Dr. Steven Vamosi 🇨🇦

Egads! I’m going to need somebody to explain the (relevance/choice of) bicycle to me

We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪

If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
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#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!

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YouTube video by CTV News Musician Corb Lund files application for petition to stop coal mining in the rockies

CTV: Alberta musician and rancher Corb Lund has filed a new application for a citizen's initiative petition to stop coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rockies.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fQV...

Just found out that “Chatty G” is Aussie slang for ChatGPT, and I’m here for it

This ⬆️

Disorienting to see a post advertising a faculty position in the USA directly below one documenting yet another random ICE abduction #AcademicSky

I call it that too! 😁

We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

Whatever did it, we were overdue for a change in this Ward! 😁

A while ago, my institution deep-sixed the servers that used to host lab websites. I recently discovered that you can host websites for free at Github so, after diving back into HTML and refreshing content, the SM Vamosi site is back! ☺️

smvamosi.github.io

Picture of a glacial erratic, along with a Government of Albera sign about glacial erratics, in the Canmore AB area

Spotted this lovely large boulder the size of a small boulder on a recent walk through Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park

Hard to find a redder state (judging by Presidential voting history since 1900), and yet…

Thieves rob priceless jewels from Paris's Louvre in brazen heist | CBC News Thieves in balaclavas broke into Paris's Louvre museum on Sunday, using a crane to smash an upstairs window, then stealing priceless objects from an area that houses the French crown jewels before esc...

“We’re looking at the hypothesis of organized crime” — what’s the null?

www.cbc.ca/news/world/p...

Ok, this is a pretty cool email auto reply:

“I am at sea until [redacted]. My replies will be delayed.”

It’s a lovely city!

We are conducting a short survey (5–10 minutes) to explore how different #stakeholders perceive the value of #biodiversity in #urban #ponds. 🦆🐸🪷Scan the QR-code or click the link ( forms.gle/tBV4zunkfYEp... ) to participate in our survey. Thank you 😊

POSTING: @ubcoceans.bsky.social and @eoas.ubc.ca are recruiting for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Ocean Ecological Modelling. Associate #Professor or Professor, with tenure.

Deadline: September 12, 2025

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There are 100s of 1000s of acres of NF lands that look like this (more every day) -- unnaturally heavy, continuous fuels created bc of logging practices, not from fire suppression -- ready to explode in the next fire event. Yet all we'll hear about is lack of logging and suppression as the problem.🌏

I’ve gotten used to seeing AB push polls but Alberta Next “consultation” is outrageous.

Just did the immigration one.

From the very first sentence being a lie (no, we don’t have an open border policy) to options all having nudges, a dumpster fire in survey design top to bottom.

Did you know that Canada is home to more lakes than the rest of the world combined? With over two million lakes, our country holds nearly 20% of the planet’s fresh water. From the iconic Great Lakes to alpine gems, there’s no shortage of beautiful places to paddle, fish, or just take in the view.

I always suspected that the “live free or die” folks south of the border had a pretty narrow zone of concern when it came to that concept, and their silence in the face of random arrests of actual US citizens speaks volumes

I will forever be disappointed that they didn’t go with Earth, Wind, and Fire, which is how I refer to it

After a judicial recount the riding of Terrbonne has flipped back to the Liberals from the Bloc. The margin of victory is a single vote. One. Vote. LPC now at 170 seats with three more ridings being recounted this week. (LPC holds two of them so they could drop from 170 or go as high as 171)

Profoundly relieved that @mark-carney.bsky.social
is our PM, & so proud that Canada didn’t follow the U.S. down the MAGA road. Carney handled Trump exactly how I hoped—and expected—he would: calm, polite, forceful. I hope the cons recognize he is a very different person than Trudeau. #canadastrong

Please apply for this open position for a senior scientist at our faculty. It is the head of the mass spec center and you will be my close colleague! Application Deadline:8.5.2025
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

Guess it’s time to lose the beard

Plans to lower costs, plans for higher wages.

And some of it, like eliminating the carbon tax, is already underway. Mark Carney has put together a smart new platform that makes life more affordable in Canada.

Perhaps not, when you consider the slang meaning of skeet 🫤

📖 Woke | wōk | Verb
: Aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts, issues and discrimination (especially issues of racial and social justice)
Synonyms: Aware, conscious, evolved
Antonyms: Ignorant, unaware, close-minded

Stay woke.
Stay wide awake.
Snooze, you lose.
#neverpoilievre