@the_evologist

Marine evolutionary ecologist - exploring the impacts of environmental change in the ocean - outdoors, exercise & motorcycle enthusiast '@evologist.bsky.social'

 Santa Cruz, CA
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Joined August 2015
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📢New paper out in @molecology !📢 We provide evidence of cryptic/incipient speciation in the Black Surfperch occurring on coastal islands. Popgen and phylogenomic methods show 5 distinct groups and evidence of reproductive barriers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Population Genomics, Local Adaptation and Cryptic Speciation in a Temperate Reef Fish, the Black...

The black surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni , exhibits limited dispersal due to its lack of a pelagic larval stage and offers a unique model for studying local adaptation and potential cryptic speciati...

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Remy Gatins@remygatins25 Oct 2023
Are you interested in genomic connectivity, hybridization, and range expansions in marine organisms? I am recruiting a PhD student and Lab Technician for Fall 2024 in the Gatins Lab @Northeastern !! For more information please visit our website: remygatins.com
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My lab group is searching for a new 🚨POSTDOC to work on life history trade-offs or fitness consequences of environmental change using an incredible long-term mark-recapture dataset on elephant seals at @ucsc. Review date 8/24. recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01586
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Our framework paper on connectivity is now available online! This paper was the product of an @NSF @evolvingseas RCN working group led by @AlliNCramer and @jahoey13 .
Frontiers - Ecology & Evolution@FrontEcolEvol25 May 2023
New Research: A unifying framework for understanding ecological and evolutionary population connectivity: Although the concept of connectivity is ubiquitous in ecology and evolution, its definition is often inconsistent, particularly in… #Ecology frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Dr. Nyssa Silbiger@NSilbiger1 Apr 2023
Do you love data science and want to cry? Do you want to see the UGLIEST #rstats plot to ever exist? Look no further because my students crushed their good plot/bad plot assignment and really took making the worst plots possible to heart. #ggplot🧵⬇️
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Luiz Rocha, PhD@CoralReefFish13 Mar 2023
Big one out today @CurrentBiology! We've been working on this for so long! After many expeditions and almost 1000 transects up to 143m depth, we show that the well-known longitudinal marine diversity gradient attenuates with greater depths! 1/n authors.elsevier.com/c/1gkk7…
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Happy to announce that the second chapter of my dissertation has been published! Sequencing and assembly of the kelp perch (Brachyistius frenatus) reference genome! 🐟 #surfperches #Embiotocidae #genome @giacomo_fish academic.oup.com/jhered/adva…
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A high-quality reference genome of the kelp surfperch (Brachyistius frenatus) now available! 🐟 Because they lack a dispersive larval stage, surfperches are excellent for studying speciation, gene flow, and local adaptation in the ocean. @giacomo_fish academic.oup.com/jhered/adva…
A photo of a gold fish with some white markings. It looks very similar to the common goldfish.

ALT A photo of a gold fish with some white markings. It looks very similar to the common goldfish.

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First day on @ODU campus as a postdoc in @BarshisLab 🦁 🪸 🧬
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Dr. Sarah Gravem@sarahgravem22 Feb 2023
And, for my favorite paper I’ve published so far 🥁🥁🥁 we measured predation of #sunflowerseastars on sea urchins and found that they eat them fast enough that they are strong top predators that likely prevent urchin barrens! And they chow down on starved urchins from barrens!
Aaron W. E. Galloway, Ph.D.@awegalloway22 Feb 2023
We have a new study on Pycnopodia predation on purple sea urchins! Our lab experiment and model finds that the recovery of #SunflowerSeaStars will be key in #kelp forest restoration. w/ @sarahgravem @DanielKOkamoto et al, @uoregon @OregonState @Conserve_CA royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
A photo mosaic of the 24 Pycnopodia sunflower sea stars used in the study. Each one has a slightly different color pattern and size, and even shape. Some have thick long arms and some have more spindely arms.

ALT A photo mosaic of the 24 Pycnopodia sunflower sea stars used in the study. Each one has a slightly different color pattern and size, and even shape. Some have thick long arms and some have more spindely arms.

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The all-hands meeting for the California Conservation Genomics Project has begun! Great updates and lightening talks so far. Sequence data has been generated for almost all 150 species! #ccgp
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Planning your climate or environment syllabus? I like to show short videos so students & I can visualize some of the things we're talking about. Here are just some of the ones I like:
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Joey Bernhardt@JoeyBernhardt13 Aug 2022
🚨 #CSEE2022 #ESA2022 job ad - please share widely!🚨 We'll be recruiting a ✨cohort of 2-3 postdocs✨ to join the @BernhardtLab & @McCannLab! These will be independent research fellowships (salary $70k per year + benefits + $10k travel). More info: bernhardtlab.org/

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Dr. Sarah Gravem@sarahgravem10 Aug 2022
This Dungeness crab die off indicates there is a hypoxia event developing off the coast of central Oregon. Fishermen carrying oxygen sensors are reporting low O2 and dead crabs in pots. Keep an eye out and report what you see to @PiscoScience or @PrimedNetwork
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MBARI@MBARI_News8 Aug 2022
Acidification-induced changes in neurological function have been documented in several tropical marine fishes. In a new study, researchers investigate whether similar patterns of neurological impacts are observed in a temperate Pacific fish. ow.ly/6lkp50KcUsk
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15 bookmark-worthy tools for researchers that cost you nothing and will save you time (& nerves) when researching, writing and publishing. A thread. 🧵 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
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Hassnain@QasimHassnain2 Aug 2022
crying/shaking someone studied how much will it cost you to make chocolate chip cookies with ingredients from Sigma Aldrich 30k USD for 25-30 cookies from: journal of immaterial sciences jabde.com/2022/07/29/immater…
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Student evaluations can be rough 🥴 Sometimes they’re helpful, while other times students can take out their aggression on the instructor. Let’s share one outrageous thing a student has said on evals in the past (not necessarily toxic, but laughable) so we can commiserate.
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Patrick Martone@Martonelab26 Jul 2022
Check out these baby #Nereocystis #kelp we grew in the lab! @BabyNereo is studying how water flow affects blade splitting, development, and #morphology. Huge thanks to our in-house kelp farmer @VSupratya. The magic is happening! @UBCBotany @PSAAlgae
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🐠 This Black Surfperch hiding in a sea fan has just had her genome sequenced by the California Conservation Genomics Project ( #CCGP) and will be used as a reference for future resequencing projects to help us learn the efficacy of Marine Protected Areas. academic.oup.com/jhered/adva…
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