Jason Toy, Ph.D.

Marine evolutionary ecologist - exploring the impacts of environmental change in the ocean - outdoors, exercise & motorcycle enthusiast
'@evologist.bsky.social'

[Jason Toy, Ph.D. @the_evologist]

📢New paper out in @molecology !📢
We provide evidence of cryptic/incipient speciation in the Black Surfperch occurring on coastal islands. Popgen and phylogenomic methods show 5 distinct groups and evidence of reproductive barriers.
https://t.co/PlDerp2T58

[Remy Gatins @remygatins]

Are you interested in genomic connectivity, hybridization, and range expansions in marine organisms? I am recruiting a PhD student and Lab Technician for Fall 2024 in the Gatins Lab @Northeastern !!

For more information please visit our website: https://t.co/WxV31R7TNL

[Roxanne Beltran @roxannesbeltran]

My lab group is searching for a new 🚨POSTDOC to work on life history trade-offs or fitness consequences of environmental change using an incredible long-term mark-recapture dataset on elephant seals at @ucsc. Review date 8/24. https://t.co/1sBENc9dcT

[Jason Toy, Ph.D. @the_evologist]

@pinskylab @zoejean88 Congrats @zoejean88 ! 🎉

[Jason Toy, Ph.D. @the_evologist]

@giacomo_fish @Friedman_Lab Definitely both!

[Jason Toy, Ph.D. @the_evologist]

Our framework paper on connectivity is now available online! This paper was the product of an @NSF @evolvingseas RCN working group led by @AlliNCramer and @jahoey13 .

[Frontiers - Ecology & Evolution @FrontEcolEvol]

New Research: A unifying framework for understanding ecological and evolutionary population connectivity: Although the concept of connectivity is ubiquitous in ecology and evolution, its definition is often inconsistent, particularly in… #Ecology https://t.co/jijhIuQMiN

[Jason Toy, Ph.D. @the_evologist]

@BarshisLab @reefgenomics @NSF @PGAFamilyFdn @BIOLOGYatODU https://t.co/GajddhC7Lo

[Dr. Nyssa Silbiger @NSilbiger]

Do you love data science and want to cry? Do you want to see the UGLIEST #rstats plot to ever exist? Look no further because my students crushed their good plot/bad plot assignment and really took making the worst plots possible to heart. #ggplot🧵⬇️

[Jason Toy, Ph.D. @the_evologist]

@giacomo_fish Which species this time?

[Luiz Rocha, PhD @CoralReefFish]

Big one out today @CurrentBiology! We've been working on this for so long! After many expeditions and almost 1000 transects up to 143m depth, we show that the well-known longitudinal marine diversity gradient attenuates with greater depths! 1/n https://t.co/ZgRaT7nphz

[Jason Toy, Ph.D. @the_evologist]

@giacomo_fish species?

[Jason Toy, Ph.D. @the_evologist]

Happy to announce that the second chapter of my dissertation has been published! Sequencing and assembly of the kelp perch (Brachyistius frenatus) reference genome! 🐟 #surfperches #Embiotocidae #genome @giacomo_fish

https://t.co/NOryGpQtnt

[UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute @ucscgenomics]

A high-quality reference genome of the kelp surfperch (Brachyistius frenatus) now available! 🐟

Because they lack a dispersive larval stage, surfperches are excellent for studying speciation, gene flow, and local adaptation in the ocean. @giacomo_fish

https://t.co/0WvxUUkGJM

[Jason Toy, Ph.D. @the_evologist]

@giacomo_fish Did you get good pore usage?

[Jason Toy, Ph.D. @the_evologist]

First day on @ODU campus as a postdoc in @BarshisLab 🦁 🪸 🧬

[Dr. Sarah Gravem @sarahgravem]

And, for my favorite paper I’ve published so far 🥁🥁🥁 we measured predation of #sunflowerseastars on sea urchins and found that they eat them fast enough that they are strong top predators that likely prevent urchin barrens! And they chow down on starved urchins from barrens!

[Jason Toy, Ph.D. @the_evologist]

@giacomo_fish You got one! 😂

[Jason Toy, Ph.D. @the_evologist]

@pinskylab @rachael_winfree @hleslie_umaine @CoralReefFish @DrewHarvell @fieldgenomics Congrats Malin! Well deserved!

[Jason Toy, Ph.D. @the_evologist]

@giacomo_fish Weirdest looking fish I’ve ever seen…

[Jason Toy, Ph.D. @the_evologist]

@pinskylab @KristyKroeker @giacomo_fish It was a fun and productive two weeks, and it was awesome to see what everyone in the lab is working on! Thanks for being such great hosts!