Karen Kidd
@karenkidd.bsky.social
Ecotoxicology research @McMaster University (karenkiddlab.com), water pollution, emerging contaminants (she/her)
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Do you want to host an #IAGLR26 workshop?
Are you an international student attending the conference?
Apply now for awards to help make it happen!
Just a heads up, for the travel award you must be a member of IAGLR. Don't miss the November 1 deadline: http://bit.ly/46Mr652
Are you an international student attending the conference?
Apply now for awards to help make it happen!
Just a heads up, for the travel award you must be a member of IAGLR. Don't miss the November 1 deadline: http://bit.ly/46Mr652
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Do you want to host an #IAGLR26 workshop?
Are you an international student attending the conference?
Apply now for awards to help make it happen!
Just a heads up, for the travel award you must be a member of IAGLR. Don't miss the November 1 deadline: http://bit.ly/46Mr652
Are you an international student attending the conference?
Apply now for awards to help make it happen!
Just a heads up, for the travel award you must be a member of IAGLR. Don't miss the November 1 deadline: http://bit.ly/46Mr652
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Department of Biology, Lakehead University is seeking a CERC in Freshwater Sustainability and Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems. On the shores of Lake Superior, Experimental Lakes Area and Large Lakes Observatory both just down the road... Deadline Dec 1. DM for questions! www.lakeheadu.ca/faculty-and-...
Associate Professor / Full Professor, CERC
Lakehead University is your place to live and learn. Dynamic, modern, and highly learner-centred, we acknowledge all of our students as valued leaders of tomorrow, whose education and success are most...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Department of Biology, Lakehead University is seeking a CERC in Freshwater Sustainability and Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems. On the shores of Lake Superior, Experimental Lakes Area and Large Lakes Observatory both just down the road... Deadline Dec 1. DM for questions! www.lakeheadu.ca/faculty-and-...
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New on Plastiverse.org: two open, classroom-ready tools for detecting microplastics with Nile Red 🎉🔬
Both Open Data + Open Source. Perfect for secondary schools & citizen science. Details below 👇
#Microplastics #STEM #OpenSource #OpenData
Both Open Data + Open Source. Perfect for secondary schools & citizen science. Details below 👇
#Microplastics #STEM #OpenSource #OpenData
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Plastiverse is a hub for assets and information exchange on plastic pollution research. A live, crowd-sourced repository for tools, databases, protocols, and information related to micro- and macro-pl...
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October 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
New on Plastiverse.org: two open, classroom-ready tools for detecting microplastics with Nile Red 🎉🔬
Both Open Data + Open Source. Perfect for secondary schools & citizen science. Details below 👇
#Microplastics #STEM #OpenSource #OpenData
Both Open Data + Open Source. Perfect for secondary schools & citizen science. Details below 👇
#Microplastics #STEM #OpenSource #OpenData
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[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...
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...
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[3 October 2025] Another roundup of #ConservationJobs, mostly in Canada. All postings include salary. I am not involved in these jobs. Please share to help others and post other job ads in the comment...
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October 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
[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...
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...
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What the latest on adult vaccines? Come join me and and exceptional panel at Zoomer media to get the lowdown.
• Recommended Vaccines & How To Get Them
‣ Navigating Provincial Health Systems
‣ The Role Your Pharmacist Can Play
‣ Emerging Science
‣ Fighting Disinformation & Vaccine Fatigue.
Free!
• Recommended Vaccines & How To Get Them
‣ Navigating Provincial Health Systems
‣ The Role Your Pharmacist Can Play
‣ Emerging Science
‣ Fighting Disinformation & Vaccine Fatigue.
Free!
October 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
What the latest on adult vaccines? Come join me and and exceptional panel at Zoomer media to get the lowdown.
• Recommended Vaccines & How To Get Them
‣ Navigating Provincial Health Systems
‣ The Role Your Pharmacist Can Play
‣ Emerging Science
‣ Fighting Disinformation & Vaccine Fatigue.
Free!
• Recommended Vaccines & How To Get Them
‣ Navigating Provincial Health Systems
‣ The Role Your Pharmacist Can Play
‣ Emerging Science
‣ Fighting Disinformation & Vaccine Fatigue.
Free!
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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
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
October 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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
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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Application deadline approaching.
Tenure track faculty position in bioinformatics in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph. Please consider joining our dynamic department. @integrativebiology.Baku.social
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics
Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics
careers.uoguelph.ca
October 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Application deadline approaching.
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IAGLR is seeking candidates for positions on its Board of Directors and welcomes your involvement. We encourage you to stand for election or nominate someone you believe would benefit the association. For more details: http://bit.ly/41mJIqs
September 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
IAGLR is seeking candidates for positions on its Board of Directors and welcomes your involvement. We encourage you to stand for election or nominate someone you believe would benefit the association. For more details: http://bit.ly/41mJIqs
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I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky
Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.
Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.
September 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky
Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.
Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.
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💡Have a great idea for SFS?
