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Check new job posting on CCUBC Jobs page ccubc.ca/membership_job… Toxicologist-Biologist - Assistant Professor Brandon University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology

Come work with us: we are looking for an assistant professor in toxicology/biology for a 5 year term, see details here: brandonu.ca/science/files/…

Just hot off the press! The sequel to our work on the plastic eating #waxworm just out in @EnvSciTech, where our team @BrandonUni explores how the caterpillars stay fat on a polyethylene only diet: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Research by BU students is contributing to early detection of breast cancer and a better understanding of the environmental effects of microplastics. brandonu.ca/news/2020/10/2…

Racism has no place at Brandon University. It is our responsibility to confront and overcome ignorance. Read our full statement: brandonu.ca/news/2020/06/0…

Congratulations to our very own David Greenwood and graduate student @JessKal_ for their very exciting work with collaborators @usask and @RoyalTyrrell on this nodosaur's last meal! brandonu.ca/news/2020/06/0…

A bit surreal to be talking about dinosaurs with so much going on in the world, but we do have exciting research to share. Based on the stomach contents of #Borealopelta, we are able to reconstruct the diet of this 110 Million year old armoured dinosaur royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Putting all of these details together, we worked with palaeoartist @JCsotonyi to reconstruct Borealopelta in its environment, and eating the plants that we know at least one individual was eating. The resulting image is a great way to visually communicate the results.

Burnt wood fragments were also present, suggesting the animal was foraging in an area recently burned by wildfire, and experiencing regrowth. This is an ecological strategy seen in many animals today.

Working with a great team of palaeobotanists at @BrandonUni & @usask we were able to identify the plant fragments (>10,000 of them) in both major groups of plant, & plant tissue types. This allowed us to determine the diet was mainly fern leave, with minor conifer & cycads

An important contribution to the paper was made by @BrandonUni MSc student @JessKal_ who helped with photography & ID of the plant fragments & Gates Formation flora. Her ongoing work includes a detailed analysis of the flora of the Early Cretaceous Gates Formation

Amazing new research in @royalsociety Open Science, co-authored by our Dr. Caleb Brown with @BrandonUni & @usask colleagues, reveals what the world’s best-preserved armoured dinosaur ate! royaltyrrellmuseum.wpcomstaging.com/2020/06/03/nod… #RTMPResearch

Remembering what was for dinner a week ago can be a difficult enough task, but researchers at Brandon University have pieced together a meal far older than that. bit.ly/30dM5xc #bdnmb

Un super article sur nos petites chenilles plastivores, en francais cette fois! nationalgeographic.fr/sciences/2020/…

Love dinosaurs? You're in luck with "CBC Nature of things" episode featuring @BrandonUni Biology professor David Greenwood on his collaborative research with the Royal Tyrrell Museum and MELS student @JessKal_ on a mummified armoured dinosaur: cbc.ca/natureofthings…

Congratulations Hunter!

Congratulations Rayvn and Anthony!

Wonderful afternoon of talks. Last talk is by Emma Gervin on breast cancer research @BUresearch @BrandonUni

Microplastics and Hippo Signalling Pathway by Claudia Rodriguez @BUresearch @BrandonUni

Up next in our Honours student talks - research on drug resistance in Cryptobia salmositica by Hunter Goodon @BUresearch @BrandonUni