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Dr. Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis
@inlewis.bsky.social
Research Scientist, Environment & Climate Change Canada; Adjunct Prof Carleton Uni

| Climate change ecology, impacts and adaptation, biodiversity conservation, threatened species, native bees 🐝, micro to macro scale | my own opinions | she/her | 💚 🚲 🏔️ 🐈
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PhD opportunity! Dr. Michelle Dileo and myself are recruiting a PhD student to study #pollinator adaptive capacity to #climatechange. Interested in #bees or #butterflies, #genomics, landscape #ecology? Based in 🇨🇦. michelledileo.wordpress.com
See advert for details. Please share! 🧪🐝🦋
🌿 New paper! Using rare #mosses to resolve barriers in the use of species distribution #models for #climatechange vulnerability assessments.
🌦️ #Microclimate data improved predictions of vulnerability
🧭 We present a framework to connect modeling with #conservation practice

👉 doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
Using rare mosses to resolve barriers in the use of species distribution models for climate change vulnerability assessments
Species distribution models are useful for estimating species exposure to climate change, a primary component of climate change vulnerability assessments, but limitations including few occurrences an....
doi.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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New 📰| Using climate change metrics to inform conservation of Canada's Priority Places for Species at Risk 🦋 buff.ly/pqcy0jL

This study provides a first look at how climate change could affect key conservation areas across Canada.

📷facets-2025-0060, Figure 1.
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October 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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One week to go! I am recruiting a postdoc, call ends October 7 🍃🌿☘️ In ecology, University of Helsinki is the leading university in Finland and the Nordics and the fifth-best in Europe (ShangaiRanking's 2024). And for 8 years in a row, Finland is still the happiest country in the world :-)
I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to conduct experiments on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends October 7! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
jobs.helsinki.fi
October 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It's #ShowYourStripes day. These #climate stripes by @edhawkins.org show the warming trend for Ottawa, Canada. Let's all be part of the change to shift this trajectory.
June 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Wonderful piece from WCS Canada's @ciarha.bsky.social showing how Key Biodiversity Areas can focus action where biodiversity is concentrated or threatened for maximum impact!🌎 #CanadianGeographic

canadiangeographic.ca/articles/saf...
Safeguarding the future of Canada’s environment
Environmental scientist Dr. Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne explains how Canada can expand protected areas to maximize biodiversity protection
canadiangeographic.ca
February 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I'm happy to use my first #Bluesky post to announce that there's now a shiny app for the endotherm model of the #NicheMapR package bioforecasts.science.unimelb.edu.au/app_direct/e...
December 14, 2024 at 5:51 AM
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To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia
#starterpacks, let's share introductions to the literature of our different fields.

12 kinds of papers in Climate Psychology. (Created by yours truly using this generator: observablehq.com/@guillaume-l...)

#climatepsychology #greensky
December 9, 2024 at 1:52 AM
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This is my attempt to build a wild bee-researcher starter pack for folks to find awesome people doing awesome wild bee research!
Feel free to suggest yourself as I'm sure this'll start out as a pack of my collaborators and other admired researchers!
go.bsky.app/PrjzU94
November 17, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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Still room in the starter pack for niche and distribution modeling! Reply here if you're in the field and want to be added!

go.bsky.app/AjbQxpK
December 2, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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✨For the lazy (yes we are) and friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but could benefit from the news on the Global Ecology feed ... here is a ... DIGEST 🚀 of the Global Ecology feed. ! ✨

Will post every Monday from now on. Please share.

globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...

🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑
Global Ecology Feed Digest
Digest of the 🦋 bluesky Global Ecology feed 🌐 on biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation at large scales. Terrestrial and marine realms.
globalecologybs.github.io
December 2, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Please share widely! We have two open postdoctoral positions in my lab: lopezuribelab.com/join-the-lab/ Some details below👇👇👇
Join the lab
MANUAL OF MUTUAL EXPECTATIONS Are you interested in joining the lab? Please read this document that details the role and expectations for the PI and all members of the lab.    GRADUATE ST…
lopezuribelab.com
December 2, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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I have just created a starter pack on #biodiversity 🦠🌳🌲🦋🐸🐠🦅🦔 #redistribution aka #species #range #shifts or species on the #move #SOTM and community composition changes in response to global change drivers 🌐🌍🌎🌏 Let me know if you are interested to join the list

go.bsky.app/6KqEpb9
November 30, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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Please follow my list of Indigenous scientists! I accidentally deleted my first starter park -- but recreated it with even more names. Who else needs to be added?

go.bsky.app/9LhnuCY
November 29, 2024 at 10:55 PM
PhD opportunity! Dr. Michelle Dileo and myself are recruiting a PhD student to study #pollinator adaptive capacity to #climatechange. Interested in #bees or #butterflies, #genomics, landscape #ecology? Based in 🇨🇦. michelledileo.wordpress.com
See advert for details. Please share! 🧪🐝🦋
November 27, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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📢 Global Ecology feed !

A new feed for large scale biodiversity, ecosystems and conservation sciences, covering both terrestrial & marine realms

- DM @nmouquet.bsky.social to be added as contributors

- Tag posts with globe meridian emoji 🌐 to show up in this feed

bsky.app/profile/nmou...

🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐
November 24, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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I have just received a copy of the last issue of Le #Courrier de la #Nature ⬇️ in which I wrote a research outreach article on range shifting species colonizing #cold #environments under anthropogenic #ClimateChange

🌐 #BioShifts
November 26, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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My November climate indicator update...

Graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... ⚒️🧪🌊
November 23, 2024 at 2:05 AM
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4 #Entomology #StarterPacks have filled!

go.bsky.app/Fq2CQNw
go.bsky.app/7CaCbMC
go.bsky.app/JVRwhS1
go.bsky.app/2nEuqKX

Drive for Five!

Nominate widely: grad students, early career, colleagues around the world, equity deserving
#entomología
#entomologie
#Invertebrate
#Arthropod

🪲🐞🐜🐛🦟🪳🦋🐝🦗🪰🕸️
November 21, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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If you are an invasion biologist or work on related topics please comment on this post and I will add you to the starter pack!

go.bsky.app/WsevAe
November 9, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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BLACK WOMEN IN #STEM

i made a starter pack for black women in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and would really love to keep adding to it so please hmu if you fit the criteria or know someone who does! 🧪

go.bsky.app/9jYkUK1
November 18, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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I've thrown together a Starter Pack for the climate crisis-info crisis overlap. Lots of members from @caadcoalition.bsky.social, so do give them a follow.

It's a work in progress, @ me if you'd like to be included!

🧪 🔌 💡

(@davidrvetter.bsky.social ask and ye shall receive...)

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November 18, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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well, here it is lads

after combing through some 1,400 records, it looks like the slender-billed curlew is indeed extinct and the last known photo taken in 1995 was probably at the point it slipped beneath the waves 🦉🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
The slender-billed curlew is declared extinct
This is the first mainland European bird declared extinct in 500 years.
www.nhm.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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Postdoctoral position available on population and landscape genomics to inform host-pathogen co-evolution and conservation of wild 🦌and CWD as part of highly integrative, fun team!: drive.google.com/file/d/1qAyg.... Please RT!
November 17, 2024 at 12:47 AM