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Rafael Candido Ribeiro
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Postdoctoral Fellow @UBCforestry - Booker/Aitken lab. Studying climate adaptation in trees. I love diversity (especially all levels of biodiversity)

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Rafael Candido Ribeiro @rafaelcr.bsky.social · Jun 27
I simply stood on the shoulders of giants. I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be doing what I love. I could not have asked for a better supervisor @sallyaitken.bsky.social, lab mates, faculty @forestry.ubc.ca, and university! This journey has been amazing! Thank you, Sally!
sallyaitken.bsky.social Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · Jun 26
Huge congrats to @rafaelcr.bsky.social for his excellent PhD defense yesterday! Rafa has made large contributions to our understanding of local adaptation to drought in Douglas-fir and the underlying genomic architecture of climate adaptive traits as part of the CoAdapTree project.

Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Rafael Candido‐Ribeiro

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 3d
¿Hiciste tu doctorado en México? ¿Quieres hacer un postdoc en California? ¿Te interesa la genética evolutiva? ¡Checa esta beca y mándame un mensaje! alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/research-and...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships - University of California Alianza MX
Submitting an Application Current Fellows 2025 Cohort Additional Information Humberger Toggle Menu Interested in applying for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship? Eligibility The program seeks applican...
alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu

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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · Sep 25
We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Stephen D. Murphy, Jesse R. Lasky , and 3 more

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · Aug 20
I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

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Gabriele Nocchi @gabnocgenomics.bsky.social · Aug 13
I am happy to share my second paper with @samyeaman.bsky.social and collaborators! If you are into hybrid zones and tree genomics, this is for you!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The genomic basis of local adaptation in the white x Engelmann spruce hybrid zone
Hybridization between species can occur along repeated zones of contact, providing a powerful natural laboratory for studying the interplay between migration and selection, and for identifying loci in...
www.biorxiv.org

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Aug 6
Evolutionary rescue in a consumer-resource system: Adaptation and persistence depend on the affected ecological traits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.04.668505v1

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Rafael Candido Ribeiro @rafaelcr.bsky.social · Jul 17
Jibóia - Roraima, Brazil
Jobóia snake hiding under leaves. Location: Roraima, Brazil

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Rafael Candido Ribeiro @rafaelcr.bsky.social · Jun 27
Thank you so much, Katie!!!

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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · Jun 26
Huge congrats to @rafaelcr.bsky.social for his excellent PhD defense yesterday! Rafa has made large contributions to our understanding of local adaptation to drought in Douglas-fir and the underlying genomic architecture of climate adaptive traits as part of the CoAdapTree project.

Reposted by Rafael Candido‐Ribeiro

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Jill Wegrzyn @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social · Jun 21
Save the Date! North American Forest Genetics Society #NAFGS June 15-19 2026 in Quebec City, Canada🍁
More information coming soon at www.nafgs.org/conference2026
Join us next year!

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Rafael Candido Ribeiro @rafaelcr.bsky.social · Jun 12
Great piece, Sam!

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · Jun 12
If your grant application needs some justification on why we should study adaptation in wild plant species... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Can wild plant adaptations help crops tolerate heat?
Wild plant species harbor a vast but largely unknown diversity of temperature stress solutions
www.science.org

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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · May 15
IRES's Dr. Kai Chan will be one of the expert panelists speaking alongside Keynote Speaker Lisa Brideau, author of Adrift (winner of the 2024 Evergreen Award) and senior sustainability specialist with the City of Vancouver!

botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/news-events/...

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Meg Smith (she/her) @mgsmth.bsky.social · May 13
Hi everybody! Welcome to my page :) I'm a MSc student at UBC. I'm currently studying the evolution of genome structure in Douglas-fir. More broadly, I'm interested in evolution, genomics, climate change & forest genetics!

Reposted by Brian J. Harvey, Julian Schrader, Andrew Hacket‐Pain , and 2 more

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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · May 8
Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)

Reposted by Rafael Candido‐Ribeiro

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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · May 2
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/...
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...
www.science.org

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Jannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social · Apr 25
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For American students planning to start grad school who are reconsidering their USA offers (or had offer rescinded), my Canadian university #QueensU announced a special funding call. Want to join my lab to study #plant #evolution? Get in touch!

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Brandon M. Lind @brandonlind.bsky.social · Apr 14
Excited to see our article on the cover! @drk-lo.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17550998...
Molecular Ecology Resources: Vol 25, No 4
Molecular Ecology Resources is a broad journal publishing computer programs, statistical & molecular advances & more for studies in evolution, ecology & conservation.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Michael A. Wulder, Ian J. Wright, Rosie A. Fisher , and 3 more

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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · Mar 13
Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

Reposted by Valério D. Pillar, Guillermo Fandós, Melissa Whitman , and 1 more

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Science Magazine @science.org · Mar 6
An analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with #ClimateChange.

Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3QLYhyc
In Mesoamerican cloud forests, such as this one in the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve in Mexico, climate change and deforestation are leading to plant species moving upslope. However, an analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with climate change.

Reposted by David M. Schultz, Jillian M. Buriak, Ruth Mace , and 6 more

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 6
Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.

I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
www.nature.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Mar 5
Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high political tensions For the second time in weeks, a Canadian icon has emerged as the unlikely victor in an existential battle on the ice. Mervyn Sequeira, an…
www.theguardian.com

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Feb 15
Canada’s new Rural Community Immigration Pilot offers permanent residence to skilled workers who want to work and settle in rural and more remote communities.

14 pilot communities will approve certain employers to hire for jobs that they can’t fill with local workers.

More info here:
Rural Community Immigration Pilot - Canada.ca
How to apply for the Rural community immigration pilot as a candidate.
www.canada.ca

Reposted by Xavier De Lamo, Rafael Candido‐Ribeiro

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Charles Thistlethwaite @charlest.bsky.social · Feb 14
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...
Climate change outpaces tree migration, human intervention may be needed: Study
A new Colorado State University study of the interior U.S. West has found that tree ranges are generally contracting in response to climate change but not expanding into cooler, wetter climates—sugges...
phys.org

Reposted by Robert Arlinghaus, Helmut Hillebrand, Lauren B. Buckley , and 7 more

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · Feb 6
I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

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Rafael Candido Ribeiro @rafaelcr.bsky.social · Feb 4
Yes! The closest to my heart (for various reasons) is Butia eriospatha.
Two beautiful palm trees (Butia eriospatha) with the Marombas river and the Araucaria forest in the background.

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Jan 23
Yerba mate makes the third-most popular caffeinated drink in the world, but it’s unrelated to tea and coffee. The first reconstruction of its genome is helping us understand how multiple species have evolved to synthesise caffeine.
https://buff.ly/4jnWk82
A person holding a traditional preparation of mate with crushed dried yerba mate leaves steeping in hot water in a cup made of a gourd and a specialised metal straw

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Rafael Candido Ribeiro @rafaelcr.bsky.social · Jan 3
Big congrats! And thanks for teaching me for loops in r back in 2017 at UBC 😁

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Colette Derworiz 🇨🇦 @cderworiz.bsky.social · Jan 2
New plant adaptation research from @samyeaman.bsky.social and his team:
ucalgary.ca/news/plant-a...
Plant adaptation research could help find ways to make crops more resilient to climate change
UCalgary’s Yeaman Lab provides a glimpse into how related plants genetically respond to environmental stress
ucalgary.ca

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · Dec 17
Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!
TT Assistant Professor of Plant Evolutionary Biology
The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in Plant Evolutionary Biology. This position is a 9-month, ten...
jobs.ncsu.edu