Tamzin Blewett
@drtblew.bsky.social
Associate Professor at UAlberta. Canada Research Chair Tier II - Environmental Physiology and Toxicology. It’s in the place that I put that thing that time (she/her).
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Check out our new work published in Plant Physiology utilizing an optimized BONCAT approach to understand Arabidopsis protein production!
Outstanding work led by graduate student Nick Hassan.
The work promises exciting new opportunities for plant science!
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Outstanding work led by graduate student Nick Hassan.
The work promises exciting new opportunities for plant science!
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Check out our new work published in Plant Physiology utilizing an optimized BONCAT approach to understand Arabidopsis protein production!
Outstanding work led by graduate student Nick Hassan.
The work promises exciting new opportunities for plant science!
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
Outstanding work led by graduate student Nick Hassan.
The work promises exciting new opportunities for plant science!
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
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Oxygen supersaturation has been reported to protect aquatic animals from heat waves. We tested this in a large collaborative experiment on many species of fish and crustaceans. Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that the effect of hyperoxia on thermal tolerance is negligible. Unfortunately.
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Oxygen supersaturation has been reported to protect aquatic animals from heat waves. We tested this in a large collaborative experiment on many species of fish and crustaceans. Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that the effect of hyperoxia on thermal tolerance is negligible. Unfortunately.
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Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️
Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation
Check who already signed up:
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Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation
Check who already signed up:
www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community
November 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️
Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation
Check who already signed up:
www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community
Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation
Check who already signed up:
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"Regrettably, and despite the null hypothesis being simple, elegant and often underpinned by evidenced or reasoned convictions, conventional p-value analysis can only argue against the null hypothesis, never in favour of it."
Saying ‘no’ with confidence: statistical approaches to test for the absence of an effect | Biology Letters
Publishing non-significant findings is essential for the progress of science. However,
many of us forget that ‘absence of evidence is not evidence of absence’ and believe
that a statistically non-sign...
doi.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 AM
"Regrettably, and despite the null hypothesis being simple, elegant and often underpinned by evidenced or reasoned convictions, conventional p-value analysis can only argue against the null hypothesis, never in favour of it."
Happy Halloween from the Blewett lab all!
October 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Happy Halloween from the Blewett lab all!
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Meet our new #AssociateEditor Tamzin Blewett @drtblew.bsky.social !
Tamzin is a #Multidisciplinary scientist with an interest in the protection of #Aquatic ecosystems 💧 Her research supports the development of regulatory tools which limit the levels of aquatic contaminants.
Tamzin is a #Multidisciplinary scientist with an interest in the protection of #Aquatic ecosystems 💧 Her research supports the development of regulatory tools which limit the levels of aquatic contaminants.
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Meet our new #AssociateEditor Tamzin Blewett @drtblew.bsky.social !
Tamzin is a #Multidisciplinary scientist with an interest in the protection of #Aquatic ecosystems 💧 Her research supports the development of regulatory tools which limit the levels of aquatic contaminants.
Tamzin is a #Multidisciplinary scientist with an interest in the protection of #Aquatic ecosystems 💧 Her research supports the development of regulatory tools which limit the levels of aquatic contaminants.
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three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
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A new Nature study projects wildfire smoke will cause 71,000 excess deaths annually in the U.S. by 2050, representing $608 billion in damages that exceed all other estimated climate costs combined.
Wildfire smoke could kill 71,000 people per year in the US by 2050, study warns
When wildfire smoke from Canada turned New York City’s sky an eerie orange in June 2023, millions of Americans who’d never experienced such pollution got a glimpse of what has become routine for…
news.mongabay.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
A new Nature study projects wildfire smoke will cause 71,000 excess deaths annually in the U.S. by 2050, representing $608 billion in damages that exceed all other estimated climate costs combined.
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See you at this morning's coffee break for the eDNA & eRNA short course!
Visit us this week at #CEW2025 next to the Registration Desk of the Victoria Conference Centre. You can:
- Sign up for our newsletter
- Meet the Journal Development Specialist
- Get an exclusive conference code
- Contribute to our community ideas board
Happy workshop week!
