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Centre for Animals on the Move at Western @animalsonthemove.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Research Showcase (11-2 at the Great Hall) also features short, engaging talks on animals. Learn how cell phones can help track the migratory journeys of monarch butterflies, and what female chickadees are looking for in a mate! (3/3)

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Centre for Animals on the Move at Western @animalsonthemove.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Stop by our Research Showcase between 11-2 at the Great Hall (Somerville House). There are interactive displays for all ages, featuring animal tracking, wildlife conservation, bee colonies, animal-themed card making with our Artist in Residence, and more! Also refreshments! (2/3)

Watercolour painting of a white-crowned sparrow

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Centre for Animals on the Move at Western @animalsonthemove.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s fall and animals are on the move! Come check out our Fall Festival on @westernu campus, Saturday September 26th. (1/3) #WesternU #WesternHoco

Photo of a yellow-rumped warbler with a radio tag, gently restrained in the hand

Photo of a green darner dragonfly being gently held by the wings

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Centre for Animals on the Move at Western @animalsonthemove.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our second annual fall festival of Animals on the Move is coming up this weekend! There are still a few slots for bird banding demos and bird walks, and the science showcase doesn't have a cap, so please come and join us!

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Me stepping up to the microphone at a local community meeting where the residents are already losing their collective minds over the removal of three parking spots:

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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Great news for scientists everywhere! #ornithology #bioacoustics

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Beth MacDougall-Shackleton @bethmacshack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Migration season is pretty great, but I’m already at my limit of people sending me photos of window-killed birds :(

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If the boycott of US goods & services by Canadians was bad already, I have a feeling they haven’t seen anything yet. I feel for the many US businesses and folks who oppose Trump, but Trump and his cronies are waging economic war on Canada and other countries, and they have given us no other choice.

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Beth MacDougall-Shackleton @bethmacshack.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

@westernu.ca received over $10M in research support funds (RSF) last year, and that’s not even counting indirect costs to grants. Those funds are meant to support infrastructure that allows tri council research to proceed. Why the inability to prepare for power outages?

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Beth MacDougall-Shackleton @bethmacshack.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Day 6 without power and crickets from dean and VPR (apparently this is above, or below, their pay grades). What about the Chem building, also without power? Lots of volatile substances that need fumehoods and temp control to be safe. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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'Irreplaceable' samples destroyed in latest power outage at Western University in London, Ont. | CBC News

Irreplaceable research samples have been destroyed, experiments delayed and lab access cut off after a four-day power outage at Western University in London, Ont., left biology researchers scrambling ...

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Beth MacDougall-Shackleton @bethmacshack.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Day 4 of no power. We’ve had an unsettling number of multi day power outages @WesternU over the last few years but this is the longest yet I think. Do other Canadian universities deal with this too?? It’s going to be a nightmare to handle the aftermath whenever we’re out of the dark.

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Beth MacDougall-Shackleton @bethmacshack.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

But sure, let’s put up a bioconvergence mega building and a pathogens research facility instead of maintaining the infrastructure we already have.

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Beth MacDougall-Shackleton @bethmacshack.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The vibe from admin is very much “eh, if the power is out Friday through Sunday just run your little experiment next week” without recognizing that prolonged power outages and freezer thaws can cost some of us years, not days. And lab animals are kept behind card readers which require power to work!

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Beth MacDougall-Shackleton @bethmacshack.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Day 3 of no power for @WesternU Biology buildings. This costs us irreplaceable samples, $$ reagents and jeopardizes animal welfare. Modernize the infrastructure!

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 25/07/2026

So much for SDCC’s anti-AI policies — I’ve been complaining to show management about this booth for three days.

A booth with an AI backdrop and AI posters

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/07/2026

Y'all remember how they were going to put an AI teacher robot into a high school serving the Seneca Nation of Indians? OF COURSE it was built by a sexbot company. Gift link.

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Sally the Robot Was Coming to a New York School. Then the Plug Was Pulled. (Gift Article)

Students helped design the A.I.-powered creation as a young female with dark hair and an upbeat personality. Then came the outrage.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/07/2026

In case it isn't obvious, it is not coincidence that this school serves Native America students. Julie Carpenter's whole thread is worth reading. h/t @primalux.thedeadbird.club

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

Graphic showing a 9 m wide track for metros can move as many people as a 175 m wide, 7 lane road for cars.

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Centre for Animals on the Move at Western @animalsonthemove.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Listen to our very own Beth MacDougall-Shackleton interviewed on BBC's Unexpected Element talking about Song Sparrows engaged in rap battles! Click link and skip to the 14:00 min point! www.bbc.com/audio/play/w... @westernu.ca @isbe2026.bsky.social

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BBC Audio | Unexpected Elements | Bald caps, sparrow raps and lightning claps

A record at a Pitbull concert has us exploring baldness, fireballs, and rapping sparrows.

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Beth MacDougall-Shackleton @bethmacshack.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I propose a new rule, you can’t build any NEW buildings unless you can also keep the power on pretty reliably in your EXISTING buildings

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Sphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

If they say #airborne, it's an occupational disease, #employer responsibility. If it's droplet, then handwashing reduces transmission: #worker responsibility I'm not sure why unions aren't on to this aspect of it, especially since #measles can cause one to become #blind #deaf & brain damaged

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

let's be clear about what's happening: donald trump and benjamin netanyahu, whose countries have been committing genocide in gaza since 2023, unilaterally started a war with iran, and are now threatening genocide there.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

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Beth MacDougall-Shackleton @bethmacshack.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

#AvianMalaria folks has anyone been able to access MalAvi recently? 👀

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I'm particularly impressed that when Ford reduced/froze tuition fees, he decided that the policy corollary was "let's cut student aid" Now that tuition fees are going up again, the policy corollary is "let's cut student aid!" Nothing if not consistent.

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It seems like Big Tech has decided the solution is not to make AI products people want to use but rather to require people to use AI, either by incorporating it into products where it is unwanted or potentially by just requiring people to use it, perhaps via alliance with an authoritarian.

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daviss @daviss.org · 13/01/2026

"Love and Protect your Neighbors Don't Trust the Feds" seen on a Minneapolis middle school. South Minneapolis, January 2026

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Dr. Catie Ivy @catieivy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Do you like songbirds? Are you concerned about how wildfire smoke may impact their physiology? I'm searching for graduate students who are interested in looking at the effect of wildfire smoke on songbird physiology! Come join my lab @usaskartsci.bsky.social! research-groups.usask.ca/ivy-lab/

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The Ivy Lab! - Welcome to the Ivy Lab!

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/10/2025

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Lots of handwringing over this every year or so, but I am unconvinced that there is any explanation needed other than the prevalence of male-dominated industries that pay well and do not require a degree. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/educa...

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Canadian campuses are mostly female. What are men doing instead?

The gender gap in higher education has been widening for decades. Do universities need to do more to entice men back?

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Now ask yourself why the right hates universities.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

That said, creating skilled workers is not the only point of higher ed. Along with a long list of uncontroversial goods for individuals and society, it's also one of the only protections we have against the biggest current threat to democracy: disinformation (someone tell the govt).

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WLUFA @wlufa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

We hope everyone had a safe Labour Day in solidarity with workers everywhere! Thank you to WLUFA’s @cautdefencefund.bsky.social rep. Cameron McKenzie for standing with @dalfaculty.bsky.social, who have been locked out since August 18. #LabourDay #KeepDalStrong @ocufa.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

A large crowd of union and faculty association supporters marching at Dalhousie University.

A large group of union and faculty association members holding up flags and signs while posing for a photo.

Dr. Robin Whitaker - President of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) giving a rally speech in front of a television camera and rally crowd

A large group of union and faculty association members holding up flags and signs while posing for a photo in front of the University of Dalhousie's sign.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Community and government scrutiny are building against "ebikes" as a whole and that is a huge problem for our movement. We need to regulate the shit out of them (throttles bikes) before it harms the ebikes for mobility revolution that is helping to get more people out of cars.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Shoutout to DC for the amazing turnout yesterday! #FreeDC

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy. This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading: 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

I pledge that I will not provide any service to Columbia University. I will not speak at conferences held at or organized by Columbia. I will not publish with Columbia publications or provide peer reviews for them. I will not provide outside tenure evaluations for Columbia departments. I will not contribute in any way to the institution until everyone who is responsible for this week’s shameful decision has resigned, retired, or been fired, and until Columbia repudiates their catastrophic choice.

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

exactly. we are literally on the verge of achieving a post-scarcity world. there is enough for everyone, it’s just being hoarded by a handful of billionaires.

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