Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 8hWe discussed this paper today in my lab group meeting--I loved the mix of field data with lab experiments and genomics. Kudos! 140
Reposted by Megan FredericksonKayla Stoy @kaylastoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New paper with my postdoc advisor @wcratcliff.bsky.social. I love his creativity in putting together this video to summarize the work. Happy we had the chance to collaborate with each other! 02612
Reposted by Megan Fredericksonbeckyfuller82.bsky.social @beckyfuller82.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The ASN standalone meeting is this January! Tons of fun! Be there or be square! 144
Reposted by Megan FredericksonLars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...eeb.msu.eduPostdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior 178116
Reposted by Megan FredericksonAsher Cutter @asherdcutter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Come to @romtoronto.bsky.social and EEB in Toronto! ROM is seeking entomologist/arachnologist curator who would also be faculty in EEB at UofT royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/mdMTpA...royalontariomuseum.applytojob.comCurator of Insects & Arachnids - Royal Ontario Museum - Career PageApply to Curator of Insects & Arachnids at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada. 02431
Reposted by Megan FredericksonDmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...facultypositions.stanford.eduAssistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United StatesThe Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que... 5151191
Reposted by Megan FredericksonUC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute @ucdmarinescience.bsky.social · 11/09/2026🎶 "You could travel the world... but nothing's as gray as Bodega Bay" 🎶🌫️🌊 No one does field station life quite like #ucdavis students. A massive thank you to ESP 150C (Biological Oceanography) students Natalia, Ella, and Olivia for this hilarious take on BML life (and Katy Perry)! buff.ly/owhPqHRvimeo.comESP 150C - "California Coast"This is "ESP 150C - "California Coast"" by nnguyen on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. 2235
Reposted by Megan FredericksonStephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏 05298
Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026From Friday, captures the mood in 🇨🇦 well 000
Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I don't want to "do more, less well," but rather the opposite. And I think the opposite would be way better for science! www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comScientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predictsResearch suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined. 1121
Reposted by Megan FredericksonDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.nytimes.com‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts. 172299682
Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Come work with me! We are hiring a Research Program & Operations Coordinator to administer a new CREATE training program and support other EEB initiatives at U of T. Please circulate to great people in Toronto looking for an academic admin position: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...jobs.utoronto.caResearch Program & Operations CoordinatorResearch Program & Operations Coordinator 0511
Reposted by Megan FredericksonAntonia 🦋🐞 @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...royalontariomuseum.applytojob.comCurator of Insects & Arachnids - Royal Ontario Museum - Career PageApply to Curator of Insects & Arachnids at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada. 43134
Reposted by Megan FredericksonAndy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Botany friends: cool job alert. We're searching for a new Director for the UC & Jepson Herbaria here at UC Berkeley. Share with nice people. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405 🌿🌺🌵aprecruit.berkeley.eduAssociate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley HerbariaUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now! 38177
Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Fantastic news, but @usuitakuji.bsky.social will be deeply missed in Toronto! 070
Reposted by Megan FredericksonUniversity of Toronto @utoronto.ca · 04/07/2026A tough end to the tournament, but we could not be prouder of Team Canada. 🇨🇦 Thank you to the thousands of fans who joined us to cheer them on and make #UofT one of the top spots in the city to watch history unfold. #UTogether 0418
Reposted by Megan FredericksonLily Khadempour @khadlily.bsky.social · 24/06/2026On this last day of #Evol2026, a reminder to sign up for the ASN Stand Alone meeting, on the East Coast of the US for the first time! www.amnat2027.org Registration is open. It's a small conference and spots are limited.amnat2027.orgASN Stand Alone Meeting 2027Jan 8-12 - Long Island, NY. Learn more about the conference and register here! 11914
