iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Evelien de Greef

Colin Garroway @colingarroway.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

‪ @eveliendegreef.bsky.social's latest is out in the @asn-amnat.bsky.social feature exploring the challenges of genetic forecasting😀 "Identifying Areas of Potential Risk Based on Future Genetic Adaptability in Three Arctic Whale Species" doi.org/10.1086/738889 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio

04415

Reposted by Evelien de Greef

American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Special Feature: A new special issue explores genomic forecasting, a promising, but developing tool for conservation. The verdict: it's a useful approach, but its reliability often depends on the context. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

076

Reposted by Evelien de Greef

Matt Thorstensen @biomatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Interested in the genomic, behavioral, and morphological drivers of bird evolution? The Weir Lab at UT Scarborough has PhD positions available! Please share widely. As a current postdoc in the lab, I am happy to share my experiences with applicants. 🐦🦜🦉🧬

182

Reposted by Evelien de Greef

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

715294679898

Reposted by Evelien de Greef

Chloé Schmidt @chloology.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I’m recruiting a PhD student in macrogenetics at Dalhousie University 🇨🇦! Focus will be on the biogeography of vertebrate genetic diversity or urban evolutionary ecology. Full ad: www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/macrogenetic... If the ad is up, applications are still open. Please share widely! 🧬🧬

schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org

Macrogenetics PhD position | schmidt-biodiversity-lab

04343

Reposted by Evelien de Greef

Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

hiiii come chat with me about how to make stellar presentations to tell your science stories 🥲🫶🏼 🧪🌐🌎👩🏻‍🔬

0144

Reposted by Evelien de Greef

Jeremy Kiszka @jjkiszka.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

So happy that this one is finally out, today in @naturecomms.bsky.social Migrating baleen whales transport nutrients from their high-latitude feeding grounds to the tropics and subtropics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

0133

Reposted by Evelien de Greef

Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/02/2025

I’m so excited to announce that my new book THE BIRDING DICTIONARY is available for preorder! It's a humorous dictionary of real birding terms and goofy definitions, plus a ton of silly illustrations. It's out May 6 but you can preorder it here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

The cover of a book called The Birding Dictionary: A Tongue-in-cheek guide for people who find themselves obsessed, against all logic and reason, with birds. Written and illustrated by Rosemary Mosco.

A book excerpt: snood /ˈsnüd/ noun: The naked, erectile lump of flesh on a turkey’s forehead. It can stick up like a hideously gnarled unicorn horn or droop down like a meaty teardrop, and it changes color from salami-red to corpse-blue depending on a turkey’s arousal and anxiety levels. Female turkeys prefer males with longer snoods. This word and its definition are best invoked when you’re in a dull conversation and you’d like to bring it to an abrupt end."

33963195

Reposted by Evelien de Greef

Dr Tammy Davies @tammyedavies.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways applying a novel approach onto #seabird #tracking data: doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪 See the short animation via: www.seabirdtracking.org/case-studies... explaining how the marine flyways can be a framework to support #conservation

04121

Reposted by Evelien de Greef

Levi Newediuk @levinewediuk.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Want to make an epigenetic clock for your non-human study species but don't know where to start? Check out our new preprint that guides you through the process!

053

Reposted by Evelien de Greef

Simon Kirby @simonkirby.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

A picture of a humpback whale just below the sea surface taken by Marc Quintin

24834214

Reposted by Evelien de Greef

stephenresearch.bsky.social @stephenresearch.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Posted our summer positions if you are keen on conservation recruiting.ultipro.ca/ASS5002APAC/...

recruiting.ultipro.ca

011

Evelien de Greef @eveliendegreef.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Excited to share our latest paper in Global Change Biology! 🐳Here we examined bowhead and narwhal genomics and the legacy of commercial whaling: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... Collabs w/ C. Müller, @biomatt.bsky.social, S. Ferguson, C. Watt, M. Marcoux, S. Petersen, @colingarroway.bsky.social

064

Evelien de Greef @eveliendegreef.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Big thank you to all the collabs who made this project possible! @colingarroway.bsky.social , Kyle Lefort, @biomatt.bsky.social, @andrewfoote.bsky.social, Cory Matthews, @jeffhigdon.bsky.social, Caila Kucheravy, Stephen Petersen, Aqqalu Rosing-Asvid, Fernando Ugarte, Rune Dietz, Steve Ferguson. 3/3

031

Evelien de Greef @eveliendegreef.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Both populations appear to be at risk from both inbreeding and harvest. Although these killer whales are threatened, they may also disrupt the Arctic food chain by their increased access to Arctic prey, which presents a complex case for conservation in the Arctic ecosystem. 3/4

110

Evelien de Greef @eveliendegreef.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Killer whales are moving northward into the Arctic as sea ice melts from a warming climate. Using genetics, we identified 2 highly distinct Canadian Arctic populations with origins from the western and eastern North Atlantic. 2/4

131

Reposted by Evelien de Greef

Colin Garroway @colingarroway.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Our latest polar bear pre-print is up. Big congrats to study lead Ruth Rivkin! 🧪 "Assessing the risk of climate maladaptation for Canadian polar bears" ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

061

Reposted by Evelien de Greef

Colin Garroway @colingarroway.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

New pre-print! *Climate change, age acceleration, & the erosion of fitness in polar bears* Epigenetic age acceleration reflects an individual’s cumulative lifetime experiences of stress. Polar bears aged 1 year faster on ave per °C temp rise since 1980 1/n 🧬🧪🔬 doi.org/10.1101/2024...

154

Evelien de Greef @eveliendegreef.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Big thank you to all the collaborators who made this project possible! @colingarroway.bsky.social, Kyle Lefort, Matt Thorstensen, @andrewfoote.bsky.social, Cory Matthews, @jeffhigdon.bsky.social, Caila Kucheravy, Stephen Petersen, Aqqalu Rosing-Asvid, Fernando Ugarte, Rune Dietz, Steve Ferguson. 3/3

000

Evelien de Greef @eveliendegreef.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Killer whales are increasingly seen in the Arctic as sea ice melts. We found 2 highly distinct Arctic populations that appear not to interbreed, and are as genetically distinct as ecotypes elsewhere in the species' range, and appear to be at risk from inbreeding and harvest. 2/3

122

Evelien de Greef @eveliendegreef.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

New preprint on the population genetics of Arctic killer whales led by @colingarroway.bsky.social & I with many great collaborations! doi.org/10.1101/2023.... Photo taken by Maha Ghazal. 1/3

4196