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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦

@habrazeau.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate: The ecological consequences of floral evolution in response to pollinator decline. Community ecologist masquerading as an evolutionary ecologist. scholar.google.ca/citations?user=Bl…

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 10h
Many community members of Kahnawà:ke are concerned and even some are taking action into their own hands, after multiple tests in their territory show lead contamination.
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Action taken into own hands as tests show lead contamination in Mohawk territory | APTN News
Many community members of Kahnawà:ke are concerned and even some are taking action into their own hands, after multiple tests in their territory show lead contamination. #aptnnews #mohawk #quebec •…
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Nature @nature.com · 30/09/2026
The overuse of certain names has revealed the scale of fake experts on academic publishing platforms, say researchers. go.nature.com/3ThOxAJ
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Elena, Aris, Marcus: AI-generated ‘ghosts’ are polluting the scientific literature
The overuse of certain names has revealed the scale of fake experts on academic publishing platforms, say researchers.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Linking genomic variation to floral trait adaptation across species boundaries #TansleyReview by Acoca-Pidolle et al. @carriewessi.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience
Examples of floral trait divergences between sister species adapted to different pollination modes.
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Love to have the family for my study species be revised (again!) while my thesis is being reviewed by my advisory committee.
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Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ERC Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship applications went from just 7.000 applicants in 2022 to over 21.000 this year 🤯🤯🤯
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Journals requiring humans to pass a captcha proving they are human in order to read articles, then immediately bombarding them with their “AI tools” to summarize said articles feels very “the call is coming from inside the house”
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026
ALMOST EVERY PEER REVIEWED PAPER HAS A SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS RIGHT BELOW ITS TITLE
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
Between the human verification, and the three factor authentication and so forth, I can transfer my life savings to a random bitcoin account easier than I can read a Nature paper my library subscribes to.
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Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
First detection of spotted lanternfly confirmed in Canada. inspection.canada.ca/en/plant-hea...
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Spotted lanternfly Spot it? Snap it, catch it and report it - inspection.canada.ca
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zen! @nokaccino.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
>"an unusual file" >does not elaborate whatsoever can't wait to see what comes of this
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 03/09/2026
ChatGPT down: OpenAI chatbot not working in major outage
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ChatGPT just stopped working
ChatGPT has gone offline in a major outage.
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wow the “finished writing*” stage of the phd is…weird. *some revisions possible, but I won’t know for a bit. I still have other stuff to work on, but the transition into other stuff feels odd.
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
♻️🆓: Co-flowering richness has variable effects on pollen quantity and quality limitation in four Clarkia species doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Co-flowering richness has variable effects on pollen quantity and quality limitation in four Clarkia species
AbstractBackground and Aims. Pollination failure occurs from insufficient pollen quantity or quality. However, the relative contributions of pollen quantit
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Moon’s doin stuff, FYI
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Considering adding Tobias Forge to the acknowledgments section of my thesis for providing motivation during the writing process, but the hearing damage I’ve likely sustained may negate that.
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Because there are no Canadian scholars in need of work 🙄
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 27/08/2026
Carney to rename rest of Great Lakes as "Lake Legal Adult" so Trump will never want to touch them
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Carney to rename rest of Great Lakes as "Lake Legal Adult" so Trump will never want to touch them
OTTAWA - After Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” Prime Minister Mark Carney announced he would preemptively rename the rest of the Great Lakes as “Lake Legal...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm making a "your month your scientist match" and I need a chemist and physicist volunteer, everybody I know well enough to text "Hey uhhh can I post this picture of you I took on skype a scientist's insta" are biologists apparently 😅. Any takers?
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 26/08/2026
Nature honors Dolly Parton's scientific legacy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science
The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New from @ashishnerlekar.bsky.social @llseedsull.bsky.social me and many others: Grassland destruction causes shifts in plant traits that persist during recovery www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... eeb.msu.edu/news/why-anc...
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
254771 signatures and counting www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7531 - Petitions
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Fascinating how many otherwise rational americans think the rest of the world are “just waiting out his term” and that their reputation will improve once the child rapist they chose to worship leaves office. You are in for a much longer road than you expect, and it is deserved.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2026
“Is the national leader talking like someone who would be capable of convincing a bartender that he can handle another drink, y/n?”
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Dan Lansdowne @danlansdowne.mow.haus · 22/08/2026
Canadian citizens and permanent residents: a brief reminder that this petition exists.
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Canadians: when shopping for made-in-Canada products/produce, keep a lookout for trickery and deceptive labeling, like this. This bag of red onions gave an address as coming from Ontario. BUT, on the reverse, it says “product of USA”. #Never51 #TrumpTariffs #TrumpEconomicWarfare #TradeWar
ONIONS OIGNONS
DOMINION FARM PRODUCE LTD.
