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Simon Joly

@simjoly.bsky.social
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Evolutionary botanist | Director, IRBV | Researcher, Montreal Botanical Garden, Espace pour la vie | Adjunct professor, Université de Montréal | tweets my own

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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The great news of the day! It is great to see that we can have an impact on policies. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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Feds drop plans to skirt Species At Risk Act for major projects
OTTAWA - The federal government is abandoning plans to exempt certain projects from laws designed to protect species at risk after an overwhelmingly negative response to the proposal during a
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
That would be me ca.news.yahoo.com/retired-biol...
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Retired biology professor criticizes caribou funding
Retired biology professor Marco Festa-Bianchet describes $25 million Quebec-Ottawa caribou protection funding deal as a 'smokescreen'. (July 3, 2026)
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A running thread of articles, blog posts, and more about the Government of Canada’s proposal to fast-track “major projects” and weaken federal environmental laws and regulations.
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McGill Science @mcgillscience.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Pressed plant specimens collected centuries ago and stored in herbaria around the world could play a key role in facilitating the tracking of genetic change and extinction risk in plants, a McGill University-led study indicates. Learn more ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5eB
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is awesome news! Continue to make yourself heard on the topic. Contact your MPs, respond to the discussion paper. For more info on the subject, read the formal response of the @csee-scee.bsky.social : csee-scee.ca/wp-content/u....
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Voici un article rédigé avec mes collègues Laurence Feyten et Fanie Pelletier qui souligne plusieurs enjeux environnementaux majeurs reliés au projet de réforme réglementaire proposé par le gouvernement fédéral. lp.ca/7arRBM?shari...
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Grands projets économiques | Le pari risqué du recul des garde-fous environnementaux
Le Canada souhaite accélérer la réalisation de grands projets économiques au nom de la souveraineté énergétique et commerciale. Dans le contexte géopolitique actuel, cet objectif peut paraître raisonn...
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Thursday morning at #CSEE2026, M.Sc. student Sufia Khader (@sufflox.bsky.social) is going to present her work on the characterization of the extent of vegetative reproduction in the endangered plant Polemonium vanbruntiae using genomics. Don’t miss this! 📅 Thursday 🕚 11am 📍 BA-1240
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Hey #SCEE26! Ph.D. student Dongjuan Zhang is presenting a poster tonight where she is exploring how abiotic environment affect flower shapes in the Antillean Gesneriaceae.
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
It’s about significant weakening of federal environmental laws in Canada. www.wcel.org/media-releas...
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West Coast Reacts: Canada’s new plan to fast-track major projects "an evisceration” of environmental laws | West Coast Environmental Law
West Coast Environmental Law is sounding the alarm over the federal government’s latest proposal to weaken environmental and regulatory oversight over major projects, after the release of a new discus...
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Is anyone at the #CSEE2026 meeting in Toronto interested in going out to watch the hockey game tonight? DM me if you're interested! #GoHabsGo 🏒
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Lucas Eckert @lucaseckert.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
How useful can #herbarium collections be for genetic monitoring? 🌿 We show that Earth’s currently digitized herbarium specimens can be clustered into HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of historical “populations” suitable for population genetic studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🧵
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The utility of herbarium collections for genetic monitoring
Abstract. Despite growing evidence of widespread genetic responses to anthropogenic activity, data shortfalls constrain genetic monitoring efforts and prec
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Lots of good memories of CSEE meetings, but here are two with pictures: 1) the trad music in Saint-Boniface at #beepeg23 where I danced with colleagues and 2) view of the lake Massawippi in early morning during a trail run organized by Dominique Gravel and Victor Cameron in 2026! #SCEECSEE20
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
There is a lot of work from many lab members within this great paper by Jérôme!
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Carolina Tropini (TropiniLab@UBC) @ctropini.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
CIHR funding rate: 13.6%. Early 2000s: 30%+. Canada’s new $1.7B Impact+ program recruits talent — but without increased Tri-Council base funding, we risk further strain on an already stretched system. We’re calling for $1B over 5 years. Support here: tinyurl.com/33c5av46
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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 12/01/2026
For Canadian scholars, the reality is bleak . Ottawa is dangling money for American researchers, but what about our own? #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Rediscovery of the greater chestnut weevil by community science observations. This specialist seed predator of the American chestnut was thought to have been extirpated by the collapse of its host in the 20th century because of introduced plant pathogens. #coextinction www.cell.com/current-biol...
Greater chestnut weevil
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Si vous êtes à Montréal mercredi, vous devriez venir écouter le séminaire de @stephenbheard.bsky.social sur l'utilisation de l'IA en rédaction scientifique! 🧪 If you are in Montreal on Wednesday, you should definitely come to @stephenbheard.bsky.social's talk on AI in scientific writing! 🧪
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Dégustation de 76 variétés de tomates 🍅! Aujourd’hui au Jardin botanique de Montréal. #JardinNourricier
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Carrie Wessinger @carriewessi.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague! sc.edu/study/colleg... Deadline for applications is Oct 1 #AcademicJobs #EvoBio
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Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Genetics - Department of Biological Sciences | University of South Carolina
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Mobilisation 6600 Parc-Nature MHM🌿 @mobili6600.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
😃 🔎 🌿 🦋 🐾 🦊 🐜 Mettre en valeur la #biodiversité du territoire pour mieux le défendre, ça vous dit? 👉 Samedi 2 août - 10h, on vous attend pour le Bioblitz de la Mob! L'événement est organisé en collaboration avec @apdp.bsky.social ,entomologiste + la participation de plusieurs experts. #Montréal
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Please share! Amazing opportunity at @mcgill.ca We are looking to recruit an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary scientist with a strong track record in innovation and research to direct a new program in climate, environment, and health mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
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Carling Bieg @carlingbieg.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I’m also thrilled to announce that I will be starting a faculty position with @centreecomgmt.bsky.social @ U of Guelph this fall! I will be recruiting students & postdocs for 2026 - please reach out or come find me at #CSEE2025 if you’re interested in theory, global change & fisheries ecology 🐟
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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025
A blue poster describing opportunities to join the Bernhardt Lab -- for more information please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
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Lucas Eckert @lucaseckert.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I’ll be at #CSEE2025 talking about patterns of collaboration in the Canadian eco/evo research community 🇨🇦 If you’re a eco/evo prof in Canada, odds are you were one of my data points… so come check it out! Wednesday - 4:30 - Science in action @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social
A little teaser of some collaborative network graphs
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The Joly lab has a strong presence at the Canadian society for ecology and evolution meeting. #CSEE2025 Follow this 🧵 for info of the lab activity.
