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So that's the beginning of the end for US Old Growth Forests then, prepare for massive biodiversity and carbon loss, here billed as the opposite www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 🌎

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Bioinformatics Job Opportunity Research Associate / Staff Scientist Vancouver Canada Join the Silent Genomes Project to provide an outstanding genetic variation database for Indigenous peoples of Canada to improve rare disease diagnosis tinyurl.com/bm4ptux3 Priority to Canadians Please repost

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I think about this map a lot. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

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The opportunity to submit NOIs for Solution Scholar projects closes on February 28th! If you are a UBC faculty member from any discipline with an idea for a climate solutions project, learn more and apply here: climatesolutions.ubc.ca/solutions-sc...

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Chaos in the USDA gene banks. A new chief gets fired. Then reinstated. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Have an idea for a climate solutions-oriented project? We want to hear it! We are accepting NOIs from UBC faculty members across disciplines for the 2025-2026 Solutions Scholars program until Feb. 28th. Have questions? Come to our Q&A session on Feb. 13th! climatesolutions.ubc.ca/solutions-sc...

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As the climate changes, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is rising. Our next Climate Conversation on Compound Hazards will feature experts with the Disaster Resilience Research Network sharing their expertise. Register here for Feb. 26th: climatesolutions.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

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This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to gain research experience as a lab technician. Gina is an outstanding mentor!

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Please circulate widely: We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

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Another @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social preprint of work led by @wenfeixian.bsky.social. With our Lausanne colleagues, we revisit the Napoleon Oak. An earlier long-read genome had revealed a relatively low number of somatic mutations (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). 1/2

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A new study from Colorado State University reveals that tree ranges in the interior US West are contracting due to climate change, with limited expansion into cooler, wetter areas. The study highlights the potential need for human-assisted tree migration. phys.org/news/2025-02...

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What interesting and exciting common garden / reciprocal transplant experiments do you know of? Who is conducting them? I'm interested in connecting with folks as we continue to work on our climate-focused bur oak experiment in OK, IL and MN w/ @cavenderg9.bsky.social, Heather McCarthy & colleagues.

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Guess what - our Science Moms climate ad made this top ten best (upcoming) Super Bowl ads list! The only nonprofit ad on the list! Warning: do not watch without a tissue www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...

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Attended the Canadian Genomics Summit in Ottawa to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Genome Canada. So grateful to Genome Canada and Genome BC for funding forest genomics over the years including AdapTree and CoAdapTree. It’s been a great journey. #canadiangenomicssummit #genomecanada #genomebc

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Very much worth a watch if you have not yet seen the PM’s brief and moving speech to Americans and Canadians. “From the beaches of Normandy …to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours. We're always there, standing with you."

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An unprovoked economic attack, intent on crushing US’s historically closest ally. If you can, please buy 🇨🇦 and 🇲🇽 products. & keep up the calls to your senators and reprentatives in 🇺🇸! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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This red-breasted nuthatch was very busy foraging among the spruce cones. He paused for just a second before heading off to another bunch of cones, and I think he has a spruce seed in his beak! #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

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Happy that @ubcforestry.bsky.social has left that other place and joined the BlueSky wave.

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Early spring here in coastal BC after what has been a mild winter. Hazel trees are already flowering.

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JOB: Executive Director, Stanley Park Ecological Society * Vancouver, BC (hybrid) * Full time * Salary $90k-100k/yr + benefits * Apply soon stanleyparkecology.ca/2025/01/22/h... #ConservationJobs

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What’s worse than giving an online final exam to nearly 2,000 students? Giving an online exam to this many students in a windstorm with power knocked out for many, including me, during the exam. But we all got through it OK.

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For everyone interested in Forest Genetics, start here: go.bsky.app/JX3tZaD Hi @katrinheer.bsky.social - please can you add EVOLTREE?

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Has global warming accelerated in recent decades? If we look at the rate of warming between 1970 and 2008 and extend it through present, we see that almost all years since 2015 are above the previous trend.

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Three guesses: who funded all the campaigns against the Canadian Climate Plan? First two don’t count. #OilAndGas www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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I live at the north end of the Salish Sea in the Discovery Islands. When we get big storms, winds from the SE push huge amounts of driftwood onto our shores. It’s appalling to see that most of the logs have cut ends and so are from log booms. It’s a huge waste of wood and a hazard to boats.

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Join the second EvolTree Online Seminar of this November! On Wednesday, 27.11.2024, 14 CET, Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social will talk about "A future-oriented, deep-time perspective on European woodlands". For more information and registration see here: www.evoltree.eu/webinars

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PhD chapter published! ✅ In a common garden study outside the natural range, we found weak local adaptation to climate in western larch seedlings and no effects of selective breeding on spring phenology or cold hardiness. With @sallyaitken.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Out now in Molecular Ecology Resources doi.org/10.1111/1755...

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My dept is hiring in Evolutionary Genomics psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

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Always happy to see a Northern alligator lizard while I’m gardening. There are at least four mature lizards that hang out in the greenhouse - Tripod, Stumpy, and a couple that have managed to keep all their appendages. Apparently they are highly philopatric.

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Grading final exams for Forest Biology, and one of the students used the word “conservationalist”. Maybe that should be a thing?

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“Canada's wildfires blamed for rise in global loss of tree cover outside of tropics” www.cbc.ca/news/climate... - CBC News

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Happy to see this out! @brandonlind.bsky.social tested genomic maladaptation (offset) estimates with common garden data for 2 conifers. Climate adaptation candidate loci were no better than random loci. Populations included in model building matter. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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