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Women in Science Brown Bag Lunch Thurs. Feb 12, 12-1pm at Sci-Space, AQ 3146
Join the Faculty of Science this Thursday, February 12 for a brown bag lunch to celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Chat with some of our female faculty about their research journeys, the work they do, ways to get involved, and more!
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"I now hold an incredible admiration all the chemists for the knowledge each of them had in such a niche area."
Explore Co-op opportunities at SFU Science: ow.ly/gF5J50Y8pX4
"Not only was it interesting learning about different illegal substances, experimenting with different techniques to analyze each of them helped me discover what parts of chemistry I enjoyed the most."
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Brianna is standing outdoors in the sun in a public garden wearing a navy blue t-shirt and a flowy white skirt. She has a broad smile on her face.
Chem major Brianna Wu spent a co-op term at Canada Border Services Agency analyzing suspicious substances crossing the border. "One of the most noteworthy undertakings I participated in was Project Blizzard; a blitz targeting fentanyl and other synthetic narcotics as they pass through the country."
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Illustration of a scientist holding an Erlenmeyer flask and clipboard in front of a blue background with stars and a light bulb. Text reads: Saturday Morning Lectures February 7 Surrey Library City Centre Branch Rm 401 10:30am: How the Universe Works: Quantum Mechanics - The Music of the Universe by Mark Van Raamsdonk (UBC) 11:40am From the Big Bang to Biology: The Role of RNA in the origin of life by Peter Unrau (SFU)
Explore the role of RNA in the origin of life with SFU Chemistry professor Peter Unrau this weekend at Saturday Morning Lectures in Surrey! triumf.ca/about/public...
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The deadline to submit your proposal for the Undergraduate Research Symposium has been extended to Feb 11.
Apply today at the link below! 🔬
A smiling student gesturing to his 3 Minute Thesis slide. The slide shows illustrations of objects with their building blocks such as a rubik's cube deconstructed and whole, a pizza in pieces and in a wheel.
One slide, three minutes, go! Communicating your research idea in a simple, effective way is a valuable skill to practice as you prepare for conferences and poster presentations. Sign up for 3 Minute Thesis to present your research, get feedback and a chance to win prizes! www.sfu.ca/science/grad...
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Jobs & Volunteer Expo A West Coast Virtual Fair Platform Open: Feb 4 Event Date: Feb 11
Find job, volunteer, grad school and professional development opportunities at the West Coast Virtual Fair on February 11! Register in advance to speak with recruiters and representatives from a variety of employers. www.sfu.ca/students/car...
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SFU has launched its Sustainability, Climate and Resiliency Strategy 2025–2030, outlining the university’s priorities for sustainability, climate action and resiliency over the next five years.
Learn more by clicking below.
✨Call for Submissions: Biology Poetry Contest! ✨
SFU Biological Sciences invites biology-inspired poems from lab, field, or research work. Submit up to 3 poems (incl. Haiku) for prizes + features. Open to BISC community. Deadline March 15. Submit to phollman@sfu.ca.
See attached poster for details.
Out in @physrevlett.bsky.social: @sfuphysics.bsky.social postdoc Antonio Patrón Castro (in tight collaboration with my colleague John Bechhoefer) pushes our information engine to higher dimensions!
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Join @sfuphysics.bsky.social and the Faculty of Science this Monday for a dialogue led by @ucirvine.bsky.social Prof Mu-Chun Chen to explore challenges and barriers to fostering belonging in science and opportunities to cultivate inclusive excellence.
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Saturday Morning Lectures
Saturday Morning Lectures are back, featuring fascinating talks from the frontiers of physics! Catch SFU Chemistry professor Peter Unrau this weekend at @triumflab.bsky.social and Feb 7 at @surreylibraries.bsky.social triumf.ca/about/public...
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Poster with hot pink background showing 5 young women. It says "Women In Science Brown Bag Lunch Thu Feb 12th 12 - 1 PM @ Sci-Space AQ 3146"
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is coming up in a couple of weeks on Feb 11th. @sfuscience.bsky.social We're hosting a brown bag lunch with women science faculty and students to celebrate. All are welcome. 🧪 👩🔬 #IDWGIS
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An SFU cosmologist believes his team’s new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of science’s biggest questions – the Hubble tension.
“This is an exciting moment for us and the wider cosmology community,” says Levon Pogosian, SFU professor.
Find out more below. 💫
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Need help with your first and second year math and science courses? Get free, drop-in online and in-person support with your assignments and exam prep from the Science and Math Peers: www.sfu.ca/science/unde...
27.01.2026 19:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Join us tomorrow for our first Café Scientifique of 2026!
