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Jessica Reid ☃️
@j-reid.bsky.social
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MSc. in freshwater fish ecology 🐟
Now at @cdnsciencepub.com 📚

🇨🇦🇪🇨🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

📍Ktaqmkuk / Newfoundland and Labrador
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Being a tourist in my own city - a boat ride filled with of humpbacks, common murres and puffins. Also enjoyed the black guillemots but they were too speedy for my phone/binocular combo. Oh and 2 bald eagles!!
A photograph through a binocular lens of commons murres standing on cliffside. They are standing like the mean business since its egg-sitting season! A photo through my binocular lens of 3 puffins swimming in the ocean
August 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Perks of working for a publisher - leaving the world of ecology and sitting in on biochem and cell bio presentations. Takes me back to undergrad!
My name tag for the 15th annual biochemistry summer symposium with the Memorial University Biochemistry Grad Student logo
August 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Have been waiting for this all conference long! Thank you to Dr Maydianne Andrade for reminding us EDI is not part of a fake woke agenda
- unconcious bias and underrepresenation are evidence-based (legal) issues that deserve our funding and efforts 👏👏👏 #CSEE2025 @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social
Maydianne is standing on stage behind a podium. The project screen shows a slide that reads the title of the talk “I don’t think of you as Black: Misconceptions about equity, merit and systems change”
July 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Dr. Laura Pollocks’ plenary at #CSEE2025 last night gave us a lot to think about.

Harnessing the power of exisiting data, training models to do even more and faster…but what we do with it? The bias of which species and who gets to help generate knowledge made for interesting discussions 🧪
Laura on stage in a white top and blue pants. Projector screen behind her reads “Can we tech oir way out of the biodiversity data crisis?”
July 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Happy start of #CSEE2025!

Doing a bit of learning and refreshing of sci comm concepts myself before co-leading a @cdnsciencepub.com workshop on peer review this afternoon with @wishartae.bsky.social 🐿️📝
Project screen showing the first slide of an Introduction to Science Communication workshop, run by Dr. Aerin Jacob of Nature Conservancy Canada
July 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Happy Pride 💗🏳️‍🌈 just got back from a drag brunch show which is a perfect start to the season 😌
A selfie - I’m wearing an army green tank top and beaded pride flag earrings
June 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Went iceberg tracking in my @oceantracking.bsky.social hat for good luck. I think it worked @jdpye.bsky.social
My partner and I are standing on a boat dressed in highlighter yellow safety suits. I’m wearing a bright yellow Ocean Tracking Network toque. There’s a giant iceberg in the Atlantic ocean behind us and life is good.
May 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Voting is so cool that Mark Critch and I were in the same line! #cdnpoli
A grey door with yellow signs indicating where to vote in the advance polls for St. John’s
April 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Make sure you are registered to vote/update your address!

Took me <1 min, just go to www.elections.ca/home.aspx #elxn45

Although the gender dropdown leaves something to be desired…seriously in 2025 😵‍💫?
A dropdown menu to register as a voter in Canada provides the following options: Woman, Man, Another Gender
March 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Mango matcha weekends 🧡💚
Holding a clear glass that has layered blended mango, oat milk and matcha. So vibrant and yummy
March 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Upcoming Webinar hosted by AFS on Employment Insecurity - Planning for Next Steps. “In the wake of mass terminations and layoffs of federal employees, AFS is hosting a webinar to assist in job planning and placement, aimed at job seekers in the natural resources fields” Date and time: Thursday February 27, 2025 at 2:00 pm EST. Presenters are Craig Paukert (University of Missouri), George Scholten (Iowa Dept of Natural Resources) and Sara Thomas (Lake Eerie Management Unit)
February 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Although weather and flight cancellations put a damper on the CJFAS party (sorry @not-klaatu.bsky.social 😢) we still had a blast at @scas-scsa.bsky.social. Thanks to my co-EICs for putting in some booth time @pitcherlab.bsky.social
Trevor and Jessica sitting behind a booth covered by a black Canadian Science Publishing tablecloth.
February 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Excellent plenaries from our CJFAS co-sponsored awardees! Congrats again to Jake and Shelley and thanks for sharing with us considerations and tools for ecosystem based management and about the impacts of salinity on our freshwater systems 🌊
Jake is in a blue blazer standing at a podium presenting his lecture entitled “Toward Digital Twins of Ecosystems: The Digital Age of Natural Science and Management” Shelley is in a black blazer and plaid skirt standing behind a podium. The screen behind her emphasizes some key points about the impacts of salinization of freshwater ecosystems
February 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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We are at #SCAS2025! Come say hi outside of Chedoke Ballroom C 🐟🌊

@cdnsciencepub.bsky.social
Our booth at the conference. A black pull up poster says “Enhancing the reach, rigour, and relevance of your research by making it easy to find, trust, and use.” And our website: cdnsciencepub.com. The booth has a black tablecloth with our logo and various merch ontop.
February 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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One cancellation and two delays so far 😅 All my fingers and toes crossed I just get there safely!!
A screenshot of my email inbox that has 5 Air Canada flight cancelled/delay notices
February 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Can’t wait to see people next week at @scas-scsa.bsky.social! If you have students or mentees that would find this workshop of interest, please share widely ☺️📝
An advertisment for a workshop called “Demystifying the publication process”. Location: Wentworth A - Level 1 Time: February 21 from 12:55 to 1:40 pm. All text overlaid on a background of two humpback whales underwater.
February 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Are you headed to this month’s annual Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences conference in Hamilton? Have students or are yourself new to the world of scientific publishing?

Grab your lunch and join me to chat all about the process, tips and tricks ✍️

#SCAS2025 @cdnsciencepub.bsky.social
Workshop info card: Demystifying the publication process On Feb 21 from 12:55-1:40 pm In Wentworth A at the SCAS conference in Hamilton Info displayed over an image of two whales swimming underwater
February 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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A weekend of first time creations at the house!
A small loaf of freshly baked white bread with a wee bit of excess flour A frothy matcha latte
January 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Snowy puppy in St. John’s!
An orange and white spotted dog sitting in the snow with a black coat on. He is the cutest cute to ever cute and also had a disproportionately long neck
January 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Had a visitor the other day! Can anyone confirm if this is a merlin (Falco columbarius)?

I’m in St. John’s, NL

🦉🪶
December 22, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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This part and the paragraph above it really bring it home…
Screenshot of a section of the article being referred to in this thread
November 22, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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Happy #LGBTQSTEMDay 🌈 diverse science is better science!
A photo of a young woman with brown hair (me) sitting on a grassy shoreline in green waders laughing at the camera. I’m wearing a light blue longsleeve shirt and a red life jacket. I’m balacing a laptop ontop of a purple towel on my lap and holding an acoustic receiver with the other.
November 18, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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Exploring The Rock ⚓️🗺️
A photograph of a red and white lighthouse on a rocky cliff. Foreground is vegetated with shrubs grasses and mosses A photograph overlooking Brigus Bay with lots of conifers A photograph showing a gravel path leading to a red and white lighthouse infront of a bay of water A photograph overlooking Brigus, Newfoundland and Labrador. Mixed grasses and shrubs are in the foreground
November 17, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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A photo of my dog Brooks, an orange and white Whippet/Jack Russel mix. He is sitting on a wooden viewing platform and looking straight at the camera wearing a blue collar, orange harness and yellow leash.
November 16, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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My guy is also orange and white spotted 🧡
November 5, 2024 at 8:15 PM