We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

A while ago, my institution deep-sixed the servers that used to host lab websites. I recently discovered that you can host websites for free at Github so, after diving back into HTML and refreshing content, the SM Vamosi site is back! ☺️ smvamosi.github.io

Spotted this lovely large boulder the size of a small boulder on a recent walk through Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park

“We’re looking at the hypothesis of organized crime” — what’s the null? www.cbc.ca/news/world/p...

Ok, this is a pretty cool email auto reply: “I am at sea until [redacted]. My replies will be delayed.”

We are conducting a short survey (5–10 minutes) to explore how different #stakeholders perceive the value of #biodiversity in #urban #ponds. 🦆🐸🪷Scan the QR-code or click the link ( forms.gle/tBV4zunkfYEp... ) to participate in our survey. Thank you 😊

POSTING: @ubcoceans.bsky.social and @eoas.ubc.ca are recruiting for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Ocean Ecological Modelling. Associate #Professor or Professor, with tenure. Deadline: September 12, 2025 research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...

There are 100s of 1000s of acres of NF lands that look like this (more every day) -- unnaturally heavy, continuous fuels created bc of logging practices, not from fire suppression -- ready to explode in the next fire event. Yet all we'll hear about is lack of logging and suppression as the problem.🌏

I’ve gotten used to seeing AB push polls but Alberta Next “consultation” is outrageous. Just did the immigration one. From the very first sentence being a lie (no, we don’t have an open border policy) to options all having nudges, a dumpster fire in survey design top to bottom.

Did you know that Canada is home to more lakes than the rest of the world combined? With over two million lakes, our country holds nearly 20% of the planet’s fresh water. From the iconic Great Lakes to alpine gems, there’s no shortage of beautiful places to paddle, fish, or just take in the view.

I always suspected that the “live free or die” folks south of the border had a pretty narrow zone of concern when it came to that concept, and their silence in the face of random arrests of actual US citizens speaks volumes

After a judicial recount the riding of Terrbonne has flipped back to the Liberals from the Bloc. The margin of victory is a single vote. One. Vote. LPC now at 170 seats with three more ridings being recounted this week. (LPC holds two of them so they could drop from 170 or go as high as 171)

Profoundly relieved that @mark-carney.bsky.social is our PM, & so proud that Canada didn’t follow the U.S. down the MAGA road. Carney handled Trump exactly how I hoped—and expected—he would: calm, polite, forceful. I hope the cons recognize he is a very different person than Trudeau. #canadastrong

Please apply for this open position for a senior scientist at our faculty. It is the head of the mass spec center and you will be my close colleague! Application Deadline:8.5.2025 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

Plans to lower costs, plans for higher wages. And some of it, like eliminating the carbon tax, is already underway. Mark Carney has put together a smart new platform that makes life more affordable in Canada.

📖 Woke | wōk | Verb : Aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts, issues and discrimination (especially issues of racial and social justice) Synonyms: Aware, conscious, evolved Antonyms: Ignorant, unaware, close-minded Stay woke. Stay wide awake. Snooze, you lose. #neverpoilievre

More important than buying Canadian. More important than boycotting America and its products. More important than boycotting Tesla. It’s getting the non-Con vote to the polls and make damn sure every single one votes. That’s the REAL challenge I’m throwing down for Canada. #cdnpoli #elxn45

I’m recruiting a PhD student in macrogenetics at Dalhousie University 🇨🇦! Focus will be on the biogeography of vertebrate genetic diversity or urban evolutionary ecology. Full ad: www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/macrogenetic... If the ad is up, applications are still open. Please share widely! 🧬🧬

Your vote could be the one that makes the difference in Calgary Confederation! Vote for Corey Hogan as the practical choice to be our voice in a Mark Carney Liberal majority government. #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦 @coreyhogan.ca #MarkCarney #Calgary #yyc #yycConfed #Alberta #Canada #cdnpoli 🇨🇦

“Mark Carney framed his fiscal & spending plan on Saturday in terms of a crisis — "the biggest crisis of our lifetimes…” "In a crisis …the private sector retreats, & government needs to step up. Government must lead & catalyze private investment." Costed platform. Still just slogans from Pierre.

Voted! Eleven minutes in total, and that included the walk from my house and back 🇨🇦

~Please, don't split the vote!

We're Hiring for 8 Positions!! Interested in conducting research on nature based solutions in Canada's coastal ecosystems? Blue Carbon Canada is recruiting 3 PDFs & 5 PhD students for Sept. 2025 in partnership w @wwfcanada.org www.bluecarboncanada.ca/were-recruit... Open to int'l scholars Pls repost

“The Conservatives claimed that the Edmonton-area rally was attended by 15,000 people, for example. CBC News counted roughly 1,558 in one panorama photo shared by the campaign”

Outside His Political Base, a Canadian’s Trumpian Pitch Is a Harder Sell www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/w...

