A herd divided -- what the Grays Bay Road and Port means for caribou and the people living in the community of Kugluktuk, Nunavut. Hear and amplify their voices: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR0J.... c.org/wskDPmrXBN

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I interviewed Chief Billy Joe Tuccaro about the health impacts of oil pollution, for the BBC World Service. Studies found cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan, downstream from the tar sands oilfields, are 30% higher than in the rest of the Province.

Worried about selling our (environmental) soul? Me too. Please read and comment on the proposal to fast track major projects in 🇨🇦 despite harms to our air, water, lands and species. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/09/o...

Fast tracking major projects puts our environment at risk

The proposed legislation to speed up infrastructure projects is designed to eliminate red tape. But environmental regulations are not red tape, they are designed to protect our natural world.

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Amy Angert and I are recruiting 2 temporary field technicians to assist with demographic surveys across the range of scarlet monkeyflower in California and Oregon. Perfect for recent graduates who are considering applying for grad school. Apply here: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/231.... Please share!

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... We cannot accept this framing. It's not "economy vs green" - it's that we are allowing developers to dump old, outdated technology into their new builds

Vancouver passes mayor's motion to pause emissions tracking, ban on natural gas heating in new homes | CBC News

Vancouver city council voted on Thursday to pass Mayor Ken Sim's motion to pause one of the city's emissions tracking initiatives and again allow new homes to use natural gas for space and water heati...

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Why we’re concerned about “Getting Major Projects Built in Canada” 👀 and its impact on nature and a healthy environment. Have your voice heard - read the govt’t proposal www.canada.ca/en/one-canad... and email feedback to engagement@pco-bcp.gc.ca by June 7, 2026 🙏@baumlab.bsky.social

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Canada’s ‘major projects’ should not come at the cost of the environment

CSEE has submitted a formal response letter to the Government of Canada's Getting Major Projects Built in Canada - Discussion Paper to voice our concerns about the proposed changes to weaken Canada's environmental legislation and biodiversity obligations: csee-scee.ca/wp-content/u....

Globally, genomic data sharing has improved greatly over the past year for the highly pathogenic avian flu H5N1. Some great news and a major concern... virological.org/t/timely-h5n...

Timely H5N1 sequence data now provided by many – but not all – countries

Sarah Otto* * Department of Zoology & Biodiversity Research Centre, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC Canada V6T 1Z4. E-mail: otto@zoology.ubc.ca A year ago, we raised concerns about ...

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Even Harper 'Did Not Put Extinction on the Table' @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/05... by @sarahcox.bsky.social Please submit comments on Major Projects proposal by June 7 www.canada.ca/en/one-canad.... Some projects can be approved even if they drive species extinct & proceed without assessment

Even Harper ‘Did Not Put Extinction on the Table’ | The Tyee

Carney’s proposal to allow major projects that threaten species at risk is ‘morally wrong,’ former environment minister says.

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WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda ‘emergency’ of international concern www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda ‘emergency’ of international concern

At least 80 deaths reported in Congo’s Ituri province while Uganda reports spread from travellers from the DRC

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To oppose the wholesale dismantling of environmental regulations in Canada, please go to this page www.canada.ca/en/one-canad.... ignore the very leading 'proposed' questions and submit your comments. CC your MP. If you need inspiration here is what I just sent.

Looking forward to @csee-scee.bsky.social in 2027 in Halifax (May 15-19) and in 2028 in Edmonton (tentatively May 29-June 1). Thanks to all the organizers! @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

S Otto@sarperotto.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social I want to get CSEE on my calendar for 2027. Do we know upcoming dates after Toronto? Thanks!

@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social I want to get CSEE on my calendar for 2027. Do we know upcoming dates after Toronto? Thanks!

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

NAS 163rd Annual Meeting - Awards Ceremony

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Ma première réunion #SCEECSEE20 a eu lieu en 2017 à Victoria, en Colombie-Britannique. J’apprécie beaucoup cette communauté collaborative, solidaire et réfléchie. Si vous n’êtes pas encore membre de @csee-scee.bsky.social, c’est un grand jour pour rejoindre : csee-scee.ca/fr/signup/

CSEE_SCEE@csee-scee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎉💚La Société canadienne d’écologie et d’évolution célèbre ses 20 ans en 2026. À l’approche du congrès annuel, nous vous invitons à partager vos souvenirs préférés, photos et moments marquants des anciens congrès et événements de la SCEE! Identifiez votre publication avec hashtag #SCEECSEE20

🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

Trump fires NSF's oversight board

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

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New research finds few improvements for British Columbia’s endangered wildlife theconversation.com/new-research...

