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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦

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Aquatic entomologist, kayaker, naturalist Ed: Newsletter of the Biol. Surv. Canada & Mayfly Newsletter born at 314 ppm Professor Emerita at UPEI, Fellow of the ESC Retired home to BC's spectacular Sunshine Coast

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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · Nov 12

This is a map of northern Canadian localities my group has studied mayflies from - I've had the great fortune to visit most of these and collect them myself, though some are from a study of archived specimens from various studies.

An aquatic entomologist sorting mayflies and stoneflies from a sample taken along the Horton River in arctic Canada. She is crouched on the ground looking at a sample tub, with three heavily loaded red canoes at the edge of the Horton River in the background.

Map of northern Canada with a number of red dots on it, showing sampling localities where mayflies were collected.

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Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia (Canada)

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1h

🚨PhD opportunity w/ @venditti.bsky.social and @watershedlab.bsky.social on sediment supply and transport in mountain watersheds in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. 🧪⚒️ Full ad: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jo09s...

The River Dynamics Laboratory at Simon Fraser University, in collaboration with WaterSHED lab at the University of Calgary (https://ucalgary.ca/labs/waterSHED), seeks a PhD student to work on sediment supply in mountain drainage basins in the Rocky Mountains. The candidate would develop and validate a morphodynamic model of changes in river channels caused by coarse sediment delivery by landslides. The candidate will join a large group of students and postdocs at Simon Fraser University and the University of Calgary with expertise in river geomorphology and natural hazards.
The PhD candidate will:
1) Build a one-dimensional numerical model to predict channel evolution that is based on the Parker family of morphodynamic models
2) Collect topographic and sediment texture information to parametrize model in the field
3) Validate the model using channel profiles and newly acquired lidar
4) Experiment with the model to explore sediment removal and augmentation strategies
Minimum qualifications include:
1) A Masters degree in Geology, Engineering, Environmental Science, or Physical Geography
2) Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills, and attention to detail
3) Experience with hydraulic and/or morphodynamic modelling.

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Ecology Group Basel - Sabine Rumpf @ecologybasel.bsky.social · Sep 8

*Job alert*

We have a 5-year postdoc position on #mountain non-native species & #macroecology in our group @unibas.ch. Great opportunity to join us!

Details here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/postdoc-position-in-mountain-macroecology/6c5a8906-354f-43c6-bc9b-1156d21725a5

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Universität Basel: Postdoc position in mountain macroecology

The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a postdoc position within the ERC project 'Global status, tren...

jobs.unibas.ch

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Temporal Ecology Lab @temporalecology.bsky.social · 2d

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

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Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social · 2d

I started a list for scientists and others interested in leaf litter fauna, please share and let me know if you want to be added! Do you love a good hand lens, soil sieves, and Berlese funnels? Perhaps this is the place for you.

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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 3d

Hydrology Paper of the Day @akoshkin.bsky.social @hydro-adrienne.bsky.social on how wildfires affected by climate change remove trees and also affect snowpack hydroclimatology: changes in annual snow disappearance date related to location, radiation, temperature, elevation, and time since burn.

Adrienne Marshall @hydro-adrienne.bsky.social · 20d

Super excited to have this work out showing how snowmelt timing changes in burned forests across the west. Big congrats to @akoshkin.bsky.social on leading this! 🎉

Arielle Koshkin @akoshkin.bsky.social · 20d

Our latest research on fire impacts on snow melt timing across the Western US was just published in @aaas.org Science Advances. Read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Cory S. Sheffield 🇨🇦🐝🌺📸🎸🎨 @corysheffield.bsky.social · 3d

It’s great to be in Calgary, Alberta for the Entomological Society of Canada’s Annual Meeting. I will be talking about my research on one of my favourite groups of #bees @canentomologist.bsky.social

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Syd Cannings @sydcannings1.bsky.social · 3d

I do love bees and stoneflies, but how about the Lake Emerald (Somatochlora cingulata), the Common Loon of dragonflies?

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 3d

what do you mean small talk isn't a talk about small bugs

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Julia Mlynarek 🇨🇦 @jjmlynarek.bsky.social · 4d

Water associated insects! Really lucked out to see the ones underwater and to catch the water strider while it zoomed around on water. The dragonfly nymph was especially exciting for me ! But the water boatman just floating and hanging out was very cool too. #nerdingout. #aquaticlife

Small water strider at the edge water almost climbing on a rock

Water boatman underwater with beige sediment in the background.

Dragonfly nymph hiding in sediment, legs can barely be seen.

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Dr. Catherine Scott @cataranea.bsky.social · 4d

For those not coming to the #ESCJAM in Calgary, if you like the look of these bags (laptop sleeve, pencil/dissection tools cases, etc.), I would be happy to make you a custom one (any size/your favourite bugs) in exchange for a donation to the @canentomologist.bsky.social student scholarsip fund!

photo of several quilted patchwork zipper pouches of various sizes, all featuring colourful insect-themed fabrics

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Dr. Catherine Scott @cataranea.bsky.social · 4d

In addition to this amazing selection of gear from Donna, the silent auction will also include several bags I made out of scraps leftover from my early-pandemic era mask-making: laptop/tablet sleeve, pencil cases, change purses, etc. (more than in this photo).
@canentomologist.bsky.social #ESCJAM

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Dr. Catherine Scott @cataranea.bsky.social · 4d

Hot tip for @canentomologist.bsky.social members arriving in Calgary today:

The conference hotel has an airport shuttle (for $5) that runs on the half hour, but you have to call to book a spot.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 4d

I guess there's no Alberta oil or Saskatchewan potash, either
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News

Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

www.cbc.ca

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 5d

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Opportunities matching 'earth'

Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

careers.ucalgary.ca

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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · 4d

As I gear up for the annual Biological Survey of Canada Symposium at the 2025 Entomological Society of Canada meeting.... #ESCJAM

PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 4d

Ruining fun since ancient times

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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · 5d

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!

🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity

Professorship in Biodiversity. The University of Gothenburg hereby announces a unique and prestigious position – the

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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · 4d

If you're at the meeting, stop by the Student auction table to see all the great things that people are donating. All proceeds go to Student Scholarships!

Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · 4d

@canentomologist.bsky.social members: I'm doing a partial clearout of my home lab & bringing some great stuff for the student auction at the ESC meeting in Calgary next week: nets, vials, malaise trap, pinning/mounting supplies, & a Wild M5 stereoscope (see photo)! Also books!
#ESCmeeting #ESCJAM

an image of a person examining an insect using a Wild M5 stereoscopic dissecting microscope. He is peering down the eyepieces of the microscope.

Two packages of glass vials, each package holding about 12 dozen vials.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5d

Introducing our new game, Reunion!

Make words to reunite the fox and the hedgehog ❤️
www.merriam-webster.com/games/reunion

Reunion, a Daily Word Puzzle | Merriam Webster

The right words bring them together: a daily word game where you unscramble words in as few moves as possible.

www.merriam-webster.com

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SaraKateW @sarakatew.bsky.social · 5d

Hey pals. What’s the difference between a dirty bus stop and a lobster with breast implants?

One is a crusty bus station and the other is a busty crustacean

TGIF amirite

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James Keelaghan @jimmykeelo.bsky.social · 5d

It is Bandcamp Friday! On October 3rd, from midnight to midnight PST, @bandcamp.com waives their revenue share and passes the funds directly to artists & labels.
You can find me here

bitly.cx/WwzHs

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 7d

Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.

I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!

my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · 5d

with me, it was peach chutney! 🙂

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Jean-Philippe Lessard @bugecology.bsky.social · 6d

New paper alert at Ecological Monographs!!!

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