Andy Fraass

Tiny ocean fossils are fundamental to our understanding of the climate system and how it has changed over the past 150 million years. Join us at our next Café Scientifique to hear all about the world of micropaleontology! 📅 Dec. 9, 2025, 7 p.m. 📍 The Mint 🔗 Details: https://ow.ly/56Sx50XxTlA

Canadian graduate students... how do you feel about members of parliament going through your transcripts and the personal information you disclosed in your applications in order to question whether you deserved your fellowship or not? @supportourscience.bsky.social

🎓 Calling Canadian grad students & postdocs! #VoicesForScience is a new campaign to spotlight advocacy for fair pay and better research support. Whether you’ve collected data, organized events, or driven change on campus — your voice matters. Share: forms.gle/neeWyHyMt7Zi... #SupportOurScience

Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702

I still think that they should have used this picture, I still think it's the best out of the options I sent.

Look it's @fraass.bsky.social from @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social ! 🔬

🚨 Big news! UVic researchers receive $1.13M from CFI-JELF to advance their work in climate and health innovation. These locally grounded projects are creating global impact, from BC’s alpine ecosystems to coastal communities and beyond. 🌍 ow.ly/sXrw50X9T4t

Always excited for an increased salary submission! Congrats to the Department of Biological Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Tech for their stipend increase! This union-based win brings the pay almost to the 1:1 line! Update your department and find out more here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

Just a reminder - if you run/recruit or have anything to do with an ecology & evolutionary biology PhD program, check out our database and update your departments salary here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

So great to have @fraass.bsky.social in as a guest speaker for my first-year composition class today! Though I was horrified by his saying a Caribbean volcano had erupted "in the 1900s": I thought he meant the 1990s eruptions, WHEN I WAS OVER 20, but nope, 1902. Safe to call that the 1900s. #uvic

Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Jenny Rashall from Stephen F. Austin State University, USA. Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/ (1/4)

So excited to participate in this panel discussing the history and future of #PalaeoPERCS and the amazing, inclusive, and absolutely brilliant international community of early career pal(a)eo scientists! Please join us at 15:00 UTC today for this really important discussion!

I made a little tool to sync my papers in @paperpile.com with @obsidian.md. It generates a markdown file for each paper and should handle annoying things like paper renaming and deletion. I wish Paperpile would expose more data but the basic paper info gets imported. Please use, extend, enjoy!

Opinion: If scientific databases in the Earth and environmental sciences are not adequately supported, we risk losing and potentially needing to replace these resources, an extremely costly, yet preventable, outcome. buff.ly/WTgm4IC Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025

Data on how ecosystems evolve over geologic time may be key to understanding modern-day ecosystem changes. A study of marine biomass over the past 541 million years gets scientists one step closer.

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New paper led by @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social using x-ray CT and laser ablation to detect plastic environmental responses in fossil individuals www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421549122 featuring @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

Opinion: If scientific databases in the Earth and environmental sciences are not adequately supported, we risk losing and potentially needing to replace these resources, an extremely costly, yet preventable, outcome. buff.ly/WTgm4IC Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025

To the non-expert, this will seem esoteric, so allow me to summarise: we have profoundly altered the distribution of nutient elements on the ocean, with a potentially profound impact on the life that lives in it.

New paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com's Scientific Reports! We investigated emotional & psychological impact of late ADHD diagnoses in women Highlighting how undiagnosed ADHD contributes to life-long challenges & how diagnosis in adulthood can be life-changing #ADHD #WomenWithADHD #ADHDawareness

Paper about diversity within Canadian academic geoscience departments. www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....

🧵🌊 Tiny ocean fossils called foraminifera or "forams" hold a deep record of Earth's climate past. By studying these beautiful microfossils in ocean sediment cores scientists like our own @fraass.bsky.social reveal how life and climate have changed over millions of years wdcnews6.com/the-history-...

I'm used to academic spam at this point, but getting asked to review a paper about parental learning interventions in Kuwait because of my language skills (?) is a new one.

If you're coming to the @geosociety.bsky.social GSA meeting in San Antonio may I recommend this awesome field trip to visit the K/Pg boundary along the Brazos River and in a bunch of cores at the Gulf Coast Core Repository: store.geosociety.org/products/ft2...

Deadline for session, field trip, and short course proposals is July 18!

Science denying know-nothing GOPers are trying (and in some cases succeeding) to ban fluoride in water based on anti-science BS. A new study shows a nationwide ban would bring a 7.5% increase in tooth decay and cost almost *10 billion dollars* over five years. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Pretty cool to get interviewed for this with a bunch of people I respect: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

My latest story for @knowablemag.bsky.social is all about the astonishingly plentiful fossils of foraminifera, featuring @chrislowery.bsky.social, @fraass.bsky.social and @tracyaze.bsky.social! knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

🧪 Listen to my colleague Dr. Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social talk about his recent work re: levels of graduate student funding in Canada 🇨🇦 compared to the US 🇺🇸 & UK 🇬🇧. He was on CBC Radio One On the Island yesterday morning www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social

I was on the local CBC radio station talking about our graduate stipend paper yesterday morning. There's a laundry list of things I wish I could have added or gotten to. Hard to fully explain through something as complex as Canadian graduate funding in just 8 minutes!

One might try to argue that grad students are students and not employees… But then why do I need them to meet the demands of my employer? If I can’t do my job without them, they deserve a fair wage #HigherEd 🧪

Perfect encapslation of how our group Slack operates.

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living. On average, $10kCAD below cost of living. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Every PI who wants to have grad students in the lab in Canada should have to read this.

lags behind what is currently required for our students to meet the cost of living here. My colleague, @fraass.bsky.social has published a paper documenting this shortfall in @plosone.org dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

🧵🧪 With ongoing reductions in the funding in the US (NSF, NIH, NASA) there are calls for countries like Canada 🇨🇦 to step in to absorb US researchers and their work. However, that requires a significant commitment in resources. Funding for graduate students in the natural sciences in Canada