Mark Statham
@markstatham.bsky.social
Wildlife Biologist | Geneticist | Researcher and PI @ucdavis | 🐹🦊🦎🐞🧬 | Likes combining maps and science | Irish in U.S.
Occasional nature photos.
Occasional nature photos.
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Interested in a starting PI position at University College London to work on Genetics, Evolution or the Environment? My department has opened the call for expressions of interest for sponsorship of independent fellowship applications.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Interested in a starting PI position at University College London to work on Genetics, Evolution or the Environment? My department has opened the call for expressions of interest for sponsorship of independent fellowship applications.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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The University of Toronto's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department invites postdoc applications. Salary: $70K; start: July–Dec 2025. Deadline: April 25, 2025. More: https://eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/ #postdoc
Employment - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Employment - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
eeb.utoronto.ca
March 20, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The University of Toronto's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department invites postdoc applications. Salary: $70K; start: July–Dec 2025. Deadline: April 25, 2025. More: https://eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/ #postdoc
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WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
March 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
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No one deserves this. But to do this to these selfless people...
It is also devastating talking to anxious, soon-to-graduate students about their futures.
So here's to supporting each other as we continue finding ways to do the work the world so desperately needs.
It is also devastating talking to anxious, soon-to-graduate students about their futures.
So here's to supporting each other as we continue finding ways to do the work the world so desperately needs.
February 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
No one deserves this. But to do this to these selfless people...
It is also devastating talking to anxious, soon-to-graduate students about their futures.
So here's to supporting each other as we continue finding ways to do the work the world so desperately needs.
It is also devastating talking to anxious, soon-to-graduate students about their futures.
So here's to supporting each other as we continue finding ways to do the work the world so desperately needs.
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Using our “global strength” to force an invaded country into concessions with an invader makes us complicit with the invader. It’s like returning an abuse victim to the abuser’s home. Shameful. Wrong. Un-American.
February 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Using our “global strength” to force an invaded country into concessions with an invader makes us complicit with the invader. It’s like returning an abuse victim to the abuser’s home. Shameful. Wrong. Un-American.
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I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.
February 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.
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Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it.
So we moved over to blue sky.
Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-)
Please do
Follow
Retweet & repeat
So we moved over to blue sky.
Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-)
Please do
Follow
Retweet & repeat
February 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it.
So we moved over to blue sky.
Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-)
Please do
Follow
Retweet & repeat
So we moved over to blue sky.
Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-)
Please do
Follow
Retweet & repeat
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I've slowly collected a list of workshops, webinars, and resources for folks pursuing a career in wildlife. It's certainly not exhaustive and it definitely leans California heavy, buts it's my own little way of sharing a field that can often feel hard to get into.. drive.google.com/file/d/1tdn2...
Wildlife Continuing Education - Workshops.pdf
drive.google.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I've slowly collected a list of workshops, webinars, and resources for folks pursuing a career in wildlife. It's certainly not exhaustive and it definitely leans California heavy, buts it's my own little way of sharing a field that can often feel hard to get into.. drive.google.com/file/d/1tdn2...
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Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🌍🦤🧬
#consgen #PopGen
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🌍🦤🧬
#consgen #PopGen
Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature
A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🌍🦤🧬
#consgen #PopGen
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🌍🦤🧬
#consgen #PopGen
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Do I know any epidemiologists who have a little extra time for a mini-collab? hit me up! 🐾👣💉🧪🌎
January 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Do I know any epidemiologists who have a little extra time for a mini-collab? hit me up! 🐾👣💉🧪🌎
Just submitted a major report on salt marsh harvest mouse population genomics. 🐭🧬What a weight off my shoulders! But now I have to get back to all the other tasks that have been piling up.
January 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Just submitted a major report on salt marsh harvest mouse population genomics. 🐭🧬What a weight off my shoulders! But now I have to get back to all the other tasks that have been piling up.
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Right on time for Squirrel Appreciation Day 🐿️👏, here is our new paper on genomics 🧬 of red squirrels in Scotland 🏴. We find extremely low diversity linked to historical bottlenecks and founder effects. #redsquirrel #genomics #conservation #scotland doi.org/10.1111/eva....
Genomic Insights Into Red Squirrels in Scotland Reveal Loss of Heterozygosity Associated With Extreme Founder Effects
Remnant populations of endangered species often have complex demographic histories associated with human impact. This can present challenges for conservation as populations modified by human activity...
doi.org
January 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Right on time for Squirrel Appreciation Day 🐿️👏, here is our new paper on genomics 🧬 of red squirrels in Scotland 🏴. We find extremely low diversity linked to historical bottlenecks and founder effects. #redsquirrel #genomics #conservation #scotland doi.org/10.1111/eva....
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New faculty job at UC Davis! We are recruiting an Assistant Professor of Applied Viticulture, based at the Oakville research station in the heart of Napa Valley. A dream job for anyone passionate about viticulture and industry outreach. Apply by March 15.
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06900
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06900
Assistant Professor of Applied Viticulture
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
January 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
New faculty job at UC Davis! We are recruiting an Assistant Professor of Applied Viticulture, based at the Oakville research station in the heart of Napa Valley. A dream job for anyone passionate about viticulture and industry outreach. Apply by March 15.
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06900
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06900
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On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image.
All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.
All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.
December 23, 2024 at 5:02 PM
On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image.
All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.
All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.
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Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals.
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
Changes to the classification
julkaisufoorumi.fi
December 16, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals.
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
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I am looking for a Postdoc (2 years, start Spring 2025) with strong bioinfo. skills to work on herring adaptation to climate change at @naturhistoriska
The project will use modern + aDNA, climate data, SDM and genomic simulations.
#aDNA #conservationgenetics #consgen
Ad will come soon!
The project will use modern + aDNA, climate data, SDM and genomic simulations.
#aDNA #conservationgenetics #consgen
Ad will come soon!
November 21, 2024 at 6:52 AM
I am looking for a Postdoc (2 years, start Spring 2025) with strong bioinfo. skills to work on herring adaptation to climate change at @naturhistoriska
The project will use modern + aDNA, climate data, SDM and genomic simulations.
#aDNA #conservationgenetics #consgen
Ad will come soon!
The project will use modern + aDNA, climate data, SDM and genomic simulations.
#aDNA #conservationgenetics #consgen
Ad will come soon!
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The ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) is a species of turkey residing primarily in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, as well as in parts of Belize and Guatemala. It is a relative of the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), although it is somewhat smaller.
November 28, 2024 at 3:37 PM
The ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) is a species of turkey residing primarily in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, as well as in parts of Belize and Guatemala. It is a relative of the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), although it is somewhat smaller.
A ‘by-the-wind-sailor’. An awesome little colonial organism. Humboldt county CA.
March 29, 2024 at 11:04 PM
A ‘by-the-wind-sailor’. An awesome little colonial organism. Humboldt county CA.
Hunting for herps in Sonoma Coast State park
March 6, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Hunting for herps in Sonoma Coast State park