L. Shea Giesbrecht 🏳️‍🌈🍉🇨🇦

My first paper is finally published! I hope one day I'll be able to work with tiger beetles again. #stableisotopes #tigerbeetle #foodweb

My first paper has been accepted for publication! So thankful to all the people who helped me with the project.

I'm not in psych or med and I can even tell a common denominator in this study could be socioeconomic status. There's likely many other factors. This is science 101🤦

I follow almost exclusively scientists and science creators yet everything in my feed is American politics and I'm not even American. I get that it's important but I want to see science and jokes, too.

This is crazy, you'd think that a UNIVERSITY of all places would know that biological sex isn't just male and female. I could see some non science based institutions doing this because they're uneducated but a university...?

Not sure what happened here with the embedded link lol

Fellow white people, what do you do when you're forced into a conversation with white a supremacist? As in you can't walk away and you feel unsafe arguing against their ideas? Because this keeps happening to me and idk why they assume I'd agree 😐

Never in my life did I expect to use so much geometry in my MSc project, let alone have to learn how to woodwork.

@99pi.org listening to the episode on 15 min cities and Edmonton came up. I moved here in June and I actually sold my car because I no longer need it since most things are within 15 minutes from my apartment. I specifically chose the neighborhood I live in because of its walkability.

It's missing C. scutellaris!

Tiger beetles dressed as Christmas lights. 🎄

Girl 😭 get better soon and stay hydrated!

And yet people still find a way to ruin them. I'm looking at you, scooped bagel people.

Wingspan has an online version but I'm not sure if it's compatible with Mac

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

How fast was shipping through bookstore.org? This seems like a great alternative. I try to shop local when possible but sometimes bookstores near me don't carry what I'm looking for. They can usually order from their supplier but it often takes 2+ weeks for the book to arrive

I'm generally not a very anxious person with the one exception being flying. The actual plane ride is fine but it's the process of getting to the airport and through security in time is what makes it stressful... even when I'm 3 hours early lol

Tiny Radar Tags Enable Novel Insights in Fruit Fly Dispersal Using harmonic radar tags weighing less than a milligram, scientists show fruit flies can be closely tracked to reveal flight patterns in real-world environments.

Using harmonic radar tags weighing less than a milligram, scientists have shown fruit flies can be tracked to reveal flight patterns and wind-driven effects in real-world environments. The researchers say the technique can open doors to answer new questions about insects flight behavior.

I've seen people say that people who read only non fiction are red flags. Some people have really strange opinions on what people read and I don't know why lmao

I think that would only worsen the echo chambers. Imagine you're a gay kid and your small town's social media is full of bigots. You'd have no idea that homophobia isn't a shared sentiment in other parts of the world/country

Antidepressants. Or a lobotomy. Or both.

Even then stipends aren't keeping up with inflation and many kids in their 20s still need loans

(2/2) but if you were to replace all light stable isotopes with heavy stable isotopes, metabolic enzymes begin to fail. For D2O death occurs when levels are raised to 35% but sublethal effects are seen at 20%.

I'm currently reading Stable Isotope Ecology by Brian Fry and I came upon this fun fact that I have no one else to talk to about. Apparently if you were to replace all heavy stable isotopes in a 50kg human body with light isotopes the human wonld only lose 30g (1/2)

I usually lay down a piece of paper over my keyboard to keep it clean 🫣

I think every undergrad biology program should have a mandatory introduction to R course. No classes that I took as an undergrad used or taught R, which is a major setback now that I'm a grad student.

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hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

An infrared photo of a rainbow: a strange, ghostly-looking rainbow in a mostly black and white photo, with a faintly red outer edge and a cyan inner edge, and what look like a few even fainter ‘echo’ bows inside

A regular visible-light pic of a rainbow

An ultraviolet picture of a rainbow: a dark, foreboding landscape with a deep purple stripe emanating from it, and a grey stripe inside

A composite of the three preceding photos, showing that the infrared bow is ‘outside’ the visible light rainbow, and the ultraviolet bow ‘inside’

There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet.

Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.

🧪 #photography

I'd argue that psychology is applied philosophy (also don't quote me on this because I don't believe it)

Hey this is offensive to hagfish! At least hagfish slime is funny