Katie Marshall

On Oct 1 the Standing Committee on Science and Research passed an egregious motion calling for the disclosure of disaggregated data for research applications to federal granting council from 2020-2025. On Oct 20 they amended the timeframe to 2000-2025.
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What You Can Do To Make Wasps Less Annoying - Chatelaine Yes, your first inclination may be to kill them. But they actually do serve a purpose.

Want to fend off wasps? Buy a fake wasp nest and hang it near where you want to spend time outside, says @kemarshall.bsky.social
via @chatelainemag.bsky.social

chatelaine.com/environment/...

I'm an intermediate R user, and I find it helpful when I know *what* I want R to do, but I don't know what the name of the right function is or what library might do it. Google doesn't work super well when you don't have the name itself.

I think there's data out there that that's the case with programming at least.

As I have read: "writing is thinking".

That said, I've been experimenting with using AI to clarify my thoughts a bit--when I'm really confused about a concept, I have been finding it helpful to try having a conversation with it.

“That ability to sting is really a defensive mechanism in this cruel world. Imagine there’s this giant that’s like 100 times bigger than you, and it’s swatting you.”

@kemarshall.bsky.social helps @thewalrus.ca
see the world through the eyes of a wasp

And yes! That's right. He also served on the Eyebright. Happy to share the photos once I get them properly scanned.

My grandfather had lived his whole life in southern Ontario before he went to sea! My mom has sent me a few pictures she took of his photos, but I'd like to properly scan them sometime. Here's one with all that ice!

So great to see! My grandfather was a petty officer on K-182 in WW2 and has some amazing photos he took of the bridge covered in ice. Must have been pretty miserable on those winter North Atlantic traverses!

Ctr for Biodiv Genomics (Guelph) is hiring 10 entomologists (mostly post-docs) to help improve identifications on barcoded material: 2-yr appts, salary range CAD $62,500-$70,000. graduatestudies.uoguelph.ca/postdoctoral...
See posting for specific taxonomic gps preferred.

Trish showed me some awesome pictures from your weekend trip! Looks like a blast and I can't wait to hear how it all shakes out.

Yeah, as you point out, it's important training! I usually do them where we both read the paper, I give the student some guidelines, and then the student drafts a review. We go over the review together and sometimes do another round of review.

Some journals like J. Exp. Biol. actively encourage us to involve grad students in peer review (with appropriate oversight and declared in the review).

Nonprofit Refuses $1.5M Science Grant Due To New Federal DEI Rules A coding nonprofit turned down a $1.5M NSF grant after new DEI restrictions, highlighting the clash between federal policy and scientific community values.

I spoke with Kari Jordan and Erin Becker of The Carpentries about why they declined a $1.5M NSF grant intended to expand data science training. Their decision highlights the growing intersection of #science, #DEI, and federal policy.

Read the full story on Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Project management skills is a big one, I think, that is super transferrable to other jobs.

My team has updated our free database of POSTDOC fellowships.

This database contains 286 entries. For each entry, we provide a link, short description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria.

Download this updated and expanded database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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Enter to win a free open access waiver to a @cdnsciencepub.com journal! Your paper doesn't even have to be about moose :)

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

@canjzoology.bsky.social is seeking #ECRs to join its editorial board as Associate Editors! Gain hands-on experience with #peerreview, contribute to journal development, and connect with leaders in the field.

Apply by Aug 15 ▶️ buff.ly/QGdDC1k

#AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪 #AcWri #PHDSky #ScholComms

There’s been a burst of science news in the past few days—the science-stopping kind. 1/6 🧵

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