markers Can Bias Conclusions: Examples and General Solutions High-grading bias is the overestimation power in a subset of loci caused by model overfitting. Using both empirical and simulated datasets, we show that high-grading bias can cause severe overestimat...

New paper with @birdpicsandscience.bsky.social out TODAY!!

We found that choosing "highly informative loci" (aka high fst loci) may bias results in common population genetic analyses

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Explainer thread to come! #PopGen #PopulationGenomics #Evolution

Thanks Anna!!!! It was so amazing to have you all over to Belfast!!! Let's do it again....but not just yet 😂

@quadratdtp.bsky.social Cohort 6 of QUADRAT-DTP is in Cromarty this week learning core skills and field risk assessments: today the group splits into first aid and social media training: everybody enjoying the wonderful environs of Cromarty

Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work.

I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.

Environmental drivers of variation in populations of sandy beach fishes This PhD project will will involve extensive field sampling, laboratory assays and analysis of large datasets to understand what controls variation in...

#PhD opportunities are like buses - you wait for ages and then two come along at once! Check out this chance to work with @benciotti.bsky.social, Michael Collins & me on 'Environmental drivers of variation in populations of sandy beach #fishes' www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho... Please share 🏖 🐟

Illustration of various white animal outlines, including birds, fish, and a bat, on a black background with a large red "X" overlaying the image.

Saturday was Remembrance Day for Lost Species, honoring species lost to the #extinctioncrisis. Last year we lost 21 species to the extinction crisis.

Every lost species threatens to unravel ecosystems and in the process reduce the services they provide.

Learn more about them➡️ biodiv.us/3VfvrsH

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Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Are you interested in #SeaweedFarming or #RegenerativeOceanFarming? We have a short term (5 month) postdoctoral research position available at Trinity College Dublin supporting the award winning C-FAARER project. Please get in touch for details.

*PhD opportunity*: I’ll shortly be advertising a project linking seaweed traits to blue carbon in the context of climate change. Please contact me via email (j.n.griffin at swansea. ac. uk) if potentially interested. More details to follow.

PhD Advert - title "Examining ecological shifts and impacts of adaptive divergence in response to geothermal habitats" Climate change poses a major threat to biodiversity, but some populations will undergo ecological shifts to persist with impacts on the supporting ecosystem. How this will occur is unknown but in some areas of geothermal warming provides unique opportunities to investigate the ecological impacts of a warmed habitat. In Iceland’s geothermally warmed habitats, we have discovered several populations of threespine stickleback. This has driven adaptive divergence in metabolism, morphology, and behaviour (Pilakouta et al 2020, 2023). However, evidence also suggests that ecological differences in diet occur. This could drive much of the adaptive divergence observed, while also impacting the broader community. This project will look directly at the dietary changes that occur in these populations to better understand the ecological drivers of thermally-driven adaptive change. To achieve this the project will address three main aims: 1. Analysis of long-term dietary variation between populations from geothermal and ambient habitats (across multiple locations) 2. Assess ontogenetic variation in diet to determine at what life stage ecological divergence occurs 3. Tests of heritable divergence in diet preferences, performance, and bioenergetic partitioning through the use of lab-rearing and mesocosm experiments

images showing a cleared and stained stickleback (above) from a geothermal habitat in Iceland (below)

A very exciting PhD on the ecological implications of divergence & adaption to warm water habitats in 3-spined sticklebacks combining field work in Iceland, mesocosms, tank studies & lab-work in the UK. Great team, lots of exciting ideas and techniques to test them.

iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

Panorama view onto the old town of Bern and the alps behind it on a sunny day.

The Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social is looking for two tenure-track assistant professors (APTT):

APTT Mathematical or Computational Ecology 👩‍💻

APTT #Conservation #Biology 👨🏾‍🔬

More info: tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

Application deadline: 1 March 2025

Climate change is a 'natural' process now occurring ~10 times faster than the average rate after an ice age. Extinction is 'natural' but is now occurring 1000X faster than in past eras (apart from mass extinctions). Biological invasion is now at rates 100000X prehistoric levels of spp colonisations.

Australian Fish Genomics Initiative – Request for Partnerships 2024 - Bioplatforms The Bioplatforms Australia supported Australian Fish Genomics Initiative is now seeking partnerships to create foundational biomolecular data resources for Australian marine and freshwater fish.

Minderoo Foundation and Bioplatforms Australia have launched the Australian Fish Genomics Initiative -
support to sequence the genomes of about 5,000 species, either reference genomes (PacBio, HiC) or population resequencing (Illumina). Applications due 6.12.2024

bioplatforms.com/australian-f...

Screenshot of jobs on the career centre

Screenshot of jobs on the career centre

We’re hiring for NINE jobs at Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC): www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar...

Some have flexible location anywhere in 🇨🇦.

Reading NCC’s website (esp. strategic plan, geographic & thematic work, recent annual reports) always helps to prepare.

#ConservationJobs

More like twitter was about 7 yrs ago.... people I actually know and/or follow, talking about interesting stuff. Less shouting. Less garbage. No longer feel dirty after scrolling.😉🥳

OK, as always am late to the party... but finally made it over to the happy place!!!