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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · Oct 17
#LaurierBiology faculty members out to celebrate the graduates at this morning’s convocation ceremony! #BestBiologyDepartment
Drs. Leonard, Weadge, Long, Smith, Ramsay, McDonald, Castroverde and Monaghan posing in their academic regalia at today’s convocation!
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thelonglab.bsky.social
Had a great time at the #BI393 Biostatistics “aRt gallery” event where my students shared and compared their favourite data visualization efforts so far this semester! #rstats
Poster advertising the art exhibition Students mingling around the exhibition room A selection of cheese and crackers for the starving artists/students Students talking about some of the exhibits!
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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mparrington.bsky.social
Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests by @phoebeweston.bsky.social & @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social with input from @loridanielsubc.bsky.social in @environment.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ArcticFire #ArcticFires #wildfires
Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests
Blazes that smoulder in the permafrost, only to reignite, are extending fire season though winter, leaving vegetation struggling to recover
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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danvec.bsky.social
Featuring Plenary Talks by leading plant scientists Dr. @elianagv.bsky.social (@utscbiology.bsky.social) and Dr. @edelplopez.bsky.social (@ulaval.ca)!
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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danvec.bsky.social
See you all next Saturday (Nov 29th) for the 2025 @cspbscbv.bsky.social Eastern Regional Meeting at Wilfrid
Laurier University! #CSPB_ERM @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social

Eight more days to go! 🌱😻👏
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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astrokatie.com
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
us.theconversation.com The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 6d
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
laurierbiology.bsky.social
A great seminar this afternoon by Dr Rebecca Rooney! @girls-can.bsky.social!
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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laurierbiology.bsky.social
Please join us this Friday for the next #LaurierBiology seminar by Dr. Rebecca Rooney
@girls-can.bsky.social from @waterloosci.bsky.social! All welcome! DM for #Zoominar registration link!
November 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
laurierbiology.bsky.social
Please join us this Friday for the next #LaurierBiology seminar by Dr. Rebecca Rooney
@girls-can.bsky.social from @waterloosci.bsky.social! All welcome! DM for #Zoominar registration link!
November 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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laurierbiology.bsky.social
Please join us this Friday for 3 awesome research capstone talks by soon-to-be-defending #LaurierBiology Integrative Biology MSc students + some extra BI601 "Lightning Talks" from incoming grad students! All Welcome! DM for #Zoominar link!
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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danvec.bsky.social
Regular registration ENDS on November 12th for the
@cspbscbv.bsky.social Eastern Regional Meeting to be held at Wilfrid Laurier University later this month! @laurierbiology.bsky.social @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social

#CSPB_ERM CONFERENCE WEBSITE: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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thelonglab.bsky.social
Lettering done, poster scanned & ready for colour!
@girls-can.bsky.social @laurierbiology.bsky.social #SciArt
Departmental seminar poster of a cake in the shape of a wetland, with a piece being removed. The seminar is entitled "When to get active? Lessons from passive and active wetland restoration after invasive plant management", and it is being presented by Dr. Rebecca Rooney from the University of Waterloo on Friday, November 21st.
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
laurierbiology.bsky.social
Please join us this Friday for 3 awesome research capstone talks by soon-to-be-defending #LaurierBiology Integrative Biology MSc students + some extra BI601 "Lightning Talks" from incoming grad students! All Welcome! DM for #Zoominar link!
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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danvec.bsky.social
Proud of @laurierbiology.bsky.social thesis student Ritchi for his excellent proposal poster presentation in the #BI499 class this afternoon! 🌱🧬🦠

Thanks to @rossichristina.bsky.social for being Ritchi's direct grad student mentor in the lab! @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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thelonglab.bsky.social
Very proud of #BI499 honours thesis students Emily, Ahmed and Harsukhman on some excellent presentations of their #DrosLife research projects!
November 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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danvec.bsky.social
Who is excited for the 2025 #CSPB_ERM?! I know I am!

See you all at @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social later this month. Regular registration ends on Nov 12th (Wednesday). @laurierbiology.bsky.social @cspbscbv.bsky.social

Conference website: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025
November 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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laurierbiology.bsky.social
Thanks to #LaurierBiology’s Dr. @leonardlab.bsky.social on excellent bedeling at today’s convocation!
Laurier Biology faculty member Dr Erin Leonard in the role of bedel at convocation holding the Laurier mace.
October 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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laurierbiology.bsky.social
#LaurierBiology faculty members out to celebrate the graduates at this morning’s convocation ceremony! #BestBiologyDepartment
Drs. Leonard, Weadge, Long, Smith, Ramsay, McDonald, Castroverde and Monaghan posing in their academic regalia at today’s convocation!
October 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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thelonglab.bsky.social
Just picked up the bound copy of Laura’s MSc thesis for the #DrosLife lab library!
A bound blue thesis held up in front of the Laurier street sign
October 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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thelonglab.bsky.social
Lots of faculty here this morning for convocation!
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
laurierbiology.bsky.social
#LaurierBiology faculty members out to celebrate the graduates at this morning’s convocation ceremony! #BestBiologyDepartment
Drs. Leonard, Weadge, Long, Smith, Ramsay, McDonald, Castroverde and Monaghan posing in their academic regalia at today’s convocation!
October 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
laurierbiology.bsky.social
Thanks to #LaurierBiology’s Dr. @leonardlab.bsky.social on excellent bedeling at today’s convocation!
Laurier Biology faculty member Dr Erin Leonard in the role of bedel at convocation holding the Laurier mace.
October 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
laurierbiology.bsky.social
Congratulations to all the #LaurierBiology undergraduate and graduate students convocating today!
Panorama shot from above of graduands and friends and family List of MSc Integrative Biology students convocating today List of Biological and Chemical Sciences PhD candidates convocating today
October 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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stuartcantrill.com
‘Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth’ by @philipcball.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Screenshot that reads: The award "underlies the importance in investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth", says economist Diane Coyle of the University of Cambridge. "It's great to see the Nobel prize recognize the importance of this topic," adds innovation policy researcher Richard Jones of the University of Manchester, UK. "It's important that economists understand the conditions that lead to technological progress," he adds. The winners, says Coyle, "have long been on people's list of potential candidates".
October 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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araujolabub.bsky.social
Join us in Alicante (again!) in April 2026 for all things #Drosophila in Spain! #DrosoSpain2026 #savethedate
drosospain.bsky.social Drosophila Spain @drosospain.bsky.social · Oct 13
We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting #DrosoSpain2026 will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026 #savethedate
October 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
laurierbiology.bsky.social
Hope everyone is enjoying the start of Fall Reading Week! Our next (spooky?) departmental activity happens on Halloween when students in the #BI499 honours thesis program present their (haunted?) research proposals! 🎃 👻
October 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM