🎶It's time to meet the experts on the plenary tonight🎶

I have been at several conferences with several absolute muppets.

Et tu, Botanical Society of America?

⭐EDITOR'S CHOICE | Review⭐ A review of the social and ecological impacts of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) during and after an outbreak on forests in North America 🖋️Grela et al. 🔗 https://ow.ly/gKJu50Y91HE #OpenAccess #ForestManagement

Alberta research centre closure called ‘catastrophe’ vist.ly/4qhck #cdnag #westcdnag #ABag

Worth noting that, to my knowledge, none of the independent academic members on the Departmental Science Advisor Network have been asked to comment. share.google/YaMxf9b0Uzbr... . Nor has our Chief Science Advisor.

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Dammit Phil

Thousands of workers cut from the federal public service, including scientists, researchers, and entire programs across environmental, wildlife, and health fields. This is a devastating blow to science and monitoring across Canada, and will have far-reaching impacts. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Proud to share the new Bluesky page for the Forest Invasion Synthesis Centre here in Prague! bsky.app/profile/fore...

The Boreal Avian Modelling Centre is hiring a postdoctoral fellow to develop high-resolution, Canada-wide models of waterbird density. The models will be used as indicators of local wetland health and large-scale environmental change. Open until filled! borealbirds.ca/postdoctoral...

Bloc MP Perron condemns ‘ridiculous’ spending cuts that will shutter research farms across Canada www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

Rest of trees laughing at tree brought down by storm buff.ly/tLWaITA

Planning your travel for #GSB2026 Global #Soil #Biodiversity conference in Victoria BC? There is information about travel as well as airline discount codes available on our webpages: globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/travel-amp-v...

[looks around] 🦗🦗🦗 Guess it really isn't 2013 anymore.... www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Actually let me do this proper

I first met Kirsty when we studied at the U of Edinburgh. When I came to study at the U of Toronto, I lived with her family for 2 weeks while I sorted out housing. They were so good to me, and had me frequently for dinner and holidays. A wonderful person who’ll be missed. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

OK, but what do the Canadiens, Leafs, Jets, Oilers, Flames and Canucks think?

In light of this, the national past time of "making fun of Toronto when it snows", is hereby suspended until further notice.

📣 Join us - we’re hiring an engagement officer for the CAN BON 🍁 initiative! An effort to transform Canada’s capacity to mobilize its knowledge about the changing state of nature. See the job posting here👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

A really important thread about people, place, and belonging. And poor care for others. And this is why I love @stnicholasleics.bsky.social

The notice, published today, applies to a 2020 meta-analysis measuring population patterns of freshwater and terrestrial insects and predicting what might drive changes in population numbers.

Hey museum / collection / natural history folks! I am looking for a database of inter-institution loans of specimens. Does such a thing exist? Is this info that would be in @gbif.org in some way? @thelabandfield.bsky.social ? 🧪

I think this is a decent metaphor. You buy the pen on the right because you think it will be useful, but then you find out it's really not that good for everyday use. But you keep it around for that every once and while that you need a lime green pen.

Can't believe this Letterkenny clip of a bunch of far right shitheels getting stomped isn't around more youtu.be/JObnr5e0TIg?...

Finding out it's snowing in Toronto is like talking to a vegan. You'll know because they tell you...

Squints in Northern Ontario....

Not to minimize a real problem, but couple of cautions here: *53 papers out of 4841 *It is not the job of peer reviewers - esp in conferences - to manually check every citation *These guys are selling an AI agent to detect bad cites - which is useful, but thats the pitch here.

Editor here: I recently suggested five early career scientists who I know personally and knew would be good reviewers for a paper. We were only able to find current contact info for one of them.

Ontario's Regional Forest Health Network is planning an online forest practitioner workshop in February: Silviculture and Insecticide Controls for Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. Expression of interest to attend here: forms.gle/GT85WrNtEsDt...

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

I keep waiting for him to pull off these glasses and do the CSI meme...

And there's nothing that says you need to publish with your legal name so... more noms de plume!

Oh, I thought of another one. Try to have an easily-found publication name. So if you're 'Mary Smith' maybe publish as "Mary DV Smith". I can follow the breadcrumbs back to you if you move around that way, even if you change emails.

Absolutely - great point! ECRs: make yourself a professional gmail, etc while you're nomadic 🧪🌍

I would echo this, but with the advice for ECR's _not_ to publish with your institutional email. Use a service (Gmail, Proton, Hotmail) until you're settled.

A plea from an editor: postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍

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Slightly amused by the fact a USDA colleague might have to report that they are collaborating with the guy who wrote "The Usual Suspects" and directed the last few "Mission Impossible" movies.

We’re excited to announce London Bug Day, hosted by Western’s Entomology Club! 🐞🐜🐛🦋 📅 Saturday, January 31, 2026 🕘 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM 📍 Western University — Mustang Lounge (University Community Centre) 🚗 Parking details to come

NEW: The Trump administration is directing USDA employees to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” By @lisalsong.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social

Ya know what we call a storm like this in Northern Ontario? Tuesday.

Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.

JUST-IN Impact of imidacloprid-based chemical control for hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) on the eastern red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus) https://ow.ly/BCe050XW7yP #OpenAccess

This sucks, but come on dude, flatten your boxes...

I know all generational cutoffs are arbitrary but I don't get how someone conceived in early 1944 classifies as a 'boomer'.

I'm an 80s kid from Saskatoon and grew up reading the Star Phoenix. Hard to imagine Dan Zakreski won't be written about my home town anymore.

The Winter 2005 issue of the Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada is now available on the website: biologicalsurvey.ca/publications... Hope you enjoy it!