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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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CSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 19d

🚨CSEE 2026: Call for Symposium & Workshop Proposals!
Got a great idea for a session? Now's your chance to shape the CSEE 2026 program!

🗓️ Deadline: Nov 3, 2025 @ 9:00 PM
📋 Submit via: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026

Full instructions + selection criteria on the site.

2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

Fourwaves - 2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

event.fourwaves.com

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 2d

New from my fellow LTR-CSEE member Mel Boudreau:

Understanding the breadth and depth of long-term ecological data collection in Canada and the United States doi.org/10.1139/face... @facetsjournal.bsky.social @csee-scee.bsky.social #LongTermResearch

Understanding the breadth and depth of long-term ecological data collection in Canada and the United States

While several formal long-term ecological monitoring or research networks have been established, efforts are undertaken by many different organizations, leaving little understanding on the breadth of ...

doi.org

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 3d

If you were at CEW this week and missed signing up for @contaminantsenvsoc.bsky.social, get in touch! I will be back in the office Tuesday and will get back to you next week 😊

Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 3d

It was so lovely being surrounded by giant colourful blooms in Victoria this past week. Back to a crispy Saskatoon!

An orange dahlia blooms in front of a chateau style hotel

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 4d

Excited to see this out! Congratulations to all the authors and thank you to collection editors William McShea and Hila Shamon.

This collection was sparked by a session of the same name at the 13th International Mammalogical Congress held in Anchorage, Alaska two years ago #IMC13

Canadian Science Publishing @cdnsciencepub.com · 5d

New in Canadian Journal of Zoology: The Basis for Social Movement in Ungulates explores how herd dynamics, behaviour, and technology are reshaping our understanding of collective movement in species like caribou and wildebeest.

Read more ▶️ https://ow.ly/3vFP50X7hcO

#Ungulates

Herd of bison grazing on a grassy plain with forested hills and mountains in the background under a cloudy sky.

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 5d

Editors-in-Chief Lisa Loseto and Laurie Chan (plus your trusty journal development specialist, aka me) will be around the corner from Registration later this afternoon. Come by for snacks and chats!

Contaminants, Environment, and Society @contaminantsenvsoc.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning #CEW2025! Please feel free to drop by to our session this afternoon and chat about this new journal:

Conversation & Connection: Meet the Editors of Contaminants, Environment, and Society
West Coast Room 2:30-4pm
Refreshments will be served

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Contaminants, Environment, and Society @contaminantsenvsoc.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning #CEW2025! Please feel free to drop by to our session this afternoon and chat about this new journal:

Conversation & Connection: Meet the Editors of Contaminants, Environment, and Society
West Coast Room 2:30-4pm
Refreshments will be served

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Contaminants, Environment, and Society @contaminantsenvsoc.bsky.social · 7d

Visit us this week at #CEW2025 next to the Registration Desk of the Victoria Conference Centre. You can:

- Sign up for our newsletter
- Meet the Journal Development Specialist
- Get an exclusive conference code
- Contribute to our community ideas board

Happy workshop week!

A vendor conference table with black tablecloth in front of a landscape painting below a TV screen

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Contaminants, Environment, and Society @contaminantsenvsoc.bsky.social · 6d

Questions about the new journal? We welcome your ideas and feedback as we approach opening for submissions later this fall. Drop by our booth at #CEW2025 and leave us a note on the red board.

Or, drop by the West Coast Room tomorrow between 2:30-4 to Meet the Editors! @ecotoxcan.ca

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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · 6d

It took decades for the work of Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi—the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology—to have clinical relevance. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Continued support for blue-sky research is essential to fuel the breakthroughs of tomorrow.
Carola Vinuesa, Francis Crick Institute

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 7d

See you at this morning's coffee break for the eDNA & eRNA short course!

Contaminants, Environment, and Society @contaminantsenvsoc.bsky.social · 7d

Visit us this week at #CEW2025 next to the Registration Desk of the Victoria Conference Centre. You can:

- Sign up for our newsletter
- Meet the Journal Development Specialist
- Get an exclusive conference code
- Contribute to our community ideas board

Happy workshop week!

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 8d

The best thing about conference travel in southern BC is that it’s relatively easy to source good green food 🥬

Bottled orange juice next to a Large bowl of salad with a half avocado

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 9d

History repeats.

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Canadian Journal of Zoology @canjzoology.bsky.social · 13d

Now published: the Introduction to the collection "The Basis of Social Movement in Ungulates"

Social drivers of movement in gregarious ungulates

✒️ McShea and Shamon
🔗 buff.ly/nblLDeB #FreeAccess

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Contaminants, Environment, and Society @contaminantsenvsoc.bsky.social · 9d

Join us at @ecotoxcan.ca's meeting in Victoria next week!

Conversation & Connection: Meet the Editors of Contaminants, Environment, and Society
📅 Tuesday October 7th, 2:30-4pm
📍The West Coast Room, Victoria Convention Centre
☕ Refreshments will be served
#CEW2025

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 12d

important article highlighting the continuing benefit to both mother and newborn of vaccinating pregnant women against Covid.

The US under RFK Jr just stopped recommending vax for pregnant women. The UK has withdrawn vax for pregnant women too - I think both are very stupid decisions.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 12d

Excited to co-author this study led by @nathanlo.bsky.social @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social on the devastating consequences of not vaccinating pregnant women vs Covid

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Modeling the Health Impact of Discontinuing COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy in the US

This decision analytical model study estimates the number of avertable COVID-19 hospitalizations in US infants younger than 6 months and pregnant persons with vaccinations during pregnancy.

jamanetwork.com

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah I saw them from right inside the city, I’m sure if I’d driven out a bit more it would have been a good show!

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 12d

Aurora was out in Saskatoon too, though not this intense! Beautiful

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 13d

We had to say goodbye to our lovely cat Mitten last week.

If you ever spent time on a video call with me since I’ve been working from home, you’ve probably had her crash one of our meetings - she LOVED people. It’s much quieter around without her purrs and opinions and she’s very much missed

❤️

A seal point cat with red collar and blue eyes

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 14d

Just filled my first elk tag! #hunting

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Canadian Journal of Zoology @canjzoology.bsky.social · 17d

NEW
Microscopic exploration of alopecia in Guadalupe fur seals from the San Benito Archipelago, Mexico

✒️ Guzmán-Solís et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1139/cjz-...

A fur seal with alopecia. This is Figure 1a from the article.

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Álvaro Luna @alvaroluna87.bsky.social · 18d

📢 Thrilled to share our new paper 🌍

We found synthetic debris in nearly 1/4 of Eurasian otter spraints examined across five European countries, revealing how plastics infiltrate freshwater ecosystems.

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#plasticpollution

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 18d

For the #ungulates crowd! 🧪🌍 #wildlife

Canadian Journal of Zoology @canjzoology.bsky.social · 18d

NEW in CJZ:
Harmless tags or hazardous ads? Investigating the potential for ear tags to increase predation on neonatal ungulates

✒️ Turnley et al.
🔗 buff.ly/7Dz1HN3 #OpenAccess 🔓

Two pronghorn neonates shortly after birth. Both are fitted with expandable tracking collars but only one fitted with a yellow eartag.

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Josh Trebach, MD @jtrebach.bsky.social · 20d

hi, medical toxicologist that knows a lot about Tylenol here👋 Claiming that tylenol use in pregnancy causes autism is fearmongering

here's what you need to know 🧵

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