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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 21h

Stop calling them boys

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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 18h

It’s #DougTheDog enjoying his frisbee!

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Formerly known as Truly S. @notincleveland.bsky.social · 20h

And stop calling the Epstein survivors "young women," too! Some of them are young women now, but they were girls then!

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Monique AC @moniqueac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It was such a pleasure to be part of this project. You can ready story, “Foliaceous” at the link.

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annette hegel @erstelinie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

YAY - the book is out!!!

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 02/10/2026

Contributing authors: Chinelo Onwualu Jennifer Gouge Heather Clitheroe Monique Cuillerier Premme Mohamed Rosemary Mosco Sagan Yee Sneha Subramanian Kanta This free Open Access Anthology celebrates the ingenuity of transdisciplinary collaboration in a time of crisis. Join us. You belong here.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 02/10/2026

What will our world feel like when the Climate collapses? Sci-Fi authors partnered with artists and scientists to imagine. They created the prototypes of our uncertain future #ManufacturedEcosystems is funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca New Frontiers in Research books.lib.uoguelph.ca/manufactured...

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Manufactured Ecosystems

Manufactured Ecosystems offers seven visions of ecosystems services in the future by science fiction writers from across Canada and North America. Featuring stories by Chinelo Onwualu, Jennifer Gougé,...

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 01/10/2026

I teach 400 1st-yr #HigherEd students Community at this scale doesn’t just happen: it needs resourcing Next year, I lose access to the tools I use to do this, unless I pay for them myself So these small acts of community building may be some of my last I present: collaborative drawing.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Memorial Cloth is a 60-metre commemoration the honours the names of thousands of children that died as a result of residential schools in Canada. It is displayed each year as part of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation event on Parliament Hill.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 30/09/2026

It’s med school reference letter season 🍎 Observation: #HigherEd students struggle to find referees because classes are too large to build meaningful relationships with their instructors Hypothesis: Over-enrolling students without hiring faculty reduces access to mentorship and opportunity

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Day 27 of #SciArtSeptember is quill so I made a little porcupine #linocut on delicate 8” by 8” Japanese paper. This is one of a variable edition. This is a North American or Canadian porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum). minouette.etsy.com/listing/4581... #printmaking #porcupine #washi

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 25/09/2026

I love it!!! I hope your game room returns to regular function soon 🍎 Heard through the grapevine that Trent did their very best given the circumstances. I hope that your student agrees.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 23/09/2026

#HigherEd will fail in the context of AI unless we dismantle the grades economy #TheCurrentCBC

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/09/2026

NEWS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured a record $131.5 million settlement from DoorDash after a NYC investigation found the company underpaid or failed to properly pay 264,000 delivery workers. 1/

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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🧪 Preparing students to work on a project on the #DairyBush this fall (a natural woodlot on the #Guelph campus) and want introduce them (& you) to this sugar maple that is estimated to have germinated in 1785. This 241 year old 🍁 (older than 🇨🇦 , than lithography, than …) is part of your campus.

Image looking up the trunk into the canopy of a sugar maple that germinated in the UofG Dairy Bush in 1785

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In honour of #BatmanDay here’s a poster I made for a #LaurierBiology seminar back in 2016! (And the #BrightKnight colourized version by my son)! #SciArt

Poster for a seminar called “understanding and subverting bacterial survival strategies” where Batman and Robin are fighting goons whose heads are replaced with bacteria.

Same image, but the image has been brightly coloured in with crayons

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 11/09/2026

Twenty-five years ago was the last time I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when something happened.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 11/09/2026

#HigherEd first class report: 1) Technologically disastrous due to expanded diversity of proprietary hard and software 2) My students are lovely humans with great energy 🍏🍎

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 08/09/2026

Dear #HigherEd leadership, Today is not the day to introduce an AI-use policy effective for Fall 2026. Sincerely, #HigherEdIsOverworked 🍎