New research finds few improvements for British Columbia’s endangered wildlife

Data shows that almost all of B.C.’s endangered wildlife are not recovering quickly enough, if at all.

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I defended my Ph.D. on April 1, 2016, ten years ago today. I am not at all where I thought I'd be. But I love where I ended up and wouldn't change a thing. I wrote some reflections on a decade of personal and professional change and growth and hope you enjoy reading them. 🧪🌍🦑

Reflections on science and my role in it, ten years since my Ph.D. defense

I defended my Ph.D. on April 1, 2016. Ten years later, I’m not where I thought I’d be, but I couldn’t be happier with how things turned out. My original goals If you had asked me …

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Is a nickel a day enough to protect nature? I think we get so much more - fresh air, water, nourishment, jobs, inspiration, beauty - than a nickel a day. While "Canada's Strategy to Protect Nature" is a major $3.8B boost (yay!), it's still only a nickel a day per person in 🇨🇦

Insightful summary of an extraordinary person being extraordinarily fired: "you don't silence a woman of color who raised concerns about racism by silencing her...The fingerprints are distributed perfectly across the system." www.linkedin.com/pulse/uclas-...

UCLA's Most Decorated Ecologist Just Got Fired : Here's the sequence

In January of 2025, at the ICTP ICTS winter school at NCBS, Priyanga Amarasekare offered to take me and a few other students out for my birthday. She didn't have to do that.

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In our new piece @theconversation.com, we break down pressures facing Canada's migratory caribou — and some solutions identified by Indigenous communities and science.

Canada’s migratory caribou are under threat. Will we act before it’s too late?

As delegates gather in Brazil for COP15, the fate of Arctic caribou migrations should serve as both a warning and a test.

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March 7th, 2026 is about more than standing up for science...it's scientist standing up for DEMOCRACY! Democracy cannot thrive when a paramilitary force being used against civilians, extremist ideology abounds, and science is censored and used against the public. @standupforscience.bsky.social

My heart goes out to Priyanga Amarasekare. I don't see justice served with this one-sided Board decision. Is it right to have her reputation & career ruined for being a POC speaking out for equity? Academic freedom is worth protecting. 💔 dailybruin.com

The Daily Bruin

UCLA's independent, student-run newspaper

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One thing we've consistently seen is that if an emerging divergent variant competes evenly w/the most advanced circulating variants, it will eventually predominate. We saw this with XBB & BA.2.86, and a similar pattern holds among various minor lineages. 1/3

Ryan Hisner@ryanhisner.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Seven new BA.3.2.2 from Germany today spotted by @JosetteSchoenma. They are genetically dispersed and are therefore clearly not a cluster. As @snpoehlm says, this is ~5% of all sequences and ~15% in North Rhine-Westphalia. Collection dates Nov 6-18. One has a very interesting RBD mutation... 1/2

"Ontario is about to make 106 species disappear - not from nature, but from responsibility." By removing species from the official list under its new Species Conservation Act, Ontario is withdrawing recognition of their imperiled status, writes Justina Ray www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/o...

The high cost of turning a blind eye to species at risk

By removing these 106 species from the official list under its new Species Conservation Act, the province is withdrawing recognition of their imperiled status within Ontario.

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Thank you to all the wonderful people and groups we met to make our @libererofellows.bsky.social training transformational: Michelle LeBaron, Chief Hugh Akagi, Adam Wilkins, Kim Davies, Laurenne Schiller, the Huntsman Marine Science Centre, Canada Whale Institute, & NB Museum. So many thanks!!

🚨 BREAKING: All major groups of wildlife in Canada are in decline #LPRC2025: Across 910 species of birds, fish, mammals, reptiles & amphibians, wildlife populations in Canada have declined by 10%, on average, since 1970. BUT not all is lost. Together, we can help nature heal & wildlife recover.

@sarperotto.bsky.social and I are back for the @smtpb.bsky.social, interviewing Warren Ewens. "Get out of that ivory tower and do something useful" might seem unlikely advice for a mathematical population geneticist, but this was key for Warren. Full interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_K_...

Reflections on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology: Warren Ewens

YouTube video by SMTPB

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Great to see @sarperotto.bsky.social !