@stephenbpotter
Former Canadian Ambassador to Ecuador. Now retired. Previously in Ukraine, Tanzania, Honduras, Peru with Canadian International Development Agency. Also interested in mushrooms, birds, photography, music. Views my own.
Carleton is looking to hire an outstanding defence economist (and many other scholars) as part of the Canada Impact+ Research Chair program.
Please spread the word!
carleton.ca/deputyprovos...
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We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
La Bottine Souriante.
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Looking for an Indigenous 🇨🇦Canadian writer or narrative designer for consulting and/or collaboration on a game project.
Bsky, please help!
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Happy #InternationalPolarBearDay to the Arctic’s most iconic predator! 🐻❄️❄️💙
And not one of the polite ones. We’ve written a response to @nytimes.com’s Peter Baker and every other American who is taking the annexation of Canada as a fun thought experiment. Here in @foreignpolicy.com with my daughter @alicesouthey.com. Gift link.
Hoy es más importante que nunca dar voz a los ucranianos y a las ucranianas, silenciados por dos líderes autoritarios. Aquí una entrevista con @oonuch.bsky.social, una de las mujeres que más sabe sobre movimientos sociales en Ucrania. Por @mariaramirez.bsky.social www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
Our read of the evidence is similar to this paper: even with ambitious demand-side efforts (minimize food waste, shift high-meat diets toward plants, cut biofuels) there is still an “inescapable need for yield increases” to feed 9-10 billion people while halting biodiversity loss and climate change.
New report detailing Russia's systematic program of coerced adoption and fostering of Ukraine's children. This is likely to lead to new war crimes & crimes against humanity charges against Putin, Lvova-Belova & others. Madeline Babin, Isabel Gensler & I explain:
www.justsecurity.org/105372/hrl-r...
Today, @carbonbrief.org has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution.
The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...
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