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Graydon Gillies @graydongillies.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

New preprint! Here, we use a multi-year survey of >4,200 random plots across ~1100 km of Pacific coast to show that habitat patch availability (suitability, size, connectivity, temporal stability) declines towards and beyond the range limit of a coastal dune endemic: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Carissa Brown @carissabrown.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It might be #SCEECSEE20 anniversary, but it's also St. John's, NL 10th anniversary! We had rain, fog, a Newfoundlander dog at the mixer, a baby on a SWEEET panel, row houses, icebergs, gannets, screech ins, and more. It was a time! Photo credit to folks on that other app using the conf. hashtag.

SWEEET 2016. Panel members are in discussion, one of which is a baby, while the audience listens.

Watson the Newfoundlander dog at the welcome mixer

Outdoor photo with a sign in the foreground reading "Wind and Fog" and dense fog in the background.

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

In St. John's? Interested in AI? The Department of Political Science is honoured to host alumni @parismarx.com! Becoming an AI Critic Friday November 21st, 2025 2:30-4pm MUNL, Arts and Administration Bdg, Room AA 1043, Co-sponsored with @munlgeog.bsky.social

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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Join Taryn on a tour of CLEAR! Why are our lab coats pink (spoiler: it's for scientific)? What senses do we use to identify plastics (hint: more than our eyes!)? What kind of people work at CLEAR (awesome people, obv)! @munlgeog.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM #QueerScience youtube.com/shorts/CVKwx...

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CLEAR Lab Tour

YouTube video by Drmaxlib

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Graydon Gillies @graydongillies.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Had so much fun today representing @munlgeog.bsky.social at the virtual ACAG conference! I discussed some preliminary results from a project with @carissabrown.bsky.social, where we’ve found unusual post-fire black spruce recruitment patterns at the south coast of Labrador 🌱

A photo of a laptop screen displaying a presentation titled “Assessing post-wildfire forest resilience in coastal, subarctic forests in Labrador”

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Carissa Brown @carissabrown.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

ACAG*’s 2024 conference has kicked off, and the first #NorthernEDGELab @munlgeog.bsky.social talk was from MSc candidate Pierrette James-Bourque. Great science, baby trees, and memes - what else could one ask for? *Atlantic Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers

Photo of a PowerPoint slide titled “Climate change in NL and beyond” with a meme showing Johnny Cash that reads “How’s the weather in St. John’s? I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when”

Photo of a PowerPoint slide with four photos, each of tree seedlings growing in pots.

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Graydon Gillies @graydongillies.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hi everyone! To introduce myself on BlueSky after moving over from the bad place: my name is Graydon (he/him), I’m a grad student currently in Newfoundland, and I’m interested in plant ecology, species’ distributions, and range limits. I’d love to connect with other #ecoevo folks on here!

Rocky oceanside cliff in Newfoundland, Canada.

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Graydon Gillies @graydongillies.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Made a little starter pack for Geographers at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador! @munlgeog.bsky.social go.bsky.app/Gd1RF3v

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LGBTQ+ Plant Scientist Network @lgbtqplantsci.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

We are here! Help us reconnect with any and all allies of the LGBTQ+ community in Plant Science!

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MUNL Geography @munlgeog.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Wow, things are really picking up over here! Guess we’d better dust off our account and start to #ThinkOutside under this sunny BlueSky (okay, we are in Newfoundland in November, so outlook for actual blue sky is … uncertain). Stay tuned for some content from the last few months!

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MUNL Geography @munlgeog.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Spotted at Memorial University’s #WhaleOfADay 👀 👀 Some favourites from the map library!

Dan Duda and other librarians show a child some ocean related maps at a large display from the Map Library.

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MUNL Geography @munlgeog.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Huge congrats to @maxliboiron.bsky.social & collabs on their SSHRC Partnership Grant! “…IndigeLab Network brings together 18 researchers…to innovate ways to bring gendered, Indigenous ways of knowing & doing into lab cultures & other research collectives” gazette.mun.ca/research/kno...

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MUNL Geography @munlgeog.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

We love to #ThinkOutside at MUNL Geography! @carissabrown.bsky.social took #GEOG3140 Biogeography students out to a good ol’Newfoundland boreal bog to talk about adaptations and species-environment matching. Nothing makes those undergrad memories like a boot full of bog.

Students apprehensively walking into a bog.

Students enthusiastically loving their time in the big, surveying plants.

Close up of red Sphagnum moss and bright green plants. A big bog cranberry sits in the middle of the photo.

A small pitcher plant leaf within a bog plant community.

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Carissa Brown @carissabrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

It was a great day to make #NoSpaceForHate in St. John’s.

Pride and trans flags flying in the wind in front of the Confederation Building.

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