Help us continue and expand our high-caliber experiential learning opportunities in the mountains! 🌎 🧬 Direct link to the Fund’s page: give.ucalgary.ca/schools/Univ...

Please consider donating to the Biogeoscience Institute Impact Fund so we can support another 75 years (!) of high-caliber research, education, and outreach in the Canadian Rockies (type "biogeo" in Search and Select a Cause box). Any support is greatly appreciated! give.ucalgary.ca/giving-day-2...

Two NZ geckos marked by the legendary Tony Whitaker have been recaptured - some 60 years later. 🌏🧪🦎

YMMV but: in hindsight, I should more quickly returned to pre-Big Pause average number of days on campus In my nice but somewhat plain office, I don’t have dogs, cat, kitchen, laundry, deliveries, etc. to distract me, plus I guarantee some time outside as I walk to and from work #academia

Alberta nature-lovers, please consider providing your input on the Plan for Parks by August 18: #Alberta #Parks www.alberta.ca/plan-for-par...

Although it’s gotten better, I still don’t think we talk enough about the emotional impacts of rejection in academia. I just had two grants rejected in two days, including my five-year NSERC DG renewal application, and I’m absolutely devastated #AcademicSky 🌎 🧪 🧬

Meanwhile, the headline article of UToday, my institution's daily newsletter: www.ucalgary.ca/news/oil-and...

The highs and lows of winter field work in the mountains #AcademicSky 🧬 🧪 🌎

So many fails in this spam conference invite — among other things, it’s not every day that I get addressed as “Dear <paper title>” #AcademicSky

With today’s big announcement, it will be interesting to see how this site fares over the long run. For me personally, I’m still feeling “once bitten, twice shy” when it comes to the level of engagement I can muster #AcademicSky

I’m “friends of my eldest child want to do an independent research project with me” years old 😁 🌎 🧬 🧪

Especially in an era where PIs are being recognized for HQP mentoring and solo author papers are no longer The Big Thing™️, why are some of y’all so stingy/difficult about including undergrads who significantly help collect or process samples, video footage, data, etc. as coauthors on manuscripts? 🧪

Unexpected consequence of working out for over a year: a stack of clothing (mostly pants, some sweaters) that no longer fits. Too tight in the thighs, waist, and forearms! Guess I will be clothing shopping in the new year! 💪😁

Grades submitted!! ✨✨✨

This discovery from a journal review invite is too good not to share. I checked out their site & they offer a "no quality compromised" expedited review process out of the goodness of their, uh, (checks notes) bank account, asking only an extra $30 USD. And I love the Gmail address they sniped 😆 🧪

I love academics AND tunnel vision is a thing. In all the good discussion about needing to move all the time, many lose sight of the fact that academia isn't unique. Doctors, vets, folks in trades and law enforcement, etc. often need to move to remote communities before working in a bigger city 🧪

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On the occasion of International Mountain Day: mountains are the world’s “water towers”, supplying ~50% of the world’s population with fresh water, and have become my favourite place to play and conduct research

PhD funding available! Based at the University of Aberdeen, with me, Isabella Capellini, Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, and Justin Travis, come combine anthropology and evolutionary biology to study the international pet trade! 🦜🐒🦎 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Lots of legitimate issues with academia, but I'd love to hear things folks like about their chosen career For me, a huge + is agency to study questions & species of my choosing, including predation, hybrid fitness, range expansion in plants, insects, amphibians, fish, beavers 🌎 🧬 🧪 #academicsky

Please consider supporting this GoFundMe for Dr. Sheila Colla, who is fighting a rare aggressive cancer. www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh... Sheila is a force in Canadian ecology and I know we're all rooting for her!

Given the uproar over ResearchGate and MDPI partnering up, one wonders whether direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... paves the way for folks stepping away from publishing in Nature 🤔

Apparently being a faculty member who understands that flattened enrolments combined with rising costs will sometimes prompt an institution to restructure things is enough to catch me a block 🤷‍♂️

With just over 800 students at this private US college that currently has (from their website) “20+ majors, 20+ concentrations, 30+ minors”, it’s not hard to understand why they might want to streamline some things

My friend and fellow conservation scientist Sheila has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, and her partner is quitting his job to take care of her. If you can spare any funds to help their family, I and they would appreciate it. @savewildbees.bsky.social