Life in the City - Evolution in an urbanizing world @litc-urbanevo.bsky.social urbanevolution-litc.com
We bring you the latest urban evolution research, and we welcome you to be a contributor!
Paul Savary @psavary.bsky.social Assistant prof. in ecology and spatial modelling, and very curious (biodiversity, geography science and beyond!)
Enseignant-chercheur en écologie et modélisation spatiale
@Labo ThéMA, Univ. Marie et Louis Pasteur, Besançon, France
Magdalena Bohutínská @majdabohu.bsky.social I 💜 evolutionary genetics/genomics, repeated adaptation, 🌸 pigmentation, 🏔️ alpine environment, polyploidy
I'm a researcher at Charles Uni 🇨🇿
X @MajdaHolcova
Alyssa R Phillips @alyssa-phillips.bsky.social Research Scientist in Genetics | Atlanta Botanical Garden
polyploidy, adaptation, conservation
Anne Charmantier @annecharmantier.bsky.social Evolutionary Ecologist #CNRS @cefemontpellier | quantitative genetics | wild birds response to climate change & urbanization | #TeamHB3 #womeninSTEM
Urban Evolution & Ecology Conference @urbanevoecoconf.bsky.social The official BlueSky account for the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Urban Evolution & Ecology January 31-February 5, 2027 Ventura Beach, California https://www.grc.org/urban-evolution-and-ecology-conference/2027/
Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social Computational evolutionary biologist. Professor & Chair of Biology @sandiegostate.bsky.social, athlete, insomniac, writer, singer, polyglot, polymath, @out.com ‘25 Out100 honoree. He/him. 🏳️🌈🇮🇳🇺🇸🐞🌱🐢🧬🏋🏾♂️🎤✍🏾 www.sethuramanlab.com Views are mine alone.
@brandonhendrickson.bsky.social @brandonhendrickson.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, ecologist, and botanist focused on climate resilience, biodiversity, and the intersections of science and community. Advocate for open science, inclusive fieldwork, and evidence-based conservation. 🌿
Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso @urbanzoochory.bsky.social Research fellow at UWI LPZoo, prev. at UofT
Spatial ecologist | Urban mammals | Modeling animal movement, habitat selection, connectivity, species interactions and HW coexistence. Working with camera traps and GPS tracking data. Twitter was @UrbanZochory
Micah Freedman @micahfreedman.bsky.social Studying evolutionary ecology, natural history, chemical ecology, biodiversity, and insect migration at the University of Toronto
https://www.freedman-lab.ca
Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. Evolutionary genetics and genomics. Interested in plant mating systems, speciation and hybridization.
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca 
Laura Leventhal @lauracleventhal.bsky.social Plant evolutionary ecologist! PhD candidate in Exposito Alonso lab. 
Michelle Stitzer @mcstitzer.bsky.social postdoc at cornell | evolution of transposable elements in corn and other grasses 
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Marc Johnson (he/him) @evoecolab.bsky.social Professor of Biology. Ecology, evolution, genetics, in natural and urban habitats. VP of Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution. Passionate about connecting kids with nature, advocating for grad students, postdocs, science funding. Proud Canadian!
@popgengoogling.bsky.social @popgengoogling.bsky.social 
Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social Professor of EECS and Statistics at UC Berkeley. Mathematical and computational biologist.
Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social Study genetic conflicts professionally. Try to avoid conflicts in personal life (with mixed results).
Fred Hutch Basic Sciences,
UW Genome Sciences,
HHMI.
Posting in a personal capacity. My posts don’t reflect my employers’ opinions.
James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Georgia Tech. Evolutionary ecology using lizards 🦎🦎🦎 most interested in connecting micro-scale processes to macro-scale patterns
Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social Evo-ecologist (Assoc Prof at UC Berkeley) studying interactions among phages, microbiomes, and plants. Skeets (own view) about science, teaching, social justice, and politics. (profile pic unedited photo by my six-year-old son)
Pirate Software @piratesoftware.live Game Dev - Streamer 💛 Go Make Games - https://develop.games 💜 Ferret Rescue - https://ferrets.live 💛 Business: Pirate@sidequestmedia.com
Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social evolutionary and marine biologist, mountain biker, amateur ceramicist, and mom
https://sites.google.com/site/katielotterhos/home
Silas Tittes @silastittes.bsky.social staff scientist / population geneticist at university of oregon | computational methods | cephalopod evolution | dad jokes
https://kr-colab.github.io/
Kieran Samuk @ksamuk.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the EEOB Department at UC Riverside. Studying evolution and recombination using genomics. 🍁🔬🖥️. samuklab.com
Jesse Lasky @laskyjr.bsky.social Evolution and ecology of plants. He/him.
S Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social evolution & math = a super interesting job
Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social UMich professor who studies resistance and persistence (in plants)
Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social Researching from mutations to climate change • Scientist and Asst. Professor at University of California Berkeley and Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at Howard Hughes Medical Institute • In 💚 with California flora
Molly Przeworski @mollyprz.bsky.social Population & Human Genetics
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social evolutionary genomics of maize and wild relatives. erstwhile ethnobotanist. purveyor of bad puns. dad. prof and HPC director at UC Davis. not actually a cool cow from 1994. rilab.ucdavis.edu. views, especially bad ones, mine only (he/him)
Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social Evolving better E. coli for 75,000 generations. Prof at MSU, but opinions my own. (Ok, I also speak for billions -- er, TRILLIONS -- of E. coli.)
Website for LTEE: the-ltee.org
Banner pic from NYC, shared by Darwin. (The microbiologist, not the other one.)
Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist & Boggle aficionado. Author: The Scientist's Guide to Writing; Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider. He/him.
Blog and book links: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist. Professor at Virginia Tech.
Brittany Sutherland @sutherlandbl.bsky.social Assistant Professor, George Mason University
Polyploidy, Evolution, Plants, Mating Systems
Plants and Cats and Plants and Cats and
Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social Evolutionary zoology & quantitative genetics
Biology Professor, New York University
Erol Akcay @akcay.theoretical.bio Ecology, evolution, and social dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. He/him
https://akcay.theoretical.bio
Princeton Vaughn @princetonvaughn.bsky.social PhD Candidate in the Campbell-Staton Lab at Princeton University EEB
Interested in urban herpetology
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Lover of lizards and math rock
Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social James Webb - Everything That's Hot 🔥
jwstfeed.com
Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social Plant scientist studying how climate change affects plant toxicity (#cyanide). Born 314ppm.
Interested in science, tech, plants. #MECFS ally #botanist 🌾🪴🧪🌱🌿💉
Views my own
Daniela Strenkert @dstrenkert.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the DOE-Plant Research Lab and the Department of Plant Biology at Michigan State University. Using systems biology to study photosynthesis, metal metabolism and epigenetic regulation in eukaryotic green algae.
Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social Professor & Assoc Dept Head UofA EEB (@uofa-eeb.bsky.social) in Tucson studying plant evolution, botany, polyploidy, chromosomes, and biodiversity. Views are my own. He/Him https://www.barkerlab.net 
Justin Conover @conjustover.bsky.social Assistant Member and Principal Investigator
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis MO
Interested in plants, popgen, polyploidy, and puns.
Tom Booker @tombooker.bsky.social Assistant professor in forest genetics/genomics at UBC in Vancouver
(he/him)
Israt Jahan @jahanisrat.bsky.social Multicellular and symbiotic evolutionary biologist. Postdoc at University of Oxford. PhD from WUSTL
Tia Harrison @tiaharrison.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University
Plant-microbe interactions, crochet, yoga, cats
Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social Squirrels! PhD in evolution/ecology/behaviour | Now, not-for-profit scientific publishing @ CSP | Recovering genomicist | Co-Founder & Board member of @supportourscience.bsky.social & LTR-CSEE | She/her
Views my own.
https://aewishart.wordpress.com
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social UC Davis faculty, research in evolutionary & ecological genomics, ecotoxicology, climate change, phenotypic plasticity. whiteheadresearch.wordpress.com
Dr. Stepfanie Aguillón 😷 @s-m-aguillon.bsky.social Asst Prof at UCLA | genomics, hybridization, & speciation 🧬🐤🐟 | cross-stitching extraordinaire 🪡 | lover of the desert 🌵| dog enthusiast 🐕 | she/her
Opinions are my own.
