Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

🤝 The climate crisis demands transdisciplinary teamwork—scientists, artists, communities, and engineers. #Bio-inspired design could be a key 🪲 Learn more: doi.org/10.3390/biom...

A call for bio-inspired technologies! 🪱 A teaspoon of soil holds more life than there are humans on Earth—yet <1% of biomimetic studies focus on soil. Time to change that. Check out our new article: doi.org/10.3390/biom...

The stupidest timeline. Sigh.

Canadians: This is the most important petition before the HoC Please sign it. We need to mandate honesty and accountability from our MPs. #cdnpoli www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

So many and diverse collaborators in www.manufacturedecosystems.com #ManufacturedEcosystems - some on @bsky.app some not @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social @dawnbazely.bsky.social @danielgillis.ca @nikzam.bsky.social @marklipton.bsky.social @anibalhcastillo.bsky.social @lectio.bsky.social

Deliciously Exhausted Pies and pies and more pies. Also crisps and other things!

Artist Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social imagines a future with Robobees as she shares both the science and the art of #ManufacturedEcosystems A truly impactful Artist Talk 🧪🎨 Funding by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca /New Frontiers in Research youtu.be/bfEp13Yxcgs

#HigherEd gold! 👇

Artist @melaniebarnett.bsky.social takes us on a sculpted journey of Climate Apocalypse, Agroecology, and Shelterbelts Agro systems have always been #ManufacturedEcosystems A truly brilliant Artist Talk 🧪🎨 Funding by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/New Frontiers in Research youtu.be/NLriORu88zw

The stupidest timeline marches on…

Classes are about to start, and in #BIOL1500, I invite students to attend a tech-check for our synchronous, virtual course A lot goes into creating virtual spaces that can spark learning Here's the front and back of house: What students experience vs My #HigherEd set up

📣A Call for Bio-Inspired Technologies Climate crises will require partnership with new technologies We cannot use the tools that we used to create the crisis Check out this team of #Transdisciplinary scholars Join #ManufacturedEcosystems 🧪 www.mdpi.com/2313-7673/10...

Sabbatical 2.0 Today marks the start of my second sabbatical!

Wanderlust On Sabbatical SABBATICAL!!!!!!

Critical collapse of ocean currents www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Congrats Izabela Congrats to PhD student Izabela Savić. She has received an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship to support her doctoral research using linguistic analysis to better understand dark web topologies.

I am really tired of this timeline.

Opening slide for our first faculty meeting of the semester…

Orientation Week at #UofG begins on Saturday, August 30, with hundreds of events lined up to kick off the new school year! New students will have the chance to connect, explore campus, and get involved as they start their university journey. Learn more: uoguel.ph/z4zqw

Wasn’t That A Party! I've double checked the math, and it's legit - I'm 50!

What an epic way to turn 50. RAWR! If this makes you smile, consider donating to one of four awesome orgs bringing smiles to people in Guelph. Links to donate can be found in the quoted post. Help me raise $50k for my 50th birthday. #Dans50thBash

What an epic way to turn 50. RAWR! If this makes you smile, consider donating to one of four awesome orgs bringing smiles to people in Guelph. Links to donate can be found in the quoted post. Help me raise $50k for my 50th birthday. #Dans50thBash

And now I’m 49.997260 - which means the campaign is still going. Donate today if you can. #Dans50thBash

I am roughly 49.994521 years old today - so there’s still time to donate to my campaign to raise $50k to support several awesome local charitable organizations for my 50th birthday. #Dans50thBash

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

📣Working on tech that supports, enhances, or replaces failing ecosystem services? 🌱 Submit your work to our upcoming special issue. #Biomimetics #Ecosystems #Biomimicry #NatureInspiredSolutions #ManufacturedEcosystems 🔄 Please share to help us reach more innovators 🧪

Dear web designers - if your system "times out" even though I'm actively using it - requiring me to log back in - you really should consider protecting the data that I've painstakingly entered before being booted. Losing it all is an epic design fail. Thank you for coming to my wee rant.

The campaign continues. Help me raise $50k for four charitable orgs. Details below!

Sobeys, Loblaws, Metro: All caught by the CBC mislabelling American food as Canadian. If you're trying to shop local, this matters. Here's how to fight back. #BuyCanadian #Never51 #cdnpoli ✅ My newsletter and links → beacons.ai/todmaffin

Yikes.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Honduras reinstates mask mandate as COVID cases spread. anewz.tv/health/healt...

Make today brighter. Support my campaign to raise $50k for my 50th bday by donating to these charities (add #Dans50thBash in comment section): GNSC: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities... GWWIC: give.stratly.com/guelph-welli... RCS: www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/122347 SEED: theseedguelph.ca/donate/

Make today brighter. Support my campaign to raise $50k for my 50th bday by donating to these charities (add #Dans50thBash in comment section): GNSC: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities... GWWIC: give.stratly.com/guelph-welli... RCS: www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/122347 SEED: theseedguelph.ca/donate/

Dear NFRF team - this question runs counter to the idea of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work. I shouldn't be forced to pick one agency. I should be allowed to pick all that apply. cc: @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social #CanadianResearch #CanadianFunding #HigherEd

Faculty should get service credit for all the time we spend dealing with messes executive administration makes

Summer Sky A.J. Casson 1955

About to board a flight piloted by my bestie. After knowing her for 35+ years, and travelling together many times, this is the first time she’s flying me home. ❤️

“Flexible schedule” in academia means you are free to work whenever you feel guilty.

📢It’s official! SSHRC Insight grant announcement and we’re so excited about The Future of Farming with PI Andria Jones Thank you for stream B ($$$) funding and for the chance to imagine a future in the context of climate adaptation #ManufacturedEcosystems #Transdisciplinary

So long Stockholm. You were even better than I expected! Thanks for a fun few nights. Off to Tallinn!

American friends, do know many Canadian universities will still accept applications for fall entry? I'm Dean of an excellent College of Arts at a beautiful university in a small very safe city. And we're not far from the US border. www.uoguelph.ca/admission/un...

History will not and should not be kind to the people making these decisions. Trans lives matter.

Vacation auto-reply engaged.

Happy Canada Day all y’all.

My family immigrated. I support First Nations, Inuit, Métis peoples’ rights. I stand on guard for all freedoms. I provide gender-affirming care. I support reproductive choice. I’ve paddled lakes and oceans, hiked tundra, mountains, forests, prairies, protect nature. I am Canadian. Happy #CanadaDay

Happy Canada Day - July 1, 2025 - 158 years #Canada #ViveLeCanada 🍁💪🏻