A step forward on the use of #cameratrapping for #wildlife monitoring. Now underwater! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Equilibrium - is it a thing? Jury's still out according to the sticker poll on my poster at #CSEE2025! Stay tuned for the paper!

I had a great time at @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social in Sherbrooke, thank you so much to the organizers and volunteers. And thanks everyone who indulged me for a few minutes to be caribou game show contestants! I had a blast talking about the landscape of disgust with everyone.

You’re probably why it takes so long for your paper to get reviewed and your excuses are bad dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/y... 🧪

An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

🚨New paper alert!🚨 We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵 📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology

Researchers paid $9 billion over 5 years for their findings to be freely accessible. This is based on a study of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

How do animals act at risky times in risky places? We investigated how caribou can use sociality at risky times and places to mitigate risk when facing trade-offs in habitat selection Congratulations to @mary-atkinson.bsky.social for her first paper!

Environmental assessments, worker protections, and Indigenous rights are not red tape. Read my OpEd on why the Ford government needs to drop Bill 5. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The government of Ontario is proposing to change the endangered species act. My advisor @qwebber.bsky.social and @ryannorrissci.bsky.social wrote an op-ed about the proposed changes and planned new bill (and a link to proposal). Public consultation closes May 17th, have you submitted a comment yet?

When the Romans conquered Carthage they famously salted the fields so nothing new would grow. By killing NSF, MAGA is salting the scientific fields where new economic innovations would have grown

Congratulations to the CBS winners of the Student Experience Awards! 🏆Natalie Wilkinson, Biological Science 🏆Audrey Peñafiel, Wildlife Biology & Conservation 🏆Alannah Grant and Jonathan Chu, PhD in Integrative Biology students 🗞️ news.uoguelph.ca/2025/05/cele... @integrativebiology.bsky.social

Congratulations to @joeybernhardt.bsky.social @integrativebiology.bsky.social, named an Early Career Fellow with the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social! The fellowship recognizes outstanding contributions to advancing & applying ecological knowledge. 🗞️ www.uoguelph.ca/cbs/news/202...

How does fibrosis (an inflammation and tissue repair response) affect dispersal? We investigated this question with stickleback in a mark-recapture experiment in Alaska: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @danielbolnick.bsky.social @nataliesteinel.bsky.social @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social

How fast can brains epigenetically respond to predation stress? We found that brain DNA methylation in guppies can shift within 30 minutes of predator exposure — with different time courses between males and females. New paper from my PhD now out! 🧠🐟 doi.org/10.1111/mec....

“With respect to the retention rate of students from outside Quebec & their ability to integrate into QC society — whether international or out-of-province students — the evidence shows that the minister had no data on the matter, beyond tenuous information.” www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...

🎉 Congratulations @janayf.bsky.social on winning our 2025 Bruce Cattanach Prize! Janay's talk is on the epigenetic plasticity in response to environmental stress: insights from an evolutionary fish model #Epigenetics2025

Big news: I've signed the contract for a 3rd edition of 'The Scientist's Guide to Writing', adding coverage of so-called "AI" writing tools. But it's also a chance to update and revise throughout - so I invite your input! See here to leave suggestions: scientistseessquirre...

🚨New paper out! By migrating between productive high latitude and oligotrophic regions (Great Baleen Conveyor Belt) large whales 🐋 transport incredible amounts of nutrients to low latitudes @jjkiszka.bsky.social @andrewabraham.bsky.social @dancosta2025.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister. Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w

Personally I think tangerineland is a better choice

Check out this awesome work that just came out!

🦠🦟Please check out our review on the landscape of disgust (with @qwebber.bsky.social @allegralove.bsky.social ): ow.ly/ZRKm50UlsiO. There is a formatting issue on the website version that we are trying to fix - so, please download the PDF version if you want to give it a read! @royalsociety.org

"Moreover, non-White scientists endure longer waiting times between the submission and acceptance of their manuscripts, and upon publication, their papers receive fewer citations than would be expected based on textual similarity."

🦇🌳Please check out our new meta-analysis (with @danjbecker.bsky.social and Lauren Lock)! Our paper investigates associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence. @ecography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....