Dr. Alexandra Schoen
MB Govt fish scientist and manager 🐟🦈 Stress, metabolism, conservation, fisheries management, reproduction 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 Posts and thoughts my own.
- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra SchoenTimeline cleans with snowflake-sized baby lagoon jellyfish. . 🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...
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- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra SchoenThis is important to us because what’s happening right now in Congress could permanently change protections for a beloved wilderness area. With everything else going on, this quietly moved forward while most people weren’t paying attention and it should concern all of us.
- Processing my accidental unmedicated precipitous childbirth…god woman are amazing. Introducing Aurora Alene Mullen, named after two strong women ahead of their time 💕
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- Southern Manitoba ✨
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- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra SchoenMeet the real rainbow fish 🌈🐟 Using Cre-mediated recombination, each zebrafish cell expresses a unique fluorescent color, creating a living rainbow of developmental history 🎨✨ Image by Bret Pearson #FluorescenceFriday #Zebrafish #DevBio
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- Interview with Hooked Magazine and the Complete Angler Podcast on fish research, MB fisheries, and fish health! www.hookedmagazine.ca/podcast/the-...
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- People say Manitoba is a flyover province 🌲🐟🤷🏻♀️
- 36 hours and 2 pounds of butter 🧈 🥐
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- First paper with an Irwin 🐊
- Some things I’ve made this week
- Another paper out! Co production of research with academia, government, NGOs, and other conservation groups!
- Translating #Conservation research into meaningful action requires collaboration between multiple stakeholders 🤝. This #Perspective includes case studies & guidance for co-produced research. #CoProduction With emphasis on generating effective & inclusive outcomes. ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp... 🌎 🧵
- New paper! ‼️ Angling-like stressors immediately before spawning impacts the offspring of lake trout 🐟 🐟 🐟 Fun study in collaboration with Manitoba Fisheries and @calebhasler.bsky.social lab. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Nevermind that 2 people died in my community because of the wildfires. So tone deaf. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
- Excited to share that I am now an Adjunct status professor at the University of Winnipeg! Eager to continue our fish hatchery and stocking program research!! @calebhasler.bsky.social
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- Burbot, eelpout, lawyer, freshwater cod, mariah, poor man’s lobster, cusk, ling, lota, loche…
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- Winnipogo??
- Ice fishing for dinosaurs 🎣 Manitoba lake sturgeon are ANCIENT and largely unchanged for millions of years. This one is likely older than me, and was quickly released to grow even bigger! Annie is also haunted by giant “ice monsters” emerging from the floor now…
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- Joshua Tree 🏜️ Fund National Parks
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- Excited to share that I am the new Fish Culture Program Manager in the Fisheries Branch of the Manitoba gov’t! I will be responsible for Manitoba's premier fish hatcheries and lake stocking programs, as well as the strategic vision for the future of fish culture and conservation in the province!
- This will be a huge loss
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- Really feeling like this is where the problems started…
- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra SchoenAccessible Sharks 2025 is a GO! This unique summer research internship for undergrad students with disabilities has been amazing for the past 2 summers, and we get to run a modified version as a bonus year! Learn more & apply here: accessiblesharks.wordpress.com Deadline Feb 14, 2025. Please share!
- Not sure if shared this Outside JEB @jexpbiol.bsky.social article yet, but here it is! 🧪 Elephant hormones measured in toenails?? journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Schoen🧑🏽🔬 Searching for the perfect #postdoc? We’re currently seeking applicants specializing in #IndigenousKnowledge Systems for a 2-year position. Consideration will begin soon! 📲Find out more and apply today: go.whoi.edu/ikp-postdoc #hiring #joinus #stemjobs #dei
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- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra SchoenMike Luckovich gets it right as he always does
- I’m taking a Judaism class and the instructor asked “what aspects of today should be recorded for future generations?” Interested in anyone’s thoughts.
- You know, I GENUINELY thought people would come to their senses when the climate emergencies escalated…not create conspiracy theories about DEI and democrats draining lakes… #idiocracy
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- Baby lake trout are growing up! 80 days since we collected these fish as eggs, and they are almost ready to feed for the first time! 🐟🧪 @calebhasler.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra SchoenWomen leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.
- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra SchoenLots to learn from Rwanda www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
- Baby lake trout are getting big! Their silver colorations are beginning to develop on the sides of their yolk-sacs. Not long now before they can feed on their own! 🧪🐟😭🥰
- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra SchoenWhoa—the Montana Supreme Court holds that its state constitution protects the right to "a stable climate system," and strikes down a law that barred consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...
- Another great example of governments/industry misunderstanding conservation theory. Hunting can be (and has proven to be time and time again) a sustainable practice, while synthetic fibers are a huge threat to biodiversity. 🧪
- I’ve had the best time participating in @skypeascientist.bsky.social and have connected with the more inquisitive students! Consider supporting this worthy cause! Bonus: thank you notes from one of my grade 1 classes 🩵😭🧪
- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra SchoenThree must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra SchoenTell your undergrads! Parks Canada is now hiring for their summer positions! #jobs #canada #ecojobs #ParksCanada #summer #work parkscanada.hiringplatform.ca/processes/19...
- Another one from the Outside JEB archives! @jexpbiol.bsky.social Artificial light changes parasitic wasp egg laying behaviour…but makes them live longer?? journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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- The lack of medical research on women’s reproductive health creates the perfect environment for “influencers” to flaunt pseudoscience and sell “one-size fits all” cures to a vulnerable population of women. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Part two: live action baby lake trout 🐟. Hard to imagine that a select few of these blobs grow up to be 40+ inch monsters 🎣
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- Some baby lake trout 🐟 for your afternoon! These larvae are from stressed moms (simulated catch-and-release angling events), and we hope to find out if that stress transfers to the offspring! Here, we are assessing how well the babies cope with a short chasing stress.
- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra SchoenToday Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com JOIN US - there's cake!
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- Back and sharing more Outside JEB articles! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
- Check out my first Outside JEB article about parental stress and the influence on offspring in Atlantic salmon! A link to the original paper is also below 🤗 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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- We’ve been raising lake trout from fertilized eggs and they are finally big enough for their new tanks! Each tank represents a different maternal stress treatment 🐟 🐟 🐟 @calebhasler.bsky.social
