Chloé Schmidt
@chloology.bsky.social
Population genetics, macrogenetics, biodiversity🐿️🐿️🐿️ and drawing ✏️
Assistant Prof at Dalhousie University
https://www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/
Assistant Prof at Dalhousie University
https://www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/
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"Ladybugs of the sea" in formation 💃 These beauties took the top honors of the 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year contest.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/2025...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/2025...
September 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"Ladybugs of the sea" in formation 💃 These beauties took the top honors of the 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year contest.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/2025...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/2025...
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This isn't how birding is supposed to work!
September 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This isn't how birding is supposed to work!
Looking for a PhD? 2 open positions in a fun lab, with an awesome advisor!! 👇
Two fully funded #PhD positions on insect #Symbiosis available in our lab: Spiroplasma in Neotropical Arthropods (tinyurl.com/spiroplasma) & Psyllid symbionts (tinyurl.com/psyllids).
Please contact me for any questions & share widely #symbiosky #academicjobs
Please contact me for any questions & share widely #symbiosky #academicjobs
tinyurl.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Looking for a PhD? 2 open positions in a fun lab, with an awesome advisor!! 👇
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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
Please spread the word!
www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
#CSEE2025
July 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
✨ 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
Please spread the word!
www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
#CSEE2025
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The 2025 Cooper Award @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social has been awarded to the authors of “Harmonizing taxon names in biodiversity data: A review of tools, databases and best practices”.
Congratulations to Matthias Grenié, @smartenwinter.bsky.social & all co-authors! 🥂🎉
www.idiv.de/cooper-award...
Congratulations to Matthias Grenié, @smartenwinter.bsky.social & all co-authors! 🥂🎉
www.idiv.de/cooper-award...
Authors of iDiv paper awarded W.S. Cooper Award
ESA’s 2025 Cooper Award Honors Groundbreaking Work on Taxonomic Harmonization in Biodiversity Research
www.idiv.de
May 15, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The 2025 Cooper Award @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social has been awarded to the authors of “Harmonizing taxon names in biodiversity data: A review of tools, databases and best practices”.
Congratulations to Matthias Grenié, @smartenwinter.bsky.social & all co-authors! 🥂🎉
www.idiv.de/cooper-award...
Congratulations to Matthias Grenié, @smartenwinter.bsky.social & all co-authors! 🥂🎉
www.idiv.de/cooper-award...
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Post your art or photo by May 15 to enter!
🦋 Call for Submissions!!!
🪸 We are announcing the 2025 Evolution Art/Photography Competition and Exhibition. Students and postdocs are invited to submit evolutionary biology themed artwork or photography for an award.
🐦 Submission Deadline: 11:59 PM Eastern Time (UTC−05:00), May 15th, 2025.
🪸 We are announcing the 2025 Evolution Art/Photography Competition and Exhibition. Students and postdocs are invited to submit evolutionary biology themed artwork or photography for an award.
🐦 Submission Deadline: 11:59 PM Eastern Time (UTC−05:00), May 15th, 2025.
May 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Post your art or photo by May 15 to enter!
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Wildlife Research Analyst position with Ontario MNR. Focus on combining telemetry and genomics datasets. Apply by May 1st: www.gojobs.gov.on.ca/Preview.aspx...
Ontario Public Service Careers - Job Preview
www.gojobs.gov.on.ca
April 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Wildlife Research Analyst position with Ontario MNR. Focus on combining telemetry and genomics datasets. Apply by May 1st: www.gojobs.gov.on.ca/Preview.aspx...
I’m recruiting a PhD student in macrogenetics at Dalhousie University 🇨🇦! Focus will be on the biogeography of vertebrate genetic diversity or urban evolutionary ecology.
Full ad: www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/macrogenetic...
If the ad is up, applications are still open.
Please share widely! 🧬🧬
Full ad: www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/macrogenetic...
If the ad is up, applications are still open.
Please share widely! 🧬🧬
Macrogenetics PhD position | schmidt-biodiversity-lab
www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org
April 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I’m recruiting a PhD student in macrogenetics at Dalhousie University 🇨🇦! Focus will be on the biogeography of vertebrate genetic diversity or urban evolutionary ecology.
Full ad: www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/macrogenetic...
If the ad is up, applications are still open.
Please share widely! 🧬🧬
Full ad: www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/macrogenetic...
If the ad is up, applications are still open.
Please share widely! 🧬🧬
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🦤🧬🧑🔬 Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics Wanted! 🪲🌿🔬
Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections.
🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen
⏰ Deadline: June 15th
📩 Contact me!
🚀 Excited to explore new horizons!
Please share 🕊️
Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections.
🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen
⏰ Deadline: June 15th
📩 Contact me!
🚀 Excited to explore new horizons!
Please share 🕊️
Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
Open positions
tinyurl.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🦤🧬🧑🔬 Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics Wanted! 🪲🌿🔬
Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections.
🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen
⏰ Deadline: June 15th
📩 Contact me!
🚀 Excited to explore new horizons!
Please share 🕊️
Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections.
🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen
⏰ Deadline: June 15th
📩 Contact me!
🚀 Excited to explore new horizons!
Please share 🕊️
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Squirrels are good!
Squirrel of the Day for April 3, 2025 looked at her 401K #sqrlpix
April 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Squirrels are good!
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From swimming guillemots and sun-dappled Scots pines to a coy seal and ravenous pigeons, the winners of this year’s British Wildlife Photography Awards celebrate the diversity of animal life across Great Britain. 🐦
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/brit...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/brit...
March 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
From swimming guillemots and sun-dappled Scots pines to a coy seal and ravenous pigeons, the winners of this year’s British Wildlife Photography Awards celebrate the diversity of animal life across Great Britain. 🐦
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/brit...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/brit...
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hiiii come chat with me about how to make stellar presentations to tell your science stories 🥲🫶🏼
🧪🌐🌎👩🏻🔬
🧪🌐🌎👩🏻🔬
Upcoming webinar on March 31, 2025 at 2:00-3:00pm EST (11:00-12:00pm PST) entitled "Tips and Tricks for Posters and Presentations - Scientific illustration as a powerful tool for communicating science."
Further details and registration can be found at this link:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Further details and registration can be found at this link:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Tips and Tricks for Posters and Presentations CSZ Webinar Sign-up
This form is to record attendees for the upcoming webinar. There will be a question period during the webinar but this form also provides the chance to list any questions you may have for our panelis...
docs.google.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
hiiii come chat with me about how to make stellar presentations to tell your science stories 🥲🫶🏼
🧪🌐🌎👩🏻🔬
🧪🌐🌎👩🏻🔬
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A new and exciting @nature.com Communications study reveals baleen whales operate the planet's largest nutrient transport system, moving tons of nitrogen and carbon from polar feeding grounds to tropical breeding areas. Great job @jjkiszka.bsky.social and coauthors ✨
March 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A new and exciting @nature.com Communications study reveals baleen whales operate the planet's largest nutrient transport system, moving tons of nitrogen and carbon from polar feeding grounds to tropical breeding areas. Great job @jjkiszka.bsky.social and coauthors ✨
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Protected Areas are important for global conservation. However, their impact on genetic diversity has long remained unclear.
Check out our new paper lead by @chloology.bsky.social which answers this question for mammals and fish. 🧪
lnkd.in/ePDzJeef
#ProtectedAreas #Science #Biodiversity
Check out our new paper lead by @chloology.bsky.social which answers this question for mammals and fish. 🧪
lnkd.in/ePDzJeef
#ProtectedAreas #Science #Biodiversity
March 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Protected Areas are important for global conservation. However, their impact on genetic diversity has long remained unclear.
Check out our new paper lead by @chloology.bsky.social which answers this question for mammals and fish. 🧪
lnkd.in/ePDzJeef
#ProtectedAreas #Science #Biodiversity
Check out our new paper lead by @chloology.bsky.social which answers this question for mammals and fish. 🧪
lnkd.in/ePDzJeef
#ProtectedAreas #Science #Biodiversity
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Immediately assigning this new paper to my pop gen students! Waples publishes some real hits - "What is a population?" is another instant classic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size
This is a reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne), inspired by a classic, self-published manual of automotive repair ‘for the compleat idiot’...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Immediately assigning this new paper to my pop gen students! Waples publishes some real hits - "What is a population?" is another instant classic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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PhD project alert! 🚨 I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab and the MacroSize network to investigate the trends, patterns, and processes driving intraspecific variation in fish body size in the Anthropocene. Exciting opportunity to explore ecological dynamics in a changing world! :) 🌎🐟🐠🐡
February 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
PhD project alert! 🚨 I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab and the MacroSize network to investigate the trends, patterns, and processes driving intraspecific variation in fish body size in the Anthropocene. Exciting opportunity to explore ecological dynamics in a changing world! :) 🌎🐟🐠🐡
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✨International fieldwork bee/fly Honours degree opportunity✨
I am happy to be able to share an opportunity with myself and a few others at the Uni of Wollongong to undertake an Honours research degree with field work in Fiji!
You will get a scholarship on your CV but must be an Australian Citizen
🧵
I am happy to be able to share an opportunity with myself and a few others at the Uni of Wollongong to undertake an Honours research degree with field work in Fiji!
You will get a scholarship on your CV but must be an Australian Citizen
🧵
January 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
✨International fieldwork bee/fly Honours degree opportunity✨
I am happy to be able to share an opportunity with myself and a few others at the Uni of Wollongong to undertake an Honours research degree with field work in Fiji!
You will get a scholarship on your CV but must be an Australian Citizen
🧵
I am happy to be able to share an opportunity with myself and a few others at the Uni of Wollongong to undertake an Honours research degree with field work in Fiji!
