Dr. Chelsea Little

🎉 @Oikos_Journal is a great society-run journal that publishes tons of interesting science. I've read so many Oikos papers and am thrilled to be joining as an editor!

@Nestakam Hi Musa, you are welcome to apply following the instructions on the webpage.

@ChelskiLittle Very much interested in the carbon dynamics

We are hiring - join our ecological research team 🌱! (1) PhD in aquatic carbon dynamics; (2) PhD or MSc in biodiversity co-benefits. 🇨🇦 & international applicants welcome. Review starts Aug 20 & applications taken until positions are filled. info: littleecologygroup.ca/join-us/

Finally preprinting some work from my postdoc with @gerlame and @adamTford! 🎉 We used an individual-based model to look at how grazers and browsers interact with landscape structure to shape resource heterogeneity.

@Snow_Blizzard Hi Danish, yes the position is still open for applications.

@ChelskiLittle Is it still open?

Reminder! There are two weeks left to apply for this PhD position on cross-ecosystem subsidies and stream ecosystem function. Fieldwork and geospatial modeling- does this sound interesting to you? Please share widely! Flexible start date in 2023. littleecologygroup.ca/join-us/

@sherryoung_ aw, thank you Sherry!

If I could redo it all over again, I would definitely look to work with Chelsea! They are pros and cons to doing a PhD in Canada but working with Chelsea will make it all worth it. Happy to answer any questions related to doing a PhD at SFU!

We have a postdoc pos. available on the project NSF/FAPESP: The roles of stochasticity and spatial context in dynamics of functional diversity under global change. Apply here: sites.google.com/view/victorsai… With: @TadSiqueira @kurt_ecology @ProfEcology @psilotreta Please, retweet!

Meeting with the broadcast crew- in less than 3 months this stadium will be full of athletes for World Jr/U23 Champs! (PS if you’re interested in volunteering as a course controller, I’m still trying to fill out my team - get in touch. It’s a big but fun commitment.)

A postdoc position is now open in my lab! If you are interested in aquatic ecology, mountain lakes, & multiscale processes underlying ecosystem stability please get in touch recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF07952 Please RT!

@NasuaResearch @carlyziter Yes, I agree with all of this. I did a postdoc in Vancouver and was only paid $50k, post-PhD! And as a PI, I only receive $28k/year from NSERC to fund my research program (salaries/equipment/etc). More support is needed from multiple institutions (govt, unis).

@carlyziter @ChelskiLittle Also, universities can ground truth their estimates for the cost of living and adjust accordingly. Vancouver 4 example is very expensive, and even someone doing 40-50K will not have it as easy. Maybe having companies directly funding Ph.D. as future labor can help. IDK.

So far only one applicant from within 🇨🇦. Not sure if I’m advertising at the wrong time, if folks don’t want to stay in 🇨🇦 for a PhD, or if I just have zero name recognition. But if you have suggestions for how to reach 🇨🇦 masters students contemplating a PhD, I’m all ears!

The REM department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Indigenous Law & Environmental Planning! I'm happy to answer any questions about working at @SFU or in @SFU_REM. (I'm not on the search committee, just a colleague in the dept.) Please share widely! sfu.ca/rem/about-us/f…

@aamirmunir117 @Rassim_Kh Absolutely, Aamir! It sounds like you would be a strong applicant.

@Rassim_Kh MS environmental sciences having great academic record would be considered for this position?

An excellent PhD opportunity for many reasons! (1) The research group is great; (2) SFU is a fantastic place with many ecologists and evolutionary biologists doing interesting research; and (3) Burnaby/Vancouver are very nice places to live

@awesome_ama Unfortunately, there are no tuition waivers at SFU as far as I know. It makes the compensation even less competitive.

@ChelskiLittle Will the student pay tuition out of the compensation or there is a tuition waiver? Thank you!

@dr_bjcarr I don’t think we have seen extensive tree chewing! Which is a clue itself…

OK folks. can you help us? Is this a beaver or a nutria, and how can we tell? We keep looking for the tail... thanks from not-a-mammalogist! #IDthiscritter

@SJC_fishy @gkalinkat @EcoInvasions @DenisREALE Yes! I think this is part of the key, but as a new faculty member, I don’t quite have that network yet. One day!

@jetkerr Thank you!

@wishartae @this_is_farah I hope it does too! Thank you for your advocacy on this, I have been following, signing, and amplify. It’s a huge problem across the board.

@LJonasHamberg No offense taken. I was lucky to get a PhD offer in Switzerland and said yes for many reasons - the salary was among them. The compensation is an obvious reason.

@ChelskiLittle Because the compensation is too low to live on? For international applicants, part of the 'payment' is a Canadian work visa at the end. No offence, this is coming from a former international PhD in Canada.

@MiluElBarbaro Yes, I hesitated to tweet because I knew how it could be read. It's not that I prefer 🇨🇦 applicants, but I do consider it a potential problem if there are *NO* applicants from within the country. I want to know if it's something to do with me or evidence of issues in Canada.