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Some science books for 2024
The Molecular Ecologist receives a small commission for purchases made on Bookshop.org via links from this post. One minor personal accomplishment I scored this year is that it’s the first year since I started tracking, fully a decade ago, in … Continue reading
Posted in book review, community, ecology, fieldwork, natural history, politics
Tagged conservation, history of science, moral philosophy, natural history
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Coming to PAG 32 this January? Join the first-ever Molecular Ecology workshop
Posted on behalf of Loren Rieseburg and Shawn Narum, workshop organizers. We are pleased to announce the inaugural workshop for Molecular Ecology at the Plant & Animal Genomics (PAG) conference. The field of Molecular Ecology has been revolutionized by advances … Continue reading
Mini Reviews provide a new format for brief overviews of trending topics
Sometimes you want to introduce an idea or review a topic that doesn’t support an in-depth review of the literature. Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources are introducing a new article format that may be what you’re looking for: Mini … Continue reading
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2024 Harry Smith Prize awarded to Robert Masaki Hechler, for demonstrating the potential of environmental transcriptomics
This year’s Harry Smith Prize, which recognizes the best paper published in the field of molecular ecology by an early career scholar, has been awarded to Robert Masaki Hechler, now a PhD student working with Martin Krkosek at the Univeristy … Continue reading
2024 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Michael Whitlock, for foundational contributions to the study of population genetics in space
The Molecular Ecology Prize Committee has announced the 2024 recipient of the award, which recognizes an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to the still-young field of molecular ecology: The 2024 Molecular Ecology Prize has been awarded to Professor … Continue reading
Molecular Ecology call for papers: Genomics of Speciation
Molecular Ecology invites papers to be considered for inclusion in a planned Special Issue on the genomics of speciation. The special issue editors are interested in new empirical studies, theory results, and analytic advances, as well as syntheses, reviews, and … Continue reading
Posted in community, genomics, Molecular Ecology, the journal, speciation
Tagged call for papers, special issue
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Nominations open for the 2024 Harry Smith Prize, recognizing early career research published in Molecular Ecology
The editorial board of the journal Molecular Ecology is seeking nominations for the Harry Smith Prize, which recognizes the best paper published in Molecular Ecology or Molecular Ecology Resources in the previous calendar year (2023) by graduate students or early career scholars … Continue reading
Nominations open for the 2024 Molecular Ecology Prize
From the Molecular Ecology Prize Committee: We are soliciting nominations for the annual Molecular Ecology Prize. The field of molecular ecology is young and inherently interdisciplinary. As a consequence, research in molecular ecology is not currently represented by a single … Continue reading
What internet are you reading these days?
The Molecular Ecologist receives a small commission for purchases made on Bookshop.org via links from this post. After my post earlier this week about how I’m organizing my online reading, it’s occurred to me that it might be useful to go into further … Continue reading
How are you reading the Internet these days?
In the wake of Twitter’s ongoing uh reinvention, and my departure from the site, it’s really become apparent how much I was leaning on Science Twitter as a front page of the Internet — the place I went to find out … Continue reading