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@girls_can@thecanadian.social

Wetland ecologist, University professor, founder of the Waterloo Wetland Lab. I post about family, board games, sustainable fashion, nature, Canadian politics, academia, climate change, science, ecological restoration, invasive species, biodiversity and more.

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girls_can, to academia
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DEATH to ! I refuse to click your link, pair your options up with my outlook calendar, block off a half dozen slots and guard them until the other invitees weigh in and the organizer pulls the trigger. By then, I’ve already agreed to something else. NO MORE!

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Dear Canadians. Salt clears ice from your sidewalk by lowering the meltpoint of the ice. It is not meant to be applied like grit and doesn’t work below -10C. It only takes a mug per 10 sidewalk squares. Apply more and you’ll degrade municipal infrastructure and contaminate groundwater unnecessarily.

Sidewalk with thick crust of salt.
Salt crust on pitted walk way

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There’s so much we still don’t know! Register for this cool talk about knowledge gaps in science 🧪. Maybe get inspired and help us address this massive challenge. https://ipbes-net.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEudOyvpj8pEtyoCD60S61cxmvdhQIYx0g3#/registration

girls_can, to Birds
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Happening RIGHT NOW: The Great Backyard Count . Don’t miss your chance to help 🪶🪺 and the 👩‍🔬 who study them! I just completed a 15 min survey and all I saw was a pair of crows - but that is STILL valuable data for the Cornell Ornithology, Audubon and Birds Canada 🇨🇦 NGOs who use this data. It’s easy and fun! Take part! https://www.birdcount.org/

girls_can, to random
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In , Ford government rams through omnibus bill with legislation in it that reduces oversight on “simple infrastructure projects” like the environmentally disastrous and the costly and embattled . Opposition is alarmed based on gov’s track record of cronyism and environmental mismanagement with the . Less oversight seems the opposite of what is needed to protect biodiversity and prevent wasteful 1950s-style . https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/ford-government-wants-to-fast-track-construction-projects-but-critics-warn-greenbelt-shows-it-cant/article_d900627a-ccdc-11ee-aba0-2f7214822028.html

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Honoured to receive the 2024 Leadership Award 🥇 from the Centre this morning! Congratulations to the fellow nominees and gratitude to the ISC for their valuable work training and bringing together Canada’s invasive species managers and scientists!

https://uwaterloo.ca/rooney-lab/news/dr-rebecca-rooney-wins-leadership-award

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Tobogganing is good fun at any age, but when you’re over 40 it gives new meaning to the statement “this is a hill I will die on.”

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We’ve survived the first week of 2024! Now what’s going to define the year ahead? CICADMANIA of course! Who’s excited for 17 yr and 13 yr periodical cicadas to emerge simultaneously for the first time in 221 y?
Periodical cicadas are large insects that spend most of their lives below ground but emerge en masse to mate.

girls_can,
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@elaterite they’re harmless and not a threat to crops. Fly fishermen love them because it makes for great fishing. It could get annoying if you’re sensitive to sound, though. The males make a loud clicking song by vibrating organs on their sides. Like a million singing crickets.

girls_can, to random
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This year, share your amazing science! Submit by Jan 12 to Session #6 “Advances in Wetland Science: Connecting the Land, Water, and People” at in Windsor.
Co-Chairs: @kirkwoodlab.bsky.social @girls @cdrobich.bsky.social @tylerbhampton.bsky.social

girls_can, to random
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On a mission to have a sufficiency and limit my I did a . Turns out I own 30 pairs of pants: 2 white, 6 green, 6 brown, 7 black and 9 blue?!? This is not counting pjs, capris, sweatpants, yoga pants or leggings. People I’m not even fashionable and I could wear a different pair every day of the month! 🫣

6 pair of army green pants in two piles on a dark brown wood floor
9 pairs of blue pants. Some are denim of light or dark wash. Some are linen. Some have elastic waistbands and some are button fly. On a dark brown wood floor in two piles
6 pair of beige or brown pants on a dark wood floor

girls_can,
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The brutal part is that I wear 5/30 99% of the time. One pair I have never worn. Several really don’t fit. I could get by without experiencing any sacrifice on 1/6th of my collection!

girls_can, to Fashion
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To reduce global related equitably, we all need to shift our consumption of clothes into the fair consumption window of 59-129 kg CO2e/person/y. But how much clothing is that? What do you really need? What do you really ? Join me in a and find out!
The graph below comes from this report: https://hotorcool.org/unfit-unfair-unfashionable/

girls_can, to Fashion
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I’m on a journey to curb my footprint and I’m taking aim at my . An estimated 84% of the related to are upstream (production, distribution, retail) so the best thing we can do is buy less. About 25-30% of items in the typical G20 closet never get worn, so my mission is to audit my and see what I do and don’t wear to work out how to live in my consumption window.

Coats and dresses hang in a crowded closet

girls_can, to random
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for anyone thinking of changing : turn off before you move. 😅 Hoo boy! That’s a lot of !

Video scrolling through pages and pages of emails from Mastodon

girls_can, to space
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I’ve been here a hot minute and so far my feed on is all trippy photos by .

girls_can, to science
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I switched instances. Why? Let’s not pretend we understand how Mastodon works. I just thought I might find more juicy and content here at TheCanadian. Excited to make new , , friends who wear plaid and eat

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