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Dr. Rebecca Rooney@girls-can.bsky.social |
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Wetland Ecologist, Professor, conservation biologist, Mom, Environmentalist, boardgame enthusiast. Was @girls_can 🐥and is @girls_can@thecanadian.social 🐘and founded the Waterloo Wetland Lab. Not above making myself certificates of achievement. She/her.
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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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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Sarah Primate
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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Thanks. I’m really dismayed that someone would set fire to the site. We are stunned really
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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We will definitely need a before and after. Sadly, we don’t exactly have a control to pair to our impact. This site was the largest single release location in North America. Priceless.
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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We will take stock of the damage and consider creative pivots. But it is blow to the PhD, whose comp exam is in a couple weeks 😭.
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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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. 💔
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BOOnny knuckles
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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
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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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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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🎵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
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Yes. I got the take away that reforestation can do a lot to offset GHG emissions and we can do a lot to mitigate climate change. 🙏🌎🙏
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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Well, if you read the original, have the context that he meant it satirically to point out the inhumanity of the English and the destitution of the Irish. Like “oh the little ice age was triggered by the genocide of Indigenous People’s in N America? So, it’s a climate change mitigation strategy?“ 😳
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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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
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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I just listened to RadioLab’s latest episode on small potatoes, and then ate a bowl of mashed potatoes for lunch. It’s the zeitgeist.
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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I mean, I admit my reference was a little dated 🤓
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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I can see how Taylor is the much more popular Swift.
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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I was thinking of Jonathan Swift’s 1729 essay that satirically suggested the Irish sell their children to the wealthy English landowners as food to simultaneously solve the overpopulation and poverty crises in Ireland.
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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Ripe for a modern take on Swift’s A Modest Proposal 😳.
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Jen Cross
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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)
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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Because it sounds like a lot of privileged folk with 6-figure salaries saying they’d prefer grad students live in poverty than see an incremental hit to their “productivity” and maybe we all need to reflect on what productive #academia should look like 👀
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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This☝️!!
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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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
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Advocacy works, but never as fast as we’d like. We need to applaud and celebrate the small victories to keep energized and optimistic as we continue the struggle. The “but this only helps a tiny fraction” reaction to this news is more likely to erode momentum than build it for larger DGs.
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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More, we profs should stop whining from our cushy tenureships and take some inspiration from them. If we want DGs to be bigger, let’s keep fighting. Let’s march on Ottawa. Let’s mobilize cross provincial letter campaigns. Let’s publish editorials. Let this first $1.8 billion be a good start
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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I’m not saying the issue of grad support is solved. I’m saying these scholarships set a tacit ceiling on stipend expectations & they haven’t moved in 20 y. It is gratis dedicated students fighting hard in Ottawa that now the ceiling is higher. This will benefit all and we should celebrate the win.
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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Also, there’s another 1.8B in there for grants. So actually grants are benefiting from the advocacy of our students. A lesson to us faculty 😉
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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I agree, more work to be done. But advocacy works and this is a great start! NSERC scholarships set a ceiling for most grad stipends. This will help me advocate bigger stipends in my institution and all my grants - got to stay competitive!
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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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
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Huh. Maybe KIIMA is going to help you break out of your plastic waste “rut”?!! 😂
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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The KIIMA company has partnered with Green Beaver and Groom among other brands to supply the refills that fit the reusable dispenser. It’s pretty cool. kiima.co
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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Spring ephemerals are ready to bloom 🌸. Things are waking at last. Breathe it in.
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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I just noticed I said “effective” twice. But with so-called natural deodorant, having actually work without reapplying every two hours is kinda a big deal!
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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I ended up going KIIMA after an absurd amount of deliberation. I hope I use that case enough to justify it! Haha. I did vanilla bliss and it held up to a day of chasing the kids around, so pretty effective for a natural deodorant
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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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. 🌎
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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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
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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
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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
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It’s such a relief to know the provincial government has their priorities straight! 🙄. What complete and utter nonsense.
#OnPoli #Ontario #governmentstupidity
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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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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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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Three tricks from psychology that work on me. 1) telling myself I can give up tomorrow. Just not today. 2) temptation bundling. Pair something I don’t want to do with something I do enjoy as basically a bribe. 3) doing a 3 min body scan to calm everything down in my head and just be for a moment
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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In 2021, the Dasgupta review commissioned by the UK treasury found we spend $4-6 TRILLION USD 💵 a year propping up the profits of companies that damage the environment. Literally, we just have to 🛑 stop paying them. 🌎 www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Julia Levin
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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
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It's past time for Canada to end fossil fuel subsidies and align ourselves with #COP28 commitments.
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Dr Izzy Jayasinghe
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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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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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Well the “Green Shift” was tried and failed, so we won’t go there! Maybe ChatGPT can come up with something?
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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I am very well. I just won an award! ☺️
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Ketan Joshi
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It remains extremely clear that degrowth is an amazing tool for protecting life on earth and improving the experiences of living things.
Fantastic interview w @timparrique.bsky.social on @mongabay.bsky.social w @racheldonald.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️👏🏽👏🏽🥂🥂
pca.st/episode/9c77...
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Laura Helmuth
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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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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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Biden’s catchphrase that billionaires and corporations must pay “their fair share” rolls off the tongue.
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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The diversity of life is awesome
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney
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What a gem
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