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@sfubiosciences.bsky.social major Jocelyn Heywood completed a USRA term and Honours project in Côté Lab, investigating densities and distributions of the invasive marine snail Batillaria attramentaria, identify hotspots and other information that can guide effective management strategies.
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Climate change + legacy chemicals hit Arctic ringed seals with a one-two punch: New SFU study finds that just one unusually warm year can leave seals thinner, malnourished and less able to cope with toxic contaminants – raising risks for Inuit food security and Arctic ecosystems. 🦭
Canada is losing track of its wild salmon — just when we need that knowledge most. Research from @sfubiosciences.bsky.social profs mhprice.bsky.social and @jon-moore.bsky.social finds insufficient data on nearly half of Canada's Pacific spawning populations. theconversation.com/canada-is-lo...
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Meet two of our Canada Research Chairs, Lorena Braid and Ailene MacPherson and learn about their career journeys and advice for other women in science:
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science. We celebrate the women in our department who make an impact every day. Thank you for the photos and stories. Photo descriptions: www.sfu.ca/biology/news...
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
Grateful for the mentors, collaborators, and friends who make science stronger every day.
#WomeninSTEM
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Congratulations to Ingrid van der Torre, recipient of the Fall 2025 Biological Sciences Merit Scholarship. Awarded to the Biology major with the highest academic record after six completed terms of study. A remarkable achievement💯🥳
Congratulations to our 2025 Undergraduate Research Award recipients. These Biology students are recognized for outstanding research, curiosity, and dedication, working with faculty mentors across diverse fields. We are proud of their achievements🙌🤩
✨Call for Submissions: Biology Poetry Contest! ✨
SFU Biological Sciences invites biology-inspired poems from lab, field, or research work. Submit up to 3 poems (incl. Haiku) for prizes + features. Open to BISC community. Deadline March 15. Submit to phollman@sfu.ca.
See attached poster for details.
Bending back the biodiversity loss curve of sharks and rays. The loss of sharks and rays to date has involved serial depletion of the largest, most evolutionary and functionally distinct species, and the increasing prevalence of smaller-bodied species that have benefited from release from predation.
New paper out today in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com by the #GlobalSharkTrends team: Bending back the curve of shark & ray biodiversity loss;
Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eZ9n9
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-Gerhard Gries receives Faculty of Science Research Awards
-Agata Becalska receives Faculty of Science Excellence in Teaching Awards
-Tammy McMullan receives Faculty of Science Excellence in Science Public Engagement & Outreach Award
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📚A new study led by Michael Price, adjunct professor in SFU’s Department of Biological Sciences, finds that Canada is failing in a decades-old pledge to monitor the health of Pacific salmon.
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The Biological Sciences Outreach and Engagement Committee is excited to announce the recipients of the 5th Annual BISC Outreach Awards! 🎉 Congratulations to Owen Kui and Sarah Johnson for their outstanding contributions to outreach and engagement. Learn more: www.sfu.ca/biology/news...
Wild Card😎
1st prize – Tanner crabs mating by Isabelle Côté
2nd prize – Drosera Trichomes by Audrey Kemp
3rd prize – Black Oystercatcher foraging by Katie Chettle
Life Under the Lens🔬
1st prize – Caenorhabditis elegans by Harald Hutter
2nd prize – Diatoms by Olivia Han
3rd prize – Organoid by Shama Nazir
Study Subject📚
1st prize – Orangutan Baby Richard Feb2025 by Ruth Linsky
2nd prize – A bouquet of caterpillars by John Reynolds
3rd prize – Ecosystem Engineer by Shelby Connelly
Science in Action 📸
1st prize – Counting Salmon by Jonathan Moore
2nd prize – Exploring səl̓ilw̓ət by Shelby Connelly
3rd prize – Thermal Drone Image Adjusting Camp Leakey by Ruth Linsky
We are excited to reveal the winners of our Sixth Annual Photo Contest! Thanks to everyone who submitted photos, who posed for a camera, or who helped point a camera at someone who was posing! We can’t wait to see more stunning photos next year!
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Wild sockeye populations are in decline, yet some continue to adapt and find new habitats. A team led by @sfubiosciences.bsky.social prof @jon-moore.bsky.social is hoping to find genetic markers that contribute to salmon resilience. www.genomebc.ca/blog/genomic...
Missed last week's Café Scientifique talk with Anaïs Remili? Learn how blubber biopsies can give us a window into the health of entire ecosystems. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz76...
Read the article in The Narwhal featuring Bob Elner, Biological Sciences Adjunct Professor, about the potential impacts of a proposed Vancouver port expansion on food sources for western sandpipers in their migration from South America to Alaska.
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BISC Professor Jonathan Moore is quoted in a story in Atmos that looks at the movement to safeguard the climate-changed habitats that will follow melting ice.
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🎉 Double Win for Gries Lab!
Emmanuel Hung (PhD) and Augustus Negraeff (Undergrad) earned the President’s Prize for best oral student presentations at the Joint Entomology Meeting.
👏 Emmanuel also received the ESC Postgraduate Scholarship (PhD)!
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Biological Sciences shines at this year's Faculty of Science Awards! We're proud to celebrate three incredible winners across various categories, recognizing their outstanding contributions to research, teaching and outreach.
Congrats all!!
SFU Cafe Scientifique What's for dinner? It's a toxic buffet for whales! with Anais Remili
Discover how a single blubber biopsy can be a window into an entire ecosystem and why some killer whale populations are thriving while others struggle at our next Café Scientifique, Nov 25, featuring @sfubiosciences.bsky.social @anaisremili.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.ca/e/sfu-cafe-s....
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@sfubiosciences.bsky.social and environmental ecotoxicology honours student Elisha Okonta has been working in prof Tanya Brown’s Marine Mammal Ecotoxicology Lab throughout 2025, where she prepares and analyzes samples from multiple marine species.
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Em Lim receives the Dr. Eva Voigt Graduate Award in Science for Mentoring Leadership. Congratulations, Em!
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