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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦

@sallyaitken.bsky.social
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Tree enthusiast, forest geneticist, climate scientist, runner. Professor, University of British Columbia.

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John Lovell @jotlovell.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm super excited to share that this article was published today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... All made possible by the fantastic group of donors, volunteers and scientists at The American Chestnut Foundation (tacf.org), HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and our collaborators.
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Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration
More than a century after two introduced pathogens killed billions of American chestnut trees, introgression of resistance alleles from Chinese chestnuts has contributed to the recovery of self-sustai...
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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐 Applications due Feb 5 Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1
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Jeffrey Dean @jeffdean-uga.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Forest Genetics, Genomics and/or Tree Breeding at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/464...
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a man standing next to a tree with a codetwo logo in the background
ALT: a man standing next to a tree with a codetwo logo in the background
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Jeannine Cavender-Bares @cavenderg9.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I am glad to share insights on what we have learned from the global set of forest biodiversity experiments over the last three decades in this new review paper first-authored by my wonderful colleague, Xiaojuan Liu, from the BEF China experiment www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Experiments manipulating tree species diversity and measuring effects on ecosystem function have been important tools for assessing how biodiverse forests can accumulate biomass, store carbon and help...
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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Applications due by Dec. 1st.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵
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Temporal Ecology Lab @temporalecology.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Extensive mortality of the IUCN Red-listed species Korean fir (Abies korean) on Mt. Halla, Jeju Island, South Korea. The cause is unclear but may relate to lower winter snowpacks and early spring temps. Situation seems similar to yellow-cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis) in the Pacific Northwest.
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Remember that time when we lived through the three hottest years in around 125,000 years & no one was talking about it?
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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Huge congrats to @rafaelcr.bsky.social for his excellent PhD defense yesterday! Rafa has made large contributions to our understanding of local adaptation to drought in Douglas-fir and the underlying genomic architecture of climate adaptive traits as part of the CoAdapTree project.
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Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Hard to think of a clear depiction of climate politics in Canada than provincial premiers calling for more pipelines and deregulation of oil and gas development as climate-amplified wildfires rage in their own provinces. #cdnpoli
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Genomic signatures of climate-driven (mal)adaptation in an iconic conifer, the English yew (Taxus baccata L.) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 31/05/2025
"The Great Wave" of carbon dioxide (CO₂) #ClimateChange #ScienceArt Graphic produced by robbieandrew.github.io
Graph of carbon dioxide designed as the painting of "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai.
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇
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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Are you interested in the genomic basis of repeated adaptation? The RepAdapt group now has >70 members working to re-run their whole genome shotgun datasets through a common SNP calling pipeline, sharing VCFs, and working together to analyse data. Please contact me if you'd like to contribute!
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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑‍🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ecological Genomics
About the Opportunity Job Summary A postdoctoral research associate is available at the Lotterhos Lab at Northeastern University. The postdoc will be based at Northeastern University’s Marine Science ...
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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)
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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change
Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 28/04/2025
A lot of Americans don't know this, but the winner of the Canadian election will be required live in a small cottage located in the backyard of the palace where the viceroy to the King of England lives. The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.
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International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🚨 #job 🚨: The Department of Forest Ecology and Management at the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, is hiring a full-tenure Professor in silviculture with a focus on silvicultural systems, mainly in boreal forests. 🗺️ Umeå, Sweden 📅 Apply by: 29 April 2025 ➡️ www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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Kaitlyn Gaynor @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Hello Bluesky! Good to see you all again! Job alert: I'm looking to recruit a postdoc interested in working at the interface of AI and wildlife ecology, supported by the AI for Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center. Apply by April 15, 2025. gaynorlab.weebly.com/join-us.html
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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It's grant result season for 🇨🇦 students. If successful: well deserved & take time to celebrate your achievements! If unsuccessful: you're in good company & take time to celebrate your hard work & putting yourself out there! In my experience, icecream or a new plant is great in either scenario.
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Poilievre pulling a Trump & Musk & making clear he will cut funding to anything he considers “woke” in federal public service & university research - like anything to do with climate science. As Danielle Smith made clear, Poilievre is “in sync” with Trump. We can never let him win. #TeamCarney
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Jude Isabella @judeisabella.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
US friends, a good explanation of how very much we understand the elephant sleeping next to us.
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Opinion | Canadians Know Americans. They Don’t Want to Be One. (Gift Article)
Donald Trump wants to make Canada the 51st state. Canadians have a lot to say about that.
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UBC Climate Solutions Research Collective @ubccsrc.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Join the Solutions Summit on April 16th! See the progress of four interdisciplinary groups working on climate solutions related to agroecological transitions, heatwave forecasting, large language models used with IPCC reports, and carbon offsets. This event is supported by @picscanada.bsky.social
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UBC Climate Solutions Research Collective @ubccsrc.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
See the event schedule for the UBCO Climate+Water Research Symposium- with a plenary on water justice, and panels on ecosystem resilience and on watershed governance. Join in person on April 9th, or watch the plenary broadcast to UBC Vancouver. Register here- climatesolutions.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...
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WarrenCM.bsky.social @warrencm.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Exciting Job Opportunity! UBC is hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences. Accepting applications until April 30. ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...
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Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) - Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences
Academic Job Category Faculty Bargaining Job Title Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) - Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences Department Dept Forest & Conservation Sciences | Faculty of Forestry (Ri...
