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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Hello. I hope you and your wallet survive this weekend’s paroxysm of consumption intact. Just keep reminding yourself that if you didn’t need it before it was 30% off, you still don’t NEED it. Good luck!

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Wetland Knowledge Exchange @wetlandexchange.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Our November #WKE Newsletter is out now! Read it on the CCLM! 👉 www.cclmportal.ca/resource/nov... Subscribe here to receive it directly to your inbox! 👉 loom.ly/WVFoqcY

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Also, bit late, but let me share the sad news that we also found invasive Hydrilla in Ontario Canada this summer 😭. It is in a contained impoundment and treatment has already begun. We’re hopeful it won’t spread, but keep yer eyes peeled 👀 folks and be sure to clean, drain, dry! #invasivespecies

A piece of Hydrilla on the left and native Elodea on the right in the palm of a hand face up over a green grass lawn

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’ve logged back in, so let me promote our latest paper on the pesticides in stormwater ponds that accumulate in biofilms —> turns out those biofilms are bad food for bugs! #ecology #biodiversity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hi Bluesky! I’m getting so many notifications from you all of a sudden. Is this a final death rattle from X?

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

I’m a mother of three, a tenured professor, a grown ass adult. But I’m still not wise enough to stop eating salt and vinegar chips before my tongue blisters. Nope. 😝🩹😢

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

Heartbroken this morning to discover some vandal set fire to one of our main research plots. We are studying the efficacy of biocontrol in controlling invasive Phragmites. Years of research in ash. 💔

Burned vegetation and melted plot markers

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bunny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

CHICAGO!! Turn off any non essential lights the next three nights! HUGE HUGE HUGE MIGRATION NIGHTS!! Help the birds!!

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

If you’re looking for a fun #EarthDay2024 event tonight in the Waterloo Region, come see my talk about #wetlands and why we need strong municipal protections as the province abdicates responsibility for their conservation. Promises to be a great date night! 🌎🧪💕.

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Let's Talk About Wetlands! - Waterloo Region Nature

Dr. Rebecca Rooney is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo. Rebecca carries out research in wetland ecology and is a world expert on biomonitoring and wetl...

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

🎵If I had a (100) million $, I’d invest it in #GreatLakes Science 🧪 🎵. If I had a (100) million $, I’d buy you a new research vessel… and a centre of excellence! 🎵 Happy #EarthDay2024 Great Lakes Deserve Great #Science!

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

Do you have clothes 👗 in your closet you don’t wear because they don’t quite fit? Don’t buy new! Take them to a tailor and have them altered. This supports a local business, keeps jobs in your community, reduces waste & your environmental 🌎 footprint and it even saves money 💵 🥳! #EarthDay2024

Beige wool pants I had taken in and the rise shortened

A structured wool jacket seen from behind - I had it taken in.

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

I'm still looking for submissions for the Entomology Society calendar. The calendar is Insects of the World so they only take one arachnid, but I'm still loving this shot as a candidate. Little crabbers wrapping up some take out. Northern Crab Spider (Mecaphesa asperata)

A small yellow and brown crab spider on a purple flower. He has a ball in front of his mouthparts, presumably prey.

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

My (probably unpopular) opinion about the (long overdue) increased funding to #NSERC scholarships and the “but what about Discovery Grants?” reaction. #canpoli #budget2024 #academia 🧪

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Let all the #Canadian #gradstudents rejoice and shout out to SupportOurSci for their tremendous effort to bring about renewed funding for #NSERC scholarship funding. Today is a BIG F’in DEAL. The largest investment in research talent in Canada in 20+ years!!! Congrats 🎉 #canpoli #Academia

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

Spring ephemerals are ready to bloom 🌸. Things are waking at last. Breathe it in.

Trillium and trout lily ready to bloom amid withered papery leaves and sticks

Bloodroot fliers just opened with leaves still folded up

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

If anyone is interested in refillable #deodorant options, I went with #KIIMA and the Vanilla Bliss scent. It is effective and easy to use. The case is 100% recycled #plastic, designed in Quebec. Buy the case once and then just the refills - plastic free, aluminum free, effective. 🌎

Black KIIMA deodorant case held in hand palm up over wood backdrop

KIIMA deodorant in black case with lid in background sitting on a wooden counter

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

You need to find little joys where you can. Today, I found joy in these adorable champagne shoes by Poppy Barley. It has been a rough week and 😍🤩😍 these put a little pep in my step. 🥿👠👢👡👟

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 10/04/2024

Here's what everyone needs to know* about climate change: 🌍 It's real 👥 It's human-caused ⚠️ It's serious 💡 With immediate action, it's solvable ⌛ Later is too late * social science shows these msgs increase acceptance of the issue, awareness of the risk and, most importantly, willingness to act.

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

I am missing the International Joint Commission’ semi-annual Science Advisory Board meeting today because I have stomach flu which I caught after days of cleaning up my kids’ puke and I would like someone to feel sorry for me please and thank you. 🥴🤢🤮

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

It’s such a relief to know the provincial government has their priorities straight! 🙄. What complete and utter nonsense. #OnPoli #Ontario #governmentstupidity

Screenshot of a Toronto Star headline stating that the Premier will force the liquor stores to start using bags again.

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

Anyone have insights or opinions about eco friendly #deodorant? Tried KIIMA? Native? The new Dove refillable? Which are effective AND more than #greenwashing? 🌎🧪🌸 #beauty #environment

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Last week 86 organisations sent a letter to PM Trudeau & Min. Freeland demanding they #StopFundingFossils The Government of Canada provided over $18 billion to oil & gas companies in 2023 Enough is enough. It's time to #MakePollutersPay environmentaldefence.ca/report/the-g...

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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 05/04/2024

It's past time for Canada to end fossil fuel subsidies and align ourselves with #COP28 commitments.

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

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Women end up doing the academic housework

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

The methodology is chef's-kiss: researchers opened decades-old cans of salmon to look for worms that indicate changes in ocean health 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/deca...

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Decades-old Cans of Salmon Reveal Changes in Ocean Health

Researchers used tinned fish to reconstruct parasitic population change, giving new meaning to the phrase “opening a can of worms”

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Climate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.ai · 04/04/2024

Only 57 producers are responsible for 80% of all fossil fuel and cement CO2 emissions since 2016 - new report – The Conversation | MORE at EcoSearch

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Look at this gorgeous thing I got in the mail today! Thanks Invasive Species Centre of Canada for this Leadership Award 🥇 🧪🇨🇦🌎 very proud to display this in my office!

Brunette in black blazer holds wooden plaque at chest height and smiles embarrassedly in front of a bright blue wall

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

In news that should not be a surprise to anyone: carbon credits don’t work. Compensation never works. There’s no easy way out.

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Tylia 🏳️‍⚧️ @sciencetylia.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

This amazing church is holding an Easter drag service to stand up against anti-trans bills: "Collections from Sunday’s service will benefit Skipping Stone, a local not-for-profit that supports trans and gender-diverse Calgarians." www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/this... #cdnpoli #ucp #abpoli

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This amazing church is holding an Easter drag service to stand up against anti-trans bills

The Unitarian minister calls the Drag Me to Church event a

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

While writing about the unfolding disaster caused by high pressure injection wells used to "store" toxic wastewater from the oil and gas industry, I read this article which explains that the industry now wants to do the same thing with high pressure CO2. We never learn.

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Companies Are Poised to Inject Millions of Tons of Carbon Underground. Will It Stay Put? - Inside Climate News

A new report highlights the risk 120,000 abandoned oil and gas wells pose to carbon dioxide storage in Louisiana, home to more proposals to pump the greenhouse gas underground than any other state.

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

To the many who didn’t get awarded an NSERC DG, know that it doesn’t define you. Yeah, it hurts. My DG was rejected at first. I was told I had no business studying invasive species. This year I won a leadership award for my invasive Phrag research. Believe in your ideas. They’re good. 🧪🌎🇨🇦

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Listening to The Daily and wondering whatever happened to this Canadian 🇨🇦 court case? Seems like ao merging the Federal Government could actually do to address the 🏠 #housing crisis! www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6458531 #realtor #classaction #housingcrisis

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 20/03/2024

NEW: Transport is on track to make up nearly half of Europe’s emissions in 2030. Since 2007 the sector has been decarbonising more than 3x slower than the rest of the economy. See how emissions have evolved and what we can do about it ➡️ transport2024.transportenvironment.org/sot/index.html

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ItzyBitzy 🕸 @duweisstschon.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

... 🎶Isn't she lovely? Isn't she wonderful? 🎶...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing One quarter of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.

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How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing

One quarter of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

PSA: Stop telling students to put their tables and figures at the end of their documents so we’re stuck scrolling up & down across pages. It is very annoying and printing presses have come a long way since we needed to separate prose and photographic plates. #academia #STEM #publishing 🧪

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Carol Pope Gordon @carolpopegordon.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Tricolor Heron showing its technique of barely grazing the water with its toes to attract fish. Part of a heron feeding frenzy we witnessed one afternoon while on Sanibel Island. 🪶🌿

Medium-sized heron flying with toe tips grazing the water

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Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

St. Patrick's Day is a good time to reflect on how famines caused by occupying powers are horrific, inhumane, and avoidable.

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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Having committed to only buy 5 pieces of clothing in 2024, I’m now trying to “shop my wardrobe”. Turns out those maternity clothes are still wearable. #sustainable #fashion 🌎

Brunette in black skinny jeans with a white sweater with thin black horizontal stripes holds blue pottery mug and ha red plaid slippers

Very pregnant brunette selfie wearing white sweater with thin black stripes

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J Wolfgang Goerlich @jwgoerlich.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Shel Silverstein doesn’t get nearly enough credit for predicting ChatGPT.

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Climate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.ai · 15/03/2024

Brazil to release millions of anti-dengue mosquitoes as death toll from outbreak mounts – The Guardian | MORE at EcoSearch

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Society for Freshwater Science @freshwaterscience.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

We're in *the final countdown* for early, discounted registration to attend our annual meeting, #2024SFS! Prices increase after 15 March. Consider joining us for a week of #freshwater #science in Philly in June! Direct link to meeting registration page: sfsannualmeeting.org/Registration...

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

Can you IMAGINE how weird people would have gotten about seatbelts if they were invented in 2020

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