ISEPEP10

Had a wonderful time at the @isepep10.bsky.social conference in Vancouver this month! Thank you to everyone who listened to my talk about my ongoing thesis work ✨️🐛

Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.

iNaturalist Animals and Plants

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Sea lions on our excursion!

A screenshot of the article titled 'Preprints in comparative physiology - a guide for the preprint curious' by Charlotte Nelson and Katie Marshall.

The use of preprints in comparative physiology lags behind that of other life science fields. In their Perspective, Charlotte Nelson and Katie Marshall discuss the reasons for this disparity & tell why comparative physiologists should adopt this practice

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Invertebrate biologists looking for invertebrates :)

How a tree-killing beetle chose wrong human to fly into, revealing presence in B.C. The tiny beetle could scarcely have picked a worse human to fly into.

Our recent paper about detecting emerald ash borer in Vancouver got some press attention in BC. I'm glad the reporter connected with the person who found the beetle. This is such a fun story and I'm glad we got to tell it:
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

For those coming to the intertidal excursion today, be sure to double-check details here: isepep10.ca/excursions/

Today is the day!! Looking forward to meeting everybody as you come in! Fabulous talks start tomorrow--abstract book is available here: isepep10.ca/wp-content/u...

The 10th ISEPEP logo, including a snail, dragonfly and butterfly

JEB and @biologists.bsky.social is proud to be sponsoring the 10th International Symposium on the Environmental Physiology of Ectotherms and Plants 14-18 July @UBC isepep10.ca

We wish everyone a wonderful time & you can follow at isepep10.bsky.social if you can't be there

a screenshot of the interview page showing a picture of madison and a blurb describing the csz outstanding thesis award

i was recently interviewed by @csz-sczofficial.bsky.social about my phd, science, art, really all things 👩🏻‍🔬🧪🐠🌎

still over the moon i got this award, sometimes i am still reminding myself that i did a phd 🥲

check it out! 👇🏼

blog.csz-scz.ca/2025/06/30/s...

A blue poster describing opportunities to join the Bernhardt Lab -- for more information please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨

Please spread the word!

www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

#CSEE2025

The @jexpbiol.bsky.social swag is here! Thank you so much for sponsoring our conference!

Just under two weeks away! Want to know who's talking? You can see the full schedule here: isepep10.ca/program/

Reminder: abstract submission closes tomorrow! We're so excited to see yours!

sign and share!!! we must protect & expand science in canada 🇨🇦

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The other is a whale-watching trip out of Steveston, BC: isepep10.ca/excursions/

We have TWO excursions this year! One is free, and will be a walk down to beautiful Tower Beach on the UBC campus to look at intertidal critters: isepep10.ca/excursions/

Please do! It would be wonderful to have you!

Exciting news! Registration and abstract submission are now open! We look forward to hosting you in Vancouver: isepep10.ca

ISEPEP 10 Abstract submission form July 14th - 18th, 2025.

Exciting news! Abstract submission is now open! It will take a day or two for this to be updated on the website, but for now, you can submit abstracts here: forms.gle/iEfhqK3BVALJ....

Finally, our last announced speaker is Raymond Huey! He is well known for his work on thermal performance curves, but also mountaineering! Looking forward to his talk. www.biology.washington.edu/people/profi...

Super duper excited to be attending this amazing conference, where I will profess my love of aquatic insect larvae to an audience of incredible ectotherm enthusiasts! In Canada! Join us!

Our next exciting plenary speaker is Andrea Durant @andreadurant.bsky.social ! She's known for her work on osmoregulatory strategies in aquatic arthropods and has recently started her lab at the University of Washington. www.biology.washington.edu/people/profi...

We're excited to announce Sylvain Pincebourde as one of our plenary speakers! He's a researcher at the Insect Biology Research Institute (IRBI, University François Rabelais of Tours). He's best known for his work on fine-scale modelling of insect microhabitats: sylvainpincebourde.wordpress.com

As Trump Goes After Universities, Students Are Now on the Chopping Block Uncertainty about how much money colleges and universities stand to lose has led some schools to reduce the number of doctoral students, in some cases reneging on offers.

A relief to see the devastating impacts to science students as the top story in the @nytimes.com along with articles about other impacts to the upcoming generation of scientists.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

The logo of the CSZ 2025 annual meeting in Waterloo, Canada. The illustration is of a standing Canada goose with its right foot slightly raised. The goose is wearing a winter hat with it's wings widespread. The words 'Mai 2025 May' are on the left wing. The words 'CSZ-SCZ Waterloo' are on the right wing. The logo is by Tristan Long

Early-career researchers going to the CSZ-SCZ meeting in Waterloo 12-15 May, make sure you register for this fantastic JEB sponsored SciComm Workshop, run by @brittneyphd.bsky.social & co, to learn how to communicate your research to a wider audience bit.ly/4gR2N94

Over the next few days we'll profile some of their very interesting work.

We're very excited to announce our plenary speakers! Three great researchers in environmental physiology of ectotherms: Sylvain Pincebourde, Andrea Durant, and Ray Huey.