Great study led by my then-undergraduate mentee Katie Moffat! Was a pleasure being a part of her first publication! 

Happy holidays from @afsquebec.bsky.social !! We’re gearing up for our 4th annual symposium - stay tuned for registration in the new year!  #AFSQCS2026

🚨 LAST day to apply for @scas-scsa.bsky.social 2026 joint meeting 🚨 We have an incredible slate of applicants so far to our session (session 18) on #InvasiveSpecies in Great Lakes systems, but we have space for a few more spots! ⬇️

⏳1 week left⏳ to apply for @scas-scsa.bsky.social 2026 joint conference! Consider applying to our session on #InvasiveSpecies (session 18) - diverse talks are encouraged!

The Ricciardians gather for our lab Christmas party. (Photo taken by @ecoinvasions.bsky.social) Note the secret hand sign. @tjcolvin.bsky.social @vanmierlo.bsky.social @ivanakomendic.bsky.social @emmaschubert.bsky.social @picard-m.bsky.social @briellecomartin.bsky.social @veronicagroves.bsky.social

Can you guess this years theme? ⬇️

Let’s highlight what some of our ExComms are doing behind the scenes 👀✨ When they’re not busy planning the AFS Symposium, they’re hosting SCAS sessions @scas-scsa.bsky.social Major fish boss energy, am I right? 🐟💪 Reach out if you’d like to present a talk!

Do you study the impacts of #InvasiveSpecies and plan on attending #SCAS_IAGLR2026? Consider submitting an abstract to our proposed session below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

What an awesome event! 🎉 Huge thanks to our panelists for sharing their journeys & tips on navigating the government job market. 💼 We’re sure all our AFS attendees left inspired (and maybe a little ready to conquer the job world)! 🚀

🐠 Can you outsmart a goldfish? Come to AFS Trivia Night to test your fish knowledge and socialize with our community 🧠🐟 📍 UdeM, Room B-1007 (ML Campus, 1375 ave Thérèse-Lavoie-Roux, Montréal) 📅 Oct 21 🎁 Prizes & refreshments!

🌟This year, AFS is spotlighting our amazing members! Share a jaw-dropping photo📸, recent publication📖, or fun fact🤓 and get featured! Let’s celebrate YOU! 🌟Cette année, l’AFS met à l’honneur nos membres extraordinaires! Partagez une photo📸, une publication📖 ou un fait amusant🤓 et soyez mis en avant!

Welcome back to school McGill! 🌽 Stop by the AFS booth at the welcome BBQ hosted by BGSA & the Dept. of Bio— a great way to meet new faces and reconnect with returning ones... and join the AFS community! 🎉 The 2025 Welcome BBQ 📅 Friday, Sept 5 | 🕐 1 PM 📍 Stewart Biology Courtyard 🌽corn o'clock

Thrilled to take on my new role as @afsquebec.bsky.social President alongside VP @tjcolvin.bsky.social 🐟 exciting things to come!

AFS Bioblitz Recap #BlitzTheGap 🎥🎥🎥🎥

Good morning AFS... what's on the agenda today? Maybe casting your vote!! Reminder that voting is open to all members and closes on July 30th Bonjour AFS... quel est le programme aujourd'hui ? Peut-être voter ! Rappel : le vote est ouvert à tous les membres et se termine le 30 juillet

And that’s a wrap on our #SEB2025 session on #conservation #physiology! Thanks to all who came out - we have much to learn from animal-plant ‘cross pollination’ of ideas and techniques for improving conservation efforts! 🐟🌱

Great talk today by @veronicagroves.bsky.social at the @sebiology.bsky.social regarding the use of surrogates to study at-risk fishes - working with imperilled fishes always important but has its challenges

While we’ve got so many amazing candidates running for AFS positions, our current AFS team is hard at work planning the Bioblitz happening on July 19th! 🌿🔬 Don’t forget to sign up!

Visiting the nurse sharks at the Antwerp Zoo during #SEB2025 was a definite conference highlight!

Check out Dr. Pitcher’s presentation in our session on “Diverse approaches to physiology & conservation” (SAB2) on Thursday @ 12:15 in Gorilla room 3! @sebiology.bsky.social

🗳️ Election time for the AFS Québec ExComm 2025/26 is coming up — meet the candidates! 🗳️ Les élections du comité exécutif de l’AFS Québec 2025/26 approchent — découvrez les candidates! Up first: @veronicagroves.bsky.social & @tjcolvin.bsky.social for President and VP!

Goldfish generate turbidity (cloudiness) by suspending sediment when they feed. This decreases sunlight penetration in the water and negatively impacts native macrophytes and visual predators. I use a turbidimeter to accurately determine the turbidity in my mesocosms from water samples.

Rejoignez-nous le samedi 19 juillet 2025 pour une journée de découvertes sur la biodiversité à l’Île Perrot dans le cadre de #BlitzTheGap avec iNaturalist! 🌿🐟 Nous nous intéresserons aux espèces aquatiques peu étudiées — et il y aura des prix à gagner, de la nourriture et une bonne ambiance.

