Did you miss my talk at #ASLOSIL26? That's okay! There was a lot of great science! Fortunately, you can read about it in our @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social manuscript! So rewarding to see people chewing on this piece and offering their thoughts throughout the week!

Attending #IAGLR26? Don't miss this plenary by Dr. Joey Bernhardt (2026 Stevenson Award Recipient)! 👩‍🏫 Towards a mechanistic science of global change 📅 Wed. May 27 ▶️ https://ow.ly/9iRL50Z1AWb Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences International Association for Great Lakes Research

So will these “non-traditional” outcomes be made available to the public that funded them?

Scientists, for the love of anything, PLEASE speak with museums before designating type specimens. The ones from NHMUK in this paper are (once more) with incorrect museum abbreviations and registration numbers. Sigh.

Very busy day of oral and poster presentations from our lab group today. Sabrine Farjallah and Flavia Breje had lots of visitors to their posters and Sarah Rijkenberg gave a stellar presentation on her doctoral research. Lots of great questions and discussions at #ASLOSIL26

Hello Montreal! Excited to see #ASLOSIL26 friends and colleagues this week. I am giving a talk in the Jim Cotner session on Wed and a poster about Flathead Lake zooplankton on Thursday. Various of my students, postdocs, and associates are presenting on projects too. BUSY

I am recruiting graduate students to start in fall 2027! Several potential projects, generally focused on analyzing and forecasting changes in aquatic carbon cycling. #ASLOSIL26 I am around all week—please reach out if you would like to find a time to chat! abbylewis.github.io/join_the_lab...

If you're coming to #ASLOSIL26, check out these TWO starter packs of fellow attendees on Bluesky!

Hannah Larson is presenting her work at ASLO this week on phytoplankton dormancy, an ecologically significant and understudied trait. Thursday morning (9:45) - don't miss it! #ASLOSIL26 aslo.secure-platform.com/2026/solicit...

I'll be presenting at #ASLOSIL26 on Thursday: Michigan's Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program: Lessons learned over 50 years of community science for research and conservation. Join us for an excellent session (SS079A) on emerging directions in community-based work! www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...

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@aslo.org Anyone know how to use the online conference planner on their laptop? I keep getting caught in a login loop where logging in takes me out of the planner. It's only an issue for using the scheduler. It works on my phone, but easier to go through program on my laptop. #ASLOSIL2026

Play this on a loop for every enthusiast of this slop in higher ed.

HT Clare McNaught, first woman president of @rcsed.bsky.social for alerting me to this bit of wisdom from Erica Kreismann (LinkedIn). Women- or anyone with a high degree of conscientiousness, I reckon- don't have imposter syndrome, they have an overcorrection problem. And it leads to #burnout.

The key to person to person hanta is that it has a highly overdispersed R. That means that while individual cases can generate large numbers of secondary cases, most cases are dead ends.

The next North America One Health University Network webinar is Friday, May 15, noon ET! Dr. Michael Lairmore will discuss and highlight how life, social events, and academic careers unfold to provide an array of professional opportunities in One Health: tinyurl.com/2wpv6e3t

It happened. Someone emailed me asking for datasets from papers that I never wrote, and subsequently admitted they had gone to a data repository to look for it based on an AI hallucinated summary. Without reading the paper or even checking that it exists! We're cooked 🫠

Mainstream media is starting to cover the dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. Thank you for speaking out and helping keep this story alive. #SaveUSFS

This title is horribly inaccurate, actively misinforming people. Neither the "Prime minister" nor the executive is doing the limiting. The issue was a law passed by *Parliament* itself. Parliament can limited parliamentarians speech. Was ever thus.

🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20

Just a bit of context, when Mintz hand picked people when he started his policy school, he selected, not via open competitions but via his own selection methods, 100% men. And the university let him.

Banning algorithmic pricing ought to be a no-brainer call for any government: people don’t like to be ripped off, surveilled, or treated differently from their peers. Algorithm pricing does all three of those things.

This needs to be taken seriously. Along with underfunding, Doug Ford is destroying the university system. And yes, this latest move is 100% in line with what we've seen happening by state-level MAGA-hats in the US.

This!!! Danya is correct in the things AND I will say I am a former user both of Substack and of generative AI (I thought it would be a fun visual thing to supplement a fiction project) and I have abandoned both. You can abandon shit after learning it sucks. Take the L and take all the W's after.

As a scientist, as a woman, as a human that cares about humanity, this got me in the feels. Worth a read. lizplank.substack.com/p/artemis-ii...

As a Canadian researcher, I always admired (even envied) the LTER program. In my courses, when I wax poetic about the value of long-term monitoring in ecology, the LTER is always my shining example. This is gut wrenching.

"The struggle of figuring out the right analysis approach, wrestling with an unexpected result, or trying to turn a messy set of findings into a coherent story is not an obstacle to learning. It _is_ the learning". Required reading for AI in the lab: blekhman.substack.com/p/you-need-t...

There are so many no-good, terribly bad, wrong, AI-generated anatomical diagrams out there. Here's one I found on the website of an actual clinic in Minnesota. Yikes. Be careful out there.

Predatory impact of freshwater drum on dreissenid populations in western Lake Erie #GreatLakes 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Annual consumption estimates by freshwater averaged 23.79 kg/ha shell-free mass, generally exceeded dreissenid consumption estimates for round goby.

‪CWA produced a story map (arcg.is/e8u8S1) highlighting many of the projects funded through the Great Lakes Freshwater Ecosystem Initiative. My lab is a co-investigator in 3 projects, inc. "Leveraging Big Data to Connect Watershed Plans to Nearshore Lake Health: Rouge River Case Study" Check it out!

Donate! wikimediafoundation.org

Why? It's never been easier to get into Toronto or Waterloo. Grade inflation is one. (See the two recent op-eds in the Toronto star). Second, each 0.5% drop in admission averages scoops up 50~100 more students. ?/n www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

“In disorienting times like these, it matters where we turn for understanding. It matters what we build.” — Anna Maria Tremonti, founding host of CBC Radio’s The Current and member of The Narwhal’s board of directors thenarwhal.ca/a-note-from-...

MSc Opportunity: The Bimiizii Project — Indigenous Relationships with Sea Lamprey in the Great Lakes Hosted within the Ndaakendaaswen Gamig (Lab) at the University of Guelph and supervised by Dr. Susan Chiblow ses.uoguelph.ca/msc-opportun...

Good morning! There was more snow last night than I expected. This will be the last side door picture of the storm...it's a good thing we don't actually use this door, lol

No wonder that “Give to Gain” slogan was so strange and problematic. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Dear #Ontario, The Ford Government is trying to push a bill through that would exclude the Premier and Cabinet Members from Freedom of Information Requests. Please call to express your disagreement👇

Too many contract faculty are hired term-to-term, paid less than their peers for the same teaching, & denied benefits. That instability affects faculty and students. Read the op-ed and join the call for #Fairness4CF ➡️ www.tinyurl.com/cfsmdoa @ocufa.bsky.social

Just to be clear, invasive carp do pose a significant threat to the #GreatLakes and we need to continue taking action to prevent their introduction, but they're not yet "rapidly taking over Lake Michigan" as the president claimed in a social media post yesterday www.woodtv.com/news/michiga...

Conference Alert: PRIMO23 - Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms June 2-5, Hamilton, Canada. Although "marine" is in the title, this conference is open to environmental/ecotoxicological research focused on AQUATIC ORGANISMS (freshwater & marine). Here is the website for more info: primo23.org

Guess whose youth (18-21) population is projected to hold up better than any in the Americas over the next 20 years?

(Phil Leotardo voice): Let me tell you about a couple three new Statscan papers

So fun to hear my #limnology colleagues talking about changing lake ice conditions and impacts on our winter well-being. 🧪 Northern communities are losing lake ice as winter get warmer — and weirder www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

Friends, we need to set the bar higher than this.

I did so as well! Support your faculty! Help us negotiate a fair deal now! Send your letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/act-...

I just emailed Ontario Tech’s Board of Governors telling them to negotiate a fair deal for faculty. Send your letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/act-... cc @uoitfa.bsky.social

Reading recommendation ...governments that have not interfered in the process through which researchers work out how specific pots of money will be spent have seen rich rewards in discovery, invention and innovation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A rare sundog sighting in southern Ontario. Yes, it’s cold out! cc @ontariotechu.bsky.social