Nuking beetles MSc University of Guelph, developing the sterile insect technique for pepper weevil management
Windsor, Ontario
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Proud to say that I'll be speaking at this year's Grower Day (June 20) about the potential of the SIT to be a powerful IPM tool for greenhouse vegetable growers in Canada! Find more details at GrowerDay.ca
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Canada's science & innovation talent pipeline is a massive filter, removing those without external financial support. How many potential Nobel laureates have we excluded? How many who may have cured cancer? Pay emerging scientists a living wage @cafreeland. #SupportOurScience
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We love to complain about for-profit journals - but they only exist because we publish in them. They're a bit like salmon. This strained analogy explained: scientistseessquirrel.wordpr…
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What are your thoughts on having your managed bees deliver biological protective agents to crops? Could be a win-win IMHO. Now sharing details of our study using this strategy for control of pests on greenhouse strawberry. Let me know what you think!
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Do you like wetlands, rivers, and mountains? Do you like beavers, loons, and pondweed? Do you like kayaking, long days on the water, and getting muddy? If yes, maybe you want to come work with me and many awesome people this summer in the Columbia Valley!
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We’re looking for grad students for this fully funded project studying biodiversity in urban settings. Check out the #waterloowetlandlab for details. Please share! Start May or September
ALT Ad for grad position. Must have BSc and 70% average. Email cover letter, CV, and transcript to Dr. Rooney. Check Rooney Lab wetland for details
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We love seeing tweets like this, and to know that our data are proving useful thanks to our partnership with @zotero!
When writing my dissertation today, I encountered the @zotero feature of integrating reports from @RetractionWatch into my library. While adding a citation I was warned that the study was actually retracted - what a useful feature!
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We are recruiting an MSc student to work on fully funded study of study of Lesser cloverleaf weevil (Hypera nigrirostris) in red clover production. @SKForageSeed @EntSocSK @PIE_Entsoc @CanEntomologist @EntsocAmerica research-groups.usask.ca/ent…
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Wow. All text not in English must be removed? Seriously, @biorxivpreprint? What century is this?
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“Has Canada Lost Its Science Game?”
You can probably guess the answer…
Thank you @TheAgenda for the opportunity to share our #SupportOurScience mission!
Watch now: youtu.be/Got851PUG48
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Funded MSc positions in a collaborative mosquito surveillance project based in my lab starting this spring! Must love being asked "what are you fishing for?" 5 x daily by friendly strangers :) Please RT or contact me! @AcadianESCanada @AcadiaBio @ESC_Students @csz_scz
Scary thought: "[Predatory] journals...may use AI to rapidly produce articles, flooding the market with subpar research that undermines the credibility of the scientific community."
Pretty convincing arguments toward getting rid of peer-review entirely
Science ran a big experiment on itself for the last ~60 years. It didn't work out.
experimentalhistory.substack…
My Master's thesis was recently accepted, so if you're interested in learning what the eq. of 15,000 CT scans of gamma radiation does to a tiny beetle and how we can use them to protect peppers, you can check it out here: hdl.handle.net/10214/27292
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In November we’re going to start recruiting a lab manager for the #WaterlooWetlandLab. So, if you live in Waterloo, have an ecology background, are hyper organized and willing to travel for field work in the summers, start dusting off your CV!
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Because of low funding, many young scientists are now making less than minimum wage, which means they either have to live in poverty, quit practicing science, or leave Canada.
The Support our Science movement is calling for a change.
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I've looked at a few tools like this and this is the best I've seen. I'm hoping the dev team will implement grouping by Author (and other bib data), allowing for the easier searching of material from relevant research groups instead of only by subject and date
➡Gecko is an open source tool to help you find the most relevant papers to your research and give you a more complete sense of the research landscape.
🔗citationgecko.azurewebsites.…
#Bioinformatics #neuroscience #RStats #AcademicTwitter #postdoc #OpenAccess #bibliometrics #SNA
"Other comments include code that has been commented out, remaining as a zombie in the script out of fear that deletion will remove something important that was long forgotten."
Then call me the gravedigger
New paper alert!
How to write clean code in ecology and evolution
Available fully open access @MethodsEcolEvol
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