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Jen Perry

@jennyperry.bsky.social
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Associate professor in Biology @stfxuniversity evolutionary biologist. behavioural entomologist 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇨🇦

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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Postdoc position available in my group to work on ERC funded project on evolutionary biology of antibiotic resistance. Looking for someone with expertise in bacterial genetics, AMR, and evolutionary biology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ416/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Oxford
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Antonia 🦋🐞 @antoniag.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🧪🐛🐝🐜🦋Come work with me! @romtoronto.bsky.social is hiring a Curator of Insects & Arachnids!!! #insects royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/mdMTpA...
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Curator of Insects & Arachnids - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page
Apply to Curator of Insects & Arachnids at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New paper: "Sexual conflict and sexual pleiotropy" (#OpenAccess), with Thomas Hitchcock (@imprintedgene.bsky.social), Tracey Chapman & Jennifer Perry (@jennyperry.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @royalsocietypublishing.org @standrewsopenres.bsky.social #OA
Illustration of the distinction between sexual conflict and sexual pleiotropy. (A) Sexual conflict: a male and female disagree over a jointly produced phenotype, for example whether a female releases more eggs after mating or withholds resources for future reproduction. Releasing more eggs now costs the female but benefits the male, who will not sire her future offspring. Sexual conflict occurs when selection favours female withholding and male-induced release. (B) Sexual pleiotropy: males and females are favoured to express different values of a trait encoded by genes expressed in both sexes. An allele associated with larger body size may benefit male carriers while harming female carriers or vice versa. Antagonistic sexual pleiotropy occurs when selection favours opposite alleles in each sex.
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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Why grouping intralocus and interlocus phenomena under one umbrella of “sexual conflict” is a mistake. Insightful paper from @imprintedgene.bsky.social, @andygardner.bsky.social y.social, Tracey Chapman, and @jennyperry.bsky.social yperry.bsky.social. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Sexual conflict and sexual pleiotropy
Abstract. Natural selection might favour brightly coloured males and drab females. A male and a female might disagree about whether to mate. Such tensions
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Elizabeth Duxbury @eduxbury.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Early-life sugar restriction causally reduces adult cancer incidence and slows biological aging | PNAS
Excess sugar consumption is implicated in multiple cancers through insulin resistance, chronic inflammation, and metabolic reprogramming, yet wheth...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If your Province has a headquarters for a Grocery store or another business, please call or email them and ask nicely to make changes to bring in more Canada made products and produce, let’s do this for our country. Be kind, help each other out, support each other. #BuyCanadian #SupportLocal 🍁💪🏻‼️
Support local / Buy Canadian
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
An American consulting firm paid NS taxpayer dollars to gut our universities
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Kayla King, Ph.D. @kayla-king.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New King lab paper @currentbiology.bsky.social led by the brilliant @luismsilva.bsky.social on parasite shedders and spreaders: www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Transmission heterogeneity emerges from uncoupled parasite shedding and spreading
Silva et al. show that disease transmission emerges from multiple ecological bottlenecks rather than a single host trait. Separating parasite shedding from downstream infection success reveals why hos...
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Anyone have recent experience with sequencing through BGI? and/or DNBSEQ ?
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Joris M. Koene @joriskoene.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Are you a biologist with experience in and enthusiasm for imaging and -omics techniques? Apply for working in Amsterdam (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) on the exciting topic of socially transferred materials! 🐌 🐸 🐜🧬🔬 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po...
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Vacancy — Post doc on socially transferred materials
Are you a biologist with experience in and enthusiasm for imaging and -omics techniques? Apply for working on the exciting topic of socially transferred materials!
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Jocelyn Poissant @jocelynpoissant.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I am recruiting a PhD student to study the causes and consequences of gut microbiome variation in wild caribou using shotgun metagenomics, with a start date in 2027. This opportunity is currently limited to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Feel free to email me for details if interrested!
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Jenny Stynoski @stynoski.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Interested in a postdoc position? Olfaction in poison frog tadpoles! Based in Germany with some field work in Costa Rica (bilateral funding, 3 years). Please share with your froggie and neuro/behavior contacts 🐸 www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Posting our summer journal club papers 🧵 First one: Sexual Conflict in Resident Species Can Facilitate Establishment of a Maladapted Invader Gómez-Llano, @masatoyamamichi.bsky.social , @adamsiepielski.bsky.social
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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hot Dogs for All
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My PB is 17 in approx 3 minutes
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Researcher finds 13 ticks in one hour as Canada deals with early cases
A researcher was able to find 13 ticks in just one hour, highlighting a growing public health concern in many parts of North America.
