Tom Booker
@tombooker.bsky.social
Assistant professor in forest genetics/genomics at UBC in Vancouver
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This program is great, and has a terrific track record of helping prepare folks for tenure track positions.
If you are interested in applying to be hosted in my group, feel free to drop me a line!
If you are interested in applying to be hosted in my group, feel free to drop me a line!
We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This program is great, and has a terrific track record of helping prepare folks for tenure track positions.
If you are interested in applying to be hosted in my group, feel free to drop me a line!
If you are interested in applying to be hosted in my group, feel free to drop me a line!
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Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
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The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.
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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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🚨CSEE 2026: Call for Symposium & Workshop Proposals!
Got a great idea for a session? Now's your chance to shape the CSEE 2026 program!
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 3, 2025 @ 9:00 PM
📋 Submit via: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026
Full instructions + selection criteria on the site.
Got a great idea for a session? Now's your chance to shape the CSEE 2026 program!
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 3, 2025 @ 9:00 PM
📋 Submit via: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026
Full instructions + selection criteria on the site.
2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
Fourwaves - 2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
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September 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
🚨CSEE 2026: Call for Symposium & Workshop Proposals!
Got a great idea for a session? Now's your chance to shape the CSEE 2026 program!
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 3, 2025 @ 9:00 PM
📋 Submit via: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026
Full instructions + selection criteria on the site.
Got a great idea for a session? Now's your chance to shape the CSEE 2026 program!
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 3, 2025 @ 9:00 PM
📋 Submit via: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026
Full instructions + selection criteria on the site.
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
Check out this short piece on the genomics of local adaptation. Abi Brown (not on Bluesky) and I wrote it with @samyeaman.bsky.social
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Any input you say have would be welcomed!
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Any input you say have would be welcomed!
What fraction of the genomic basis of local adaptation are we missing?
ecoevorxiv.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Check out this short piece on the genomics of local adaptation. Abi Brown (not on Bluesky) and I wrote it with @samyeaman.bsky.social
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Any input you say have would be welcomed!
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Any input you say have would be welcomed!
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Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with @shaky-dingo.bsky.social and colleagues
August 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with @shaky-dingo.bsky.social and colleagues
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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
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August 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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
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Excited to finally have the pre-print up for this work on evolutionary rescue from my PhD at UBC!
Previous theoretical work on the effects of negative density-dependent growth on evolutionary rescue has uncovered inconsistent results, leading to an incomplete understanding of its influence.
Previous theoretical work on the effects of negative density-dependent growth on evolutionary rescue has uncovered inconsistent results, leading to an incomplete understanding of its influence.
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
August 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Excited to finally have the pre-print up for this work on evolutionary rescue from my PhD at UBC!
Previous theoretical work on the effects of negative density-dependent growth on evolutionary rescue has uncovered inconsistent results, leading to an incomplete understanding of its influence.
Previous theoretical work on the effects of negative density-dependent growth on evolutionary rescue has uncovered inconsistent results, leading to an incomplete understanding of its influence.
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Building pangenomes for domesticated and wild tree species: genomic complexity and strategies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.22.665893v1
July 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Building pangenomes for domesticated and wild tree species: genomic complexity and strategies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.22.665893v1
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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.
June 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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.
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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.)
May 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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.)
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Just three more days to apply to this post-doc position (Deadline 8 May 2025). Not only is the subject matter stunning 🤯 but, you know, life in Montpellier is great too 😎.
Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel
Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel
#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers #TransCan These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894
Post-Doctoral Researcher – Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel (M/F)
- work environment: Host-Pathogen-Environment Interactions Laboratory (UMR5244 IHPE), Montpellier - main mission:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
May 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Just three more days to apply to this post-doc position (Deadline 8 May 2025). Not only is the subject matter stunning 🤯 but, you know, life in Montpellier is great too 😎.
Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel
Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel
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Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
May 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
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Like over 7 million Canadians, I voted already last weekend. But if you are a Canadian and 18+ and you haven't voted yet, please go vote tomorrow. Elections matter, and your vote counts. We're lucky to live in 🇨🇦 where elections are free and fair, and our politicians will accept the results.
April 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Like over 7 million Canadians, I voted already last weekend. But if you are a Canadian and 18+ and you haven't voted yet, please go vote tomorrow. Elections matter, and your vote counts. We're lucky to live in 🇨🇦 where elections are free and fair, and our politicians will accept the results.
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Absolutely incredible
This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
April 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Absolutely incredible
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Hearty congratulations to Anurag Agrawal, Amy Angert, and Graham Coop upon their election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, for their work illuminating the natural world around us. This recognition is very much deserved.
