As a scientist who sampled the Great Lakes from the surface & shoreline, I am really looking forward to watching @hiddenbelow.bsky.social's deep-water documentary when it comes out! www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Mineralogy and geochemistry in a tube! Nice explainer 👇 🎨🖌🔬 #sciart

Fungi on snags.

Residents along Lake Victoria are protesting a government plan to build a 2,000-megawatt nuclear plant. While officials call it a green transition, a local petition warns of displacement, radioactive waste risks, and threats to Africa’s largest freshwater lake. mongabay.cc/UMzcWB

Sampling on a centennial scale! This will produce important results for a globally significant lake. 🐟💙

Our biennial shoe review! We require everyone to bring clean shoes for our @smuscience.bsky.social DEEHR Cleanroom Lab. But sometimes shoes go unlabelled - then their owners graduate... Robin made a grid to make sure we don't donate current members' shoes by mistake. Whose shoes are yours?

When you see a colleague face discrimination in a public professional setting it's never comforting to come up to them after the fact to offer support. Do it during the instance. Suppport them publicy.

Our first daffodil of the season! 💛💚

Canada appears water rich, yet much of its supply flows north, away from population centres, while groundwater is overdrawn and polluted—and policy gaps and climate stress are compounding risk. Writer Christopher Pollon explores: https://ow.ly/u5pA50YPwNR

Can't wait to use the water taxi service!🚕🌊

Every day is Earth Day. 🌎💙

All toads are the most beautiful toads. 🐸💚

Beautiful science visualization! 🤩

#bloomscrolling 💜💛

Going through old photos. I just realized that this tree may be dropping a hint about the need for "tree cleaning".... Seen near Quinpool (Halifax)

Craptions. Saving those excellent Tubi AI-generated captions for advocacy. Thank you @pigslaundry.bsky.social for sharing!

Love those types of resources. Labour of love, very useful and rich with knowledge. Saving for our taxonomy key training modules. 💙🦂🧐 🧪 🌏

Urban trees maintained by @hfxgov.bsky.social, mapped by @justbartek.ca. While it doesn't document ALL trees, patterns can be seen. Downtown HFX & Woodside appear to be relatively tree-less. Tree species planted each side of Northwest Arm are different. 🧐🌳🌲💚🌎 justbartek.ca/hfxtrees/ #Halisky

Taxonomist Appreciation Day post I am in freakin' AWE of people doing primary taxonomic work. To do it well, you need deep scholarship to track past naming (and misnaming) efforts. You may need to hunt down specimens only to discover they are damaged, misindentified, or lost. 1/3

Disabled chemists face avoidable barriers in labs, turning routine tasks into major challenges #DisabledInSTEM The @rsc.org Disability-Inclusive Laboratories Report shares experiences of disabled scientists & practical ways to make labs more accessible & inclusive #InclusiveLabsRSC 🔗 rsc.li/4saDTrC

Last Saturday, I found myself near Quinpool (Halifax) in the snowstorm and enjoyed how the snow interacted with the murals and sights. I appreciate the artistry shown in the murals along (and off) the Quinpool. More details: quinpoolroad.ca/business-on-...

Half and half. We are definitely between seasons, moving from winter to spring. Seen at Oakfield.

Important Transport Canada survey - do fill out if you ever have been affected by (unnecessarily) high-powered vehicle headlights in Canada. 😵‍💫🔦🚙 Thank you.

Now I believe spring is really coming. 💛💚

Alternative career for PhD ecologists. www.ign.com/articles/the... 🧪🌎🌳🤗

If stable isotopes are part of your research, they should be one of your strengths — not something you “sort of” understand. That’s why I built this course.

Nice to see all the #hfxws data on a single map for Halifax, Dartmouth and HRM! Many thanks to @danp.net for developing this tool. Bookmarking. snowhfx.danp.net

Last week, Dr. Jess Younker and Mallory Jarvis headed out for winter lake sampling when the ice was nice and thick. Our team were sampling for the "Project Thin Ice", a global phytoplankton research program & added our own zooplankton biomonitoring. @smuscience.bsky.social

✨ March Public Lecture - Free & Open to All! ✨ Join the Nova Scotian Institute of Science on Monday, March 2nd for another exciting public lecture! Taking place online via Zoom and in-person at Dalhousie University. @dalhousie.bsky.social

Puddles, ice and snow. Halifax in late February. 🌲❄️💧💚

✨Those who live in Nova Scotia, your feedback is needed!✨ Public consultations on the draft accessibility standards for 📝Information & Communication 🚌Public Transportation. Info & registration (with dates): accessibility-engagement.ca/consultation #halisky

Government, academic, industry and nonprofit scientists all have important roles. We need all of them for a thriving healthy Canada. Losing so many federal scientists is not good for our country. www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton...

Snowed In #oldknees

Another snow day! Love the interesting tracks.

UPDATE: Due to weather conditions, we’ve made the decision to move tonight’s talk entirely online. The event will now take place on Zoom instead of the original location at St. FX. We hope you’ll still be able to join us virtually this evening!

Really looking forward to working with the @contaminantsenvsoc.bsky.social team in 2026. Already seeing some very interesting manuscripts coming in. If you and your team investigates contaminants / ecotoxicology with societal aspects, do consider submitting your MS's to this journal!

Can any of those two words be combined in a phrase for more specificity? 🤔

Tonight's the night! Link to register: discojourno.com/event/dja-co... This month’s gathering will include a training session on how media workers can enter into or sustain themselves in the audio production world through a disability-led lens. It will be presented by DJA’s Ariana Martinez.

Weirdos doing their thing during early Cambrian! burgess-shale.rom.on.ca

Snow day today. Colours and scenes change so much, showing beauty in unexpected places.

Perfect post for an ecologist to read on a snow day!

Abundant Eocene fossils of plants and animals are found in the Green River Formation of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. This fossil Pseudosalix Hanleyi, with stems, leaves and flowers preserved, is harder to find than a T-rex tooth!

Celebrating that Samuel Sequeira has gotten @smuscience.bsky.social honours thesis on chironomid ecotoxicology published in a peer-review journal! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

are YOU a university professor, professor emeriti or associate professor of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion? Did you know you can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize?

RONA in Halifax on Almon Street accepts these fluorescent bulbs for recycling ♻️ #Halifax #NovaScotia Ban on fluorescent bulbs 💡 Link here www.productcare.org/recycling-lo...

Ok, but Global News is also still on X so… Journalists still being on X is one of the reasons government is still on X

This is a lovely infographic about goldenrod crab spiders by @amypteridae.bsky.social! I have been following them in my garden - see: bsky.app/profile/lmca...

It is fun to see the shapes and forms ice takes when freezing along moving streams!

Radon is an issue in many parts of Nova Scotia. novascotia.ca/nse/environm... Great infographic below by @compoundchem.com !

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