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sylvain gignac @sylvaingignac.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
French researcher was denied entry + expelled after US border agents found private messages criticizing Trump’s policies. His devices were searched at random. ⚠️ Travel Tip for all energy folks: If heading to the US, assume your devices may be searched. Never thought I will give this advice 🔌💡
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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Please share 🧪 We seek 2 postdocs to work on Vancouver Island marmots in the following areas : 1 - demographic models. 2 - conservation genomics. Positions based at UNBC, working with MRF. Full details here marmots.org/recovery-eff... #conservation #jobs
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Recovery Efforts – The Vancouver Island Marmot Recovery Foundation
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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The comic we needed, but substitute a conifer for a lungfish.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Canadians snub the U.S., with nearly 500,000 fewer travellers crossing the border in February. The number of trips hasn't been this low since the #COVID19 restrictions era, by John Paul Tasker www.cbc.ca/news/politic... via @cbcnews.ca
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Cross-border trips to the U.S. reach COVID lows with nearly 500,000 fewer travellers in February | CBC News
Nearly 500,000 fewer travellers crossed the land border from Canada into the U.S. in February compared to the same month last year, according to data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the l...
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Looking for a postdoc in 🇨🇦? Liber Ero Fellowship liberero.ca * Applied conservation science * Leadership training * Open to int’l applicants * Due Nov 1 🌎🧪🦤
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Liber Ero Fellowship Program
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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It's unhealthy to freak out about everything Trump does that's terrible for the climate, but gutting the observatory at Mauna Law would be particularly terrible. It's the best documentation on Earth of all the carbon we've spewed into our atmosphere. www.staradvertiser.com/2025/03/11/b...
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Trump cuts target world-leading greenhouse gas observatory in Hawaii | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
The Trump administration is considering canceling the lease of the support office for a renowned Hawaii climate research station, sources said, raising fears for the future of key work tracking the im...
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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
US/Canada vehicle crossings saw a pronounced drop in year over year volumes of Canadian residents, especially in the same-day segment. In total this February there were about 350k fewer Canadian residents crossing into the US than the year prior (23% drop). Not much change for US resident crossings.
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 09/03/2025
For the first time in human history -- not just in recorded history, but in the 3+ million year existence of modern humans -- carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has just breached 430 parts per million. We are in a climate emergency.
A chart showing average hourly and daily observations of carbon dioxide as measured by NOAA on Mauna Loa in Hawaii.
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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Huge kudos to everyone who showed up and stood up for science in the US today! Cheering you on from north of the 49th parallel.
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Rebecca Jordan @drrebeccajordan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Final recap! 2024 Highlight #3: On International Women’s Day, a shout out to the amazing women I had the honour of writing this review with @sallyaitken.bsky.social and Hayley Tumas. We hope it is a helpful primer for the incredible research in this field www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Conserving Evolutionary Potential: Combining Landscape Genomics with Established Methods to Inform Plant Conservation | Annual Reviews
Biodiversity conservation requires conserving evolutionary potential—the capacity for wild populations to adapt. Understanding genetic diversity and evolutionary dynamics is critical for informing con...
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Peter Kalmus @climatehuman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We need to build a movement to have maybe a 50/50 chance of stopping full fascism. The path is to unite over the realization that the billionaires are the enemy... this is a life-or-death class war. Here's a piece I wrote: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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To resist the climate crisis, we must resist the billionaire class | Peter Kalmus
To solve the climate crisis, power must flow away from the billionaire class
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Science Magazine @science.org · 06/03/2025
An analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with #ClimateChange. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3QLYhyc
In Mesoamerican cloud forests, such as this one in the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve in Mexico, climate change and deforestation are leading to plant species moving upslope. However, an analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with climate change.
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Waye Mason 🇨🇦 @wayemason.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A timely update to a surprisingly timeless classic. Thank you @thejeffdouglas.bsky.social and everyone involved for this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lzh...
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We are Canadian.
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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We have a new paper out today, where, among other things, we find evidence that a locally adaptive chromosomal inversion likely trapped an even older inversion along its path to becoming the supergene it is today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Evolution of Locally Adaptive Chromosome Inversions in Mimulus guttatus
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms are ubiquitous across the diversity of diploid organisms and play a significant role in the evolution of adaptations in those species. Inversions are thought to op...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister. Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w
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Watch Trudeau speak directly to Trump during blistering speech
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Jens Wieting @globalhome.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The $200-billion agreement to protect nature is a ray of hope. Canada played a leading role and showed we can address more than one crisis at once. We need to act on #TrumpTariffs & must safeguard a livable planet for future generations at the same time. #bcpoli #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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In a win for post-Trump climate diplomacy, countries reach $200B deal to protect nature | CBC News
A gathering of countries in Rome this week agreed on a plan to generate $200 billion US in finance a year by 2030 to halt and begin to reverse the destruction of the natural world.
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Peggy March @rebelgeo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
So that's the beginning of the end for US Old Growth Forests then, prepare for massive biodiversity and carbon loss, here billed as the opposite www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 🌎
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Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
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Wyeth Wasserman @wywywa.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Bioinformatics Job Opportunity Research Associate / Staff Scientist Vancouver Canada Join the Silent Genomes Project to provide an outstanding genetic variation database for Indigenous peoples of Canada to improve rare disease diagnosis tinyurl.com/bm4ptux3 Priority to Canadians Please repost
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Research Associate
Academic Job Category Faculty Non Bargaining Job Title Research Associate Department Wasserman Laboratory | Department of Medical Genetics | Faculty of Medicine (Wyeth Wasserman) Posting End Date Febr...
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