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Jackie Hamilton

@hamiltonjac.bsky.social
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PhD candidate at McGill interested in social-ecological systems and relationships between trees and people

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Hey, Canadian ecology/environment/sustainability profs: this is a great lab activity.
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
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Timothée Fouqueray @timfouqueray.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
🆕 In Canada, forest owners are extremely eager to adapt their forests, but they lack adequate programs and policy instruments. 🔗 Paper in open access at #CommunicationsEarthAndEnvironment www.nature.com/articles/s43...
A road crossing a mountainous, forested landscape in autumn
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The IndigeLab Network invites researchers, artists, makers, and community storytellers to submit work for the Indigenous Data Communications Exhibit, a curated online exhibit celebrating Indigenous data shifters and re-makers. Submit an application here: www.indigelabnetwork.com/call-for-ind...
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 21/11/2025
The Carney government wants to pare back aspects of Canada’s anti-greenwashing law, telling @meyer.bsky.social it prevents the fossil fuel industry and other groups from sharing their environmental claims. Critics say the law might be working as intended. thenarwhal.ca/greenwashing...
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Canada says anti-greenwashing rules silence industry | The Narwhal
Carney is moving to nix some of Canada’s rules that restrict how oil and gas companies and other industries advertise environmental claims
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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
How can we prepare for shocks? A good start is by collecting data on past events. Centre researcher Emmy Wassénius leads the project Shock Tracker the first prototype of a united database of social-ecological shocks. Learn more: www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...
Headline on top of image of mountain landscape
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
We need advice from @ipbes.net @futureearth.bsky.social @esgproject.bsky.social @worldresources.bsky.social @unep.org
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Final call to get your applications in! If you are interested in doing a postdoc in #urbanecology. A multi-city project across three Canadian cities; Vancouver, Montréal, and Québec @ffgg-ulaval.bsky.social @cef-cfr.bsky.social See details below ⬇️
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This is like an ad for why tech can't replicate nature. From my local park, we're in a drought, and it's still nice and shady under the real tree...
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Reminiscing about the fun field work that led to this paper. So grateful to everyone who was involved!
Three people in park beside a apple tree with a tape measure
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Submissions are open to the end of the month!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I crunched the numbers on my not-very-scientific survey of why people don't plant native plants. 210 people answered this Q. I read through the comments & categorized concerns into 10 categories. Most common reasons were 1) Lack of Knowledge 2) No Time 3) Money 4) No good source for native plants
a bar graph of the 10 most common reasons that people don't plant native plants. 25% of the respondents said a lack of knowledge about what to plant was a problem, then 18% said no time, 17% said no money, 15% said no plant availability near them, 14% said HOAs or Landlords got in the way, 12% were afraid of failing, 10% said their health made it hard to plant stuff, 8 said they had no land, 7% said native plants are ugly, 5% said that animals eat the native plants, 3% said they only had limited space and chose to plant food for them instead of native plants, 3% said they couldn't get invasive species under control, and 3% said their ADHD gets in the way of completing projects
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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Can we expand the narrative and definition of human development to include flourishing with nature? Our new paper in Nature explores such a vision, and outlines a metric - the Nature Relationship Index - to sit alongside the Human Development Index. @naturerecovery.bsky.social
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Reminder this is on in about an hour if you want to come chat trees and meet SES researchers. It's not too late to join! 😊
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Are you an early career researcher or professional looking to connect with others studying social-ecological systems? Join us next Thursday for a fun, casual, tree-themed gathering socses.org/early-career...
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Spoiler, they're not really empty 🌱🦨🦡🦇
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Climate Action Network Canada @canrac.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Today, PM Mark Carney announced the tabling of Bill C-5. Its proposed process for projects deemed “in the national interest” would directly undermine environmental protections and threaten Indigenous rights, while shutting down democratic decision-making. ⚠️ Read our network's response 👇
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Bill C-5 jeopardizes democratic process, environmental protections, and Indigenous rights: reaction from Climate Action Network Canada - Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac)
Climate Action Network Canada is deeply alarmed at the proposals in Bill C-5’s Building Canada Act, announced today by Prime Minister Mark Carney. This proposed process for projects deemed “in the nat...
