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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦

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Aquatic entomologist, kayaker, naturalist Ed: Newsletter of the Biol. Surv. Canada & Mayfly Newsletter born at 314 ppm Professor Emerita at UPEI, Fellow of the ESC Retired home to BC's spectacular Sunshine Coast

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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · Nov 12

This is a map of northern Canadian localities my group has studied mayflies from - I've had the great fortune to visit most of these and collect them myself, though some are from a study of archived specimens from various studies.

An aquatic entomologist sorting mayflies and stoneflies from a sample taken along the Horton River in arctic Canada. She is crouched on the ground looking at a sample tub, with three heavily loaded red canoes at the edge of the Horton River in the background.

Map of northern Canada with a number of red dots on it, showing sampling localities where mayflies were collected.

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georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · Nov 11

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...

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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · 13h

and open access, too! Yay!

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 16h

Some really cool new insect and plant fossils from a ~112-million year old forest. Lots of neat pictures and analysis at the link. And it includes a fossil of one of my favourite insect orders, the caddisflies (Trichoptera). 🪲🪳🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America’s Gondwanan forests - Communications Earth & Environment

Cretaceous amber from the Ecuadorian Napo region provides exceptional evidence of a resinous forest ecosystem and diverse arthropod fauna in equatorial Gondwana, as revealed by integrated analyses of ...

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 15h

Dragonfly Wings: Marvels of Strength, Durability entomologytoday.org/2025/10/14/d...

Dragonfly Wings: Marvels of Strength, Durability

A group of researchers examine a variety of chemical and structural qualities of dragonfly wings to seek inspiration for human technical innovation.

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John Knowles @ecohydrojfk.bsky.social · 1d

💧Calling all hydrologists💧Montana State University is hiring an assistant professor of water systems science, broadly defined but with connections to groundwater/subsurface processes. Please spread the word! jobs.montana.edu/postings/48829

Assistant Professor of Environmental Water Systems Science

The Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University Bozeman invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor with expertise in E...

jobs.montana.edu

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The Entomological Society of British Columbia @entsocbc.bsky.social · 20h

Registration is now open for the ESBC 2025 (Nov 21st – 22nd, Univ. of Fraser Valley Abbotsford). The conference theme this year is "Better together: celebrating partnerships from micro to macro". For details and to register please visit our meeting page - entsocbc.ca/meetings/

Attendees of the 2024 ESBC meeting seated in a conference room watching one of many scientific presentations.

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Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · 22h

Being a (decent) scientist means having a high-quality BS sensor. Just sayin...

Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 23h

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

futurism.com

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Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 1d

Anyway. I've partnered with @decolonialatlas.bsky.social to distribute their incredible map of North America from an Indigenous perspective with all placenames in the native language. Paper ones sold at cost. www.mapcenter.com/store/p/turt...

Turtle Island Decolonized — The Map Center

Every map instantly creates two types of people: those who make the maps and those that are mapped. Every map represents a world view and a perspective and I’m so delighted to offer this piece that sh...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately it looks like we won’t be hitting the preorder minimum for these hats unless we get some more orders!

So if you’re interested in a leafcutter ant hat or are considering holiday gifts, please preorder! 🐜🌿

Available below ⬇️

A photo of an olive green dad cap with two embroidered brown leafcutter ants holding leaves. It is photographed on top of a rock.

A photo of an olive green dad cap with two embroidered brown leafcutter ants holding leaves, but photographed from a different angle. It is photographed on top of a rock.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 2d

Untitled (Blue Jays)
Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe
2025

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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · 2d

wow.

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 2d

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 6d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

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ivory1.bsky.social @ivory1.bsky.social · 2d

It's not officially Thanksgiving until you watch this annual treat.

Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 2d

Explaining Canadian Thanksgiving to Americans

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 2d

Does tidal marsh #restoration "work", if the goal is bringing back key species AND the trophic interactions that support them? A thousand stable isotope samples later, we have answers! 💯 work by PhD student Megan Pagliaro:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SanFrancisco #BayDelta

Does tidal marsh restoration lead to the recovery of trophic pathways that support estuarine fishes?

Evaluation of tidal marsh restoration success is typically based on the recovery of habitat size and target species. However, food-web structure may provide valuable insight into ecosystem functionin...

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 3d

New #OpenAccess work in #RESInsectConsDiv reports on the establishment and rapid spread of #SocialWasps (#Hymenoptera: #Vespinae) in #Greenland
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70023

#InsectMonitoring #SpeciesIntroductions
@manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 3d

Untitled (Moose Pair)
Norval Morrisseau ~ Anishinaabe
n.d.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 4d

Northern Lake
Lawren Harris
1923

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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 5d

We publish in Ecology 30 years of Arctic wildlife monitoring on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada)! Our long-term dataset tracks 35 species across 400 km² of tundra, providing rare insights into community dynamics, food webs, and climate responses. Open data for all at bitly.cx/OnOI2 🌍🦊🦉🦑 🧪🌿🌐

Arctic fox on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada). Picture by Louis-Pierre Ouellet.

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BEC Consultants @bececology.bsky.social · 5d

'River Flow and Ecology Case Study: The Lotic-invertebrate Index for Flow Evaluation (LIFE) in Irish Rivers' - A project led by the Atlantic Technological University [email protected]

#NatureConservation #FreshwaterEcology #Limnology

www.catchments.ie/river-flow-a...

River Flow and Ecology Case Study: The Lotic-invertebrate Index for Flow Evaluation (LIFE) in Irish Rivers - Catchments.ie

Case study from EPA-funded research on using biological tools to assess the impact of river flow on ecology, led by ATU.

www.catchments.ie

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 6d

Calling #ICZN people: we had a #taxonomy paper come out w/ literally dozens of publisher errors. Told it can’t be fixed online as that’s against the Code & needs a lengthy correction notice. 😤 imo that would make it even less accessible - is it really our only option?

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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · 6d

Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia (Canada)

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 6d

🚨PhD opportunity w/ @venditti.bsky.social and @watershedlab.bsky.social on sediment supply and transport in mountain watersheds in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. 🧪⚒️ Full ad: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jo09s...

The River Dynamics Laboratory at Simon Fraser University, in collaboration with WaterSHED lab at the University of Calgary (https://ucalgary.ca/labs/waterSHED), seeks a PhD student to work on sediment supply in mountain drainage basins in the Rocky Mountains. The candidate would develop and validate a morphodynamic model of changes in river channels caused by coarse sediment delivery by landslides. The candidate will join a large group of students and postdocs at Simon Fraser University and the University of Calgary with expertise in river geomorphology and natural hazards.
The PhD candidate will:
1) Build a one-dimensional numerical model to predict channel evolution that is based on the Parker family of morphodynamic models
2) Collect topographic and sediment texture information to parametrize model in the field
3) Validate the model using channel profiles and newly acquired lidar
4) Experiment with the model to explore sediment removal and augmentation strategies
Minimum qualifications include:
1) A Masters degree in Geology, Engineering, Environmental Science, or Physical Geography
2) Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills, and attention to detail
3) Experience with hydraulic and/or morphodynamic modelling.

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Ecology Group Basel - Sabine Rumpf @ecologybasel.bsky.social · Sep 8

*Job alert*

We have a 5-year postdoc position on #mountain non-native species & #macroecology in our group @unibas.ch. Great opportunity to join us!

Details here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/postdoc-position-in-mountain-macroecology/6c5a8906-354f-43c6-bc9b-1156d21725a5

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Universität Basel: Postdoc position in mountain macroecology

The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a postdoc position within the ERC project 'Global status, tren...

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Temporal Ecology Lab @temporalecology.bsky.social · 8d

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

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