bamfieldmsc.bsky.social
In the town of Bamfield, within the traditional territory of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations in Barkley Sound, and adjacent the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, BMSC offers unparalleled access to a wide array of environments for students and researchers
👤 Joined on 21 November 2025
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@bamfieldmsc.bsky.socialWe reared ~5 families of stickleback from each of 27 lake populations on Vancouver Isl in aquaria at @bamfieldmsc.bsky.social from egg-adult. Alex measured morphology on these common garden fish, & tested for heritable among-population differences & population mean trait correl w/ lake envi. /t
Show PostThe classroom these last weeks for our class: Rapid Evolution in the Anthropocene. Held at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, BC. @bamfieldmsc.bsky.social @biomcgill.bsky.social Undergrads - put it in your calendar for next summer!
Show Post1/2 🌊 This year Ocean Hack Week is going to be held @bamfieldmsc.bsky.social on the beautiful west coast of Vancouver Island. Applications are due by June 5. Develop or apply your coding and data analysis skills to problems in ocean science oceanhackweek.org/ohw26/index....
Show PostFor years I've explained in seminars that fibrosis is strictly induced by S.solidus exposure. But when we raised stickleback in the lab at @bamfieldmsc.bsky.social we were in for a surprise: There is constitutive variation in fibrosis, and it explains most of the variation in fibrosis in nature!
Show PostThis work was made possible by an NSF grant to Amanda Hund and colleagues. The experiments were conducted at @bamfieldmsc.bsky.social in our excellent stickleback lab (and available for use by others)
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