Peek a boo!

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Lovely sunset over Halifax last evening.

Truth and Reconciliation happens every day. Honoured to have a kitpu eagle feather in our ENVS lab at @smuscience.bsky.social.

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Not all claws are created equal - meet the invasive crayfish crew of Michigan. 📣 Check out our Great Lakes Almanac to Invasive Crayfish and learn how to tell these invaders apart from our friendlier native crawdads. 👉 bit.ly/crayfishalma...

That time of the year when grass glisten with early Fall dew. Can you see the little glimpse of the red leaf, a sign of the coming season?

Tobacco plant in bloom! (Nicotiana tabacum). This is a part of our Indigenous medicine plant project in our Environmental Science spaces at @smuscience.bsky.social.

A little orbweaver spider tending to its cocoon on the tip of a tomato leaf.

Well-managed urban stormwater ponds can be places of refuge and beauty. Here, a pair of pelicans has been in this naturalized stormwater pond for several weeks. Info (set location to Edmonton): www.epcor.com/ca/en/ab/edm...

Feeling adventurous? Trade your hiking boots for beachcombing shoes 🌊 Nova Scotia's coastline is a rockhound's paradise, filled with geological treasures just waiting to be discovered. "Fundy Field Notes: A Very Amateur Guide to Rockhounding in Nova Scotia." museum.novascotia.ca/blog/fundy-f...

A little wooly bear caterpillar nom-nomming its way in the N Saskatchewan River valley! 🌿🐛😋🧡🖤 Think this is Spotted Tussock Moth bugguide.net/node/view/5241

The Walrus is currently accepting applications for the @CIBC Digital Fellowship for Emerging Black Journalists. This paid, 16-month role offers focused mentorship and skill development in digital journalism. Apply by Friday, August 8. #CdnMediaJobs thewalrus.ca/about/careers/

One might think that Nazi crimes and palaeontology never overlapped, and yet... Have you ever wondered what happened to tens of palaeontologists & geologists in the Nazi-occupied Poland? How academics helped to bring down the fascist regime. And a curious story of Schindler-equivalent in geology. 🧵

Hi! We're the Halifax Humanities Society, a non-profit organization that offers free, non-credit, university-level humanities courses to adults who are facing barriers to traditional education. Visit us at www.halifaxhumanitiessociety.ca to learn more about this life-changing initiative.

One of our monarchs posing on the butterfly weed along with many bumblebees. Loving the orange on orange effect here! 🧡🦋🏵️

An albino squirrel at Frog Pond, Halifax. 🤩 🐿 🤍

##bloomscrolling with the bumblebees.

Ohio farmland being reclaimed as wetlands to protect Great Lakes water quality. www.farmanddairy.com/news/northwe...

We're now entering peak cyanobacteria season. Please do pay attention and protect your pets. HRM lakes with beaches are monitored for potentially toxic blue-green algae during when there's lifeguards on duty. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov... #Halisky

An interactive article about PFAS in the Great Lakes. Toxic chemicals are polluting ... newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/202...

Missed the webinar? The recording is now available! Learn how to plan your publication, select the right journal, write clear titles and abstracts, and navigate Open Access publishing. 📽️▶️ buff.ly/iYbfBsA #ResearchSkills #OpenAccess #ECRs #AcademicWriting

Watching the hummingbirds side-eye us humans from the tomatoes between feeding trips. They rested more than usual, probably because of the wind.

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What a dehydrated tobacco leaf looks like! I was curious to see how this method worked out. Leaf is very brittle and there is a nice herbal smell. I will look into proper air curing methods in early Fall when the weather is drier (it's too humid now).

Preparing one of my tobacco leaves for drying. Single leaf will barely fit!

Our little white sage seedling is growing up!

A great move toward accessibility in Nova Scotia! A new standard to make goods and services more accessible for people with disabilities. NS'ians, YOUR Feedback is needed! Learn more: nsaccessibilityboard.ca/accessibilit... ASL video: vimeo.com/1094743445/e... #halisky

Mallory is studying plankton for her @smuscience.bsky.social honours thesis this summer. Here's a sneak peek at some of her samples! (Hastily taken by hand through a microscope using a phone camera. We'll have better images coming soon!)

Constellation of yellow flowers. ✨️✨️🌿

Little green plants. 💚

Our tobacco (Nicotiana rustica) plant is flowering! ##bloomscrolling

Little friends in the garden! Think this is a goldenrod crab spider.... bugguide.net/node/view/47... #bloomscrolling

A natty cat attired in NS tartan colours seen this morning near Quinpool in Halifax.

Kaitlyn Kerr prepared this Facebook post on request for one of our Waverley community partners, Macdonald Sports Park, so I thought I'd also share this here too! It's about Kaity's @smuscience.bsky.social graduate research project. www.facebook.com/mcdonaldspor...

Time for #bloomscrolling!

The "big 4" sewing pattern brands now owned by a liquidator. craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa.... 😕 I remember buying and using sewing patterns for different projects in my Home Ec classes. 👗👕👚🛍️

Like taking photos of mushrooms and other fungi? Then consider uploading those to the Mycomap! mycota.com/the-mycomap-... Halifax has an interesting range of Amanita mushrooms, plus you can look for specific fungi which has strong associations with certain tree species! 🍄

Met a bull snake today. I think I disturbed its peaceful sunning. 🤭

Eggshell.

Congratulations to Samuel Sequeira who will be representing Faculty of Science at Saint Mary's University, Halifax at the eastern Canada Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition! His MSc thesis research: "Jumping into danger: Mercury, fungus, and the frog crisis". news.smu.ca/news/2025/4/...

A good news story! East Coast bat populations are recovering from the invasive fungus that ravaged them over the last two decades. Recent Saltscapes column by Bob Bancroft.

Here's my fave amaryllis grown by @lmcampbell.bsky.social 📸in the evening 🌞. The flowerheads are small-ish but fit together lovely. There's a second stem ready to bloom just below the top spray as well. Had no idea they can live for 70+ years if well cared for! #bloomscrolling #photography

Shiny! I 💛 how yellow birch can look so polished in the sun.

Snailshell bees. 💚

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Peek a boo. Seen on Doyle Street in Halifax.