Canada needs to make a major investment in graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in #Budget2024 . It is no longer affordable for Canada's young talent to pursue research. Justin Trudeau Chrystia Freeland the success of Canada needs you to #SupportOurScience theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

This is bonkers.
What the federal grants fund can be discovered with a google search.

🎉 Congratulations Melanie Dickie – winner of our Georgina Mace Prize for the best article by an early career researcher! #ECR [🧵1/4]

Courage
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🎇Congratulations Dr. Christian Landry Christian Landry Université Laval on your Gairdner Award! #FungalDrugResistance #EvolutionaryBiologyForTheWin #OneHealth
Globe & Mail link: theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Affiche vu sur le campus UdeS. Bravo à qui l'a fait.

In other news, there's at least 2 American woodcocks singing just across the road.

Right on cue, Lisa Young breaks down what #ableg *needs to know* about post-secondary funding & why this newest bill is a sure-fire way to tank AB's universities: open.substack.com/pub/lisayoung/…

Too bad.
The real issue is not 'should we dump the British Monarchy' - of course we should. The problem is what we should replace it with.
Methinks we are stuck.
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The primary way by which zebra mussels will spread from a lake of recreational importance is through boater traffic. Clear Lake is now an infected hub within a network of lakes. To prevent further invasion, boats carrying zebra mussels must be controlled. cbc.ca/news/canada/ma…

My piece on experimental design and causal inference in ecology & evolution is out in Ecology Letters to day. I'll provide some context on why I think inadequate experimental design in our field is limiting inferences & causing papers to be rejected 🧵onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Réactions de l'opposition 🔴🟠🔵:

🔴 PLQ : «Non seulement Benoit Charette n’a pas suivi l’avis des fonctionnaires qui souhaitaient un BAPE, mais il refuse d’expliquer pourquoi. Quand comprendra-t-il que son opacité nuit au projet?»

🟠 QS : «Le ministre Benoit Charette a…

That was amazing! Not many birds singing but the coyotes started howling and when the light came back it was incredible.

Sun about 80% covered, spring peepers have started singing. #PathOfT

Quite a place, I was there 2 weeks in 1989. Amazing human history, sea birds, scenery. Oh, and there's feral sheep.

Secured my stash of maple syrup

Uh-Oh.. rabid raccoons just south of the border. Rage du raton laveur : des cas au Vermont à juste 32 km de la frontière. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/20628…

Evening deer

Some context. This is not a local animal coming out of the mountains. This is an EPIC journey. When Aubry's wolverine distribution paper came out in 2007, the last record of the animal in the whole state was is 1992! More recent records from NW corner of state near Idaho /1

Canada's Covid Management under the Justin Trudeau Liberals enabled Canada to have only 40.5% of the per capita deaths from Covid when compared to the US.

The US cumulative rate of death from Covid is 246.5% of Canada's.

The limitations and costs were worth every life saved.