Reposted by Megan FredericksonTakuji Usui | 薄井拓路 @usuitakuji.bsky.social · 20/06/2026For colonization success, should hosts 🌱 and microbes 🦠 travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way? Excited to share a new paper with Jerry Yu and @mfrederickson.bsky.social in which we test how microbial partners alter plant performance upon natural introductions: tinyurl.com/8u4268n6nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.comFor colonization success, should hosts and microbes travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way?Experimental co-introduction of duckweeds (Lemna japonica) and their microbiome in a common pond. 03012
Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Now out in @newphyt.bsky.social, led by postdoc @usuitakuji.bsky.social with former undergrad Jerry Yu. Plant microbiomes affect colonization success in the wild! 075
Reposted by Megan FredericksonOneSoccer @onesoccer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026HALF-TIME: CANADA LEAD 3-0 AGAINST QATAR 😎 Cyle Larin and Jonathan David (2) with the goals 💪 1306
Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Canada is up 3-0 at the half at BC Place. Just incredible! 020
Reposted by Megan FredericksonTakuji Usui | 薄井拓路 @usuitakuji.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Shout out to Amy Angert for her wisdom and collaboration, and thank you to NSERC, @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social and @asn-amnat.bsky.social Graduate Student Research Awards for your support in setting up a new experimental system using duckweeds! 🦆🌱 0134
Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026What an incredible new paper out today in @science.org, led by Frederickson Lab member @usuitakuji.bsky.social (from his PhD work with Amy Angert)! Competition increased adaptation to warming across replicated miniaturized "landscapes" using duckweeds as a model plant community 1112
Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Another new preprint from my lab, led by Erin McHugh in collaboration with Megan Bontrager. Mutualism has long been thought to expand a species' niche, an idea supported by case studies. We found support (mostly) for this idea across 2600+ legumes from around the globe: doi.org/10.64898/202...doi.org 0166
Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026New preprint from my lab, led by fantastic postdoc @kevinricks.bsky.social! The evolution of a more beneficial host-microbe mutualism does not always require a host--microbes can evolve to benefit hosts even when free-living. Feedback welcome! 0143
Reposted by Megan FredericksonCSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Day 2 at #CSEE2026 featured a Presidential Award Plenary by @aerinj.bsky.social , poster sessions on the ice rink, and a lively student mixer! 🎉📊⛸️ Thank you to all presenters, students, and attendees! 122
Reposted by Megan FredericksonCSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Day 3 at #CSEE2026 featured a public talk at the ROM by David Evans on "Deciphering Dinosaur Lives from Disease and Injuries" 🦖🏛️ & Day 4 featured Presidential Address by @juliabaum.bsky.social & a SWEEET Symposia on Equity and Access in EEB. 121
Reposted by Megan FredericksonCSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Our annual conference last week was a great success and our biggest meeting ever! Here are some highlights from the meeting. Day 1: We kicked off the conference with opening remarks and an inspiring plenary from Elizabeth Clare and an opening reception at the ROM. #CSEE2026 123
Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026A heartfelt congratulations to my colleague and collaborator @stepheniwright.bsky.social 090
Reposted by Megan FredericksonGreg Owens @gregowens.bsky.social · 20/05/2026UVic is hiring a Terrestrial Plant Ecologist Assistant Professor! Come join our department! We're nice and Victoria is awesome. www.uvic.ca/science/biol...uvic.caFaculty Position in Terrestrial Plant Ecology - University of VictoriaDepartment: Biology                 &am... 04165
Reposted by Megan FredericksonJae Young Choi @jychoi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I'm looking to hire a postdoc. Please share if you can! 04561
Reposted by Megan FredericksonMarc Johnson (he/him) @evoecolab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026My first #CSEE meeting was in 2012. At that meeting my introduction to the ecology and evolution community in Canada could not have been more memorable than being a part of over 1000 scientists from #CSEE2012 that marched on Parliament Hill as part of the #DeathOfEvidence march in #SCEECSEE20. 1144
Reposted by Megan FredericksonHolly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The 2017 meeting in Victoria (which gave rise to my omnipresent and somewhat dated headshot) is up there among the top meetings I've ever attended. Just a wonderful and supportive community of scholars with boundless enthusiasm for discovery. 052
Reposted by Megan FredericksonNadia Aubin-Horth @naubinhorth.bsky.social · 30/04/2026We drove from Boston to the inaugural meeting of CSEE in Montréal in 2006 @christianlandry.bsky.social. We reunited with Louis Berbatchez’s lab. We also went to Toronto in 2007. Graham Bell gave a fantastic chalk talk. I was elected on council in 2010, edited the newsletter for a bit. #SCEECSEE20 2164
Reposted by Megan FredericksonDenis REALE 🇨🇦 @denisreale.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Happy anniversary CSEE! I co-organised the first meeting with Graham Bell, in Montréal, in 2006. It was exciting to see the birth of this new Society. Now CSEE has reached maturity and I’m getting closer to retirement! Sad I’m not joining you this year 1126
Reposted by Megan FredericksonJannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026My first @csee-scee.bsky.social meeting was the second one in 2007 in Toronto. #SCEECSEE20 Here's a photo of all of us attending from the Barrett Lab at the time @nicrodemo.bsky.social @colauttilab.bsky.social @shaky-dingo.bsky.social #CSEE 3165
Reposted by Megan FredericksonPedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I was at the inaugural meeting of the CSEE at @uqam.ca (Montreal) back in April 2006. That same year (August), I moved to Montreal as a faculty member; so this also marks 20 years for me in this wonderful city. #SCEECSEE20 0125
Reposted by Megan FredericksonAleeza Gerstein @acgerstein.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I secretly snuck into the first #SCEECSEE20 meeting! I had just come back from six months of backpacking and landed in Toronto a couple of days beforehand. @ariannealbert.bsky.social I subsequently attended and paid for (well, @sarperotto.bsky.social grants paid for) many more in grad school. 1/2 1134
Reposted by Megan FredericksonAndrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I can't wait! At one point, the four of us pictured here had perfect attendance at the first 15 annual meetings @csee-scee.bsky.social With Doug Morris, Andrew Simons, and Miriam Richards. 0123
Reposted by Megan Fredericksonfreshwater fELA 🇨🇦 @not-klaatu.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I was at the first meeting 20 years ago in TO as a PhD candidate; looking forward to going back for the 20th anniversary. No pics of the first one but here’s 2023 on the banks of the Assiniboine in Winnipeg with past students Wyatt Beach and Ben Wood #SCEECSEE2020 072
Reposted by Megan FredericksonCSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 29/04/2026🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20 12718
Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Hey, hey! Big congrats to @tessgrainger.bsky.social! 170
Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The Artemis II mission has been such a delight to watch--science and international collaboration for the win! #Artemis 020
Reposted by Megan FredericksonCentre for Ecosystem Management @centreecomgmt.bsky.social · 09/04/2026📢 New Research Alert! No organism can be the best at everything—and now we know why. A new study by our own Dr. @jasonlaurich.bsky.social reveals the hidden limits shaping evolution itself: tinyurl.com/yc8j3434 @integrativebiology.bsky.social @uofgcbs.bsky.social @joeybernhardt.bsky.social 1106
Reposted by Megan FredericksonEvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Submit symposium proposals for the 2027 ASN meeting in Long Island by April 30, 2026. Topics should advance biology and promote diversity. More info: www.amnat.org/announcements/ASN-mtg… #conferenceamnat.orgThe ASN is coming to the East Coast!The ASN is coming to the East Coast! 056
Reposted by Megan FredericksonSociety for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 24/02/2026SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2026 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Request your free registration code today! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo... 12631
Reposted by Megan FredericksonTobias Lenz @biotobi.bsky.social · 23/02/2026We are extending the deadline to Feb 27, since we still have a few slots. 👉 A semi-informal event to interact with your peers, learn about cutting-edge research, and hear from two leaders in the field (Sophie Armitage & Dieter Ebert). And it's free! 🎉 PIs, please recommend to your grad students! 044
Reposted by Megan FredericksonCSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 08/01/2026❗A reminder that CSEE'S Undergraduate Travel Bursary Applications are due by the close of the early bird registration (Jan 30th). Abstracts must be submitted by January 19th. More information here: csee-scee.ca/awards-and-b...csee-scee.caAwards and Bursaries | CSEE: Canadian Society for Ecology and EvolutionPresident's Award for Research Excellence President's Award for Excellence in Societal Engagement CSEE Excellence in Doctoral Research Student Awards Early Career Award DeadlineThis award is offered e... 112
Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 24/12/2025New paper from the lab! Led by PhD student Chris Carlson, with me and Matt Osmond (not on Bluesky), this study explored the effects of genotype-by-environment interactions on the maintenance of genetic variation in mutualisms 13111
