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Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social · 1d

We’re so excited to welcome you all to CSEE 2026 in Toronto!

CSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 20d

🚨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.

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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Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social · 12d

Tagging @ethan-ross.bsky.social here!

Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social · 12d

Very excited to share this paper from PhD student Ethan Ross demonstrating the utility of ONT for generating barcode reference libraries in seagrass invertebrates. A second congratulations to Ethan for submitting his PhD thesis today! 🎉🧬🐚

A Comprehensive DNA Barcode Reference Library for the Macroinvertebrates of Scottish Seagrass Beds Using Oxford Nanopore Flongle Flowcells

In this study we use ONT Flongle Flowcells to produced DNA barcodes for 146 seagrass associated marine invertebrate OTUs collected from four seagrass beds in Scotland, targeting COI and 18S V4 region....

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Evolutionary Applications @evolappjournal.bsky.social · Aug 18

Victoria Gillman's talk on "Local adaptation and forecasting response in the endangered Scottish freshwater pearl mussel" was really insightful! 🤩 #ESEB2025

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Tilly S Scott @tillysscott.bsky.social · Aug 18

I've had a wonderful 1st day at @eseb2025.bsky.social Here are the sketches from some of the talks I attended today. My highlights include Tristan on the adaptive genomics of colour spots on owls, Vicky on pearl mussel's response to climate change & Rebekah on firefly TEs & TE-induced mutations

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Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social · Aug 18

I am beyond sad to be missing #ESEB2025 but please check out this talk by my brilliant PhD student @vicgillman.bsky.social this afternoon!

Victoria @vicgillman.bsky.social · Aug 18

Excited to give the final talk of my PhD at #ESEB2025 - don’t miss it! It’s at 4pm, room 114

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Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social · Aug 11

Visiting the collections at the Museu de Zoologia was a highlight of the trip, topped off with a visit to a street named after a nudibranch legend

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Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social · Aug 11

The #WCM2025 meeting was a huge success! Thanks to the LOC in São Paulo and all of our fantastic presenters in the heterobranch symposium 🙌

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Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social · Aug 5

Excellent start to day 2 of #WCM2025 with a killer plenary by @sigwartae.bsky.social - 📣taxonomy is key for conservation!

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Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social · Aug 5

Arrived in São Paulo for the World Congress of Malacology - all things mollusc for the next four days. What a dream! 🐌 🐚 🦪 🧬

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Nick Haddad @nickhaddad.bsky.social · Aug 4

More bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab

Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122

Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS

Insects are declining worldwide. These declines have been documented across taxonomic groups and are worrisome given ecosystem services provided by...

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Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social · Jul 31

Come join us!

Marc Johnson (he/him) @evoecolab.bsky.social · Jul 30

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

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Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social · Jul 23

Back to my roots on the Thames River yesterday! We participated in some FW mussel sampling with DFO in a beautiful spot in Ontario 🌿

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Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social · Jul 21

It’s been such a pleasure to meet and work with this wonderful group of people. I’ve learned so much from them and I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be involved! Led by the amazing @cristinaruedau.bsky.social

Eloisa Lasso De Paulis, PhD @elolasso.bsky.social · Jul 16

Happy to be part of this effort led by CrisRuedas and the caminos network, which has just been published today. In it we review what has been done on pollination research in the tropical Andes and propose new lines of research. Pollination onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social · Jul 17

A huge win for Northern Arizona University! @chamberea.bsky.social is one of the most talented and lovely academics I’ve had the pleasure of knowing. Congrats Anne 🎉🥂

E. Anne Chambers @chamberea.bsky.social · Jul 16

Incredibly excited to announce that I will be starting as an assistant professor and curator of vertebrate collections at Northern Arizona University! I feel very fortunate to be joining such a wonderful department and also to live in a southwestern mountain town like Flagstaff — a dream come true!

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · Jul 12

I've been waiting for this, an update on the beautiful slug #caterpillars (Limacodidae)

academic.oup.com/isd/article-...

Phylogeny and reclassification of Limacodidae worldwide, with emphasis on the ontogeny of larval defenses (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea)

Abstract. Limacodidae (Zygaenoidea), a mostly pantropical family of 1,800+ species, is known for sluglike caterpillars with suckers below rather than typic

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Silvia Prieto @silviaprietob.bsky.social · Jul 3

Check out our recent paper “Tracing the evolution of key traits in dorid nudibranchs”! 🧬🐌 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Nudibranchs are a fascinating and diverse group of molluscs, unique and interesting systems in ecology and evolutionary biology.
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Tracing the evolution of key traits in dorid nudibranchs

Reconstructing trait evolution is critically important for elucidating the processes generating biodiversity. However, this work is in its infancy in non-model clades for which we lack a basic underst...

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Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social · Jun 27

It’s been one hell of an awful week but I’m sailing into the long weekend with this guy 💙

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Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social · May 29

Summer fieldwork mode has begun 💪 Just returned from a super productive trip w/ @mollusksatamnh.bsky.social & our stellar PhD students Anahy Garza & Lina Raubold. Lots of colour pattern analysis & sequencing to come on these Felimida nudibranchs & flamingo tongues (Cyphoma) 🎨🧬