Map of Great Lakes Areas of Concern on the Canada.ca website
Cover of the textbook: Contemporary Project Management: Plan-driven and Agile Approaches
🌀 I’m grateful for a new contract & course and happy with my first report & half term but whoa, I’m READY for reading week!!
Moths in shades of pink and vines in shades of tan surrounding “I dwell in possibility” quote by Emily Dickinson
I dwell in possibility written in cursive from bottom to top on the left of the poem I dwell in Possibility - A fairer House than Prose - More numerous of Windows - Superior - for Doors - Of Chambers as the Cedars - Impregnable of eye- And for an everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky - Of Visitors - the fairest - For Occupation - This - The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise - Emily Dickinson
May you dwell in the possibilites for 2026!
- And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky
(Artwork by thewheatfield)
If you are working on developing a consortium to respond to the upcoming call HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-01 Understanding and tackling the decline of insects ... please get in touch www.sib.swiss/environmenta...
Photo of a bunny (snowshoe hare) trail through green Sphagnum moss. The trail is lined with red bog bolete mushrooms.
A mushroom-lined bunny trail through Sphagnum moss. Newfoundland, Canada.
#mushroom #fungi #fungifriends #moss #bryophyte #bolete
Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology
Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
The combination of unique politics, climate change, and bad luck have brought a true drought emergency to Tehran.
"Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that Tehran’s residents would have to ration water—and eventually evacuate the capital—if there was no rain by late November."
Graphical abstract shaped like a spiderweb with the following figure heading: "Ecosystem services provided by spiders. These services are categorised into four main types: (I) Provisioning; (II) Regulating; (III) Supporting; and (IV) Cultural."
Happy Hallowe'en! 🎃
Spiders 🕷️ aren't scary, of course, but one of their "ecosystem services" is providing a bit of spookiness 🕸️ to this evening.
Here are a bunch of other great things that our little eight-legged friends do for us:
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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A biodiverse world outside creates a healthy microbiome inside.
The same conditions that let wildlife thrive also keeps people healthy.
Fascinating article from @phoebeweston.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"there are sobering signs that the world continues to warm, leading to devastating effects for millions of people."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...
💕 Thanks for all you taught us
I like this piece, and I like doing sci comm. But I also think it’s not fair to demand every subject matter expert also be public-facing. Some people are really good at doing and that’s enough. We need more economically viable jobs for full-time sci comm to bridge findings from experts to public.
❗️Check out a “Draw the Line” event near you this Saturday #Canada❗️
🎶 This song is reminicent of the Harper Government
Carney’s plan - Fossil fuel & nuclear infrastructure, port expansion for long distance transport of goods, and mining:
Https://lnkd.in/gZrUZhPq
www.youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...
Oo, kudos @utoronto.ca !
"First of its kind new animal law program at U f T 'a long time coming'" - CBC News
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
To any of my fellow science educators, you have to give @skypeascientist.bsky.social a try. They match your class up with a practicing scientist. It has been an awesome experience for my kids. Seriously, sign up for one. You won’t regret it.
#teach180 #edusky
Final @laurierbiology.bsky.social seminar posters is! #SciArt
Three individuals wearing "Project Serve" t-shirts are working outdoors, shovelling soil into a wheelbarrow under a sunny sky.
Project Serve is back for its 28th year! This Saturday, Sept. 13, hundreds of #UofG students, staff and faculty will support more than 20 local organizations, making a meaningful impact together.
Learn more and sign up to volunteer: uoguel.ph/uqof6
Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR
Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
See you there #Guelph #UofG
Same
(Starts at 11 but started at 10 last term)
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All the Trees are Turning Gold
Lee Munn
2023
Conestoga College getting a new President really represents the end of an epoch. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Curious to know if you live in an area with high PM2.5 pollution? You can filter our Watershed Pollution Map to show that. The dark purple areas have low levels, light blues have some, + yellow areas have high levels of PM2.5.
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Shame on the Ford government and the municipality. And shame on dishonest realtors that are knowingly selling property without disclosing it’ll soon be surrounded by gravel pits! I wish I’d become a lawyer instead of a scientist.
McGowan Falls in Durham
Recently sold tiny house on the Rocky Saugeen River slated to be sandwiched between two gravel pits
Headwaters of the Rocky Saugeen River
🏡 Durham is such a nice area - rolling farmland between rivers and forests
💔 Brutal how many gravel pits are going in WAY too close to the headwaters of the Great Lakes
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I don’t even want to guess how this interacts with wildfire smoke. 🌎
Wide maple tree with a pond in the background
My classroom has a view of the pond this term. Too bad the windows don’t open.
