Iqalutsiavak (Beautiful Fish) Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 2005

You might have a love-hate relationship with daylight saving time, but research shows that urban wildlife may stand to benefit

I could try and say something relevant, topical, profound even on the general state of everything. However what I feel I need is a small, purple, Sea Lavender Weevil. So here it is. #Nature

Love rivers?! Looking for an exciting PhD opportunity to better understand how to restore rivers at a landscape scale with multiple stakeholders?! Details below! @stir.ac.uk www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A few square inches of tree trunk. At least 4 species of lichens (Parmelia, two Physcia species and Caloplaca) plus Red Tree Brain Fungus. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends.

❄ International Polar Year breathes life into Arctic science 'Breaking the Ice' Story by Jessa Sinclair Photo by Paul Nickle Click the link below to check out this week's Tear Sheet from March 2007! uphere.ca/articles/breaking-ice-0

Regrettably, I have decided to decommission SimpleMappr, www.simplemappr.net on September 1, 2026. You may read about its origins, what others have accomplished in its 18 year run, and the reasons why I must turn it off in a document I wrote last night bit.ly/simplemappr.

Scared of Spiders? The Real Nightmare Is a World Without Them

Breathe Jeff Dillon 2022

The largest winter wildlife track on PEI comes from an animal you might not have thought of: the Bald Eagle! Learn more in today’s post. www.pei-untamed.com/post/bald-ea...

Pioneer Series, Maple Sugar Thomas Wilberforce Mitchell 1930

may i offer you some shrews in these trying times

Northern Lights Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian 2014

If the economy is so dependent on oil that it requires a war in the Middle East or some other devastating exogenous event to buoy oil prices and come closer to balancing budgets, maybe we're not making the best decisions.

Any Canadian tweeps recall what the GoC version of the OPERA Insar portal is? I can't locate it. @natural-resources.canada.ca

Also if your primary concern about the permanent time change is kids walking to school in the dark I present to you years of research showing school should start later in the day www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha... ewa.org/data-researc... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Come join #LaurierBiology! We're recruiting 3 tenure-track faculty positions! Integrative Organismal Zoologist! careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... Microbial Systems Biologist! careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... Computational Ecology/Modeling Biologist! careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... DEADLINE MARCH 22nd!

well, that was a bit of surprise (personally I was in favour of staying on standard time, but I guess I'm an outlier) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We had some thoughts about Generative AI, and @caut.bsky.social was kind enough to help us express them. #HigherEd Creative inclusion or regressive exclusion? AI and the arms race in teaching and learning - www.caut.ca/bulletin/cre... @alexsmithants.bsky.social @danielgillis.ca

Linear anthropogenic disturbances increase butterfly abundance, species richness, and cross-corridor movements doi.org/10.4039/tce.... #NewInCanEnt

Nova Scotia's Margaret Sibella Brown was fascinated with moss and liverworts. As an amateur bryologist, she published several papers and oversaw efforts to collect sphagnum moss for use as surgical dressing during the First World War. This is her story. 🧵 1/8

Some exciting life news... I am now a lecturer in Entomology and Ecology at Lincoln University in NZ! We took the Entomology students on a fieldtrip over the weekend, and saw some of my favourite invertebrates: Velvet worms and giant springtails! Always a treat to see these! #SoilBiodiversity 🧪

Incredible article about Art Borkent, biting midges, and aging taxonomists. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Looking for a fun spring project? Join me for a 4-session online course drawing a raccoon in coloured pencil starting April 1. I will walk you through all the steps from drawing the initial image to bringing it to life in colour. You can register at: www.mcnallyrobinson.com/classes #SciArt

I complain about CBC, because it’s not perfect, and fair criticism is allowed and appropriate. But seriously, thank God for CBC in Canada. It needs to be protected.

A tenure-track faculty position (Professor of Evolutionary Biology) is open at #UQAR in Quebec, Canada. Teaching in French. Application deadline: 4 May 2026. Details: www.csz-scz.ca/job-postings... 🧪

Green Party news release about the pending closure of the Diptera unit at the Canadian National Collection of Insects www.greenparty.ca/en/news/gree...

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

Big milestone day for me: finished curating ~1400 archived vials from several 1970s/80s collecting expeditions in Newfoundland & Labrador. Result: >15,000 specimens & 66 species of mayfly. Breakdown: 63 from Labrador, 25 from Isl. of Newfoundland; 25 in common. 37 genera represented, in 12 families.

📚 Four special issues will be published as a major scientific output of our conference. The participating journals are Pedobiologia, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Applied Soil Ecology and Journal of Sustainable Agriculture & Environment. globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/journals-spe...

🛏 Have you booked your accommodations yet? Two of our hotels are fully booked, but you can still get a room at a discounted rate in other two hotels (Marriot and Parkside). Don't miss out! #GSB2026 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/accommodatio...

Quite a treat to encounter some cute little Diptera in vials inadvertently included amongst my Newfoundland and Labrador mayfly vials: these are Nymphomyiids and blepharicerids.

Unraveling how Iceland’s #caddisflies colonised the island after the last Ice Age, this study uses COI mtDNA barcodes to trace multiple waves of arrival and unique Iceland-only lineages. The results reveal... doi.org/10.3897/zook... #phylogeography #trichoptera

Hydrology Paper of the Day @richard-fewster.bsky.social on quantifying how Arctic peatlands change due to global warming: 12 peatlands and transects in Europe and Canada; drone aerial surface photography and 91 soil monoliths; quantitative methods of dating; and how peatlands have expanded.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

We are in #Ulukhaktok, #NorthwestTerritories this week to conduct #InuitKnowledge workshops on the distribution of #KingEiders and #CommonEiders, supporting ongoing community-led initiatives to use #Inuvialuit knowledge on #eiders to inform the development of a #MarineProtectedArea in the region.

2 postes de prof à l'UQAR! Biologie évolutive www.uqar.ca/emploi/profe... Chaire de recherche en Résilience et adaptation des organismes et écosystèmes nordiques www.uqar.ca/emploi/appel...

Aquatic insects are key indicators of stream health, but which metrics work best? 🤯 By sampling >500,000 adult #caddisflies (299 species) from 903 stream sites across the northcentral United States, this study puts bioassessment metrics to the test ➡ doi.org/10.3897/zook...

The Tyee has republished my post on Danielle Smith's fear-sowing, xenophobic, unconstitutional 'referendum' plans. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Part of a litter sample from one 1m2 plot (Harvard Forest, plot 100S, Macrosystems transect, 2013). These mites represent a "mesofauna" that is as daunting as it is fantabulous. It takes a certain blend of self-confidence and derangement to study the ecology of oribatid mites.

Just One More Goal Bill Brownridge 2013

there's no such thing as a "non-controversial" topic in a university... all knowledges, in any field, are the result of ongoing controversy and debate and disagreement... that university boards and admin aren't able or willing to make that argument really is appalling

Under Northern Skies Elizabeth Lennie c. 2025

Dragontail butterflies.

Yesterday, I got to see the oldest book in our Canadian Agriculture Library 🍁 It’s almost 400 years old! 📖 Insects.- Moffet (Thomas) Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum, first edition, woodcuts, contemporary calf, Thomas Cotes...[and] William Hope, 1634. Bug science is cool! 🐞🪲🪳🐛🐜🧪

Yay for Naomi! I still have a band shirt from what I think was her first group here in Prince George. Via @amandafollett.bsky.social www.thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

Reupping my only sports celebrity claim to fame is that I have played Brad Jacobs once in Wednesday night Soo Men's league. Threw lead stones against him and we got our asses handed to us. Congratulations to the local boy!

I willingly own up to being kind of old, but I still love my iPod. It stays connected to my old Sony Dream Machine iPod dock and provides endless music from my younger years, while I putter away at identifying Canadian mayflies. 🙂

Curling in the Back Lane Terry Annany n.d.

still unclear to me how the species made it this far