Carla Ng

File under "examples to upload to my course management system documents this semester."

I kind of want to find a way to make this the new rickroll

Way too accurate…

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Two colanders full of dusky blue and pink and cream blueberries.

Blueberry harvest!

We are looking for a PhD student for a project on chloronitramide in drinking water. Please spread the word!

jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Newly minted PhD and proud Professor stand in front of PowerPoint slide on screen displaying title of dissertation: "Interactions of PFAS with phospholipid membranes, protein binding dynamics, and PBPK modeling"

Best times as a faculty member are seeing the culmination of a student's hard work! Congratulations, Ruiwen Chen, on defending your PhD yesterday.

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Soil Chemistry

We are looking for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the area of Soil Chemistry. Please spread the word! Application deadline is September 30.

ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...

Maintenance Phase

Now, I wasn't *planning* to eat spoonfuls of Nutella drizzled with olive oil for dinner, but I'm trying to opt for minimally processed foods.

Episode webpage: maintenancephase.com

Media file: www.buzzsprout.com/1411126/epis...

At the Culinary Medicine Conference this weekend which has been a great (and different) experience. This headline very apropos.

A bit clunky but if you search a plant here (and it's in the database) you can pull up a range map: grownative.org/native-plant...

Did you know it’s very easy to make your default search engine “google without all the bullshit” on any platform? I did this a couple weeks ago and it’s so nice, no AI nonsense ever. It takes 30 seconds! Instructions: tenbluelinks.org

Hellbender for PA!

Not entirely sure about the use of "serendipitous" here.

Have summary statistics and data displays outlived their usefulness?

We now have the graphics capability to show very large data sets in high resolution.

Do summaries have distinct virtues versus just showing all the data?

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

Abstract submission is now open for the SETAC North America 46th Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. 🍃 Submit an abstract by 17:00 PDT on 4 June to showcase your research and engage with leading experts from across the globe!

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#SETACPortland #Abstracts #EnvironmentalScience

It's the one easy trick mentality applied to everything. Love this quote on AI as parasite of expertise: "The parasite and the host can peacefully coexist as long as the parasite does not starve its host."

I had the same issue but I was trying to use my universal research dot gov login I use for NIH. Went back to the numeric NSF ID and it stopped asking for a physical key.

They started that last year. Had to do new sign-in method to serve on panel.

Yes! It was definitely a >gesture around the room wildly while listening< experience. Also the kind of analysis that ignores the experience of a pandemic *will be wildly traumatizing* and uses bad vibes to equal policy failures is infuriating.

Listened to an interview where they argued the process was unscientific because... too much attention was paid to epidemiologists and disease modelers?

I'll be there Mon-Wed, let's catch up. :)

Photo of a large white and ginger cat perched inside a small box top, puzzle pieces scattered all around.

Trying to do a puzzle but there's a box.

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

A long stretch of sand reaches towards the horizon where snow and frozen lake meet beneath deep blue sky and a low evening sun hides behind a striated bank of luminescent clouds. Left of center the dark outline of a solitary figure stands framed between sand and sky.

Sand, and snow, and Lake Ontario.

Does that make honey a chonquid?

Racing against an accelerating Climate Clock: it’s all hands on deck It's a challenging time to be an environmental professional, or simply a human being, on planet Earth. The news we receive daily is disheartening. There's

We’re thrilled to join the Bluesky community! ✨ Follow us for the latest in environmental science 🌎

We're kicking things off with an important message from Sabine Apitz, IEAM Editor-in-Chief, highlighting the need for action as we race against an accelerating Climate Clock ⏳
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For vertical farming to work for cereals, energy would need to be insanely cheap.

We underestimate how cheap a lot of outdoor farming is. That's good for feeding 9-10 billion people. But bad news for indoor competitors.

I ran the numbers here:
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/vertical-f...

Organizing a Pgh rally for March 7 - more details very soon!