So thankful to get to work with these big brains (and many others who aren't on Bluesky): @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social @alexsmithants.bsky.social @dawnbazely.bsky.social @anibalhcastillo.bsky.social @marklipton.bsky.social @nikzam.bsky.social

A call for bio-inspired technologies! 🪱 A teaspoon of soil holds more life than there are humans on Earth—yet <1% of biomimetic studies focus on soil. Time to change that. Check out our new article: doi.org/10.3390/biom...

Most of us: there’s no way we can get any stupider Narrator: they were incorrect

🧪 Very honored/excited to take part in this paper analysing & releasing 🐛 caterpillar rearing info from #ACG #CostaRica collected by #DanJanzen and #WinnieHallwachs and the #parataxonomists of @gdfcf.bsky.social doi.org/10.3389/fevo... Figures from data available at doi.org/10.5683/SP3/...

🧪 Very honored/excited to take part in this paper analysing & releasing 🐛 caterpillar rearing info from #ACG #CostaRica collected by #DanJanzen and #WinnieHallwachs and the #parataxonomists of @gdfcf.bsky.social doi.org/10.3389/fevo... Figures from data available at doi.org/10.5683/SP3/...

It looks like a) the Dairy Bush squirrels have been busy, and b) the foxes won’t be using this den for a little while! #DairyBushFoxDen #Guelph

Geopolitical trends in spider taxonomy! academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Can you identify this animal? 🔍️👀 Did you get a kick out of shouting “acorn worm” at your phone? If so, you might enjoy playing @fathomverse.bsky.social. This month, you can find acorn worms by playing FathomVerse and earn a special badge! Learn more about acorn worms: www.mbari.org/animal/acorn...

Meet Bathydoris, a deep-sea nudibranch that ROV pilots filmed almost two miles beneath the surface on an abyssal plain east of the Río de la Plata Canyon during the #uruguaysub200 expedition. 🎥ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

When chanchitos fly, it happens 2,340 meters deep in the Ocean! This is a sea pig, or chanchito, if you’re a member of the #Uruguaysub200 science team. Scotoplanes sp. is a genus of deep-sea sea cucumbers of the family Elpidiidae. 🎥ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute

Go watch a bug for a doing its thing. 🐛 Listen to a bird for a few minutes. 🪶 Sit with a tree. 🌳 🌴 🌲 Just take a walk. 🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏻🚶🏿‍♂️ Everyone thinks they need to "get out to nature." But it's just outside your door, wherever you are. 🌎🌍🌏 www.biophiliccities.org/urban-forest...

After I hear RIP to #RobertRedford I find #TheNatural on Crave and settle in. I hadn’t remembered that (a favourite of mine) #RichardFarnsworth was also in it. Check out Google Generative #AI calc about how old Farnsworth was in 1984 🤦‍♂️ 1984-1920 =53or54. 🤣

Can you help me get to 10,000 views on our @sciam.bsky.social short film about the clash of scientists and corporations in the deep sea? 🪸 This would make our funder @pulitzercenter.org very happy. ☺️ It’s free to watch now on YouTube. We are half way to our goal! 📈 youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?...

In sum, urbanization was associated with greater among-individual niche variation and individual dietary specialization in coyotes, a pattern we propose reflects the effects of abundant anthropogenic food subsidies and spatial variation in env. conditions within cities. Photo by @sfacc.bsky.social

We found that individual urban coyotes had dietary niches almost 3x narrower than nonurban coyotes. Similarly, urban individuals had more consistent diets (smaller residual intraindividual variabilities). That means each urban coyote was consuming a smaller “menu” of food types.

Coyote whiskers grow gradually over several months, so we cut each whisker into small segments. Each segment gave us a isotopic “snapshot” of diet from a different point in time, letting us measure how consistent (or variable) an individual’s diet was ✂️🐾

Cities are very heterogeneous & food availability varies across neighborhoods. So, does urbanization create conditions favorable for individual specialization? We tested this hypothesis by comparing the diets of an urban pop of #coyotes in #SanFrancisco to a nonurban pop in Marin County.

The niche variation hypothesis posits that intrapopulation niche differentiation arises because generalist populations include relatively specialized individuals that use different resources. Diet variation among individuals is expected to increase with spatial variation in resource availability.

📢I’m excited to share that my second dissertation chapter has now been published in Ecology Letters! We used stable isotope analysis to examine if urbanization influences individual dietary specialization 🧪 🧵 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #OpenAccess #UrbanEcology #UrbanWildlife

My bank app recommends that I cap my grocery spending at $1510.00 per month #FoodSecurity #Canada #OnPoli

Melissa Etheridge joins the Indigo Girls for the Michael Stipe part of a Gen X deep cut at Fredericton’s Harvest Festival.

