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Nature-friendly farming boosts both biodiversity and crop yields — but scaling it up may need more government subsidies to become as profitable as intensive agriculture, a new study led by UKCEH and @rothamsted.bsky.social has found www.ceh.ac.uk/press/nature... 🧵🧪 1/

Bumble bees are out in southern Ontario!

proportional representation just makes more sense! #cdnpoli #election2025

If you're wondering how your priorities stack up with the parties' plans, CBC has a quick tool that will help you figure that out! And ICYMI, yes 🇨🇦 citizens can vote even if we don't live in Canada. Here's how: travel.gc.ca/travelling/l...

My two spring moods: Yay spring is coming, and bumble bees will be here soon 😃 (my fave season, gardening, fave animals) and oh my god spring is coming, bumble bees will be here soon 😱 (oh crap I am not ready for the field season)

Proportional representation doesn’t just change how many seats a party wins, but where. Whether you're a Liberal in rural Alberta or a Conservative in downtown Toronto, you get the representation you vote for. That's why we love PR-it bridges our divides. #cdnpoli

Our department (@EEBUofT) is searching for a Post-Doc! Post-docs funded by this fellowship are independently supported, with research funds available. We invite applications from innovative, collaborative candidates. See the job ad here: eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...

Thank you, @jpedneault.bsky.social, for calling for party cooperation ahead of the federal election and highlighting how first-past-the-post twists and distorts our democracy. It’s time for proportional representation. #cdnpoli

76% of Canadians support electoral reform—so why are our leaders ignoring it? @canadiangreens.bsky.social MP @morricemike.bsky.social is calling proportional representation, but partisan roadblocks stand in the way. It's time to make every vote count! #cdnpoli #onpoli

Again and again, research constantly shows that bike lanes make traffic safer for all road users, including drivers. And now it’s become clear that the provincial government’s own research has come to the same conclusion. www.thestar.com/news/gta/for...

Every Canadian deserves a voice in our democracy. Let’s make every vote count by adopting proportional representation—where seats match votes. No more wasted votes. No more distorted outcomes. #cdnpoli #ProportionalRepresentation

Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to [email protected]. See lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky

Ontario Election Day is today… Take responsibility and vote! 🗳️ We have what we have because too many stayed home on election day. 🤷🏻‍♂️ In June 2022, Ontario saw a record low turnout—only 43.53% of eligible voters cast their ballots. Let’s do better. Democracy works best when we all show up! #onpoli

No voter card? No problem! Here’s what you can use instead to vote.

While out canvassing yesterday I was concerned by the number of ppl who didn't know they could vote without a voter card or registering! Let's help spread the word. www.elections.on.ca/en/voting-in... #onpoli

You do NOT need to your Voter Card to VOTE!!! Just bring IDs! Go VOTE!!! #onpoli #cdnpoli

New paper out on biodiversity in apple farming led by @robind6.bsky.social. Organic farming had rather limited benefits for local biodiversity as compared to conventional farming, and effects were inconsistent across taxa. Semi-natural habitats were more important for biodiversity conservation.

Advance polls open today in Ontario! Check where you can vote here: voterinformationservice.elections.on.ca/en/election/...

We need a caring Ontario 💚 #ONdebate #ONpoli

What about the fact that we didn't need this early election? #ONdebate #ONpoli

#ONdebate #ONpoli

Ford keeps talking about keeping the economy moving, yet we have 80,000 homeless, most food bank usage, and people obviously struggling. So is this what he thinks a moving economy is?

Love that Mike Schreiner for @ontariogreens.bsky.social is always cordial and has an obviously collaborative attitude #ONDebate #ONPoli

So glad they are talking about post secondary. The financial situation with our universities is dire #onpoli #ondebate

The condescension from Ford is really annoying #ondebate #onpoli

How about trains before tunnels #ONdebate

When anyone, anywhere, can point to a published article from a predatory journal or even a preprint and say it backs their claims, we’re in real trouble. We desperately need to make “peer-reviewed” actually mean something again. 🧪 #AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing

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Proportional representation!

Yay support for more train service!

At a candidates meeting for the #onpoli election. I wish candidates focus on reasons to vote for something rather than something to vote against

Here. Have a baby flamingo.

Proportional representation is really the only logical way elections should be determined!

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

Be like a bee Peaceful, working for the good of the nest and the environment That is until, they, or their nestmates are unjustly perturbed. If then, They find their stinger. 🍁 #cdnpoli #uspoli #tariffs

The Motus radiotracking network is growing! Inspirational pan-European meeting yesterday, glimpsing the secret lives of tiny #bats & #birds: yellow-browed warblers moving from Netherlands ➡️ UK; Nathusius' pipistrelle bats going the other way. @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social @birdscanada.bsky.social 🦇 🌍

SUCH good news... #neonics #neonicotinoids #pollinators

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 25 During hibernation #bumblebee queens avoid freezing to death by producing glycerol which acts like antifreeze preventing water in their bodies turning into ice crystals. ‘Nature never breaks her own laws.’ - da Vinci #bees #nature 🌍🐝

This is huge! Potential way to fight antibiotic resistant infections by depriving bacteria of zinc. 🦠🔬🧪🩺

🦠💧 Bacteria vs 'Forever Chemicals' Scientists have found a type of bacteria that can slowly break down harmful PFAS chemicals This could help clean up polluted water and other environments. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Environment #Pollution #SciComm 🧪

About 70% of native bees in the US nest in the ground and are the most vulnerable bees to our high-pesticide agriculture. Native bees are the backbone of pollination services yet are in steep decline. If we value our abundant food supply, we need to protect our native bees. 🧪 🌍 tinyurl.com/54xjat4j

This is where our new work (out today!) comes in. MSc student Serena Sinno (alongside Gail and @bugecology.bsky.social) looked at how local variation in floral traits influenced wild bee richness in Montreal. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I study bumble bee movements and habitats to uncover ways to protect these incredible pollinators and ensure their survival. What’s your favourite thing about bumble bees? 🐝

Western honeybees 🐝 are invasive in most agricultural settings. Their presence impacts native pollinators. In Tibet, new bee hives displaced native pollinators. 🌸 Diversity recovered when honeybees were removed, but the new community was different. 🧪 🌏 🪲 🪳 🔗 academic.oup.com/jinsectscien...

🌟 Throwback to my 2020 research published in @science.org 🌼🐝We showed how bumble bees actively shape their environment—making plants flower earlier to meet their needs. Nature’s engineers in action!🧪🌏 Sharing this for anyone who missed it—let’s dive in![1/17] 👇

You wanted starter packs to be searchable. Our engineers are busy keeping us online, so in the meantime, an independent developer built a new searchable library of starter packs. This is the beauty of building in the open 🦋

Disappointing and not based on evidence also obviously hurts efforts to decarbonize transportation

A bumble bee nest! Photo taken through slats in their colony box. There are multiple gynes (new queens) in this view alone!