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Over the moon to finally share our new study in @science.org led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social!

Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival

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Conocer los contaminantes de los ecosistemas acúaticos - Revista Mètode Andreu Rico es investigador en el grupo de Limnología del Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad en el área de ecotoxicología que actualmente está participando en el proyecto ERAHUMED.

Ya está disponible el 2.º capítulo de #EspaisdeCiència

Andreu Rico es investigador en el grupo de Limnología del Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad en el área de ecotoxicología que actualmente está participando en el proyecto ERAHUMED.

Sorry, last one! I also wonder if some of those aspects, which might overlap with LCA or even policy areas would be even better covered by SETACs sister journal IEAM. Anyway, all great food for thought! Thank you

Copy that! I have a feeling that that distribution might be due to authors preferentially submitting to those other journals and not a matter of ETC not considering those topics, but I will pass this along to my plastic’s colleagues. Appreciate the feedback!

I’ve been taking lots of notes these pasts weeks and will bring them up at the next editorial meeting! Please pass along (yourself or anybody reading!) any suggestions that you think would make ETC more attractive (other than IF, which is a harder issue with its own problems, hence why we are here!)

You do make a good point though! If our target audience is not aware that they can publish/find papers on their field there, then we do need to make a better job communicating that.

Hey Alex, newly appointed ETC editor here, happy to pass along any suggestions!. We do publish a fair bit of plastics work and other non-chemical stressors. Is your concern about specific tiers of OA available?

Agree, these are historically reputable journals. In hindsight the growing numbers were a red flag, but in the context of the field as a whole, it was hard to tell. Also, papers coming out now were probably submitted before the WoS decision. Those authors deserve being able to promote their work.

“We analyzed the DNA sequence of the protein in slow loris venom, discovering that it's virtually identical to the allergenic protein on cats."

* CATS ARE 'VENOMOUS' to a subset of humans, 15-20% of the human population. *

Let's talk about cat allergen, Felis domesticus protein 1 (Fel d 1)

Save the Date poster for Laurentian SETAC's 29th Conference & AGM: Science in an evolving world, hosted at Western University from Thursday, June 12th to Friday, June 13th, 2025.

Mark your calendars for the Laurentian SETAC Annual General Meeting, Conference, and Short Courses on June 12-13th, 2025, hosted at Western University.

More details to come in the New Year!

Visit our website for the latest information: www.laurentiansetac.ca

Somehow I hadn’t seen this before. Loads of useful info. And just like that, I just spent a chunk of my Friday evening absorbed by it. Great use I would say! 🤓

Removing institutional barriers to long-term fieldwork is critical for advancing ecology Long-term fieldwork is essential for ecology and conservation, but is hindered by institutional barriers, such as the publish-or-perish culture of aca…

Super interesting article about valuing ecological field work more - both by academia and funding agencies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And if there is a Risk Assessment course, that is definitely worth it. That’s where your research would end up, so it is good to know what the people who are going to be using it need, that way you can have that in mind when designing the studies. I hope that helps!

If you are thinking more general “environmental tox” and you are already doing the molecular route, then adding environmental chemistry is always a plus. You always have to consider the chemical and its fate in the picture for full context.

Depends a bit on what you have already taken and the definition of Ecotox you are thinking of. For the more “eco” side of it, ecology or population biology would be good. Limnology if you are thinking aquatic is a nice comprehensive one.

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I've just realized that I've been here for a year and a half and have barely shared any of the #Manitoba tourism posters I've done. I started making them as a personal project a few years ago and add a couple more every year when I have the time.

Here is a thread!! #art #landscape #CANartist

Alex, these are awesome!

Remember that type 1 and type 2 errors go the same order as the boy who cried wolf.
Type 1 - villagers believed there was a wolf (effect) when there wasn't.
Type 2 - villagers didn't believe there was a wolf (effect) when there was.
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Reposting for weekend readers:

🧪 🧪 We are hiring a new limnology professor at UQAM! Come join us in the GRIL in Montreal. Posting is below / Nous embauchons un nouveau prof en limnologie à l'UQAM! Rejoignez-vous à nous dans le GRIL 🧪 🧪 --> bio.uqam.ca/wp-content/u...
Please re-post.

Killer kitties: cats are eating 2,000 species, including hundreds that are at risk The first study to quantify what our felines eat on a global scale finds they have a significant impact on wildlife

Killer kitties: a reminder that cats play a major role in wiping out wildlife. How?

By killing literally *billions* of native animals every year, driving numerous extinctions. 🌍

Cats are NOT 'part of nature'. If you must have one, keep it indoors.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?

direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

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Students planning to attend the Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences conference in Feb...if you have a financial need, apply for CRTF - www.scas-scsa.ca/page-18116. Due Nov 20

Now that the science Twitter family is joining us over here, all the @bodegacats.bsky.social 🐈pictures are getting diluted in my timeline… I must say, however, that the cat dilution is completely worth it! Welcome friends!

Only #academia is capable of the degree of stonewalling where your comment on a paper comes out 3 years after the original article, by which point no one cares anymore.

In this new paper, we found a wide range of pesticides in stormwater ponds across a gradient in urban intensity. We also found several of these pesticides accumulated in biofilm. This presents a risk to wetland biota living in stormwater ponds feeding on biofilm. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...