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Oh Sherbrooke! Tu es si accueillante pour les coureurs ! 🤩 #SCEE2025 Oh Sherbrooke! You are so welcoming for runners ! 🏃 #CSEE2025
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Check out this very cool study from our lab on flower adaptation to urban environments! Huge contribution by @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social. All comments are welcomed on the preprint!
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Meet Romulus and Remus, two cloned gray wolves that contain 15 gene modifications that have been selected to make them more similar to the dire wolves, a species that has been extinct for > 12,000 years! 🧪 Press release: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20... 1/n
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/03/2025
I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values
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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New key finding: Landscapes of fragmented habitat have lower diversity, at all scales, than do unfragmented landscapes. Habitat fragmentation does not compensate for the loss of local (alpha) diversity by increasing the diversity among fragments (beta diversity). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The figure explaining the contrasting outcomes for diversity and local and landscape scales in continuous vs. fragmented landscapes. The right column (panel d) shows the cases where increasing inter-fragment diversity (increasing beta diversity among fragments) compensates for loss of local (alpha) diversity results in an increase in regional (Gamma) diversity. Fragmentation is 'bad' for diversity when loss of alpha and beta diversity combine to cause landscape-wide declines in gamma diversity.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025
SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.
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CSEE | SCEE Meetings @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🌿 #CSEE2025 Symposium Highlight 🌿 "Turning over a new leaf: the rapidly growing role of natural history collections in modern biodiversity science." 🔬 Discover how natural history collections are transforming biodiversity research, from understanding biogeography to informing conservation efforts.
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CSEE | SCEE Meetings @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Want to present your research at #CSEE2025 in Sherbrooke? 📅 Submit your abstract by March 15! 🔗[ event.fourwaves.com/fr/scee2025/... ]
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A must read: Harnessing artificial intelligence to fill global shortfalls in #biodiversity knowledge www.nature.com/articles/s44... Led by Laura Pollock and a brilliant team of coauthors all part of the AI and Biodiversity Change Global Center www.linkedin.com/company/abc-...
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Le colloque du CSBQ c’est terminé avec un panel très relevé sur le rôle des statistiques vs. l’intelligence artificielle en écologie et évolution. Les panélistes @comecology.bsky.social, Andrew MacDonald et David Rolnick ont présenté les enjeux d’une façon dés divertissante et pertinente! #CABQ2025
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This morning at #QCBS2025, Sean Hoban from the Morton Arboretum is presenting simple indicators for assessing genetic diversity in order to inform conservation. He shows that genetic indicators are feasible and helpful!
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hier avait lieu la première journée du colloque annuel du #CSBQ2025 qui traitait de conservation et restauration au Québec. Voici quelques bonnes nouvelles en matière de biodiversité au Québec qui ont été présentées pendant la journée. Un 🧵!
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Alexei Drummond @alexeidrummond.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Check out our new method for summarising BEAST trees. The CCD0-MAP tree gives much more accurate results than MCC tree. It returns the tree that maximises the product of sampled clade probabilities regardless of whether that tree was sampled. Highly recommend :) journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Accurate Bayesian phylogenetic point estimation using a tree distribution parameterized by clade probabilities
Author summary Our research introduces novel methods to analyse a set of phylogenetic tree topologies, such as those generated by Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms. We define a new model fo...
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
What I am reading from colleagues from the United States on federal funding is appalling! It is hard to believe that government funding of research could be completely halted and I cannot imagine the impact on research, researchers and students. This is tragic! 💔
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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!
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TT Assistant Professor of Plant Evolutionary Biology
The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in Plant Evolutionary Biology. This position is a 9-month, ten...
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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
[1/4] What is the status of plant conservation in Canada? 🌿 In this study led by JL McCune, we surveyed 243 practitioners in plant conservation, ecology or evolution to answer the question. We came up with seven recommendations. ➡️ www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2023-0216 📷 : JL McCune
Wood-poppy, a species at risk in Canada. Photo credit: J.L. McCune.
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Proposez un symposium ou atelier pour la rencontre 2025 de la Société Canadienne de l'Écologie et de l'Évolution à Sherbrooke en juillet! Date limite le 31 janvier event.fourwaves.com/fr/scee2025/...
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2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
Fourwaves - 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
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Simon Joly @simjoly.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Québec créé le parc national Nibiischii, dont l'exploitation sera assurée par la Première Nation crie de Mistissini. Il protège ainsi le lac Mistassini, qui est le plus grand lac naturel du Québec! 💚💙
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