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It's an honour to be part of the authorship team for this new paper introducing @socses.bsky.social to the world! Being part of the team kickstarting the early career hub has felt so rewarding, especially meeting so many others around the world working on linked social-ecological research
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Work weeks like last one are a dream. As part of the Beijer Institute's Young Scholar Program, I got to meet with brilliant scholars from around the world working on theories, models and cases to better understand, prevent and adapt to shocks in an increasingly turbulent world.
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
From UNESCO sites in 3 countries, Katja Malmborg, Caroline Seiferth & I propose place-based identities and senses of belonging as potential deep leverage points for transformative action-oriented research for sustainability. Check out our new paper: shorturl.at/b5rF9
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
So cool to see SES researchers calling in from around the world for today's official launch of the @socses.bsky.social Early Career Hub! 🥳
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Some of the most rewarding parts of doing a PhD has been working with this group!
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A beautiful final official annual gathering of @nserc-resnet.bsky.social this week. So much cool science coming out of this network. I'm so grateful for this community 💚
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Spent Earth day with friends from @nserc-resnet.bsky.social discussing how research networks can support careful social-ecological science from an early career perspective
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Join us on the 29th!
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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
SocSES socses.org the Social-Ecological Systems Society Is launching in tomorrow 📅 Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025 ⏰ Time: 15:30 CAT / 14:30 CET / 09:30 EDT more info: socses.org/join-our-vir... signup for the online launch: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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SocSES – Society For Social-Ecological Systems
Save the date! SocSES is Launching! We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Social-Ecological Systems Society (SocSES). Join us to celebrate and learn abo
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
International day of forests has me thinking about my favourite forest encounters this year. I'm so lucky to get to work with 🌲🌳 and 👥. From @nserc-resnet.bsky.social gathering in B.C. to PECS III in Montréal to @iufro.bsky.social in Stockholm
Seven people and a dog around a big treePeople walking through a forest
18 people smiling in the woods
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Rafael Lembi @rafa-lembi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
so cool to see our 2024 publication in the account of @esandpeople.bsky.social ! using a participatory approach, we developed a qualitative model and future scenarios for nature’s contributions to people at the periurban region of Campinas, a metropolis in Brazil!
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McGill Bieler School of Environment @mcgillenvironment.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Globe and Mail: BSE Prof. Elena Bennett says that "the rapid policy shift in the U.S. is causing huge uncertainty," and a project she is a part of--the National Nature Assessment-- was shut down after a WH executive order. "We got an email and we're done." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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U.S. research funding cuts change landscape for Canadian universities, researchers
Canadian university researchers receive a relatively small amount of direct and indirect funding from U.S. agencies, but the cross-border research relationship is closely intertwined
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Very excited for this event and launch! Times are tough for science and this emerging society is a place where I find a supportive community and engaged researchers
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Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement @tylerprize.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It's official: Sandra Díaz & Eduardo Brondízio Win the 2025 Tyler Prize! 💬 "The climate crisis, biodiversity loss & inequalities are all connected." – Díaz & Brondízio Let’s celebrate these changemakers! #TylerPrize #Biodiversity #Sustainability #ClimateAction #GlobalSouth
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Such a great episode!
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Some 🌳 species are important to cultures, but this isn't passive appreciation. Looking at ecosystem services + services TO ecosystems, we combined biophysical sampling of trees (122 plots) & interviews (31) in a settled landscape to show cultural sig emerges through active relationships.
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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 30/01/2025
It’s official: the US National Nature Assessment has been cancelled as a result of Trump’s sweeping revocations of Biden’s executive orders. I worked with amazing people on this for months. It matters, and even though they can stop the official report they cannot undo the relationships.
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Jan Kuiper @janjkuiper.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Looking for a postdoc @sthlmresilience.bsky.social to join 'PLURALAKES: Co-creating desirable nature futures of temperate lakes', operationalizing @ipbes.bsky.social Nature Futures Framework for lake ecosystems 💧🎣🌱⛵️https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:788096/where:4/
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Postdoctor in project PLURALAKES
Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC ) is a research centre on resilience and sustainability science at Stockholm University. The Centre advances the scientific understanding of the complex, dynamic inter
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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 20/01/2025
Public trust in science-sometimes partisan and populist, but way stronger than you might think. So many interesting findings in this paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Nature Human Behaviour
What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.
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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Join us as a postdoctoral researcher in the PLURALAKES project! PLURALAKES aims to enhance lake management strategies through participatory processes with diverse stakeholders. See the full job description and apply by 04 February 2025 here: buff.ly/3yHe23F
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Enjoyed the rewilding exhibit at the @museumofnature.bsky.social highlighting the links b/w social and ecological through art. I loved all the pieces but Xecê Khadija Baker's "performing community garden" and Hashveenah Manoharan's watercolours on plants, food and culture especially spoke to me 🌱🌰🍊
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Watercolours on cellulose watercolour paper

Hashveenah Manoharan studies how people connect to nature through food. Gardening and harvesting can create nostalgic feelings in people. Watercolour of plants and fruits
Textiles crafted into a mossy forest floor and stump
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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024
Figure/Finding Explainer: I love the figure from our chapter that made it into the Summary for Policymakers of the IPBES #transformativechange assessment. It was a group effort that captures our entire chapter in a single image. Let me talk you through it: 🧵 SPM: ipbes.canto.de/pdfviewer/vi...
The SPM figure drawn from Ch4 of the Transformative Change Assessment - it is a wheel, with the central views/structures/practices that need to be changed at the center, a ring of underlying causes of biodiversity loss and nature's decline around the center, another ring of five challenges to transformative change, and outside the 20 barriers that emerge from these challenges.
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Interested in urban environments and thinking about a grad/postdoc position with an amazing supervisor and school? Check out these positions at Western Uni. I loved working with grad students there & campus is so nice. ➕️ Dr. Metson is doing really cool research: www.srmlab.ca/join-the-lab
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General 2 — srmlab
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The first snow arrived in Montréal! Later than it should be, it really feels like a gift of a reminder to slow down
Snowy sky blends into snowy field with tree silhouettes dotted about
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Excited to see these videos coming out from this amazing team working on empathy for sustainability! 🌊
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Thanks for making this starter pack @markandrachuk.bsky.social!
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Roman Isaac @romanisaac.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Call for participation🚨 Dear researchers, We @yess-network.bsky.social are interested in hearing your thoughts on your role in fostering transformative change and would greatly appreciate if you took part in our survey. Please share 🙏
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Offering up my first #thicktrunktuesday to find more tree peeps 🌲🌳
Big mossy covered tree
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Jackie Hamilton @hamiltonjac.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Does someone have a starter pack, feed, list, or non-BlueSky watering hole to find environment, science, nature freelancers? Ideally with your areas of interest. Mainly online/print but also radio or TV. Where you at? What do you want to write about? I HAVE STORY IDEAS AND KNOW COOL PEEPS.
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a groundhog standing on its hind legs on top of a wooden railing
ALT: a groundhog standing on its hind legs on top of a wooden railing
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Kiirsti Owen, PhD (she/her) @kiirsti.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
December 1st is just around the corner. Why not learn some #R or #ggplot this holiday season? 🎄🎁 In 2019, I created the #RadventcalendaR, and in 2022, I followed it up with a #ggplotadventcalendaR. I guess I'm due for a new one for 2025... #RspatialcalendaR perhaps? Find them both are on GitHub 👇
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Future Ecologies podcast @futureecologies.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Can you guess what FE6.2 is about? Describe what this diagram is for (with emoji only)
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