I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt Reposts appreciated! Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)

Somethinge Ich am feelinge righte now ys an immense and powerful attachment to all the people Ich love yn the worlde -- familye, friendes, dear colleagues -- and Ich wisshe more than anythinge that Ich koude go visit ech of them yn person, tell them how wondirful thei are, just sit and talke.

Reposting for the brunchtime browsers! Calling all CANADIAN forensic investigators, medical staff, lawyers and police: come share your insights into how sex and gender are documented across Canada. www.surveymonkey.ca/r/CANSGDATA Please share this post as you see fit!

When Mr. Rogers said “look for the helpers” he meant also in ourselves

Little Happy Ending 6”x6” oil/gessobord 150 clams Here: www.coreyhardeman.ca/product-page... #artforeverybody #paintwhiletheworldburns #canadianartist

Vancouver conference aims to unite Indigenous tech community

First patio coffee of 2026. Little things. Even though we should be into late-January cold snap here at sea level, the morning sun is awfully good for the soul. And the thyme is waking up.

David launched dozens of careers and mentored many more, helping Indigenous journalists find a voice in an industry that had rarely welcomed them. Story by @karynpugliese.bsky.social

I suspect many great candidates, especially neurodivergent candidates, will be rejected by graduate admissions committees going off of vibes to decide whether a candidate is human enough for their programs.

It’s A LOT right now. I needed to take a breath, maybe you do too? Perhaps with some of my favorite fishes, right here in Minnesota:

We are knee-deep in the Pacific Northwest season I've dedided to call Whinger... Before COVID, I used to take a long weekend writing retreat in early to mid-February, when things tend to be at Peak Whinge. A Gulf Island B&B, usually. I should revist that - something to look forward to.

Hi, are you still doomscrolling? Instagram, Reddit, and YouTube shorts count too!

The past two years have been head-down building years. The coming year is going to build UPON that. A lot of shifts need to happen. One of those is to be more vocal, with a larger academic online presence and network.

Off to a small New Years' gathering with old friends - old enough that we would all like to be back home and in pyjamas by 10 o'clock. Kettle is ready for when I return, and a new journal and pen laid out waiting. A matched set, despite being gifts from different people! They know me so well. 🫖☕ 📖🖋️💖

I can't think of a more deserving Vancouverite... Nardwuar The Human Serviette is named to the Order of Canada! (Second pic and text clipped from the Globe & Mail) www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

If you’re in Langley or the lower mainland, Pickleboy Foods is doing a massive 72 hour non-stop liquidation of tens of thousands of pounds of food: #yvr www.facebook.com/share/p/17pc...

You know what should be the final thing they should all play. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-...

Residuals killed the video star...

Extra shelter spaces open in Vancouver due to cold weather

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

Reposting for the holiday browsers!

there’s a woman across the aisle on the bus crocheting a pocket onto a cardigan *that she’s wearing*, incredible, a thing of beauty

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

Seems like a good time to reshare this resource: www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

When the nighte hath come And the londe ys darke And the moone ys the sole lighte that we see Nay, Ich wil not be afrayde Oh, Ich wil not be afrayde Just as longe as thou stondest by me

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

Reposting for the brunchtime browsers! Calling all CANADIAN forensic investigators, medical staff, lawyers and police: come share your insights into how sex and gender are documented across Canada. www.surveymonkey.ca/r/CANSGDATA Please share this post as you see fit!

Hello! I'm a Criminology MA student at SFU, with a research invitation. Calling all CANADIAN forensic investigators, medical staff, lawyers and police: come share your insights into how sex and gender are documented in Canada. www.surveymonkey.ca/r/CANSGDATA Please share this post as you see fit!

On this day in 1989, an armed gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Another ten women and four men were injured. The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

We published our AI policy yesterday. It affirms our commitment to human-made writing, photography and illustrations. #journalism #localnews You can read more here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

Wow. This is astounding. A market rental building is pivoting to be an Indigenous hotel for people from out of town who medical care in the city. They have a history of experiencing racism and struggles with getting short term stays. This is in partnership with the First Nations Health Authority.

Is there a country whose animals you would like to know more about? I'm putting a list together of countries for my Christmas Eve posts (I really need to come up with a snazzy name for what I'm doing!)

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

The #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program has almost an equal number of applicants for mentees and mentors! Just sad to see interest extremely low this year. I’m not sure how I could reach people better so please share within your networks! 💜

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

This world carries darkness in abundance, shadows that stretch long and cold. Joy is the medicine that mends what breaks, the balm that soothes what aches, the light that refuses to be extinguished. Seek joy in each dawn that breaks—let it be your daily practice, your ritual. Gurdeep.ca/magazine

@colleendoran.bsky.social Hello from Vancouver! Guess what arrived on my day off work? Absolutely stunning artwork. Congratulations. And also on navigating the whole thing with such grace.

Science World Girls & STEAM Summit! Always packed and always fun. Here with forensic fingerprints, teeth, and of course the blowfly maggots! #StinkyButCute

Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM. I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?

WRYTE WEIRDE BOOKES

Ooh, my parents used to pick these up from a bakery in the old Greektown district of Broadway...I can taste them now. And that crumble in the teeth...

Another great choice:

In honor of the upcoming #WomenInPhysics Day, let's create a thread of amazing women physicists. I'll start with one my favorites, Chien-Shiung Wu, who is best known for conducting the Wu experiment, which proved that parity is not conserved. ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬 🎢

"All of these candidates who won last night didn’t shy away from talking about gender equality and LGBTQ rights. They didn’t buy the theory that doing so would alienate young men. And they were right. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Carville." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-young...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...