April 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Hearty congratulations to Anurag Agrawal, Amy Angert, and Graham Coop upon their election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, for their work illuminating the natural world around us. This recognition is very much deserved.
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This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...
defector.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
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The idea of replacing environmental regulation under the ESA with gene editing is just fallacious. The reasons are not complicated. Brenna Forester, Tanya Lama, and me in Science in 2023:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
April 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The idea of replacing environmental regulation under the ESA with gene editing is just fallacious. The reasons are not complicated. Brenna Forester, Tanya Lama, and me in Science in 2023:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I have 2️⃣ postdoc positions advertised at the Swedish Museum of Natural History:
Postdoc on "Theory of adaptive radiation"
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
Postdoc on "Homoploid Hybrid Plant Genome Evolution"
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
I have 2️⃣ postdoc positions advertised at the Swedish Museum of Natural History:
Postdoc on "Theory of adaptive radiation"
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
Postdoc on "Homoploid Hybrid Plant Genome Evolution"
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
April 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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I have 2️⃣ postdoc positions advertised at the Swedish Museum of Natural History:
Postdoc on "Theory of adaptive radiation"
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
Postdoc on "Homoploid Hybrid Plant Genome Evolution"
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
I have 2️⃣ postdoc positions advertised at the Swedish Museum of Natural History:
Postdoc on "Theory of adaptive radiation"
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
Postdoc on "Homoploid Hybrid Plant Genome Evolution"
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
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We are looking for new manager for our computing unit! If you have experience in both biology and computers, this might be the perfect job for you! UBC is a lovely place, and Zoology is a fantastic, collaborative and kind department. Apply by May 4th at ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcstaffjobs...
Biosciences Computing Manager
Staff - Non Union Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Profile AAPS Salaried - Information Systems and Technology, Level D Job Title Biosciences Computing Manager Department Administrative Leadership | Dep...
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April 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We are looking for new manager for our computing unit! If you have experience in both biology and computers, this might be the perfect job for you! UBC is a lovely place, and Zoology is a fantastic, collaborative and kind department. Apply by May 4th at ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcstaffjobs...
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Science benefits humanity in countless ways. CSEE condemns the current U.S. administration’s efforts to dismantle science. Read our full statement in support of U.S. scientists and science here: csee-scee.ca/current-bull...
CSEE Current Bulletin
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April 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Science benefits humanity in countless ways. CSEE condemns the current U.S. administration’s efforts to dismantle science. Read our full statement in support of U.S. scientists and science here: csee-scee.ca/current-bull...
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Early Bird ends April 15!
Join us in Sherbrooke, QC for CSEE's 2025 Annual Conference (July 6–9)!
Register now & apply for travel bursaries!
Travel Awards:
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#CSEE2025 #Ecology #Evolution
Join us in Sherbrooke, QC for CSEE's 2025 Annual Conference (July 6–9)!
Register now & apply for travel bursaries!
Travel Awards:
csee-scee.ca/awards/stude...
Registration: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/reg...
#CSEE2025 #Ecology #Evolution
April 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Early Bird ends April 15!
Join us in Sherbrooke, QC for CSEE's 2025 Annual Conference (July 6–9)!
Register now & apply for travel bursaries!
Travel Awards:
csee-scee.ca/awards/stude...
Registration: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/reg...
#CSEE2025 #Ecology #Evolution
Join us in Sherbrooke, QC for CSEE's 2025 Annual Conference (July 6–9)!
Register now & apply for travel bursaries!
Travel Awards:
csee-scee.ca/awards/stude...
Registration: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/reg...
#CSEE2025 #Ecology #Evolution
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Excited to see the final version of this paper with @samurscicop.bsky.social and Daniel Matute out in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social!
We took a dive into the complicated demographic history of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and its impact on the distribution of genetic diversity
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
We took a dive into the complicated demographic history of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and its impact on the distribution of genetic diversity
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Demographic history, genetic load, and the efficacy of selection in the globally invasive mosquito Aedes aegypti
Abstract. Aedes aegypti is the main vector species of yellow fever, dengue, Zika and chikungunya. The species is originally from Africa but has experienced
doi.org
April 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Excited to see the final version of this paper with @samurscicop.bsky.social and Daniel Matute out in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social!
We took a dive into the complicated demographic history of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and its impact on the distribution of genetic diversity
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
We took a dive into the complicated demographic history of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and its impact on the distribution of genetic diversity
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...