Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦
@marcofesta.bsky.social
🇨🇦🇨🇦 Retired ecology prof in Sherbrooke, Canada. Evidence-based wildlife conservation, mountain ungulates, kangaroos, ice-free fishing. 🇨🇦🇨🇦 elbows up!
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Love this 🤣 see also academic project meetings
October 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Love this 🤣 see also academic project meetings
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En entrevue à La Presse, François Legault ironise sur la destruction prévue d'habitats essentiels protégés du chevalier cuivré (voir l'extrait). Rappelons que le gouvernement Legault s'opposait à la protection de cette espèce en voie de disparition endémique au Qc: www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
En entrevue à La Presse, François Legault ironise sur la destruction prévue d'habitats essentiels protégés du chevalier cuivré (voir l'extrait). Rappelons que le gouvernement Legault s'opposait à la protection de cette espèce en voie de disparition endémique au Qc: www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...
Antivaxxers win another one, and Canadians get to be sick some more. People will die.
UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Antivaxxers win another one, and Canadians get to be sick some more. People will die.
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NINA-Tromsø has an open job search for four research scientist positions working in arctic ecosystems, including freshwater, marine, and vegetation ecology. Application deadline 8 Dec 2025. @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/83-nina...
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research | NINA Tromsø is recruiting Researchers/Senior Researchers in Arctic Ecology and Environmental Social Science
The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) is aiming to further strengthen our dynamic Arctic research group through recruitment of several researchers/senior researchers within Arctic ecology...
nina-english.attract.reachmee.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
NINA-Tromsø has an open job search for four research scientist positions working in arctic ecosystems, including freshwater, marine, and vegetation ecology. Application deadline 8 Dec 2025. @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/83-nina...
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3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Hooray! The Aussie Juice Media comes to Canada!
Whether you're already familiar with their wonderful satirical takes or not, you shd take a look at this if you have Qs about the claimed benefits of LNG exports from the west coast, or, more generally, build-baby-build legislation.
#abpoli #cdnpoli
Whether you're already familiar with their wonderful satirical takes or not, you shd take a look at this if you have Qs about the claimed benefits of LNG exports from the west coast, or, more generally, build-baby-build legislation.
#abpoli #cdnpoli
Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Vegetation growth inside exclosures suggests a good spring for kangaroo forage.
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Vegetation growth inside exclosures suggests a good spring for kangaroo forage.
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[8 Nov 2025] Another roundup of #ConservationJobs, mostly in 🇨🇦.
All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions.
Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed!
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions.
Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed!
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
[8 Nov 2025] Another roundup of #ConservationJobs, mostly in 🇨🇦.
All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions.
Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed!
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions.
Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed!
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
For a northern hemisphere type, emus need some getting used to.
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 AM
For a northern hemisphere type, emus need some getting used to.
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Le budget déposé par le gouvernement Carney est venu confirmer que le Canada continuera d’appuyer le très polluant secteur pétrolier et gazier, même si les scientifiques répètent depuis plusieurs années qu’il faut réduire notre dépendance aux énergies fossiles. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...
Le Canada, cancre climatique?
Le gouvernement fédéral soutient des projets chers à l’industrie des énergies fossiles.
www.ledevoir.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Le budget déposé par le gouvernement Carney est venu confirmer que le Canada continuera d’appuyer le très polluant secteur pétrolier et gazier, même si les scientifiques répètent depuis plusieurs années qu’il faut réduire notre dépendance aux énergies fossiles. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...
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My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
The continuing mismeasure of people makes it to PNAS - and poorly applied genomics will not fix the confounding of family wealth, other environmental variables and genetics. A zombie idea likely popular with far-right types. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Confounding fuels misinterpretation in human genetics | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The scientific literature has seen a resurgence of interest in genetic influences on human behaviour and socioeconomic outcomes. Such studies face the central difficulty of distinguishing possible causal influences, in particular genetic and non-genetic ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The continuing mismeasure of people makes it to PNAS - and poorly applied genomics will not fix the confounding of family wealth, other environmental variables and genetics. A zombie idea likely popular with far-right types. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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I hadnt seen this particular take on this story till now. A minimalist apology. Not impressed.
nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...
nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...
Shamed Scientist Apologises For The First Time About The Academic Scandal That Destroyed His Career And Shocked The World
An ecologist who shot to fame after discovering that spiders have human-like personalities has made an emotional apology after being
nationalnews.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I hadnt seen this particular take on this story till now. A minimalist apology. Not impressed.
nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...
nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...
These 2 wombats seemed mad at each other and showed it the way wombats do. By digging.
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
These 2 wombats seemed mad at each other and showed it the way wombats do. By digging.
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Update: The SRSR amended its motion to request anonymized, aggregated Tri-Council data — protecting researcher privacy, and scientific integrity while supporting accountability.
Thank you to Canada’s research community for speaking up!
#SupportOurScience
Thank you to Canada’s research community for speaking up!
#SupportOurScience
We're concerned about the SRSR motion requesting 25 years of disaggregated tri-council data. While we understand the data is intended to be anonymized, this wasn't explicitly stated in the motion – and the specific information requested could still enable re-identification when linked together.
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Update: The SRSR amended its motion to request anonymized, aggregated Tri-Council data — protecting researcher privacy, and scientific integrity while supporting accountability.
Thank you to Canada’s research community for speaking up!
#SupportOurScience
Thank you to Canada’s research community for speaking up!
#SupportOurScience
Found a corella tree.
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Found a corella tree.
Moonrise over the roo study area
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Moonrise over the roo study area
In 'I can read with my eyes shut', Dr. Seuss suggested a cool kangaroo collar prototype. We make ours with material from Ritchey. The top layer is scraped away with a Dremel tool, exposing a symbol or pattern in the central layer. They are lightweight and long-lasting, especially on females.
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
In 'I can read with my eyes shut', Dr. Seuss suggested a cool kangaroo collar prototype. We make ours with material from Ritchey. The top layer is scraped away with a Dremel tool, exposing a symbol or pattern in the central layer. They are lightweight and long-lasting, especially on females.
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As a Canadian researcher/academic, it's beyond discouraging that the federal gov't is rolling out the welcome mat for foreign assistant professors, doctoral students and postdocs, while *cutting* domestic research funding and doing nothing to support those of us who are already here, doing the work.
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
As a Canadian researcher/academic, it's beyond discouraging that the federal gov't is rolling out the welcome mat for foreign assistant professors, doctoral students and postdocs, while *cutting* domestic research funding and doing nothing to support those of us who are already here, doing the work.
Tone-deaf federal gov't. Given the 2% cut and 5-year freeze in tri-council budget, are these talented researchers expected to panhandle? Someone should tell the feds that research actually costs money.
Globe & Mail reports “the budget is expected to include up to $1-billion to attract high-quality talent and researchers from the United States and elsewhere”
So far hospitals and universities have been going it alone….
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social
So far hospitals and universities have been going it alone….
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Tone-deaf federal gov't. Given the 2% cut and 5-year freeze in tri-council budget, are these talented researchers expected to panhandle? Someone should tell the feds that research actually costs money.
Yellow tail black cockatoos often fly over the roo study area, almost always even- numbered flocks: 2, 4, or 6. Beautiful birds.
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Yellow tail black cockatoos often fly over the roo study area, almost always even- numbered flocks: 2, 4, or 6. Beautiful birds.
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🧪Now that the flaws in Ripple et al. (2025) are on record, it’ll be an interesting test of scientific integrity to see if and how that paper is used. This Science letter, for instance, cites Ripple et al. (2025) in calling for strict wolf protection across Europe. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🧪Now that the flaws in Ripple et al. (2025) are on record, it’ll be an interesting test of scientific integrity to see if and how that paper is used. This Science letter, for instance, cites Ripple et al. (2025) in calling for strict wolf protection across Europe. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
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🧪You may have heard that large-carnivore recovery in Yellowstone National Park triggered one of the world’s strongest trophic cascades. Our new open-access article explains why that story doesn’t hold up: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
🧪You may have heard that large-carnivore recovery in Yellowstone National Park triggered one of the world’s strongest trophic cascades. Our new open-access article explains why that story doesn’t hold up: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...