📆 Apply for an SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th for funds to make it happen
🎯Projects must advance goals in the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan
🏆Awards available for 6 teams up to $5000 each
(1/2)
📆 Apply for an SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th for funds to make it happen
🎯Projects must advance goals in the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan
🏆Awards available for 6 teams up to $5000 each
(1/2)
September 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
💡Have a great idea for SFS?
📆 Apply for an SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th for funds to make it happen
🎯Projects must advance goals in the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan
🏆Awards available for 6 teams up to $5000 each
(1/2)
📆 Apply for an SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th for funds to make it happen
🎯Projects must advance goals in the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan
🏆Awards available for 6 teams up to $5000 each
(1/2)
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I'm developing a grad course on experimental design (study design generally) & data analysis in biology. What topics, papers, etc. do you think are most important? If you teach something similar, I would love to hear what/how you teach (if you are willing to share a syllabus that would amazing!).
September 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I'm developing a grad course on experimental design (study design generally) & data analysis in biology. What topics, papers, etc. do you think are most important? If you teach something similar, I would love to hear what/how you teach (if you are willing to share a syllabus that would amazing!).
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Only 38% of ecology and evolution journals mandate data sharing and just 27% mandate code sharing
New paper out today on how to fix this! Thnx to @eivimeycook.bsky.social @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
New paper out today on how to fix this! Thnx to @eivimeycook.bsky.social @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
September 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Only 38% of ecology and evolution journals mandate data sharing and just 27% mandate code sharing
New paper out today on how to fix this! Thnx to @eivimeycook.bsky.social @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
New paper out today on how to fix this! Thnx to @eivimeycook.bsky.social @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Canada #academicjob careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...
Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in
Calgary,
...
Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in
Calgary,
...
careers.ucalgary.ca
August 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Canada #academicjob careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...
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A new Water Health NSERC CREATE program will launch this fall!
This research & training program will examine the impact of physical, biological, chemical, & climatic stressors on water & human health
Read the new article in CWRA's Water News cwra.org/resources/wa...
water.usask.ca/waterhealth-...
This research & training program will examine the impact of physical, biological, chemical, & climatic stressors on water & human health
Read the new article in CWRA's Water News cwra.org/resources/wa...
water.usask.ca/waterhealth-...
July 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A new Water Health NSERC CREATE program will launch this fall!
This research & training program will examine the impact of physical, biological, chemical, & climatic stressors on water & human health
Read the new article in CWRA's Water News cwra.org/resources/wa...
water.usask.ca/waterhealth-...
This research & training program will examine the impact of physical, biological, chemical, & climatic stressors on water & human health
Read the new article in CWRA's Water News cwra.org/resources/wa...
water.usask.ca/waterhealth-...
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To celebrate the inaugural World Lakes Day, the MAGIK Network has organized a virtual webinar, with contributions from Indigenous speakers and scientific experts, to highlight the urgent need to protect and restore lakes around the world. Registration: https://bit.ly/3U3ShSQ
July 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
To celebrate the inaugural World Lakes Day, the MAGIK Network has organized a virtual webinar, with contributions from Indigenous speakers and scientific experts, to highlight the urgent need to protect and restore lakes around the world. Registration: https://bit.ly/3U3ShSQ
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New #CallForPapers! How are microbes helping tackle plastic pollution? Submit your research on plastic biodegradation to @canjmicrobio.bsky.social or @envreviews.bsky.social.
More info ▶️ buff.ly/2xn9TUO
#PlasticBiodegradation #MicrobialSolutions #microsky 🦠 🧫 #AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪 #AcWri
More info ▶️ buff.ly/2xn9TUO
#PlasticBiodegradation #MicrobialSolutions #microsky 🦠 🧫 #AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪 #AcWri
July 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
New #CallForPapers! How are microbes helping tackle plastic pollution? Submit your research on plastic biodegradation to @canjmicrobio.bsky.social or @envreviews.bsky.social.
More info ▶️ buff.ly/2xn9TUO
#PlasticBiodegradation #MicrobialSolutions #microsky 🦠 🧫 #AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪 #AcWri
More info ▶️ buff.ly/2xn9TUO
#PlasticBiodegradation #MicrobialSolutions #microsky 🦠 🧫 #AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪 #AcWri
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Having just run a hiring process, my #1 piece of advice is *do not let AI create your resume or cover letter*.
I bet I read the same letter 50 times and 50 more with word salad (~45%).
Ask a real person(s) with hiring experience to help. It’s normal to ask — part of networking.
#ConservationJobs
I bet I read the same letter 50 times and 50 more with word salad (~45%).
Ask a real person(s) with hiring experience to help. It’s normal to ask — part of networking.
#ConservationJobs
July 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Having just run a hiring process, my #1 piece of advice is *do not let AI create your resume or cover letter*.
I bet I read the same letter 50 times and 50 more with word salad (~45%).
Ask a real person(s) with hiring experience to help. It’s normal to ask — part of networking.
#ConservationJobs
I bet I read the same letter 50 times and 50 more with word salad (~45%).
Ask a real person(s) with hiring experience to help. It’s normal to ask — part of networking.
