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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 11/09/2026

We have a tenure-track faculty position in Evolutionary Biology in Columbia's E3B Department. Application deadline is October 15. Come be our colleague. Please RT! apply.interfolio.com/193016

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm looking to hire a postdoc to work on the RepAdapt + MacroMar projects, analysing genomic data from >130 species of plants, animals, and fungi (VCFs are processed, ready to go). Lots of potential for creativity and collaboration! yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

Picture shows fireweed in foreground and Mt. Lougheed in background

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Very excited about SimGEA: a method for detecting genomic signatures of local adaptation developed by Takahiro Sakamoto. Unlike previous methods, it achieves good control of the false discovery rate (on simulated data) while maintaining reasonable power www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Figure showing the false discovery rate for simGEA (green), kendall's tau (red), LFMM2 (purple), and Baypass (blue). Kendall's tau involves uniformly high false discovery, as expected. Both LFMM2 and Baypass incur substantial false discovery rates (even above 50% in some scenarios). SimGEA achieves a well controlled false discovery rate across all scenarios we tested.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Looking forward to giving this talk this Thursday! Apologies for having to re-schedule...

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

So happy to see the news that Takahiro Sakamoto has been awarded an ASN Early Career Investigator Award!! Very well deserved www.amnat.org/announcement... -- he brings a creative and insightful approach to a wide range of theoretical and methodological questions in Evolution

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2026 ASN Early Career Investigator Awards

<p>Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 ASN Early Career Investigator Award: <strong>Brooke Bodensteiner, Tomas Kay, Patrick McKenzie, Takahiro Sakamoto, and Erin Westeen</strong>!</p><b...

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I attended my first CSEE meeting 19 years ago in Toronto and am excited to be returning this year...fantastic meetings and organization promoting E&E in Canada!

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Great to see Gabriele's paper out in MBE. I was really interested that we found large differences in ancestry maintained across opposite sides of a single valley (presumably with high gene flow). Strong divergent natural selection on cool/wet N-facing vs. hot/dry S-facing slopes.

Sampling location showing a collection of shoot samples taken from a high S-facing alpine site

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I tried replicating question 8 in chatGPT, and it got 5/5 correct (quiz reports getting it right 1/10). Didn't attempt any of the others yet

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Roll call on Simons Foundation Ecology & Evolution LOIs. Anyone get the nod? Here's an overview of our declined LOI on detecting repeated adaptation across 110,000 sequenced samples from >300 species of plants, animals, and fungi

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Glad we have this kind of leader in Canada...sobering and realistic take on where we're at.

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Just bumping this up again -- I'll be making a decision on who to nominate for the internal competition on Jan 21st, so please get in touch ASAP if you're interested.

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Want to study the genomics of repeated adaptation with data from hundreds of species? New funding for non-Canadians @ grad or postdoc level. Internal competition at UCalgary with very short deadline so please get in touch ASAP!! sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I actually tell them this -- use it as a study aid, and if you're not confident you can assess what AI is saying as correct/incorrect, that's a sign you need to study that more

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Will it go away if we ignore it? We need to train them to think critically alongside it. Still trying to figure out how, but I don't see any viable alternative. Unfortunately, training them to use AI effectively requires small class sizes and lots of interaction, which nobody wants to pay for

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I think we want to push students to use AI competently. So if they're presenting, reduce the presentation time and increase the time where we ask questions and the students need to demonstrate comprehension and synthesis.

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I'm doing regular practice writing assignments (minor participation marks for completion) throughout the term where AI can be used, and then an in-class writing assignment towards the end of the year, where AI will not be available.

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I'm declining to review for Nature Communications Biology. This is for-profit publishing attempting to control too much of the "market" and I'm not supporting it.

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Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Wait, we're supposed to be reading them?

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'll be reviewing applications for this in a few days, so there's still time to get touch if you're interested.