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Starry Nights at SFU Burnaby. The Trottier Observatory dome is open and the courtyard is lit up with the rainbowy spectrum of the sun. A few dimly lit people are standing around some telescopes pointed at the sky.
Starry Nights is ON tonight! Join us in person at Burnaby campus, 7-10pm for views of he Salt and Pepper cluster, the Crab Nebula, and the Great Orion Nebula with @sfuphysics.bsky.social and @rascvancouver.bsky.social! www.sfu.ca/science/comm... 🔭
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SFU Physics Career Night 2026 Physics Department, SFU Location: P9412 and Zoom Thursday, 29 January 2026 06:30PM PST Starla Talbot, Senior Flight Software Engineer, RocketLab Space Systems, Pasadena, CA Hannah Herdin, Research Assistant, Photonic, Coquitlam, BC Josh Stibbs, Software Engineer, DarkVision Technologies, North Vancouver, BC Manuel Rojas, Characterization Specialist, Svante, Burnaby, BC Symphony Huang, Material Characterization Specialist & Business Development Associate, Svante, Burnaby, BC
Please join us to hear the panelists talk about their trajectories from #SFUstudent to employee. If you've been wondering what you can do with a #physics degree, this event is for you. We'll have prize draws for those who attend. #SFU #SFUPhysics
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Bending back the biodiversity loss curve of sharks and rays. The loss of sharks and rays to date has involved serial depletion of the largest, most evolutionary and functionally distinct species, and the increasing prevalence of smaller-bodied species that have benefited from release from predation.
New paper out today in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com by the #GlobalSharkTrends team: Bending back the curve of shark & ray biodiversity loss;
Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eZ9n9
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Dr. Levon Pogosian is a bald man wearing glasses standing with arms crossed in the SFU Science Courtyard in front of the Trottier Observatory. Photo: Sam Smith
@sfuphysics.bsky.social prof Levon Pogosian and his collaborators have been working for years to unravel some of the most challenging puzzles in cosmology. The answers could help us understand how quickly the universe is expanding and yield new insight into how it began. 🔭 www.sfu.ca/science/news...
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Calling all undergraduate researchers! Present your research, connect with your peers, and win prizes at the 7th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium: www.sfu.ca/ugrs.html
Proposal deadline is Jan 27.
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New paper! 📜🚨
Our collaboration @sfu.ca @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social @wakeforest.bsky.social UCSF and UTSW
🗝️ finding: aperiodic slowing indexes concussion and symptom severity in football players
Now published in open access @cp-iscience.bsky.social
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Ready to model the brain your way?
Join The Virtual Brain Node at CNS 2026 in Vancouver and learn how to build personalized brain network simulations in this hands-on workshop.
March 6th, 2026 | 9:00 AM–5:30 PM
Register early: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-virtua...
Three people are standing outdoors at night pointing at the sky beside a white telescope
Finally some good weather! Starry Nights is ON 7-10pm tonight with views of Jupiter, Saturn and some of winter's finest nebulae! Thanks as always to @rascvancouver.bsky.social for being on call every Friday to help make this event happen! www.sfu.ca/science/comm...
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SFU’s top Scopus citations, Altmetric engagements & most-read Conversation Canada lists are in! Just a few of the measures of SFU researchers’ prolific contributions & global reach. Have a look—you might learn something you didn’t know about the remarkable research at SFU. www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor...
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📚A new study led by Michael Price, adjunct professor in SFU’s Department of Biological Sciences, finds that Canada is failing in a decades-old pledge to monitor the health of Pacific salmon.
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A headshot of Glen Tibbits along with a photo of his big white dog.
A celebration of life is planned to honour biomedical physiology professor Glen Tibbits on January 24 and a memorial fund has been set up to honour his passion for mentoring graduate students. Learn more: www.sfu.ca/bpk/glentibb...
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New paper out now in PRB! We discuss protecting T centre qubits during entanglement attempts. journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...
Beautiful work by PhD student Nick Brunelle and SQT alumnus Joshua Kanaganyagam with collab by Geoffroy Hautier's team at Rice University and @photonicinc.bsky.social.
Sci-Space and the Student Learning Commons Spring 2026 Workshops Schedule Building Workshop Scientific Writing Made Simple Ace the Numbers Game: Quant Exam Prep Level Up Your Study Skills "I'll Do It Later" Managing Procrastination Join at Sci-Space or online!
Plan ahead to get ahead with academic skills workshops at SFU Sci-Space! Learn tips for time management, studying, exam prep, scientific writing and more at Student Learning Commons workshops throughout January. www.sfu.ca/science/unde...
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