www.stepfanieaguillon.com
Chadi Saad-Roy @chadisaadroy.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Interested in disease ecology and evolution, mathematical biology
https://chadisaadroy.wordpress.com
Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Yale EEB. Canadian in the US. Lover of evolutionary genetics, speciation, adaptation, and plants. Mimulus fanatic. (they/them)
Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist interested in plant evolution, speciation, and pollination including buzz pollination
Website: https://plant-evolution.org/wp
Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social Personal account, views are mine alone. Coevolution researcher: www.whitemanlab.org / Author: www.mostdeliciouspoison.com / Professor + Head, Division of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development, Molecular & Cell Biology, UC-Berkeley ☮️ 🕊️
Acer VanWallendael @aceraceae.bsky.social Professor studying the evolutionary genetics of weeds and invasive plants at North Carolina State University. Lab website: avanwallendael.github.io
marina alberti @malberti.bsky.social urban ecology, evolution, nature, cities, planets, exo-planets
Author of: Cities That Think like Planets
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295743677/cities-that-think-like-planets/
Kim Gilbert @kjgilbert.bsky.social Population genetics, evolutionary biology; now a clinical data scientist at UniBern
Into cats and rowing
http://kjgilbert.github.io/
Henry North @henrylnorth.bsky.social Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge
Population genomics, invasive species, hybridization, adaptation, structural variation
Mark Ravinet @markravinet.bsky.social Ramen addicted evolutionary biologist working on genomics, ecology, speciation and adaptation in Passer sparrows. Associate Professor based in CEES/EVOGENE at the University of Oslo
Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto interested in molluscan systematics, evolution & genomics
laytonlab.com
Lucas Albano @lucasjalbano.bsky.social Plant evolutionary ecologist ☘️🇨🇦
Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution at Stanford University 🌲
Previously:
Postdoc at NC State 🔴⚪️⚫️
Ph.D. at University of Toronto 🔵⚪️
M.Sc. at University of Guelph 🔴⚫️🟡
B.Sc. at Western University 🟣⚪️
Chloé Schmidt @chloology.bsky.social Thinking about evolution and biodiversity, and 🐿️🐿️🐿️, and drawing ✏️
Assistant Prof at Dalhousie University
https://www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/
Ryan Martin @ryanamartin.bsky.social Associate Professor researching evolution and plasticity, often in cities. https://www.martinevolutionaryecologylab.com/
Gar (he/him) @garlandxie.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate in the MacIvor lab @ UTSC
Using BlueSky to follow research updates (for now ^.^)
Maya Lemmon-Kishi @lemmonquiche.bsky.social Computational Biology PhD Candidate in the Nielsen Lab at Berkeley | Phylogenetic Methods for Ancient Environmental DNA | Carnivorous Plants | Climbing | Cats
Katie Emelianova @katieemelianova.bsky.social Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow 📍Vienna
transposable elements and plant-microbe symbiosis 🌱🧬🧫
Colin Garroway @colingarroway.bsky.social Interested in ecology, evolution, & population genetics. Associate professor at the University of Manitoba.
He/him.
https://www.garroway-lab.com/.
Emily Kerns, PhD @emilykernss.bsky.social Soon-to-be postdoc, Ballinger Lab at Cornell🐁
PhD UW-Madison🦡
Alaska Stickleback Project🐟
Evolutionary genetics & ecology🧬
B.S. Biology Univ of North Florida🐦
https://emilykerns.github.io/
She/her
José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social Group leader at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
Evolutionary naturalist focusing on island biology, adaptive radiation, genomes and ecological niches.
Islandevolution.github.io
Kristin Winchell @kmwinchell.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist | assistant professor of biology at NYU | marathon runner- T @tombraukmann.bsky.social @tombraukmann.bsky.social
- R @radanamolnarova.bsky.social @radanamolnarova.bsky.social
Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social Professor of Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics at McGill University
Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social He/him. Ecologist studying the population & community ecology of mutualism. Faculty at Cal State Northridge. Also a human. Views m'own.
ORCID: 0000-0001-5783-9833
Jill Hamilton @jillahamilton.bsky.social Associate Professor & Director of the Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics 🇨🇦 at Pennsylvania State University, Forest genomics, conservation, and restoration www.jillahamilton.com
Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social Computational Biology Core at the University of Connecticut. Genomics, bioinformatics, evolution. Also nature, natural history. A little too into birding.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IbPpB9sAAAAJ&h
Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social Urban & landscape ecologist thinking about nature-based solutions for biodiversity, people, and climate in the cities we live in. Prof @ Concordia. Probably talking about trees on the radio. Potter. Knitter. Baker. Gardener. Year-round cyclist. 🇨🇦 (she/her)
Ben Mansfeld @bmansfeld.bsky.social Assistant Professor at @WUSTLBio. Using genomics to study the intersection of Plant Defense, Circadian Rhythm and Development with genomics. I ❤️ dataviz
(he/him/his) BenMansfeldLab.com
Carrie Wessinger @carriewessi.bsky.social Associate prof in evolutionary genetics at University of South Carolina.
wessingerlab@github.io
Manu Tergemina @etergemina.bsky.social Molecular basis of adaptation at @mpipz.bsky.social
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research - Cologne
Greg Owens @gregowens.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Victoria. Plant genomics and plant genomics jokes
Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social Biologist 🐝🌱 photographer 📸🦋🪲🌻🐦 musician 🎸 he/him www.nashturley.com
Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social Plant evolutionary genetics. She/her. East Lansing, Michigan.
Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social evolutionary/population/community ecologist
associate professor at NC State
Interests: 🧉🌱🏃🏾♀️🐦⬛🎶🏔️🏜️
www.seemasheth.weebly.com
she/her
views my own
Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social 
Cathy Rushworth @dr-crushworth.bsky.social Evolution, ecology, genetics, plant reproduction. Equity and inclusion in EEB. 🏳️🌈 she/her/never Mrs
Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org Evolutionary biologist, runner, writer, gay. Not necessarily in that order. LAX and elsewhere
Signal @jbyoder.82
Also ecoevo.social/@jby, jbyoder.org
John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social Ecological and evolutionary genetics in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UofT. Dad, dog lover, unashamed coffee addict.
Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social Professor in Forest Genomics and Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Finland
Loves gymnosperms and bad behavior, best when combined!
Martin Turcotte @exp-evoeco.bsky.social Associate Professor (U. of Pittsburgh). Lab studies reciprocal interactions between rapid evolution and ecology using experimental evolution in duckweed. Exploring species coexistence, polyploidy, and ecotoxicology… www.martinturcotte.net
Dr. Rebecca (Becca) Tarvin @rdtarvin.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist; Asst Prof @ UC Berkeley IntBio, MVZ Herp Curator; chem ecology, molecular/tropical biology, art, politics, frogs. Posts mine.
Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social Molecular basis of adaptation in plants; population genomics, evolutionary modeling, phylogenomics, PI at Purdue University, previously @Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne; views are my own and do not represent Purdue
Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social Genetics & Evolution, Faculty at Stanford & Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at HHMI. My views do not reflect those of my employer.
schumerlab.com
David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social Professor of Plant Evolutionary Genetics at Michigan State University. 
Jannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social Associate Professor, Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada
Research: evolutionary biology, plant reproduction
PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social Weigel Lab aka WeigelWorld Repost≠endorsement
#OpenScience
COIs http://tinyurl.com/DWCOI2022 GoogleScholar http://tinyurl.com/DeWeScholar
Ahmed Hasan @ahmedrhasan.bsky.social Bioinformatics, functional genomics, software eng, some ML. Formerly PhD in pop gen of recombination rate variation at UToronto. Digs #rstats, Python, open science, vim bindings, guitars.
1/2 of Red Graves:
redgraves.ampwall.com
redgraves.bandcamp.com
Julia Kreiner @jmkreiner.bsky.social Assistant prof at UChicago EEB. The genomics of plant adaptation in rapidly changing environments.
kreinerlab.com
Opinions expressed are my own, and do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social Fond of genomes big and small 🌱🦠🧬
Currently: postdoc working on phylodynamics and genomic epidemiology
Formerly: PhD in plant sex chromosome evolution @ U of T
Opinions my own!