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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 3h

It was a great weekend on bikes in the Nisbet Forest. Gorgeous fall weather and beautiful forest trails. #bikepacking #camping #biketouring #Saskatchewan

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can someone please explain something to me? I have a couple of colleagues who always sign their name in emails with lower case. They are at other campuses so I don't actually know them personally. Are they doing this because that is their preferred name, or are they too lazy to hit the shift key?

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welp, I signed up to do something ridiculous again. I'm registered for the Reesor Mountain Marathon for the May 2027. It was a great event this spring so let's do it again! The 2026 route had ~1100m elevation in 40km and I think the 2027 route will have even more. raceroster.com/events/2027/...

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2027 — 2027 Reesor 50 —

2027 Reesor 50 Historic Reesor Ranch, Maple Creek, SK, Canada - Reesor 50 Ultraranch FestivalThe Reesor 50 Ultraranch… - May 21, 2027

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's been a helluva year for mushrooms. Now I can refer to this handy guide to identify them.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I went for a bike ride yesterday evening with binoculars, my camera and tripod and I was successful in seeing whooping cranes for the first time in my life! They were 600m to 1km away, but I saw a bunch of them! I need to count from the photos but there were 70 or more cranes!

Large white whooping cranes in the distance across a field of wheat stubble. There are a bunch of snow geese too.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why learn science? Because lots of things can seem like a big scary conspiracy theory when you don’t understand how the world works! Empower yourself by learning about facts and evidence and reality. As a bonus, it’ll lead to a healthier and more prosperous society for others around you.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've made the big time! An article about me and my recent #agriculture work in Egypt was published by Discover Moose Jaw (though they got the SaskPolytech campus wrong, I no longer work on the MJ campus). And yesterday I was interviewed by Farms.com. discovermoosejaw.com/articles/sas...

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Sask Polytechnic instructor helps launch agriculture school in Egypt

A former instructor at Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s Moose Jaw campus who now teaches at the Centre of Continuing Education in Saskatoon is helping shape the future of agricultural education in Egypt aft...

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Morgan Laidler @morganlaidler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today's updated outlook. A developing low pressure area in western Saskatchewan will bring the potential for severe weather incluind large hail, high wind gusts, heavy downpours and a low risk for an isolated tornado as it tracks to the NE. #yegwx #abstorm #skstorm #mbstorm

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is my Google home speaker glitching or is it CBC Sask? It keeps looping back and repeating a few seconds of audio. It may not be a coincidence that it is streaming the provincial version rather than CBC Saskatoon.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'd like to attribute this to my superb botanical knowledge, but dumb luck was on my side. 🍂 Plant #1085 🌲 I figured it out in 2 guesses! 🟨🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 8.6 flora.metazooa.com #metaflora

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Metaflora

Find the mystery plant in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well that one went pretty quickly. 🐗 Animal #1144 🐧 I figured it out in 4 guesses! 🟨🟩🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 8.5 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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True Oak @trueoak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You can watch when Alberta & Saskatchewan popped into existence.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Cheese smokies should be banned. I just scalded my mouth and lips on exploding molten cheese and grease AGAIN. I thought it was a regular sausage when I bit into it.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I went swimming in Lake Ontario this summer.

Me, on old man in sunglasses and no shirt standing in Lake Ontario.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lindsay Ellis has unlocked this video from Nebula exclusivity on the occasion of Dolly's passing. I recommend watching, it will only be available for a limited time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuK...

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Yes, Dolly was Actually That Great

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A life of many colours by @deAdder Substack: deadder.substack.com/p/a-life-of-...

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A life of many colours

RIP Dolly Parton

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026

President Trump has spent the morning on Truth Social trashing Canada and praising totalitarian dictator Kim Jong Un. Congrats, America!

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I need more Nuno Bettencourt wicked guitar solos in my life. youtu.be/mJvG1i79CPc?...

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Nuno Bettencourt Flight Of The Wounded Bumblebee

YouTube video by MrMirello

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God @thegodshow.com · 23/08/2026

Bless Canada for standing up to Trump.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Make a band bigger: Queen Province Kids? Queen City Teenagers? Wait, based on their age they are now the... Queen City Boomers! (And one of them knocked one of my teeth out.)

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Egypt was amazing. Loud, stunning, dirty, hot, dry, crowded, ancient, friendly and amazing. I'll be ok without hearing car horns ever again but what an incredible experience everything was.

