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Beatrix Beisner

@trixiebb.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 Ecology Professor | Aquatic community ecology, traits and biodiversity | Ed in Chief Journal of Plankton Research | book lover & mom

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CSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🎉💚La Société canadienne d’écologie et d’évolution célèbre ses 20 ans en 2026. À l’approche du congrès annuel, nous vous invitons à partager vos souvenirs préférés, photos et moments marquants des anciens congrès et événements de la SCEE! Identifiez votre publication avec hashtag #SCEECSEE20
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Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org · 28/04/2026
#ASLO members - today is the last day to vote in this year's board election! Don’t miss this opportunity to shape the future of our society by voting for your representatives. Ballot closes at 11:59 PM ET today 28 April. Log in and vote here: www.aslo.org/aslo-election/
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
NSERC-DG evaluations done for 2026. An intense but very satisfying week for my first time on the committee (1503). Happy to say we have a great community that evaluates thoroughly, with care and thoughtfulness.
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Happy Valentine’s #Caturday
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Please enjoy this wild turkey I crossed paths with while skiing at the crack of dawn today.
Picture of a wild turkey on a ski path
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026
I just thought everyone should see this
Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
@kareem_carr
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reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar
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a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
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Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney will address Canadians at 1 p.m. tomorrow from Quebec City "on the choices on which Canada was built and the shared values that make us Canada strong."
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Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org · 18/12/2025
Exciting opportunity for undergraduate students! #ASLO is now accepting applications for the Limnology and Oceanography Research Exchange and Mentoring Experience #LOREX! Be part of an incredible learning journey and gain valuable research experience. Apply by 15 Jan 2026!
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UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal @uqam.ca · 17/12/2025
🎨 Chemins de désir: traces et mémoires uqamiennes. Une exposition étudiante invite à redécouvrir l’UQAM à travers ses archives matérielles, photographiques et institutionnelles. #UQAM #Expo #Art
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Immersion dans 55 ans d’histoire uqamienne | UQAM
Une exposition étudiante invite à redécouvrir l'UQAM à travers ses archives matérielles, photographiques et institutionnelles.
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Hurray and congrats to my new colleague @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
“Many Americans don’t take Trump’s threats to Canada seriously — or seriously enough — and dismiss them with the same exhausted shrug that too many of Trump’s words inspire…. In Canada, he doesn’t sound like a troll. He sounds like a threat.”
newyorker.com
What Canadians Heard—and Americans Didn’t
The Canadian federal election, on Monday, which culminated in Mark Carney’s retention of the Prime Ministership, was won by defying Trumpism.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate
[“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”]
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Please read even if you are not from Canada or the USA.
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CORE•COEUR #ResearchersVote #VotonsRecherche 🗳️ @core-coeur.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
On grandit le réseau de chercheur.e.s qui votent au Canada. 🍁 We’re growing the network of voting researchers in Canada. 🍁 Rejoignez-nous. 🗳️ Join us. Partagez le message. 🚀 Share the message. 🎯Information: core-coeur.ca #VotonsRecherche #ResearchersVote #polcan #cdnpoli #Elections2025Canada
Image encouraging researchers in Canada to vote. Image faisant la promotion du vote auprès des chercheurs du Canada Researchers in Canada Vote / Les Chercheur.e.s Votent #ResearchersVote #VotonsRecherche, logo, core-coeur.ca
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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
In case you were wondering how Americans feel about annexing Canada. Source: Angus Reid
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CORE•COEUR #ResearchersVote #VotonsRecherche 🗳️ @core-coeur.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We’re growing the network of voting researchers in Canada. 🍁 Join us. Follow us. Share the message. On grandit le réseau de chercheur.e.s qui votent au Canada. 🗳️ Rejoignez-nous. Suivez-nous. Partagez le message. core-coeur.ca #VotonsRecherche #ResearchersVote
Image encouraging researchers in Canada to vote. Image faisant la promotion du vote auprès des chercheurs du Canada Researchers in Canada Vote / Les Chercheur.e.s Votent #ResearchersVote #VotonsRecherche, logo, and core-coeur.ca
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I just love these ideas. Let's make this G-index work for academia! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Move beyond ‘publish or perish’ by measuring behaviours that benefit academia
A standardized system to measure contributions in mentorship, collaboration and more could bring about systemic change in science.
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westobymark.bsky.social @westobymark.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more - Photosynthesis Research
This is a tribute to a truly inspirational plant biologist, Prof. John A. Raven, FRS, FRSE (25th June 1941– 23rd May 2024), who died at the age of 82. He was a leader in the field of evolution and phy...
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I hereby create a community of people who love, respect, and admire boglands. They are mysterious, beautiful, and powerful to ecology, archaeology and climate. Yet these systems continue to be misunderstood and threatened. Who wants to join my bog fan club? Please share - bogs need friends right now
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Let's have some fun with Google.
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States theconversation.com/why-annexing...
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Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States
Americans have already been defeated by insurgents all over the world. Invading Canada would be no exception.
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Alex Cole @acnewsitics.com · 04/02/2025
This is so good.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
What you need to know about Trump’s tariffs and the rest of Trump’s madness robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-n...
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What you need to know about Trump’s tariffs and the rest of Trump’s madness
The art of the deal, with him as dealer
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Bon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
To all my American friends: We Canadians are well aware that there is only one person to blame for the trade war against our country - the Felon In Chief. We will fight because that is what we do, but our anger is not against you. Our bond will endure. 🇨🇦🫶🇺🇸
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Drinking to #fucktrump
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Nous sommes à la recherche d'un technicien ou technicienne de laboratoire analytique aquatique au GRIL @gril-limnologie.bsky.social à la @sciencesuqam.bsky.social Faculté des sciences de l'UQAM | We are looking for a new technician for our GRIL-UQAM aquatic lab Infos ici/here : lnkd.in/en4D-urJ
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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Don't let Elon Musk interfere in our elections. Here is my letter to Elections Canada to protect our electoral process from interference by the X algorithm. www.charlieangus.ca/_files/ugd/5... If you are worried about Musk's extremism please send an email to: Stephane.Perrault@elections.ca
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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is very good. Canadians need to see it too. Please share widely. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...
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Opinion | Lessons on Authoritarianism From Around the World
Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.
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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Remember, this is how it works…
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thanks! I needed this today!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Donald Trump is back in the White House, but who is really pulling the strings? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QI6...
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What Does Elon Musk Really Want?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
So, back out of the Paris accord, exacerbating CC and then come get what you need from 🇨🇦. It has been the plan all along. Climate change is fuelling Trump’s desire to tap into Canada’s water and Arctic resources theconversation.com/climate-chan...
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Climate change is fuelling Trump’s desire to tap into Canada’s water and Arctic resources
Canadians must recognize that climate change is not only changing our landscape and lifestyle, but also exposing imminent threats to our national security and sovereignty.
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Carl Marxman @carlmarxman.northsky.social · 20/01/2025
I normally don't clout-beg but in this instance I'm going to make an exception. Could you share this, please? I'd like to get Elon's companies entirely out of Canada. bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
#RPVSky Reading is writing: To situate your work within the broader literature, you need to READ buff.ly/4i4oHaF Sometimes we feel like we don't have the time to read. But it is a necessary, an unavoidable part and element of the writing process and of a writing practice.
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Reading is writing: To situate your work within the broader literature, you need to READ
I want to make something perfectly clear, particularly because it looks like people want to
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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
There are many issues with preprints, but one of the biggest is when they are seen as credible before being peer-reviewed. This is potentially very dangerous. A 🧵 🧪 #SciPub #AcademicSky
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Preprints often make news. Many people don’t know what they are
The public needs context about unreviewed manuscripts, survey suggests
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
More great ideas of how to react to Trump’s not so funny “joke”. We need a some strategic planning and not reactivity. Canada-U.S. history provides lessons on how Canada can deal with a hostile Donald Trump theconversation.com/canada-u-s-h...
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Canada-U.S. history provides lessons on how Canada can deal with a hostile Donald Trump
Dealing with an incendiary Donald Trump requires looking back on history and a degree of strategic thought that is currently hard to find in Canada’s federal and provincial capitals.
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
This! Let’s make this happen Canada!! Canada, the 51st state? Eliminating interprovincial trade barriers could ward off Donald Trump theconversation.com/canada-the-5...
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Canada, the 51st state? Eliminating interprovincial trade barriers could ward off Donald Trump
Eliminating interprovincial trade barriers could result in countless benefits for Canadians and reduce Canada’s over-reliance on the American market as Donald Trump threatens tariffs.
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Looking forward to welcoming you to the UQAM family Scott!
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I had no idea that there was this amazing woman behind all that fantasy and SF I read as a teen in the early 80’s. Thanks for this story! And long live the dragons of Pern.
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
At last, the nature documentary we all deserve. youtu.be/ByCxxZOwQUI?...
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Cunk on Life – Trailer - BBC
YouTube video by BBC
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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
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Changes to the classification
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Elina Kaarlejärvi @elinakaarlej.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
📢#WeAreHiring! I am looking for a #postdoc (2yr position) either in ecological modelling or experimental trait-based ecology to join us in Northern Biodiversity and Ecosystem functioning group at @helsinkiuni.bsky.social Thanks for reposting! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Modelling or Trait-based Ecology
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Modelling or Trait-based Ecology
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Pedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Here's a starter pack for assembling a versatile collection of Ecology and Evolution journals. Please send suggestions Bookmark it in your browser for quick access to explore their publications (see posts in the pack) or find outlets for your work: go.bsky.app/TivtkJn
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Cooperate for Canada @coopr84canada.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Our plan is an alternative that would enable the Liberals NDP and Greens (and maybe the Bloc) to work together without any mergers - to cooperate and ensure we elect governments that better reflect the values and priorities of the majority of Canadians. cooperateforcanada.ca
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Home - Cooperate for Canada
Cooperate for Canada urges cooperation between progressive Parties for upcoming elections. We are bringing groups and individuals together to achieve this.
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Forgot the 🧪
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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Super interesting article about valuing ecological field work more - both by academia and funding agencies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Removing institutional barriers to long-term fieldwork is critical for advancing ecology
Long-term fieldwork is essential for ecology and conservation, but is hindered by institutional barriers, such as the publish-or-perish culture of aca…
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