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MK Hickox @mk-hickox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

How repeatable is natural selection over space and time? Using the California bar-built estuary system, we look at seasonal genomic change to examine local and widespread responses to natural selection 🐟🧬 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social @molecology.bsky.social

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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Unifying Ecology Across Scales - Gordon Research Conference. With @jennsunday.bsky.social as Chair www.grc.org/unifying-eco...

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Sarah Sanderson @sarahsanderson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I am excited to be teaching a new course about rapid evolution in the Anthropocene at Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre this summer with @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social. Registration for undergrads will open soon at : bamfieldmsc.com/education/pr...

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Sarah Sanderson @sarahsanderson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Check out our new paper with @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social @lucaseckert.bsky.social, Rowan Barrett, and Tom Reimchen. After a severe drought, a listed population of unarmoured stickleback became mostly armoured. onlinelibrary-wiley-com.proxy3.library.mcgill.ca/doi/10.1111/...

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G Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Send us your stickleback papers! 💧🌎🐟

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University of Guelph @uofguelph.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

#UofG researchers studying caribou on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, found that female antler growth is occurring weeks earlier than expected, suggesting environmental changes may be affecting the Arctic mammal. Learn more: uoguel.ph/3zyls @uofgcbs.bsky.social @integrativebiology.bsky.social

A caribou standing on a rocky outcrop in a dense coniferous forest.

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Allegra Love @allegralove.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The curious incident of the antlers in the springtime 🦌 During 2024 spring fieldwork, I spotted a female caribou, for a split second through binoculars, growing fuzzy antlers when she should have had mature antlers. She ran away before anyone else saw. 🧪(1/6) #caribou #nature #naturalhistory

A partially obscured caribou with 3 inch long velvety antler nubs.

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Meta-analysis reveals the tempo of evolutionary parallelism of local adaptation between native and introduced ranges of plant species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Just created a stickleback feed so it’s easy to see what other Bluesky users are saying about stickleback in one feed. The post just needs to include the word stickleback in it, even if it’s just in image alt text. ehttps://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rtgmt535jxnnvolguctkalcy/feed/aaacekwe4gzdk

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Pedro Vale @pfvale.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This primer on infection avoidance was incredibly fun to write with @cr-amo.bsky.social and Mandy Gibson. We cover its taxonomic breadth, mechanisms and evolution, and its importance across fields as diverse as public health, conservation, and agriculture. 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol... #SymbioSky

This figure highlights the diversity of avoidance across different species in response to pathogens and parasites. (A) Rainbow trout avoid waters with high concentrations of trematode cercariae, reducing exposure to these parasites. (B) Healthy Caribbean spiny lobsters avoid sharing dens with those infected by viruses, preventing the spread of infection within their communities. (C,D) Avoidance underlies many human public health measures such as social distancing, to minimize the risk of infectious disease contagion. (E) Oystercatchers avoid eating the largest cockles, which are likely to be infested with parasitic helminths. (F,G) Bees and ants (eusocial insects) exhibit complex social behaviours to minimize infection risks. Bees isolate or remove infected individuals from the colony, while ants restructure their social networks to reduce contact with fungal-infected foragers. (H) Sheep avoid food and water sources contaminated with feces, reducing the risk of ingesting parasites that may be present in such environments. (I,J) Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster. These model organisms illustrate how detected pathogenic cues can modify behaviour and provide insights into the neurological integration of sensory perception and behavioural response to pathogens. Plants, like Saline latifolia (K), can avoid infection too, for example by flowering for shorter periods to reduce contact with fungal spores transmitted by pollinators. Root compounds of some sorghum (L) lines are associated with reduced germination of parasitic Striga seeds, demonstrating chemical avoidance strategies. (M) Crickets avoid detection by parasitic flies through the selection of variants that cannot sing, disrupting the ability of parasites to locate hosts acoustically. (N) Spongy moths show variability in larval behaviour to avoid virus-contaminated foliage. (O) Lemurs avoid water sources that have an elevated risk of fecal contamination.

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Molly Simonis @mollysimonis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I am recruiting graduate students for Spring 2026 in my Lab at Auburn University. Please share broadly🦇 simonislab.weebly.com/opportunitie... linking to 🧪 and 🦊

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Opportunities

We are currently recruiting graduate student(s) interested in seasonal pathogen dynamics and bat health throughout various field sites and/or highway culverts throughout Alabama. You can find out...

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The upcoming International Stickleback Conference (at Bamfield Marine Science Center in late July) still has some openings, but register soon! Stickleback-curious researchers are welcome too! event.fourwaves.com/stickleback-...

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STICKLEBACK 2025: 11th International Congress on Stickleback Behaviour and Evolution

Fourwaves - STICKLEBACK 2025: 11th International Congress on Stickleback Behaviour and Evolution

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Janay A. Fox, PhD @janayf.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

How fast can brains epigenetically respond to predation stress? We found that brain DNA methylation in guppies can shift within 30 minutes of predator exposure — with different time courses between males and females. New paper from my PhD now out! 🧠🐟 doi.org/10.1111/mec....

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Rapid Neural DNA Methylation Responses to Predation Stress in Trinidadian Guppies

DNA methylation (DNAm) is a well-studied epigenetic mechanism implicated in environmentally induced phenotypes and phenotypic plasticity. However, few studies investigate the timescale of DNAm shifts...

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Genetics Society UK @gensocuk.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

🎉 Congratulations @janayf.bsky.social on winning our 2025 Bruce Cattanach Prize! Janay's talk is on the epigenetic plasticity in response to environmental stress: insights from an evolutionary fish model #Epigenetics2025

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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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...

