Wildfires Can Turn Harmless Minerals in Soils Into Contaminants www.newswise.com/articles/wil... #heavymetal #Chromium #chromium6 #wildfire #soil #chromium3

Please help us classify all fish species by their social systems 🙏! Any and all observations or general knowledge are useful. Log them at shoalbase.org, the form takes about a minute to fill in 😀.

L-SETAC members are invited to present in a session chaired by @drtblew.bsky.social ([email protected]) and Ivan Cadonic ([email protected]) titled “Investigating the interrelated responses of climate change, contaminants, and biodiversity loss in fishes”.

The 16th International Congress on the Biology of Fish (ICBF) Where: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada When: July 12-16th 2026 Website: icbf2026.com

Check out our new work published in Plant Physiology utilizing an optimized BONCAT approach to understand Arabidopsis protein production! Outstanding work led by graduate student Nick Hassan. The work promises exciting new opportunities for plant science! academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Oxygen supersaturation has been reported to protect aquatic animals from heat waves. We tested this in a large collaborative experiment on many species of fish and crustaceans. Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that the effect of hyperoxia on thermal tolerance is negligible. Unfortunately.

Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️ Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation Check who already signed up: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community

"Regrettably, and despite the null hypothesis being simple, elegant and often underpinned by evidenced or reasoned convictions, conventional p-value analysis can only argue against the null hypothesis, never in favour of it."

Happy Halloween from the Blewett lab all!

Meet our new #AssociateEditor Tamzin Blewett @drtblew.bsky.social ! Tamzin is a #Multidisciplinary scientist with an interest in the protection of #Aquatic ecosystems 💧 Her research supports the development of regulatory tools which limit the levels of aquatic contaminants.

three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

A new Nature study projects wildfire smoke will cause 71,000 excess deaths annually in the U.S. by 2050, representing $608 billion in damages that exceed all other estimated climate costs combined.

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

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

Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate

"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

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...

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.

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.

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 🐟

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

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. 🧪🐟🦑

🐠💥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...

💫 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

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.

Why aren’t they listening to Evanescence?

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...

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

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

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

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... 🧪🐟🦑

🌍 #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

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

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.

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

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...

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

More than 80 Harvard faculty members have signed on to a pledge to donate 10% of their paycheck to support staff and students, as long as the University resists Trump's unlawful demands. I am so proud of my colleagues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Lab animals deserve enriching environments, but what if our efforts to help unintentionally cause harm? In our ES&T perspective, we explore how leaching plastics and plastic additives may impact fish health, and your experiments...

Lab animals deserve enriching environments, but what if our efforts to help unintentionally cause harm? In our ES&T perspective, we explore how leaching plastics and plastic additives may impact fish health, and your experiments...

We're excited to partner with @levernews.com to publish a wild scoop from Canada. @geoffdembicki.bsky.social obtained audio of Amazon and TC Energy reps discussing how Pierre Poilievre could import DOGE to Canada and cut bureaucracy ‘more quickly’ than Trump. www.desmog.com/2025/04/23/r...

Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Freshwater Biodiversity University of Oulu, Finland oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Over the moon to finally share our new study in @science.org led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social! Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival 👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...

I try to stay away from politics but this crab eating a grape is very important.

It was great to see so many wonderful talks and presentations at the RE Peter Biology Conference last week hosted by @ualberta.bsky.social! In particular, the keynote by @rachaelmorgan.bsky.social on how temperature and oxygen changes can impact fish was fascinating! 🐟 repeterconference.weebly.com

AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

This news should concern ALL Albertans. The Alberta government is planning to use taxpayer money to buy up "mature" oil & gas wells, as a way to let industry off the hook for cleanup costs that companies are required to pay for. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art.... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH