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Scott Burgess
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Marine evolutionary ecology. Dispersal. Mating systems. Life histories. Marine invertebrates (sometimes fishes). Corals (Pocillopora!). Florida State University. Associate Professor
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Things I would tell you as a statistician if I weren’t afraid of hurting your feelings:

- you can’t answer that question with the available data
September 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Read about invasive #bryozoans in Norway by @malihr.bsky.social www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... and other supercool finds in her documentation of our #Artsdatabanken funded project NorDigBryo! www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...
Schizoporella japonica - An invasive species from the Pacific - Natural History Museum
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.nhm.uio.no
September 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...
August 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Hello bluesky community!

I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The department of Biology is a large, unified department with strong undergraduate degrees, nationally-ranked graduate programs, and world-class research spanning the breadth of biological questions a...
indiana.peopleadmin.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Sperm dispersal leads to high multiple paternity and reduces the fitness costs of limited larval dispersal in a sessile invertebrate

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Fitness consequences of marine larval dispersal: the role of neighbourhood density, arrangement, and genetic relatedness on survival, growth, reproduction, and paternity in a sessile invertebrate
Abstract. Dispersal can evolve as an adaptation to escape competition with conspecifics or kin. Locations with a low density of conspecifics, however, may
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November 8, 2024 at 3:16 PM
We described and named a new species of coral - Pocillopora tuahiniensis. Tuahine means sister in Tahitian. Can only ID it using genetics, looks the same as other species! So far, its only been sampled from French Polynesia and east. Most common around 20+m depth.

www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...
November 9, 2023 at 8:55 PM
Job Alert: Florida State University is searching broadly for an Evolutionary Biologist (asst prof / tenure track). The Ecology and Evolution group here is an unusually collegial and supportive group (people matter!). Great facilities and resources.
 
Details: www.bio.fsu.edu/current_facu...
FSU - Biological Science
Department of Biological Sciences website
www.bio.fsu.edu
November 7, 2023 at 9:55 PM
This paper looks very cool, Mark!
I am thrilled to present the first paper out of my postdoc! It is my first contribution to a story I have followed for years and addresses the question that fascinates me most: how finely can populations adaptively track fluctuating environments?

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Continuously fluctuating selection reveals extreme granularity and parallelism of adaptive tracking
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
October 23, 2023 at 7:02 PM
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The Majoris Lab at TAMU-CC is open and recruiting a PhD student to study intra- and interspecific variation in larval dispersal traits.

Full details at: www.johnmajoris.com/graduate-stu...
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October 17, 2023 at 7:46 PM
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Come be our colleague! LSU is searching for a population geneticist.

You'll have lots of awesome collaborators:

www.lsu.edu/science/bios...

Applications due Oct 30
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0646...

@brantfaircloth.bsky.social and I are on the committee - please reach out with questions
October 16, 2023 at 3:20 PM
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Our new paper in Methods Ecol Evol announces marineomics.io, a website sharing tools for rigorous, reproducible genomics in non-model & marine species

We outline the site's resources, how they're made, and how you can contribute! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 9, 2023 at 6:44 PM
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Folks, please retweet. We have 3 entry level tenure track positions available here at monash. Field ecologists and experimental ecologists of any particular habitat focus and phytoplankton ecologist. careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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September 27, 2023 at 11:02 PM
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Find out how adult corals interact with settlers - species specific inhibition and facilitation. Amazing effort by Carrie Sims and fun times in Palau 😊 bit.ly/meps_720_39
Coral early life history dynamics: conspecific facilitation or limitation are dependent on distinct ...
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October 7, 2023 at 3:10 AM
Why do marine species often have large scales of dispersal (kilometers)?

Not necessarily because there is selection for it, but as a by-product of traits that increase retention when larvae are lost downstream in coastal currents

Our new paper in Am Nat
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Larval and adult traits coevolve in response to asymmetric coastal currents to shape marine dispersa...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
October 6, 2023 at 6:01 PM
Here for science stuff.
October 6, 2023 at 5:40 PM