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
And that's a wrap! What an awesome day of insect science at the Acadian Entomological Society conference - from conservation of the Sable Island sweat bee to sexually cannibalistic mantids to the bugs of Halifax in 1750. The calibre of student talks was truly impressive @davidawde.bsky.social
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Ben Hopkins @brhopkins92.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
My lab is looking to hire a postdoc to work on the evolution of organs and cell types. I’m at #EED2026 this week. If you’re here too and this sounds interesting then please reach out. Multi-year funding available!
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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It turns out all that screen time disrupts brain development...in guppies. Now out @royalsocietypublishing.org royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article....
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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🐦 Interested in avian reproduction, microbiomes, or reproductive microbiomes? I'm looking for outstanding early-career researchers interested in applying for an NWO Veni grant to join my group at NIOO. Pre-proposals are due after the summer. Email me to discuss ideas. #EarlyCareerResearcher #Postdoc
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S Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Why we’re concerned about “Getting Major Projects Built in Canada” 👀 and its impact on nature and a healthy environment. Have your voice heard - read the govt’t proposal www.canada.ca/en/one-canad... and email feedback to engagement@pco-bcp.gc.ca by June 7, 2026 🙏@baumlab.bsky.social
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Getting Major Projects Built in Canada - Discussion Paper on Proposed Legislative, Regulatory, and Policy Reforms - Canada.ca
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
22.7 more hours til the registration deadline for the Acadian Entomological Society conference, June 19th here at @stfx-university.bsky.social !
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The Canadian government plans to close the Nappan Research Farm. The Farm's research supports sustainable food production in Atlantic Canada. Here's any easy link to voice your support for the Farm with MPs: actionnetwork.org/letters/prot...
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Protect Agricultural Research and Rural Jobs – Reverse the Closure of the Nappan Research Farm
The Nappan Research Farm in Nova Scotia has been a cornerstone of agricultural innovation in Atlantic Canada since 1887. As one of Canada’s original Dominion Experimental Farms, it provides regionally...
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Registration now open for the Acadian Entomological Society's annual meeting. Come hang out with us in Antigonish! June 19th Plenary speaker David McCorquodale Abstracts due May 29th www.acadianes.ca
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Acadian Entomological Society - Home Page
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Rob Knell @robknell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Inaugural lecture! I will be talking about my research on how mating systems alter evolutionary processes and why this is important. This is a public lecture and should be fun and accessible to everyone: all welcome. Links in next post. 🧪
Poster for Inaugural lecture entitled Love in the time of climate change: how mating systems can control evolution. Has a picture of two black-browed albatrosses looking lovingly at each other.
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Ento friends, does anyone have any live Indian mealmoth / Plodia interpunctella ? We'd be grateful to get some
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Luisa F. Pallares @luisapallares.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Don't forget to re-subscribe to EvolDir to continue receiving emails! EvolDir is such a great thing for the Evolutionary Biology community, great to hear that it will continue in good hands :) @eseb.bsky.social
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I recently asked my research group for collective feedback, after seeing this blog post. I was a bit nervous about it! But it was really good and helpful. I gave them a starter set of questions. They met without me & then shared their collective thoughts. (1/3) colinraffel.com/blog/getting...
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Getting Collective Feedback From Your Advisees
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
What a treat to win a book about beetles! Won in a draw from @coleopsoc.bsky.social
Book: Beetles of the World: A Natural History
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Reshaping universities via consultants is currently underway in NS. @ Advanced Education: why not learn from other govts that have tried this? #NSpoli
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Linley Sherin @linley-sherin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Very excited to announce our new review accepted at Phil. Trans. B. (in press)! This project started after a journal club I presented this time last year (!) sparked some lab discussions and it's been so much fun seeing it become a paper. Big thanks to all my co-authors for making it happen :)
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
For other NSERC watchers this week:
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Irem Sepil @iremsepil.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Nice to see our work featured in The Guardian — showing that sperm quality can decline the longer it is stored. @krishsanghvi11.bsky.social @itchyshin.bsky.social
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
New preprint from Mabel Sydney, Tracey Chapman & me: female diet choice when there's harassment from males plus social information: doi.org/10.32942/X2G...
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Socio-sexual cues shape female diet choice in Drosophila melanogaster
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
DNA barcoding question: does anyone know of a facility that's lower cost than the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding ?
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Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🧬 Funded GTA PhD in my lab at UCL @ucllifesciences.bsky.social ! Looking for a motivated student to work on how mismatches between mitochondrial & nuclear genomes shape health, ageing & evolution. Experimental (Drosophila) | Computational genomics The project is flexible & shaped around you.
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FindAPhD : Biosciences Graduate Training Assistant PhD Studentships at University College London
Apply for a PhD: Biosciences Graduate Training Assistant PhD Studentships at University College London
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Heated Rivalry author, Rachel Reid, speaks out against N.S. arts cuts #NovaScotia halifax.citynews.ca/2026/03/04/h...
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Author of Heated Rivalry voices opposition to N.S. arts cuts
Bestselling author and the brains behind the global phenomenon Heated Rivalry, is speaking out against the Nova Scotia government’s proposal to axe art funding. Lifelong Nova Scotia resident, Rachel R...
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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
With over 400,000 described species, Coleoptera represent one of the most diverse groups of organisms on Earth, necessitating a global, integrative approach to understanding their evolutionary history. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg47...
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Mapping the Beetle Tree of Life
YouTube video by Biological Recording Company
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CSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
📣🐦This is a reminder that early bird registration for the CSEE 2026 Conference ends tomorrow, January 30! Register here: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026/reg...
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Eleanor Bath @eleanorbath.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We're advertising a PhD project on how social isolation influences aggression in flies. Based at Durham, co-supervised by @clarahowcroft.bsky.social . Despite what the ad says, this is also open to international applicants! Any questions, shoot me a msg! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Angry and Alone: How Social Experience Shapes Female Aggression in Flies at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Angry and Alone: How Social Experience Shapes Female Aggression in Flies at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 24/01/2026
The hazards of failing first-year biology: you invade the wrong pole. 🇦🇶 🐧 🇬🇱 🐻‍❄️
White House tweet with Trump walking with a penguin toward a Greenland flag
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Come work on the beautiful east coast! Our department has a 9 month teaching-focused position advertised. Happy to chat! @stfx-university.bsky.social recruiting.ultipro.ca/GOV5000GOVE/...
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 09/01/2026
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Wake up, Canada. The Trump Doctrine is aimed at us
Do not take our country’s existence for granted. We are in the sights. Believe it
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
We had fun talking to Alex Guye from the CBC about Yaseen's work on overwintering ladybugs 🐞 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ladybugs are critical critters in the garden, but warmer winters could wipe them out | CBC News
Researchers at St. Francis Xavier University are examining the impacts of warming winters on Nova Scotia’s lady beetle population and what a decline could mean for the wider ecosystem.
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
New post doc funding opportunity: Are you outside Canada & interested in a post doc on insects & environment/climate? Our lab studies insect evol & ecol, esp reproduction/sexual selection. Our university seeks a nominee. Let's chat! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
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Launch of new Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
As announced in Budget 2025 -
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Got my first student report with a fully hallucinated reference list! Just in time for the holidays 🎄
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Shipping insect specimens in ethanol from Canada to Europe: has anyone found an easy solution? We're a 2 h drive from the nearest DHL service point
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The Entomological Society of Canada is a fantastic supporter of grad students. Congrats Yaseen 🎉 @canentomologist.bsky.social www.stfx.ca/news/Yaseen-...
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Master’s student earns national scholarship for ladybug research
Research exploring how ladybugs cope with Nova Scotia’s warming winter climate has earned StFX master’s biology student Yaseen Ginnab a national scholarship.Mr. Ginnab, originally from Nashville, Tenn...
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Philip Leftwich @philipleftwich.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Please share 📢 We have a Postdoc position available here @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social to develop innovative genetic control strategies for insect agricultural pests in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...
MedflyUEA campus
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Jen Perry @jennyperry.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Who wants to come to a bug conference on the east coast? Save the date for the Acadian Entomological Society's 2026 meeting, June 18-20, to be held right here in Antigonish @stfx-university.bsky.social @davidawde.bsky.social
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Colautti Lab @colauttilab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Probably a long-shot, but is anyone aware of open-source image stacking software that would work with microscope images? Ideally to do 3D topology but even just high-res images with a wide depth of field would be useful.
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