215 DISSETTE ST. BRADFORD
ONTARIO, CANADA L3Z 3G9
www.Dominionfarms.co3lbs - 48 oz - 1.36kg
NET WEIGHT POIDS NET
No.1 RED ONIONS
OIGNONS ROUGES No.1
PRODUCT OF U.S.A.
PRODUIT DES E.-U.
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Carrie M. Tribble, PhD @tribblelab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hello world! You bored? My research group is documenting flower color variation and you can help! check out tribblelab.org/flower_color... and dm me with any technical difficulties or issues. Share with your friends! The more players the better.
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In Bloom — Flower Color Quiz
A crowdsourced flower-color observation quiz.
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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 10/08/2026
Guys, is "it's too hot for fucking camels to survive" some kind of red flag?
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Amanda Moehring @flybehaviour.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We are on day 5 without power in our building. Our 5th major power outage in the past year.
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Western biology department faces research delays, sample losses after 4-day power outage | CBC News
Irreplaceable research samples have been destroyed, experiments delayed, and lab access cut off after a four-day power outage at Western University left biology researchers scrambling to protect years...
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I really wish there was a list of journals that use double blind review.
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Another day, another scammy “save the bees” event (run by honeybee farmers claiming to support the environment and local businesses, while using AI to generate slop posters of introduced honeybees)
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Finishing up some edits and formatting for my main data chapter (AKA “The Beast”) and …wow. I’m sure every grad student goes through an editing stage where they kinda start to hate the project, but does it ever feel good to get to the other side of that stage.
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Dear journals: If I have questions about the content of an article, I will address that question by reading said article and other relevant articles. Having part of the screen blocked out by your annoying AI garbage does not help.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Amazing news for the R core team being awarded $1 million and the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics. Really great writeup too about the advantages of open source R software for plotting and stats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
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The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
First Nations Leaders in Northwestern Ontario are calling for an immediate public inquiry into the province’s emergency response and handling of the wildfires that have destroyed Collins First Nation and Whitewater First Nation over the course of a week. www.aptnnews.ca?p=291878
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Chiefs call for public inquiry into Ontario’s wildfire response
First Nations Leaders in Northwestern Ontario are calling for an immediate public inquiry into the province’s response to devastating fires.
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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
1/ "There are old foragers and bold foragers, but no old bold foragers" -
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Let’s squint at that author list for a wee bit, shall we
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 16/07/2026
No more climate-wrecking corporate welfare. We need a government that protects the people and places we love. /End
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 16/07/2026
This government is spending billions of dollars in public money to expand the very industry that’s causing climate breakdown — at a moment when renewables are cheaper and more available than ever before. /2
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 16/07/2026
Incredibly brazen for the Prime Minister to boast about the “lasting benefits” of expanding fossil fuel production on a day like today. Record-breaking heatwaves. Toxic smoke engulfing cities and towns. Out of control wildfires forcing entire communities to evacuate. /1
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
So many photos of the hazy orange sky in Toronto being shared on social media. Reminder: "It is estimated that First Nations communities make up 42% of evacuations due to wildfires but only make up 5% of people living in Canada." www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
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Rapid Review: An intersectional analysis of the disproportionate health impacts of wildfires on diverse populations and communities - Canada.ca
Rapid review of the differential impact of wildfires due to social determinants of health and equity-related considerations.
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Global News running a feature on AI mentioning job displacement as the primary potential negative impact, followed by videos of vast swaths of the country burning is peak dissociation.
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Generating confusion since a $1 loonie already exists
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I don’t think I’ve ever seen lightning like this. The sky is like a strobe light.
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Currently 43C with the humidity, and temperature likely will not go below 30C overnight. Yikes.
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I have found multiple facilities relatively nearby that allow one to rent secluded yurts with no wifi in the middle of the woods and if it weren’t for the heat, I would probably be doing that just to get more writing done.
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
*sobs in PhD student*
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Nice
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Those alt gov accounts that arose after 2016 are grifters. One of the top posts yesterday was @altnoaa.bsky.social posting an AI image of a beluga whale "escaping captivity to reunite with her baby." In response to being told it was AI, the poster said AI is good, actually, for evoking emotions.
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Hannah A. Brazeau 🇨🇦 @habrazeau.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Love this. I was absolutely enthralled by his show growing up.
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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Eight EU-funded research consortia warn that Europe risks a crisis if it fails to halt pollinator loss. Their solution: a roadmap to reverse wild pollinator decline and protect managed bees. @butterfly-project.bsky.social @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social butterfly-europe.eu/eight-eu-fun...
he Privet Hawk­moth is a night­active pollinating moth found in
Europe and parts of Asia. Photo: Jeff Ollertona pollinating moth and  a flowera pollinating moth and  a flowera pollinating moth
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