Tiny ocean fossils are fundamental to our understanding of the climate system and how it has changed over the past 150 million years. Join us at our next Café Scientifique to hear all about the world of micropaleontology! 📅 Dec. 9, 2025, 7 p.m. 📍 The Mint 🔗 Details: https://ow.ly/56Sx50XxTlA

Canadian graduate students... how do you feel about members of parliament going through your transcripts and the personal information you disclosed in your applications in order to question whether you deserved your fellowship or not? @supportourscience.bsky.social

Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦@michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

🎓 Calling Canadian grad students & postdocs! #VoicesForScience is a new campaign to spotlight advocacy for fair pay and better research support. Whether you’ve collected data, organized events, or driven change on campus — your voice matters. Share: forms.gle/neeWyHyMt7Zi... #SupportOurScience

Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702

I still think that they should have used this picture, I still think it's the best out of the options I sent.

University of Victoria@uvic.ca · 10mo ago

🚨 Big news! UVic researchers receive $1.13M from CFI-JELF to advance their work in climate and health innovation. These locally grounded projects are creating global impact, from BC’s alpine ecosystems to coastal communities and beyond. 🌍 ow.ly/sXrw50X9T4t

Look it's @fraass.bsky.social from @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social ! 🔬

University of Victoria@uvic.ca · 10mo ago

🚨 Big news! UVic researchers receive $1.13M from CFI-JELF to advance their work in climate and health innovation. These locally grounded projects are creating global impact, from BC’s alpine ecosystems to coastal communities and beyond. 🌍 ow.ly/sXrw50X9T4t

🚨 Big news! UVic researchers receive $1.13M from CFI-JELF to advance their work in climate and health innovation. These locally grounded projects are creating global impact, from BC’s alpine ecosystems to coastal communities and beyond. 🌍 ow.ly/sXrw50X9T4t

Always excited for an increased salary submission! Congrats to the Department of Biological Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Tech for their stipend increase! This union-based win brings the pay almost to the 1:1 line! Update your department and find out more here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

Just a reminder - if you run/recruit or have anything to do with an ecology & evolutionary biology PhD program, check out our database and update your departments salary here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

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Shelly Gaynor@shellygaynor.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Always excited for an increased salary submission! Congrats to the Department of Biological Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Tech for their stipend increase! This union-based win brings the pay almost to the 1:1 line! Update your department and find out more here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

So great to have @fraass.bsky.social in as a guest speaker for my first-year composition class today! Though I was horrified by his saying a Caribbean volcano had erupted "in the 1900s": I thought he meant the 1990s eruptions, WHEN I WAS OVER 20, but nope, 1902. Safe to call that the 1900s. #uvic

It's really wild to be diagnosed with and medicated for ADHD in your 40's. Like, I didn't realize that my brain was supposed to work like this? The meds work so fast. 1 day you're fighting 13 trains of thought and the next it's fully calm and ordered inside your skull. Strangest experience.

Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Jenny Rashall from Stephen F. Austin State University, USA. Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/ (1/4)

Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey & help make academia more inclusive forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW Questions? Email lindsay.odell@open.ac.uk #PhD #Neurodivergent

So excited to participate in this panel discussing the history and future of #PalaeoPERCS and the amazing, inclusive, and absolutely brilliant international community of early career pal(a)eo scientists! Please join us at 15:00 UTC today for this really important discussion!

Pal(a)eoPERCS@palaeopercs.bsky.social · last yr.

Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be hosting a special seminar celebrating our 5th anniversary. We'll be joined by our past & current committee members. We'd be glad if you could also be a part of this celebration & collective reflection. Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/ (1/4)

I made a little tool to sync my papers in @paperpile.com with @obsidian.md. It generates a markdown file for each paper and should handle annoying things like paper renaming and deletion. I wish Paperpile would expose more data but the basic paper info gets imported. Please use, extend, enjoy!

GitHub - maria-antoniak/sync-paperpile-obsidian: a simple tool to sync your papers from paperpile to obsidian

a simple tool to sync your papers from paperpile to obsidian - maria-antoniak/sync-paperpile-obsidian

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Opinion: If scientific databases in the Earth and environmental sciences are not adequately supported, we risk losing and potentially needing to replace these resources, an extremely costly, yet preventable, outcome. buff.ly/WTgm4IC Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025

The Valuable, Vulnerable, Long Tail of Earth Science Databases - Eos

Community-curated data resources in the Earth sciences, highly valuable but systematically underfunded, are vital to research on a changing planet.

