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Support Our Science has sent a formal letter of concern to Canada’s leaders.
We’re calling on the PM and ministers to protect research, scholarships, and the future of discovery.

Full letter: www.supportourscience.ca

#SupportOurScience #cdnpoli #STEMCanada

AUGUST STUDY HALL SCHEDULE! 🗓️

Do you have questions about aquatic telemetry, spatial ecology, statistics or programming? Join OTN’s study hall on Thursdays to problem solve with the OTN data team and peers from across the globe!

See you there! oceantrackingnetwork.org/study-hall/

Social card featuring bird for the Canadian Journal of Zoology Call for Applications: Early Career Researcher Associate Editor.

Looking to grow your experience in peer review and scholarly publishing? @canjzoology.bsky.social is inviting applications from early career researchers to join its editorial board as an Associate Editor. ▶️ buff.ly/QGdDC1k

#AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪 #AcWri #PHDSky #ScholComms

My name tag for the 15th annual biochemistry summer symposium with the Memorial University Biochemistry Grad Student logo

Perks of working for a publisher - leaving the world of ecology and sitting in on biochem and cell bio presentations. Takes me back to undergrad!

Knowing other options existed and feeling supported to explore non-academia jobs was a gamechanger for my mental health. It rocks when a PI asks “What do you want out of this degree?” and helps you get there, even when its not the professor track.

Mentoring beyond the academic career I started training grad students about three decades ago. You won’t be surprised to learn that at the time, I had very little idea how the heck to do that. One particular misapprehension I had real…

How I've adjusted my mentoring to do better for grad students whose careers will take them beyond academia. That is, for most of them! scientistseessquirre...

A Shortnose Gar headshot is pictured against the backdrop of the Minnesota River. Obviously on the lookout for potential GARduate students.

JOIN US!!!

@garlab.bsky.social is looking for a PhD and MS student to join our team studying ecology & conservation of gars, bowfin, and other non-game native fishes beginning Spring 2026!

Posting & more info coming soon. Please DM or email srdavid@umn.edu with CV if interested!

Just ordered for me and my friends!!!!

a sticker illustrating 3 women wearing an NSF lab coat, a NASA shirt, and NIH scrubs with the phrase girls just wanna have funds underneath. a portion of proceeds from this sticker will go directly to stand up for science to support funding initiatives

the same sticker in the wild on my very dented water bottle with the ocean in the background

out of pure rage for the obliteration of science funding i made a sticker

cuts are disproportionately impacting EC scientists & women~particularly Black women and women of color

25% of proceeds will go to @standupforscience.bsky.social to keep fighting! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎

plz share widely
tinyurl.com/5n7kjbwt

St. John’s Pride events are experiencing a rollercoaster of summer weather

Feminist Queer Birding event cancelled due to pouring rain, Pride Beach Party cancelled tonight because of the ongoing fire ban 😔

Is climate change homophobic??

Yeah, all my best to them :( thank you for supporting them!

If total rest and redoing at a later date isn’t possible, I’d also suggest more time so that can the student can take breaks + private room with lights dimmed? I was concussed in my 3rd year and my midterms were a tough time

Hey #rstats #rspatial people working with rivers, how do you approach labelling rivers nicely on maps where the underlying data are broken up into many small stream segments, each with the same string in the name column of the sf object?

Canadian map of current wildfires and fire risk

With all the daunting Wildfires in the Canadian prairies right now, I thought I'd flag for folks NRCan runs the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System, including an interactive map (with overlays). CWFIS also has a host of data to dig into to stay informed
cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-...

Drone Systems and Applications announces new Double anonymous peer-review social card.

New at @dsajournal.bsky.social: double-anonymous peer review. Because science should be judged on the work—not the name.

Learn more ▶️ buff.ly/zXQk2s3

#DoubleBlindReview #EquityInScience #AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪 #AcWri #PHDSky #ScholComms #OpenScience #SciPol #PeerReview

Donate to Support Sheila Colla Through Cancer Treatment, organized by Anna Penner There is a good chance that you already know Sheila Colla: she is a brillian… Anna Penner needs your support for Support Sheila Colla Through Cancer Treatment

If you can, please donate to help with funeral costs and supporting her family. RIP Sheila Colla. www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...

Maydianne is standing on stage behind a podium. The project screen shows a slide that reads the title of the talk “I don’t think of you as Black: Misconceptions about equity, merit and systems change”

Have been waiting for this all conference long! Thank you to Dr Maydianne Andrade for reminding us EDI is not part of a fake woke agenda
- unconcious bias and underrepresenation are evidence-based (legal) issues that deserve our funding and efforts 👏👏👏 #CSEE2025 @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

My expectations for all future conference snacks has been ruined 😂🍩

Enjoying a second day of plenaries at #CSEE2025!

Elena Bennett introduced us to the world of social ecological systems ecology and a People With Nature worldview.

Congrats to Emily Studd on the ECR Award! Animal activity isn’t as static as we think - and now we can measure it with sound!

Laura on stage in a white top and blue pants. Projector screen behind her reads “Can we tech oir way out of the biodiversity data crisis?”

Dr. Laura Pollocks’ plenary at #CSEE2025 last night gave us a lot to think about.

Harnessing the power of exisiting data, training models to do even more and faster…but what we do with it? The bias of which species and who gets to help generate knowledge made for interesting discussions 🧪

Partway through teaching my first of two workshops at #CSEE2025:

“Intro to Science Communication”

We’re working through the Message Box, by Nancy Baron & COMPASS. www.compassscicomm.org/leadership-d...

Project screen showing the first slide of an Introduction to Science Communication workshop, run by Dr. Aerin Jacob of Nature Conservancy Canada

Happy start of #CSEE2025!

Doing a bit of learning and refreshing of sci comm concepts myself before co-leading a @cdnsciencepub.com workshop on peer review this afternoon with @wishartae.bsky.social 🐿️📝

I heard your Quirks and Quarks interview from last fall replayed on the radio this weekend! Thanks for always sharing your awesome work :)

Collage of 5 photos depicting a plant with leaves, stems and roots. One photo was taken with a stereomicroscope.

ID Help: This specimen was found in a stormwater management pond (SWMP) in Ontario. It was found at 1-m depth, but given the dynamic water-levels of SWMPs, it could be an emergent plant rather than a submergent (which is what we are focused on). TIA for ID help. Cc @jolatimore.bsky.social

Federal Bill C-5, which would allow "national interest" projects to bypass key Canadian laws inc...

💠 The Species at Risk Act
💠The Impact Assessment Act
💠The Fisheries Act

....is expected to be fast-tracked today 🌎🧵(1/3)

Come work with me!

Social card for the Canadian Journal of Microbiology & Environmental Reviews Call for Papers: Biodegradation of plastic polymers in nature and industrial settings

NEW! Call for papers: Biodegradation of plastic polymers in nature and industrial settings. This collection will explore microbial and enzymatic solutions to the plastic waste crisis.

Submit to @canjmicrobio.bsky.social or @envreviews.bsky.social ▶️ buff.ly/7SnWLWa

#AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪 #AcWri

Can’t wait to see it myself! Also Happy Father’s Day (for gar and humans 🤣)

iNat update - but as several users are pointing out in the forums and replies, they still very clearly said LLM and provided a mock up. So what part of saying GenAI was a mistake and are we all just acutally more confused now 🤧

Interesting update from the person who first called it out in the forums:

"@procyonloiter and I just had a 3-hour in-person talk with @loarie and I am delighted to say that it has completely alleviated my concerns around this entire issue."