So this goes full-circle if you really want it to: Atwood's entomologist father Carl establisjed the Great Lakes Forestry Centre in Sault Ste. Marie. It's most famous alum is Roberta Bondar, Canada's 1st woman in space who worked in entomology labs in high school and during university
Another reason I don't love the gametic sex definition in my systems is that we sometimes have multiple male phenotypes that all produce small gametes (e.g. major and minor males in dung beetles).
"The fact that there is no current consensus of biological sex is not
antithetical to science... However, the field urgently needs an ethical
and reproducible approach for discussing sex"
There is No Consensus on Biological Sex
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
And it includes the first Canadian to launch towards the moon.
Ooof, not cool. I guess I could see the researcher wanting to see the plot if they did something adjacent. But it's on them to also reach out to you and check in (to avoid duplicating, to learn about the plot, and also just for manners!).
I am thrilled to be able to work with @kemarshall.bsky.social (Canada), Sebastian Brauchi (Chile), and Xubiao Peng (China) to understand biophysical mechanisms of neuromuscular function in the cold.
Science transcends borders. I love that HFSP makes that a requirement for these grants. 🌍
Abstract Submission and Early Bird Registration for 2026 CSZ Ottawa has been extended to March 9th!! See link below:
La soumission des résumés et l'inscription anticipée pour la CSZ Ottawa 2026 ont été prolongées jusqu'au 9 mars ! Voir le lien ci-dessous:
www.csz2026.ca
Devastated to hear that Alan Wilson has recently passed while doing fieldwork. I was lucky to meet him last fall when he visited UBC. He was known for his amazing work on the athletic performance of mammals. www.rvc.ac.uk/about/our-pe...
Regrettably, I have decided to decommission SimpleMappr, www.simplemappr.net on September 1, 2026. You may read about its origins, what others have accomplished in its 18 year run, and the reasons why I must turn it off in a document I wrote last night bit.ly/simplemappr.
It's about osmolarity, I believe.
📣 Join us - we’re hiring an engagement officer for the CAN BON 🍁 initiative!
An effort to transform Canada’s capacity to mobilize its knowledge about the changing state of nature.
See the job posting here👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Thinking about what the UBC Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre has said: irshdc.ubc.ca/2025/12/03/t...
Yeah, I really really don't understand that one at all. Although I'm just happy for any trainee funding opportunities at least.
The UBC FA has done a good job of documenting some of this: www.facultyassociation.ubc.ca/bargaining/s...
It never feels like our government believes that we can and do train excellent researchers right here in Canada.
It's officially in my record that some students have found that my voice is "too high".
So excited to be in this great company :)
Front cover of Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 228, issue 24. The cover shows 63 photos (arranged in 7 rows) of members of the JEB community, including our Academic Editors, members of our Editorial Advisory Board and the in-house team of administrators and editors at our Editorial Office in Cambridge, UK. The Company of Biologists 100 logo is in the bottom left corner.
Happy New Year to all of our authors and readers
Issue 24 of issue 228 has closed and issue 1 of volume 229 has opened
The front cover, marking the end of @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100, features members of the JEB community
journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...
I'm reading it and starting to apply some of it now. Letting go of line-edits is hard! And I've been asking my graduate students to give me feedback on how it goes for them.
Over the holiday, while folks were on well-deserved breaks, our new book was released!
Mentoring writers is hard - we can make it easier for you. Please help spread the word - repost this, tell your colleagues, etc.
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The @newscientist.com editor asked reporters what their favourite stories were this year, so I thought I'd post some of mine 1/
We have 526 scientists signed up for spring semester. We try to get that to about 1000 scientists before unleashing the teachers on the database. Wanna connect a class of kids with science this spring? Sign up!
I meant to reach out and tell you, but I guess this counts :)
Do you have thoughts on our best response as community members? I could see an argument to just ignore them to keep them from getting the attention they desperately crave. Or do we counter-protest to make it clear they are unwelcome?
I taught a first year biology class the other day structured around @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37156506/ I had a student come up to me and say he had written a whole paper in high school about how chromosomes define sex, and after my class he thinks he was wrong :)
Coyote access only!
Yeah it's not a great outcome.