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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Live near New Haven, CT, and looking for something interesting to do April 23? I am giving the Bass Distinguished Lecture, titled “The World Without Evolution?” 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_...

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

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Fletcher Halliday @fletcher-h.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Please spread the word - I am looking for a postdoc to join my lab at @osubpp.bsky.social to study diversity and interactions of plants and pathogens in wild and working landscapes! More information here: agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...

Here's a photo of my favorite grass host, Dactylis glomerata, infected with ergot and stem rust in the beautiful Swiss Alps

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Daniel Becker @danjbecker.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

bats are immunologically "special", but bat species also differ in their immune response. we gather evidence for interspecific variation in bat immunity, propose hypotheses, and outline future comparative directions. i've really enjoyed working with this ECR team. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Diverse hosts, diverse immune systems: evolutionary variation in bat immunology

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Will Eskridge @donutbat.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Well, I mean come on? #sweet prompt for #JanuArty ? I mean what's next #bats 🦇 ? Hahahahaha! Here ya go! Love you BlueSky -Happy Friday! We Sold Our Souls For Cinnamon Rolls 33×72" #bat #batart #bskyart #painting #art #artwork #wallart #fineart #ArtYear #wildlife #nature #weirdart #cinnamonroll

Will Eskridge original painting of three bats and three cinnamon rolls on gold leaf background. We Sold Our Souls For Cinnamon Rolls. acrylic and gold leaf on stretched linen

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Quote: "Ecological and evolutionary principles help to explain why both pandemics and wildlife die-offs are becoming more common; [and] why land-use change and biodiversity loss are often followed by an increase in zoonotic and vector-borne diseases." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Pathogens and planetary change - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

This Review explores the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity loss, and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene.

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Kathleen Ganley @kathleenganley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Jasper experienced a devastating wild fire. Now they need temporary housing - what’s the hold up? The UCP. They won’t allow temporary housing unless it is permanent, and only single detached homes, and they have to be sold…. So temporary not temporary housing. #AbLeg

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G Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

If you need a distraction and find reading science about weird ponds relaxing, I have a new preprint up with Joe Phillips, Bjarni Kristjánsson, and Camille Leblanc about some cave pond limnology. doi.org/10.32942/X2G... 💧🐟

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Weather and landscape morphology drive thermal regime variation among Mývatn ponds, and implications for resident Arctic charr

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

There's a lot of replies to our new paper talking about how capitalism or overpopulation are the real enemy. Without getting into whether that's true of the climate emergency or the sixth mass extinction (🙃), I want to briefly explain why pandemics are different. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Pathogens and planetary change - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

This Review explores the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity loss, and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene.

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Alexis Heckley @alexisheckley.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Check out our new review, 'Pathogens and Planetary Change', in @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social! The paper is nicely summarized in this thread by @ctrlalttim.bsky.social (and another thread I've also re-posted by @colincarlson.bsky.social). Very excited to have been part of this fantastic collaboration!

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Cole Brookson @colebrookson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🦠 NEW REVIEW 🌡️ What does health have to do with environmental change? Well, a lot, but the way that pop-sci describes these relationships isn't always the case: www.nature.com/articles/s44.... So, what does it all mean? We try to answer this in our new review "Pathogens and planetary change" 🧵

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Hailey Robertson @haileyrobertson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Couldn't ask for a better first Bluesky post! Our new paper, "Pathogens and planetary change," is out now in @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social. We discuss the linkages between biodiversity loss + pandemics and how we can address these interconnected crises 🧪😷 Give it a read: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Pathogens and planetary change - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

This Review explores the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity loss, and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene.

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Torre Lavelle @torrelavelle.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🚨New paper out @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social on how pathogens and parasites are responding to global change, and implications for pandemic prevention and biodiversity conservation. Check it out below!

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Popular science narratives about pandemics - specifically, that they happen because of disordered relationships with nature - just aren't true. Half of modern pandemics have been one virus (influenza), and only a modest fraction of pandemic pathogens (3 of 10) have jumped from wildlife to humans.

A map of 10 pandemic since 1900. Four (all influenza) were related to agriculture; two (HIV and Covid-19) were related to wildlife use; one (cholera) was related to climate change; and three (cholera, plague, and influenza) were not related to any planetary change drivers.

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Ciara Weets @ciaramweets.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🧪😷 Biodiversity loss and disease emergence share common drivers - meaning that there are opportunities to create shared solutions for biodiversity and health. Global and national governance efforts to combat disease events must be integrated with environmental protection and sustainable development

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 15/01/2025

Carlson and colleagues explore the relationships between emerging infectious diseases, biodiversity loss, and global environmental change. go.nature.com/4gT0za1

Biodiversity loss can drive disease emergence, and vice versa; they also share many of the same upstream drivers.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

If you take one thing away from our paper, I hope it's this: there's no safe path through the Pandemicene without action on environmental protection, sustainable development, and health system strengthening. Single-issue advocacy and siloed solutions put the world at greater risk from pandemics.

header of our paper "Pathogens and planetary change"

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl

Top panels: graphs showing increases in spillover events, extinction rates, and temperature anomalies over the last few centuries. Bottom panel: a map of 10 pandemics since the year 1900. Four were linked to agriculture, two to wildlife use, and one to climate change.

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Rory Gibb @roryjgibb.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

How are pathogens and parasites responding to planetary change, what does this mean for people and biodiversity, and what is to be done? New @viralemergence.org synthesis out today in Nature Rev Biodiversity (@natrevbiodiv.bsky.social) with a fantastic author team🧪😷 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Pathogens and planetary change - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

This Review explores the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity loss, and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene.

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Janay A. Fox, PhD @janayf.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Please join our discord so we can make it a vibrant community! Dm me if you want to join 😊

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