Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦

Mountain Equipment Co-op "River" pants (several pairs) purchased in the early 1980s. Can't buy them any more, since they just don't wear out! Though I have replaced the elastic in the waistbands a couple of times.

New project documenting A.I. slop graphics in academic journals

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an orange and green butterfly sitting on a concrete block. The green is like the color of a pale jade.

Just needed a butterfly this morning. It's CoLD 🥶

A QR code for the survey

What are the most pressing questions
about the status of #insects? Our survey is available here in multiple languages: bit.ly/insectquestions! #insect #entomology #biodiversity

Infographic listing 12 calls to action for natural scientists in Canada, including respecting elders, collaborating, and empowering Indigenous research.

A new Perspective examines progress on reconciliation in the natural sciences five years after the “10 Calls to Action to Natural Scientists.” Read the Perspective ▶️ https://ow.ly/bqcG50XBxpe

@laurierresearch.bsky.social
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Nature’s greatest method actors: the insects that cosplay bumblebees When you’re an animal undercover, sometimes it’s not enough just to look like someone else

🚨New #behavioural #mimicry paper out in Proc B!🚨
In which we show that hoverflies have evolved to prefer the flower colour choices of their #bee models instead of their #fly relatives.
Conversation article here: theconversation.com/natures-grea...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

I carried two of them in a backpack through the Montreal airport a number of years back, and was bracing for some interesting questions from Security folks. It turned out that my Security guy was a Biology student at McGill who recognised it immediately as a microscope, and waved me on through. 🙂

Just heard Tom Powers interviewing Con O'Brien of the Irish Descendants on CBC, lovely that they finished by playing "Let Me Fish off Cape St. Mary's", one of the greatest Newfoundland songs of all times. I used to live in the lighthouse at the Cape back in 1976...
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Under the Shadow of the Hawk
Maxine Noel ~ Ioyan Mani ~ Sioux
n.d.

From ROM volunteer to Wildlife Photographer of the Year When Beckett Robertson’s email about volunteering came through in 2022, Antonia Guidotti, a seasoned ROM entomology technician, had every reason to say no. First, there was no official volunteer posit...

Thrilled for a former volunteer/summer student @romtoronto.bsky.social, Beckett Robertson, recognized in 15-17yo category of Wildlife Photographer of the Year, for a whip spider photo www.rom.on.ca/magazine/rom.... Congrats! #arachnids #photography #WPY

“I’m not a wealthy fellow, and I don’t have any money to leave behind to any groups or even my family. But I can leave a better world and hopefully inspire people to do something in the future.” 🌎

(David Schogel, 85)

me too.

This compares well to the inquiries I often receive... I found this bug, it's brown, what is it?

Yikes.

I'm just thinking of all the hours I spent perusing the small print of the massive tomes of Biological Abstracts and Science Citation Index in the 80s and early 90s... even that seemed magical back then.

Wolverine
Carl Ray ~ Anishinaabe
1978

Honestly, @lukaszukab.bsky.social is a Canadian hero. One in seven!

Citizen Initiative Petition Verification Completed, Results Announced - Elections Alberta EDMONTON – Elections Alberta has completed verification for the “Alberta Forever Canada” citizen initiative petition. Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer, Gordon McClure, has determined under section 10...

CONGRATULATIONS #ForeverCanadian volunteers!

Elections Alberta just informed me that our Forever Canadian petition is approved! Your hard work and love for Canada paid off!

Now, the Premier must do the right thing and call for a vote in the Legislature.

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🚨 You asked — we heard you.

Don’t miss your chance to share your research with a global community of soil ecologists and biodiversity experts.

New deadline: January 30, 2026

Submit your poster and be part of #GSBC2026 !

2+7= _ I caNnot aNswer this qwestion, as it is agaiNst My reLigious principles. ٠١٨٨ IT'S WORTH A SHOT. aMI, 7 january 1986 NAITION

Has this been posted yet

Ok, I laughed out loud. :-)

photo showing the head and forelegs of a mayfly, Drunella cornuta, collected in Newfoundland in 1980.

Showing the underside of a mayfly, Drunella walkeri, collected in Labrador in 1981.

It is hard to put into words how grateful I am for the work of taxonomists who produce the wonderful keys I use to identify my mayflies. These are specimens collected in Newfoundland and Labrador in collecting trips from the 1980s.

College cats of Oxford Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics. The grey ball ...

The perfect news story doesn't exi-

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This is the Sunburst Candy Spider from Thailand. Not AI (sucks to have to declare this). Very real and had been on my wish list for a long time.

The taxonomic placement is unclear, so we are leaving it at Cyrtarachninae.

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

This is an astonishing story. Journal 'Science of the Total Environment' published *10,000 articles a year* Many were bogus.

Great summary of why our publication culture needs to be changed.

James Hart’s Monumental Art | The Tyee The Haida artist’s exceptional work, family life and resonant voice shines brightly in a new book.

“It’s the expressions and representations of our people; who we are, where we come from and what we are about.”

'Made-up quote' in Canadian satire site The Beaverton fools Time Magazine | CBC News In a recent article about the United States' strained relationships with other countries, Time Magazine included a made-up quote from Canadian satire site The Beaverton — seemingly as fact.

"Ottawa U.S. Embassy spokesperson Ariel Pollock" has now been required to issue a comment on our foolishness.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @efdtoronto.bsky.social on how GPS trackers quantify the movement of plastic debris in Toronto Harbour on Lake Ontario: calculation of plastic drift velocities and paths; relationships with wind patterns and water current variabilities; and a geography of water circulation

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