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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté

@amdioncote.bsky.social
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Associate professor @ UMoncton. Evolutionary genetics, reproductive isolation, TEs.

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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hello molecular biologists working in Canada! Where do you currently order your #oligos? I've always ordered from IDT, but would like to explore possibilities to order them from a Canadian company, if such thing exists. Thanks in advance for any advice and sharing!
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bioRxiv Genetics @biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Germline removal reprograms somatic genome maintenance towards faster, energy-efficient, high-fidelity DNA defence and repair www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The scientific comittee #smbe2027 is very much looking forward to review your symposium proposals! Don’t forget to put them in soon as deadline is on September 20!
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's 10 days to go - submit your proposals for symposia for #SMBE2027 to help shape next year's SMBE meeting. 📨 event.fourwaves.com/smbe2027/sub...
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#SMBE2027 Call for symposia proposals now open Proposal submission link 📨 event.fourwaves.com/smbe2027/sub... 🗓️ Key dates Deadline: Sept 20, 2026 Communication of results: Oct 21, 2026 Public announcement: Nov 2, 2026 Abstract selection: Feb 2-20, 2027 #society
SMBE 2027 - Call for Symposia is now open

Deadline: September 20, 2026
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bioRxiv Genetics @biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
piRNA loss unleashes episodic transposition bursts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Dr. Stepfanie Aguillón 😷 @s-m-aguillon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Interested in joining a growing lab in LA? We’re hiring a postdoc!! Please spread the word to folks in your network and feel free to get in touch with any questions recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11142
Colorful advertisement for the position that reads:

We’re seeking a new Postdoctoral Scholar to lead the analysis and publication of whole-genome sequencing datasets from the northern flicker hybrid zone.

This is a two-year appointment based in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. Start date is flexible and can begin as early as October 2026.

