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Hannah Tench
@hannahhannahmei.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 Avian breeding specialist 🥚🪺 | Wildlife biologist & environmental consultant 🦉🫎🌿 | Passionate about mental health and inclusion | she/her
My Zotero just updated with dark mode and I'm unbelievably happy 😭🎉

#research #academia #ornithology
September 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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🚨 New Paper 🚨
Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living.
On average, $10kCAD below cost of living.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
May 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Today is voting day. You can cast your ballot at your local polling stations, open all day.

After polls close, The Tyee will publish updates on results as they come in and have reporters check in from Conservative, Green, Liberal and NDP election-night gatherings — so please drop by. #CdnElxn2025
It’s Voting Day! Your Guide to the 2025 Federal Election | The Tyee
Pick your issues. We've sorted dozens of Tyee stories on the race to make it easy.
thetyee.ca
April 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Safety and wellbeing during fieldwork has been recognised for decades as an issue for all kinds of reasons. Although we are still so slow in making any progress on this topic. It's never a priority and demands for change are resisted. An interesting recent update here undark.org/2025/04/17/o...
The Mental Health Impacts of Scientific Fieldwork
Opinion | Difficult conditions at remote field sites can put researchers under physical, mental, and emotional strain.
undark.org
April 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I greatly enjoyed visiting the Vagina Museum when I was in London last year!
The Vagina Museum is trans inclusive. We always have been and we always will be. As long as there's a Vagina Museum, we cannot be bullied or bought to change our stance on this.
April 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
#Academia should normalize uplifting strong grad students during their defences instead of amplifying their imposter syndrome. I was lucky my committee was nice at my defence. But I just attended one where the candidate was left to feel terrible during deliberations, and for no good reason.
April 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Mastered 🥚🐣🎓
April 9, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Here's part two of my series with @brettfavaro.bsky.social on tips for speaking to journalists as a scientist, this week focusing on things every scientist should know about how interviews work (and do not work). Please read and share!

www.southernfriedscience.com/advice-for-t... 🧪#SciComm
Advice for talking to the media as a conservation scientist: Part 2, mechanics of the interview
By  David Shiffman and Brett Favaro. Many environmental scientists understand that there is value in communicating about their work through the media, as publicity can help raise public awareness o…
www.southernfriedscience.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I'm wrapping up the hardest thing I've ever done and celebrating each step of the way 🥚🎉
March 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Are you dismayed by all things DEI being axed? here is a great way to put your $$ where your heart and mind are. The funding for the Flocks initiative of the ornithological societies of North America is a casualty of the bloated orange thing. Please help the flocks fly here:
gofund.me/6b0aa045
Donate to Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!, organized by Ashley Dayer
We all need a space to feel we belong and where we are supported. This is wh… Ashley Dayer needs your support for Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!
gofund.me
February 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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This ASL performance of the Superbowl halftime show is exactly why DEI is important.

Also, my GOD! A PERFORMER!
February 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
QUEEN 👑🐣
Wisdom (Laysan albatross) had another chick on Midway and is at sea reenergizing. Fully hatched 1/30/25; mate caring for chick since. Wisdom returns to Midway to rear chicks for over 74 years. Visit: friendsofmidway.org/.../lay.../w...
#addBirder #seabirds #PapahanaumokuakeaMarineNationalMonument
friendsofmidway.org
February 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The first paper of your PhD is always so exciting! 🤩 An all-#Galbatross effort, "A focus on females can improve science and conservation!" See press release (www.audubon.org/news/researc...) and the study here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...! #FemaleBirds #FemaleBirdDay
In Research, Ignoring Female Birds Harms Scientific Understanding
A new study shows that ecological research often ignores or excludes data on female birds and behavior, resulting in erroneous assumptions on conservation.
www.audubon.org
January 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Looking for Made in Canada products? This resource is here to help:

#canada 🇨🇦
TheHome | Made in CA
The made in Canada resource to quickly find Canadian products, services and retailers, so you can use your dollars to support the Canadian economy.
madeinca.ca
February 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM