This amazing map shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881
@histodons @geography
Snuck into daughters #Santa letter purportedly requesting a gymnastics bar… 💔 what she really wants is a puppy, but she is not allowed. Dad is allergic.
RT @jennyleeshee@twitter.com
Very normal and stable.
Right @Sflecce@twitter.com?
It’s all under control.
Right @SylviaJonesMPP@twitter.com?
Nothing to see here.
Right @fordnation@twitter.com?
#FireLecce
#ResignSylviaJones
#FORDmustRESIGN https://twitter.com/davidreevely/status/1599163330849116161
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CHEO has called in assistance from the Red Cross. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canadian-red-cross-cheo-ottawa-childrens-hospital-1.6673628
As an ant biologist, I think the discovery of “ant milk” might be the single biggest research finding during my lifetime.
Across ants, maturing pupae make a nutritional exudate for their nestmates:
Today Toronto told #DougFord: Hands off the Greenbelt! Sign our petition to tell Ford to get his hands off the #Greenbelt at https://www.kristynwongtam.ca/greenbelt #Ontario #Torcen #TorontoCentre #Toronto #OnPoli #ToPoli #NDP #OntarioNDP
More than 1,000 Critically #Endangered Tristan #Albatross chicks fledged for first time this century after Gough Island rodent eradication program success: https://bit.ly/3VrynQY
#conservation #birding #birds #birdwatching #birdphotography #nature #UKbirding #ornithology
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
https://grist.org/economics/world-insurance-bill-2022-natural-disasters-115-billion/
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! https://www.science.org/content/article/canada-scientists-are-struggling-stagnant-funding
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/girls_can/status/1598652547778093058
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
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/girls_can/status/1598653649009377283
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! https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/12/11/blind-luck-could-lotteries-be-a-more-efficient-mechanism-for-allocating-research-funds-than-peer-review/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/girls_can/status/1598654988670074881
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.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/girls_can/status/1598656741486600192
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.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/girls_can/status/1598657876494618624
I moved to girls_can@TheCanadian.social Posts about #ecology #teaching #biodiversity #contaminants #university #academia #ONpoli #CanPoli #conservation #nature #GreatLakes #parenting she/her