Happy Holidays from the #WaterlooWetlandLab

Ran into Brian Chad Starks at #AGU24. He talked with my student and I about the importance of finding professors who have joy. Wow. Amazing point. brianchadstarks.com

Hello. I hope you and your wallet survive this weekend’s paroxysm of consumption intact. Just keep reminding yourself that if you didn’t need it before it was 30% off, you still don’t NEED it. Good luck!

Our November #WKE Newsletter is out now! Read it on the CCLM! 👉 www.cclmportal.ca/resource/nov... Subscribe here to receive it directly to your inbox! 👉 loom.ly/WVFoqcY

Also, bit late, but let me share the sad news that we also found invasive Hydrilla in Ontario Canada this summer 😭. It is in a contained impoundment and treatment has already begun. We’re hopeful it won’t spread, but keep yer eyes peeled 👀 folks and be sure to clean, drain, dry! #invasivespecies

I’ve logged back in, so let me promote our latest paper on the pesticides in stormwater ponds that accumulate in biofilms —> turns out those biofilms are bad food for bugs! #ecology #biodiversity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hi Bluesky! I’m getting so many notifications from you all of a sudden. Is this a final death rattle from X?

Event happening Nov 5 in Waterloo - come watch the Signal Fire documentary about 10 Calls to Action for Natural Scientists to advance #reconciliation with #Indigenous peoples. Please share widely! It is an excellent film 🎥

I’m a mother of three, a tenured professor, a grown ass adult. But I’m still not wise enough to stop eating salt and vinegar chips before my tongue blisters. Nope. 😝🩹😢

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Heartbroken this morning to discover some vandal set fire to one of our main research plots. We are studying the efficacy of biocontrol in controlling invasive Phragmites. Years of research in ash. 💔

CHICAGO!! Turn off any non essential lights the next three nights! HUGE HUGE HUGE MIGRATION NIGHTS!! Help the birds!!

If you’re looking for a fun #EarthDay2024 event tonight in the Waterloo Region, come see my talk about #wetlands and why we need strong municipal protections as the province abdicates responsibility for their conservation. Promises to be a great date night! 🌎🧪💕.

🎵If I had a (100) million $, I’d invest it in #GreatLakes Science 🧪 🎵. If I had a (100) million $, I’d buy you a new research vessel… and a centre of excellence! 🎵 Happy #EarthDay2024 Great Lakes Deserve Great #Science!

Do you have clothes 👗 in your closet you don’t wear because they don’t quite fit? Don’t buy new! Take them to a tailor and have them altered. This supports a local business, keeps jobs in your community, reduces waste & your environmental 🌎 footprint and it even saves money 💵 🥳! #EarthDay2024

I'm still looking for submissions for the Entomology Society calendar. The calendar is Insects of the World so they only take one arachnid, but I'm still loving this shot as a candidate. Little crabbers wrapping up some take out. Northern Crab Spider (Mecaphesa asperata)

My (probably unpopular) opinion about the (long overdue) increased funding to #NSERC scholarships and the “but what about Discovery Grants?” reaction. #canpoli #budget2024 #academia 🧪

Let all the #Canadian #gradstudents rejoice and shout out to SupportOurSci for their tremendous effort to bring about renewed funding for #NSERC scholarship funding. Today is a BIG F’in DEAL. The largest investment in research talent in Canada in 20+ years!!! Congrats 🎉 #canpoli #Academia

Spring ephemerals are ready to bloom 🌸. Things are waking at last. Breathe it in.

If anyone is interested in refillable #deodorant options, I went with #KIIMA and the Vanilla Bliss scent. It is effective and easy to use. The case is 100% recycled #plastic, designed in Quebec. Buy the case once and then just the refills - plastic free, aluminum free, effective. 🌎

You need to find little joys where you can. Today, I found joy in these adorable champagne shoes by Poppy Barley. It has been a rough week and 😍🤩😍 these put a little pep in my step. 🥿👠👢👡👟

Here's what everyone needs to know* about climate change: 🌍 It's real 👥 It's human-caused ⚠️ It's serious 💡 With immediate action, it's solvable ⌛ Later is too late * social science shows these msgs increase acceptance of the issue, awareness of the risk and, most importantly, willingness to act.

