At #Evol2024? Don’t miss Dr. Chloé Schmidt’s award talk tomorrow at 2:30 PM! “The biogeography of genetic diversity and its conservation.”

If you missed Ruth Rivkin's talk on polar bear genomic offsets at #Evo2024 today u can check out her pre-print here ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie… or hold off to see the final version in Ecology Letters in the coming weeks :) Winnipeg Squirrels

Don't miss Chloé Schmidt at 230 in room 516C #evol2024!

A 2 -yr postdoc position is available in the group of Daniel Ruzzante at Dalhousie Univ. pending a successful funding application. Experience in pop genetics w successful publ. record and proficiency in bioinformatics and analysis of lcWGS a MUST. Visit ruzzante.ca/no-title/

Genetic network analysis uncovers spatial variation in diversity and c... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to Carla Crossman on her (and the lab's) new paper on the impacts of inbreeding on reproduction in North Atlantic right whales. Link below. Wonderful summary cartoon by Rush Dhillon. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Excited to share our new paper on the impacts of inbreeding on North Atlantic right whales doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2… Right Whale Genome Project Genome Atlantic Timothy Frasier and thanks to Rush Dhillon for the amazing artwork

These papers can seem technical & academic. But they are about nothing less than how we plan, measure & implement ecological interventions for conservation, management, restoration, much more. Too much ecology mistakes forecasting methods for causal methods. We gotta do better

Nice paper on climate maladaptation in polar bears led by @ruth_rivkin and Colin Garroway. FYI Prof. Katharine Hayhoe onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

A new study published today analyzed all of Canada’s polar bear populations and found that the most northern polar bears, those in Canada’s High Arctic, are less likely to be able to adapt to a rapidly warming Arctic. Learn more below. polarbearsinternational.org/news-media/art…

Growing old with 'Prides'🦁New paper using 30yrs of wild lion social networks to examine sex-specific social ageing & consequences for survival🦁 Press release: biology.ox.ac.uk/article/growin… Paper #OA in Current Biology: cell.com/current-biolog… led brilliantly by Lauren Rudd

Hot off the press work led by Ruth Rivkin looking at genomic diversity in Canadian polar bears: what is the distribution of diversity and which populations are least likely to be able to adapt to changing climates? We used genomic offsets to get a sense doi.org/10.1111/ele.14…

Early warning: the next meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution will be in Sherbrooke, Québec, July 6-9 2025. event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pages

La prochaine rencontre de la Société Canadienne pour l'Écologie et l'Évolution sera à Sherbrooke, Québec, du 6 au 9 juillet 2025 event.fourwaves.com/fr/scee2025/pa…

Hey y'all! It's been a minute. A longer update is coming, but for now: I'm sharing an essay I wrote for the book Heart of the Wild edited by Ben Minteer and Jonathan B. Losos, with an amazing author group, and I'm honored to be among them. My essay is linked below! lithub.com/to-dream-of-be…

Excited to announce we have a fully funded ($70K+) post-doctoral position available on Coastal Ecosystem Future Scenarios as part of our Blue Carbon Canada Project. Co-supervised by me OConnorLab (UBC), Sara Knox (McGill); location flexible. Apps due 9/30 bluecarboncanada.ca/were-hiring

I'm recruiting PhD students this year! Please share this with anyone you know who might be interested in our work. Prospective students should check out the "join" section of my website: alexafredston.com Species On The Move Conference Ecological Forecasting Initiative DiversifyEEB Black in Marine Science

The Li + Durbin 2011 paper showing that you can infer an entire population history from just a single genome is still one of the most mind-blowing results in genetics I have ever seen. nature.com/articles/natur…

Biggest Winnipeg Blue Bombers bike valet I’ve ever seen. #BanjoBowl

Interested in the ecology, evolution, & conservation of reptiles? I have a FUNDED PhD POSITION, using the latest in acoustic array tech to study the thermal ecology and movement of large temperate snapping turtles. Big datasets and huge animals involved. rollinson.eeb.utoronto.ca/job-opportunit…