All @ijpsjournal.bsky.social authors are special to us, but it is a particular treat to publish undergraduate research. To celebrate our undergrad authors, we started making mock journal covers featuring pictures of undergrad researchers at work. A thread of mock covers from 2025. /1 #PlantScience

New paper out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters, led by undergrad superstar Laina Weiss! An experimental test of theory on the effects of temperature and resources on carrying capacity. So proud 🥹 tinyurl.com/yvmzmt9a @integrativebiology.bsky.social

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

"The head of the national organization representing Inuit says he has had no firm commitment from federal officials to renew funding to support the elimination of #tuberculosis in #Canada’s North – despite the government promising to eradicate it by 2030." www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Wee lil zebra jumping spiders are the best. That is all. Carry on.

Reacting to the presence of chatbots with assignment that ask students to look for mistakes in something they got a chatbot to spit out is not a sound approach to teaching your course material.

What the…CBC reporting that a new Lancet study says processed foods cause depression. If you can’t tell the difference between correlation and causation, you should not be published in the Lancet.

First-gen students are 5% more likely to drop out after one bad grade. Why? Because they don’t always know how to recover—like switching majors or withdrawing. Academic setbacks shouldn’t be the end of the road. #edusky #firstgen #educationforall www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

ChatGPT, is brain okay? www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw7...

Really sad state of affairs...we have safe and effective paths forward to prevent this.

Anyone include phonetic pronunciation of their name in their email signature? Yay or nay? As an anglo with a French surname that is not pronounced “properly” I’m strongly considering this…

Let’s make it happen, folks www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

Oh R error messages, how I’ve missed you

Pollinators such as wild #bees, #butterflies, and #hoverflies are in trouble worldwide. A major new study, published in Science, shows that the oft-quoted figure of 10% semi-natural habitat in farmland landscapes is far too little to safeguard pollinators jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/26/p...

The number of times I spent months working with a phenomenal colleague only to realize embarrassingly late that they were a former student is > 1. 🤦‍♀️, but the pride always outweighs the embrassment.

This is awful. Doing my BSc at Algoma was transformative, I’m gutted to see things falling apart. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Oh boy. The USA H1-B news is something else when you’re applying for postdoc & faculty positions from a country that has made it emphatically clear that they value military spending above research. GOOD TIME TO BE JOB HUNTING! Ugh.

Oooooooh neat

Pro-tip: ✨Be the peer-reviewer you want to receive comments from✨

Pretty sure I spent too much time as a teen setting up geocities pages because now I genuinely enjoying doing admin tasks in the university’s learning management system (AKA the course website) way more than anyone should. A well-designed dropbox properly linked to the grade book is so satisfying.

Ecology people: would anyone be up for giving a guest lecture in my ecology lab the morning of 9/17? Remote is great! Preferably not plants but I'm flexible 🙏

With the new academic year not too far off, if any university folks in the UK have a student that might like an EDI related research project in ecology/conservation/zoology that would also make a nice paper, drop me a line

In case you’re wondering how friendly Guelph is - today I got punched by a random man because I was walking on a sidewalk.

“…Canada 🇨🇦 continues to lag behind other countries in R&D spending; it spent 1.8% of GDP on research in 2024, placing it sixth in the G7 industrialized nations and well below the 2.7% average among the 38 nations that are members of the OECD.” 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Grant reviewers and tenure committees need to be *highly* cognizant that many new Assistant Professors just had their startups effectively slashed by *at least* 15%.

New article I co-wrote about the financial struggles of graduate school and what you can do to help! academic.oup.com/ae/article/7... #unions #entomology #grad @entsocamerica.bsky.social

🚨 Please repost! #CommunityScience This year, we counted LOTS of new cones on some conifer tree species in some places, and not many for others species/places. Want to contribute? Tell us what's going on w/ NEW CONE production on conifers 🌲 near you! www.inaturalist.org/projects/con... #ConeCounters

Stuck in the writing stage of the dissertation, watching all the email notices roll in about defences…

I see we are now out of heat wave season and firmly into wasps everywhere season. Wasps outdoors? Cool. In the bathroom? Not a fan.

Comparative Analyses of Four Reference Genomes Reveal Exceptional Diversity and Weak Linked Selection in the Yellow Monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus) Complex onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our recent paper about detecting emerald ash borer in Vancouver got some press attention in BC. I'm glad the reporter connected with the person who found the beetle. This is such a fun story and I'm glad we got to tell it: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Excellent thread

Working on paper revisions has reminded me how worked up I get about plant mating systems.

🧬 Shift between specialized & generalized diets in #bees is associated with evolutionary changes in their sensory genes. Generalists lose odorant receptors (ORs) and gain gustatory receptors (GRs), while specialists diversify existing genes 🌸🐝 #genomics #pollinators academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns! www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Break from dissertation writing to catch fireflies and hopelessly chase after moths. Firefly released unharmed after recording.

If you can, please donate to help with funeral costs and supporting her family. RIP Sheila Colla. www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...

The campfire is burning, the fireflies are flickering, and the coyotes are occasionally yapping away in the distance. For right now, that’s more than good enough.

Sobering and powerful interview with David Suzuki by @davislegree.bsky.social .

Psst, the SciArt Feed is the best corner of Bluesky, tell your friends

Who or what will be the pollinators of the future and what will or will not be pollinated? Join me for my artist talk Thursday, June 26 at 12:00 - 1:00 EST to hear my take on this see my art about pollinators. zoom.us/j/9123605099... #manufacturedEcosystems 🧪🐡

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

Behind many scientists is a lifetime of invisible, unsustainable costs. From unpaid internships to underpaid postdocs, the economic toll of a STEM career is staggering—and it's pushing talent out. My new perspective explores this crisis. #STEM #AcademicBlueSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A new sustainability standard has been set for conference lanyards! This #ICCB2025 one is compostable & plantable! Native seeds r embedded into the name tag so local delegates encouraged to plant it for habitat. How good?! As paying delegates, we can and should ask for sustainability like this 😎💃

🚨 I'm tuning into the most substantial hearing to date of two lawsuits challenging NIH's termination of thousands of grants. I'll post some of the major updates here, so follow along.

Main post illustration is by @asbillustration.bsky.social, he's open for commission for your science/nature illustration needs! All photos by me. (8/8)

🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸 Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 (1/7) 🌐🧪🌱🌍

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky