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Wetland Ecologist, Professor, conservation biologist, Mom, Environmentalist, boardgame enthusiast. Was @girls_can 🐥and is @[email protected] 🐘and founded the Waterloo Wetland Lab. Not above making myself certificates of achievement. She/her.
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Happy Holidays from the #WaterlooWetlandLab

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

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!

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

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 🎥

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

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. 💔

submitted 304 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 306 days ago • 4 comments

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! 🌎🧪💕.

submitted 312 days ago • 0 comments

🎵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!

submitted 312 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 314 days ago • 0 comments

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)

submitted 316 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 316 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 318 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 321 days ago • 0 comments

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. 🌎

submitted 321 days ago • 1 comment

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. 🥿👠👢👡👟

submitted 322 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 324 days ago • 30 comments

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. 🥴🤢🤮

submitted 324 days ago • 2 comments