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Dr. Alexandra Schoen
@scienceschoen.bsky.social
MB Govt fish scientist and manager 🐟🦈 Stress, metabolism, conservation, fisheries management, reproduction 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 Posts and thoughts my own.
Southern Manitoba ✨
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen
Meet the Apalachicola redhorse, a newly described fish species.
Meet the Apalachicola Redhorse, a Newly Recognized Fish Species
For more than 50 years, the Apalachicola redhorse was a fish with no name. Learn more about this newly recognized species of sucker.
blog.nature.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen
Modern society depends on a prehistoric biosphere whose future is in peril.
www.earth.com/news/modern-...
Modern medicine depends on a prehistoric crab whose future is in danger
The medical use of horseshoe crabs highlights the dilemma between human safety, environmental sustainability, and scientific ethics.
www.earth.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen
Meet the real rainbow fish 🌈🐟 Using Cre-mediated recombination, each zebrafish cell expresses a unique fluorescent color, creating a living rainbow of developmental history 🎨✨ Image by Bret Pearson #FluorescenceFriday #Zebrafish #DevBio
October 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen
Good news: a grant I submitted got selected for an interview out of ~150 apps. Only 2 others got interviews!

Bad news: @skypeascientist.bsky.social was not selected in the end 😞

I will keep trying.

In the meantime, consider supporting our work with $5-10/month?

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October 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen
There is virtually no aspect of women’s lives that the culture does not manage to infuse with doubt and fear and guilt, writes @kathapollitt.bsky.social. And that goes double for motherhood. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Targeting Tylenol Is Just Another Excuse to Blame Women for Everything
It's a longstanding tradition to blame all manner of social ills on women, without any basis in fact.
www.thenation.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen
🚨 Call for Nominations: @csz-sczofficial.bsky.social PDF Chair 🚨

Interested in standing for election? Send me a short blurb (~200 words) about yourself and why you'd like to be elected! Deadline is Sept 30.

Don’t miss the chance to get involved!
September 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Interview with Hooked Magazine and the Complete Angler Podcast on fish research, MB fisheries, and fish health!

www.hookedmagazine.ca/podcast/the-...
The Complete Angler Podcast: Episode 52 – Alexandra Schoen - Hooked Magazine
Alex is the Fish Culture Manager for the Province of Manitoba. She moved to Manitoba for school and has been ‘hooked’ ever since. She has a PhD in fish and shark physiology, with an emphasis on fish s...
www.hookedmagazine.ca
September 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen
Scientists are adding plastic to a lake. Not reckless—research. The IISD Experimental Lakes Area is uncovering the real impact of plastic pollution on freshwater ecosystems. 🎥 Watch the full film: contentwithpurpose.co.uk/afs/tomorrow... #TomorrowsCatch #PlasticPollution #FutureFisheries
September 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen
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...
NSERC - Science Promoters - Science Exposed - Finalists
NSERC - Science Promoters - Science Exposed - Finalists
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca
September 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
People say Manitoba is a flyover province 🌲🐟🤷🏻‍♀️
August 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
36 hours and 2 pounds of butter 🧈 🥐
August 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen
Oh nOoOoOoOoOo not another new book idea
August 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
First paper with an Irwin 🐊
August 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Some things I’ve made this week
July 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Another paper out! Co production of research with academia, government, NGOs, and other conservation groups!
Translating #Conservation research into meaningful action requires collaboration between multiple stakeholders 🤝.

This #Perspective includes case studies & guidance for co-produced research. #CoProduction

With emphasis on generating effective & inclusive outcomes.

➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp... 🌎
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July 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New paper! ‼️ Angling-like stressors immediately before spawning impacts the offspring of lake trout 🐟 🐟 🐟 Fun study in collaboration with Manitoba Fisheries and @calebhasler.bsky.social lab.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Nevermind that 2 people died in my community because of the wildfires. So tone deaf. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Manitoba premier shoots back at U.S. lawmakers over smoke complaint | CBC News
Manitoba's premier shot back on Thursday at six U.S. lawmakers who recently complained about Canadian wildfire smoke travelling south, which they said was making it difficult for some Americans to enj...
www.cbc.ca
July 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Excited to share that I am now an Adjunct status professor at the University of Winnipeg! Eager to continue our fish hatchery and stocking program research!! @calebhasler.bsky.social
a man wearing glasses and a jacket is standing in a doorway and says `` oh , hello , professor . ''
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a jacket is standing in a doorway and says `` oh , hello , professor . ''
media.tenor.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen
How to measure the effects of chronic stress on wild polar bears? In this #ConPhysInAction piece, @kristinamuise.bsky.social explains how Teman et al monitored polar bear health using an allostatic load model.

CPiA: doi.org/10.1093/conp...
Research article: doi.org/10.1093/conp...
July 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen
#LoveOurLegends #CanadaDay

Let’s talk about the late Legend #DrHelenBattle
- Began her university education at the age of 16
- #FirstWomanInCanada to earn a doctorate in #MarineBiology in 1928
- Her studies enabled innovative lab work

Check out more at cars.fisheries.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen
❗️JOB ALERT❗️

#FisheriesCertificationManager
🐠Application due by July 13
🦑 #ManitobaGovernment

Plays a lead role in the management of commercial fisheries and the coordination of sustainable fishing certification (eco-certification) efforts

jobsearch.gov.mb.ca/search.action
Manitoba Government Job Opportunities Website
jobsearch.gov.mb.ca
June 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen
Please call your senators and tell them you do not want our public lands, our pristine wilderness and precious ecosystem, only home to our wildlife, sold off to the highest bidder in their greedy bill! @5calls.org has an app that makes it super easy. Please Defend our public lands from greedy hands!
June 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Burbot, eelpout, lawyer, freshwater cod, mariah, poor man’s lobster, cusk, ling, lota, loche…
March 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen
Exactly. Polls mean NOTHING if people don’t go and vote.

There is no room for slacking off this time.

Do whatever it takes to drag your non-CPC people out to vote with you.
Polls are voter suppression for LPC and voter incentive for CPC. LPC think we either got it in the bag or we’re losing so they stay home. CPC ALWAYS show up either way. IGNORE the polls and vote like your life depends on it. The CONS will.
March 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM