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Katie Marshall

@kemarshall.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, UBC. She/her on Musqueam territory. Managed to get a full-time job in professional bug-freezing.

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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago, but ended up in Great Falls Montana on a Vancouver to Denver flight. CBP kept us trapped on the tarmac for 3hrs, everything was closed and one gate agent was tasked with shouting out our names one at a time for a hotel room...
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
So... anyone have recommendations for Google Maps alternatives?
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Great new article by my former OU colleague Ari Berkowitz: theconversation.com/biological-s...
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Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensional
Each person is a mosaic of sex-related and postpubertal biological traits that vary in their degree of femaleness and maleness.
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Science is an international endeavour and for many researchers English is their 2nd or 3rd language, so now JEB encourages you to submit an additional abstract in your own language or that of the region where you performed your research journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/jo...
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
There's something a bit...ironic..? about being offered an AI summary on an article about how AI useage reduces retention of information.
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Having a great time #sebconference in beautiful Firenze!
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I had the pleasure of meeting Alan last fall when he came to visit @zoology.ubc.ca . Such a tragedy to see his life cut short. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... @jexpbiol.bsky.social
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Alan M. Wilson (1964–2026)
Alan Wilson was an intrepid and innovative comparative biologist, who brought his veterinary training and knack for building novel scientific instruments to the fore to study the locomotor biomechanic...
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
(American) science peeps. Here in Canada, this kind of information is part of the application.
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It's the first day of the 65th CSZ Annual Meeting #cszscz2026 Don't forget to visit our JEB Editors, Katie Gilmour, Trish Schulte & Graham Scott, @ the Meet the Editors session, 13 May (16:30-18:30) during the posters in the Richcraft Building Atrium 🔁
Postcard advertising the Journal of Experimental Biology Meet the Editors session at the 2026 CSZ Annual Meeting. Top left: Journal of Experimental Biology logo Top right: CSZ 2026 Ottawa logo Below: text saying 'Meet the Editors at cszscz2026, Wednesday 13 May 16:30-18:30 (during the poster session), Richcraft Building Atrium. Below: portraits of Katie Gilmour, Trish Schulte and Graham Scott
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
JEB is proud to sponsor the @csz_sczCSZ 2026 meeting #cszscz2026 in Ottawa, 11-15 May, and has sponsored the CSZ Travel Grants, helping more than 60 ECRs attend the meeting csz2026.ca csz2026.ca/travel-and-c...
The CSZ 2026 Ottawa logo, showing a flying bird with a cricket perched on its shoulders holding a Canadian flag
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I'm sure the various talking heads who complained about "censorship" at universities will be all over this. Any day now... www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Tyranny at Texas Tech
Academic freedom and the First Amendment must protect the right of anyone to disagree with the government.
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Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
So this goes full-circle if you really want it to: Atwood's entomologist father Carl establisjed the Great Lakes Forestry Centre in Sault Ste. Marie. It's most famous alum is Roberta Bondar, Canada's 1st woman in space who worked in entomology labs in high school and during university
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Another reason I don't love the gametic sex definition in my systems is that we sometimes have multiple male phenotypes that all produce small gametes (e.g. major and minor males in dung beetles).
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 09/04/2026
"The fact that there is no current consensus of biological sex is not antithetical to science... However, the field urgently needs an ethical and reproducible approach for discussing sex" There is No Consensus on Biological Sex
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There is No Consensus on Biological Sex
At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary…
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
And it includes the first Canadian to launch towards the moon.
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Ooof, not cool. I guess I could see the researcher wanting to see the plot if they did something adjacent. But it's on them to also reach out to you and check in (to avoid duplicating, to learn about the plot, and also just for manners!).
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I am thrilled to be able to work with @kemarshall.bsky.social (Canada), Sebastian Brauchi (Chile), and Xubiao Peng (China) to understand biophysical mechanisms of neuromuscular function in the cold. Science transcends borders. I love that HFSP makes that a requirement for these grants. 🌍
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CSZ-SCZ Official @csz-sczofficial.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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
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CSZ 2026
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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...
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David Shorthouse @dshorthouse.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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.
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SimpleMappr
Create free point maps for publications and presentations
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It's about osmolarity, I believe.
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I like this one: www.elise.com/quotes/heinl...
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Heinlein – Specialization is for Insects
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take…
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
📣 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👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
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📣 We are hiring! Please share far and wide... I am seeking an Engagement Officer to support the emergence of a Canadian Biodiversity Observation Network (CAN BON). This position is a unique… | Andrew ...
📣 We are hiring! Please share far and wide... I am seeking an Engagement Officer to support the emergence of a Canadian Biodiversity Observation Network (CAN BON). This position is a unique opportunit...
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Thinking about what the UBC Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre has said: irshdc.ubc.ca/2025/12/03/t...
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Yeah, I really really don't understand that one at all. Although I'm just happy for any trainee funding opportunities at least.
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The UBC FA has done a good job of documenting some of this: www.facultyassociation.ubc.ca/bargaining/s...
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Student Surveys: First, Do No Harm
This will be at least the third round of collective bargaining in which we have beseeched UBC to act like …
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It never feels like our government believes that we can and do train excellent researchers right here in Canada.
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It's officially in my record that some students have found that my voice is "too high".
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
So excited to be in this great company :)
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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...
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.
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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.
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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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. scientistseessquirre... 1/2
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Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences: An Evidence-Based Approach
Scientific writing is hard (but my book can help) – but teaching scientific writing is even harder. Nearly all of us teach writing – sometimes in a formal classroom setting, sometimes as advisors t…
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Michael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The @newscientist.com editor asked reporters what their favourite stories were this year, so I thought I'd post some of mine 1/
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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!
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I meant to reach out and tell you, but I guess this counts :)
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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?
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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 :)
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Multivariate Models of Animal Sex: Breaking Binaries Leads to a Better Understanding of Ecology and Evolution - PubMed
"Sex" is often used to describe a suite of phenotypic and genotypic traits of an organism related to reproduction. However, these traits-gamete type, chromosomal inheritance, physiology, morphology, behavior, etc.-are not necessarily coupled, and the rhetorical collapse of variation into a single te …
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Coyote access only!
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Yeah it's not a great outcome.
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I mean, greater reliance on these means is the natural conclusion of reducing access by legal means.
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Right!? And for the older literature, sometimes you really need it.
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Yes! They are chasing a student of mine for it (I've advised the student to use the lab credit card).
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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?
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UBC
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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.
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I'll take "Things that only happen in my hometown" for $200: www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...
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Runaway horse and buggy stopped safely in Elmira thanks to pair of quick-thinking mothers
The Waterloo Regional Police Service thanked the two women for calling 911 and guiding responders to the buggy, writing on social media: “Two moms, one runaway buggy and a horse determined to hoof it ...
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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...
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Leveraging synthetic data produced from museum specimens to train adaptable species classification models
Computer vision has increasingly shown potential to improve data processing efficiency in ecological research. However, training computer vision models requires large amounts of high-quality, annotate...
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Totally--it's really unfortunate because those can really help with a student's development. JSPS also has great opportunities too. But probably > 50% of my papers are collaborations between my lab and others--they're some of our most creative!
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