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Sarah W. Fitzpatrick @swfitz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An honor to be involved with this important study! Congrats to lead author @monicaipv.bsky.social 🐸🧬 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Aryn Wilder @arynwilder.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Excited to share our new paper on genetic rescue in the Pacific pocket mouse! To conserve this endangered species, we sought to understand whether small populations at risk of outbreeding depression are better managed in isolation or with gene flow. @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Fitness benefits of genetic rescue despite chromosomal differences in an endangered pocket mouse

Two-thirds of Earth’s species have undergone population declines, leaving many vulnerable to genomic erosion and inbreeding depression. Genetic rescue can boost the fitness of small populations, but p...

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Sarah W. Fitzpatrick @swfitz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Super proud of @meaghansaurus.bsky.social and all the effort this study represents in the field (led by Eric Hileman & Jen Moore!) and in the lab. Worrisome story for the snakes, but important to know, learn from & act on.

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islerouge.bsky.social @islerouge.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This was definitely a labor of love … SO MANY hours of effort (just ask my husband!), but so worth it in the end. It was pure delight to work with the brilliant Silu Wang on this project. And all papers are open access! www.pnas.org/topic/574

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Sarah W. Fitzpatrick @swfitz.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Excited to share our new paper led by @alexlewanski.bsky.social showing largely positive, multi-decadal consequences of translocations in Red-cockaded woodpeckers at Avon Park Air Force Range in central Florida: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Huge thanks and congrats to @siluwang.bsky.social and Anne Yoder for organising this amazing special issue. It has been fun contributing and interacting with Silu, Anne and the authors of the other manuscripts, including in a Zoom "tea break" where we presented our projects to each other.

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Sarah W. Fitzpatrick @swfitz.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Delayed post, but we are excited to share this study on decades of monitoring of translocations launched by the late Reed Bowman. We show a demographic boost (i.e., rescue!), but success was largely driven by a few individuals leading to erosion of genetic diversity. www.kbs.msu.edu/2025/05/scru...

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

If you are a person who cares about the future of science in the US, please take actions this week to #SaveNSF. @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social are leading a week of action - here is a Media Support Tool from the societies docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🧑‍🔬🧬🖥️🦑

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MediaToolSupportNSF.docx

Letter to scientists and organizations whose progress depends on NSF: We are facing an unprecedented political attack on science. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has begun directing NSF...

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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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