So fun to chat with McGill about our James Bay polar bear project, it's expansion to five Omushkego Cree communities across the Bay, and new multiyear funding from the Weston Northern Biodiversity Research Program! Partnership and knowledge sharing makes it all possible🐻‍❄️

Recently, a team of Cree land stewards, researchers, & regional wildlife biologists came together to build a project to gather information about polar bears & populations in James Bay, located at the southernmost edge of the polar bears' range:

New 📰| Community-led non-invasive polar bear monitoring in the Eeyou Marine Region of James Bay, Canada: insights on distribution and body condition during the ice-free season🐻‍❄️@al_langwieder Read it 👉🏽: https://t.co/TThU9oQL6B Read the PLS 👉🏽: https://t.co/t0MBsWDTMr

Our first polar bear paper from the EMR is out! 🐻‍❄️In it we share the approach we’ve been taking and how it could be used to expand community-based polar bear research in the North. So proud to work with these co-authors on my first first author paper! https://t.co/GAlYZoF0ij

Liz Miller has made a beautiful short film about the #ringbilledgulls from Deslauriers island, which is showing at @EspacePourLaVie! It features some of our research and cool work with falcons at landfills, come check it out! https://t.co/CB8sAHWkKz

Are you interested in Predator-prey ecology | Machine learning | Movement analysis | Modelling? Our group is hosting an advanced field school in computational ecology🤖+🐻 Join us at the end of May, in a cozy cottage, by a beautiful lake, in the boreal forest 🌲 🙏RT | info 👇

Thanks everyone who came to our poster and talk at @ArcticNet #ASM2022! Such a great week discussing northern projects and meeting new people

Hey #ASM2022, George Natawapineskum (not on Twitter) and I will be at poster 142 tonight to chat about our polar bear work in the Eeyou Marine Region of James Bay🐻‍❄️❄️ feel free to come say hi! @ArcticNetSA @ArcticNet

So happy the last paper my colleagues & I wrote at @NorskPolar is finally out in Environmental Pollution! In this multi-species study🐻‍❄️🐋🕊️🦭 we found higher detection frequencies of TEHP in #whales from the Norwegian #Arctic than previously reported. https://t.co/5qmJIJuwHj

To snag some polar bear hair, researcher @al_langwieder set up a triangle of barbed wire, surrounding a pile of rocks that were covered in fish juice. As you can see, the bears were fascinated by the trap. Listen here: https://t.co/C4KuqF5b4C

Thanks @CBCQuirks for having me on the show this weekend! It was so fun to share stories about our work with polar bears in James Bay and my closest bear encounter this summer ❄🐻 @McGillMacCampus @mcgillu

hey #ESA2022 #CSEE2022 , come by poster 50 this evening if you’re interested in polar bears, hair snares and community-based research in James Bay! I have lots of fresh camera trap footage to share 🐻❄️

Interested in moose habitat, forestry, participatory research, GPS telemetry, & Cree knowledge interviews? Come to my talk to see how we're bringing all this together, & chat 🌲🌲 Tomorrow Wed. at 10:45 room 516E. #ESA2022 #CSEE2022 @NRSMcGill @ESA_EarlyCareer

very important to always bring a bear goose when working in polar bear country

The weather was not kind to us in James Bay this summer but, after 1199 km on the water, we finally finished deploying the hair sampling stations! Very excited to see who's hanging around the islands this year

Our second season of polar bear sampling in James Bay is a go! 18 hair snare & camera trap stations deployed so far with the Waskaganish and Eastmain teams, 22 to go next week from Wemindji and Chisasibi 💙

🇨🇦Govt funded grad students have not had a raise in 19 YEARS! Postdoc scientists are not given a reasonable wage. View open letter asking @JustinTrudeau & @FP_Champagne to increase funding here: https://t.co/Bs7Y8vYZDv. Add your signature here: https://t.co/i2XgwjSPXi…. Pls RT

Attn *ALL* Canadian scientists & engineers! Sign open letter to @JustinTrudeau & @FP_Champagne ( https://t.co/Bs7Y8vYZDv) asking the CDN Gov to increase @NSERC_CRSNG graduate student funding to above the poverty line & #PDFs to a reasonable wage. Pls RT & spread the word!!

New paper out in @STOTEN_journal! Mercury concentrations in #polarbear hair in the Norwegian and Russian Arctic are comparatively low and not driven by feeding habits. Takk/thank you/спасибо to all coauthors and @NorskPolar for making this work possible. https://t.co/iRYuhjb2Rz