Happy International Women’s Day! We are grateful to the incredible women who lead (and have led) the Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution, & to all the women ecologists & evolutionary biologists across Canada for their important work. You help make our society, country, & planet a better place!
Joyeuse Journée internationale des femmes! Nous sommes reconnaissants envers les femmes extraordinaires qui dirigent (et qui ont dirigé) la SCEE, ainsi qu’envers toutes les femmes écologistes et biologistes de l’évolution à travers le Canada pour leur travail essentiel.
The School of Biosciences at University of Birmingham is recruiting FIVE Assistant/Associate Profs in areas including fungal biology, plant science and bioengineering. Full details below 🍄🌾🧬🧫
Friends, we need to set the bar higher than this.
Just a few days left to submit the ASN student research award (due March 13th)!!!! This is an AWESOME opportunity for students to get some grant writing experience!!! We LOVE reading your grants and giving feedback!!!!!!!!!!! Apply, Apply, Apply!!!!!!
www.amnat.org/announcement...
Are you a grad student attending #Evol2026? Submit your talk for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation! Finalists will present their talks during the virtual portion of the meeting. Apply during registration. Deadline April 15! shorturl.at/qDIP4 @evolmtg.bsky.social
📢 Now accepting proposals for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Applicants must be members of SSE. Deadline: May 18, 2026
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
Heliconius erato demophoon sat on a pink, yellow and white lantana flower. The left side of the butterfly is white, while the right side is the usual black and red, but with some white clonal patches.
New preprint form me and the McMillan lab at STRI and Martin lab at GWU, digging into scale cell type specification and differentiation in Heliconius wings, with some insights on the lncRNA gene ivory.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Comments/suggestions welcome!
I will request that you cover your welcome-to-class yacht rock classics themed as big concepts in popgen (I recall there being a thread about this ages ago).
yes, yes, yes!!!!!
YES!!! Where's @jeffgroh.bsky.social???? Get the band back together again!!!
Promises to be poppin (🍿)
BUT SRSLY PLEASE REGISTER, WE ARE SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!
this looks AWESOME!!!! Congrats to all- I can't wait to read!!!!!
Cara will continue her work on coevolution between DNA satellites and essential host proteins in her new lab in the Dept of Genetics at Rutgers! See: genetics.rutgers.edu/people/facul...
So excited to share this manuscript led by the inimitable Cara Brand, who discovered that Topoisomerase II evolution causes hybrid female lethality in Drosophila.
Congrats to Cara, @nickbr0wn.bsky.social, Anirban, and
@buszczaklab.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
University of Toronto is hiring:
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology
#assistantprofessorposition
OMG I can't believe you're missing this bonkers blizzard AND hanging with a Welwitschia
Come join #LaurierBiology!
We're recruiting 3 tenure-track faculty positions!
Integrative Organismal Zoologist!
careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...
Microbial Systems Biologist!
careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...
Computational Ecology/Modeling Biologist!
careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...
DEADLINE MARCH 22nd!
Crop scientists have long recognized that reproduction is going to be the first point of failure for plants with rising global temperatures. However, this has often been overlooked by those studying natural populations. In this new review, we try to change that. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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🚨2 new pre-prints🚨
✅ Molecular scale: "Deconstructing empirical fitness seascapes across scales of granularity."
✅ Host-parasite scale: "Learning virulence-transmission relationships using causal inference."
Congrats, Haley!!!!! A wonderful perspective piece from a total rockstar!!!!
Very excited for Henry to present this SUPER COOL work!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Graphic announcing new AJB Synthesis article by Haley Branch.
Methodological illustration for asking whether X affects plants. “Question” provides an example of a question that both ecologists and evolutionary biologists ask, with categories of traits often of interest. “Experiment” shows trait examples and comparisons (populations, environmental, across time). Types of traits are where evolutionary biologists could expand their breadth. “Outcome” describes lasting effects of whether X affects traits to the point that it is passed on and contributes to future generations or it leads to extinction. “Outcomes” is where ecophysiologists could expand their work. Images courtesy of Dr. Stefanie Sultmanis (vein density), Dr. Beatrice Harrison Day (root section), and Dr. Vanessa Tonet (leaf cavitation).
🏵 Check out the latest #AJB Synthesis article, by Haley Branch! 🏵
The sleeping giant needs coffee: Overlooked areas for integrating plant #ecophysiology & evolutionary biology
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #ecology #evolution
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
YAY JOEY!!!! Congrats!!!!!!!
Person wearing a bright red puffer jacket standing outdoors with blurred background of greenery and buildings.
Congratulations to Dr. Joey Bernhardt on winning the 2026 #StevensonLectureshipAward 🎉
An Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph she is recognized for her contributions to aquatic ecology, biodiversity research, and interdisciplinary scholarship. Learn more ▶️ https://ow.ly/tKnu50Y9U3w
Another announcement! 📣 Our work on hybrid incompatibility in cohesin protection in 🐭oocytes is published!! Congrats Warif El Yakoubi and Eddie Pan!!🎉 We found hybrids with cohesion errors in two distinct genus.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
My grad student, who got RWR and appealed, got an email from GRFP program today that said "Your application was screened by NSF program officers with expertise in your proposed field of study and was determined to be ineligible according to the solicitation requirements."
No details were given. 😡
How does population density affect evolutionary trajectory?
Microbes construct their own niche which in turn reshapes their evolution.
Preprint drop from grad student @noahhoupt.bsky.social whose evolution experiments featured blue/white colonies, 1000 generations, a lab move, and much more!
omg, this x1000
