It has been an absolute pleasure working with Dr. @rhohnen.bsky.social Honen and @wcscanada.org on this piece. Congratulations Roșie! #WILDlab #wolverine #caribou #conservation

NEW OPINION PIECE Are #caribou an effective umbrella for multi-species conservation? ☂️☔🌂 The message can be easily muddled. The method used, relative area and amount, matters. Using an index can help compare and contrast situations. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Each month of 2023/2024 I would look forward to the transformational training in conservation that COMPASS provides. Now I'm incredibly proud that Claudia will receive this training too! Congratulations on making the 2025 cohort! #WILDlab

The WildCo Lab @wildco.bsky.social is recruiting 2 postdocs in quantitative ecology to work on mammal population estimation and monitoring from camera trap data. 🐺🐻🦌📷📈 Please share the word or apply to join us at UBC in lovely Vancouver, Canada! wildlife.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...

On behalf of @makeway.org’s Board of Directors, I am so pleased to share this exciting news. Please meet Alex Sardar, MakeWay’s new President & CEO.

🎇News: coldregions.ca/a-strong-sta... Big thank you for the great kickoff to the Laurier–ARI Spring Speaker Series! 70+ gathered at Makerspace YK to hear talks about snowfall on YK lakes ❄️ & muskox movement 🐂. Next up: May 8 – permafrost & carbon in the Shield! #Yellowknife #SCIENCE #Community

A must read article! It details so much of what I've been feeling since I was involved in a wildfire evacuation in 2023. Then dealing with trying to keep working in conservation with this feelings of despair hanging over me. We need to keep fighting for change. canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...

Well done Christine!!! 🎉 #WILDlab!!

presented my masters research in yellowknife last night, my hometown! a very fun evening with lots of interest around muskox 😊

Check out this article about my research in the NWT :)

Muskox, The North, and @laurierbiology.bsky.social 's Christine Dunbar @christinedunbar.bsky.social ! #WILDLAB cabinradio.ca/237771/news/...

Incredibly proud of Émilie Knighton (PhD student in the #WILDlab) who just published the first of her 2 MSc papers (out of her MSc lab) on red-breasted Mergansers. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Time for a treat and a well deserved break! ⭐

@claudiahaas.bsky.social (#WILDlab PhD Candidate and northern ecologist) got the invitation to join the WCS Key Biodiversity Areas meeting in Ottawa last week as a northern representative. What a phenomenal opportunity to be part of this collaborative and move KBAs forward!

Some of the best field work I got to do on Vancouver Island involved this project. Telemetry on a mountain side for marmots = tough, but rewarding, stuff.

Join an incredibly talented lab for your MSc, with a great supportive supervisor to boot.

Join a new and growing lab in wonderful Newfoundland! (who wouldn't want Gros Morne National Park on their back doorstep?). #MSc position available in Dr. Sean Boyle's lab: Population and community #ecology of invasive amphibians.

TOMORROW: @laurierbiology.bsky.social hosts Elizabeth Rudzki. Based on: "A guide for developing a #field research safety manual that explicitly considers risks for #marginalized identities in the #sciences" besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... DM for registration info.

Wonderful to have @nluymes.bsky.social represent the #WILDlab and muskox research in NWT at the Cold Regions Research Conference this week! We also had @christinedunbar.bsky.social give a ✨FANTASTIC✨ 3 minute thesis on #muskox too. Thanks for hosting @crrc-wlu.bsky.social

Welcome Laurier's @crrc-wlu.bsky.social to BlueSky!! www.coldgregions.ca Conference next week (Waterloo Ontario) for grad students studying all aspects of northern/Alpine areas. Not hybrid this year, but hopefully next year - keep your eyes and ears posted for information and registrations!

Welcome @talavgar.bsky.social to BlueSky, and to the Ecology #NewPI (Canadian focus 🇨🇦) starter pack! go.bsky.app/UchpBTt Know a new-ish PI in Ecology in Canada? Let's have them join!

9 days left to submit a proposal for a workshop or symposium for the 2025 meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution in Sherbrooke this July! Come visit me and the Eastern Townships! 🧪https://event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pages/6ba90353-d44a-4202-ab93-60d0eb09f35f

I'm looking for Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution Working group/Workshop example applications prior to putting in an application of my own. @csee-scee.bsky.social If willing to share, please DM or email me. Thank you! 👀 #ClimateChange #ElephantInTheRoom #ECRs #CareerHurdles

JOB: Executive Director, Stanley Park Ecological Society * Vancouver, BC (hybrid) * Full time * Salary $90k-100k/yr + benefits * Apply soon stanleyparkecology.ca/2025/01/22/h... #ConservationJobs

What a fantastic Camera Trapping piece 📸 with contributions by #WILDlab's current postdoc, @rhohnen.bsky.social! Important for all us Canadian and global camera trappers. ping @coleburton.bsky.social @jmnorthrup.bsky.social @rachelbuxton.bsky.social @abbiodiversity.bsky.social and many more.