Basic Qualifications:
• PhD in evolutionary biology, ecology, genomics, or a related field by appointment start date
• Demonstrated ability to work with sequencing datasets
• Strong writing skills with a record of peer-reviewed publications
• Ability to lead independent projects and work collaboratively
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
So excited for #smbe2027 to occur in my hometown, and grateful to @christianlandry.bsky.social, @naubinhorth.bsky.social, the LOC and the student committee for jumping in again! It will be an amazing opportunity for members of the lab to network, learn and share our work!
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Tree of Sex @treeofsex.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Okay once more for the #SMBE2026 crowd! If you haven't yet, please take our survey on definitions of sex and reproductive terms. Link here or in the QR: univie.questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...
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Vincent CASTRIC @vincentcastric.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I will be presenting a follow-up of this work later this afternoon at #SMBE2026. A great collaboration with the group of @tanjaslotte.bsky.social with @mafraca.bsky.social Join us at the session on the evolution of gene regulation (room Lumbye)
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We wish everyone is having a fantastic meeting in Copenhagen; however, we acknowledge the harmful impact of any potential violation of our Code of Conduct. If you come across any prohibited behavior, please use our reporting form: 📨 tinyurl.com/smbe2026cond... #SMBE2026
SMBE 2026 Code of Conduct
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Arthur Matte @arthurmatte.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
We all know what sperm does. But what is its origin story? 🧬 Excited to be speaking about our #sperm #phyloproteomics work tomorrow 29th at 15:05 in the Main Hall in the grad student award symposium! #SMBE2026 An update from our preprint with @adriatica.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The origins and molecular evolution of sperm
Sperm is a nearly universal cell type among animals, yet its evolutionary origins remain unclear. Using comparative proteomics and phylogenomics across 32 species, we reconstruct the 700+ million year...
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Nadia Aubin-Horth @naubinhorth.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I am at booth #10 to present the destination for the SMBE 2027 meeting, come and see me there or anywhere in the congress center! #SMBE2026
A woman is showing a roll-up
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
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Simon Lamarre @sglamarre.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New from the lab 🐟❄️ What happens when a cold-water fish repeatedly runs low on oxygen? Arctic char don’t just cope, they remodel their metabolism. Proud to see this work from former PhD student @loick-ducros.bsky.social now out! 🐟 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Voici un article rédigé avec mes collègues Laurence Feyten et Fanie Pelletier qui souligne plusieurs enjeux environnementaux majeurs reliés au projet de réforme réglementaire proposé par le gouvernement fédéral. lp.ca/7arRBM?shari...
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Grands projets économiques | Le pari risqué du recul des garde-fous environnementaux
Le Canada souhaite accélérer la réalisation de grands projets économiques au nom de la souveraineté énergétique et commerciale. Dans le contexte géopolitique actuel, cet objectif peut paraître raisonn...
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I was the sole female professor in our department of 10 when I started in 2019. The are now 3 of us, with an additional lecturer missing on the picture. Keep it up ladies, parity will be found along the way! And thanks to my amazing colleagues 💕💪🏻
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
To oppose the wholesale dismantling of environmental regulations in Canada, please go to this page www.canada.ca/en/one-canad.... ignore the very leading 'proposed' questions and submit your comments. CC your MP. If you need inspiration here is what I just sent.
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
And of course @annabellefournier.bsky.social and I had to go visit the fishies #csee2026 #teamfish
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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We’ve been talking in our lab meetings about sexual conflict and sexual dimorphism, and have some thoughts. What if animal genomes are far more sex-specific and less cosntrained than we assume? @linley-sherin.bsky.social pulled it all together here www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/pdf... 1/n
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Time to bug your research office if you haven’t heard back from NSERC DG 🙏
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a baby is crying while sitting in a stadium .
ALT: a baby is crying while sitting in a stadium .
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
For other NSERC watchers this week:
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Aren’t they cute? I think their gonads are even cuter 🤩🐟🤓
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
See you there!
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.
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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
We love to fetishize "top" researchers and give them special big pots of money. But we get far more science by spreading money among all researchers (closer to the NSERC DG model). This old post is magically relevant again... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/w...
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Why grant funding should be spread thinly
How should a granting agency distribute the funds at its disposal? Different agencies have different answers to that question. The NSF (USA), for example, has traditionally awarded operating grants…
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Are these unsolicited/non-consented AI review of biorxiv posted papers really a thing? 🙄
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Mia Levine @levine-lab.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
How to keep in step when your (protein) partner speeds up… Here we investigated the adaptive remodeling of a protein-protein interaction surface essential for telomere protection. Congrats to whole team! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rapid compensatory evolution within a multiprotein complex preserves telomere integrity
Intragenomic conflict with selfish genetic elements spurs adaptive changes in subunits of essential multiprotein complexes. Whether and how these adaptive changes disrupt interactions within such comp...
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
In this latest piece, part of a trans-Atlantic enriching collaboration, we investigate sex-specific differences in gametogenesis in fish hybrids underlying clonal reproduction: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sex-specific modifications of gametogenesis in natural and lab-bred Fundulus spp. hybrids
Successful hybridization between species can be limited by a variety of reproductive barriers; the emergence of asexual lineages is an example of a strong post zygotic barrier that is relatively rare ...
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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#CancerGenetics people: I am looking for examples of tumor suppressor genes that are inactivated in cancers by regulatory mutations (non-coding) rather than coding mutations. Please share.
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Very pleased to see this one out. Unexpected and fascinating finding. I look forward to follow-up on this story 😁
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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Integrative Biology at UT is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist! Happy to answer any questions about the position/dept/UT. Come join us! integrativebio.utexas.edu cns.utexas.edu apply.interfolio.com/177547
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Decoding Nature’s Networks
The Department of Integrative Biology at The University of Texas at Austin
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CSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🍃📣Upcoming CSEE Event! Join us online on Nov. 26th for a panel discussion Q&A on faculty positions. CSEE members will receive the link in their mailbox. (Event in English) #CSEE #online #paneldiscussion #eeb
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)
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Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
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Jukka-Pekka Verta @jpverta.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
One week to apply for our fully funded PhD position in Norway! This is a really exciting project in collab. with University of Helsinki and Benchmark Genetics. Samples are ready - you do (read: learn) everything - functional genomics, bioinformatics, genotype-phenotype associations 🤩 Please RT!
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Nous avons un beau poste régulier (pouvant mener à la permanence) en biologie marine, très largement défini 🎣🦐🦠🌊 emplois.careerbeacon.com/details/prof...
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PROFESSEURE OU PROFESSEUR EN BIOLOGIE MARINE
https://emplois.careerbeacon.com/details/professeure-ou-professeur-en-biologie-marine/2179975
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Mark Ravinet @markravinet.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A while back (maybe 3-4 years?) there was a paper on common misconceptions of the genetics of various traits. One of them was eye colour in humans. I have lost this reference and can't find it anywhere. Does anyone recognise what I mean?
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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Massive investment in science in the upcoming Canadian budget would send a strong message that rationality and reason should lead the world, not charlatanism. People will return to science-based policies and health measures, and countries that have not given up will have a strong economic lead!
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Peer review ✍️, when done properly, remains an excellent mean to improve manuscripts ✔️. Special thanks to two anonymous reviewers that helped us put together this new version! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Accumulation of a biparentally-inherited Neptune transposable element in natural Killifish hybrids (Fundulus diaphanus X F. heteroclitus)
Transposable elements (TEs) are abundant selfish genetic elements that can mobilize in their host genome, causing DNA damage, mutations and chromosome rearrangements. TE silencing is thus critical, an...
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Do not organize conferences in the US with an expectation to invite international scientists. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/busines...
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Travelers to the US must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' — What to know
The fee will be at least $250, is on top of other visa fees, and may be reimbursable.
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Don’t miss these fantastic scientists at the poster session! Fish, sex and hybridization: what’s not to like! #CSEE2025
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Joelle Lafond, PhD @joellelafond.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Interested in sex chromosomes evolution and want to wrap up today’s talks on a colorful note? Come see my presentation on guppy sex chromosomes today, July 8th! 🐠 #CSEE2025 ⌚16h15, 📍 Lac Memphrémagog
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
New preprint from the lab led by former masters student AJ Roussel in collaboration with Alexander Suh and @fjruizruano.bsky.social. We found a ~4-fold accumulation of a Neptune #transposon in asexually reproducing "F1" fish hybrids. An unexpected and fascinating finding! #TEsky
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Accumulation of a biparentally-inherited Neptune transposable element in natural Killifish hybrids (Fundulus diaphanus X F. heteroclitus)
Transposable elements (TEs) are abundant selfish genetic elements that can mobilize in their host genome, causing DNA damage, mutations and chromosome rearrangements. TE silencing is thus critical, an...
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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭? We have several postdoc positions open at the moment! Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!
Swiss Alps seen from Neuchatel
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Some manuscripts are more exciting to see out for review than others…. 🤩 Stay tuned #TEsky. BioRxiv posting incoming!
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Astrid Böhne @astridboehne.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Happy to share this collaborative effort on recommendations for #genomics of #type specimens academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
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Type genomics: a Framework for integrating Genomic Data into Biodiversity and Taxonomic research
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Norwegian Barcode of Life (NorBOL) @norwbol.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The Department of Natural History at NTNU is seeking an ambitious candidate for an open position as associate professor in vertebrate evolutionary genomics. Please see 👇 for details. Deadline for applications is May 25. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Associate Professor in evolutionary genomics of vertebrates (279638) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: Associate Professor in evolutionary genomics of vertebrates (279638), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 25, 2025
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CSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
📢Upcoming Webinar! We are excited to announce two upcoming career panels! 📢Prochain webinaire ! Nous vous invitons à participer à deux panels sur les carrières
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
If anyone sees (or hears of) an interview today with decision makers at the Leaders’ Debate Commission, can you shout it out to us? I’d be very interested in hearing them explain how and why fringe far-right agitators were allowed to dominate the media questioning following last night’s debate.
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CSEE | SCEE Meetings @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🎉💚 Already 510 people registered for #CSEE2025! ⏳ The early bird rate is over, but no worries, registration is still open until May 31 for both the conference and workshops⬇️ event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/reg... 📅📍Join us for an unforgettable conference in Sherbrooke, from July 6th to 9th!
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