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

It's always fun to work with Tom! In this one, we ponder how the answer to this question can tells us something about the kind of architecture underlying adaptation

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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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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I'll start reviewing applications in a little over 3 weeks for this PhD position. You could be doing fieldwork here! (or focus only on dry lab work if that floats your boat)

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

This infographic describes the main results from a survey of members of 14 scientific societies. There is a pie chart showing that both academic (58%) and non-academic (42%) responded to the survey. It lists statistics: 85% of respondents reported uncertainty about the future; 71% reported federal training programs were "very" or "extremely important"; 83% reported negative impacts or irreparable harm on their field of science. There is a word cloud summarizing open-ended responses with the largest words "student research fund federal grant". Eight major themes in the responses are listed: disruption of research with societal important; concerns of closure of the USGS Bird Banding Lab; Early Career Bottleneck; Restricted Freedoms including travel and speech; Decline in Government Efficiency and Expertise; Concerns about Biased/Removed Data and Data Gaps; Concerns about the Ability to Meet Legal Mandates; and From Positive Impact to Irreparable Harm. There are icons for each participating society and a QR code for website and data availability.

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Field work is so tiresome. I have to climb up every time to ski back down.

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Really great to see this out -- and so interesting to see strong signals of adaptation to North vs. South facing slopes across a single valley in spruce!

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Miles gave a fantastic talk about this last year at SSE, I'm looking forward to reading the published version!

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Becca Dzombak @rdzombak.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Temperatures are soaring, and there's a limit to what plants can handle. Scientists are figuring out how to engineer crops to take the heat so they can get into the kitchen. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...

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Soaring Temperatures Threaten Crops, So Scientists Are Looking to Alter the Plants

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

If your grant application needs some justification on why we should study adaptation in wild plant species... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Can wild plant adaptations help crops tolerate heat?

Wild plant species harbor a vast but largely unknown diversity of temperature stress solutions

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Joaquin Nunez @jcbnunez.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🚨 There is still time to submit a poster for our upcoming Gordon Research Seminar in Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics: Elucidating the Evolutionary Dynamics of Adaptation in Fluctuating Environments! 🧬 Apply now 👉 www.grc.org/ecological-a...

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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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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

We still have a few spots left for the GRC Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics meeting in Tuscany this summer (July 13-18). Lots of great speakers already lined up, and we'd love to hear from you! www.grc.org/ecological-a...

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

And this may generate perverse incentives. If I'm paid the same regardless of the quality of my review, then this incentivizes just submitting a "lowest possible effort" review. More hours for same pay = lower $/hour, making it feel like putting in the extra effort isn't worth it.

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Gideon Bradburd @gbradburd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Really excited to see this work, led by Mike Grundler, published! It's a new method for inferring the geographic locations of shared genetic ancestors. In the paper, we and use it to infer the geographic history of human genetic ancestry www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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A geographic history of human genetic ancestry

Describing the distribution of genetic variation across individuals is a fundamental goal of population genetics. We present a method that capitalizes on the rich genealogical information encoded in g...

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I'm excited to be working as an associate editor at Genetics, and looking forward to reading your submissions!

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

We had our 40th annual Darwin Lecture last Friday at University of Calgary, given by @jrossibarra.bsky.social and it was a banger! If you have a big public lecture, he gives a great one...Thanks again for coming Jeff!

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Very nice location for discussing evolution!

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Join us in Tuscany this summer for a Gordon Conference aimed at the cutting edge of how we use genomics to answer fundamental questions in ecology and evolution! Lots of great speakers already and we'd love to add you to the list www.grc.org/ecological-a...

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2025 Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics Conference GRC

The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Thanks yes I've been meaning to test this one on our datasets, haven't gotten around to it yet. Nice idea! Will work on this

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Yes we tried pSONIC and found it improved things calls over short phylogenetic distances (e.g. within brassicas), but not much over larger ones (probably because of extensive rearrangement?)

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