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Data on how ecosystems evolve over geologic time may be key to understanding modern-day ecosystem changes. A study of marine biomass over the past 541 million years gets scientists one step closer.

Biomass and Biodiversity Were Coupled in Earth's Past - Eos

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff in Earth’s oceans changed alongside the diversity of organisms.

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“Only 2 of 225 US biology PhD programs assessed offer annual salaries meeting basic living wages” Sad parallel with our findings in Canada, recently published in PLOS One (Fraass et al. 2025)

Dr Craig R McClain@drcraigmc.bsky.social · last yr.

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

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New paper led by @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social using x-ray CT and laser ablation to detect plastic environmental responses in fossil individuals www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421549122 featuring @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

Opinion: If scientific databases in the Earth and environmental sciences are not adequately supported, we risk losing and potentially needing to replace these resources, an extremely costly, yet preventable, outcome. buff.ly/WTgm4IC Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025

The Valuable, Vulnerable, Long Tail of Earth Science Databases - Eos

Community-curated data resources in the Earth sciences, highly valuable but systematically underfunded, are vital to research on a changing planet.

eos.org

To the non-expert, this will seem esoteric, so allow me to summarise: we have profoundly altered the distribution of nutient elements on the ocean, with a potentially profound impact on the life that lives in it.

Nature Geoscience@natgeosci.nature.com · last yr.

⚒️ Article: The proportion of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in the ocean now substantially differs from the Redfield ratio, likely reflecting a reduction in phosphorus limitation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com's Scientific Reports! We investigated emotional & psychological impact of late ADHD diagnoses in women Highlighting how undiagnosed ADHD contributes to life-long challenges & how diagnosis in adulthood can be life-changing #ADHD #WomenWithADHD #ADHDawareness

Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis

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Paper about diversity within Canadian academic geoscience departments. www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....

Research students are diverse, while those in salaried positions are not: results from a survey of Canadian academic geoscience | Earth Science, Systems and Society

Despite recognition that academic geoscience lacks diversity to an extent beyond that of other disciplines, demographic data from academic geoscience departments is not routinely collected. This inhib...

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🧵🌊 Tiny ocean fossils called foraminifera or "forams" hold a deep record of Earth's climate past. By studying these beautiful microfossils in ocean sediment cores scientists like our own @fraass.bsky.social reveal how life and climate have changed over millions of years wdcnews6.com/the-history-...

The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils » Yale Climate Connections

Climate change and declining biodiversity are the two biggest environmental crises facing humankind today, but predicting how they’ll play out together is tricky. Ideally, scientists would study how l...

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I'm used to academic spam at this point, but getting asked to review a paper about parental learning interventions in Kuwait because of my language skills (?) is a new one.

If you're coming to the @geosociety.bsky.social GSA meeting in San Antonio may I recommend this awesome field trip to visit the K/Pg boundary along the Brazos River and in a bunch of cores at the Gulf Coast Core Repository: store.geosociety.org/products/ft2...

FT25CN408. Exploring The K/Pg Boundary in the Gulf of Mexico at the Br

Full Title: Exploring The K/Pg Boundary in the Gulf of Mexico at the Brazos River Outcrops and the Gulf Coast Core Repository Endorsed by: GSA’s Planetary Geology, Geochronology, Mineralogy, Geochemis...

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Deadline for session, field trip, and short course proposals is July 18!

Chris Lowery@chrislowery.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey! Did you know you can Propose Sessions, Short Courses, and Field Trips for the FORAMS 2026 conference in Amherst? Because you can: sites.google.com/view/forams2...

Science denying know-nothing GOPers are trying (and in some cases succeeding) to ban fluoride in water based on anti-science BS. A new study shows a nationwide ban would bring a 7.5% increase in tooth decay and cost almost *10 billion dollars* over five years. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Projected Outcomes of Removing Fluoride From US Public Water Systems

This cost-effectiveness analysis evaluates a large sample of US children to determine the associations of fluoridation cessation with oral health and national dental care costs.

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