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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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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 6h

USA gov: the borders in Chicago are located on the shoreline of Lake, Michigan.

Canada: sweet!

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 7h

We did the #HigherEd math:

35 hr/w x 40% = 168 teaching hrs/semester
- 36 hrs in class
- 24 hrs prep
- 12 hrs student hrs
- 15 hrs TA meetings
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= 81 hrs for individual student support
/400 students per semester = 12 min/student/semester

Last year: 280 students = 17 min

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 9h

That's it. I'm calling it.
Any emails with the word 'unsubscribe' is going straight to junk.
#HigherEd

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

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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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

I just received an email from my employer recommending that we 'participate with purpose' for our well-being.

You mean, work more?
Really?

I don't need to work more. I need more Teaching Assistants, smaller class sizes, and more administrative support.

#HigherEd #Wellbeing

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

A country’s citizens should not be aware of their Supreme Court justices’ politics

All I know about these scholars is that they are snazzy dressers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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

The slowest of claps is no claps at all

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

And after 40 minutes of cringe-Thunderous applause from the generals!

Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗

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Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social · 8d

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 8d

Oh hey interview is live! Thank you so so much to @armedwithabook.bsky.social for letting me talk excitedly about THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES -- out tomorrow from @ecwpress.bsky.social !

"Nothing stays a wasteland forever. People hit and roll, and then they get up again."

Premee Mohamed, author of The Annual Migration of Clouds - Interview - Armed with A Book

Come chat with Premee Mohamed about The Annual Migration of Clouds series, its finale, and what it means to bring this story to a close

armedwithabook.com

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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 8d

#NuanceIsLife

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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 8d

#NuanceIsLife

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 9d

To be clear, 'nuance' is not a 'trick' on the exam.
Nuance is life!
#HigherEd

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 9d

I do not have the resources necessary to prevent the inequitable use of AI in my course

#HigherEd #Ontario

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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 10d

Sunny beautiful day in #Guelph - celebrate with a crossorb weaver #spider

#Araneusdiadematus

Photo through the front door with blue sky, in the background, of a cross orb Weaver on its web. Yellow and red banding patterns on its legs.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 13d

Public services should not have to be profitable.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News

With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...

www.cbc.ca

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 13d

oh this is fucked

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 13d

Ottawa directs Canada Post to end door-to-door delivery of mail across the country

Directive includes shutting down post offices in areas that were considered rural, but are now suburban

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 13d

🤝 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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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 13d

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13d

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.

This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News

www.cbc.ca

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13d

Third of women report facing sexual harassment at university in England, survey finds

Higher education regulator describes findings from survey of 50,000 final-year students as ‘national scandal’ One in three female students say they have endured sexual harassment during their time at university or college, with most of it taking place around campus, according to data published by England’s higher education regulator. The results showed that nearly one in five women also experienced sexual assault or violence during their time as a student, often at the hands of other students or staff, with younger women, lesbian, gay or bisexual students and students with disabilities at higher risk. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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MamãBear @alsolearning.bsky.social · 13d

‘Science demands action’: world leaders and UN push climate agenda forward despite the Felon’s attacks.

#ClimateActionNow
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Science demands action’: world leaders and UN push climate agenda forward despite Trump’s attacks

Leaders unveil new targets to cut planet-heating pollution after Trump called climate crisis a ‘con job’

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 13d

a man from schitts creek is making a funny face and the word yup is above him

Alt: a man from schitts creek is making a funny face and the word yup is above him

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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 14d

Withdrawals from the THE rankings:

Utrecht University, 2023
dub.uu.nl/en/news/utre...

Universität Zürich, 2024
www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/...

Sorbonne Université, 2025
www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb...

Any additions?

#HigherEd

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Katherine Drotos @spiritofcavalia.bsky.social · 14d

Google: here's an AI summary!
Adobe: want an AI assistant?
Zoom: get more done with an AI companion!
Outlook: don't you want to turn on copilot??

Me: I trained for 10 years to think. I like thinking. Please just let me think.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 14d

If you are invited to speak at a conference or on a panel, consider sharing this caveat 👇

Feel free to use it. It's mine.
#HigherEd 🧪

It would be an honour to participate.

And here's the 'fine print' (but I'll keep it in large print 🙂 ) : I agree to support your efforts in whatever way that I can provided that there is evidence of inclusive and accessible practices throughout. I am happy to step aside as an authoritative voice should we decide that the voices of others are more important, and I reserve the right to step down should commitments to equity and access not be realized.

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