Abstract Submission and Early Bird Registration for 2026 CSZ Ottawa has been extended to March 9th!! See link below:
La soumission des résumés et l'inscription anticipée pour la CSZ Ottawa 2026 ont été prolongées jusqu'au 9 mars ! Voir le lien ci-dessous:
www.csz2026.ca
Devastated to hear that Alan Wilson has recently passed while doing fieldwork. I was lucky to meet him last fall when he visited UBC. He was known for his amazing work on the athletic performance of mammals. www.rvc.ac.uk/about/our-pe...
Regrettably, I have decided to decommission SimpleMappr, www.simplemappr.net on September 1, 2026. You may read about its origins, what others have accomplished in its 18 year run, and the reasons why I must turn it off in a document I wrote last night bit.ly/simplemappr.
It's about osmolarity, I believe.
📣 Join us - we’re hiring an engagement officer for the CAN BON 🍁 initiative!
An effort to transform Canada’s capacity to mobilize its knowledge about the changing state of nature.
See the job posting here👇
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Thinking about what the UBC Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre has said: irshdc.ubc.ca/2025/12/03/t...
Yeah, I really really don't understand that one at all. Although I'm just happy for any trainee funding opportunities at least.
The UBC FA has done a good job of documenting some of this: www.facultyassociation.ubc.ca/bargaining/s...
It never feels like our government believes that we can and do train excellent researchers right here in Canada.
It's officially in my record that some students have found that my voice is "too high".
So excited to be in this great company :)
Front cover of Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 228, issue 24. The cover shows 63 photos (arranged in 7 rows) of members of the JEB community, including our Academic Editors, members of our Editorial Advisory Board and the in-house team of administrators and editors at our Editorial Office in Cambridge, UK. The Company of Biologists 100 logo is in the bottom left corner.
Happy New Year to all of our authors and readers
Issue 24 of issue 228 has closed and issue 1 of volume 229 has opened
The front cover, marking the end of @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100, features members of the JEB community
journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...
I'm reading it and starting to apply some of it now. Letting go of line-edits is hard! And I've been asking my graduate students to give me feedback on how it goes for them.
Over the holiday, while folks were on well-deserved breaks, our new book was released!
Mentoring writers is hard - we can make it easier for you. Please help spread the word - repost this, tell your colleagues, etc.
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The @newscientist.com editor asked reporters what their favourite stories were this year, so I thought I'd post some of mine 1/
We have 526 scientists signed up for spring semester. We try to get that to about 1000 scientists before unleashing the teachers on the database. Wanna connect a class of kids with science this spring? Sign up!
I meant to reach out and tell you, but I guess this counts :)
Do you have thoughts on our best response as community members? I could see an argument to just ignore them to keep them from getting the attention they desperately crave. Or do we counter-protest to make it clear they are unwelcome?
I taught a first year biology class the other day structured around @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37156506/ I had a student come up to me and say he had written a whole paper in high school about how chromosomes define sex, and after my class he thinks he was wrong :)
Coyote access only!
Yeah it's not a great outcome.
I mean, greater reliance on these means is the natural conclusion of reducing access by legal means.
Right!? And for the older literature, sometimes you really need it.
Yes! They are chasing a student of mine for it (I've advised the student to use the lab credit card).
I just found out my institution's library charges for interlibrary loans (including electronic delivery)?! services.library.ubc.ca/borrowing-se...
Does anyone else's institution do this?
As I read it, I was thinking about the Canadian Discovery grant system. He's right that short-term grants can be challenging to do science with, but our system involves small, longer-term grants that are more reliably obtained and can be flexible. It's a great system.
I'll take "Things that only happen in my hometown" for $200: www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...
This was a fun one--I sent a student to the Museum of Nature funded by Mitacs to work with a curator. We got a really neat paper out of it, and he got experience working in a museum: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