Join us to #BlitzTheGap on July 19th with @inaturalist.bsky.social thanks to funding from @qcbs.ca @biomcgill.bsky.social Register using the QR code below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

⭐Editor's Choice⭐ Long-term biodiversity erosion: limited co-existence of the Eurasian zebra mussel and native mussels in a North American river after 25 years | Zwarych et al, including @ecoinvasions.bsky.social doi.org/10.1139/cjz-... Free access for this month

⏰ Rappel ‼️ Tu veux rejoindre le comité exécutif de l’AFS:QC pour 2025–2026 ? Les postes sont toujours ouverts : 👑 Président·e 🤝 Vice-président·e 📝 Secrétaire 💰 Co-trésorier·ère 🎓 Représentant·e cycles supérieurs (McGill) 🌐 Représentant·e externe (Concordia) 📅 Date limite : 27 juin 2025

⏰ Reminder ‼️ Want to join the AFS:QC Executive Committee for 2025–2026? Positions are still open: 👑 President 🤝 Vice-President 📝 Secretary 💰 Co-Treasurer 🎓 Graduate Representative (McGill) 🌐 External Representative (Concordia) 📅 Deadline: June 27, 2025 🔗 Apply here: forms.gle/tPLzHtWzRjT1...

Session on #Physiology & #Conservation across taxonomic boundaries, featuring zoos 🦓, aquaria 🐡& botanic gardens 🌵 Organised by our Plant Science Editor Sean Tomlinson, Britney Firth, @veronicagroves.bsky.social & Antwerp Zoo’s Zjef Pereboom. ➡️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... (SAB2)

Join our team ⬇️❗

‼️ Calling All Students ‼️ 🪼 2025 Peter A. Larkin Awards for Excellence in Fisheries 🪼 Applications are being accepted $200 Cash & Travel to @scas-scsa.bsky.social #2026 Email YOUR application to [email protected] today!

Gutted that the #SP2ARK fellowship program was cut short by the latest pull of NSF funds. Was honoured to be a rep of @scas-scsa.bsky.social alongside @sandraklemet.bsky.social & Lauren Lawson. Major thanks to @drkatfish.bsky.social, Drue, Carolyn & Julie for their hard work

We are offering 2 funded masters project with DFO in Rimouski on a cool ecophysiology project about Redfish (Sebastes fasciatus) ! Details are in the add but you can also contact me for questions :) Please share ! emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

⭐ Editor's Choice - April Impacts of elevated water temperature on the behaviour and thermal tolerance of the Bluntnose Minnow (Pimephales notatus) Moffat et al. buff.ly/Gp77o6j

Here is an AFS challenge: If you could describe your research in one hashtag... what would it be? Voici un défi AFS : si vous pouviez décrire votre recherche en un seul hashtag, quel serait-il ? #AFSQCS2025

Excited that our paper on the impacts of #warming on 🐟Bluntnose Minnow 🐟 behaviour & #ThermalTolerance 🌡️ was selected as @canjzoology.bsky.social Editor's Choice! Work done @biomcgill.bsky.social by my then-independent study student Katie Moffat! Check it out here: cdnsciencepub.com/do/10.1139/n...

Session on #Physiology & #Conservation across taxonomic boundaries, featuring zoos 🦓, aquaria 🐡& botanic gardens 🌵 Organised by our Plant Science Editor Sean Tomlinson, Britney Firth, @veronicagroves.bsky.social & Antwerp Zoo’s Zjef Pereboom. ➡️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... (SAB2)

CBC Radio recently featured an upcoming Fisheries article, "The Rise of Goldfishes in North America," by authors from the University of Toronto Scarborough and McGill University: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-.... Read the original article (open access) at: doi.org/10.1093/fshm....

Symposium recap! What a great time, we are already excited for next year's! #AFSQCS2025

The AFS community can rock more than waders and rubber boots! This year's symposium was a fashion show… and this isn’t even the whole look! More sneaky fits to come:) Il est CLAIR que la communauté AFS peut porter autre chose que des cuissardes et des bottes en caoutchouc. #AFSQCS2025

Personal highlight of #AFSQCS2025 was having three of my current or past mentees present their #fish research 🐟🐠 @afsquebec.bsky.social

Wow, what an amazing event! 🎉 Huge thanks to all the presenters, attendees, and artists for making our 3rd annual symposium truly unforgettable. It was incredible to see the fish community come together! 🐟💙 Stay tuned for more recaps, and share your moments with #AFSQCS2025! 🏆✨

Kicking off #AFSQS2025 !!! Huge thanks to our many sponsors @biomcgill.bsky.social @mcgill.ca @cars-afs.bsky.social @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social AFS Education Section & QCBS @afsquebec.bsky.social

Way to go GGs (Goldfish girls)🐟🎤💡 Nos membres AFS ont assisté au symposium du GRIL pour partager leurs recherches sur les poissons rouges ! Un grand merci à @gril-limnologie.bsky.social pour cet événement incroyable ! 🌊

Be there or be square!!! #AFSQC2025

She’s a candidate!!!

The LAST day to register for #SEB2025 ❗❗ Hope to see you there 🐟

❗Not to be missed next Thursday❗ ➡️ the exit seminar by my supervisor and mentor Dr. Lauren Chapman @biomcgill.bsky.social

McGill Biology Prof. Lauren Chapman (www.mcgill.ca/chapman-lab/) will be giving her retirement seminar "Tropical Tales: Lessons learned from a career in the field" on Thursday, March 13, 4 pm in Stewart Biology N2/2 (& on Zoom: www.mcgill.ca/biology/semi...).

Do not miss your chance before it is too late !

Going to @sebiology.bsky.social 2025? Consider submitting an abstract to our session on "Shared challenges & diverse approaches to physiology in conservation" open to ~all taxa~ 🐟🐻🦋🌿 Organized by Drs. Britney Firth, Sean Tomlinson, Zjef Pereboom & non-Dr me! #SEB2025