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Simon Joly
@simjoly.bsky.social
Evolutionary botanist | Director, IRBV | Researcher, Montreal Botanical Garden, Espace pour la vie | Adjunct professor, Université de Montréal | tweets my own
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! 🧪
📢 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
September 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Dégustation de 76 variétés de tomates 🍅!

Aujourd’hui au Jardin botanique de Montréal. #JardinNourricier
August 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!

Check us out and come be our colleague!
sc.edu/study/colleg...

Deadline for applications is Oct 1

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Genetics - Department of Biological Sciences | University of South Carolina
sc.edu
August 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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😃 🔎 🌿 🦋 🐾 🦊 🐜
Mettre en valeur la #biodiversité du territoire pour mieux le défendre, ça vous dit?
👉 Samedi 2 août - 10h, on vous attend pour le Bioblitz de la Mob! L'événement est organisé en collaboration avec @apdp.bsky.social ,entomologiste + la participation de plusieurs experts. #Montréal
July 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Amazing opportunity at @mcgill.ca

We are looking to recruit an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary scientist with a strong track record in innovation and research to direct a new program in climate, environment, and health

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
July 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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I’m also thrilled to announce that I will be starting a faculty position with @centreecomgmt.bsky.social @ U of Guelph this fall!

I will be recruiting students & postdocs for 2026 - please reach out or come find me at #CSEE2025 if you’re interested in theory, global change & fisheries ecology 🐟
Getting excited for #CSEE2025!

On Wed morning I’m organizing (& talking in) a symposium - along with Zach Miller and Maxime Clenet - that will bridge theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding spatial and temporal dynamics.

Then @sweeet-ecoevo.bsky.social symposium in the afternoon! 🙌
July 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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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 ✨

Please spread the word!

www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

#CSEE2025
July 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I’ll be at #CSEE2025 talking about patterns of collaboration in the Canadian eco/evo research community 🇨🇦

If you’re a eco/evo prof in Canada, odds are you were one of my data points… so come check it out! Wednesday - 4:30 - Science in action

@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The Joly lab has a strong presence at the Canadian society for ecology and evolution meeting. #CSEE2025

Follow this 🧵 for info of the lab activity.
July 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Oh Sherbrooke! Tu es si accueillante pour les coureurs ! 🤩
#SCEE2025
Oh Sherbrooke! You are so welcoming for runners ! 🏃
#CSEE2025
July 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Check out this very cool study from our lab on flower adaptation to urban environments!

Huge contribution by @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social.

All comments are welcomed on the preprint!
🚨 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 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 7:55 PM
Meet Romulus and Remus, two cloned gray wolves that contain 15 gene modifications that have been selected to make them more similar to the dire wolves, a species that has been extinct for > 12,000 years! 🧪

Press release: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

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April 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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New key finding:
Landscapes of fragmented habitat have lower diversity, at all scales, than do unfragmented landscapes.

Habitat fragmentation does not compensate for the loss of local (alpha) diversity by increasing the diversity among fragments (beta diversity).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!

To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
March 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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🌿 #CSEE2025 Symposium Highlight 🌿

"Turning over a new leaf: the rapidly growing role of natural history collections in modern biodiversity science."

🔬 Discover how natural history collections are transforming biodiversity research, from understanding biogeography to informing conservation efforts.
March 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Want to present your research at #CSEE2025 in Sherbrooke?

📅 Submit your abstract by March 15!

🔗[ event.fourwaves.com/fr/scee2025/... ]
March 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.

It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
www.ucsusa.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
www.nature.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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A must read:
Harnessing artificial intelligence to fill global shortfalls in #biodiversity knowledge
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Led by Laura Pollock and a brilliant team of coauthors all part of the AI and Biodiversity Change Global Center
www.linkedin.com/company/abc-...
February 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Le colloque du CSBQ c’est terminé avec un panel très relevé sur le rôle des statistiques vs. l’intelligence artificielle en écologie et évolution. Les panélistes @comecology.bsky.social, Andrew MacDonald et David Rolnick ont présenté les enjeux d’une façon dés divertissante et pertinente!
#CABQ2025
February 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This morning at #QCBS2025, Sean Hoban from the Morton Arboretum is presenting simple indicators for assessing genetic diversity in order to inform conservation.

He shows that genetic indicators are feasible and helpful!
February 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Hier avait lieu la première journée du colloque annuel du #CSBQ2025 qui traitait de conservation et restauration au Québec.

Voici quelques bonnes nouvelles en matière de biodiversité au Québec qui ont été présentées pendant la journée.

Un 🧵!
February 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM