North Atlantic right whale numbers estimated at 384. An increase in eight whales from last year - report today by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. Slow population growth trend over the past four years gaining more than 7% of their 2020 population. 🦑🐋🧪🌍 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Most public transit systems depend largely on fare revenue to fund basic operations, but ridership never recovered after the pandemic. I wrote about 3 major transit systems that are facing a fiscal cliff, and the somewhat lackadaisical political response to the crisis. heatmap.news/politics/chi...

My colleague @sarahhird.bsky.social has been fighting for family care leave for over a year now. So impressed with her leadership! ctmirror.org/2025/10/21/t...

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

New fully-funded PhD project working on flooding, climate change, catastrophe modelling and the re-insurance industry: unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/cli... Work with @floodre.bsky.social Erica Thompson and I.

Interested in life’s co-evolution with planetary environments? 🌎🦠🧪 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my group at #McGill and happy to sponsor applicants for the TSI fellowship. Please reach out if interested! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30777

[3 Oct 2025] Another round-up of #ConservationJobs, mostly in 🇨🇦. Please share so others benefit. I welcome additional environment-related job ads (as long as salary range is included). You can comment or DM me. www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...

We are seeking volunteer ASL Interpreters (or students working towards certification) to join monthly, virtual meetings and facilitate translation of spoken language (English) to American Sign Language and sign language to spoken language. Knowledge of marine mammal sciences is not required. (1)

What can a whale’s bones tell us? After a ship strike killed a North Atlantic right whale, her broken jaw and skull revealed the harm of vessel collisions. Former MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Regina Campbell-Malone used this tragedy to model collisions, which now helps guide ship speed limits.

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Job alert - We're hiring a researcher @cascadeinstitute.bsky.social for a 2 year contract on 'fast and fair' #energy #transitions. Open to remote or here in beautiful Victoria, BC. Pls share. #energysky. cascadeinstitute.org/opportunitie...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Four new fossil species from New Zealand illustrate the striking diversity of the earliest penguins, which possessed long dagger-like beaks they may have used to skewer prey.

Application deadline: September 5, 2025.

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption. Details here: PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7... Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

📣 ATTN (please share!) 📣 The #DEI Committee of the Society for @marinemammalogy.bsky.social is currently seeking volunteer American Sign Language Interpreters (or students working towards certification). #ASL #AmericanSignLanguage #SignLanguage #marinemammals @dolphinwhisperer.bsky.social

🚨 We're hiring! PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab 🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction 📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🕒 4 years, fully-funded 🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!

We've got 35 sets of these posters left. This project came from my evergreen frustration with our important messages getting trapped on social media algorithms. Good stuff for posting on your local community bulletin board, classroom, office door, etc! squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/scie...

Canada is falling behind on climate. A fully funded Youth Climate Corps could change that. “A Youth Climate Corps could be exactly the solution our politicians need,” says @drlorileeoates.bsky.social of @nichecanada.bsky.social Resilience, clean energy, housing & jobs in one.

My first-first author paper is out! We found that overall healing in sharks was comparable between sutured and non-sutured incisions. But sutured incisions had significantly more bacteria present. www.publish.csiro.au/wr/pdf/WR25009 Forever thankful to Jordan Matley & @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social

Will's detailed thread about using Claude Code as a coding assistant parallels my experience using ChatGPT o.3 and o.4 as a proof assistant.

Across Canada, extreme heat causes physical and mental stresses that lead to a documented rise in violence. That includes intimate partner violence, @rebeccaga0.bsky.social reports, which threatens women, girls and vulnerable communities the most. thenarwhal.ca/heat-domesti...

A team led by researchers in British Columbia has solved the mystery of a gruesome disease that has killed billions of sea stars along the Pacific coast of North America, more than a decade after the die off. 

Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

New Paper: Perceived and observed biases within scientific communities: a case study in movement ecology - "Who conducts biological research, where they do it and how results are disseminated vary among geographies and identities." doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🧪🌍 #bias #research #science #academia

3 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions in the History of Science, Technology, Medicine, and the Environment at Texas State University 🗃️ #HPS #histsci #histmed #envhist networks.h-net.org/jobs/68829/t...

Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.

I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos. I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

Grad students are doing an amazing job talking to the media about their work (in progress)! Here's Bella and Johanna talking about urban heat, the need for creative design, and inequity: www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

NEW DOCTORAL RESEARCH ALERT: Please consider participating and spreading the word about this research on climate justice and migration being conducted by my doctoral student, Chetna Khandelwal @chetkay.bsky.social.

📣 We joined 100+ groups urging Mark Carney’s government to prioritize a clean, east-west electricity grid. This generation-defining, nation-building project would deliver good jobs, lower bills, Indigenous leadership, and national security at a time we need it most. Read the full letter ⬇️

How should we best design marine protected areas for megafauna with large range sizes? New work from Betty Boyse et al suggests we should include taxon-specific coverage since multispecies MPAs can't address all taxon-specific ecological needs 🧪🌍🦑🦭🐳🐟 doi.org/10.1111/csp2... @mariabeger.bsky.social

Fascinating paper, led by Loraine Shuttleworth. Gestation in female Southern #rightwhales is far longer than thought. Follows previous work showing similar for North Atlantic right whales and bowheads. We don't understand these #whales as well as we think. We have their basic biology wrong. 🐳🌍🦑

Hi folks, we had a last minute cancellation at MBL STAMPS, the microbiome data analysis course in Woods Hole that runs from July 14th to July 24th. We can provide housing space for a woman. If you or anyone you know is interested, pls drop me an e-mail at [email protected]. Thx!

Very happy to see the attention given to this work 👇⚒️🧪 that was also presented to #AGU24. Access to the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt is now restricted due to thoughtless damage (not by these scientists) described below www.science.org/content/arti...

This is a huge loss for environmental protections and Indigenous sovereignty across the country - what a loss for Canada under the guise of efficiency.

Carney says he wants to build, build, build. Meanwhile, Canadians (youth in particular) are experiencing an unemployment crisis. Our solution? A Youth Climate Corps! Check out our latest in the National Observer 👇🏼 www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/11/o...

If I scratch your back with kelp, will you scratch mine? That story and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

How #oceangliders can be used by governmental agencies to monitor the ocean 🌊? Our vision for a sustained ocean glider program in Canada can be found in the summer issue of the Journal of Ocean Technology: doi.org/10.48336/hdg... @marineinstitute.bsky.social

🚨 Recruiting! I’m looking for two graduate students (MSc or PhD) already based in Canada to join my lab and work on biodiversity research - broadly defined. Based at Concordia University (Montreal) - competitive stipends will be offered. communityandquantitativeecology.weebly.com

Environment and Climate Change Canada released its summer forecast today, predicting warmer than normal conditions across most of the country. Notably, "normal" is considered 1991-2020, which for Canada is ~1-2 C warmer than the pre-industrial climate.

I love iNaturalist and it's computer vision algorithms are great, but I'm very suspicious over this announcement of incorporating GenAI into the platform

If you’re a scientist with even a little bit of experience talking about your science to the public, I’d encourage you to sign up to do one of these. I can help. 🧪🌎🦑

Honoured to have our paper selected as one of @canjmicrobio.bsky.social’s May Editor’s Choice papers! Super grateful that my first lead author paper is actually being read by folks 🥳

A devastating blow to #marinemammals, their ecosystems & anyone who enjoys/depends on the #ocean. My colleagues & I are distraught and will not stand idly by. Please join us in supporting marine #conservation in whatever way you can. 🐋🐬🦭🐻‍❄️🦦 #radicalhope

We're hiring an assistant prof in global change ecology! Apply!!! We're vibrant, supportive, and interdisciplinary EEB community! Plz note the weird dates: We're reviewing applications beginning on ✨August 15th✨. I'm part of the SC and happy to answer questions! apply.interfolio.com/164677

My undergrad student Malak Bouilouta has been working on quantifying land cover changes across Gaza and adjacent parts of Israel from satellite imagery to examine how the war has impacted agricultural capacity, water infrastructure, and the urban landscape.

🇨🇦 Hey Canada, let’s get science on the agenda! Advance voting is open on: April 19 - April 21 from 9am to 9pm Use our resources and tools to learn about the parties, ask science-focused questions, and make your voice heard! evidencefordemocracy.ca/vote-science/