YES to all essential services being publicly owed and operated

Right?? I loved reading the whole assignment.
100% for 'reflection'.

To be completely honest, at the beginning of the course I was unsure as to why such a detailed plan of my entire semester might be important for a biology class, and the whole task felt daunting. As the semester progressed, I was able to see the true purpose of this assignment, and it became a very helpful tool for my academic success. Since this was not something that I chose to do, and had to complete for quite a large portion of my grade, procrastinating the plan of my semester was not an option. Although this seemed quite frankly annoying to me initially, I ended up really benefiting from it, with a few tweeks along the way.

End-of-semester grading, and these lines from a student stopped me:👇

I teach time management because I assess time management. It’s the skill students ask for most and also the one they need most.

#HigherEd #TimeManagement

Question: how many warehouses will be destroyed before insurance companies increase premiums for companies who don’t pay a living wage?

This so much 👇
I think people mix a lot being partisan with being political. We are all political. Silence is also political.

I loved that this question opened up a whole bunch of great things to talk about, from statistics, to biology, to variations in standards of ‘proof’. It was such a great chat and I enjoyed how insightful the question was. (We had just done a test on NMDS distributions that clearly showed clustering)

Recent research student question:

"What does conducting this statistical test allow me to conclude beyond what I can see from the data visualization?"

My heart! 🧪🪲💜

#HigherEd #TransdisciplinaryLearning

Four photos, sections of kidneys. Each photo shows pinkish tissues with round structures with white lines. Labeled A through D.

#ImageForensics
Kidneys of four differently treated groups of animals. None of these photos should overlap. But is that true????
Tell or show me if you find at least 2 sets of overlaps.

We trained for years to do these things in this job. We are good at doing these things in this job. We like doing these things in this job. Please let us do these things in this job.

If we build it, will the grocery stores come?

I’d cheerfully double my taxes to have a well-funded society I’ve been doing my taxes (you’ve probably been doing yours too), and it’s making me irritated. But not in the way that seems to permeate our world: I’m not irritated that my taxes are so high; I’m …

New blog post, a bit uncharacteristically (for me) political: My taxes are too low. I'd cheerfully double them to have the kind of society we could live in.

The cover of the volume featuring a zoomed in image of a springtail.

📣Volume 40 of Zygote Quarterly is live!

zqjournal.org/editions/zq4...

Check out our Looking Back to Look Forward features and learn all about #BioInspiredDesign

#Biomimetics #Biomimicry

Quebec passes law banning street prayers, prayer rooms in universities, CEGEPs Quebec will now ban street prayers as the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) “super-minister” of identity, Jean-François Roberge, has just passed his bill to strengthen secularism.

There’s no place for hate in Canada

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI? - Toronto Life Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at TMU, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI...

Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate for DEI?

torontolife.com/deep-dives/w...

Israeli parliament approves the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis | CBC News The bill's passage marked the culmination of a years-long push by Israel's far-right to escalate punishment for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic offenses against Israelis.

I can't even...

www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/f...

Hi there, Researchers,

Who have you been reading lately?
Enjoying their work?

Write them a quick note to let them know!

#HigherEd

🤣🤣

PLAY IT LOUD!

This was not on my bingo card, but I love to see it. More of this, please. #GoMathNerds

Screen grab of a dog catching a frisbee in slow motion from the Caribou video of You Can Do It CARIBOU 'You Can Do It'. Listen : https://caribou.lnk.to/youcandoit Video directed by Richard Kenworthy of Shynola.

Today is the last class of #ZOO2700 and so a chance to play one of my absolute favourite videos ever while everyone arrives!

#caribou #youcandoit

So many good good dogs!

youtu.be/VrPVSz3bBq4?...

For folks using #GitHub - quick instructions here to turn off allowing it to use your CoPilot use in its AI training.

I've never used it but still, might as well turn it off!

🧪

Under CoPilot settings -> Privacy -> Disable

Allow #GitHub to collect and use my Inputs, Outputs, and associated context to train and improve AI models

Disable.

Absolutely shameful.
No more Olympics support/watching for me.

no place for gender diversity in sport - and what about intersex people? Never/rarely mentioned or acknowledged. Shame.

Imagine telling someone in the 80s or 90s that the owner of the WWE would one day be Secretary of Education. What a fucking stupid timeline.

Screenshot of title and abstract: Biology Graduate School Pathways for Inuit Students and Lessons Learned by Southern Academics Bryan Vandenbrink 1 *, Thomas McIlwraith 2 , Shoshanah Jacobs 3 1 Polar Knowledge Canada 2 Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph 3 Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph Abstract The minimum requirement for admission to a master's program is normally the successful completion of an undergraduate or baccalaureate degree in an honours program or the equivalent from a recognized university. Inuk student Bryan Vandenbrink is an exception to these expectations. Here, in a loosely autobiographical format, Bryan tells his education story from early high school in Iqaluktuuttiaq through to completing an MSc at the University of Guelph. Co-authors Thomas McIlwraith and Shoshanah Jacobs add short reflections on the journey and identify barriers to postsecondary education for Indigenous students and how those barriers can be reduced. Keywords: Indigenous students, graduate school, barriers to education, alternative entry, colonialism, Inuit

📣NEW PAPER: Biology Graduate School Pathways for Inuit Students and Lessons Learned by Southern Academics

Read Bryan's story about his education and MSc at #Guelph

journals.library.brocku.ca/brocked

We are so grateful to the @brocku.ca journal team for editorial support

#HigherEd #InclusiveEd

🧪🎉🧪🎉

New #deep-sea #Amphipoda species from the Clarion Clipperton Zone #CCZ with accessible data!!

New plots and deep-sea projects for #ZOO3700 and #ZOO2700!

Thank you @zookeys.pensoft.net , @tammyhorton.bsky.social , @evastewart.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk , and I'm sure many many others!

Screenshot of title and abstract: Biology Graduate School Pathways for Inuit Students and Lessons Learned by Southern Academics Bryan Vandenbrink 1 *, Thomas McIlwraith 2 , Shoshanah Jacobs 3 1 Polar Knowledge Canada 2 Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph 3 Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph Abstract The minimum requirement for admission to a master's program is normally the successful completion of an undergraduate or baccalaureate degree in an honours program or the equivalent from a recognized university. Inuk student Bryan Vandenbrink is an exception to these expectations. Here, in a loosely autobiographical format, Bryan tells his education story from early high school in Iqaluktuuttiaq through to completing an MSc at the University of Guelph. Co-authors Thomas McIlwraith and Shoshanah Jacobs add short reflections on the journey and identify barriers to postsecondary education for Indigenous students and how those barriers can be reduced. Keywords: Indigenous students, graduate school, barriers to education, alternative entry, colonialism, Inuit

📣NEW PAPER: Biology Graduate School Pathways for Inuit Students and Lessons Learned by Southern Academics

Read Bryan's story about his education and MSc at #Guelph

journals.library.brocku.ca/brocked

We are so grateful to the @brocku.ca journal team for editorial support

#HigherEd #InclusiveEd

a man running in a field with the words " i 'm going on an adventure " Alt: a hobbit running in a field with the words "I’m going on an adventure "

Yes, I recently booked a trip to NZ for a conference (and a bit of vacation).

Yes, I explicitly planned my flights to avoid the US.

With news that ICE might be trolling airports soon, feeling even better about my decision.