Beatrix Beisner
@trixiebb.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Ecology Professor | Aquatic community ecology, traits and biodiversity | Ed in Chief Journal of Plankton Research | book lover & mom
🎉💚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
#ASLO members - today is the last day to vote in this year's board election! Don’t miss this opportunity to shape the future of our society by voting for your representatives. Ballot closes at 11:59 PM ET today 28 April. Log in and vote here: www.aslo.org/aslo-election/
We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social
NSERC-DG evaluations done for 2026. An intense but very satisfying week for my first time on the committee (1503). Happy to say we have a great community that evaluates thoroughly, with care and thoughtfulness.
Please enjoy this wild turkey I crossed paths with while skiing at the crack of dawn today.
Prime Minister Mark Carney will address Canadians at 1 p.m. tomorrow from Quebec City "on the choices on which Canada was built and the shared values that make us Canada strong."
🎨 Chemins de désir: traces et mémoires uqamiennes. Une exposition étudiante invite à redécouvrir l’UQAM à travers ses archives matérielles, photographiques et institutionnelles. #UQAM #Expo #Art
Immersion dans 55 ans d’histoire uqamienne | UQAM
Une exposition étudiante invite à redécouvrir l'UQAM à travers ses archives matérielles, photographiques et institutionnelles.
actualites.uqam.ca
Hurray and congrats to my new colleague @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
Mike Waddington 🇨🇦@peatofmind.bsky.social · 8mo ago
“Many Americans don’t take Trump’s threats to Canada seriously — or seriously enough — and dismiss them with the same exhausted shrug that too many of Trump’s words inspire…. In Canada, he doesn’t sound like a troll. He sounds like a threat.”
What Canadians Heard—and Americans Didn’t
The Canadian federal election, on Monday, which culminated in Mark Carney’s retention of the Prime Ministership, was won by defying Trumpism.
newyorker.com
Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate
![[“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreig3dcwrzxtvuj2hkgj2mg3rgwactm77awp4ygvxjuje5q67yact7m)
Please read even if you are not from Canada or the USA.
On grandit le réseau de chercheur.e.s qui votent au Canada. 🍁 We’re growing the network of voting researchers in Canada. 🍁 Rejoignez-nous. 🗳️ Join us. Partagez le message. 🚀 Share the message. 🎯Information: core-coeur.ca #VotonsRecherche #ResearchersVote #polcan #cdnpoli #Elections2025Canada
In case you were wondering how Americans feel about annexing Canada. Source: Angus Reid
We’re growing the network of voting researchers in Canada. 🍁 Join us. Follow us. Share the message. On grandit le réseau de chercheur.e.s qui votent au Canada. 🗳️ Rejoignez-nous. Suivez-nous. Partagez le message. core-coeur.ca #VotonsRecherche #ResearchersVote
I just love these ideas. Let's make this G-index work for academia! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Move beyond ‘publish or perish’ by measuring behaviours that benefit academia
A standardized system to measure contributions in mentorship, collaboration and more could bring about systemic change in science.
nature.com
"John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more - Photosynthesis Research
This is a tribute to a truly inspirational plant biologist, Prof. John A. Raven, FRS, FRSE (25th June 1941– 23rd May 2024), who died at the age of 82. He was a leader in the field of evolution and phy...
link.springer.com
I hereby create a community of people who love, respect, and admire boglands. They are mysterious, beautiful, and powerful to ecology, archaeology and climate. Yet these systems continue to be misunderstood and threatened. Who wants to join my bog fan club? Please share - bogs need friends right now
What you need to know about Trump’s tariffs and the rest of Trump’s madness robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-n...
What you need to know about Trump’s tariffs and the rest of Trump’s madness
The art of the deal, with him as dealer
robertreich.substack.com
To all my American friends: We Canadians are well aware that there is only one person to blame for the trade war against our country - the Felon In Chief. We will fight because that is what we do, but our anger is not against you. Our bond will endure. 🇨🇦🫶🇺🇸
Nous sommes à la recherche d'un technicien ou technicienne de laboratoire analytique aquatique au GRIL @gril-limnologie.bsky.social à la @sciencesuqam.bsky.social Faculté des sciences de l'UQAM | We are looking for a new technician for our GRIL-UQAM aquatic lab Infos ici/here : lnkd.in/en4D-urJ
Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
Don't let Elon Musk interfere in our elections. Here is my letter to Elections Canada to protect our electoral process from interference by the X algorithm. www.charlieangus.ca/_files/ugd/5... If you are worried about Musk's extremism please send an email to: Stephane.Perrault@elections.ca
