Congratulations to Laurentian University Mine Rescue on winning 1st place overall at the Intercollegiate Mine Emergency Response Competition (IMERC 2026)!
We’re so proud of this outstanding achievement. Way to represent Laurentian! 💙💛
Congratulations to Laurentian University Mine Rescue on winning 1st place overall at the Intercollegiate Mine Emergency Response Competition (IMERC 2026)!
We’re so proud of this outstanding achievement. Way to represent Laurentian! 💙💛
Here's a Sudbury.com article on the 2026 Intercollegiate Mine Emergency Rescue Competition (IMERC) that our Laurentian mine rescue team hosted last week with the help of Ontario Mine Rescue. Thanks to all the students who helped organize and volunteer!
www.sudbury.com/local-news/s...
The Olympic women's curling match between Canada and South Korea being shown on the campus screens.
One of our colleagues, Tracy Fleury, is the third on Team Homan and is currently at the Winter Olympics competing in women's curling. They have the 🇨🇦-🇰🇷 game streaming on the screens on campus.
19.02.2026 15:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Piles of exam booklets beside a laptop.
🎶
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
One to mark exams
And enter final grades
I'd hug that hippopotamus and throw it a parade!
🎶
Our Laurentian University Mine Rescue club (LUMR) is organizing the next intercollegiate competition that will take place in February 2026. We're looking forward to having teams from nine different mining schools competing here in just a few months! #IMERC2026
laurentian.ca/about/news/l...
This year's #ENGR1501 Intro to Engineering design challenge was called Ramp-Bin-Up. Teams had to build a device, using only materials from Staples or Dollarama, that could push a bin of earplugs up a ramp at each of four different slopes.
Here's a video of their final designs: youtu.be/WYLvGisaCL0
The text: "As per my previous email, you are behind on your deliverable for this quarter. Please provide the requested documents by day's end." is converted to: "I am utterly fed up with the continued disregard for this urgent matter! As I warned in my previous email, you are WEEKS behind on your deliverables for this quarter, and yet here we are, STILL waiting! This is completely unacceptable. I demand that you *immediately* provide the necessary documents—no excuses—by the end of the day. This level of neglect cannot, and WILL NOT, be tolerated!" by making the text "angrier" at maximum spiciness.
The text: "As per my previous email, you are behind on your deliverable for this quarter. Please provide the requested documents by day's end." is converted to: "Oh, no rush at all — I mean, take your sweet time. Just a gentle reminder that your adorable little deliverable for this quarter is *way* overdue. Whenever you get a chance (no pressure), could you kindly send over those oh-so-critical documents by the end of the day? Thanks a million!" by making the text "more sarcastic" at moderate spiciness.
The text: "As per my previous email, you are behind on your deliverable for this quarter. Please provide the requested documents by day's end." is converted to: "Hey, just a heads-up from my last email—you’re a bit behind on your deliverables for this quarter. Can you send over the required documents by the end of the day?" by making the text "more informal" at moderate spiciness.
The text: "As per my previous email, you are behind on your deliverable for this quarter. Please provide the requested documents by day's end." is converted to: "As per my PREVIOUS email, you are BEHIND on your DELIVERABLE for this quarter. Please PROVIDE the requested DOCUMENTS by the END of the day." by making the text "easier to read" at moderate spiciness.
An AI writing tool that I can get behind: Formalizer (goblin.tools/Formalizer)!
Have Formalizer reword your text to make it “more professional”, “easier to read” or “less snarky”. You can also set the level of spiciness.
Here are some examples based on a simple email.
I am not excited to be scraping my car windshield in October, but the frost on this wooden railing this morning almost made up for it.
28.10.2025 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The @laurentianu.bsky.social School of Engineering & Computer Science is looking to hire a master lecturer (teaching-stream faculty position) in mechanical engineering: laurentian.ca/about/career...
The deadline for applying is November 14, 2025.
Congratulations to Dr. MC Lau and our Snobots team for their great performance this summer in South Korea!
laurentian.ca/about/news/s...
A scren shot of the shuffle cue on Spotify showing three songs: "Bring me to life" by Evanescence "Your ex-lover is dead" by Stars "For what it's worth" by Buffalo Springfield
Spotify's shuffle gave me what seemed like an ominous message on my commute home: "Bring me to life! (Your ex-lover is dead, for what it's worth.)"
So now I am trying to think of better messages that could come from three song titles…
A slice of apple cake on a plate, in front of an open jar of caramel sauce with a spoon in it.
Fall 🍎🍎🍎 means apple cake with carmel sauce!
21.09.2025 21:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A group shot of the first-year engineering students, each having their clothes, hair and skin dyed a varying level of purple. Clouds of purple smoke drift into to the frame from the left and right edges of the image.
Thanks to the Laurentian University Engineering Student Society (#LUESS) for organizing yesterday's successful Purple Day events! We trust all the first-year engineering students enjoyed themselves.
Hopefully, everyone's skin & hair will be (almost?) back to its normal hue by Monday.
This drawing has six illustrations with captions underneath. There is also a block of text explaining the preparation of the animal. All text is in English and French, but only the English text is as follows: My sweetheart's a mule in the mine 1. Preparing the mule for lowering into the mine required heavy webbed harness with rope attachments. 2. Placing the ropes under the hind legs forced the animal into a sitting position. 3. The hind legs were pulled into position and tied. 4. The front legs were then secured. 5. From a hook under the cage, the mule was attached and swung into the shaft for lowering. 6. The holding hook was built so as to place the mule diagonal in the shaft compartment. This was necessary due to the small compartment size. Lowering and hoisting was done by a three man crew. Prior to moving, the animal was "gounted" for three days. The animal went without food or water for this period. If not done, the was the danger of a ruptured bladder or suffocation.
We uncovered an envelope of old drawings in the engineering office this morning, all related to old mining practices.
My favourite is this one on how to lower a mule down a mine shaft. No record of the mules' response is given.
(We believe the English was translated from the French text.)
An article from The Local about the state of higher education in Ontario: thelocal.to/ontario-post...
11.09.2025 17:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do you have this one?
Our pianist played the 60s Spiderman theme as the recessional at our wedding. Was telling the kids about this one night at supper. They didn't know the tune, so we found it for them on YouYube. The bad physics of this scene really stood out to adult me.
Sign outside a Royal Canadian Legion building which reads: DANCE PARTY LIVE MUSIC PULLED PORK SUNDAY 1 TO 5
Electronic sign which reads: Pulled Pork Dance 1 to 5 today
Not much of a dancer normally, but a "Pulled Pork Dance"? Sorry I missed it.
26.08.2025 23:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The image shows four sample email introductions, each taking creative liberties with the poster's surname. They read: "Hi Dr. Livers" "Hello Dr. Levers" "Dear professor Brent Lovers" "Hi, Professor Brent Livevers"
The fall term doesn't start until after Labour Day, but the barrage of emails has already begun.
Attentive visitors to Missouri's Belton Cemetery can undoubtedly hear Dale Carnegie rolling over in his grave.
#IBeforeE
Exciting @thestar.com article on our Snobots team competing in the HuroCup robotics competition in South Korea🇰🇷.
Good luck to Dr. Lau and our students!
www.thestar.com/sports/amate...
Congratulations to @crosh.bsky.social senior researcher Dr. Katie Goggins for receiving an NSERC discovery grant to fund her occupational vibration research. 🎉 Well done!
Congratulations also to the other awardees.
laurentian.ca/news/researc...
A permanent sign reading "Attention: Bear in area / Présence d'ours" has been added at the base of the path up from Lot 15.
Seems the bear has moved in because we now have some more permanent signage advising of their presence.
22.07.2025 12:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Canada geese in the swimming area, marked off by buoy lines, at Bell Park's Main Beach in Sudbury, Ontario. A woman sits on the beach watching them.
This morning they didn't wait for the lifeguard but they did bring an adult to supervise their swim.
23.06.2025 12:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of the Bell Park Main Beach in Sudbury, Ontario at sunrise. Canada geese are lined up along the water's edge within the swimming area marked off by a buoyline. An empty lifeguard tower is visible.
Impressed that these Canada geese are waiting for a city lifeguard to arrive before entering the swimming area.
#Sudbury
Screen shot of some of the Environment Canada forecast for today in Sudbury, Ontario. At 6pm there is a high of 19°C and 70% probability of precipitation. Weather conditions described as "Chance of showers. Risk of thunderstorms." The icon for the weather is combination of the sun, rain and rain clouds, plus dark thundercloud and lightnight.
Not a meteorologist, but I feel Iike the folks at Environment Canada are being non-committal with that icon: 🌞 + 🌧 + ⛅️ + 🌩?
(At least it doesn't include ❄️ + 🦈 + 🌪.)
Bird on the floor of the Fraser Auditorium foyer.
Bird on the wrong side of the Fraser Auditorium window.
A somewhat traumatized bird finally outside!
To my Dean: Is it too late to add catching & releasing this grackel as "service" on my annual report?
28.05.2025 21:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Final year capstone projects are an important part of engineering education, but they're even better when they're inspired by real-world problems.
Hat tip to Markus & Greg for the great job they do finding these projects and guiding our students.
www.sudbury.com/local-news/v...
Happy Mother's Day!
A special shut-out to all those who have to work today so that others can celebrate. My SIL is a chef at a fancy hotel. They are expecting 700-800 for brunch across two dining rooms! Be sure to tip your servers well today!
Rendering of a CAD model of an ice auger, with a detailed view of the engine and handle.
Rendering of a CAD model of a bicycle.
Rendering of a CAD model of an office chair.
Rendering of a CAD model of a vacuum.
My final marks are all submitted, so my winter-term course work is officially done! 🎉🥳🎈
Enjoy these renderings of some of the group projects completed by my 1st-year #ENGR1017 computer aided design (CAD) class, where they had to recreate digital models of a commercial product. Colour me impressed.
Sign indicating the row for those writing ENGR-3566 in the exam hall.
The calm before the storm. My second and final exam of the winter term starts soon… Best of luck to the students writing #ENGR3566 tonight!
23.04.2025 22:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0