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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 3d

See you at this morning's coffee break for the eDNA & eRNA short course!

Contaminants, Environment, and Society @contaminantsenvsoc.bsky.social · 3d

Visit us this week at #CEW2025 next to the Registration Desk of the Victoria Conference Centre. You can:

- Sign up for our newsletter
- Meet the Journal Development Specialist
- Get an exclusive conference code
- Contribute to our community ideas board

Happy workshop week!

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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · 4d

Open position: Professor or Assistant / Associate (tenure track) Professor in Plant Ecology (U. Turku Finland) Please share

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Professor or Assistant / Associate (tenure track) Professor in Plant Ecology

The Faculty of Science is looking for a full professor or assistant/associate professor (tenure track) in Plant Ecology. The aim of the professorship is to strengthen scientific research and education...

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 16d

"Although representatives of the administration suggested they would uplift gold-standard science, they have sidelined experts, ignored evidence and spread disinformation."

via @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Autism experts question HHS statements on Tylenol, leucovorin

Concerns include the administration’s reliance on weak, correlational evidence rather than established research…

www.thetransmitter.org

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Tamzin Blewett @drtblew.bsky.social · Sep 2

NSERC has announced the top 20 finalists for the 2025 Science Exposed photo contest! This initiative showcases graduate students’ research through their own photography. Please support Jenelle's work focused on organisms exposed to wildfire ash during runoff.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/scienceexpos...

NSERC - Science Promoters - Science Exposed - Finalists

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca

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Graham Raby @graham-raby.bsky.social · Aug 21

Incredibly nerdy paper, but should be useful I think.

This was a product of a pre-SEB writing retreat a bunch of had in Czechia last year.

Jeremy De Bonville @jaydebon.bsky.social · Aug 20

Happy to see this out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

Are you new to CTmax tests (or CTmin)? Are you experienced, but unsure on what to report in your Methods?🤔

Then this practical guide is for you! It even includes a fillable table! 😎

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Measuring critical thermal maximum in aquatic ectotherms: A practical guide

Critical thermal limits, commonly quantified as CTmax (maximum) or CTmin (minimum), are core metrics in the thermal biology of aquatic ectotherms. CTmax, in particular, has recently surged in popu...

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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · Jul 12

Area burned in Canada for 2025 is now at 5.6 M ha exceeding the total for the entire 2024 fire season. This fire season is not as bad as 2023 that had 9.37 M ha burned by July 12, 2023. However, 2025 is a very active year with 365 fires out of control and 2 months still left in the fire season.

Map of Canada showing locations of fires and their status as of july 12, 2025

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Beth Hoots @whatahoot.bsky.social · Jul 10

I’m excited to share my research in the Open Animal session today at #SEBconference! I’ll be speaking from 12:15-12:30 in the Nightingale rooms, come along for a chat about how SMR does (or doesn’t!) change with different life history traits in #fish 🐟

My title slide with fish in the background. Text reads: Life History Attributes Influencing Metabolic Variation
Authors: Elizabeth Hoots, Luis Kuchenmüller, Michael Skeeles, Timothy Clark

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · Jul 8

Sandra Binning giving the President's Medallist talk on the importance of considering parasites for increased ecological relevance. Great presentation! 🐟🧪

#SEBconference
@sebiology.bsky.social
@jexpbiol.bsky.social

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · Jun 28

FINclub research trip going well! 32 people, dozens of fish and invert species, 16 experiments, two dogs and lots of fun. Some photos in thread.
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Rob Heathcote @rjpheathcote.bsky.social · Jun 13

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · Jun 13

💫 PLEASE SHARE 💫

I’m hiring a short-term program manager:

* Flexible location in 🇨🇦
* Start date ASAP
* Apply by Fri June 20
* Must already be legally allowed to work in 🇨🇦
* www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar...

#ConservationJobs

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F. West @fgwest.bsky.social · Jun 10

Pro-tip: aspiring authoritarians will keep pushing the envelope to take away civil rights. If they don't get any serious resistance, they'll take it up to the next level.

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Tamzin Blewett @drtblew.bsky.social · Jun 9

Why aren’t they listening to Evanescence?

Shaun Killen @shaunkillen.bsky.social · Jun 9

As usual, Nathan Fielder is right.

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Professor Matthew England FAA @profmattengland.bsky.social · Jun 4

Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is not the actual cover of Nature, just shown here for illustrative purposes. We did submit this figure for consideration for their cover. Print run in two weeks, we'll know by then if it gets used.

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Dr. Emily S Choy (she/her), FRCGS @emilyschoy.bsky.social · May 24

Excited to share our new paper led by Fred Tremblay @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social ”Dealing with heat stress: Assessing heat stress in an Arctic breeding seabird using 3D-printed thermal models” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social #seabirdsaturday

Dealing with the heat: Assessing heat stress in an Arctic seabird using 3D-printed thermal models

The Arctic is warming at four times the global average rate and most studies have focused on the indirect (e.g., changes in food web) rather than the …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · May 23

Another light dims.

To paraphrase Spinal Tap: "How much more dark could this be? And the answer is none. None more dark."

National Academies prepares for ‘a fairly radical downsizing’ www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n... via @statnews.com @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Reeling from Trump contract cuts, the National Academies prepares for ‘a fairly radical downsizing’

Nation's leading advisory body on issues of science and technology is "preparing for a fairly radical downsizing."

www.statnews.com

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Tamzin Blewett @drtblew.bsky.social · May 15

Congratulations to PhD student Connor Stewart for presenting his thesis work at #SETACVienna on the effects of Ni on Arctic Biota. And shout out to our team currently in the Arctic! @beardydylan.bsky.social

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · May 14

How do fish evolve to tolerate higher temperatures, and are there trade-offs? We explore these questions in our new paper
@natclimate.nature.com led by Anna Andreassen
@annahandreassen.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SETAC @setac.bsky.social · May 11

🌍 #SETACVienna kicks off today! Professional training courses have already begun as of 8:30 a.m. CEST, and the Opening Ceremony will be at 17:30 CEST.

Let’s kick off a great week of science, networking and collaboration in Vienna! 🇦🇹

#SETAC #SETACEurope #EnvironmentalScience

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 11

I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard | Jennifer Verduin

As an oceanographer, I study how the ocean shapes our world. For Australia and other nations, the lesson is urgent

www.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · May 9

When the HHS Secretary is telling the American public that trusting expert scientists is not a function of democracy, it’s well and truly over for science in the USA.

I can’t stress this enough. If scientific expertise is believed to be an enemy to democracy, we are finished. Complete catastrophe.

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · May 8

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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Kevin R. McClure @drkevinrmcclure.com · May 2

FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...

Meeting the Moment Together

We are returning from the AERA Annual Meeting in Denver reinvigorated and with a deep appreciation for all that scholars and higher education leaders are holding in this moment. Rapid shifts in fed...

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Laurentian SETAC @laurentiansetac.ca · May 2

Early registration for Laurentian SETAC's 30th Anniversary AGM ends TODAY, May 2, after which increased fees apply. Abstract submission & student travel grant application deadlines are EXTENDED to May 9! The AGM will be taking place in person at @westernu.bsky.social. Register here: lnkd.in/ggHqJiCn

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