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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 5h

Thanksgiving weekend is fast approaching. If you can, please consider supporting my mission to raise $50k for 4 local charities.

GNSC: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
GWWIC: give.stratly.com/guelph-welli...
RCS: www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/122347
SEED: theseedguelph.ca/donate/

Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · Apr 14

The Fifty Grand Challenge

As I approach my 50th birthday, I'm reflecting on the current challenges facing Canada and its vulnerable communities. In celebration, I'm aiming to raise $50,000 for local organizations that support those in need. Together, we can help uplift our community.

The Fifty Grand Challenge

As I approach my 50th birthday, I'm reflecting on the current challenges facing Canada and its vulnerable communities. In celebration, I'm aiming to raise $50,000 for local organizations that support those in need. Together, we can help uplift our community.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 23h

It's T-25 mins to class time and I've got our welcome song all cued up: Ukiuq by The Jerry Cans.

Take a break: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nef...

TURN IT UP AND DANCE WITH US!! 🕺

#HigherEd

screenshot of the welcome slide for today's class that highlights that we are listening to the The Jerry Cans. Ther is also a fun search puzzle and a short announcement about a mental health break next week.

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 1d

That’s the alternate spelling.

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 1d

Risky is my middle name.

Well, actually it’s not.

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 1d

Woohoo! Flights to Portugal and Spain booked.

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 6d

Just finished listening to her “Book of Hope”. A light in dark times. RIP.

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 6d

www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Jane Goodall, wildlife advocate and primate expert, dies at 91

Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founde...

www.ctvnews.ca

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 6d

www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Jane Goodall, wildlife advocate and primate expert, dies at 91

Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founde...

www.ctvnews.ca

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 9d

This!

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 12d

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 12d

🤝 The climate crisis demands transdisciplinary teamwork—scientists, artists, communities, and engineers.

#Bio-inspired design could be a key 🪲

Learn more: doi.org/10.3390/biom...

doi.org

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 16d

So thankful to get to work with these big brains (and many others who aren't on Bluesky):

@shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social @alexsmithants.bsky.social @dawnbazely.bsky.social @anibalhcastillo.bsky.social @marklipton.bsky.social @nikzam.bsky.social

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 16d

A call for bio-inspired technologies!

🪱 A teaspoon of soil holds more life than there are humans on Earth—yet <1% of biomimetic studies focus on soil. Time to change that.

Check out our new article: doi.org/10.3390/biom...

A poster that reads "Can Ecosystem Services be entirely replaced?" with a quote from a Biomimetics 2025 publication: "If we are to avoid a post-climate apocalyptic reality, researcher from various disciplines, artists, community knowledge holders, creative thinkers, and strategic problem solvers are called on for innovations and technologies to help the world prepare and mitigate risks"

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · 19d

The stupidest timeline. Sigh.

CNN @cnn.com · 19d

JUST IN: Vaccine advisers to the CDC have voted to recommended against using the combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine for children under 4. https://cnn.it/3K73pNn

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 28d

A painting of a bird beside the text "one time we should try listening to the fuckin' smart people"

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Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 25d

Canadians:
This is the most important petition before the HoC

Please sign it.
We need to mandate honesty and accountability from our MPs.

#cdnpoli

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-6679 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 26d

So many and diverse collaborators in www.manufacturedecosystems.com #ManufacturedEcosystems - some on @bsky.app some not

@shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social
@dawnbazely.bsky.social
@danielgillis.ca
@nikzam.bsky.social
@marklipton.bsky.social
@anibalhcastillo.bsky.social
@lectio.bsky.social

Author list

A Call for Bio-Inspired Technologies: Promises and Challenges for Ecosystem Service Replacement

by Kristina Wanieck 1,M. Alex Smith 2,Elizabeth Porter 2,Jindong Zhang 1,3,Dave Dowhaniuk 4,Andria Jones 5,Dan Gillis 6,Mark Lipton 4,Marsha Hinds Myrie 7,Dawn Bazely 8,Marjan Eggermont 9,Mindi Summers 10,Christina Smylitopoulos 11,Claudia I. Rivera Cárdenas 12,Emily Wolf 1,Peggy Karpouzou 13,Nikoleta Zampaki 13,Heather Clitheroe 14,Adam Davies 15,Anibal H. Castillo 2,Michael Helms 16,Karina Benessaiah 17 and Shoshanah Jacobs 2

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · Sep 8

Deliciously Exhausted

Pies and pies and more pies. Also crisps and other things!

Deliciously Exhausted

Pies and pies and more pies. Also crisps and other things!

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 8

Artist Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social
imagines a future with Robobees as she shares both the science and the art of #ManufacturedEcosystems

A truly impactful Artist Talk 🧪🎨

Funding by
@sshrc-crsh.canada.ca
/New Frontiers in Research

youtu.be/bfEp13Yxcgs

Ele Willoughby - 2025 - Artist Talk - Manufactured Ecosystems

YouTube video by Shoshanah Jacobs

youtu.be

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 5

#HigherEd gold!
👇

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · Sep 5

I am fascinated by this guy who was a Higher Ed administrator and has now moved into teaching classes as a faculty member. He is documenting his whole journey on TikTok. Over the summer, he had so much excitement 🧵

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 5

Artist @melaniebarnett.bsky.social takes us on a sculpted journey of Climate Apocalypse, Agroecology, and Shelterbelts

Agro systems have always been #ManufacturedEcosystems

A truly brilliant Artist Talk 🧪🎨

Funding by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/New Frontiers in Research

youtu.be/NLriORu88zw

Melanie Barnett - 2025 - Artist Talk - Manufactured Ecosystems

YouTube video by Shoshanah Jacobs

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · Sep 3

The stupidest timeline marches on…

J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · Sep 3

More reporting just now on Florida's plan to make everyone dead:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · Sep 3

Good grief.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 2

Classes are about to start, and in #BIOL1500, I invite students to attend a tech-check for our synchronous, virtual course

A lot goes into creating virtual spaces that can spark learning

Here's the front and back of house:
What students experience vs My #HigherEd set up

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 2

📣A Call for Bio-Inspired Technologies

Climate crises will require partnership with new technologies

We cannot use the tools that we used to create the crisis

Check out this team of #Transdisciplinary scholars
Join #ManufacturedEcosystems 🧪

www.mdpi.com/2313-7673/10...

Screenshot of the article: A Call for Bio-Inspired Technologies: Promises and Challenges for Ecosystem Service Replacement

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Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @danielgillis.ca · Sep 1

Sabbatical 2.0

Today marks the start of my second sabbatical!

Sabbatical 2.0

Today marks the start of my second sabbatical!

danielgillis.wordpress.com

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