Dr. Rebecca Rooney

A conifer tree made of boxes with smiling student faces peering out. Sparking reddish lights in the background and a sign beneath says Happy Holidays from WWL

Happy Holidays from the #WaterlooWetlandLab

Ran into Brian Chad Starks at #AGU24. He talked with my student and I about the importance of finding professors who have joy. Wow. Amazing point. brianchadstarks.com

Perlidae are some of the most striking! 😍😍😍

Haha. Know thine enemy

Canadian choice needs to be in Plecoptera. It’s totally our self conceit that 🇨🇦 Canada is a cold, clean, pure land and Canadians all have clever strategies for surviving winter ❄️ but only really emerge in the springtime 🌱🍃

I heard about this on (I think) the Daily podcast. Influencers talking up PET bottles as a health product! Influencer culture is another compelling reason we urgently need to teach young how to detect b#ll sh!t

This is extremely depressing

This is the cool nature info I needed to get motivated this morning. Thanks!

Hello. I hope you and your wallet survive this weekend’s paroxysm of consumption intact. Just keep reminding yourself that if you didn’t need it before it was 30% off, you still don’t NEED it. Good luck!

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A piece of Hydrilla on the left and native Elodea on the right in the palm of a hand face up over a green grass lawn

Also, bit late, but let me share the sad news that we also found invasive Hydrilla in Ontario Canada this summer 😭. It is in a contained impoundment and treatment has already begun. We’re hopeful it won’t spread, but keep yer eyes peeled 👀 folks and be sure to clean, drain, dry! #invasivespecies

I’ve logged back in, so let me promote our latest paper on the pesticides in stormwater ponds that accumulate in biofilms —> turns out those biofilms are bad food for bugs! #ecology #biodiversity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hi Bluesky! I’m getting so many notifications from you all of a sudden. Is this a final death rattle from X?

Event happening Nov 5 in Waterloo - come watch the Signal Fire documentary about 10 Calls to Action for Natural Scientists to advance #reconciliation with #Indigenous peoples. Please share widely! It is an excellent film 🎥

I’m a mother of three, a tenured professor, a grown ass adult. But I’m still not wise enough to stop eating salt and vinegar chips before my tongue blisters. Nope. 😝🩹😢

Study sheds new light on how Scotland's beavers interact with the environment A study by the University of Stirling has shed new light on how beavers reintroduced to Scotland indirectly interact with deer—and the implications for the woodlands they share.

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Thanks. I’m really dismayed that someone would set fire to the site. We are stunned really

We will definitely need a before and after. Sadly, we don’t exactly have a control to pair to our impact. This site was the largest single release location in North America. Priceless.

We will take stock of the damage and consider creative pivots. But it is blow to the PhD, whose comp exam is in a couple weeks 😭.

Burned vegetation and melted plot markers

Blackened remains of a research plot

Heartbroken this morning to discover some vandal set fire to one of our main research plots. We are studying the efficacy of biocontrol in controlling invasive Phragmites. Years of research in ash. 💔

CHICAGO!! Turn off any non essential lights the next three nights! HUGE HUGE HUGE MIGRATION NIGHTS!! Help the birds!!

Let's Talk About Wetlands! - Waterloo Region Nature Dr. Rebecca Rooney is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo. Rebecca carries out research in wetland ecology and is a world expert on biomonitoring and wetl...

If you’re looking for a fun #EarthDay2024 event tonight in the Waterloo Region, come see my talk about #wetlands and why we need strong municipal protections as the province abdicates responsibility for their conservation. Promises to be a great date night! 🌎🧪💕.

🎵If I had a (100) million $, I’d invest it in #GreatLakes Science 🧪 🎵. If I had a (100) million $, I’d buy you a new research vessel… and a centre of excellence! 🎵 Happy #EarthDay2024 Great Lakes Deserve Great #Science!

Yes. I got the take away that reforestation can do a lot to offset GHG emissions and we can do a lot to mitigate climate change. 🙏🌎🙏

Well, if you read the original, have the context that he meant it satirically to point out the inhumanity of the English and the destitution of the Irish. Like “oh the little ice age was triggered by the genocide of Indigenous People’s in N America? So, it’s a climate change mitigation strategy?“ 😳

Beige wool pants I had taken in and the rise shortened

A structured wool jacket seen from behind - I had it taken in.

Do you have clothes 👗 in your closet you don’t wear because they don’t quite fit? Don’t buy new! Take them to a tailor and have them altered. This supports a local business, keeps jobs in your community, reduces waste & your environmental 🌎 footprint and it even saves money 💵 🥳! #EarthDay2024

I just listened to RadioLab’s latest episode on small potatoes, and then ate a bowl of mashed potatoes for lunch. It’s the zeitgeist.

I mean, I admit my reference was a little dated 🤓

I can see how Taylor is the much more popular Swift.

I was thinking of Jonathan Swift’s 1729 essay that satirically suggested the Irish sell their children to the wealthy English landowners as food to simultaneously solve the overpopulation and poverty crises in Ireland.