Andy Fraass
@fraass.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UVictoria.
Paleobiology of absurdly small things.
Paleobiology of absurdly small things.
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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
@supportourscience.bsky.social
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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
@supportourscience.bsky.social
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🎓 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
#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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October 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🎓 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
#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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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
Apply - Interfolio
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October 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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
I still think that they should have used this picture, I still think it's the best out of the options I sent.
October 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I still think that they should have used this picture, I still think it's the best out of the options I sent.
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🚨 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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October 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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🚨 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
ow.ly/sXrw50X9T4t
October 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨 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
ow.ly/sXrw50X9T4t
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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...
September 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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...
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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...
September 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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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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
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
September 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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
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
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.
Strangest experience.
July 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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.
Strangest experience.
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Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Jenny Rashall from Stephen F. Austin State University, USA.
Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/
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Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/
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July 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Jenny Rashall from Stephen F. Austin State University, USA.
Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/
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Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/
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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
Questions? Email lindsay.odell@open.ac.uk
#PhD #Neurodivergent
July 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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
Questions? Email lindsay.odell@open.ac.uk
#PhD #Neurodivergent
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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!
Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be hosting a special seminar celebrating our 5th anniversary. We'll be joined by our past & current committee members. We'd be glad if you could also be a part of this celebration & collective reflection.
Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/
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Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/
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July 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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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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!
I wish Paperpile would expose more data but the basic paper info gets imported.
Please use, extend, enjoy!
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
github.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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!
I wish Paperpile would expose more data but the basic paper info gets imported.
Please use, extend, enjoy!
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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
buff.ly/WTgm4IC
Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025
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.
eos.org
July 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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
buff.ly/WTgm4IC
Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025
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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.
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.
eos.org
July 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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“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)
Sad parallel with our findings in Canada, recently published in PLOS One (Fraass et al. 2025)
I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
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...
journals.plos.org
July 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“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)
Sad parallel with our findings in Canada, recently published in PLOS One (Fraass et al. 2025)
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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
July 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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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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
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...
cpaess.ucar.edu
July 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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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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
buff.ly/WTgm4IC
Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025
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.
eos.org
July 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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
buff.ly/WTgm4IC
Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025
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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.
⚒️ Article: The proportion of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in the ocean now substantially differs from the Redfield ratio, likely reflecting a reduction in phosphorus limitation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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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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
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
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
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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
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
Paper about diversity within Canadian academic geoscience departments.
www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....
www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....
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...
www.lyellcollection.org
June 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Paper about diversity within Canadian academic geoscience departments.
www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....
www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....
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🧵🌊 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-...
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...
wdcnews6.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🧵🌊 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-...