Dr. Andrea Wishart

Academic work weekend, as someone who has not been paid to be an academic for a very long time (someday I'll have to stop)

✅ seminar abstract written and sent
✅ manuscript review submitted by deadline
✅ conference session proposal reviewed for colleague
✅ seminar powerpoint (mostly) prepared

I have never had this much emotion over a baseball game in my life

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This data must NOT be made public. Doing so would compromise researcher privacy (especially for vulnerable groups), undermine confidential peer review, and expose unpublished research.
We support accountability, but it must preserve privacy and scientific integrity.

#SupportOurScience

We're concerned about the SRSR motion requesting 25 years of disaggregated tri-council data. While we understand the data is intended to be anonymized, this wasn't explicitly stated in the motion – and the specific information requested could still enable re-identification when linked together.

🌎How is international #ScienceCollaboration evolving in an age of geopolitical shifts?
🎤Our very own @OttawaSciPolicy VP of Social Media, Alexa D’Addario, hosts the latest @sciencepolicy.ca podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/6Yb5...
#SciPol #OSPN #CSPC #ScienceDiplomacy #InternationalRelations

.....What?!

🧪🌍 I'm the journal development specialist for this new journal. If you're considering submitting your manuscript, please get in touch!

CES will be an interdisciplinary journal on all aspects of environmental contaminants and their effects on ecosystems, including people!

🧪🇨🇦#PhDsky #AcademicSky

🎓 Appel à tous les étudiants diplômés et postdoctorants canadiens !

#VoicesForScience est une nouvelle campagne visant à mettre en avant la lutte pour une rémunération équitable et un meilleur soutien à la recherche.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my research, it is “never underestimate a rodent”!

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Blue Jay
Ben Houstie ~ Heiltsuk
2024

I'll be giving a @toxcentre.bsky.social seminar on publishing as a graduate student today. Special shoutout coming for @contaminantsenvsoc.bsky.social

Conference centre screen showcasing a keynote address by Andre Picard at the University of Saskatchewan

Day 2 of PAW 2025. As a long time Globe subscriber I’m glad to have been able to meet @picardonhealth.bsky.social before his closing keynote on AI and humanity in healthcare. Probably the most optimistic I’ve ever felt about AI applications!

I tell everyone when I give my ‘Publishing for Grad Students’ talk to use their libraries & library services and TALK to the librarians! They KNOW stuff

Sincerely,
raised by a librarian
but have an overdue book to return today 😬

Covid + flu boosters last night, just have two sore arms today!

Thousands of ticks to call Acadia University home — for good reason | CBC News Acadia University will soon be home to the first tick research centre in Canada. The team will test repellents and research tick-borne diseases, but it will also breed thousands of the pests to send t...

A phrase I never wanted to hear: “local tickery”

But as someone who has lost much of her joy for being in natural areas because of a tick fear, I hope this bodes well for great research and eventual declines in tick-borne illness

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 🧪🌎

Is there any data from academia illustrating how short deadlines for things like awards or funding opportunities disadvantage people from groups who tend to take on or are assigned more thankless labor (women), and advantage those who focus more on the work that benefits them (men)?

A large screen in a conference hall titled Knowledge Crisis showing a black ink sketch of a frazzled man

I have the great pleasure of listening to @caulfieldtim.bsky.social speak about the knowledge crisis and misinformation around health and wellness this morning as part of the People Around the World Congress at @usask.ca

A grand, historic hotel with a dark brick exterior and steeply pitched green roofs, nestled among dense evergreen forests and partially shrouded in mist, with mountains in the background and a Canadian flag visible on top.

The Banff Springs Hotel is one of the most beautiful hotels in Canada. Nestled in the Rocky Mountains, it offers stunning views of the surrounding landscape.
It also may be one of the most haunted places in the country.
This is the story.

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Screenshot of text from article: PANDEMIC PIVOT After designing an experiment dependent on laboratory incubators that were inaccessible during the pandemic, we improvised by turning the childhood home of lead author and graduate student Fleming into a dung beetle laboratory. Fleming used a spare bedroom as a control temperature treatment for experiments, the garage for processing beetles, and a family freezer for storing cow dung, which was used to feed experimental animals. For the sake of science, the lead author ’ s innocent and sup- portive family endured a blazing Tennessee summer without lowering the thermostat in a house that smelled like actual cow dung! We appreciate their sacrifice; our pandemic pivot produced an exciting dataset that allows us to examine changes in the energetics and fitness of dung beetles across their breeding season. Because we had no access to laboratory equipment to measure meta- bolic rate, we turned to a combination of changes in body mass, previously collected data on the thermal sensitivity of metabolic rate, and biophysical modeling to explore the energetic outcomes of increased temperature variation.

#HonestMethodsSections

Fleming et al. 2024 Ecology "Diurnal temperature variation impacts energetics but not reproductive effort across seasons in a temperate dung beetle"

doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

New research article:

Effects of mismatched mate availability cues on reproductive investment in female crickets

✒️ Richardson et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1139/cjz-...

📢 Support Our Science in the news!

We’re proud to be featured in CTV News’ latest story on Canada’s emerging “brain gain” — a scientific migration as researchers look north amid challenges in the U.S.

An illustration of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. It features a man named Gregor Samsa waking up in bed as a bug. It has been edited to have an iPhone with its screen light emitting onto the bug’s face.

You and Vladdy!

Manitoba bans wild boar possession | The Western Producer Manitoba has tightened the regulatory status of Eurasian wild boar in an effort to help fight back against invasive wild pigs.

Manitoba bans wild boar possession vist.ly/4a2yf #cdnag #westcdnag #MBag

Any interest in a support group for those looking for postdocs in biology? Maybe a Slack where we can post resources, job postings, vent, and build community/network?

Read about Naheda, @USask graduate and my friend! 🧪 #chemsky

Altmetric Will Now Include Your Podcast In the early days of Science 2.0, blogging did not get a lot of institutional respect. Public outreach was a waste of time, academics were often told, leave that to science journalists and the PIOs at...

“It is important that academic scientists be where conversations are really happening, not just in paywalled journals and conferences.”

www.science20.com/hank_campbel...