Katie Marshall

U.S. science funding uncertainty reshapes grad school choices for Canadians | CBC News Thousands of Canadians go to the U.S. for graduate school every year. Now, uncertainty around science funding — from cuts and freezes announced by the Trump administration — mean some U.S. universitie...

US scientific chaos is having ripple effects in Canada too: www.cbc.ca/news/science...

The trunk of an ash tree with many emerald ash borer galleries

New paper from us describing the detection and delimitation of emerald ash borer in Vancouver, Canada.

www.reabic.net/journals/bir... (first article)

#Bioinvasions

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Congratulations @science.ubc.ca @zoology.ubc.ca student @jesslli.bsky.social on an awesome writeup!

ECR Spotlight – Jessica Li ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career res...

@jexpbiol.bsky.social ECR spotlight of @science.ubc.ca PhD Candidate @jesslli.bsky.social talking about life as a graduate student: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

ECR Spotlight – Jessica Li ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career res...

When they're super tiny, they're not great at moving super fast :) journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

The Season's Script: Tales of Metabolic adaptation #MetabolismMondays - the Node All the world's a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism Dr. Karin van der Burg, faculty,

#MetabolismMondays
Meet @karinburg.bsky.social, #newPI at @cupress.bsky.social, alumni from @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social and @kemarshall.bsky.social - talking about metabolic adaptation in unique models like #butterflies and #budworms.
#theNodeCorrespondents #ecr @the-node.bsky.social #evodevo

So cool to see Jess' very first paper out!!! She did so much work on this and found that scaling in baby ground squirrels does not work at ALL like you'd expect.

Had a wonderful time at McGill Department of Biology today! Thank you Ehab Abouheif for being a wonderful host!

'Worst fears': International student drowns off Vancouver's Wreck Beach Rahul Ranwa had yelled for help after struggling to swim in the ocean. He was found dead the next day.

My heart goes out to the family and friends of Rahul Ranwa. What a tragedy. www.nsnews.com/highlights/w...

UBC Profs’ perverse interpretation of the University Act lays bare a hidden agenda  - BC Civil Liberties Association Universities are a crucial social space of free expression, exchange of ideas, and academic debate.  Universities are not meant to be sanitized from political thought or discourse. The recent lawsuit ...

The @bccla.bsky.social has said everything that is need to be said about that awful anti-DEI lawsuit against UBC. "...their interpretation of “political” is ultimately self-defeating. Acknowledging that you are on unceded land is no more political than refusing to do so." bccla.org/2025/04/ubc-...

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

Please read this. 🧪

A flyer you can distribute on how to handle ICE if they come to your campus:

Ice in the intertidal: patterns and processes of freeze tolerance in intertidal invertebrates Summary: We review our current understanding of intertidal invertebrate freeze tolerance, highlighting knowledge gaps, proposed physiological mechanisms behind this trait and potential future directio...

The project asks how you can get freeze tolerance *without* accumulating large quantities of sugar and polyol cryoprotectants. It focuses on intertidal species, where freeze tolerance is common. Some of the hypotheses are here in @jexpbiol.bsky.social : journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Me too! And thank you again :)

Thank you! I've proposed a big project on the evolution of ice binding proteins--we've found that they are ubiquitous in at least temperate intertidal environments, so there are some cool evolutionary questions to tackle about how and why this happened.

Absolutely delighted to announce that the lab has been funded by NSERC DG for the next five years! DG are a team effort--an incredible group of hardworking students and postdocs, a supportive department and university, and generous mentors were all necessary for this result. Thank you to all!

It also doesn't mention that we're going to be recruiting fewer students up here because NSF and NIH money will likely be much less available for Canadian researchers to tap into.

I also endorse that statement wholeheartedly.

Join Us! | King Lab Are you interested in joining the King Lab? More information here!

Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...

Thank you for sharing news of our initiative... we are an interdisciplinary team of researchers from U of Maryland, UPenn, and Georgia Tech + more whose aim is to communicate the impacts of federal cuts on science and health research nationwide. Full explainer thread here:

bsky.app/profile/josh...

“Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences” is available for pre-order! If you find mentoring and teaching writing difficult, mystifying, or time-consuming, here are two important things you should know: You’re not alone. In our experience, most scientists find teachin…

Do you find teaching and mentoring writing difficult, time-consuming, or both? Our new book (that's @bgmerkle.bsky.social and me) is what you need - and it's now available for pre-order! scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/t...

How frustrating! Your work is both scientifically very rigorous and also easy to understand because of all the work you put into your illustrations.

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

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

February 18, 2024 TO: Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH CC: John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH FROM: Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH SUBJECT: Resignation Dear Dr. Memoli, On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment: I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included: • For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dual

nuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system. • Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats. • Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them. • Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn. • Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity. I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind. As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha…

to go to college. I knew my grades weren't good enough to compete for scholarships with kids who were as smart as me but also had private tutors and didn't have to work after class to be able to drive their brand-new cars to our school each day. So, I gave up. I nearly failed my senior year of high school with an attendance failure, even though I only needed two classes to graduate. I didn't see the point. What was the point of learning calculus? So it would be that much harder when my dream of being a brain surgeon died not because I was incapable, but because I didn't have the means to make it come true? I resigned myself to being one of the working poor. I resigned myself to needing a spinal fusion before I was 50, like my father, because he literally broke his back trying to make his dreams come true. The example of my father didn't inspire me at that time. It reminded me of the futility of trying to escape the rung of the social ladder I had been born onto. No matter how smart or "gifted and talented" I may have been, I saw no path that led me to a place where I could realize my potential. So, instead I accepted that it would be wasted. Ultimately, the reason I find myself here today, rather than in the place I saw as my only end, is because of another young man who committed to serving his country. Shamefully, I do not remember his name, but there was a young corporal from the United States Marine Corps who had been assigned as a recruiter in Reading, Pennsylvania at that time. This man spoke to me about my plans for my future during lunch one day at school. I told him I planned to do what my father had done. Work hard jobs until my body broke down, maybe start a struggling business, and try to do what I could to stay above the poverty line and off welfare. I told him I hoped to be successful enough that my kids never had to watch me use food stamps at the grocery store. It had been hard to watch my mom go through that. How sad is that? I was a smart young 18-…

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading

www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

Yeah I've found the ads are generally buggy too--they sometimes just freeze and need to be reloaded.

Gem is a totally underappreciated...well...gem. I've been watching it a lot lately and am always surprised by what I find on it.

List of Science impacts: one month of Trump 2.0 20 January: Trump’s Day 1 executive orders 21 January: NIH activities suspended 27 January: Freeze on all federal grants 31 January: CDC databases disappear and papers are censored 2 February: NSF unfreezes funds, scrutinizes grants 6 February: Global health efforts imperiled 7 February: Cuts to NIH research overhead funding announced 14 February: Layoffs at US science agencies begin

A truly depressing article in #Nature listing of all the damage done to #science in the US by the Trump administration in just one month

💔 for so many friends and colleagues there

#solidarityforscience 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...