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Michelle F Bowman

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Peter Head @peterheadcbe.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This report shows that cities can achieve what was once thought impossible: cutting toxic air pollution by 20-45% in a little over a decade. London, Beijing and San Francisco have done it with EV’s, bike lanes and shutting down fossil fuel burning. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution
Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%
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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
International student arrivals in Canada plummet 74% in two years | National share.google/al8OWdqq6D77...
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International student arrivals in Canada plummet 74% in two years | National
Ottawa's push to bring Canada's population back to "sustainable levels" has resulted in a decrease in international student arrivals.
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Michelle F Bowman @forensecology.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
🌀 I’m grateful for a new contract & course and happy with my first report & half term but whoa, I’m READY for reading week!!
Map of Great Lakes Areas of Concern on the Canada.ca website Cover of the textbook: Contemporary Project Management: Plan-driven and Agile Approaches
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Michelle Bowman @bowman4ward2.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
May you dwell in the possibilites for 2026! - And for an everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky (Artwork by thewheatfield)
Moths in shades of pink and vines in shades of tan surrounding “I dwell in possibility” quote by Emily Dickinson I dwell in possibility written in cursive from bottom to top on the left of the poem

I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows - 
Superior - for Doors -

Of Chambers as the Cedars - 
Impregnable of eye- 
And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky - 

Of Visitors - the fairest - 
For Occupation - This - 
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise -

Emily Dickinson
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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
If you are working on developing a consortium to respond to the upcoming call HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-01 Understanding and tackling the decline of insects ... please get in touch www.sib.swiss/environmenta...
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Environmental Bioinformatics
Focus on the group's mission To protect and restore the environment that sustains humankind we need to understand it. The Environmental Bioinformatics Group, led by Robert W...
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Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
A mushroom-lined bunny trail through Sphagnum moss. Newfoundland, Canada. #mushroom #fungi #fungifriends #moss #bryophyte #bolete
Photo of a bunny (snowshoe hare) trail through green Sphagnum moss. The trail is lined with red bog bolete mushrooms.
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Adi Khen @adlysia.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology
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An art and a science: Scripps Oceanography showcases 5,000 seaweed pressings
UC San Diego’s Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab is digitizing its collection of more than 5,000 pressings and making it accessible to the public
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph. One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics. What could go wrong? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 19/11/2025
The combination of unique politics, climate change, and bad luck have brought a true drought emergency to Tehran. "Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that Tehran’s residents would have to ration water—and eventually evacuate the capital—if there was no rain by late November."
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 31/10/2025
Happy Hallowe'en! 🎃 Spiders 🕷️ aren't scary, of course, but one of their "ecosystem services" is providing a bit of spookiness 🕸️ to this evening. Here are a bunch of other great things that our little eight-legged friends do for us: 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️ 🪲🪳
Graphical abstract shaped like a spiderweb with the following figure heading: "Ecosystem services provided by spiders. These services are categorised into four main types: (I) Provisioning; (II) Regulating; (III) Supporting; and (IV) Cultural."
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A biodiverse world outside creates a healthy microbiome inside. The same conditions that let wildlife thrive also keeps people healthy. Fascinating article from @phoebeweston.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health
Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world
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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
"there are sobering signs that the world continues to warm, leading to devastating effects for millions of people." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...
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Pope Leo Calls for Unity on Climate at a Divided Moment
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Michelle F Bowman @forensecology.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity
The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can now help to devise better indicators.
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Michelle F Bowman @forensecology.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
💕 Thanks for all you taught us
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I like this piece, and I like doing sci comm. But I also think it’s not fair to demand every subject matter expert also be public-facing. Some people are really good at doing and that’s enough. We need more economically viable jobs for full-time sci comm to bridge findings from experts to public.
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Michelle F Bowman @forensecology.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
❗️Check out a “Draw the Line” event near you this Saturday #Canada❗️ 🎶 This song is reminicent of the Harper Government Carney’s plan - Fossil fuel & nuclear infrastructure, port expansion for long distance transport of goods, and mining: lnkd.in/gZrUZhPq www.youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...
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For our scientists
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
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Marilyn Anne Campbell @macampbell.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Oo, kudos @utoronto.ca ! "First of its kind new animal law program at U f T 'a long time coming'" - CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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First of its kind new animal law program at U of T 'a long time coming' | CBC News
The University of Toronto’s Law school is launching an animal law program. The faculty says its the first program of its kind at a Canadian law school. It comes at a time when animal welfare and right...
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Patrick Goff @bmsscienceteach.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
To any of my fellow science educators, you have to give @skypeascientist.bsky.social a try. They match your class up with a practicing scientist. It has been an awesome experience for my kids. Seriously, sign up for one. You won’t regret it. #teach180 #edusky
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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Final @laurierbiology.bsky.social seminar posters is! #SciArt
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University of Guelph @uofguelph.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Project Serve is back for its 28th year! This Saturday, Sept. 13, hundreds of #UofG students, staff and faculty will support more than 20 local organizations, making a meaningful impact together. Learn more and sign up to volunteer: uoguel.ph/uqof6
Three individuals wearing "Project Serve" t-shirts are working outdoors, shovelling soil into a wheelbarrow under a sunny sky.
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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR
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Michelle F Bowman @forensecology.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
See you there #Guelph #UofG
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
All the Trees are Turning Gold Lee Munn 2023
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Ian Gibson @iangibson.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Conestoga College getting a new President really represents the end of an epoch. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Conestoga College begins process to replace president John Tibbits by March 2026 | CBC News
In an internal announcement posted Monday morning, Conestoga College said it has started the process to find a new president and CEO. It's expected the next person to fill that role would be announced...
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Curious to know if you live in an area with high PM2.5 pollution? You can filter our Watershed Pollution Map to show that. The dark purple areas have low levels, light blues have some, + yellow areas have high levels of PM2.5. share.google/09BDKnoRRyll...
Map of parts of England and Wales indicating how high PM2.5 pollution is by area. Areas with higher pollution tend to correspond to centres of population, roads and industrial areas.
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Michelle F Bowman @forensecology.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🏡 Durham is such a nice area - rolling farmland between rivers and forests 💔 Brutal how many gravel pits are going in WAY too close to the headwaters of the Great Lakes 1/2
McGowan Falls in Durham Recently sold tiny house on the Rocky Saugeen  River slated to be sandwiched between two gravel pits Headwaters of the Rocky Saugeen River
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 07/09/2025
I don’t even want to guess how this interacts with wildfire smoke. 🌎
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Michelle F Bowman @forensecology.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
My classroom has a view of the pond this term. Too bad the windows don’t open.
Wide maple tree with a pond in the background
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One Health U of Guelph @onehealthuofg.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
U of Guelph faculty! Tomorrow (Sept. 5) is the deadline for the submission of proposals for Building Arts & Social Science Capacity in One Health funding. Up to $5,500 is available as graduate student salary support for a One Health initiative! Learn more: onehealth.uoguelph.ca/awards/
This graduate student funding initiative is entitled "Building Arts and Social Science Capacity in One Health."
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Michelle F Bowman @forensecology.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🌊 Last swim of the trip was in the waves
Windy day at Inverhuron beachSunburnt me in front on the Lake Huron dunes Seagull in front of the Lake Huron Dunes
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Michelle F Bowman @forensecology.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Three beautiful spots today
Port Elgin coastInverhuron beach Kincardine pier at sunset
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Michelle F Bowman @forensecology.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Squeezing in the elusive 2025 beach visit before my new term starts on Thursday #aaahhh
Wet white feather in foreground and pinky orange sunset over Lake Huron in the background
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Jon Bright @jonbright.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
The UK’s largest lake, Lough Neagh, is on course to record its worst year of potentially toxic algal blooms to date, as rescue plans remain deadlocked. As a ban on eel-fishing in the lake is extended yet again, with local fishers’ incomes falling by 60% since 2023 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK’s largest lake faces environmental crisis as rescue plans stall
Toxic algae cases in Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh have tripled since last year, as local fishers’ incomes plummet
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Their name sounds like a cartoon character, + little balls of plastic seem harmless enough - but the ecological damage nurdles cause when they spill in the ocean can be immense - absorbing contaminants in the water, mistakenly eaten by fish, birds + animals. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Buoyant, the size of a lentil and almost impossible to recover: how nurdles are polluting the oceans
Millions of the tiny plastic pellets are being washed up on the coast of Kerala in India in the latest in a series of global spills, as plastic treaty talks continue in Geneva
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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I like the idea of asking published authors to review 2-3 manuscripts for every one that they publish. When I was in grad school, I was always taught to review 2 manuscripts for every one I published as the correct way to give back.
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Michelle F Bowman @forensecology.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🦢 Neato www.facebook.com/share/1GDAkq...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 11/12/2024
A study of 632 freshwater fish species from 9,989 locations finds climate warming affects fish abundances, with increases at the poleward edges of species’ distributions and declines at the equatorward edges of species’ distributions. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Jumping salmon.
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 21/08/2025
Combining professional survey data and data gathered from citizen scientists, new research highlights the positive impact of agri-environment schemes on butterfly communities at a landscape scale🦋 @ukceh.bsky.social| @btobirds.bsky.social| @naturalengland.bsky.social| @jappliedecology.bsky.social
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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Ctr for Biodiv Genomics (Guelph) is hiring 10 entomologists (mostly post-docs) to help improve identifications on barcoded material: 2-yr appts, salary range CAD $62,500-$70,000. graduatestudies.uoguelph.ca/postdoctoral... See posting for specific taxonomic gps preferred.
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Arthropod Taxonomic Specialists (10 positions) | Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies
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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
New job alert: Would you like to help analyse our Big Garden Birdwatch dataset? 🪶🧪 Our monitoring science team are hiring for a new 2yr position to develop the ecological analysis and visualisation of BGBW data Interested? Full details here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
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Senior Conservation Scientist - Ecological Analyst (Fixed-Term) | RSPB
Big Garden Birdwatch Data ScientistWe have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and skilled team-member to join the Monitoring Science team at the RSPB Centre for Conservation Science. We are s...
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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
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NPR @npr.org · 21/08/2025
Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later.
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Artificial light has essentially lengthened birds' day
Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Guidelines for ensuring meaningful engagement of early career researchers in scientific collaborations: recommendations from and for marine and polar scientists
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Guidelines for ensuring meaningful engagement of early career researchers in scientific collaborations: recommendations from and for marine and polar scientists
Abstract. There is an increasing recognition of the importance of involving early career researchers (ECRs) in scientific positions of trust within nationa
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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
One of the solutions mentioned here is to pay peer reviewers. What do you think about that? Do you think it introduces a conflict of interest? 🧪 #SciPub #AcademicSky
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The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system
Journals and funders are trying to boost the speed and effectiveness of review processes that are under strain.
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 18/08/2025
The Winnipeg Humane Society was kicked out of a rural Manitoba fair over this display. They have been bringing the display to events across the province for decades, to raise awareness about these cages that pregnant pigs are kept in, despite a pledge from the industry in 2014 to phase them out.
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Humane Society asked to leave Hanover fair over papier mâché pig, human-sized cage | CBC News
Winnipeg Humane Society staff say they’re disappointed that the organization was asked to leave the Hanover Ag Fair in Grunthal, Man., on Saturday, after setting up an animal welfare display that feat...
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Neil @uk-wildlife.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
A quick clip from my Dragonfly Life Cycle video - a timelapse of the metamorphosis of a Willow Emerald nymph into an adult Watch in 4K here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy7V... #bugsky #pondlife #ukwildlife @odonataamericas.bsky.social @riverflies.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
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Jon Bright @jonbright.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Instead, the worst of the fires have been concentrated in the prairie provinces and the Atlantic region, with bone-dry conditions upending how Canada responds to a threat that is only likely to grow as the climate warms. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘Pray for rain’: wildfires in Canada are now burning where they never used to
Canada’s response to the extreme weather threat is being upended as the traditional epicentre of the blazes shifts as the climate warms
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 18/08/2025
Sections of Nova Scotia's coastal regions are literally disappearing, thanks to the forces of erosion and politics. Residents like Ralph Wardrope are watching part of their past crumble into the sea. “I’m paying property tax for land that’s at the bottom of the Cobequid Bay," he says.
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Castles made of sand: parts of Nova Scotia are falling into the ocean
Erosion rates along the Nova Scotia coast are variable, according to government documents — but residents are seeing it happen in real time as portions of their property are lost to the sea.
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