Hannah A. Brazeau
@habrazeau.bsky.social
PhD Candidate: Plant community ecology & evolutionary ecology; monkey flowers, bumblebees, pollinator decline
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=BlN5SkwAAAAJ&hl=en
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"The head of the national organization representing Inuit says he has had no firm commitment from federal officials to renew funding to support the elimination of #tuberculosis in #Canada’s North – despite the government promising to eradicate it by 2030."
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Federal funding for tuberculosis fight in the North remains uncertain, Inuit leader says
The program’s $16.2-million funding in 2023 will run out on March 31 next year
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
"The head of the national organization representing Inuit says he has had no firm commitment from federal officials to renew funding to support the elimination of #tuberculosis in #Canada’s North – despite the government promising to eradicate it by 2030."
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Wee lil zebra jumping spiders are the best. That is all. Carry on.
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Wee lil zebra jumping spiders are the best. That is all. Carry on.
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Reacting to the presence of chatbots with assignment that ask students to look for mistakes in something they got a chatbot to spit out is not a sound approach to teaching your course material.
"GenAI allows seemingly limitless possibilities for assignments that
cultivate crucial literacies. For example, here’s the same old assignment caper that everyone and their AI dog has been suggesting for the past three years.”
#genai+writing
cultivate crucial literacies. For example, here’s the same old assignment caper that everyone and their AI dog has been suggesting for the past three years.”
#genai+writing
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Reacting to the presence of chatbots with assignment that ask students to look for mistakes in something they got a chatbot to spit out is not a sound approach to teaching your course material.
What the…CBC reporting that a new Lancet study says processed foods cause depression.
If you can’t tell the difference between correlation and causation, you should not be published in the Lancet.
If you can’t tell the difference between correlation and causation, you should not be published in the Lancet.
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
What the…CBC reporting that a new Lancet study says processed foods cause depression.
If you can’t tell the difference between correlation and causation, you should not be published in the Lancet.
If you can’t tell the difference between correlation and causation, you should not be published in the Lancet.
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First-gen students are 5% more likely to drop out after one bad grade. Why?
Because they don’t always know how to recover—like switching majors or withdrawing. Academic setbacks shouldn’t be the end of the road.
#edusky #firstgen #educationforall
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Because they don’t always know how to recover—like switching majors or withdrawing. Academic setbacks shouldn’t be the end of the road.
#edusky #firstgen #educationforall
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
First-Gen Students More Likely to Drop Out Due to Low GPA
A recent study finds students who are the first in their family to attend college are more likely to drop out after receiving a negative grade.
www.insidehighered.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
First-gen students are 5% more likely to drop out after one bad grade. Why?
Because they don’t always know how to recover—like switching majors or withdrawing. Academic setbacks shouldn’t be the end of the road.
#edusky #firstgen #educationforall
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
Because they don’t always know how to recover—like switching majors or withdrawing. Academic setbacks shouldn’t be the end of the road.
#edusky #firstgen #educationforall
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
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Hey ChatGPT, what is an intervention? | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
YouTube video by 22 Minutes
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November 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Really sad state of affairs...we have safe and effective paths forward to prevent this.
It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Really sad state of affairs...we have safe and effective paths forward to prevent this.
Anyone include phonetic pronunciation of their name in their email signature? Yay or nay? As an anglo with a French surname that is not pronounced “properly” I’m strongly considering this…
November 5, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Anyone include phonetic pronunciation of their name in their email signature? Yay or nay? As an anglo with a French surname that is not pronounced “properly” I’m strongly considering this…
Let’s make it happen, folks www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Let’s make it happen, folks www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Oh R error messages, how I’ve missed you
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Oh R error messages, how I’ve missed you
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Pollinators such as wild #bees, #butterflies, and #hoverflies are in trouble worldwide. A major new study, published in Science, shows that the oft-quoted figure of 10% semi-natural habitat in farmland landscapes is far too little to safeguard pollinators
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/26/p...
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/26/p...
Pollinators need more space and 10% habitat is not enough says a new study just published in Science
Pollinators such as wild bees, butterflies, and hoverflies are in trouble worldwide. A major new study, published in Science and led by Gabriella Bishop and other scientists at Wageningen Universit…
jeffollerton.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Pollinators such as wild #bees, #butterflies, and #hoverflies are in trouble worldwide. A major new study, published in Science, shows that the oft-quoted figure of 10% semi-natural habitat in farmland landscapes is far too little to safeguard pollinators
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/26/p...
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/26/p...
The number of times I spent months working with a phenomenal colleague only to realize embarrassingly late that they were a former student is > 1. 🤦♀️, but the pride always outweighs the embrassment.
September 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The number of times I spent months working with a phenomenal colleague only to realize embarrassingly late that they were a former student is > 1. 🤦♀️, but the pride always outweighs the embrassment.
This is awful. Doing my BSc at Algoma was transformative, I’m gutted to see things falling apart. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Algoma University turns to layoffs to manage deficit as international enrolment drops more steeply | CBC News
Algoma University is looking at laying off between 50 and 75 people after international student enrolment dropped more than projected in last April’s budget.
www.cbc.ca
September 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is awful. Doing my BSc at Algoma was transformative, I’m gutted to see things falling apart. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Oh boy. The USA H1-B news is something else when you’re applying for postdoc & faculty positions from a country that has made it emphatically clear that they value military spending above research. GOOD TIME TO BE JOB HUNTING! Ugh.
September 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Oh boy. The USA H1-B news is something else when you’re applying for postdoc & faculty positions from a country that has made it emphatically clear that they value military spending above research. GOOD TIME TO BE JOB HUNTING! Ugh.
Oooooooh neat
JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social
Spatiotemporal variation in selection on floral traits related to abortion rate, predispersal seed predation, and fitness variance
@evoecoamy.bsky.social, Monica A Geber
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
#PlantScience
Spatiotemporal variation in selection on floral traits related to abortion rate, predispersal seed predation, and fitness variance
@evoecoamy.bsky.social, Monica A Geber
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
#PlantScience
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
September 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Oooooooh neat
Pro-tip:
✨Be the peer-reviewer you want to receive comments from✨
✨Be the peer-reviewer you want to receive comments from✨
September 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Pro-tip:
✨Be the peer-reviewer you want to receive comments from✨
✨Be the peer-reviewer you want to receive comments from✨
Pretty sure I spent too much time as a teen setting up geocities pages because now I genuinely enjoying doing admin tasks in the university’s learning management system (AKA the course website) way more than anyone should. A well-designed dropbox properly linked to the grade book is so satisfying.
September 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Pretty sure I spent too much time as a teen setting up geocities pages because now I genuinely enjoying doing admin tasks in the university’s learning management system (AKA the course website) way more than anyone should. A well-designed dropbox properly linked to the grade book is so satisfying.
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Ecology people: would anyone be up for giving a guest lecture in my ecology lab the morning of 9/17? Remote is great! Preferably not plants but I'm flexible 🙏
August 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Ecology people: would anyone be up for giving a guest lecture in my ecology lab the morning of 9/17? Remote is great! Preferably not plants but I'm flexible 🙏
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With the new academic year not too far off, if any university folks in the UK have a student that might like an EDI related research project in ecology/conservation/zoology that would also make a nice paper, drop me a line
August 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
With the new academic year not too far off, if any university folks in the UK have a student that might like an EDI related research project in ecology/conservation/zoology that would also make a nice paper, drop me a line
In case you’re wondering how friendly Guelph is - today I got punched by a random man because I was walking on a sidewalk.
August 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
In case you’re wondering how friendly Guelph is - today I got punched by a random man because I was walking on a sidewalk.
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“…Canada 🇨🇦 continues to lag behind other countries in R&D spending; it spent 1.8% of GDP on research in 2024, placing it sixth in the G7 industrialized nations and well below the 2.7% average among the 38 nations that are members of the OECD.” 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Canada plans a 15% budget cut. Scientists are alarmed
Cuts could erase promised boost, researchers fear
www.science.org
August 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“…Canada 🇨🇦 continues to lag behind other countries in R&D spending; it spent 1.8% of GDP on research in 2024, placing it sixth in the G7 industrialized nations and well below the 2.7% average among the 38 nations that are members of the OECD.” 🧪
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www.science.org/content/arti...
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Grant reviewers and tenure committees need to be *highly* cognizant that many new Assistant Professors just had their startups effectively slashed by *at least* 15%.
The tariff on our flow cytometer (U.S. assembled but with several expensive Chinese components) was about as much as my car, bought new.
This was a purchase months in the works, and the tariffs only hit at the 11th hour. Just a lovely system we have right now.
This was a purchase months in the works, and the tariffs only hit at the 11th hour. Just a lovely system we have right now.
August 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Grant reviewers and tenure committees need to be *highly* cognizant that many new Assistant Professors just had their startups effectively slashed by *at least* 15%.
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New article I co-wrote about the financial struggles of graduate school and what you can do to help! academic.oup.com/ae/article/7...
#unions #entomology #grad @entsocamerica.bsky.social
#unions #entomology #grad @entsocamerica.bsky.social
Underpaid, Overworked, and Essential: Graduate Labor Organizing
Graduate students—including those in entomology—are severely underpaid, almost always falling far below the local living wage (Kirchner and Petzoldt 2022,
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July 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
New article I co-wrote about the financial struggles of graduate school and what you can do to help! academic.oup.com/ae/article/7...
#unions #entomology #grad @entsocamerica.bsky.social
#unions #entomology #grad @entsocamerica.bsky.social
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🚨 Please repost! #CommunityScience This year, we counted LOTS of new cones on some conifer tree species in some places, and not many for others species/places. Want to contribute? Tell us what's going on w/ NEW CONE production on conifers 🌲 near you! www.inaturalist.org/projects/con... #ConeCounters
July 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
🚨 Please repost! #CommunityScience This year, we counted LOTS of new cones on some conifer tree species in some places, and not many for others species/places. Want to contribute? Tell us what's going on w/ NEW CONE production on conifers 🌲 near you! www.inaturalist.org/projects/con... #ConeCounters
Stuck in the writing stage of the dissertation, watching all the email notices roll in about defences…
a man in a plaid shirt looking out a window
Alt: a man in a plaid shirt looking out a window
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July 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Stuck in the writing stage of the dissertation, watching all the email notices roll in about defences…