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Postdoc opportunity: work with the Boreal Avian Modelling project on habitat models for boreal birds! Applications are being accepted until the position is filled. tinyurl.com/3bkb838e #remotesensing #avianecology @ellycknight.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Attended the sold out PWHL game in Edmonton today - over 17,000 people came out to watch a fantastic women’s hockey game between Ottawa and Toronto - we need an Edmonton team!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Like birds and models? Dr. Erin Bayne and I are currently recruiting a 2 year postdoc to come work with us at the Boreal Avian Modelling project on boreal bird models and applications of those models. Full details are here tinyurl.com/4yxju63k. Feel free to get in touch with qs!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Went to see Goblin Macbeth at Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre last night. Watching wonderful actors and laughing with a few hundred other people was exactly what this week needed - art for resistance!

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Chinook Winter Evening Illingworth Kerr 1978

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In 2023 at least 960 #birds died in one day due to window collisions at McCormick Place in #Chicago. After applying bird-friendly window treatments, there were just 18 deaths all last fall. Further proof these simple changes work, and work well! It's time communities start making this a requirement.

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

OK, mind blown... A single site, *on foot* big day record of 345 species on this eBird checklist! ebird.org/checklist/S2...

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

When epic ski trips and caribou conservation collide: Heli-ski industry leaders say companies do their best to avoid caribou and other wildlife on the landscape. But with some herds at risk, biologists want data to better support them.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

We're #hiring Regional Coordinator contract positions! We're looking for people with in-depth knowledge of species and ecosystems in their region. Each position will focus on one region of Canada (see map) and oversee #environmentalsensor data processing. sensr.ca/opportunity/...

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

I thought hard about how to express what needs to be said. The climate crisis is accelerating as is energy transition. 🇨🇦 is blessed with natural & human resources to build the future. But the oil sands are taking us for fools. Time to be on the right side of history. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

submitted 84 days ago • 53 comments

Today was a hard day. While Albertans are struggling with a cost of living crisis, a healthcare crisis and a housing crisis, the UCP is punching down on vulnerable trans youth. Today they have passed the most extreme anti trans legislation anywhere in Canada.

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

Looks like we brought home more than good memories and ringing ears from the fantastic Bruce Springsteen show this week. The household’s first ever positive COVID test today. Hunkering down under a blanket of snow in YEG.

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

First day in my parka

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

This is the first bird extinction in mainland Europe in 500 years. 1400 birds are globally threatened with extinction. 230 are Critically Endangered. The Slender-billed Curlew is just the latest in over 200 bird extinctions since 1500. 😢🪶🧪

submitted 102 days ago • 15 comments