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Birdwriter

More than 1,000 Critically #Endangered Tristan #Albatross chicks fledged for first time this century after Gough Island rodent eradication program success: bit.ly/3VrynQY
#conservation #birding #birds #birdwatching #birdphotography #nature #UKbirding #ornithology

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Climate News Now

The world’s insurance bill from natural disasters this year: $115 billion.

Extreme weather events have caused an estimated $115 billion in insured financial losses around the world this year according to Swiss Re, the Zurich-based reinsurance giant. That’s 42 percent higher than the 10-year average of $81 billion.

#climate #climatechange
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I tried this art game with my 7 yo. I painted the branches and she did the birds. She kind of blew me away!

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Martijn BAARDA

All the letters, large and small case. Quartz veins in stone. Molly Montgomery collects natural unedited rocks on the beach creating an alphabet that took her many years...

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Andrea Kirkwood

This is the antithesis of how the system is supposed to work. Not only is this disrespectful to the basic science enterprise in Canada, it stifles scientific progress, which wastes money.

RT @girls_can@twitter.com

@CIHR_IRSC@twitter.com had a project #grant call for proposals where the final #funding decision was made by non-scientists based on #secret strategic priorities not shared with applicants. @FP_Champagne@twitter.com that is NOT ok! science.org/content/article/ca

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RT @girls_can@twitter.com

There are many avenues for gov to issue calls for proposals on their priority topics. Investigator-led calls lead to disruptive #innovation and advance basic #research questions that non-experts don’t even know we need to ask. They should be peer-assessed on #transparent criteria

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RT @girls_can@twitter.com

This is core funding and researchers spend months crafting their applications. Then their peers invest a TON of time reviewing and ranking them. So much so that some people call for a lottery system to replace the whole process! blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial

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RT @girls_can@twitter.com

There are good counter arguments for why we don’t do a lottery for investigator-led research funding allocation. BUT @FP_Champagne@twitter.com there are 0 sound arguments for having the gov reorder the peer-ranking of proposals to align with secret gov priorities AFTER THE FACT.

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RT @girls_can@twitter.com

This hijacking of the review process wasted thousands of hours of work by Canada’s research community who put their trust in the system and packaged their best ideas following the public instructions and evaluation criteria.Their research office staff & their Mentors who helped.

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RT @girls_can@twitter.com

It ALSO wasted thousands of hours of reviewer time as #scientists #volunteer their labour as peer reviewers on the understanding that we have a shared responsibility for creating a #fair and impartial review system. @FP_Champagne@twitter.com this is a #betrayal.

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I would honestly prefer a pure to this cabal of applying secret criteria to advance undisclosed objectives. We have many avenues for the to research on their strategic . Hijacking investigator-led is unnecessary and total perfidy.

academic.oup.com/spp/article/4

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This has set my blood boiling today. I’m not in health-related , but the and engineering research council in () has a very similar process for evaluating investigator-led research proposals and having non-scientists apply secret to reorder the rankings made by peer review is an utter

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Steven Beschloss

Plenty of people have mental disorders and don’t praise Hitler or spread hate.

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Andrea Kirkwood

RT @Jade_Hugs_Trees@twitter.com

We can’t eat a mansion. ofa.on.ca/an-open-letter-to-pr

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AmyTanMD

With emails, social media posts
inundating us this week with
buy, buy, buy,
and influencers posting
beautiful lifestyle photos
that also say
buy, buy, buy,
how different would
things be if society
didn't venerate
capitalism?

Imagine if we were all
inundated with messages
of caring about one another,
through means other than
consuming?
Helping to reduce disease burden,
reduce burden of the
most marginalized in society,
reduce the burden to Mother Earth?

#MastoPrompt #venerate

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Bob Tregilus has moved...

Sunset over Mono Lake, California (2020).

#Sunset #Lake #MonoLake #EasternSeirra #Sierra #LeeVining #LinuxPhotography

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Windspeaker.com

“It’s celebrating a time that our Elders couldn’t celebrate, because of residential schools, because of the Sixties Scoop. So we are honouring them..."

Bear Grease set to begin tour

The cast and crew of Bear Grease are excited to be heading out for the next leg of their tour.

The play is a parody of the 1978 original musical, Grease, but with an Indigenous twist.

windspeaker.com/news/windspeak

#FirstNations #Indigenous #theatre #musical #BearGrease #tour

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Andrea Kirkwood

RT @ocecampaign@twitter.com

Ontario: let’s help @fordnation@twitter.com and @SteveClarkPC@twitter.com keep their word! Join 1000s of others that are demanding REAL affordable housing & to save the Greenbelt at days of action across the province this weekend. Find one near you: environmentaldefence.ca/handso #RepealBill23 #onpoli twitter.com/mikeschreiner/stat

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Late last night I managed to refill our kids’ reusable calendar by raiding their candy stash.

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RT @carlyziter@twitter.com

A truly disappointing decision. First year seminars were an *incredible* learning opportunity. The chance to participate in a small group, discussion oriented course on an advanced and interdisciplinary topic in my first year changed the course of my education at @uofg@twitter.com & beyond twitter.com/twpiggott/status/1

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