You will get a scholarship on your CV but must be an Australian Citizen
🧵
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This is a paid fellowship to draw mushrooms in upstate New York this summer. Seems relevant to some of y’all’s interests. 🍄
SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATOR FELLOWSHIP
Collaborations between artists and scientists are increasing the quality of public engagement and the accessibility of the research being conducted.
www.esf.edu
December 30, 2024 at 10:36 PM
This is a paid fellowship to draw mushrooms in upstate New York this summer. Seems relevant to some of y’all’s interests. 🍄
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Vole hunting: novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels
In our new video article in the Journal of Ethology we document the emergence of this exciting behavior following a population explosion of California voles doi.org/10.1007/s101...
In our new video article in the Journal of Ethology we document the emergence of this exciting behavior following a population explosion of California voles doi.org/10.1007/s101...
December 18, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Vole hunting: novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels
In our new video article in the Journal of Ethology we document the emergence of this exciting behavior following a population explosion of California voles doi.org/10.1007/s101...
In our new video article in the Journal of Ethology we document the emergence of this exciting behavior following a population explosion of California voles doi.org/10.1007/s101...
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What can genome sequence data reveal about population viability? (And equally important, what CAN'T it reveal??) These are key questions that @martykardos.bsky.social, Lukas Keller, and I address in our new paper in a Molecular Ecology special issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#congens
#congens
December 18, 2024 at 12:50 AM
What can genome sequence data reveal about population viability? (And equally important, what CAN'T it reveal??) These are key questions that @martykardos.bsky.social, Lukas Keller, and I address in our new paper in a Molecular Ecology special issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#congens
#congens
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🧪🧬We're hiring for three new tenure-track positions🧪🧬
We're a friendly and collaborative department @umanitoba.bsky.social with lots of great research happening. Into genetics, dev bio, cell bio, specialized metabolism… we'd love to hear from you!! 🧪🧬🌎
viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/default.ASPX...
We're a friendly and collaborative department @umanitoba.bsky.social with lots of great research happening. Into genetics, dev bio, cell bio, specialized metabolism… we'd love to hear from you!! 🧪🧬🌎
viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/default.ASPX...
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📣 3 tenure track positions @umanitoba.bsky.social Bio Sci. All positions are in cell and systems biology:
1 in syn bio or biochem
2 in aquatic organisms (🌿, 🐟, 🪱, …)
Genetics, dev bio, cell bio, specialized metabolism…
viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/default.ASPX...
viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca
December 17, 2024 at 4:53 PM
🧪🧬We're hiring for three new tenure-track positions🧪🧬
We're a friendly and collaborative department @umanitoba.bsky.social with lots of great research happening. Into genetics, dev bio, cell bio, specialized metabolism… we'd love to hear from you!! 🧪🧬🌎
viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/default.ASPX...
We're a friendly and collaborative department @umanitoba.bsky.social with lots of great research happening. Into genetics, dev bio, cell bio, specialized metabolism… we'd love to hear from you!! 🧪🧬🌎
viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/default.ASPX...
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Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky
1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research
Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research
Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
November 24, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky
1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research
Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research
Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Calling all artists & creatives!
Help shape the face of Conservation Letters! We're seeking iconic, stylized art that captures the beauty & diversity of conservation science for the new cover of @consletters.bsky.social. 🎨📸🌍
#conservation #ecology #artcompetition
Help shape the face of Conservation Letters! We're seeking iconic, stylized art that captures the beauty & diversity of conservation science for the new cover of @consletters.bsky.social. 🎨📸🌍
#conservation #ecology #artcompetition
Calling all our multi-talented readers 📢 As we shift in 2025 to continuous publication, Conservation Letters will start using a single cover image. We'd like your help with finding a good design! For more details please see here: conbio.org/publications... 🦑🌍🧪🦈
Showcase Your Talent: Conservation Letters Cover Contest!
The Society for Conservation Biology is global community of conservation professionals dedicated to advancing the science and practice of conserving Earth's biological diversity.
conbio.org
December 6, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Calling all artists & creatives!
Help shape the face of Conservation Letters! We're seeking iconic, stylized art that captures the beauty & diversity of conservation science for the new cover of @consletters.bsky.social. 🎨📸🌍
#conservation #ecology #artcompetition
Help shape the face of Conservation Letters! We're seeking iconic, stylized art that captures the beauty & diversity of conservation science for the new cover of @consletters.bsky.social. 🎨📸🌍
#conservation #ecology #artcompetition
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Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
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important cat news www.science.org/content/arti...
Gene behind orange fur in cats found at last
After 60 years, scientists know why gingers, calicos, and tortoiseshells look the way they do
www.science.org
November 28, 2024 at 5:30 PM
important cat news www.science.org/content/arti...