🍁 Alex Smith 🍁
Assoc. Prof of #Biology at UofG, Guelph, ON, Canada. Inspired by the #Biodiversity in ACG, Costa Rica. #Ecology, #Evolution, #Entomology
Opinions my own & oh so rarely overlap with my employer.
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www.malexsmith.com
www.youtube.com/@Alex_Smith_Ants
- 🧪🪲🐞🗺️ 📢 a neat news piece from @respublications.bsky.social #RESEcolEnt about the @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social led global #meta-analysis of #elevation & #biodiversity for #beetle #Coleoptera families. www.royensoc.co.uk/news/do-beet... Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/een....
- #HigherEd #AdministrativeFail #LeadershipFail Asking us to derive a short, high-level and marketable phrase that captures our Dept's strengths. shows me that the Admin 1) doesn't already know the Department and 2) doesn't respect expertise. Hire a professional.
- I want this paper title on a t-shirt! #COVID-19 proved that #Universities could make #HigherEd more #Accessible; they are just choosing not to
- 📢New article: COVID-19 proved that Universities could make Post-Secondary Education more Accessible; They are just choosing not to #HigherEd 🧪🍁
- 🧪 New paper led by Jose Fernandez-Triana of #CNC, builds on decades of Janzen & Hallwachs #ACG @gdfcf.bsky.social collections; A description of 102 new species of the #parasitoid #wasp genus #Dolichogenidea in @zookeys.pensoft.net including this 1 for @rpuschen.bsky.social doi.org/10.3897/zook...
- 🧪🪲🐞🗺️ @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social led a global #meta-analysis in @respublications.bsky.social #RESEcolEnt that found many taxonomic holes and no evidence of a common pattern of taxon or #phylogenetic #diversity across #elevation for #beetle #Coleoptera families doi.org/10.1111/een.... 🧪🪲🐞🗺️
- Groundhogs are moving in around the #DairyBushFoxDen Apparently, one is applying to change his banding to “treehog”
- A spring day with some optimism here - enjoy the troutlily and bloodroot from the #DairyBush in #Guelph
- Good morning #Canadian #Bluesky Today is the day! In #Elxn45 #vote for an MP who will recognise the value of #research to Canada’s success and future. Reject candidates from parties who engage in decision-based evidence making! #ResearchersVote #VoteScience www.elections.ca/content2.asp...
- Movie you’ve watched more than six times using a gif …
- Hey @mcgillumedia.bsky.social - shame on you! Get your med program in order Equity deserving people should expect more from you. www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...
- An important 🧵 ! “you do you” is not community health.
- In which a slightly judgmental groundhog visits the #DairyBushFoxDen and stares into your soul
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- In which the #CPC leader won't acknowledge the dog whistle he's blowing. Read @caroloff.bsky.social 's book #AtALossForWords #Research is at the heart of wellbeing and innovation 🇨🇦 #ResearchersVote #VotonsRecherche #VoteScience #Elxn45 #Elxn2025 #CdnPoli #PolCan 🎁 www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
- big news! I've loved #TheAgenda @tvotoday.bsky.social l and looking forward to what's coming next at #TVO
- Well done so far #Canada - now keep it up! Vote on April 28 Remember that #research is at the core of innovation and wellbeing in 🇨🇦. #ResearchersVote #VotonsRecherche #VoteScience #Elxn45 #Elxn2025 #CdnPoli #PolCan 🎁 article from @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c231c7b...
- Looking forward to celebrating #EarthDay with students at Victory Public School by sharing the stories of #fox and other species at the #DairyBushFoxDen The species that share their spaces with us. Celebrate #EarthDay25 with hours of 🦊 highlights on this playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- Canadians #Poilievre and #Levant have shown you time and time again who they really are. They do not deserve your vote. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
- In which #DougTheDog loves his frisbee
- I'm excited to extend next year's #ZOO3700 plankton lecture to include a digression into #dinoflagellates and #dimethylsulfide! how you smell the ocean how parasitoids find their prey how clouds are formed how we find life on another planet Dinoflagellates - you rock!
- ❤️ I LOVE this SO MUCH Adding this video to the moment from dive 802 into future #ZOO2700 classes Thank you @schmidtocean.bsky.social, @oceancensus.bsky.social & collaborators 4 sharing and archiving these important moments of discovery showing how open & collaborative discoveries r made! ❤️ 👇
- 🧪🪲🐞🗺️ New publication alert! A global #meta-analysis led by @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social in @respublications.bsky.social #RESEcolEnt "No evidence of a common pattern of taxon or #phylogenetic #diversity across #elevation for #beetle (#Coleoptera) families" doi.org/10.1111/een.... 🧪🪲🐞🗺️
- How ‘bout that!
- To track hoped-for shifts in engagement towards previously under-appreciated taxa, we ask the #ZOO2700 students at the start and the end of their intro to #invertebrate morphology & evolution term about their favorite #species of invertebrate and to which phylum it belongs. @sherihincks.bsky.social
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- We're working on them! www.youtube.com/live/GxszD8s...
- 🧪 Student Opportunity!! Interested in using #eDNA to rediscovering lost #amphibian species in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica? Check out this opportunity led by @rpuschen.bsky.social and join us working with #ACG and @gdfcf.bsky.social 🔗 Info: www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear... 🧪
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- Another example of sharing discovery was this first view of the #monoplacophoran Neopilina galatheae made by @schmidtocean.bsky.social One #ZOO2700 student made this meme during the final exam to commemorate, "It's a monoplac! It's a monoplac!" 🥰 love it! 🥰 www.youtube.com/live/GO9w5uQ...
- We used the live @schmidtocean.bsky.social feeds so often this year in #ZOO2700 - Thanks to them again for archiving the live dives so students can share in the excitement of the exact moments of discovery!! e.g. here's the #ColossalSquid moment from March 09 www.youtube.com/live/zNjcUAc...
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- We used the live @schmidtocean.bsky.social feeds so often this year in #ZOO2700 - Thanks to them again for archiving the live dives so students can share in the excitement of the exact moments of discovery!! e.g. here's the #ColossalSquid moment from March 09 www.youtube.com/live/zNjcUAc...
- It's amazing right! schmidtocean.org/first-coloss... and I LOVE that you can re-visit the exact moment of discovery with the archived live-dives! www.youtube.com/live/zNjcUAc...
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- Kicking off Wednesday with 3 seconds of a fast moving #fox 🦊 at the #DairyBushFoxDen youtube.com/shorts/cvTt4...
- Kicking off Wednesday with 3 seconds of two fast moving #fox 🦊 at the #DairyBushFoxDen youtube.com/shorts/Zy723...
- Hooray for Team Chaetognatha!! gif credit - Dr. Jordan Grigor
- 🧪 The Canadian Association of University Teachers (#CAUT) advisory note advising #Canadian #academics against non-essential travel to the U.S. 🧪
- Welcome to @bsky.app @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social ! Give a follow for beetle, diversity, elevation, thermal tolerance and other cool things! 🪲🌋🗺️🌡️🧪
- THIS! 👇 equitable and accessible science always includes remote and virtual options
- THIS! 👇 equitable and accessible science always includes remote and virtual options
- Good morning #university students in Canada! 📢 Spread the word; you can #VoteOnCampus April 13-16. #VoteScience🇨🇦 #VoterRecherche #VotonsRecherche #ResearchersVote #Elxn45 🎁 www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c231c7b...
- This will leave a really big hole www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
- Good luck to all the #ZOO2700 invertebrate enthusiasts who are writing their final lecture exam today! You've got this!
