"Anyone can go and do field work, they don't have to look a certain way, they don't have to wear certain brands. It's about having the opportunity to do the work"
https://t.co/hVDNZIMY76
"At times, my anxiety has left me feeling inadequate, misunderstood, isolated and uncertain about pursuing a career in academia. On the basis of conversations with other students, I don’t think my experiences are uncommon," says @Ldia_wong. https://t.co/DOScc3RXW7
🚨 New paper alert 🚨
Flowering phenology influences native butterfly nectar foraging on non-native plants in an oak savanna
https://t.co/UThxQkoL9R
@hkarouba
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#GradStudents are arguably *the* primary producers of #research output at Canadian universities, and core contributors to the #teaching and #leadership missions of their institutions.
**But how (and how well) are they compensated?**
Let's take a look! A long thread 🧵👇
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For those of you in Canada and interested in monarch butterflies, tomorrow, Heather Kharouba (@hkharouba) and I are doing a coast-to-coast blitz of most @cbcradio morning shows talking about the recent IUCN red-listing.
@UofGCBS@uOttawaScience@UofGuelphNews
Parasitism of spruce budworm and the proportion of hardwood trees within stands of balsam fir and spruces during outbreaks of this major forest pest: new paper by @cgreysongaito @mccannlab @sarahdolson @Alex_Smith_Ants https://t.co/9zwWcsUdKq #community#structure#stableisotope
🔔Paper alert🔔
"We used pinned specimens to infer the social traits of two sweat bee species predicted to be eusocial, yet we described one as solitary. Our data agreed with nest data from a known eusocial species." - PhD student Lyllian Corbin
https://t.co/4bf5TRgJBu
Checkout our new paper in @GlobalChangeBio about fish, traits, and climatic change.
With @bethnyboer@Joe_Ecology @SJC_fishy & many others!
https://t.co/Ep2AnnqK4p