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Andy Fraass

@fraass.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at UVictoria. Paleobiology of absurdly small things.

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UVic Science @uvicscience.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Tiny ocean fossils are fundamental to our understanding of the climate system and how it has changed over the past 150 million years. Join us at our next Café Scientifique to hear all about the world of micropaleontology! 📅 Dec. 9, 2025, 7 p.m. 📍 The Mint 🔗 Details: ow.ly/56Sx50XxTlA
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Canadian graduate students... how do you feel about members of parliament going through your transcripts and the personal information you disclosed in your applications in order to question whether you deserved your fellowship or not? @supportourscience.bsky.social
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Support Our Science @supportourscience.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🎓 Calling Canadian grad students & postdocs! #VoicesForScience is a new campaign to spotlight advocacy for fair pay and better research support. Whether you’ve collected data, organized events, or driven change on campus — your voice matters. Share: forms.gle/neeWyHyMt7Zi... #SupportOurScience
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Chris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702
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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I still think that they should have used this picture, I still think it's the best out of the options I sent.
Displeased man, making a frowning face at his spouse taking the picture, standing next to a sign that says "Dirt Pile... HERE". Man is wearing a shirt with a Styracosaurus skull in the style of the jolly rodger flag.
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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Look it's @fraass.bsky.social from @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social ! 🔬
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University of Victoria @uvic.ca · 10/10/2025
🚨 Big news! UVic researchers receive $1.13M from CFI-JELF to advance their work in climate and health innovation. These locally grounded projects are creating global impact, from BC’s alpine ecosystems to coastal communities and beyond. 🌍 ow.ly/sXrw50X9T4t
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Always excited for an increased salary submission! Congrats to the Department of Biological Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Tech for their stipend increase! This union-based win brings the pay almost to the 1:1 line! Update your department and find out more here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...
Salary to Living Wage - only two points fall above the 1:1 line. A star indicates New Jersey Institute of Technology is almost to the 1:1 line!
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Just a reminder - if you run/recruit or have anything to do with an ecology & evolutionary biology PhD program, check out our database and update your departments salary here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...
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Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
So great to have @fraass.bsky.social in as a guest speaker for my first-year composition class today! Though I was horrified by his saying a Caribbean volcano had erupted "in the 1900s": I thought he meant the 1990s eruptions, WHEN I WAS OVER 20, but nope, 1902. Safe to call that the 1900s. #uvic
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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
It's really wild to be diagnosed with and medicated for ADHD in your 40's. Like, I didn't realize that my brain was supposed to work like this? The meds work so fast. 1 day you're fighting 13 trains of thought and the next it's fully calm and ordered inside your skull. Strangest experience.
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Pal(a)eoPERCS @palaeopercs.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Jenny Rashall from Stephen F. Austin State University, USA. Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/ (1/4)
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Helen Bowes-Catton (she/her) @hbowescatton.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey & help make academia more inclusive forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW Questions? Email lindsay.odell@open.ac.uk #PhD #Neurodivergent
Three shelves of brightly coloured books
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Elizabeth Sibert, PhD @elizabethsibert.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
So excited to participate in this panel discussing the history and future of #PalaeoPERCS and the amazing, inclusive, and absolutely brilliant international community of early career pal(a)eo scientists! Please join us at 15:00 UTC today for this really important discussion!
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I made a little tool to sync my papers in @paperpile.com with @obsidian.md. It generates a markdown file for each paper and should handle annoying things like paper renaming and deletion. I wish Paperpile would expose more data but the basic paper info gets imported. Please use, extend, enjoy!
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GitHub - maria-antoniak/sync-paperpile-obsidian: a simple tool to sync your papers from paperpile to obsidian
a simple tool to sync your papers from paperpile to obsidian - maria-antoniak/sync-paperpile-obsidian
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Eos @eos.org · 19/07/2025
Opinion: If scientific databases in the Earth and environmental sciences are not adequately supported, we risk losing and potentially needing to replace these resources, an extremely costly, yet preventable, outcome. buff.ly/WTgm4IC Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025
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The Valuable, Vulnerable, Long Tail of Earth Science Databases - Eos
Community-curated data resources in the Earth sciences, highly valuable but systematically underfunded, are vital to research on a changing planet.
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Eos @eos.org · 10/07/2025
Data on how ecosystems evolve over geologic time may be key to understanding modern-day ecosystem changes. A study of marine biomass over the past 541 million years gets scientists one step closer.
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Biomass and Biodiversity Were Coupled in Earth's Past - Eos
Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff in Earth’s oceans changed alongside the diversity of organisms.
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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
“Only 2 of 225 US biology PhD programs assessed offer annual salaries meeting basic living wages” Sad parallel with our findings in Canada, recently published in PLOS One (Fraass et al. 2025)
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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
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Tom Ezard @tomezard.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
New paper led by @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social using x-ray CT and laser ablation to detect plastic environmental responses in fossil individuals www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421549122 featuring @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social
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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc
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NOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System ScienceNOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Progra...
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Eos @eos.org · 03/07/2025
Opinion: If scientific databases in the Earth and environmental sciences are not adequately supported, we risk losing and potentially needing to replace these resources, an extremely costly, yet preventable, outcome. buff.ly/WTgm4IC Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025
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The Valuable, Vulnerable, Long Tail of Earth Science Databases - Eos
Community-curated data resources in the Earth sciences, highly valuable but systematically underfunded, are vital to research on a changing planet.
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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
To the non-expert, this will seem esoteric, so allow me to summarise: we have profoundly altered the distribution of nutient elements on the ocean, with a potentially profound impact on the life that lives in it.
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Dr Eve Holden (she/her) @chimpanzeve.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
New paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com's Scientific Reports! We investigated emotional & psychological impact of late ADHD diagnoses in women Highlighting how undiagnosed ADHD contributes to life-long challenges & how diagnosis in adulthood can be life-changing #ADHD #WomenWithADHD #ADHDawareness
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Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis
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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Paper about diversity within Canadian academic geoscience departments. www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....
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Research students are diverse, while those in salaried positions are not: results from a survey of Canadian academic geoscience | Earth Science, Systems and Society
Despite recognition that academic geoscience lacks diversity to an extent beyond that of other disciplines, demographic data from academic geoscience departments is not routinely collected. This inhib...
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UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences @seos-uvic.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🧵🌊 Tiny ocean fossils called foraminifera or "forams" hold a deep record of Earth's climate past. By studying these beautiful microfossils in ocean sediment cores scientists like our own @fraass.bsky.social reveal how life and climate have changed over millions of years wdcnews6.com/the-history-...
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The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils » Yale Climate Connections
Climate change and declining biodiversity are the two biggest environmental crises facing humankind today, but predicting how they’ll play out together is tricky. Ideally, scientists would study how l...
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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm used to academic spam at this point, but getting asked to review a paper about parental learning interventions in Kuwait because of my language skills (?) is a new one.
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Chris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
If you're coming to the @geosociety.bsky.social GSA meeting in San Antonio may I recommend this awesome field trip to visit the K/Pg boundary along the Brazos River and in a bunch of cores at the Gulf Coast Core Repository: store.geosociety.org/products/ft2...
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FT25CN408. Exploring The K/Pg Boundary in the Gulf of Mexico at the Br
Full Title: Exploring The K/Pg Boundary in the Gulf of Mexico at the Brazos River Outcrops and the Gulf Coast Core Repository Endorsed by: GSA’s Planetary Geology, Geochronology, Mineralogy, Geochemis...
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Chris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Deadline for session, field trip, and short course proposals is July 18!
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Science denying know-nothing GOPers are trying (and in some cases succeeding) to ban fluoride in water based on anti-science BS. A new study shows a nationwide ban would bring a 7.5% increase in tooth decay and cost almost *10 billion dollars* over five years. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Projected Outcomes of Removing Fluoride From US Public Water Systems
This cost-effectiveness analysis evaluates a large sample of US children to determine the associations of fluoridation cessation with oral health and national dental care costs.
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Chris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Pretty cool to get interviewed for this with a bunch of people I respect: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
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The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils
Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.
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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
In the winter of '22, I wrote a plea (grant) to my institution to let me have some of our funding envelope to buy a fancy microscope and a bunch of workhorse microscopes. Years, a medical leave, several additional grant stages to both national and provincial level agencies, and it's here.
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Tim Vernimmen @timvernimmen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My latest story for @knowablemag.bsky.social is all about the astonishingly plentiful fossils of foraminifera, featuring @chrislowery.bsky.social, @fraass.bsky.social and @tracyaze.bsky.social! knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
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The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils
Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.
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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
It's been a pretty strange week. I was interviewed a bit ago for an article about Foraminifera and a recent spate of papers. Sadly, but predictably, @chrislowery.bsky.social got the best quote in. @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social
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The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils
Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.
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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🧪 Listen to my colleague Dr. Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social talk about his recent work re: levels of graduate student funding in Canada 🇨🇦 compared to the US 🇺🇸 & UK 🇬🇧. He was on CBC Radio One On the Island yesterday morning www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social
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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I was on the local CBC radio station talking about our graduate stipend paper yesterday morning. There's a laundry list of things I wish I could have added or gotten to. Hard to fully explain through something as complex as Canadian graduate funding in just 8 minutes!
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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 25/05/2025
One might try to argue that grad students are students and not employees… But then why do I need them to meet the demands of my employer? If I can’t do my job without them, they deserve a fair wage #HigherEd 🧪
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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Perfect encapslation of how our group Slack operates.
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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🚨 New Paper 🚨 Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living. On average, $10kCAD below cost of living. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Eryn McFarlane @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Every PI who wants to have grad students in the lab in Canada should have to read this.
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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
lags behind what is currently required for our students to meet the cost of living here. My colleague, @fraass.bsky.social has published a paper documenting this shortfall in @plosone.org dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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Canadian natural science graduate stipends lie below the poverty line
Despite the critical role of graduate students in the Canadian research ecosystem, students report high levels of financial stress. As a case study, we collected graduate minimum stipends and tuition ...
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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🧵🧪 With ongoing reductions in the funding in the US (NSF, NIH, NASA) there are calls for countries like Canada 🇨🇦 to step in to absorb US researchers and their work. However, that requires a significant commitment in resources. Funding for graduate students in the natural sciences in Canada
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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
For the non-Canadians, graduate funding in Canada is really different and complex, so what follows is all "Typically". Students pay tuition back to the institution, waivers are not a thing. TA positions only pay a couple thousand, and again, no waivers. Departments often have a 'minimum stipend'...
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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🚨 New Paper 🚨 Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living. On average, $10kCAD below cost of living. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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Simon D'haenens @simondhaenens.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Micropal (Foraminifera) postdoc position 😎 available at Köln University (Germany), with Patrick Grunert. 🌊 🧪 academicpositions.com/ad/universit...
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Research Assistant (postdoc) in Foraminiferal Micropalaeontology (f/m/x) | Institute of Geology and Mineralogy / Working Group on Micropalaeontology and Palaeoecology - Academic Positions
Research Assistant (postdoc) in Foraminiferal Micropalaeontology (f/m/x) Institute of Geology and Mineralogy / Working Group on Micropalaeontology and Palaeo...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🚨 All staff for NSF’s Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) have just been fired. In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.” High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF
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Take Action | Save NSF
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...
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They don't need a warrant
A federal kidnapping in Worcester
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 08/05/2025
Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”
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UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences @seos-uvic.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🌊 Great opportunity @uvicscience.bsky.social @oceannetworks.ca
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