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 08/09/2026

We got squeezed into a template a while back. Recently, we merged into a software package that doesn't connect to our Learning Management System. It's PDFs back and forth. Super inefficient.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 08/09/2026

yup. Due quite a bit in advance but, unfortunately, it hasn't been approved yet. Still listed as 'draft' 🤷

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 07/09/2026

New #HigherEd “guidelines” just dropped in my inbox for this semester Classes start in two days. My course has 400 students. #LabourDay #HigherEdIsOverworked 🍎🍏

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Romy @romygarrido.ca · 06/09/2026

We did it. We ignored the warnings, and now we're at the point of no return. Even if we decrease the temperature and 'stabilize' the climate, the impacts are inevitable. Rising sea level, species extinctions, human displacement, changes to food and water systems, and more.

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For the first time, a key UN report says the 1.5 C global warming threshold is lost | CBC News

In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Officials say the...

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 07/09/2026

I literally just received an email from my employer... today. #RightToDisconnect #LabourDay

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 07/09/2026

Dear #HigherEd, Anyone else working today on tasks that are actually in your job description, because most of the time during the workweek, you do so many things that aren't actually your job? #HigherEdIsOverworked 🧪✏️

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 07/09/2026

Dear #HigherEd instructors, Opening your course website before classes start is a great way to help students prepare If you use CourseLink, overriding the default access date is as simple as a quick email I opened mine on Sept 3, and so far, 247 out of 400 students in my course have logged in 🍎

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.

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Katherine Drotos @spiritofcavalia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Come for the bird art, stay for the bird myth-busting! (I, too, thought duck feathers were water-repelling because of oil!)

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 01/09/2026

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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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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🧪 Arthropod spp. are hidden in leaf-litter plant tissue & we needed a way to see them. Conclusion? DNA metabarcoding works & differences are significant! Congrats @anibalhcastillo.bsky.social, @shoshanahjacobs.ca, @dirch3.bsky.social! Watch Anibal's feed for more! doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🥬🧬🐜

Images associated with the paper. Starting on the right top with the lead author, Anibal Castillo. Underneath him is the leaf litter of the Dairy Bush in the Fall. In the middle top is a view from the field towards the forest in the early fall. These were the areas sampled. In the middle left is a temperature plot through several years of the different heat environments of forest and field. In the middle right is a view of within the forest near sampling areas in late summer. In the middle bottom left is a Google Earth view of the sampling areas and how close they are. In the middle bottom is an NMDS plot illustrating how different the communities are (forest and field leaf litter dozens of meters apart. On the left hand side is a view of the article pdf along with a QR code that takes you to the article.

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Jade Helm Recruit 🇨🇦 @jadehelm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Let Doug Ford know how you feel about data centers. 👇 #onpoli

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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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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🧪🧵 🪰 🐜🪲🐞🦗🐛🦋🪳🦟 Thanks to all co-authors, in particular José A. Hernández Ugalde from CONAGEBio, & all associated with ACG & GDFCF – the hybrid association formed to aid with the development, protection, & sustainability of ACG. doi.org/10.1139/gen-... @gdfcf.bsky.social @rpuschen.bsky.social

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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🧪 🪰 🐜🪲🐞🦗🐛🦋🪳🦟 We analysed 3.78 million DNA barcodes from 152,891 Costa Rican insect species. Our results reveal limited community overlap across ecosystems, suggesting unique species assemblages in each life zone. doi.org/10.1139/gen-... @gdfcf.bsky.social @rpuschen.bsky.social 🧵

collage of from top left going clockwise: microgastrine wasp with DNA barcode, Malaise trap at 1300 on Volcan Cacao, forest at 1500m on Volcan Cacao, three ACG volcanos, map of the predicted spatial distribution of insect diversity patterns across mainland Costa Rica. Each color represents one of the seven mainland distribution patterns delineated here. Central image of GDFCF associated people working on the paper.
Collage of authors: Clockwise from top left: Jenny Phillips, Roberto Fernandez, Jose Ugalde, Alex Smith, Jose Fernandez Triana, Mike Sharkey, Dan Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, Rob Puschendorf and Ronald Zuniga

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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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