When @theresisters.bsky.social chatted w/ @brownecfm.bsky.social this was one of the realtime impacts of SARSCOV2 that we talked about. Not just for ATC, but also lots of other highly specialized jobs, like the dudes who manage moving port containers by cranes. The wave is coming. #covidisnotover

In my experience, the general public often don't understand the extent to which critical infrastructure systems rely on very small groups of highly-trained individuals. In addition, some of these controllers will have lingering cognitive effects. 7news.com.au/news/covid-o...

I got yer timeline cleanse right here, folks. A whole clutch of teeny tiny snapping turtle behbehs emerged one at a time from their underground nest and crossed the gravel road while I and a couple other humans watched and made sure they were safe from anyone else coming along.

Hoping you can enjoy your space this weekend. For me that means getting to the other side of the shoreline if you can. It helps the brain.

This is amazing, and beautiful. And so much better than everything else going on right now. This world is a beautiful place. Take a bit of time this weekend to take it in. 🐢 🌎

🧪 One reason I enjoy teaching #invertebrate courses is the continual WTF moments. They do what? How? So I was really pleased to be part of this collaboration www.manufacturedecosystems.com We have so much of the toolshed of life yet 2 explore 4 #BioInspired solutions! doi.org/10.3390/biom...

@alexsmithants.bsky.social @marklipton.bsky.social @dawnbazely.bsky.social @anibalhcastillo.bsky.social @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social

🍀New article publication🍀 Kristina Wanieck et al. (including Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki). “A Call for Bio-Inspired Technologies: Promises and Challenges for Ecosystem Service Replacement.” Biomimetics 10.9 (2025): 1-7. doi: doi.org/10.3390/biom...

🧪 One reason I enjoy teaching #invertebrate courses is the continual WTF moments. They do what? How? So I was really pleased to be part of this collaboration www.manufacturedecosystems.com We have so much of the toolshed of life yet 2 explore 4 #BioInspired solutions! doi.org/10.3390/biom...

I somehow missed that @dradriansmith.bsky.social put out a new slow motion insect flight video last week. These are always sublime.

We are hiring!! The Department of Entomology at Cornell University is seeking applications for a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Field Crops Entomology. Position details & application link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30498 Apply by: November 16th, 2025 at 11:59PM

Visited briefly with this wonderful great- great grandmother snapping turtle 🐢 on the Eramosa River in Guelph. Can you find her in the second photo of the shoreline?

Opinion: #Canada could really use someone like Ken Dryden now. By city columnist Edward Keenan. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Dalhousie University administration doesn’t seem to care about its students. Get back to the table and offer a fair deal, @dalhousie.bsky.social !

On CBC Radio the "regressive movements" that are pushing anti-vaxxers to confront their doctors with misinformation is being discussed. The Canadian Medical Association is concerned that there is a war on Science. Good to hear they're on Team Science. How about supporting respirators & clean air?

Do you fish in freshwater? Please share or/and complete survey gathering data on observations of insects for a study on aquatic insect population declines! The link to survey is here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VXLMY89. Especially in need of information from #Canada, #SouthAmerica, #Africa & #Australia!

Job: Research coordinator at the Bamfield Marine Science Centre - Canada's premier marine research & education lab. RT bamfieldmsc.com/about/bmsc-o...

"Do not be afraid", chirped the robot, which was about the size of a small mouse. "I am a B3704 Pollination Drone -" - @rosemarymosco.com imagines the future of pollination Learn more about projected futures #ManufacturedEcosystems at www.manufacturedecosystems.com/program

Artist Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social imagines a future with Robobees as she shares both the science and the art of #ManufacturedEcosystems A truly impactful Artist Talk 🧪🎨 Funding by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca /New Frontiers in Research youtu.be/bfEp13Yxcgs

@alexsmithants.bsky.social created 10 entomology starter packs too. You can find the entire list of them on the starter pack tab on his profile page. go.bsky.app/7CaCbMC

Please share with your botanically inclined colleagues. Join us @umontreal.ca as an Assistant Professor of Plant Molecular Genetics. rh-carriere-dmz-eng.synchro.umontreal.ca/psc/rhprpr9_...

I just finished my favorite lecture of the year, in which I give my 105 students their first homework assignment (that I stole from Dave Jablonski): present the history of the Earth scaled to something with a distinct beginning, middle, end, etc. I made an example using Bohemian Rhapsody. There are…

Please share with your big picture colleagues. Join us @umontreal.ca as an Assistant Professor of Global Change Biology. rh-carriere-dmz-eng.synchro.umontreal.ca/psc/rhprpr9_...

Good to know that AI image generation hasn't (yet) conquered my "draw a vertebrate phylogeny" assignment.

Thinking a lot about Ken Dryden this weekend Came across his 2022 article on 🧪 , youth and climate change Adapted from a talk at McGill on Climate Crisis and Climate Action 🎁 www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c231c7b...

I love this post, and identify with so much of it (probably the same Christmas I received The Game from my parents and yes “it's about the Montreal Canadiens, hockey, and everything else.” Thank you for sharing your email exchange @gmbutts.bsky.social