Tamzin Blewett

Wildfires Can Turn Harmless Minerals in Soils Into Contaminants | Newswise New research shows how extreme heat can turn chromium into a toxic contaminant

Wildfires Can Turn Harmless Minerals in Soils Into Contaminants
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#heavymetal #Chromium #chromium6 #wildfire #soil #chromium3

Please help us classify all fish species by their social systems 🙏! Any and all observations or general knowledge are useful. Log them at shoalbase.org, the form takes about a minute to fill in 😀.

L-SETAC members are invited to present in a session chaired by @drtblew.bsky.social (tamzin@ualberta.ca) and Ivan Cadonic (cadonic@ualberta.ca) titled “Investigating the interrelated responses of climate change, contaminants, and biodiversity loss in fishes”.

The 16th International Congress on the Biology of Fish (ICBF)
Where: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
When: July 12-16th 2026
Website: icbf2026.com

Check out our new work published in Plant Physiology utilizing an optimized BONCAT approach to understand Arabidopsis protein production!

Outstanding work led by graduate student Nick Hassan.

The work promises exciting new opportunities for plant science!

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Oxygen supersaturation has been reported to protect aquatic animals from heat waves. We tested this in a large collaborative experiment on many species of fish and crustaceans. Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that the effect of hyperoxia on thermal tolerance is negligible. Unfortunately.

Fish embryos under the microscope

Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️

Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation

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Saying ‘no’ with confidence: statistical approaches to test for the absence of an effect | Biology Letters Publishing non-significant findings is essential for the progress of science. However, many of us forget that ‘absence of evidence is not evidence of absence’ and believe that a statistically non-sign...

"Regrettably, and despite the null hypothesis being simple, elegant and often underpinned by evidenced or reasoned convictions, conventional p-value analysis can only argue against the null hypothesis, never in favour of it."

People dressed in Shrek movie costumes

Happy Halloween from the Blewett lab all!

Meet our new #AssociateEditor Tamzin Blewett @drtblew.bsky.social !

Tamzin is a #Multidisciplinary scientist with an interest in the protection of #Aquatic ecosystems 💧 Her research supports the development of regulatory tools which limit the levels of aquatic contaminants.

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:

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Wildfire smoke could kill 71,000 people per year in the US by 2050, study warns When wildfire smoke from Canada turned New York City’s sky an eerie orange in June 2023, millions of Americans who’d never experienced such pollution got a glimpse of what has become routine for…

A new Nature study projects wildfire smoke will cause 71,000 excess deaths annually in the U.S. by 2050, representing $608 billion in damages that exceed all other estimated climate costs combined.

See you at this morning's coffee break for the eDNA & eRNA short course!

Professor or Assistant / Associate (tenure track) Professor in Plant Ecology The Faculty of Science is looking for a full professor or assistant/associate professor (tenure track) in Plant Ecology. The aim of the professorship is to strengthen scientific research and education...

Open position: Professor or Assistant / Associate (tenure track) Professor in Plant Ecology (U. Turku Finland) Please share

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A fake snail with a skull for a shell and bony body

Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate

Autism experts question HHS statements on Tylenol, leucovorin Concerns include the administration’s reliance on weak, correlational evidence rather than established research…

"Although representatives of the administration suggested they would uplift gold-standard science, they have sidelined experts, ignored evidence and spread disinformation."

via @thetransmitter.bsky.social

NSERC has announced the top 20 finalists for the 2025 Science Exposed photo contest! This initiative showcases graduate students’ research through their own photography. Please support Jenelle's work focused on organisms exposed to wildfire ash during runoff.
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Incredibly nerdy paper, but should be useful I think.

This was a product of a pre-SEB writing retreat a bunch of had in Czechia last year.

Map of Canada showing locations of fires and their status as of july 12, 2025

Area burned in Canada for 2025 is now at 5.6 M ha exceeding the total for the entire 2024 fire season. This fire season is not as bad as 2023 that had 9.37 M ha burned by July 12, 2023. However, 2025 is a very active year with 365 fires out of control and 2 months still left in the fire season.

My title slide with fish in the background. Text reads: Life History Attributes Influencing Metabolic Variation Authors: Elizabeth Hoots, Luis Kuchenmüller, Michael Skeeles, Timothy Clark

I’m excited to share my research in the Open Animal session today at #SEBconference! I’ll be speaking from 12:15-12:30 in the Nightingale rooms, come along for a chat about how SMR does (or doesn’t!) change with different life history traits in #fish 🐟

Sandra Binning giving the President's Medallist talk on the importance of considering parasites for increased ecological relevance. Great presentation! 🐟🧪

#SEBconference
@sebiology.bsky.social
@jexpbiol.bsky.social

FINclub research trip going well! 32 people, dozens of fish and invert species, 16 experiments, two dogs and lots of fun. Some photos in thread.
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🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

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Pro-tip: aspiring authoritarians will keep pushing the envelope to take away civil rights. If they don't get any serious resistance, they'll take it up to the next level.

Why aren’t they listening to Evanescence?

This is not the actual cover of Nature, just shown here for illustrative purposes. We did submit this figure for consideration for their cover. Print run in two weeks, we'll know by then if it gets used.

Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dealing with the heat: Assessing heat stress in an Arctic seabird using 3D-printed thermal models The Arctic is warming at four times the global average rate and most studies have focused on the indirect (e.g., changes in food web) rather than the …

Excited to share our new paper led by Fred Tremblay @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social ”Dealing with heat stress: Assessing heat stress in an Arctic breeding seabird using 3D-printed thermal models” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social #seabirdsaturday

Reeling from Trump contract cuts, the National Academies prepares for ‘a fairly radical downsizing’ Nation's leading advisory body on issues of science and technology is "preparing for a fairly radical downsizing."

Another light dims.

To paraphrase Spinal Tap: "How much more dark could this be? And the answer is none. None more dark."

National Academies prepares for ‘a fairly radical downsizing’ www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n... via @statnews.com @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Congratulations to PhD student Connor Stewart for presenting his thesis work at #SETACVienna on the effects of Ni on Arctic Biota. And shout out to our team currently in the Arctic! @beardydylan.bsky.social