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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde

@albrechts-h.bsky.social
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Outraged Evolutionary Ecologist, former Tier 2 Canada Research Chair, LaurentianU survivor, beer/tequila/pastis drinker, squash, soccer, cycling,

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Emerence 🍁 @damemyniah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“The single most predictive factor in determining support for Alberta independence is not working in the energy industry, but the salience of religion in a person’s life” - pollster Janet Brown
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is anyone surprised? Evolution is the next frontier in the culture wars.
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the only possible solution is invoking CCAA
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CSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📣New webinar alert! Our Oct. #ECO.EVO.EDU "Is there a case for more research funding in Canada?" Webinar takes place on Oct. 14th! CSEE Members: check your emails for more information + webinar link. (Please note: English event) #webinar #ecoevo #Canada
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Classic study: male beetles that have big weapons for fighting with other males have small genitals.
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Evolutionary trade-off between weapons and testes | PNAS
It has long been recognized that male mating competition is responsible for the evolution of weaponry for mate acquisition. However, when females m...
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Western University @westernu.ca · 01/10/2026
The Guardian featured Margaret Atwood’s $1M gift to establish the Graeme Gibson Chair in Avian Biology at #WesternU as a full-page story in this weekend’s edition. The gift is in honour of her late partner, who was an avid bird watcher. @theguardian.com
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‘Birdwatching is close to rapture’: Margaret Atwood on why she has given C$1m to avian research
Award-winning novelist celebrates late partner’s love of birds with gift to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biology
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
don't tell me that Trump didn't ask his donor to put pressure on Carney and Canada with these layoffs. So much corruption.
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CSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we recognize the contributions of our Indigenous members, collaborators and partners. As we continue to learn and work towards reconciliation, we are committed to fostering an inclusive community and building respectful partnerships with Indigenous peoples.
CSEE marks National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
you can kiss any goodwill toward the US by Canada/Canadians goodbye for a very long time.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 29/09/2026
On 28 September, a jet-powered drone slammed into the headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, killing at least two people and destroying a section of the historic building. scim.ag/3TsMg5M
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Russian drone kills at least two in Ukraine science academy attack
New underground labs are being built as war rages on
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
watching the woman pump gas in this video makes me think how happy I am that we bought a PHEV recently. Sure, I need to gas up to go on long trips between Sudbury and Ottawa/Toronto/London, but in-city driving is gas-free and cheap - and it is glorious.
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‘Watch them die’: Bird flu is ravaging a Utah mink farm, killing 80% of the herd. State agriculture officials have no clear plan. www.sltrib.com/news/2026/09...
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‘Watch them die’: Bird flu is ravaging a Utah mink farm, killing 80% of the herd. State agriculture officials have no clear plan.
It’s the first documented outbreak of bird flu in captive mink in the U.S., and an advocacy group is raising concerns about Utah’s response.
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Using this for my evolution class next semester
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/09/2026
“It’s not just about attacking warehouses so that we won’t have food. They also want to intimidate us — to make it so that we can’t work, study, do scientific research or really do anything at all.” nyti.ms/4dKfh3F
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Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center (Gift Article)
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russia struck the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. In broad daylight! People are climbing out of windows to avoid burning alive. Freaking barbarians!
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 26/09/2026
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 25/09/2026
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Margaret Atwood donates $1-million to establish research chair for bird science
Donation will allow Western University to add a new hire to its biology faculty with the goal of advancing scientific knowledge about birds and bird migration
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this is amazing - Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson were participants in our Thinking Extinction symposium back in 2013 here at Laurentian University. The symposium was led by Brett Buchanan, who is now Dean of Arts and Humanities at Western!
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
holy crap!
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow. Academic freedom is dead in the USA
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Americans voted for this - incredible
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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Someone sent me this meme about peer reviewer comments and it is 👌🏻 #PhDSky #AcademicSky
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why do white men become white nationalists? Interesting new empirical results in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ere we show with three national surveys of non-Hispanic white adults (conducted from 2021 to 2025) that support for white nationalism is (1) higher among white people encountering personal hardship and local social distress, consistent with strain theories3,16; (2) unrelated to local racial composition or recent demographic change, complicating status threat accounts4,17,18; and (3) elevated among white people with close friendships primarily online, consistent with theories of extremism driven by online mobilization7,10,19.
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
what is he even talking about
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U15 Canada @u15ca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Canada’s participation in Horizon Europe, the world's largest research funding programme, has been a big success. Ensuring swift re-association to the next research programme, will be vital to maintain this momentum.” – Robert Asselin, U15 Canada CEO sciencebusiness.net/news/interna...
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Canada looks to deepen research and education links with the EU
Canada is looking for deeper research and education links with the EU, according to its prime minister, Mark Carney. His comments followed hard on the heels of an offer from European Commission…
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"out of spite" - lol.
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Canadians strongly believe they have more in common with European nations than with America
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
this would be great - and would continue the integration that was started with Canadian participation in Horizons Europe.
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 15/09/2026
Also: In real dollars, NSERC funding is down about 25% in the last five years.
Chart of Canada's NSERC budget, showing that it's declined from $1.2 billion to $0.9 billion in real 2007 dollars, between 2020 and 2026.

From https://can-acn.org/science-funding-in-canada-statistics/
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wood Duck Pair in Willow Robert Bateman 2006
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
as the one that usually verbalizes dissent in most meetings, I feel this. I hate committees that rubber stamp decisions.
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Our dear friend Umar"
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
No mention, of course, of the truncated nature of academic careers given the training requirements (PhD, one and usually more post-docs etc). Most profs don’t land their first properly paying gig until their mid-30s.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Schools are not a business and a student is not a customer and this is the framing that encapsulates everything wrong with higher education. The “solution” of running universities like businesses rather than a public good was always the problem.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 11/09/2026
Multiple staff and consultants spoke about scientific expertise being sidelined, with developers largely responsible for assessing their own environmental impact. By our count, at least 12 people have left the ministry since the law changed. thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan...
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Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Meanwhile: again, Canada should massively invest in education and become a brainiac superpower
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Fatima Syed @fatimabsyed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
After Ontario replaced the Endangered Species Act, ministry biologists were told they couldn't review developers' plans. We found that over 12 have since left, feeling their jobs "stopped feeling meaningful." Here's our latest investigation: thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan... #onpoli
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Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The latest acquisition
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
is anyone surprised?
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"School students’ reading scores have plunged across the developed world, as widespread access to AI and social media has harmed teenagers’ ability to concentrate, said a newly published international survey."
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Reading scores plummet as ‘digital distraction’ harms students
Widespread access to AI and social media has set back educational attainment across the world, study shows
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
the private sector needs to put its money where its mouth is. Quit depending on, and blaming, universities and start investing in research and development to improve your business.
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
let's be clear - H indices are fun to compare at parties, but really have little to say about how impactful one's research is. I mean, citations are equivalent regardless of author position/contribution makes it all pretty meaningless. An oldie but a goodie. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The h index and career assessment by numbers
Growing demand to quantify the research output from public funding has tempted funding agencies, promotion committees and employers to treat numerical…
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For furter clarity: Eric Kaufmaun is a shitbag who has no idea how bibliometrics work, but doesn't mind using them to spread racist crap everywhere. Anyone associated with MLI needs to disavow this stuff right now.
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It costs Canada millions to discriminate against white male academics: Eric Kaufmann in the National Post | Macdonald-Laurier Institute
The groups who benefit from diversity-based recruitment in the Canada Research Chairs program have the lowest research impact.
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Still looking forward to the day when Carney announces historic investments in knowledge-based industries. You know, the ones where Canada is among the worst-placed in the OECD.
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.
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Alex Usher email to Brian Lee Crowley
(text of an email sent to Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald Laurier Institute on September 2, 2026) Dear Brian, I am writing to you and your board with respect to the publication “The equity excelle...
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
is this for real??? Just reading @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social 's book Ghosts Behind The Glass, where she documents her visit here, among many many other museums. How is this allowed to happen???
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Alberta's new 'conservation' licence plates are a reminder of how large the horns of bighorn rams could grow if we did not systematically remove rams with fast-growing horns at a young age through a phenotype-based trophy hunt, leading to evolution of smaller horns www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Thomas Lenormand @thomaslenormand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨Interested in #evolutionary #genomics and #popgen #theory? My lab just opened a 1+ year #postdoc position to work on sex chromosome dosage compensation. At #CEFE in beautiful Montpellier. Deadline soon, don't be shy, apply, theory is exciting! 👉 bit.ly/4eMWDIh
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