“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
Join us Tues, Feb 24 fr 1-2:30 pm (Open to all). Dominic Silvio, PhD, Public Services Librarian and the Acting Head of Science, Management, and Arts & Social Sciences at Dal. He is DFA past Pres and Pres-Elect. He also represents DFA as a Director of the CAUT Defence Fund. Zoom link in comments
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
see also: diptera.de/CNC_Diptera/
Roxy is freaking adorable. I'm a huge fan - congratulations on the new addition! :D
Collaboration would be so much fun! Would be great to work with you! I'll drop you an e-mail, maybe grab a virtual coffee and we can brainstorm some ideas! ^_^
Eek! Who's Luna's new buddy? So cute. What a pair!
Program guide cover: Forecasting climate futures.
Ever visit an art gallery using #GigaPan technology?
Missed the #ManufacturedEcosystem Exhibition?
Learn about ecosystem services in the context of a failing climate: gigapan.com/galleries/13...
Guide: www.manufacturedecosystems.com/virtual-exhi...
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@sshrc-crsh.canada.ca
#NewFrontiers
a pod of wild orca, including a tiny calf 🖤🤍 so beautiful I felt like bursting into tears. seen yesterday in the waters around Skjervøy, Norway
“Born from Pain”
Some days, there are no words, only grief, shock & a heaviness that sits in the body. Yesterday’s violence in Minneapolis has left many of us reeling. I’m holding space for that sorrow. This piece was created understanding that pain doesn’t disappear simply because we wish it away.
Photo of an orange pick up truck (mine) on a road made of ice. There are large cracks visible in the ice.
Photo of someone standing on lake ice, showing their legs and boots. There are deep cracks in the ice.
Driving and hiking the ice roads over Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories - the deepest lake in Canada and the second largest lake fully within our borders. Pics from a few years ago.
#hiking #roadtrip #lake #ice
A old advert that has the words What the heck is Electronic Mail? With a man looking very scared by a sparkling trail flying around his desk
The first two hours this morning
A silvery, long fish with a translucent dorsal fin and tail fin floats vertically at the surface of the ocean.
A silvery, long fish with a translucent dorsal fin and tail fin floats vertically at the surface of the ocean.
A silvery, long fish with a translucent dorsal fin and tail fin floats vertically at the surface of the ocean.
A silvery, long fish with a translucent dorsal fin and tail fin floats vertically at the surface of the ocean.
A diver saw something incredibly special at the ocean's surface: this juvenile King-of-the-salmon (Trachipterus altivelis), a kind of ribbonfish that spends the majority of its time in the deep.
📷 tedjudah on iNaturalist
📍 United States
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
Thanks! Reading about the alternatives is a beacon of hope!
I feel inspired! New Year’s resolution. (I.e. not QUITE YET). What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
New post doc funding opportunity:
Are you outside Canada & interested in a post doc on insects & environment/climate? Our lab studies insect evol & ecol, esp reproduction/sexual selection. Our university seeks a nominee. Let's chat!
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
Watched this one w/ my 4-year old... it was a HUGE hit! I can't get over the squirting! Too cool!
New video from the always wonderful @kqedscience.bsky.social Deep Look! Peppermint stick insects really do smell like peppermint. Do not lick them. Especially if you are an ant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmPC... 🧪
a guy posted a pic of a house that put its numbers on sideways and wonders if it is 8011 or 1108. someone replies saying it’s the philly phanatic and it IS it’s a visual joke I’m sorry
Occasionally Instagram tricks me into clicking on Threads. This is the first time EVER I’ve seen something there that delighted me
A macro photograph of a brown mantidfly insect on a stick
It's not a mantid, it's not a fly, it's a mantidfly!
#entomology #bugskye #insect #photography #macro #nature
A black, orange and yellow printed wooden ornament of a box turtle
Box turtle! Another of this year's batch of wooden ornaments, printed by hand here in our home studio. #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🎨
This is pretty much everything the vandals accuse federal science funders of doing wrong: money to foreign scientists for a fundamentally unethical experiment on children
Burial of wildlife dung by insects provides many benefits! However, our latest study shows little benefit in mitigating E. coli transfer from dung to kale via water droplets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Congrats to @dalhousieu.bsky.social undergrad saran Jayaselvam on this achievement!
wait a minute how are the "your body has gone soft from not eating the raw meats of your ancestors" guys also the "the computer should summarize the big scary email for your inadequate brain" guys
#TodayInQueerHistory
December 15 (1973)
Campaigner Barbara Gittings quips that homosexuals have been "cured en masse by the psychiatrists" after efforts by her, her partner Kay Lahusen and others result in the American Psychiatric Association no longer defining homosexuality as a mental disorder.
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
I love the no-right-on-red in Montreal. Makes me feel so much safer as a cyclist and pedestrian, and less worried as a driver!
You can do this right now:
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
A postcard, with room to fill in the title of an article, and several options to respond to said article.
Aah, that reminds me: I designed an article-appreciation postcard ages ago, in the style of old reprint-request cards, but never got around to buying stamps to actually send them! First thing on my to-do list this weekend!
An illustrated screen print of a mantis looking at the viewer with leaf silhouettes around it.
A carolina mantis inspired by one observed on the oak leaf hydrangea outside the studio window. Three color screen print, edition of 23. 2025. #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🎨
