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Carly Ziter

@carlyziter.bsky.social

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Urban & landscape ecologist thinking about nature-based solutions for biodiversity, people, and climate in the cities we live in. Prof @ Concordia. Probably talking about trees on the radio. Potter. Knitter. Baker. Gardener. Year-round cyclist. 🇨🇦 (she/her)

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hi, Bluesky! 🇨🇦 urban & landscape ecologist here - tweeting at the intersection of ecology and urbanism + mentorship and work-life balance. Based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal

On the off-hours: pottery, knitting, all-weather cycling, & the embarrassment and enjoyment of learning a new language as an adult!

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Pedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · 12h

Excited for our 1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship tomorrow at @concordia.ca 🇨🇦

oscanada.github.io/en/

1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship

On this page About the conference News & updates Host & supporting institutions Montreal, October 9–10, 2025 "Mapping the Present, Charting our Future" The 1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and ...

oscanada.github.io

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · 17h

Re-sharing this, with about a week left to apply. UW-Green Bay is hiring an ecologist with a strong statistical background. 🧪🌍🪶

Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · 13d

Come work with us at UW-Green Bay! We're hiring an ecologist with a strong statistical background. 🧪🌍🪶

Assistant Professor - Biology

Current Employees and Students: If you are currently employed or enrolled as a student at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process. Pos...

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 1d

Loved spending the summer with the @jananisivarajah.bsky.social lab and @ffgg-ulaval.bsky.social. Lots of new projects on the horizon, and great to learn from another lab group.

Next up, a quick visit to U-Windsor!

Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 1d

Farewell to visiting prof @carlyziter.bsky.social…thanks for 4 great months of insight & #collaboration! Best wishes to Sheetal Rimal as she starts a new PDF at UofA. Excited to welcome Giles (PDF) & Maïa (UG researcher) to the lab!
@ffgg-ulaval.bsky.social
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Julie Talbot @julietalbot.bsky.social · 2d

My department @geographieudem.bsky.social is looking for a professor in human geography specializing in the study of social-ecological transformations, political ecology, climate change, environmental justice and/or the geography of risks and infrastructures. Deadline November 10, share widely!

Glass buildings with a paved path in between (gray, with blue lines)

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 4d

Back from a wonderful week-long workshop abroad, where I decided to keep my phone on airplane mode (somewhere with plenty of WiFi around when you really need it). There’s something very refreshing about not being tethered to your phone 24-7.

Now immediately back to casually doomscrolling, of course

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 4d

A very good overview of the climate and meat problem.

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The climate movement’s biggest weakness

What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.

www.vox.com

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 7d

I know I’m not alone in having been profoundly shaped by Jane’s work and stories as a young scientist. It’s incredible the impression one woman can make on so many. I’m so glad that she lived such a long and rich life.

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall spoke in my hometown when I was young, and my high school science teacher found me a ticket. I fell in love with her mix of enthusiasm and compassion. As a grad student, I wrote for the Jane Goodall Institute’s blog, which fed my interest in writing and science communication…

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7d

And then she became such a great voice for biodiversity, climate protection, and species protection (and told such fierce stories about facing down the men who belittled her). May her memory be a blessing and a guide.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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Mobilisation 6600 Parc-Nature MHM🌿 @mobili6600.bsky.social · 14d

🌱 La Foire paysanne vous revient avec un horaire de 🔥!
📅 Ce dimanche, 28 septembre, sur la friche📍

🥕 Marché fermier et kiosques toute la journée 
🎤 Conférences à 10h30 et 15h 
🍽️ Lunch à 12h + souper de l’ORA à 18h
#Hochelaga #Montréal #RésisteretFleurir #DehorsRayMontLogistiques

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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 11d

Final call to get your applications in! If you are interested in doing a postdoc in #urbanecology. A multi-city project across three Canadian cities; Vancouver, Montréal, and Québec
@ffgg-ulaval.bsky.social
@cef-cfr.bsky.social
See details below ⬇️

Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · Aug 16

Postdoc (based at Concordia, but some flexibility re: location): csee-scee.ca/job/postdoct...

Postdoctoral position: Contributions of private versus public urban forests to connectivity, biodiversity, and climate-related ecosystem services across Canadian cities | CSEE: Canadian Society for E...

English posting: https://csee-scee.ca/wp-content/uploads/Nova_PDF_Ad_En.pdf French posting: https://csee-scee.ca/wp-content/uploads/Nova_PDF_Ad_Fr.pdf

csee-scee.ca

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Elisabeth Greene @elisabethgreene.bsky.social · 11d

Bon, oui c’est moins grandiose comme vue, mais techniquement, je ne devrais plus avoir à ramasser de petits corps d’oiseaux agonisants ou inanimés. Ça, ça serait vraiment grandiose.🤞

💔 Selon @quebecoiseaux.org, juste au Canada, 16 à 42 millions d’oiseaux/année meurent en fonçant dans une fenêtre.

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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 13d

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 13d

Au salon affaires municipales du Québec, nous faisons la promotion de notre laboratoire et de notre collaboration avec ECCC pour des villes plus vertes !

Three scientists sit at a table full of colourful brochures and outreach materials

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 16d

Winter cycling is so freeing! Most of the time the bike paths are clear and the roads aren’t so bad - but even in rougher conditions like these I’m able to navigate the city faster and with more flexibility than with transit. Plus no shoveling out parking 🤷🏻‍♀️

bike handlebars visible with a view of a snowy Montreal bike path

bike handlebars visible with a view of a snowy Montreal street

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 17d

It's interesting that anyone would be surprised by this. They are large language models, not large fact models. They are very good at language; it's unsurprising that they aren't terribly good at facts.

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 17d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 19d

Want to avoid climate catastrophe?
Normalize getting around by walking & biking in cities.

Wil je een klimaatramp voorkomen?
Maak het normaal om je in steden te voet of op de fiets te verplaatsen.
#Utrecht

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 23d

Great opportunity!!!!!

Trends in Ecology & Evolution @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · 23d

If you are interested in contributing to the TREE series on Disability in Ecology and Evolution, email me at [email protected]

We want hear from as many people as possible.

December will be the last in the series, for this issue we will need contributions by c7 October.

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Disability in Ecology and Evolution collection: Trends in Ecology & Evolution

www.cell.com

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 23d

Les Lavallois inégaux devant la verdure www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...

Merci à @lapresse.ca d'avoir couvert notre rapport avec la @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social

Analyse de la Fondation David Suzuki | Les Lavallois inégaux devant la verdure

Les Lavallois les plus marginalisés sont aussi ceux qui ont le moins accès à la verdure dans leur quartier, révèle une analyse de la Fondation David Suzuki publiée jeudi. L’organisme, qui défend l’équ...

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 23d

How are you sleeping lately? Me, not so great. Here are some tricks I use to distract myself from the awfulness and get back to sleep, and I'd love to hear yours. We need our sleep & our strength. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/09/15/h...

The Last Word On Nothing | How Can We Sleep Through All This?

www.lastwordonnothing.com

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 24d

I do think photos help. Just showing all of the things you can do by bike (and do joyfully!): bsky.app/profile/amer...

American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · Nov 21

I want to make a personal request to those of you who use a bike for transportation purposes to start taking more photos and posting them.

You can do so much by showing even the most mundane errands with a bike to educate and inspire others. They're often more effective than words. 📸

Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 24d

I love this compilation, *and* I’m reminded of the failure of the information deficit model of science communication.

Throwing more facts at anti-cyclists likely won’t change their minds… so how do we? What are the stories we need to tell to create better cities?

momentummag.com/your-comebac...

momentummag.com

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 29d

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 26d

theconversation.com/climate-acti... #EnergyTransition #ClimateChange

Climate action can feel slow – but the fastest energy leap in history has begun

Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels is glacially slow – isn’t it? This pessimistic narrative doesn’t stack up against evidence of very rapid change in the real world.

theconversation.com

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