We're hiring a Manager, Natural Areas (central Ontario) @ncccnc.bsky.social. * Full time * Salary $81k-92k/yr + benefits * Based in Toronto * Apply by Feb 9 * Details: lnkd.in/gNwQR7DY #ConservationJobs

The #WILDlab is excited for the Cold Regions Research Conference next week, in Waterloo! Come check out talks by @nluymes.bsky.social and @christinedunbar.bsky.social on #Muskox habitat use and movement in Northwest Territories. AM, January 30th/31st. Photo cred: Kevin Chan

Does anyone have examples of successful Vanier scholarships (www.vanier.gc.ca/en/home-accu...) in Biology that they would be willing to share with me? Or any insight on how this might differ in tone from a regular NSERC PGS-D? Thank you!! 🧪

We're hiring! Have a passion for nature and collecting great data? Join the grizzly bear or caribou crews this summer. Apply by January 31. friresearch.ca/news/employm...

Glad to see all these folks on here!

Here we go 2025! 🎉 May it be a wonderful year for all (including #WILDlab members and collaborators!). We are already off to a good start with thesis revisions being finalized, a few scholarship applications going in, and new manuscripts in review.

Happy New Year! I updated my webpage of envirionment-related scholarships, grants, & awards: www.aerinjacob.ca/funding--awa... It includes: * science * action & policy * communication * travel awards * international tho' emphasis on N Am, Africa, & women Please share. #ConservationFunding

A MASSIVE congratulations to Eric Jolin, #WILDlab MSc student, who successfully defended his thesis yesterday @laurierbiology.bsky.social! 🎉 Eric tackled a massive camera trapping data set in NWT to infer season and scale specific top-down vs bottom-up ecological processes. CONGRATULATIONS Eric! ✨

Fire and caribou (and a little bit of a quote from me) thenarwhal.ca/woodland-car...

I'm happy to receive a second Adjunct Assistant Professor appointment @uvic.bsky.social in the School of Environmental Studies! It is wonderful to be able to keep contributing to the department that gave me so much during my PhD. Thank you.

A warm WELCOME to @thelonglab.bsky.social to BluSky!

@bctws.bsky.social Welcome to Blue Sky!!

Know of someone who has recently started, or will soon start, a PI position in Ecology? Let me know so we can connect and form a community on BlueSky here.

What?!?! A game changer for equity-seeking groups when compared to h-factor indexes for candidacy and promotion. ping @laurierbiology.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in undergraduate biology teaching! Come work at the University of Guelph and join an awesome department with a great and large cohort of new faculty!

I'm an Aussie (yes I love vegemite on toast) and I'm living in Ontario, Canada. I'm working with @stewartresearch.bsky.social on conservation of wolverines and other mesocarnivoes.

A wonderful account to follow for all things #Northern and #caribou.

Welcome to @danvec.bsky.social, another @laurierbiology.bsky.social faculty to join BlueSky!! Let the science and music threads begin!

IT IS OUT! 🎉 Here is a Starter Pack for New PIs in Ecology (with a 🇨🇦 focus). Know someone <10 years into a new position? Let me know so I can add them. go.bsky.app/UchpBTt

AND, we also welcome @nluymes.bsky.social to BlueSky!! Dr. Luymes is a WESTON Postdoctoral Fellow doing research on Canada's only (that we know of) GPS collar data set of #Muskox below treeline. Can you say cool? 😎 #WILDlab www.Stewartresearch.ca Belo photo credit: Kevin Chan

Welcome @rhohnen.bsky.social to BlueSky!! Dr. Rosemary Hohnen is a talented Postdoctoral researcher in the #WILDlab @laurierbiology.bsky.social, looking at all things #wolverine, #coyote, distributions, and landscape change. Also, want to go climbing? 🧗‍♀️ She does! www.rosemaryhohnen.com ✨

Excited to be listening in to my first CASIOPIA conference! www.casiopa.ca/conferences Thanks to @smurph.bsky.social and the many speakers today to bring forward their research on #Ontario's Protected Areas. To get the day going here is a picture of yours truly enjoying Algonquin Park :)

I'm thinking of creating a starter pack for New Ecology PIs in Academia. Any interest out there in having this? A place to connect, share experiences/resources, and promote each other's work. Canadian 🇨🇦 focus, but could certainly be broader. 🌎

Wishing all the fly-pushers a wonderful #DrosophilaDay/#FlyDay as we celebrate the anniversary (11/18) of the #Drosophila white-eyes mutant line w1118!

Welcome LiberEro Fellows! Would love to see a StarterPack for all Fellows involved in this. A wonderful way to learn and follow Canadian Conservation and the wonderful training you offer!

Thankful for my HEALTH, FAMILY, NATURE, and HAPPINESS as I move on from a week of bad news. Forward, always forward.