Looking forward to giving this talk this Thursday! Apologies for having to re-schedule...
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
🚨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. 🧪⚒️
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!
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
Glad we have this kind of leader in Canada...sobering and realistic take on where we're at.
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...
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.
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
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.
Sam Yeaman
Sam Yeaman
<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...
Due to illness, the seminar is postponed to next Thursday. We will use the same Zoom link (see polygenic-adaptation-network.org/seminars/).
I apologize for any inconvenience, and still looking forward to Sam's seminar and seeing many of you online next Thursday.
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...
Sam Yeaman
🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20
When AI tools do well - or badly - at a task, it’s tempting to explain it away with the benefit of hindsight. But can you anticipate how well they’ll do before you see the outcome?
Have a go here – and then see how your estimates compare with 1000+ others: quiz.wholesum.tech
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The Carney speech is worth reading in full: globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
Looking forward to Sam Yeaman's seminar about repeatability of adaptation on Thursday May 28 at 4 pm CET. Join us online!
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
Happy to share this paper with @samyeaman.bsky.social, now published in Molecular Biology and Evolution!
Using replicated hybrid zones, we explored patterns of local adaptation and introgression in spruce and found strong signals even at very fine geographical scales!
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
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Adam Kucharski
Conor Sen
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Gabriele Nocchi
Abstract. Hybridization between species can occur along repeated zones of contact, providing a natural laboratory for studying the interplay between migrat
Join us for another exciting seminar by Dr. Samuel Yeaman (University of Calgary) about the repeatability of adaptation? on 28th May, 2026, 4 pm CET. Zoom link here: polygenic-adaptation-network.org/seminars/
