Jérôme Burkiewicz
@jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social
Ph.D. student in Simon Joly lab working on the evolution of flower morphology in an urbanization context 🌸 🐝 🌳🏙️| Interested in flower evolution, pollination, plant reproduction, local adaptation and conservation.
Pinned
Urbanization drives genetic and plastic responses of the spotted jewelweed flower morphology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.10.658901v1
🚨 My first first-authored paper is out on bioRxiv!
🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis.
🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations.
🧵 More below ⬇️
🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis.
🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations.
🧵 More below ⬇️
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A student wrote to me after the midterm, and they said they should have gotten a lower grade. I think this is important, because I fundamentally disagree with this student, and it took me a while to articulate why. This is my rough draft. 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A student wrote to me after the midterm, and they said they should have gotten a lower grade. I think this is important, because I fundamentally disagree with this student, and it took me a while to articulate why. This is my rough draft. 🧵
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Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
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📢 Prochain séminaire // Next conference
AI tools in scientific writing: Should you? And how?
👨🔬 Stephen B. Heard, U New Brunswick
📅 Mercredi, 10 septembre 2025, 13:30
📍 Centre sur la biodiversité, B-104
AI tools in scientific writing: Should you? And how?
👨🔬 Stephen B. Heard, U New Brunswick
📅 Mercredi, 10 septembre 2025, 13:30
📍 Centre sur la biodiversité, B-104
September 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
📢 Prochain séminaire // Next conference
AI tools in scientific writing: Should you? And how?
👨🔬 Stephen B. Heard, U New Brunswick
📅 Mercredi, 10 septembre 2025, 13:30
📍 Centre sur la biodiversité, B-104
AI tools in scientific writing: Should you? And how?
👨🔬 Stephen B. Heard, U New Brunswick
📅 Mercredi, 10 septembre 2025, 13:30
📍 Centre sur la biodiversité, B-104
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Si vous êtes à Montréal mercredi, vous devriez venir écouter le séminaire de @stephenbheard.bsky.social sur l'utilisation de l'IA en rédaction scientifique! 🧪
If you are in Montreal on Wednesday, you should definitely come to @stephenbheard.bsky.social's talk on AI in scientific writing! 🧪
If you are in Montreal on Wednesday, you should definitely come to @stephenbheard.bsky.social's talk on AI in scientific writing! 🧪
📢 Prochain séminaire // Next conference
AI tools in scientific writing: Should you? And how?
👨🔬 Stephen B. Heard, U New Brunswick
📅 Mercredi, 10 septembre 2025, 13:30
📍 Centre sur la biodiversité, B-104
AI tools in scientific writing: Should you? And how?
👨🔬 Stephen B. Heard, U New Brunswick
📅 Mercredi, 10 septembre 2025, 13:30
📍 Centre sur la biodiversité, B-104
September 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Si vous êtes à Montréal mercredi, vous devriez venir écouter le séminaire de @stephenbheard.bsky.social sur l'utilisation de l'IA en rédaction scientifique! 🧪
If you are in Montreal on Wednesday, you should definitely come to @stephenbheard.bsky.social's talk on AI in scientific writing! 🧪
If you are in Montreal on Wednesday, you should definitely come to @stephenbheard.bsky.social's talk on AI in scientific writing! 🧪
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📢 Prochain séminaire
👩🔬 Silvana Martén Rodriguez, UNAM
🧪 Changing tracks towards the summit: pollination and breeding system shifts along tropical mountain gradients
📅 Mercredi 27 août 2025 à 11h30 à l’IRBV (B-354).
👩🔬 Silvana Martén Rodriguez, UNAM
🧪 Changing tracks towards the summit: pollination and breeding system shifts along tropical mountain gradients
📅 Mercredi 27 août 2025 à 11h30 à l’IRBV (B-354).
August 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
📢 Prochain séminaire
👩🔬 Silvana Martén Rodriguez, UNAM
🧪 Changing tracks towards the summit: pollination and breeding system shifts along tropical mountain gradients
📅 Mercredi 27 août 2025 à 11h30 à l’IRBV (B-354).
