📣LIFE UPDATE📣Super excited to announce that I've been selected for the prestigious Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellowship! Humbled to lead the first-ever algal blooms project. More here: https://t.co/9YVj0SzmXR Read the🧵(1/4) RTs appreciated! @LiberEroFellows @uofg @WSUVancouver

Excited to see what the next chapter holds for you! Congratulations!

Conclusion: Our study highlights the need for a more holistic approach to #pesticide risk assessment, considering the complexities of natural populations and advocating for policies that better protect wild #pollinators and #ecosystems. (6/6)

📈 Recommendations: We propose three recommendations to help scientists, policy-makers, and regulatory agencies to protect biodiversity, namely 1) Develop toxicity assays for non-Apis bees, 2) Prioritize chronic toxicity studies, and 3) Collect genetic & environmental data. (5/6)

🔎 Main Findings: This variation highlights the limitations of current risk assessments, emphasizing the necessity for a more comprehensive approach to pesticide regulation. Our study sheds light on the urgent need to protect wild #pollinators from #pesticide harm. (4/6)

🔎 Main Findings: Our meta-analysis of #neonicotinoid toxicity data unveils considerable variation in LD50 among #honeybees & #wildbees, up to six orders of magnitude. Surrogate species like honey bees don’t adequately represent risks to wild #pollinators. (3/6)

📰 Synopsis: Ecological risk assessments often rely on surrogate species data, but our study shows this approach falls short. A meta-analysis reveals significant intraspecific variation in #neonicotinoid toxicity, exposing #wildbees to greater risk than previously thought. (2/6)

🚨 Attention bee folks and environmentalists! 🐝 Breaking Ground: New Insights on Pesticide Risks to Wild Bees, out today in @ConLetters and OPEN access. Let's dive into the details: https://t.co/nOWrPdIiBN @LiberEroFellows @CNRSecologie @IPHC_Strasbourg @wsu @USC (1/6)

#GradStudent scholarships and #Postdoc fellowships got a raise today for the first time in 21 years🙌 Immensely grateful to all those who have been pushing for this. It truly takes a village! Still processing and will have more thoughts soon! But overall this👇 is great news!

The funding in #Budget2024 was only possible due to the community surrounding us. We've scored a historic win for grad students & postdocs, ⬆️ financial aid, well-being & research focus. Thanks to everyone pushing for a brighter, inclusive future in research! #SOSBudget2024 🌟

Very good news in the 2024-2025 budget for the tri-agency scholarship. Congratulations @SupportOurSci for the hard work, we did it, one letter, one phone call, one walkout at the time! #SupportOurScience 🎉🥳

This is an inescapable reality of any enterprise. Pretending it is not muddies the waters. Fortunately, practice, repetition, and coaching improve efficiency on almost everything from writing grant proposals to shooting free throws to making eggs.

We're hoping to have a broad ranging discussion about the factors that influence predictability - including eco-evolutionary dynamics, population genetics, and landscape genomics.

@SethRudman, Katie Lotterhos, Steve Keller @KellerLabUVM, and myself @MExpositoAlonso are organizing a cool symposium: PREDICTING EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSES TO A CHANGING WORLD 🏔️☀️⛰️🧬 We welcome experimental as well as theoretical work and diverse model systems and taxa!

In this @globeandmail Opinion, I make the case why the Federal government's stagnant approach to funding training, research and development is hurting our economy to the detriment of Canadians. Time to #SupportOurScience https://t.co/yDIfaTJzxw . . . .

Opinion: Why is Canada so miserly in funding academic research?

Challenges facing graduate students and early career researchers are real. My partner finished his doctorate sleeping on his supervisor’s floor because he could not afford rent. I used my own personal funds to pay for my 1918 flu expedition. Time to invest in research.

As an avid angler, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this story. I avoid fishing anywhere near algae blooms. "What about the fish themselves who have no choice but to swim in these potentially very toxic baths?" said @renesahba. @Chris_Winslow @IJCsharedwaters

agree with @McKayGLIER here: “Microcystins might just be the tip of the iceberg when looking at the influence of cyanobacterial blooms on our Great Lakes,” https://t.co/B6CYGqZfPs

10/ 📰 Concluding thought as fish swim forward into another season of #harmfulalgalblooms in the #GreatLakes: “Just because it’s safe for us to eat them, doesn’t mean we should neglect the conditions that threaten their survival.” #ConservationChallenges

9/ 📰 This lag time is further reason to prioritize efforts that can reduce the stress on fish species in the lakes. “They’re a voiceless population,” I shared with @IvanSemeniuk @globeandmail.