#ConservationJobs
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☀️ On vacation, lying in a hammock, thinking about where to publish that paper you’ve been working on?
Please consider submitting to our special issue addressing the Future of Chemical Safety & Sustainable Materials Chemistry.
Submission deadline: September 2, 2025
axial.acs.org/earth-space-...
Please consider submitting to our special issue addressing the Future of Chemical Safety & Sustainable Materials Chemistry.
Submission deadline: September 2, 2025
axial.acs.org/earth-space-...
Call For Papers: Nobel Symposium 2025: The Future of Chemical Safety & Sustainable Materials Chemistry | ACS Publications Chemistry Blog
This Special Issue aims to highlight the latest innovations in sustainable materials design alongside advances in "Safe and Sustainable by Design" (SSbD) principles. Submit your manuscript by Septembe...
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July 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
☀️ On vacation, lying in a hammock, thinking about where to publish that paper you’ve been working on?
Please consider submitting to our special issue addressing the Future of Chemical Safety & Sustainable Materials Chemistry.
Submission deadline: September 2, 2025
axial.acs.org/earth-space-...
Please consider submitting to our special issue addressing the Future of Chemical Safety & Sustainable Materials Chemistry.
Submission deadline: September 2, 2025
axial.acs.org/earth-space-...
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Looking for more @agu.org community here on Bluesky? We built a starter pack to help you find accounts! The pack includes accounts for AGU sections, committees, and journals.
If we're missing any AGU group accounts or new ones join, please let us know.
⚒️🧪
If we're missing any AGU group accounts or new ones join, please let us know.
⚒️🧪
AGU - American Geophysical Union Starter Pack
Join the conversation
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June 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Looking for more @agu.org community here on Bluesky? We built a starter pack to help you find accounts! The pack includes accounts for AGU sections, committees, and journals.
If we're missing any AGU group accounts or new ones join, please let us know.
⚒️🧪
If we're missing any AGU group accounts or new ones join, please let us know.
⚒️🧪
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Fantastic postdoctoral fellowship opportunity. Join us! jobs.tec.mx/tecnologico-...
Postdoctoral Position
Postdoctoral Position
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June 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Fantastic postdoctoral fellowship opportunity. Join us! jobs.tec.mx/tecnologico-...
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Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec?
Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!
www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...
Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!
www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...
PBEEE/Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Postdocs and Visiting Research Student and Visiting Researchers
**Note that the FRQ is in the process of revamping their webpages. We will update links soon as we can with the current 2025 year's information. Be sure to check back to see if any eligibility or docu...
www.mcgill.ca
June 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec?
Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!
www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...
Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!
www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...
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Researchers! 📢 We (@luke.fi) are hiring: Principal Scientist in Wildlife Ecology
Permanent position ✅️
Finland, you'll love it ✅️
Flexible hours, proper holidays ✅️
Great colleagues and atmosphere ✅️
Relocation services ✅️
Value to objective research ✅️
#Canada #USA, you have boreal wildlife too 😉
Permanent position ✅️
Finland, you'll love it ✅️
Flexible hours, proper holidays ✅️
Great colleagues and atmosphere ✅️
Relocation services ✅️
Value to objective research ✅️
#Canada #USA, you have boreal wildlife too 😉
Principal Scientist, Wildlife Ecology - Natural Resources Institute Finland
Open job: Principal Scientist, Wildlife Ecology, Natural Resources Institute Finland - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi
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June 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Fancy a postdoc?
The 2025 Marie Curie Fellowships are now open! If you are interested in #PlasticPollution, #ornithology / #birds, #conservation & our work at @adriftlab.bsky.social and want to discuss an application, get in touch! #PhDjobs
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![Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr Alex Bond (Natural History Museum, Tring/London UK) [progress pride flag]
Applicants with previous experience in CT/morphology, wildlife acoustics, or plastics particularly encouraged!
Applicant eligibility
Can’t have spent >12 of the last 36 months in the UK
Previous post-doctoral experience & publication track record HIGHLY recommended
Must relocate to the UK (London or Tring; remote working is not possible under this funding scheme)
Defended PhD by Sept 2025; < 8 years postdoc experience
Previous successful applications are available as guides!
Applications shared between fellow & host with a deadline 10 Sept 2025
Email: a.bond@nhm.ac.uk / BlueSky: @TheLabAndField@bsky.social
https://alexanderbond.org](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gg4lsi2uarqje4spzmdvj7hk/bafkreidjxysk5ivm5jnhgtohoflq435ugw4zoo6o3bir3zrutn4negu7ji@jpeg)
June 4, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Fancy a postdoc?
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There are many sources of chemical pollution in our rivers, but tertiary treatment for sewage could clean up the meds that pass straight through us & down the loo, household cleaning products, chemicals from skin care, hair care, washing clothes & food. 1/
www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
May 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
There are many sources of chemical pollution in our rivers, but tertiary treatment for sewage could clean up the meds that pass straight through us & down the loo, household cleaning products, chemicals from skin care, hair care, washing clothes & food. 1/
www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
www.theguardian.com/science/audi...