Have lichens ever really been resynthesized from their symbiotic components in vitro? Depends on how you define “resynthesized” and “lichen”. Our new review out in @annualreviews.bsky.social

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Freshwater sponge experts, where you at?

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

This is so hard to grapple with. I know with everything else there is always so much to devote our attention to, but this is so ... big? Irredeemable?

In case you wanted some specifics on the Liberal 2025 budget cuts on the environment. thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...

Between this and the ransacking of confidential data, the theme this week for Canadian scientists: the Canadian government has no respect for you.

Things we can do about this situation: 1. Read & sign the open letter (the letter keeps crashing but names are still being collected): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #AcademicSky #CanPoli Thread, 1/n

a gross parliamentary overreach — article by @picardonhealth.bsky.social in the globe and mail; #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/91587b9...

HOMECOMING #formline Because the heart knows where it's home is, wherever it may be 🐺🌫️

I have this sentiment a lot these days

A neat idea, and ... I hope it means more doors will be made accessible in general. We have way too many that either don't have buttons, or the buttons don't work sometimes. news.uoguelph.ca/2024/10/u-of...

Well deserved! Congrats Dr. Murphy!! news.uoguelph.ca/2025/10/wate...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Especially given first nations are on the front lines of nearly every proposal put forth in Carney's big list of "nation building projects" (read as, "gifts to corporations, and the extractive class").

If it wasn't for individuals on Instagram, I'm pretty sure I would know almost nothing about what's happening in Palestine, Sudan, and Congo. It hits mainstream like a month later if ever.

Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation. Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.” doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Attn: Canadian researchers/ If you are looking for text/arguments to mix-n-match in a letter to your MP, the committee, Ministers, etc.. here is some. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Canadians 🇨🇦 - researchers and those who care about privacy and EDI - please read the thread that precedes this post and PLEASE sign the letter in the post below…

Here's a recording of my 10-minute presentation about addressing shared indoor air as an accessibility barrier in our learning environments. Feel free to share! youtu.be/HD0wVoN7Pr8

If you are a Canadian scientist 🧪 alarmed by the unfair targeting of academics working on research related to EDI in the US ➡️ Turn your attention to our own House of Commons' Standing Committee on Science and Research and consider signing this open letter: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Niche ask but does anyone personally or professionally know Marion Rankine, the author of Brolliology? I JUST WANNA TALK. bookshop.org/p/books/brol...

Does anyone have a good academic resource for citation counting best practices? I'm trying to include some counts for a project but numbers between e.g., Google Scholar and Web of Science are wildly different (can't access Scopus through my institution).

I don't think the vast majority of modern society is remotely aware of the amount of violence that was waged and overcome to get working conditions to where they have been for the last ~40 years or so. Labor Organizations were enterprises of *criminal conspiracy* when they began.

To all my trans siblings: I know times are dark and things are awful, but please, please stay with us. The world is better for you being in it and we want you here with us to share our celebrations when these monsters fall 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

This isn’t a real ceasefire in Gaza – it’s a holding pattern before war returns | Sanam Vakil

THIS: It’s the hole in every bucket! "People often think of climate change as a separate bucket at the end of a long row of other buckets of problems. ... Climate change is not a separate bucket. The reason we care about climate change is that it's the hole in every bucket." @katharinehayhoe.com

How the HELL are people just walking past this??? Do something! Get in their way! Form a wall! SOMETHING!!!

Only 14 hours left—please share. Nothing has changed when it comes to daily needs: these six families still face death by cold in thin tents this winter. They can't return to destroyed homes behind "yellow lines." They can't afford food. They need medical help. 0/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...

This is how you do it!!!

I know a lot of people (cough Millennials) feel like they need to START a thing, START a food bank, build a little free food pantry. My friends, my loves, my dears. Don't start. JOIN. These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!

Portable air filters clean indoor air from smoke, dust, pet dander, viruses, and more. They are cheap & simple to make — I’ve built several — and nearly silent to run. *There is no downside.* Should be in every workplace, community space, school, daycare, medical facility, & home.

Please share and donate if you can, Louay needs our help to take care of his family (including a new baby and his postpartum wife). Every little bit helps!!!

“More than 90% of housing units in Gaza are destroyed, and these people are going to need immediate, urgent shelter and shelter material, including winter clothes and blankets in the coming few weeks,” says UNRWA spokesperson Tamara Alrifai.

Bookmarked this for teaching but also for my own kid when he's old enough. "You'll probably forget most of what you learn, especially if you don't end up using it repeatedly in future. What you will always have, though, is the mind that taking the courses made."

Every time I learn about a new (to me) group of beetles I get a renewed appreciation for why Darwin was like "These things are GREAT".

So we start again… please share ❤️‍🩹 it’s every day, it’s all boldness, because it’s still survival. Six families & a camp rely on this link in ongoing famine, blockade, direct fire, displacement. Matching 215 for food, shelter, a C-section! 24 hours left ⚠️ 0/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...

Anybody else need a year off to just ... read.

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]: 1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]? 2. Who's already doing work around this injustice? 3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them? 4. How can I be constructive?

We can participate in democracy and be flawed while also having non-negotiable. No nazis. No racists. We aren’t abandoning trans people. Triple the minimum wage. Universal healthcare. Reproductive freedom. Etc etc etc. Stand for something! Appeasement accomplishes very little.

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Okay, I really like the motivation behind this approach. And ... How do we do it well? How do we ensure disabled/disadvantaged students aren't left behind? How do we sustainably assess work given large classes & few TAs? (genuinely asking and hoping for discussion) Ideas?

This is a story in which the vulnerable hurt the vulnerable. It's about power, attention, and group violence. It's also a story of race, girlhood, substance use, and growing up during COVID. I wrote about the killing of Kenneth Lee by eight teenage girls in downtown Toronto. A thread:

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Look all I'm doing is sharing, right? You can do that too, the more you amplify the more the good doctor's work pays dividends.

Instead of ripping speed cameras (i.e. safer driving cameras) away from school children, maybe Doug Ford could concentrate on fixing a problem that prevented family doctors from seeing an additional 58,000 patients last year? #OnPoli

AI makes effective science communication more difficult and more important than ever. More difficult because AI makes laypeople think they can bypass experts and interpret data for themselves. And more important because AI's errors threaten to further erode laypeople's trust in science itself.

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Please share ❤️‍🩹 Every hour, day, week—that’s our promise. Dependable support makes a difference to people’s survival; this is not immaterial. It’s food, shelter, baby & winter supplies for 6 families & a camp as the occupation extends its blockade. 10 hours left - 126/1000

From genocide to ecocide: After years of war, Gaza faces an environmental crisis ‘above imagination’ A new report by scientists in Israel details the emerging environmental crisis in Palestine. grist.org/internationa... #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Climate #Science #Environment