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Isabelle Côté
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Professor of Marine Ecology at Simon Fraser University. I love the ocean, diving, fish-watching, open-water swimming and rowing.
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Apply and come be my colleague!
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.

jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Out today! Cross-ecosystem connection on a large scale via bodily functions. Love it!
The great whale conveyor belt of pee, skin, dead bodies & poop!! Whales transport ~4,000 tons of nitrogen yearly to low-nutrient coastal areas in the tropics and subtropics. Species recovery might help to restore nutrient movement by whales in global oceans! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
🦑 🐋 🧪 🌍
Migrating baleen whales transport high-latitude nutrients to tropical and subtropical ecosystems - Nature Communications
Baleen whales migrate from high latitude feeding grounds to subtropical reproductive winter grounds, translocating limiting nutrients across ecosystems. This study estimates the latitudinal movement o...
doi.org
March 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Canadians in solidarity with Stand Up for Science.
I signed. The assault on science in Canada under the conservative Harper regime was not as extreme as the MAGA one, but came from the same desire to prevent scientists from speaking truth to power.
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Canadians in Solidarity with Stand Up for Science
By adding your name below, you are joining a growing movement of Canadians who believe in the power of science to inform policy and serve the public good. Your name will automatically be added to our ...
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March 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Hear, hear!
Field work is important for ground truthing our ecological models and projections, particularly given the rapid change of all ecosystems with climate change
If you did not read this paper, please do!!! Fieldwork needs to be recognized as a valuable and tangible aspects of science! Funding agency needs to start to value this more or....

Extinction of experience among ecologists sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌

300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co.

Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
February 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Marine reserves contribute half of the larval supply to a coral reef fishery doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Marine reserves contribute half of the larval supply to a coral reef fishery
Marine reserves generate more than half of coral groupers produced on the GBR and half of the fish caught by the fishery.
doi.org
February 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I want to share something nice for my first Bluesky post.
A lovely little bobtail #squid - 5 cm of cuteness overload!

#AllThingsMarine #SomeScience #LotsOfPics
January 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Congratulations to Beth Oishi from the Côté Lab (@redlipblenny.bsky.social) on successfully defending her MSc thesis yesterday!
July 31, 2024 at 7:07 PM