Katie Marshall
@ke_marshall
Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, UBC. She/her working and living on Musqueam territory. Somehow managed to get a job in professional bug freezing.
Wait, am I the freight train? Can I be the freight train please?
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Great opportunity to play an important role in open research with the largest society of ecologists in the world! You can have an impact by working with editors of multiple journals! It comes with a financial compensation! Good way to network if you are EARLY CAREER!!!
Seeking Data Editors! Are you an ecologist or environmental scientist with a keen interest in open research? We're looking for Data Editors to work with our journals & implement our Open Research Policy. Honorarium provided! 🚨Applications due 7/18🚨 shorturl.at/3qzIu
#MetabolismMondays Meet @karinburg, #newPI at @ClemsonUniv , alumni from @ke_marshall @ZoologyUBC talking about metabolic adaptation in unique models like #butterflies and #budworms. She'll be #hiring soon! #theNodeCorrespondents #ecr @the_Node #evodevo thenode.biologists.com/tales-of-metab…
📣 A new Parliament means a renewed opportunity to make science & research a priority in 🇨🇦 policy. Evidence for Democracy reminds us: we need leaders who listen to evidence & invest in the future of research. 🔗 evidencefordemocracy.ca/evidence-for-d… #CdnSci #SciPol #SupportOurScience #E4D
Looking for short-term postdoctoral work and a genomics whiz? Kimberly Sheldon and I are looking to hire for this summer to assemble an insect genome and annotate two. Must be legally able to work in the US, but remote work is available: …lq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…
The student networking event is back for CSZ-SCZ 2025 Meeting on May 13th at 8pm at Splitsville Bowling Alley in Waterloo, and we are looking for later-career researcher volunteers! See the link below for more details and to sign up to volunteer: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
The time has come once again where we put out the request for donations for the 2025 CSZ-SCZ Silent Auction. All funds obtained go towards supporting the student section. For more details and if you plan to donate items, please see the form below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Students, make sure your voice is heard this election. Elections Canada has resources for students including information on student voting: how to vote early, what to do if you are living away from home, voting on campus, and more. elections.ca/content2.aspx?…
Absolutely delighted to announce that the lab has been funded by @NSERC_CRSNG for the next five years! DGs are a team effort--an incredible group of hardworking students and postdocs, a supportive department and university, and generous mentors were all necessary. Thank you!
Natural Resources Canada, in collaboration with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Fisheries and Oceans is looking for recent graduates in a field of natural sciences to join the Postdoctoral Research Program. natural-resources.canada.ca/corporate/care…
Here is a new publication of the Biomolecules Discovery Group 🔬, a joint work between LBMB-IKIAM and LPN-IKIAM 🧪. We continue to explore the potential of the Amazon 🌱. Congratulations to all the authors! . . doi.org/10.3390/molecu…
The Editors-in-Chief of the 5 @Co_Biologists journals have written a joint Editorial, discussing the enormous challenges currently facing researchers in the US and how members of the community can support them through this difficult time journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…
In 2012, we in Canada fought back against the silencing of scientists and the erosion of evidence-informed decision-making. 📢 Now, our American colleagues are facing similar challenges, and we must stand with them.
Research is for all of us. It requires support, not chaos. Researchers push boundaries, and must be free to explore, collaborate, challenge, present inconvenient truths, and speak to the media. When research is threatened, we have a duty to speak up for those who cannot.
Skylight development grants provide up to $5,000 in matching funds for projects that would significantly benefit undergraduate or graduate teaching and learning. DEADLINE: Friday, March 28. For more information go to skylight.science.ubc.ca/grants/skylight
Dark Taxonomy: From unknown to ready for biomonitoring in 5 steps. By describing 120 species, most species of fungus gnats routinely caught in Singaporean Malaise traps now have names. Bees, butterflies and birds, make room for your new friends. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cl…
This discussion of the Monty Hall problem inspired me to post about an under appreciated way in which the same counterintuitive finding appears in genetics. It comes from a real world example I teach about in my undergraduate genetics class.
I've apparently gaslit myself about the monty hall problem since learning about it 10 years ago! The entire thing hinges on the fact that he knows which door has [desired object] and he will never open that door! That's the only reason it's probabilistically best to switch
In my first essay for @macleans, I offer up a new path for Canadian foreign policy—the case for a "coalition of the unwilling." macleans.ca/politics/its-t…
Early-career researchers going to the @csz_scz meeting in Waterloo 12-15 May, make sure you register for this fantastic JEB sponsored SciComm Workshop, run by @this_is_brit & co, to learn how to communicate your research to a wider audience bit.ly/4gR2N94