Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦

Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."

The IgNobel Prizes, usually bestowed at a ceremony in Cambridge, Mass, are moving to Europe this year due to security concerns for honorees and journalists coming to the US from abroad.

I bet I know who's going to win the IgNobel Peace Prize this year.

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Have you seen a wasp nest like this? These researchers want to study it | CBC News A Dalhousie University student is collecting wasp nests to analyze them for the presence of heavy metals such as copper and chromium.

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Are you a grad student attending #Evol2026? Submit your talk for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation! Finalists will present their talks during the virtual portion of the meeting. Apply during registration. Deadline April 15! shorturl.at/qDIP4 @evolmtg.bsky.social

Laurentian University unions question 11% pay hikes for the president and provost | CBC News Laurentian University’s staff and faculty unions are asking why pay increases for the president and provost, approved in October, are only being made public now.

Laurentian University unions question 11% pay hikes for the president and provost

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Is it even at all possible to be a Canadian scientist doing science in Canada anymore? WTH is wrong with this country.

This study, and Stephen’s write up on it as a professor actively teaching these skills, is fascinating.

I don’t *officially* teach coding skills, but I often find the difference between someone who’s good at their job and someone who’s marginal is *exactly* those skills that most decreased here.

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Man who wouldn't wear mask to protect people fine wearing mask to shoot them MINNEAPOLIS, MN – A man who refused to wear a mask to protect other people in 2020 has declared he has no problem wearing one while shooting them.

Man who wouldn’t wear mask to protect people fine wearing mask to shoot them

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, Society of Systematic Biologists, Undergraduate Community at Evolution Program. Applications due January 20, 2026.

Are you an undergrad interested in ecology, evolution or related fields? Apply by January 20 for our Undergraduate Community at Evolution program! This program provides funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ...

Honey-Making Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon Become the First Insects to Gain Legal Rights Two local ordinances granted rights to at least 175 stingless bee species in Peru, which are culturally and spiritually significant to Indigenous peoples and help maintain a healthy rainforest ecosyst...

Peru 🇵🇪 has given legal rights to 175 native bee 🐝 species:

"...stingless bees now have the fundamental right to exist and flourish in a healthy environment, without pollution, habitat loss, climate change, human activity or other threats..."

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All @ijpsjournal.bsky.social authors are special to us, but it is a particular treat to publish undergraduate research. To celebrate our undergrad authors, we started making mock journal covers featuring pictures of undergrad researchers at work. A thread of mock covers from 2025. /1

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New paper out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters, led by undergrad superstar Laina Weiss! An experimental test of theory on the effects of temperature and resources on carrying capacity. So proud 🥹 tinyurl.com/yvmzmt9a @integrativebiology.bsky.social

Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Federal funding for tuberculosis fight in the North remains uncertain, Inuit leader says The program’s $16.2-million funding in 2023 will run out on March 31 next year

"The head of the national organization representing Inuit says he has had no firm commitment from federal officials to renew funding to support the elimination of #tuberculosis in #Canada’s North – despite the government promising to eradicate it by 2030."
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Wee lil zebra jumping spiders are the best. That is all. Carry on.

Reacting to the presence of chatbots with assignment that ask students to look for mistakes in something they got a chatbot to spit out is not a sound approach to teaching your course material.

What the…CBC reporting that a new Lancet study says processed foods cause depression.

If you can’t tell the difference between correlation and causation, you should not be published in the Lancet.

First-Gen Students More Likely to Drop Out Due to Low GPA A recent study finds students who are the first in their family to attend college are more likely to drop out after receiving a negative grade.

First-gen students are 5% more likely to drop out after one bad grade. Why?

Because they don’t always know how to recover—like switching majors or withdrawing. Academic setbacks shouldn’t be the end of the road.

#edusky #firstgen #educationforall
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Hey ChatGPT, what is an intervention? | This Hour Has 22 Minutes YouTube video by 22 Minutes

ChatGPT, is brain okay?

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Really sad state of affairs...we have safe and effective paths forward to prevent this.

FTR: it’s HAN-uh BRAH-zoh.

Anyone include phonetic pronunciation of their name in their email signature? Yay or nay? As an anglo with a French surname that is not pronounced “properly” I’m strongly considering this…

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Oh R error messages, how I’ve missed you

Pollinators need more space and 10% habitat is not enough says a new study just published in Science Pollinators such as wild bees, butterflies, and hoverflies are in trouble worldwide. A major new study, published in Science and led by Gabriella Bishop and other scientists at Wageningen Universit…

Pollinators such as wild #bees, #butterflies, and #hoverflies are in trouble worldwide. A major new study, published in Science, shows that the oft-quoted figure of 10% semi-natural habitat in farmland landscapes is far too little to safeguard pollinators

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Related PS for undergrads: When you fill out those course evaluations and really enjoyed the experience, please be as open as possible and if the situation permits, sign your name. It means more than you can imagine.

The number of times I spent months working with a phenomenal colleague only to realize embarrassingly late that they were a former student is > 1. 🤦‍♀️, but the pride always outweighs the embrassment.

Algoma University turns to layoffs to manage deficit as international enrolment drops more steeply | CBC News Algoma University is looking at laying off between 50 and 75 people after international student enrolment dropped more than projected in last April’s budget.

This is awful. Doing my BSc at Algoma was transformative, I’m gutted to see things falling apart. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Oh boy. The USA H1-B news is something else when you’re applying for postdoc & faculty positions from a country that has made it emphatically clear that they value military spending above research. GOOD TIME TO BE JOB HUNTING! Ugh.