OK, #Canadian scientists, #science students, science influencers, scientific societies, student & postdoc unions, and everyone else who may know someone w/ science postgraduate training We (COVID-19 Resources Canada ) and the province of #Ontario really need your help...every one of you.

If you have ever been a grad student or dealt with academics this fic will make you SHRIEK with laughter. Be forewarned there’s pictures of snakes in it but also I cried with laughter at the end archiveofourown.org/collections/yu…

Absolutely fascinating!

Tree identification explained.

Plant ecologists! Saint Mary's University in Halifax is looking for a new tenure-track assistant professor in plant ecology or plant evolutionary biology smu.ca/webfiles/Appro…. Please retweet/apply so that there are more ecologists for me to collaborate with here!

The Royal BC Museum is looking for a new invertebrates collection manager; please share: royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/about/our-work…

An adventure this epic cannot be contained much longer. #TheWheelOfTime premieres November 19th on Prime Video.

After much delay, another chapter from my thesis is finally online! We asked how an invasive grass and litter manipulation impact the susceptibility of grasslands to woody plant encroachment. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/U…

Academic twitter – how do you recruit grad students? Where do you share opportunities? I'm having trouble finding interested Canadians for a funded MSc project at U of S with NatureConservancy.ca | Conservationdelanature.ca & ECCC. Research is on habitat management + plants & at-risk songbirds. 1.adp.com/LJNCbX7HAA7

Student evaluations place unfair and harmful expectations on women university teachers to perform labour-intensive forms of work even when they do not receive lower overall scores. A thread on our new research. 🧵1/11

Lots of fun working on this project, and discovering that the city of Edmonton didn't use clover in their urban grass mix, making finding it in the urban areas more of a challenge than we anticipated!

We used to “correct” kids who were left-handed - through violence, shame or “guidance” on how to be right handed. And so there seemed to be very few left handers. Then we stopped, & with no shaming there was a seemingly rapid rise. Then a plateau. This is a tweet about trans kids

A little Kamloops backyard wildlife.

New paper alert in Scientific Data! We compiled a database of #biodiversity patterns on lands grazed worldwide for both domesticated & wild #grazers. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excited to get Kate Beaton’s beautiful new book from my fav independent book_warehouse.

If it’s raining, don’t put recovery vehicles/personnel on the track until the pack is bunched behind the safety car. Simple. #JapaneseGP #Formula1

The very awesome Da(N95)iella. Public Health is Dead Podcast 🎧 has launched a very good and very important podcast on anti-Black racism and policing in Canada. Essential listening.