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Sam Loutet (she/her)
@samandscience.bsky.social
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MSc Biology at UNB Saint John. Imaging copepods from ocean gliders for NARW prey monitoring. BSc (Hons) Earth Systems Science from McGill. Born at 373ppm.
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phoca-sapiens.bsky.social
New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
The evolutionary genomics of life-history adaptations in pinnipeds - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Project summary Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, fur seals and walrus) are keystone marine predators, and sentinels for marine ecosystem health. Advances in genomic technology open up the possibility to u...
yes-dtn.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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benrlee.com
🚨 Please repost widely!🚨

I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab next fall to work on forest and climate change ecology projects in southern Appalachia! Come join me in one of the most beautiful, biodiverse, and understudied parts of North America. Details below and happy to answer questions
An ad for a PhD position to start fall 2026 working with me at ETSU. For more info, please email at LeeBR1@etsu.edu. A close-up picture of dimpled trout lilies active in early spring, still largely surrounded by the previous year's senesced tree leaves. A beautiful vista of the Blue Ridge Mountains from on top of Carver's Gap on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee.
October 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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truthout.org
Jamaica remains in a state of emergency after being battered by Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic cyclones in history. Mikaela Loach, a climate justice activist, says the hurricane was “caused by the climate crisis,” and says hurricanes should be named after oil executives.
Hurricanes Should Be Named After Fossil Fuel Executives, Climate Activist Says
Jamaica remains in a state of emergency after being battered by one of the strongest Atlantic cyclones in history.
truthout.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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woodsideful.bsky.social
In lawsuit filed Monday, four young Canadians allege the Canada Pension Plan is mismanaging their retirement savings by underestimating climate-related financial risks — the first legal challenge of its kind. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/27/n...
Young Canadians accuse the Canada Pension Plan of mismanaging climate risks
In lawsuit filed Monday, four young Canadians allege the Canada Pension Plan is mismanaging their retirement savings by underestimating climate-related financial risks — the first legal challenge of i...
www.nationalobserver.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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leilafouda.bsky.social
North Atlantic right whale numbers estimated at 384. An increase in eight whales from last year - report today by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. Slow population growth trend over the past four years gaining more than 7% of their 2020 population. 🦑🐋🧪🌍
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Scientists say North Atlantic right whale population slowly increasing
Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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emilypont.bsky.social
Most public transit systems depend largely on fare revenue to fund basic operations, but ridership never recovered after the pandemic. I wrote about 3 major transit systems that are facing a fiscal cliff, and the somewhat lackadaisical political response to the crisis. heatmap.news/politics/chi...
October 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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napaaqtuk.bsky.social
My colleague @sarahhird.bsky.social has been fighting for family care leave for over a year now. So impressed with her leadership!

ctmirror.org/2025/10/21/t...
Opinion: This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors
UConn currently lets every pregnant/expecting individual reinvent the wheel, cobbling together a leave plan with whatever resources and departmental grace they can muster.
ctmirror.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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thelabandfield.bsky.social
Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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prof-joseph-holden.bsky.social
New fully-funded PhD project working on flooding, climate change, catastrophe modelling and the re-insurance industry: unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/cli... Work with @floodre.bsky.social Erica Thompson and I.
October 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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nagissa.bsky.social
Interested in life’s co-evolution with planetary environments?
🌎🦠🧪

I'm looking for a postdoc to join my group at #McGill and happy to sponsor applicants for the TSI fellowship.

Please reach out if interested!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30777
McGill University, Trottier Space Institute
Job #AJO30777, Trottier Space Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA
academicjobsonline.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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aerinj.bsky.social
[3 Oct 2025] Another round-up of #ConservationJobs, mostly in 🇨🇦.

Please share so others benefit.

I welcome additional environment-related job ads (as long as salary range is included). You can comment or DM me.

www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
#conservationjobs #hiring #greenjobs #sustainabilityjobs | Aerin Jacob | 16 comments
[3 October 2025] Another roundup of #ConservationJobs, mostly in Canada. All postings include salary. I am not involved in these jobs. Please share to help others and post other job ads in the comment...
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October 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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marinemammalogy.bsky.social
We are seeking volunteer ASL Interpreters (or students working towards certification) to join monthly, virtual meetings and facilitate translation of spoken language (English) to American Sign Language and sign language to spoken language. Knowledge of marine mammal sciences is not required. (1)
Text on image: Currently Seeking - Volunteer ASL Interpreters General requirements: ASL-English Interpreter Certification (or currently working towards one); Familiarity with Google Meet, Zoom and other virtual communication platforms; Fast and reliable internet connection; Flexible schedule to join virtual monthly meetings across different time zones If interested, please send your latest CV to: diversity@marinemammalscience.org
September 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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whoi.edu
What can a whale’s bones tell us?

After a ship strike killed a North Atlantic right whale, her broken jaw and skull revealed the harm of vessel collisions. Former MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Regina Campbell-Malone used this tragedy to model collisions, which now helps guide ship speed limits.
September 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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jacquelyngill.bsky.social
The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.
Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park
The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.
barharborstory.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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corriemoreau.bsky.social
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
docs.google.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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jlmacarthur.bsky.social
Job alert - We're hiring a researcher @cascadeinstitute.bsky.social for a 2 year contract on 'fast and fair' #energy #transitions. Open to remote or here in beautiful Victoria, BC. Pls share. #energysky. cascadeinstitute.org/opportunitie...
Fellow, 'Fast and Fair' Energy System Innovation
The Cascade Institute seeks a Fellow to contribute to our Clean Energy Scale Up & Acceleration research stream.
cascadeinstitute.org
September 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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newscientist.com
Four new fossil species from New Zealand illustrate the striking diversity of the earliest penguins, which possessed long dagger-like beaks they may have used to skewer prey.
Early penguins may have used dagger-like beaks to skewer prey
Four new species of aquatic birds related to modern penguins have been described from fossils found in New Zealand, showing how these creatures flourished around 60 million years ago
www.newscientist.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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msue-lakes-streams.bsky.social
Application deadline: September 5, 2025.
September 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc
as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption.

Details here:

PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7...

Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...
Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
August 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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eubalaenagina.bsky.social
📣 ATTN (please share!) 📣

The #DEI Committee of the Society for @marinemammalogy.bsky.social is currently seeking volunteer American Sign Language Interpreters (or students working towards certification).

#ASL #AmericanSignLanguage #SignLanguage #marinemammals
@dolphinwhisperer.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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milocco.bsky.social
🚨 We're hiring!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab

🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Please share!
August 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
We've got 35 sets of these posters left.

This project came from my evergreen frustration with our important messages getting trapped on social media algorithms.

Good stuff for posting on your local community bulletin board, classroom, office door, etc!

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4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
August 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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climateunit.bsky.social
Canada is falling behind on climate. A fully funded Youth Climate Corps could change that.

“A Youth Climate Corps could be exactly the solution our politicians need,” says @drlorileeoates.bsky.social of @nichecanada.bsky.social

Resilience, clean energy, housing & jobs in one.
A Youth Climate Corp Could Be Exactly the Climate Policy Approach that Canada Needs
A fully funded Canadian Youth Climate Corp could address the climate crisis, create jobs, lower living costs, and re-engage young voters.
niche-canada.org
August 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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b-heath.bsky.social
My first-first author paper is out! We found that overall healing in sharks was comparable between sutured and non-sutured incisions. But sutured incisions had significantly more bacteria present. www.publish.csiro.au/wr/pdf/WR25009 Forever thankful to Jordan Matley & @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM