Allegra Love

A new underwater camera trap for freshwater wildlife monitoring Amphibians are among the most threatened groups of vertebrates worldwide and spend a significant part of their lifecycle in freshwater ecosystems. As for many freshwater organisms, monitoring thei...

A step forward on the use of #cameratrapping for #wildlife monitoring. Now underwater!

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Equilibrium - is it a thing? Jury's still out according to the sticker poll on my poster at #CSEE2025! Stay tuned for the paper!

I had a great time at @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social in Sherbrooke, thank you so much to the organizers and volunteers.

And thanks everyone who indulged me for a few minutes to be caribou game show contestants! I had a blast talking about the landscape of disgust with everyone.

You’re probably why it takes so long for your paper to get reviewed and your excuses are bad A weird thing happened in scientific publishing during COVID. And it hasn’t gone away. Publications went up 30-50%. And responses to requests to review went down 30-50%. I know the actual statistic…

You’re probably why it takes so long for your paper to get reviewed and your excuses are bad dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/y... 🧪

Some difficult news from the team: In NSF's FY25-26 Budget Request to Congress, we learned that our program will take a whopping 50% cut - meaning that in September, we'll be $1.25m short of an operating budget that currently supports a cohort of seven PhD students, four postdocs, and three full-time staff. Verena is one of the largest and last pandemic prevention-focused programs in the United States: since 2020, we've supported the training of over 60 postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates. Our researchers have established unique laboratory resources for studying animal immune systems, and discovered new antiviral immune adaptations in bats; developed risk assessment algorithms for wildlife and livestock viruses, and diagnostic algorithms for viruses like dengue, Ebola, and Zika; and quantified the effects of climate change, deforestation, and factory farming on spillover risk. Everything we develop is 100% open source, and our data has supported the research of nearly 150 external researchers in 21 countries to date. We have three months to make up our budget shortfall. Every dollar spent on Verena supports not just our team, but the community of researchers who use our data, code, and resources. You can help us by sharing this post, and reaching out if you're able to support a unique and vulnerable program. Or just head over to viralemergence.org, and take a look at what we do. 🦟 🦇 🦠

An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

Supplemental Feeding as a Driver of Population Expansion and Morphological Change in Anna's Hummingbirds Bird beaks are highly adaptable, with the potential to undergo rapid morphological shifts in response to environmental change such as climatic variation or food availability. Anna's Hummingbirds (Cal...

🚨New paper alert!🚨
We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵
📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
#ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology

Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023 This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...

Researchers paid $9 billion over 5 years for their findings to be freely accessible.

This is based on a study of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

Sociality and movement change through space and time: implications for anti-predator strategies in caribou Risk could vary temporally with predator activity levels or as animals age. While risk could vary spatially as a function of habitat complexity, where open habitats are risky because prey are more vis...

How do animals act at risky times in risky places?

We investigated how caribou can use sociality at risky times and places to mitigate risk when facing trade-offs in habitat selection

Congratulations to @mary-atkinson.bsky.social for her first paper!

Doug Ford wants to create rules-free zones in Ontario. We shouldn’t let him Doug Ford is using tariffs to create a false choice. Does Ontario really want to join Russia and China, who also have rules-free special economic zones?

Environmental assessments, worker protections, and Indigenous rights are not red tape.

Read my OpEd on why the Ford government needs to drop Bill 5.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Proposed Bill 5 threatens Ontario wildlife and ecosystems Proposed Bill 5 threatens Ontario wildlife and ecosystems.

The government of Ontario is proposing to change the endangered species act. My advisor @qwebber.bsky.social and @ryannorrissci.bsky.social wrote an op-ed about the proposed changes and planned new bill (and a link to proposal). Public consultation closes May 17th, have you submitted a comment yet?

When the Romans conquered Carthage they famously salted the fields so nothing new would grow. By killing NSF, MAGA is salting the scientific fields where new economic innovations would have grown

Alannah Grant and Jonathan Chu, PhD in Integrative Biology students

Natalie Wilkinson, Biological Science student

Audrey Peñafiel, Wildlife Biology & Conservation student

Congratulations to the CBS winners of the Student Experience Awards!

🏆Natalie Wilkinson, Biological Science

🏆Audrey Peñafiel, Wildlife Biology & Conservation

🏆Alannah Grant and Jonathan Chu, PhD in Integrative Biology students

🗞️ news.uoguelph.ca/2025/05/cele...

@integrativebiology.bsky.social

Joey Bernhardt

Congratulations to @joeybernhardt.bsky.social @integrativebiology.bsky.social, named an Early Career Fellow with the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social!

The fellowship recognizes outstanding contributions to advancing & applying ecological knowledge.

🗞️ www.uoguelph.ca/cbs/news/202...

Does Motility‐Restricting Fibrosis Influence Dispersal? An Experiment in Nature With Threespine Stickleback Factors that affect dispersal can have important eco-evolutionary implications. Here, we show that an inflammation and tissue repair response—peritoneal fibrosis—does not influence threespine stickle...

How does fibrosis (an inflammation and tissue repair response) affect dispersal? We investigated this question with stickleback in a mark-recapture experiment in Alaska: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @danielbolnick.bsky.social @nataliesteinel.bsky.social @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social

Great list can you add me?

Rapid Neural DNA Methylation Responses to Predation Stress in Trinidadian Guppies DNA methylation (DNAm) is a well-studied epigenetic mechanism implicated in environmentally induced phenotypes and phenotypic plasticity. However, few studies investigate the timescale of DNAm shifts...

How fast can brains epigenetically respond to predation stress?

We found that brain DNA methylation in guppies can shift within 30 minutes of predator exposure — with different time courses between males and females.

New paper from my PhD now out! 🧠🐟
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Judge rules Quebec’s 33% tuition hike for out-of-province students is ‘unreasonable’ Quebec Superior Court judge also invalidated, effective immediately, the French proficiency rules that the CAQ government had imposed.

“With respect to the retention rate of students from outside Quebec & their ability to integrate into QC society — whether international or out-of-province students — the evidence shows that the minister had no data on the matter, beyond tenuous information.”
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🎉 Congratulations @janayf.bsky.social on winning our 2025 Bruce Cattanach Prize!

Janay's talk is on the epigenetic plasticity in response to environmental stress: insights from an evolutionary fish model #Epigenetics2025

What would you like to see in a 3rd edition of ‘The Scientist’s Guide to Writing’? The second edition of The Scientist’s Guide to Writing isn’t quite three years old, but I’ve been talking with the publisher about a third edition. And I want your help with it. I have to admit tha…

Big news: I've signed the contract for a 3rd edition of 'The Scientist's Guide to Writing', adding coverage of so-called "AI" writing tools. But it's also a chance to update and revise throughout - so I invite your input! See here to leave suggestions: scientistseessquirre...

Migrating baleen whales transport high-latitude nutrients to tropical and subtropical ecosystems - Nature Communications Baleen whales migrate from high latitude feeding grounds to subtropical reproductive winter grounds, translocating limiting nutrients across ecosystems. This study estimates the latitudinal movement o...

🚨New paper out!
By migrating between productive high latitude and oligotrophic regions (Great Baleen Conveyor Belt) large whales 🐋 transport incredible amounts of nutrients to low latitudes @jjkiszka.bsky.social @andrewabraham.bsky.social @dancosta2025.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by CNN Watch Trudeau speak directly to Trump during blistering speech

You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister.

Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w

I heard it from a mile away

You seem to know a little too much for a chameleon

Yeah don’t shame me

Blue cheese is supreme

No because I can only look in one direction!! Teach me your ways

It’s okay you’re doing really good for a chameleon. Do the eyes looking in different directions help with social media management?

Only if it’s a gravy train

Who the fuck is joe