Joey Bernhardt
@joeybernhardt.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Integrative ecologist | thermal ecology, biodiversity, seafood & human health. She/her.
https://www.bernhardtlab.org/
https://www.bernhardtlab.org/
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✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨
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#CSEE2025
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#CSEE2025
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Incorporating realistic ecological interactions changes our understanding of which traits are optimal in different environments, including the temperature-size rule.
Awesome paper by David Anderson, outstanding former postdoc with me and Mary O'Connor.
Awesome paper by David Anderson, outstanding former postdoc with me and Mary O'Connor.
Trophic Interactions Influence Thermal Adaptation of Phytoplankton Size and Stoichiometry by Anderson et al.
Available now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Available now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Trophic Interactions Influence Thermal Adaptation of Phytoplankton Size and Stoichiometry | The American Naturalist
Abstract Understanding how temperature affects adaptation of cell size is challenging because cell size mediates numerous physiological and ecological trade-offs. While physiological mechanisms can le...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Incorporating realistic ecological interactions changes our understanding of which traits are optimal in different environments, including the temperature-size rule.
Awesome paper by David Anderson, outstanding former postdoc with me and Mary O'Connor.
Awesome paper by David Anderson, outstanding former postdoc with me and Mary O'Connor.
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🏫 Some of our postdoctoral fellows recently partnered with the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation to host a PA Day featuring outdoor learning on the Saugeen Peninsula. From wildlife spotting to food web games, it was a day of shared discovery:
🔗 www.ecosystemscience.ca/news/tmfly5m...
🔗 www.ecosystemscience.ca/news/tmfly5m...
Learning Together on the Land and Water — Centre for Ecosystem Management
A day of outdoor exploration, wildlife sightings, and freshwater science came to life as some of our postdoctoral fellows led a hands-on outreach event for local youth on the Saugeen Peninsula.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🏫 Some of our postdoctoral fellows recently partnered with the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation to host a PA Day featuring outdoor learning on the Saugeen Peninsula. From wildlife spotting to food web games, it was a day of shared discovery:
🔗 www.ecosystemscience.ca/news/tmfly5m...
🔗 www.ecosystemscience.ca/news/tmfly5m...
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Looking forward to the Modern Coexistence Theory workshop tomorrow.
Please repost :)
Please repost :)
Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Looking forward to the Modern Coexistence Theory workshop tomorrow.
Please repost :)
Please repost :)
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Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social
ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
2. ASN Early Career Investigator awards are now open for application. Self-nominations okay! Due Jan 5
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ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
2. ASN Early Career Investigator awards are now open for application. Self-nominations okay! Due Jan 5
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Applications for the 2026 ASN Early Career Investigator Award
<p>Nominations/Applications for the 2026 Early Career Investigator Award are <strong>due January 5, 2026</strong></p><br/>
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November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social
ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
2. ASN Early Career Investigator awards are now open for application. Self-nominations okay! Due Jan 5
nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
2. ASN Early Career Investigator awards are now open for application. Self-nominations okay! Due Jan 5
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Looking for some help! I'm putting together materials for a postdoc workshop on writing cover letters and abstracts for general journals like Science, Nature, PNAS. Any advice, tips, or resources to share? I will compile and share back! 🧪😀
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Looking for some help! I'm putting together materials for a postdoc workshop on writing cover letters and abstracts for general journals like Science, Nature, PNAS. Any advice, tips, or resources to share? I will compile and share back! 🧪😀
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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
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New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm
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Maud Menten was born in Canada in 1879 and completed her UG and MD education at University of Toronto. As a research assistant with Leonor Michaelis in 1912, they wrote the classic paper describing the “Michaelis-Menten” model of enzyme kinetics.. #WomenInScience
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Maud Menten was born in Canada in 1879 and completed her UG and MD education at University of Toronto. As a research assistant with Leonor Michaelis in 1912, they wrote the classic paper describing the “Michaelis-Menten” model of enzyme kinetics.. #WomenInScience
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Embarrassing. Have some collections of the #barnacle Chthamalus fragilis that have gone missing for a student project. My fault. Anybody in DE, NJ, NY, CT able to collect some locally? I pay FedEx and small $ bounty. Please contact if able.
October 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Embarrassing. Have some collections of the #barnacle Chthamalus fragilis that have gone missing for a student project. My fault. Anybody in DE, NJ, NY, CT able to collect some locally? I pay FedEx and small $ bounty. Please contact if able.
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The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!
October 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!
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I'm the incoming SSE president and am behind this idea -- if you're interested in putting together an app and have questions, pls reach out!
Now accepting proposals for new Research Synthesis Working Groups! Each funded group will present a symposium at the Evolution meeting, collaborate on a publication, and establish a lasting research network. Submit your proposal by January 6: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
October 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I'm the incoming SSE president and am behind this idea -- if you're interested in putting together an app and have questions, pls reach out!
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@franwin.co.uk drove a massive rework of rTPC this year, making package maintenance much easier. rTPC now supports 49 different model formulations, vignettes are updated, & you can parallelise model fitting using new purrr & mirai, which is DOPE. #rstats 🧪
padpadpadpad.github.io/rTPC/article...
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October 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
@franwin.co.uk drove a massive rework of rTPC this year, making package maintenance much easier. rTPC now supports 49 different model formulations, vignettes are updated, & you can parallelise model fitting using new purrr & mirai, which is DOPE. #rstats 🧪
padpadpadpad.github.io/rTPC/article...
padpadpadpad.github.io/rTPC/article...
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Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social
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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
September 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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
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The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
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September 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
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Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System
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The Plant Resilience Institute (PRI) at Michigan State University invites applications for multiple tenure-st...
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September 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...
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Late to the party, but I'm so excited about the first paper from our lab: ✨Unique genetic bases of repeated life-history divergence associated with high altitude adaptation in Mimulus perennials ✨
This work was led by the ABSOLUTE ROCKSTAR Hongfei Chen!
This work was led by the ABSOLUTE ROCKSTAR Hongfei Chen!
September 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Late to the party, but I'm so excited about the first paper from our lab: ✨Unique genetic bases of repeated life-history divergence associated with high altitude adaptation in Mimulus perennials ✨
This work was led by the ABSOLUTE ROCKSTAR Hongfei Chen!
This work was led by the ABSOLUTE ROCKSTAR Hongfei Chen!
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The Coughlan lab is on 🔥🔥🔥
We're on a roll: Super proud of this paper lead by Dr. Megan Frayer & GS Hagar Soliman (with a major contrib from GS Pia Schwarz): Introgression and Parental Conflict Shape Repeated Occurrences of Postzygotic Isolation @hybridzones.bsky.social @hagarsoliman.bsky.social @pfschwarz.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The Coughlan lab is on 🔥🔥🔥
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Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
September 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
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I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying!
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academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614
September 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614
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🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1.
#AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs
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(I love being here. Come join!)
@stonybrooku.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1.
#AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs
apply.interfolio.com/171403
(I love being here. Come join!)
@stonybrooku.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1.
#AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs
apply.interfolio.com/171403
(I love being here. Come join!)
@stonybrooku.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1.
#AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs
apply.interfolio.com/171403
(I love being here. Come join!)
@stonybrooku.bsky.social
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A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution identifies a bacterial species as a cause of sea star wasting disease, which has been responsible for billions of sea star deaths since 2013 and widespread loss of kelp habitats. go.nature.com/46I4kx2 🌊 🧪
August 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution identifies a bacterial species as a cause of sea star wasting disease, which has been responsible for billions of sea star deaths since 2013 and widespread loss of kelp habitats. go.nature.com/46I4kx2 🌊 🧪
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Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today!
Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!
🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!
🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Causal Inference Framework for Climate Change Attribution in Ecology
Accurately attributing ecological shifts to climate change remains a significant challenge. Here, we present an accessible causal inference framework designed for climate change attribution in observ...
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August 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today!
Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!
🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!
🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Welcome to the lab @megan-szojka.bsky.social!! We are so excited you've joined us, and can't wait for all the fun science to come! Welcome to the Bernhardt Lab and the @centreecomgmt.bsky.social and @integrativebiology.bsky.social!
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📢 We're excited to introduce our newest post-doc, @megan-szojka.bsky.social! Her work - using theory + field data to explore how warming, species interactions, and dispersal shape ecosystems - will deepen our understanding of resilience in a changing world: www.ecosystemscience.ca/news/welcomi...
Welcoming Dr. Megan Szojka to the Centre for Ecosystem Management — Centre for Ecosystem Management
We’re excited to welcome our newest postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Megan Szojka, to the Centre for Ecosystem Management (CEM)!
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August 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Welcome to the lab @megan-szojka.bsky.social!! We are so excited you've joined us, and can't wait for all the fun science to come! Welcome to the Bernhardt Lab and the @centreecomgmt.bsky.social and @integrativebiology.bsky.social!
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Please help us spread the word! Please amplify!
We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics
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August 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Please help us spread the word! Please amplify!
We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio