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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every bit of this 👇

Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 27/09/2026

Rogers, today at 10:30: We've detected a problem with your internet. Contact us at your earliest convenience to schedule a technician to repair it. Me, today at 10:43: Hey Rogers, what's up? 40+ minutes later... Rogers: Everything is fine. But call us back if it's not. Sigh.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 16/09/2026

Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU. And create a common prosperity and economic security space.

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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Former PM Jean Chrétien gave an amazing speech today in Gander, Newfoundland. If you haven’t watched it, you should. This man has aged like a fine wine. Here is a snippet 👇

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 11/09/2026

Day 1 finished. Pretty exciting to be back in the classroom after sabbatical :)

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maplemaps.bsky.social @maplemaps.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Maple Maps is a navigation app built for Canada: live traffic, directions in English or French, a maple leaf on Canadian-owned businesses, and your data kept on Canadian soil. No accounts, no ads, ever. 1,600 people joined the beta in a week. Join them: maplemaps.ca

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Maple Maps — Navigation made for Canada

Maple Maps is a navigation app built for Canada: live traffic and closures, a maple leaf on Canadian-owned businesses, English or French, and data that stays in Canada. The iPhone beta is open.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 01/09/2026

The new ZQ is here! This issue: Correspondents Program, engineering design through biology, myths about birds We’ve redesigned ZQ for easier reading on phones and an open-source bio-inspired font Faune Happy reading and please share! zqjournal.org #ZQJournal #ZygoteQuarterly #Biomimicry

Front cover of the 41st issue feature the sculpture of a heron-like bird

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 29/08/2026

It’s a good day to play in the kitchen. Granola, blueberry oat breakfast bars, and chicken barley soup. Ingredients courtesy of Canadian, Mexican, Brazilian, and other non-US producers.

A square tray of blueberry oat breakfast bars (not yet cut into bars) sitting on a butcher board counter - surrounded by other kitchen items.

A large pot of chicken barley soup on a black stove top.

A pan of not yet baked granola (with pecans, dates, and shredded coconut).

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 29/08/2026

So many items not added to my cart today because they are made in the USA.

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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 & Buy Canadian Warrior @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

LET'S FIX THIS! 40 million Canadians buying $334 billion of American product is roughly $8,300 per Canadian a year. 340 million Americans buying $382 billion of Canadian gear is $1,100 per. We are the best customers America has on this planet, seven times over. Let's change that. #BoycottUSA

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Katherine Drotos @spiritofcavalia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Be the Dolly you wish to see in the world. ♥️

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 22/08/2026

Canadian grocery stores - you absolutely need to be part of this - and do a much better job helping the consumer. Big. Effin. Labels. “Buy this product instead of this one” signage.

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Canadians: when shopping for made-in-Canada products/produce, keep a lookout for trickery and deceptive labeling, like this. This bag of red onions gave an address as coming from Ontario. BUT, on the reverse, it says “product of USA”. #Never51 #TrumpTariffs #TrumpEconomicWarfare #TradeWar

ONIONS OIGNONS
DOMINION FARM PRODUCE LTD.
215 DISSETTE ST. BRADFORD
ONTARIO, CANADA L3Z 3G9
www.Dominionfarms.co

3lbs - 48 oz - 1.36kg
NET WEIGHT POIDS NET
No.1 RED ONIONS
OIGNONS ROUGES No.1
PRODUCT OF U.S.A.
PRODUIT DES E.-U.
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Anne with an “e” @redheadinthecity.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 20/08/2026

The #ManufacturedEcosystems team agrees with @theguardian.com that the Leaf Sheep is pretty darn amazing. Check out Yulia Shtern's stunning work using upcycled materials and no extra pigment, so we can appreciate just how magical this tiny soul really is. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Photo of a large scale leaf sheep sculpted by Yulia Shtern in 2025

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 18/08/2026

Recruiting UofG Undergrads For Fall 2026 & Winter 2027 I'm recruiting senior University of Guelph undergraduate students to support a variety of research projects this fall and winter.

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Recruiting UofG Undergrads For Fall 2026 & Winter 2027

I'm recruiting senior University of Guelph undergraduate students to support a variety of research projects this fall and winter.

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Climate is a pattern, and the pattern has changed. = Climate Change

Graphic reading, “The difference between ‘There used to be hot summers too.’ and climate crisis.” Below is a temperature-anomaly chart showing mostly blue, cooler-than-average years in the earlier record, shifting dramatically toward sustained red, warmer-than-average years in recent decades. Occasional earlier red bars are labelled “These were hot summers,” while the sustained cluster of increasingly warm recent years is labelled “This is climate change.”

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gwwic.bsky.social @gwwic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Save the date! Take Back the Night 2026 Guelph is happening Thurs Sept 17. ✊6:30pm, Marianne's Park (176 Gordon St): rally and march against sexual violence. 🎵8pm, Royal City Mission: free and fiery concert with Olexa and headliners Bonnie Trash! #TBTN #tbtn26 #TakeBackTheNight #guelphevents

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 07/08/2026

Sci-fi writers imagine worlds that don't yet exist That makes them climate adaptation thinkers The #ManufacturedEcosystems Sci-Fi Climate Technology Database explores climate technologies Here's what they imagine about #GreenInfrastructure sfmanufacturedecosystems.hcommons.org/green-infras...

Screenshot of linked page with large title: Green Infrastructure

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Lloyd Robertson, former CTV News chief anchor, dies at age 92. Mr. Robertson, a legend of Canadian journalism, joined CTV in 1976 and served as chief anchor and senior editor from 1984 to 2011. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

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Lloyd Robertson, former CTV News chief anchor, dies at age 92

Mr. Robertson joined CTV in 1976 and served as chief anchor and senior editor from 1984 to 2011

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 28/07/2026

Sigh. "I have been reading about your research in [Professor’s Research Area], and I believe my technical background and interests may align well with your group's work." #AI #HigherEd

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 17/07/2026

#HigherEd workload is out of control. It is time for a sector-wide teaching formula. Currently, we get the same teaching credit for teaching a course of 20 students as we do for teaching a course of 1800. The workload is not the same, and the distribution of course assignments is not equitable.

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 04/07/2026

Um, HomeSense - I think you might be rushing the season just a little bit.

Shelves full of Thanksgiving decorations.

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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🧪🧵 🪰 🐜🪲🐞🦗🐛🦋🪳🦟 How many species of insect are there? A seemingly simple question, but one that has been 'bugging' scientists for years. Our work out today suggests that there are millions more than we had previously expected. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @gdfcf.bsky.social

This photo was taken in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste

This microgastrine wasp was named by co-author Jose Fernandez-Triana in honour of Costa Rican parataxonomist Roberto Espinoza in recognition of his contribution to understanding the plant biology of ACG. The species is Snellenius robertoespinozai. The image is Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) so can reused provided the original author (Jose Fernandez-Triana) and the source are properly cited. The source is: Fernandez-Triana JL, Whitfield JB, Smith MA, Kula RR, Hallwachs W, Janzen DH (2015) Revision of the genera Microplitis and Snellenius (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with a key to all species previously described from Mesoamerica. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 62(2): 137-201. https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.62.5276

image of a Malaise trap in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 17/06/2026

Sci-fi writers imagine worlds that don't yet exist That makes them climate adaptation thinkers The #ManufacturedEcosystems Sci-Fi Climate Technology Database explores climate technologies Here's what writers have imagined about #BioGas sfmanufacturedecosystems.hcommons.org/biogas/

Screenshot of landing page linked in text of post.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 19/06/2026

The tech we need for climate adaptation looks a lot like the technologies we'd need on Mars So #ManufacturedEcosystems teamed up with NASA’s Scientific Computing and Visualization Team to build a VR world to explore them Robo bees? Yep #Biomimetics www.manufacturedecosystems.com/habitat-on-m...

Screenshot of the web page linked in the text of this post. It says: Manufactured Ecosystems Habitat on Mars

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 08/06/2026

Congratulations to #GuelphGrad and winner of the Forster Medal - Magisterial for her thesis on Contextual #HigherEd #ProudAdvisor #NachasMachine

A photo of me and my student in formal Academic Regalia

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month folks! ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷🤎🤍🩶🖤

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 31/05/2026

O_o That’s definitely a design choice. Oh Canada, indeed! 🇨🇦

A maple leaf plushy with a smiley face and two long legs wearing red sneakers. The stem of the maple leaf hangs between the legs.

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 28/05/2026

Dear journal editors - no means no. Them, May 1: please be a guest editor for a special issue of our journal. Me, May 7: No thank you. Them, May 10: Guest edit? Them, May 17: Hullo? Guest edit pleeez? Them, May 24: We do most of the admin. GuEsT eDiT?! 🤪

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 17/05/2026

Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia - and given rising hatred and villainization of queer communities - it’s more important than ever. Queer lives are human lives. Queer lives matter.

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Progress Pride Heart Animation

Alt: Progress Pride Heart Animation

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