Khan el khalili bazaar with sun setting over a busy (not too crowded) street lined with merchants.

My feet in a kayak on the Nile River in Cairo. The city is in the background.

Egyptian breakfast served at the Villa Layla hostel in Cairo where I stayed the last couple of nights.

A crowded beach on an evening in Alexandria.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You probably need more canoe books in your life.

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God @thegodshow.com · 28/07/2026

think again

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If I were ever elected to high office or appointed to a position of power, one of my first acts would be to normalize napping through events. I don't care how exciting, interesting or historically important your speech is, my head will definitely be bobbing at 10 minutes in.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

As someone who has submitted a lot of really crappy phone photos of insects and other small things, I'm feeling incredibly targeted by this email from @inaturalist.bsky.social.

Screenshot of an email from iNaturalist: "Smartphone Photography for iNaturalist.
Smartphone cameras are great for taking photos of your friends, your food, and yourself, but what about the insects, plants, spiders, and fungi you want to post to iNaturalist? How do you get it to focus on that small piece of grass, or a flighty moth?

Join us on Tuesday, August 4 at 9:00 am PDT for Smartphone Photography for iNaturalist, a free webinar with Tony..."

European Paper Wasp on a stem on Toronto Island.

Maybe a Tomocerinae spring tail plus a bunch of Entomophthoraceae infected critters, from under a log in northern Saskatchewan.

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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🧵 The Search for Lost Birds is looking for young, adventurous birders to lead expeditions to find “lost” bird species. Currently, 121 birds lack any scientific documentation for a decade or longer (70+ are entirely missing from the Macaulay Library!) Continued... searchforlostbirds.org

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Home

Search for Lost Birds

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#YXE Airport seems to have issues. The number of times I have returned home and they can't get the passengers off the plane (at least twice), or get the luggage to the carousel... Now they are planning to tow the plane to a different gate so that we can get off.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Hey Saskatoon, I'm an hour or so out after having been in Egypt for most of the last 3 weeks. I'm really hoping that you have that mosquito issue sorted out.

View our an airplane window. Wing on the right, blue sky above, the ground below mostly obscured by cloud and haze.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Ordering random foods off of the menu continues to work out pretty well for me in Egypt. Tonight's supper is molokhia with chicken and rice with a Greek salad. So good, whatever it is.

Grilled flattened chicken, pitas and a bowl of molokhia.

Very tasty and large salad in a bowl with pita chips.

Ubiquitous street cat looking for his share.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'll be cheering for Egypt today. It would be amazing if they win since they would play their quarter final on Friday when I will actually be in Egypt!

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Periodic reminder: Microsoft Office sucks. Also, don't open scam email attachments that result in the entire organization to have to re-sign into Office multiple times a day for months on end.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Clearly I know nothing about bird taxonomy. Also, bird philogeny is weird. 🦄 Animal #1058 🐌 I figured it out in 16 guesses! 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩 🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 8.2 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I don't know if I have ever seen so many fireflies as tonight.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

For those of you in Saskatoon, Hyde Park is full of fireflies right now. Go for a walk in your local park.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

So, I might have stuck a couple of ticks into a coffee cup and put them into the motel mini fridge to slow them down so I could take their pictures for submission to e-tick. And, said ticks might have escaped the coffee cup and disappeared into the fridge.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Hah! 🐶 Animal #1036 🦧 I figured it out in 2 guesses! 🟥🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There's no way our IT department is using Microsoft Office the way the rest of us are. I seriously doubt that they would put up with the level of BS and frustration from that shitty software that the rest of us deal with constantly. All because someone opened email they should have ignored.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Something Blackie and the Rodeo Kings and I have in common: we've both had a car break down in Naicam*. *According to the lyrics for the song Boots of Leather, they sing of breaking down in Macon, but I am pretty sure they are singing Naicam.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I had a pretty great bike ride last night on the gravel roads south of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

Map showing my 56 km route through the Moose Jaw countryside.

Small steel bridge on a curving gravel road.

Gently rolling gravel heading off in the distance under vast prairie sky.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🫎 Animal #980 🦓 I figured it out in 4 guesses! 🟨🟨🟨🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.6 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

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M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Alberta's brightest minds convene for separation. Wow.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

All I can say is it's a bloody good thing that I am not in some sort of high office position in front of cameras. Folks would be catching me nodding off so often it would be a national embarrassment. The only way I stay awake in class is that I teach the class.

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