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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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Perlidae are some of the most striking! 😍😍😍
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Haha. Know thine enemy
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Canadian choice needs to be in Plecoptera. It’s totally our self conceit that 🇨🇦 Canada is a cold, clean, pure land and Canadians all have clever strategies for surviving winter ❄️ but only really emerge in the springtime 🌱🍃
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I heard about this on (I think) the Daily podcast. Influencers talking up PET bottles as a health product! Influencer culture is another compelling reason we urgently need to teach young how to detect b#ll sh!t
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This is extremely depressing
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This is the cool nature info I needed to get motivated this morning. Thanks!
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Thanks. I’m really dismayed that someone would set fire to the site. We are stunned really
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We will definitely need a before and after. Sadly, we don’t exactly have a control to pair to our impact. This site was the largest single release location in North America. Priceless.
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We will take stock of the damage and consider creative pivots. But it is blow to the PhD, whose comp exam is in a couple weeks 😭.
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Yes. I got the take away that reforestation can do a lot to offset GHG emissions and we can do a lot to mitigate climate change. 🙏🌎🙏
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Well, if you read the original, have the context that he meant it satirically to point out the inhumanity of the English and the destitution of the Irish. Like “oh the little ice age was triggered by the genocide of Indigenous People’s in N America? So, it’s a climate change mitigation strategy?“ 😳
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I just listened to RadioLab’s latest episode on small potatoes, and then ate a bowl of mashed potatoes for lunch. It’s the zeitgeist.
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I mean, I admit my reference was a little dated 🤓
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I can see how Taylor is the much more popular Swift.
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I was thinking of Jonathan Swift’s 1729 essay that satirically suggested the Irish sell their children to the wealthy English landowners as food to simultaneously solve the overpopulation and poverty crises in Ireland.
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Ripe for a modern take on Swift’s A Modest Proposal 😳.
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Because it sounds like a lot of privileged folk with 6-figure salaries saying they’d prefer grad students live in poverty than see an incremental hit to their “productivity” and maybe we all need to reflect on what productive #academia should look like 👀
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This☝️!!
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Advocacy works, but never as fast as we’d like. We need to applaud and celebrate the small victories to keep energized and optimistic as we continue the struggle. The “but this only helps a tiny fraction” reaction to this news is more likely to erode momentum than build it for larger DGs.
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More, we profs should stop whining from our cushy tenureships and take some inspiration from them. If we want DGs to be bigger, let’s keep fighting. Let’s march on Ottawa. Let’s mobilize cross provincial letter campaigns. Let’s publish editorials. Let this first $1.8 billion be a good start
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I’m not saying the issue of grad support is solved. I’m saying these scholarships set a tacit ceiling on stipend expectations & they haven’t moved in 20 y. It is gratis dedicated students fighting hard in Ottawa that now the ceiling is higher. This will benefit all and we should celebrate the win.
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Also, there’s another 1.8B in there for grants. So actually grants are benefiting from the advocacy of our students. A lesson to us faculty 😉
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I agree, more work to be done. But advocacy works and this is a great start! NSERC scholarships set a ceiling for most grad stipends. This will help me advocate bigger stipends in my institution and all my grants - got to stay competitive!
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Huh. Maybe KIIMA is going to help you break out of your plastic waste “rut”?!! 😂
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The KIIMA company has partnered with Green Beaver and Groom among other brands to supply the refills that fit the reusable dispenser. It’s pretty cool. kiima.co
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I just noticed I said “effective” twice. But with so-called natural deodorant, having actually work without reapplying every two hours is kinda a big deal!
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I ended up going KIIMA after an absurd amount of deliberation. I hope I use that case enough to justify it! Haha. I did vanilla bliss and it held up to a day of chasing the kids around, so pretty effective for a natural deodorant