Andy Fraass
Assistant Professor at UVictoria.
Paleobiology of absurdly small things.
- Reposted by Andy FraassTiny 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: ow.ly/56Sx50XxTlA
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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- Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
- Reposted by Andy Fraass🎓 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
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- I still think that they should have used this picture, I still think it's the best out of the options I sent.
- 🚨 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
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- Reposted by Andy Fraass🚨 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
- Reposted by Andy FraassAlways 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...
- Reposted by Andy FraassJust 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...
- 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...
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- It's really wild to be diagnosed with and medicated for ADHD in your 40's. Like, I didn't realize that my brain was supposed to work like this? The meds work so fast. 1 day you're fighting 13 trains of thought and the next it's fully calm and ordered inside your skull. Strangest experience.
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- Reposted by Andy FraassAs 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
- Reposted by Andy FraassOpinion: 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
- Reposted by Andy FraassTo 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.
- ⚒️ Article: The proportion of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in the ocean now substantially differs from the Redfield ratio, likely reflecting a reduction in phosphorus limitation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Andy FraassNew 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....
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- 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.
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- Reposted by Andy FraassPretty cool to get interviewed for this with a bunch of people I respect: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
- In the winter of '22, I wrote a plea (grant) to my institution to let me have some of our funding envelope to buy a fancy microscope and a bunch of workhorse microscopes. Years, a medical leave, several additional grant stages to both national and provincial level agencies, and it's here.
- Reposted by Andy FraassMy 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...
- It's been a pretty strange week. I was interviewed a bit ago for an article about Foraminifera and a recent spate of papers. Sadly, but predictably, @chrislowery.bsky.social got the best quote in. @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social
- A big feature here was work from @foradamifera.bsky.social and @anshumans.bsky.social, but because this was put out by the Annual Reviews magazine, they needed AREPS authors to be focused on.
- Reposted by Andy Fraass🧪 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!
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- Perfect encapslation of how our group Slack operates.
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- For the non-Canadians, graduate funding in Canada is really different and complex, so what follows is all "Typically". Students pay tuition back to the institution, waivers are not a thing. TA positions only pay a couple thousand, and again, no waivers. Departments often have a 'minimum stipend'...
- 🚨 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...
- 🚨 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...
- We looked at all graduate programs in Canada in Physics and Biology, found the minimum stipend, tuition, fees, and other useful information (e.g., how many hours TAing), and compared to cost of living in the specific location - as best we could.
- Reposted by Andy FraassIt’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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- Reposted by Andy Fraass🚨 All staff for NSF’s Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) have just been fired. In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.” High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF
- Reposted by Andy FraassA report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...
- Reposted by Andy FraassChoose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
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- Reposted by Andy FraassNow published online in Current Biology! www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Andy FraassIt's worth reading this @thebulletin.org article about preserving the Keeling Curve. Go deeper: Many scientists have trumpeted the scientific—& even cultural—value of long-standing datasets like this, even suggesting that some deserve World Heritage status to protect them. eos.org/opinions/tak...
- This was a good reminder that I desperately need to update my website.
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- Reposted by Andy Fraass**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated. www.spencer.org/grant_types/... hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j... Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !
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- Reposted by Andy FraassMore bad news for US science, indirect rates capped at 15% will further gut our research institutions & univerisities www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
- Reposted by Andy FraassNature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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