👩🔬 Silvana Martén Rodriguez, UNAM
🧪 Changing tracks towards the summit: pollination and breeding system shifts along tropical mountain gradients
📅 Mercredi 27 août 2025 à 11h30 à l’IRBV (B-354).
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Is the Most Effective Pollinator Principle a zombie idea? How do plants adapted to one pollinator shift to another without traversing an adaptive valley? How should we measure fitness in pollinator selection studies? We explore these questions and more in a new review doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
Beyond the Grant–Stebbins model: floral adaptive landscapes and plant speciation
AbstractBackground. Floral diversity, a striking feature of angiosperm evolution, provides the impetus and rationale for linking pollinator-driven selectio
doi.org
August 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Is the Most Effective Pollinator Principle a zombie idea? How do plants adapted to one pollinator shift to another without traversing an adaptive valley? How should we measure fitness in pollinator selection studies? We explore these questions and more in a new review doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Interested in sex chromosomes evolution and want to wrap up today’s talks on a colorful note? Come see my presentation on guppy sex chromosomes today, July 8th! 🐠
#CSEE2025
⌚16h15, 📍 Lac Memphrémagog
#CSEE2025
⌚16h15, 📍 Lac Memphrémagog
July 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Interested in sex chromosomes evolution and want to wrap up today’s talks on a colorful note? Come see my presentation on guppy sex chromosomes today, July 8th! 🐠
#CSEE2025
⌚16h15, 📍 Lac Memphrémagog
#CSEE2025
⌚16h15, 📍 Lac Memphrémagog
Hey #CSEE2025 interested in flowers, natural selection, urbanization or any combination of the three?
I’m presenting results of my thesis at 11am today in the urban ecology session (Rivière Coaticook)
I’m presenting results of my thesis at 11am today in the urban ecology session (Rivière Coaticook)
You have to come and see the talk of @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social that will test if urbanization affects natural selection by pollinator on flower shape.
#CSEE2025
It is at 11:00 in Rivière Coaticook
#CSEE2025
It is at 11:00 in Rivière Coaticook
July 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Hey #CSEE2025 interested in flowers, natural selection, urbanization or any combination of the three?
I’m presenting results of my thesis at 11am today in the urban ecology session (Rivière Coaticook)
I’m presenting results of my thesis at 11am today in the urban ecology session (Rivière Coaticook)
🚨 My first first-authored paper is out on bioRxiv!
🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis.
🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations.
🧵 More below ⬇️
🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis.
🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations.
🧵 More below ⬇️
Urbanization drives genetic and plastic responses of the spotted jewelweed flower morphology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.10.658901v1
June 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🚨 My first first-authored paper is out on bioRxiv!
🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis.
🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations.
🧵 More below ⬇️
🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis.
🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations.
🧵 More below ⬇️
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Je suis heureuse d’annoncer l’obtention d’une bourse postdoctorale du FRQ pour mon projet sur les conséquences de la perte de recombinaison génétique chez les guppys, dans le labo de Judith Mank (UBC)! Je présenterai ces travaux au #SCEE2025 à Sherbrooke cet été – au plaisir de vous y voir!
May 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Je suis heureuse d’annoncer l’obtention d’une bourse postdoctorale du FRQ pour mon projet sur les conséquences de la perte de recombinaison génétique chez les guppys, dans le labo de Judith Mank (UBC)! Je présenterai ces travaux au #SCEE2025 à Sherbrooke cet été – au plaisir de vous y voir!
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If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
September 19, 2024 at 10:56 AM
If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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🌧️🌵 Climate extremes are reshaping the world of pollinators!
A new study reveals that a decrease or excessive increase in water availability can negatively affect the reproductive potential of plant species & pollinators collecting their nectar. 🌍🧪
Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A new study reveals that a decrease or excessive increase in water availability can negatively affect the reproductive potential of plant species & pollinators collecting their nectar. 🌍🧪
Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Extreme events induced by climate change alter nectar offer to pollinators in cross pollination-dependent crops - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Extreme events induced by climate change alter nectar offer to pollinators in cross pollination-dependent crops
www.nature.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
🌧️🌵 Climate extremes are reshaping the world of pollinators!
A new study reveals that a decrease or excessive increase in water availability can negatively affect the reproductive potential of plant species & pollinators collecting their nectar. 🌍🧪
Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A new study reveals that a decrease or excessive increase in water availability can negatively affect the reproductive potential of plant species & pollinators collecting their nectar. 🌍🧪
Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Exciting news! @wcratcliff.bsky.social and I published an essay last week in @nature.com reviewing the substantial contributions of 'long-term' studies to evolutionary biology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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March 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Exciting news! @wcratcliff.bsky.social and I published an essay last week in @nature.com reviewing the substantial contributions of 'long-term' studies to evolutionary biology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Really excited to say that my lab's paper on color transitions in Mimulus sect. Erythranthe is out! We found that some traits demonstrate evolutionary convergence in phenotype & genotype, while others are divergent, & that - as Bob Vickery found - bees prefer yellow!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Within-species floral evolution reveals convergence in adaptive walks during incipient pollinator shift - Nature Communications
During evolution, how adaptive walks cross fitness valleys remains unclear. This integrative study on monkeyflowers reveals that convergence in large steps (floral color and gene expression) drives a ...
www.nature.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Really excited to say that my lab's paper on color transitions in Mimulus sect. Erythranthe is out! We found that some traits demonstrate evolutionary convergence in phenotype & genotype, while others are divergent, & that - as Bob Vickery found - bees prefer yellow!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Moir et al. (2025) asked how pollinators drive geographic floral divergence in Brunsvigia gregaria with a generalist pollination system. Style length correlates with the body length of locally important pollinators, highlighting their critical role in floral evolution. #Ecology
bit.ly/4aEqb8u
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January 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Moir et al. (2025) asked how pollinators drive geographic floral divergence in Brunsvigia gregaria with a generalist pollination system. Style length correlates with the body length of locally important pollinators, highlighting their critical role in floral evolution. #Ecology
bit.ly/4aEqb8u
bit.ly/4aEqb8u
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JOB ALERT:
Join us @irbv.bsky.social , the Univeristy of Montreal to develop your research program related to quantitative genetics where #plants are the object of study or an integral part of the studied system.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Join us @irbv.bsky.social , the Univeristy of Montreal to develop your research program related to quantitative genetics where #plants are the object of study or an integral part of the studied system.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Assistant Professor in Quantitative Genetics - IRBV is located in the Montreal Botanical Garden, one of the largest in North America. job with Université de Montréal / IRBV | 12835129
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position to develop a research program related to quantitative genetics of plants or plant-associated systems.
www.nature.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
JOB ALERT:
Join us @irbv.bsky.social , the Univeristy of Montreal to develop your research program related to quantitative genetics where #plants are the object of study or an integral part of the studied system.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Join us @irbv.bsky.social , the Univeristy of Montreal to develop your research program related to quantitative genetics where #plants are the object of study or an integral part of the studied system.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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New work reveals the impact of anxiety & depression on PhD students.
"Anxiety and depression can have a substantially detrimental impact on graduate students’ experiences [..] and likely also contribute to increased time to degree and student attrition."
nature.com/articles/s41...
"Anxiety and depression can have a substantially detrimental impact on graduate students’ experiences [..] and likely also contribute to increased time to degree and student attrition."
nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2024 at 4:14 AM
New work reveals the impact of anxiety & depression on PhD students.
"Anxiety and depression can have a substantially detrimental impact on graduate students’ experiences [..] and likely also contribute to increased time to degree and student attrition."
nature.com/articles/s41...
"Anxiety and depression can have a substantially detrimental impact on graduate students’ experiences [..] and likely also contribute to increased time to degree and student attrition."
nature.com/articles/s41...
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We’ve put a lot of work into making Bluesky a healthier social network. This app is designed to give you a choice — in what you want to see, what you don’t want to see, and how you want to interact.
Some tips on how to customize your experience:
Some tips on how to customize your experience:
November 14, 2024 at 11:01 PM
We’ve put a lot of work into making Bluesky a healthier social network. This app is designed to give you a choice — in what you want to see, what you don’t want to see, and how you want to interact.
Some tips on how to customize your experience:
Some tips on how to customize your experience:
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The Joly lab at #Evol2024 today…
Jérôme Burkiewicz (@jeromeburkiewicz) is presenting some of his PhD work on the genetic and plastic effects of urbanization in flower chape of the jewelweed.
📌 4:15, room 525AB (Floral Evolution), Sunday 28th
Jérôme Burkiewicz (@jeromeburkiewicz) is presenting some of his PhD work on the genetic and plastic effects of urbanization in flower chape of the jewelweed.
📌 4:15, room 525AB (Floral Evolution), Sunday 28th
July 28, 2024 at 11:35 AM
The Joly lab at #Evol2024 today…
Jérôme Burkiewicz (@jeromeburkiewicz) is presenting some of his PhD work on the genetic and plastic effects of urbanization in flower chape of the jewelweed.
📌 4:15, room 525AB (Floral Evolution), Sunday 28th
Jérôme Burkiewicz (@jeromeburkiewicz) is presenting some of his PhD work on the genetic and plastic effects of urbanization in flower chape of the jewelweed.
📌 4:15, room 525AB (Floral Evolution), Sunday 28th
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Guest blog from me on Dynamic Ecology, a guide for beginning grads on developing a reading habit and project ideas! Super grateful for reposts :)
Non-definitive guides on developing a reading habit & generating project ideas
Note from Meghan: This is a guest post by my colleague Gina Baucom on a topic that's sure to be of interest to lots of readers! *** I lead a graduate-level professional development seminar* where we r...
dynamicecology.wordpress.com
February 19, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Guest blog from me on Dynamic Ecology, a guide for beginning grads on developing a reading habit and project ideas! Super grateful for reposts :)
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Stagnant investments in training and research compromise Canada’s economic growth
Read this new commentary (and see the numbers) written by Professor Marc Johnson, Chair of our Board of Directors, in @theglobeandmail.com:
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com... #SupportOurScience
Read this new commentary (and see the numbers) written by Professor Marc Johnson, Chair of our Board of Directors, in @theglobeandmail.com:
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com... #SupportOurScience
Opinion: Stagnant investments in training and research compromise Canada’s economic growth
Canada invests just 1.55 per cent of gross domestic product in research and development, which pales in comparison to peer countries
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 5, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Stagnant investments in training and research compromise Canada’s economic growth
Read this new commentary (and see the numbers) written by Professor Marc Johnson, Chair of our Board of Directors, in @theglobeandmail.com:
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com... #SupportOurScience
Read this new commentary (and see the numbers) written by Professor Marc Johnson, Chair of our Board of Directors, in @theglobeandmail.com:
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com... #SupportOurScience
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New paper alert! ✨
Mothers dictating how to reproduce? How weird! In a hybrid fish, however, that is the reality!
Check how maternal ploidy governs gonadal development into producing either sexual or asexual oocytes, all that in our new paper linked below!
t.ly/hSUX8
Mothers dictating how to reproduce? How weird! In a hybrid fish, however, that is the reality!
Check how maternal ploidy governs gonadal development into producing either sexual or asexual oocytes, all that in our new paper linked below!
t.ly/hSUX8
January 23, 2024 at 6:51 PM
New paper alert! ✨
Mothers dictating how to reproduce? How weird! In a hybrid fish, however, that is the reality!
Check how maternal ploidy governs gonadal development into producing either sexual or asexual oocytes, all that in our new paper linked below!
t.ly/hSUX8
Mothers dictating how to reproduce? How weird! In a hybrid fish, however, that is the reality!
Check how maternal ploidy governs gonadal development into producing either sexual or asexual oocytes, all that in our new paper linked below!
t.ly/hSUX8
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Hello everyone! I'm Joëlle, a late PhD (UMontreal, CAN) starting her postdoc next January (UBC, CAN). I work on all things touching reproduction 🐣. My PhD was on the reproduction of weird hybrid fish🐟 (clones and stuff) and my postdoc is on the evolution of sexual chromosomes🧬!
Nice to meet you all!
Nice to meet you all!
September 27, 2023 at 1:25 PM
Hello everyone! I'm Joëlle, a late PhD (UMontreal, CAN) starting her postdoc next January (UBC, CAN). I work on all things touching reproduction 🐣. My PhD was on the reproduction of weird hybrid fish🐟 (clones and stuff) and my postdoc is on the evolution of sexual chromosomes🧬!
Nice to meet you all!
Nice to meet you all!