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Prof. Jeff Ollerton @jeffollerton.bsky.social · 15d

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...

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…

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Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · 19d

Related PS for undergrads: When you fill out those course evaluations and really enjoyed the experience, please be as open as possible and if the situation permits, sign your name. It means more than you can imagine.

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Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · 19d

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.

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Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · 19d

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

Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · 20d

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.

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Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · 20d

Are you somewhere safe?

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Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · 20d

Oooooooh neat

International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 29d

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

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · 20d

Pro-tip:
✨Be the peer-reviewer you want to receive comments from✨

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Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · 27d

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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Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · 27d

oh wow, do you have a whistle?

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Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · Sep 2

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

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Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · Aug 21

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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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · Aug 14

yup

Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · Aug 14

I’m ok, more surprised than anything. Never had something like that happen before.

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Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · Aug 14

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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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · Aug 9

“…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...

Canada plans a 15% budget cut. Scientists are alarmed

Cuts could erase promised boost, researchers fear

www.science.org

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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · Aug 1

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%.

Brittany Sutherland @sutherlandbl.bsky.social · Aug 1

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.

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

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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Jalene LaMontagne @jalene-lamontagne.bsky.social · Jul 27

🚨 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

Sticker that says, "Cone Counters", "Count New Cones!", and "www.lamontagnelab.com"

Screenshot of INaturalist project for Cone Counters Lite, with images of new cones.

Map of iNaturalist Cone Counters Lite sample locations to date.

White pine tree in nice light. A lake is in the background.

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Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

media.tenor.com

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Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · Jul 23

I see we are now out of heat wave season and firmly into wasps everywhere season.

Wasps outdoors? Cool. In the bathroom? Not a fan.

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · Jul 22

Comparative Analyses of Four Reference Genomes Reveal Exceptional Diversity and Weak Linked Selection in the Yellow Monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus) Complex onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Comparative Analyses of Four Reference Genomes Reveal Exceptional Diversity and Weak Linked Selection in the Yellow Monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus) Complex

Yellow monkeyflowers (Mimulus guttatus complex, Phrymaceae) are a powerful system for studying ecological adaptation, reproductive variation, and genome evolution. To initiate pan-genomics in this gr....

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Hannah A. Brazeau @habrazeau.bsky.social · Jul 17

Ooh could I get added please?

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Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · Jul 14

Our recent paper about detecting emerald ash borer in Vancouver got some press attention in BC. I'm glad the reporter connected with the person who found the beetle. This is such a fun story and I'm glad we got to tell it:
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

How a tree-killing beetle chose wrong human to fly into, revealing presence in B.C.

The tiny beetle could scarcely have picked a worse human to fly into.

www.ctvnews.ca

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