On Oct 1 the Standing Committee on Science and Research passed an egregious motion calling for the disclosure of disaggregated data for research applications to federal granting council from 2020-2025. On Oct 20 they amended the timeframe to 2000-2025. @picardonhealth.bsky.social

Want to fend off wasps? Buy a fake wasp nest and hang it near where you want to spend time outside, says @kemarshall.bsky.social via @chatelainemag.bsky.social chatelaine.com/environment/...

“That ability to sting is really a defensive mechanism in this cruel world. Imagine there’s this giant that’s like 100 times bigger than you, and it’s swatting you.” @kemarshall.bsky.social helps @thewalrus.ca see the world through the eyes of a wasp

Ctr for Biodiv Genomics (Guelph) is hiring 10 entomologists (mostly post-docs) to help improve identifications on barcoded material: 2-yr appts, salary range CAD $62,500-$70,000. graduatestudies.uoguelph.ca/postdoctoral... See posting for specific taxonomic gps preferred.

I spoke with Kari Jordan and Erin Becker of The Carpentries about why they declined a $1.5M NSF grant intended to expand data science training. Their decision highlights the growing intersection of #science, #DEI, and federal policy. Read the full story on Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

My team has updated our free database of POSTDOC fellowships. This database contains 286 entries. For each entry, we provide a link, short description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria. Download this updated and expanded database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Enter to win a free open access waiver to a @cdnsciencepub.com journal! Your paper doesn't even have to be about moose :) info.cdnsciencepub.com/your-researc...

@canjzoology.bsky.social is seeking #ECRs to join its editorial board as Associate Editors! Gain hands-on experience with #peerreview, contribute to journal development, and connect with leaders in the field. Apply by Aug 15 ▶️ buff.ly/QGdDC1k #AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪 #AcWri #PHDSky #ScholComms

There’s been a burst of science news in the past few days—the science-stopping kind. 1/6 🧵

US scientific chaos is having ripple effects in Canada too: www.cbc.ca/news/science...

New paper from us describing the detection and delimitation of emerald ash borer in Vancouver, Canada. www.reabic.net/journals/bir... (first article) #Bioinvasions 1/6

Congratulations @science.ubc.ca @zoology.ubc.ca student @jesslli.bsky.social on an awesome writeup!

@jexpbiol.bsky.social ECR spotlight of @science.ubc.ca PhD Candidate @jesslli.bsky.social talking about life as a graduate student: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

#MetabolismMondays Meet @karinburg.bsky.social, #newPI at @cupress.bsky.social, alumni from @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social and @kemarshall.bsky.social - talking about metabolic adaptation in unique models like #butterflies and #budworms. #theNodeCorrespondents #ecr @the-node.bsky.social #evodevo

So cool to see Jess' very first paper out!!! She did so much work on this and found that scaling in baby ground squirrels does not work at ALL like you'd expect.

Had a wonderful time at McGill Department of Biology today! Thank you Ehab Abouheif for being a wonderful host!

My heart goes out to the family and friends of Rahul Ranwa. What a tragedy. www.nsnews.com/highlights/w...

The @bccla.bsky.social has said everything that is need to be said about that awful anti-DEI lawsuit against UBC. "...their interpretation of “political” is ultimately self-defeating. Acknowledging that you are on unceded land is no more political than refusing to do so." bccla.org/2025/04/ubc-...

Exciting news! Registration and abstract submission are now open! We look forward to hosting you in Vancouver: isepep10.ca

Please read this. 🧪

A flyer you can distribute on how to handle ICE if they come to your campus:

Absolutely delighted to announce that the lab has been funded by NSERC DG for the next five years! DG are a team effort--an incredible group of hardworking students and postdocs, a supportive department and university, and generous mentors were all necessary for this result. Thank you to all!

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...

Thank you for sharing news of our initiative... we are an interdisciplinary team of researchers from U of Maryland, UPenn, and Georgia Tech + more whose aim is to communicate the impacts of federal cuts on science and health research nationwide. Full explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/josh...

Do you find teaching and mentoring writing difficult, time-consuming, or both? Our new book (that's @bgmerkle.bsky.social and me) is what you need - and it's now available for pre-order! scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/t...

Our next exciting plenary speaker is Andrea Durant @andreadurant.bsky.social ! She's known for her work on osmoregulatory strategies in aquatic arthropods and has recently started her lab at the University of Washington. www.biology.washington.edu/people/profi...

We're excited to announce Sylvain Pincebourde as one of our plenary speakers! He's a researcher at the Insect Biology Research Institute (IRBI, University François Rabelais of Tours). He's best known for his work on fine-scale modelling of insect microhabitats: sylvainpincebourde.wordpress.com

We're very excited to announce our plenary speakers! Three great researchers in environmental physiology of ectotherms: Sylvain Pincebourde, Andrea Durant, and Ray Huey.

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

A truly depressing article in #Nature listing of all the damage done to #science in the US by the Trump administration in just one month 💔 for so many friends and colleagues there #solidarityforscience 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our special feature/passion project at AmNat, "Demystifying fundamental theories in ecology", co-organized with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social is out now 🤩 www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/an/2025/...

“The best “fuck you” to fascists? Thriving. Publish that paper. Build that collaboration. Laugh with labmates. Science outlives dictators—but only if we stay in the fight.”

A few years ago, I gave a lecture about how the Soviet Union denied genetics for years as "bourgeois perversion." There are lessons to be learned about what can happen to science. carlzimmer.com/lets-not-los...

It's been a helluva few weeks even for Canadian scientists. Doing our best to help our American cousins! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Today we celebrate the #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience and we’re especially proud to highlight Jessica Ulrika Meir, #UBC Postdoc Fellow and NASA astronaut, whose journey is an inspiring testament to breaking barriers and reaching for the stars. Read more beatymuseum.ubc.ca/2025/02/10/c...

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

If you are preparing to talk to people about the economic impacts that the budget cuts to NSF will have on your states, consider reading through the relevant NSF fact sheets first. new.nsf.gov/about/fact-s...

For all those saying "oh, he's just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, it will all work out in the courts" I present the Spaghetti Asymmetry Principle: it's an order of magnitude more work to clean spaghetti off a wall than to throw it there in the first place. This still sucks.

Canadian climate & fisheries experts are reeling after the Trump administration ordered researchers with @noaa.gov to temporarily stop communicating with "foreign nationals." @ubcoceans.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/07/n...

ATTENTION If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at [email protected]. I will keep all information confidential. 2/n

As past VP of @asn-amnat.bsky.social, I am happy to hear ideas about how the ASN might better support members and our scientific mission in this time of change when our science is crucial to addressing pressing global challenges.

Dear fellow scientists, Go talk to the press about what is going on. Talk to local news about how it will impact jobs. Be specific, but don't pity yourself. Instead focus on how your own situation affects local jobs, the national economy, beating the growing scientific race with China. Suggestions:

I know there's a lot going on. But I am so so impressed with the grace and bravery of @uofwaterloo.bsky.social instructor Katy Fulford. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Scientists -- I'm looking to talk to researchers about how all this uncertainty around paused grant reviews and a potentially massive freeze on federal funding is affecting you and your research plans. DM, email or reach out on signal.

NSF PRFB fellows: talk to your POs and transfer the remaining year’s balance of salary and research funds by 5pm today!! Dm me if you want to join the prfb slack where fellows are sharing info with each other #nsf #nsfprfb

Earth, climate, and planetary scientists: If you have an expected upcoming NASA/NSF/NOAA/DOE grant payment in the next couple weeks that, if not received, will have a real impact on your lab and staff, please let us know about it @science.org. You can reach me at [email protected].

THANK YOU so much those who shared how the new changes are impacting you. It is helping us understand the scope of the changes and separate rumors from fact. Please keep tips coming. Nothing you share will be used without your permission. (Or use my Signal usha.22.) www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

How are pathogens and parasites responding to planetary change, what does this mean for people and biodiversity, and what is to be done? New @viralemergence.org synthesis out today in Nature Rev Biodiversity (@natrevbiodiv.bsky.social) with a fantastic author team🧪😷 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...