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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦

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The Anthropocene, multispecies studies, environmental literature, psychogeography, energy humanities, wildlife. See "Wild Faces," https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/issue/17/1

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · Mar 5

This is good. Get a Kleenex before watching.

Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · Mar 5

Jeff Douglas has updated the "I am Canadian" ad, and it hits hard.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lzh...

We are Canadian.

YouTube video by Average Joes

www.youtube.com

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 10h

So the only thing that differentiates publicly funded “private” schools in Alberta is the requirement to wear a tie?

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 11h

AI results: How to prevent catching COVID on a plane?
1 Wear a mask.
2 Keep your distance from others, especially when indoors.
3 Clean your hands regularly.
4 Keep the air flowing by turning on fans or opening windows when you can.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 15h

Found a project for after I retire. Snooze and relax with these deer.

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 1d

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 1d

They thought it was “required” and therefore couldn’t be any good.

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 1d

In my observation, conservatives can’t detect irony.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 1d

Mr. Tough-on-Crime wishes the convoy leaders a peaceful and happy life.

@PierrePoilievre
Tamara Lich and Chris Barber peacefully protested the imposition of emergency measures that the Federal Court found to be unlawful and unconstitutional.

Instead of pursuing rapists, drug dealers and other monsters, the Crown sought lengthy prison sentences.

Justice Perkins-McVey rightly rejected the Crown's request, and sent Tamara and Chris home to their families.

We must get to a justice system that ensures the security and freedom of all Canadians.

I wish Chris and Tamara a peaceful and happy life.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 1d

Just encountered a woman on the the walking path wearing a black T-shirt with white letters that read “I hate everything about you.” 😐

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 1d

Guy who never attended university knows everything about it.

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Kim Mannix (she/her) @kimmannix.bsky.social · 1d

#AB pals, I think we should take all the disastrous and terrifying stuff going down in American cities as a reminder why municipal elections really do matter and why we should research candidates at every level...school board trustees and city councillors too, not just mayoral candidates.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 2d

The agenda seems to be to steal people's lives.

Blue Texan @hmdob.bsky.social · 2d

The US is deporting a journalist today.

Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities.

So they grabbed him.

Detained him 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without even letting him say goodbye to his family.

The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally.

#DefendThePress

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Temporal Ecology Lab @temporalecology.bsky.social · 2d

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 2d

The reviews are coming in on the UCP's American lesson plans they're offering parents while teachers are on strike...

From this Grade 1 teacher, not only do they not align with the UCP's curriculum...

They aren't even based in what most Grade 1 kids can do.

#abpoli #cdnpoli

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 2d

Deer ears.

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 3d

This is an amazing thing. Follow a #river, your natal stream.

Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 3d

Cool #educational #tool (free):

"Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and follow its path to the ocean."
river-runner-global.samlearner.com

River Runner Global

Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the world

river-runner-global.samlearner.com

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 3d

Very painterly sky.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 3d

They're probably asking him because he has his head in the sand.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 3d

Today, for what is I think only my second time I heard a deer vocalize.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. It looks very different geologically. Thx for these pictures. Now I want to go there.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 5d

Job-creating. Workers don’t have to live in camps. Family-friendly. Community-focussed. Low carbon. Cute. Won’t destroy marine life. Better for the Great Barrier Reef. Far fewer wildfires and far less smoke. Less asthma. Less fucked-up weather. A whole new ontology.

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 5d

Forward-thinking. Future-oriented. Light-hearted. Positive. Freeing. Economy-stimulating instead of the big suck on taxpayers for cleanup and the expensive gimmickry of CCS. And Trump can’t come for our sunshine or geothermal.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 5d

Renewables are exciting, promising, innovative, clean, quiet, appeal to young voters, interesting (who doesn’t want to learn a bit about solar?), trendy, money-saving, sexy.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 5d

Ports on B.C. coast belong to the country from which Smith is separating???

Right on schedule, Moe, five days after AB, as always, and without even three fingers of irony.

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 5d

No more pipelines, as I mentioned to the fundraising person who called a couple days ago. Thank you. None. No more. Nope. 👎

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 5d

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