- Sign up for our newsletter
- Meet the Journal Development Specialist
- Get an exclusive conference code
- Contribute to our community ideas board
Happy workshop week!
October 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
See you at this morning's coffee break for the eDNA & eRNA short course!
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Open position: Professor or Assistant / Associate (tenure track) Professor in Plant Ecology (U. Turku Finland) Please share
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Professor or Assistant / Associate (tenure track) Professor in Plant Ecology
The Faculty of Science is looking for a full professor or assistant/associate professor (tenure track) in Plant Ecology. The aim of the professorship is to strengthen scientific research and education...
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October 4, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Open position: Professor or Assistant / Associate (tenure track) Professor in Plant Ecology (U. Turku Finland) Please share
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Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate
October 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate
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"Although representatives of the administration suggested they would uplift gold-standard science, they have sidelined experts, ignored evidence and spread disinformation."
via @thetransmitter.bsky.social
via @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Autism experts question HHS statements on Tylenol, leucovorin
Concerns include the administration’s reliance on weak, correlational evidence rather than established research…
www.thetransmitter.org
September 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
"Although representatives of the administration suggested they would uplift gold-standard science, they have sidelined experts, ignored evidence and spread disinformation."
via @thetransmitter.bsky.social
via @thetransmitter.bsky.social
NSERC has announced the top 20 finalists for the 2025 Science Exposed photo contest! This initiative showcases graduate students’ research through their own photography. Please support Jenelle's work focused on organisms exposed to wildfire ash during runoff.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/scienceexpos...
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/scienceexpos...
NSERC - Science Promoters - Science Exposed - Finalists
NSERC - Science Promoters - Science Exposed - Finalists
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca
September 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NSERC has announced the top 20 finalists for the 2025 Science Exposed photo contest! This initiative showcases graduate students’ research through their own photography. Please support Jenelle's work focused on organisms exposed to wildfire ash during runoff.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/scienceexpos...
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/scienceexpos...
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Incredibly nerdy paper, but should be useful I think.
This was a product of a pre-SEB writing retreat a bunch of had in Czechia last year.
This was a product of a pre-SEB writing retreat a bunch of had in Czechia last year.
Happy to see this out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
Are you new to CTmax tests (or CTmin)? Are you experienced, but unsure on what to report in your Methods?🤔
Then this practical guide is for you! It even includes a fillable table! 😎
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Are you new to CTmax tests (or CTmin)? Are you experienced, but unsure on what to report in your Methods?🤔
Then this practical guide is for you! It even includes a fillable table! 😎
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Measuring critical thermal maximum in aquatic ectotherms: A practical guide
Critical thermal limits, commonly quantified as CTmax (maximum) or CTmin (minimum), are core metrics in the thermal biology of aquatic ectotherms. CTmax, in particular, has recently surged in popu...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Incredibly nerdy paper, but should be useful I think.
This was a product of a pre-SEB writing retreat a bunch of had in Czechia last year.
This was a product of a pre-SEB writing retreat a bunch of had in Czechia last year.
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Area burned in Canada for 2025 is now at 5.6 M ha exceeding the total for the entire 2024 fire season. This fire season is not as bad as 2023 that had 9.37 M ha burned by July 12, 2023. However, 2025 is a very active year with 365 fires out of control and 2 months still left in the fire season.
July 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Area burned in Canada for 2025 is now at 5.6 M ha exceeding the total for the entire 2024 fire season. This fire season is not as bad as 2023 that had 9.37 M ha burned by July 12, 2023. However, 2025 is a very active year with 365 fires out of control and 2 months still left in the fire season.
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I’m excited to share my research in the Open Animal session today at #SEBconference! I’ll be speaking from 12:15-12:30 in the Nightingale rooms, come along for a chat about how SMR does (or doesn’t!) change with different life history traits in #fish 🐟
July 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I’m excited to share my research in the Open Animal session today at #SEBconference! I’ll be speaking from 12:15-12:30 in the Nightingale rooms, come along for a chat about how SMR does (or doesn’t!) change with different life history traits in #fish 🐟
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Sandra Binning giving the President's Medallist talk on the importance of considering parasites for increased ecological relevance. Great presentation! 🐟🧪
#SEBconference
@sebiology.bsky.social
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
#SEBconference
@sebiology.bsky.social
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Sandra Binning giving the President's Medallist talk on the importance of considering parasites for increased ecological relevance. Great presentation! 🐟🧪
#SEBconference
@sebiology.bsky.social
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
#SEBconference
@sebiology.bsky.social
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
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FINclub research trip going well! 32 people, dozens of fish and invert species, 16 experiments, two dogs and lots of fun. Some photos in thread.
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June 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
FINclub research trip going well! 32 people, dozens of fish and invert species, 16 experiments, two dogs and lots of fun. Some photos in thread.
🧪🐟🦑
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🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
June 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
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💫 PLEASE SHARE 💫
I’m hiring a short-term program manager:
* Flexible location in 🇨🇦
* Start date ASAP
* Apply by Fri June 20
* Must already be legally allowed to work in 🇨🇦
* www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar...
#ConservationJobs
I’m hiring a short-term program manager:
* Flexible location in 🇨🇦
* Start date ASAP
* Apply by Fri June 20
* Must already be legally allowed to work in 🇨🇦
* www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar...
#ConservationJobs
June 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
💫 PLEASE SHARE 💫
I’m hiring a short-term program manager:
* Flexible location in 🇨🇦
* Start date ASAP
* Apply by Fri June 20
* Must already be legally allowed to work in 🇨🇦
* www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar...
#ConservationJobs
I’m hiring a short-term program manager:
* Flexible location in 🇨🇦
* Start date ASAP
* Apply by Fri June 20
* Must already be legally allowed to work in 🇨🇦
* www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar...
#ConservationJobs
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Pro-tip: aspiring authoritarians will keep pushing the envelope to take away civil rights. If they don't get any serious resistance, they'll take it up to the next level.
June 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Pro-tip: aspiring authoritarians will keep pushing the envelope to take away civil rights. If they don't get any serious resistance, they'll take it up to the next level.
Why aren’t they listening to Evanescence?
June 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Why aren’t they listening to Evanescence?
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Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Excited to share our new paper led by Fred Tremblay @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social ”Dealing with heat stress: Assessing heat stress in an Arctic breeding seabird using 3D-printed thermal models” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social #seabirdsaturday
Dealing with the heat: Assessing heat stress in an Arctic seabird using 3D-printed thermal models
The Arctic is warming at four times the global average rate and most studies have focused on the indirect (e.g., changes in food web) rather than the …
www.sciencedirect.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Excited to share our new paper led by Fred Tremblay @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social ”Dealing with heat stress: Assessing heat stress in an Arctic breeding seabird using 3D-printed thermal models” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social #seabirdsaturday
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Another light dims.
To paraphrase Spinal Tap: "How much more dark could this be? And the answer is none. None more dark."
National Academies prepares for ‘a fairly radical downsizing’ www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n... via @statnews.com @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social
To paraphrase Spinal Tap: "How much more dark could this be? And the answer is none. None more dark."
National Academies prepares for ‘a fairly radical downsizing’ www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n... via @statnews.com @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social
Reeling from Trump contract cuts, the National Academies prepares for ‘a fairly radical downsizing’
Nation's leading advisory body on issues of science and technology is "preparing for a fairly radical downsizing."
www.statnews.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Another light dims.
To paraphrase Spinal Tap: "How much more dark could this be? And the answer is none. None more dark."
National Academies prepares for ‘a fairly radical downsizing’ www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n... via @statnews.com @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social
To paraphrase Spinal Tap: "How much more dark could this be? And the answer is none. None more dark."
National Academies prepares for ‘a fairly radical downsizing’ www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n... via @statnews.com @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social