I am missing the International Joint Commission’ semi-annual Science Advisory Board meeting today because I have stomach flu which I caught after days of cleaning up my kids’ puke and I would like someone to feel sorry for me please and thank you. 🥴🤢🤮

It’s such a relief to know the provincial government has their priorities straight! 🙄. What complete and utter nonsense. #OnPoli #Ontario #governmentstupidity

Anyone have insights or opinions about eco friendly #deodorant? Tried KIIMA? Native? The new Dove refillable? Which are effective AND more than #greenwashing? 🌎🧪🌸 #beauty #environment

Last week 86 organisations sent a letter to PM Trudeau & Min. Freeland demanding they #StopFundingFossils The Government of Canada provided over $18 billion to oil & gas companies in 2023 Enough is enough. It's time to #MakePollutersPay environmentaldefence.ca/report/the-g...

It's past time for Canada to end fossil fuel subsidies and align ourselves with #COP28 commitments.

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

It remains extremely clear that degrowth is an amazing tool for protecting life on earth and improving the experiences of living things. Fantastic interview w @timparrique.bsky.social on @mongabay.bsky.social w @racheldonald.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️👏🏽👏🏽🥂🥂 pca.st/episode/9c77...

The methodology is chef's-kiss: researchers opened decades-old cans of salmon to look for worms that indicate changes in ocean health 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/deca...

Only 57 producers are responsible for 80% of all fossil fuel and cement CO2 emissions since 2016 - new report – The Conversation | MORE at EcoSearch

Look at this gorgeous thing I got in the mail today! Thanks Invasive Species Centre of Canada for this Leadership Award 🥇 🧪🇨🇦🌎 very proud to display this in my office!

In news that should not be a surprise to anyone: carbon credits don’t work. Compensation never works. There’s no easy way out.

This amazing church is holding an Easter drag service to stand up against anti-trans bills: "Collections from Sunday’s service will benefit Skipping Stone, a local not-for-profit that supports trans and gender-diverse Calgarians." www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/this... #cdnpoli #ucp #abpoli

While writing about the unfolding disaster caused by high pressure injection wells used to "store" toxic wastewater from the oil and gas industry, I read this article which explains that the industry now wants to do the same thing with high pressure CO2. We never learn.

To the many who didn’t get awarded an NSERC DG, know that it doesn’t define you. Yeah, it hurts. My DG was rejected at first. I was told I had no business studying invasive species. This year I won a leadership award for my invasive Phrag research. Believe in your ideas. They’re good. 🧪🌎🇨🇦

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Listening to The Daily and wondering whatever happened to this Canadian 🇨🇦 court case? Seems like ao merging the Federal Government could actually do to address the 🏠 #housing crisis! www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6458531 #realtor #classaction #housingcrisis

NEW: Transport is on track to make up nearly half of Europe’s emissions in 2030. Since 2007 the sector has been decarbonising more than 3x slower than the rest of the economy. See how emissions have evolved and what we can do about it ➡️ transport2024.transportenvironment.org/sot/index.html

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How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing One quarter of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.

PSA: Stop telling students to put their tables and figures at the end of their documents so we’re stuck scrolling up & down across pages. It is very annoying and printing presses have come a long way since we needed to separate prose and photographic plates. #academia #STEM #publishing 🧪

Tricolor Heron showing its technique of barely grazing the water with its toes to attract fish. Part of a heron feeding frenzy we witnessed one afternoon while on Sanibel Island. 🪶🌿

St. Patrick's Day is a good time to reflect on how famines caused by occupying powers are horrific, inhumane, and avoidable.

Having committed to only buy 5 pieces of clothing in 2024, I’m now trying to “shop my wardrobe”. Turns out those maternity clothes are still wearable. #sustainable #fashion 🌎

Shel Silverstein doesn’t get nearly enough credit for predicting ChatGPT.

Brazil to release millions of anti-dengue mosquitoes as death toll from outbreak mounts – The Guardian | MORE at EcoSearch

I want to know everyone's experiences publishing in: * MDPI journals * Hindawi journals * Frontiers journals Not stories about what you heard, please, but your literal experience. what happened to you. Editors of said journals particularly welcome. RT this. A lot.

We're in *the final countdown* for early, discounted registration to attend our annual meeting, #2024SFS! Prices increase after 15 March. Consider joining us for a week of #freshwater #science in Philly in June! Direct link to meeting registration page: sfsannualmeeting.org/Registration...

Can you IMAGINE how weird people would have gotten about seatbelts if they were invented in 2020