Dr. Steven Vamosi 🇨🇦
@smvamosi.github.io
Professor of Population Biology & Scientific Director of the Biogeoscience Institute at the University of Calgary | Former AD, EDI | Conservation, ecology, evolution | Fish, invertebrates, beavers, microplastics | He/him
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Indigenous-led climate action initiatives in partnership with UCalgary
Community-based projects drive climate resilience through collaboration and research
www.ucalgary.ca
Nice article in UToday highlighting some #UCalgary projects supported by Mobilizing Alberta, including a partnership between @resilienceinstitute.ca, @piikanination.com, and the Biogeoscience Institute
#CommunityBased #Indigenous #ClimateResilience
www.ucalgary.ca/news/indigen...
#CommunityBased #Indigenous #ClimateResilience
www.ucalgary.ca/news/indigen...
Anyone else feel slightly uneasy when using (free) LinkedIn?
I assume their intention is to withhold features to entice people to fork over cash, but something about the “1 person viewed your profile: Stay anonymous and see who’s viewed your profile with Premium” gives creepy vibes
I assume their intention is to withhold features to entice people to fork over cash, but something about the “1 person viewed your profile: Stay anonymous and see who’s viewed your profile with Premium” gives creepy vibes
December 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Anyone else feel slightly uneasy when using (free) LinkedIn?
I assume their intention is to withhold features to entice people to fork over cash, but something about the “1 person viewed your profile: Stay anonymous and see who’s viewed your profile with Premium” gives creepy vibes
I assume their intention is to withhold features to entice people to fork over cash, but something about the “1 person viewed your profile: Stay anonymous and see who’s viewed your profile with Premium” gives creepy vibes
I don’t know what makes me more proud:
That my son is starting to publish
or
that the love of wordplay has been successfully transmitted
Read about “CRAwDAD” here:
www.arxiv.org/abs/2511.22854
That my son is starting to publish
or
that the love of wordplay has been successfully transmitted
Read about “CRAwDAD” here:
www.arxiv.org/abs/2511.22854
CRAwDAD: Causal Reasoning Augmentation with Dual-Agent Debate
When people reason about cause and effect, they often consider many competing "what if" scenarios before deciding which explanation fits best. Analogously, advanced language models capable of causal i...
www.arxiv.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I don’t know what makes me more proud:
That my son is starting to publish
or
that the love of wordplay has been successfully transmitted
Read about “CRAwDAD” here:
www.arxiv.org/abs/2511.22854
That my son is starting to publish
or
that the love of wordplay has been successfully transmitted
Read about “CRAwDAD” here:
www.arxiv.org/abs/2511.22854
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Is anyone thinking of drafting a letter signed by thousands of scientists to explain to the prime minister that the Canadian scientific community doesn’t want the funding system he proposes? I’m happy to help!
December 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Is anyone thinking of drafting a letter signed by thousands of scientists to explain to the prime minister that the Canadian scientific community doesn’t want the funding system he proposes? I’m happy to help!
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Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas.
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
December 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas.
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
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We love to fetishize "top" researchers and give them special big pots of money. But we get far more science by spreading money among all researchers (closer to the NSERC DG model). This old post is magically relevant again... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/w...
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We love to fetishize "top" researchers and give them special big pots of money. But we get far more science by spreading money among all researchers (closer to the NSERC DG model). This old post is magically relevant again... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/w...
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Hiring in our school!! Come & join us! 🌐🧪🌏
University of Auckland hiring Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Plant-Microbe Interactions - School of Biological Sciences in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand | LinkedIn
Posted 8:46:30 AM. Company DescriptionWaipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandKo te whare Pūtaiao | The…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Hiring in our school!! Come & join us! 🌐🧪🌏
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I just got off an extremely depressing call with my amazing Canadian collaborators at Natural Resources Canada who are facing cuts, retirement buy-outs, and layoffs for biologists across the board. This just seems a slap in the face to scientists in Canada.
December 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I just got off an extremely depressing call with my amazing Canadian collaborators at Natural Resources Canada who are facing cuts, retirement buy-outs, and layoffs for biologists across the board. This just seems a slap in the face to scientists in Canada.
These are extremely important points
Correction, it will be done in Canada 🇨🇦 until:
1. this funding runs out,
2. Trump and his ilk run out, or are run out, and these researchers head back to green southern pastures, or
3. the new researchers inevitably run up against Canadian science funding austerity.
Whichever one comes first. 🧪
1. this funding runs out,
2. Trump and his ilk run out, or are run out, and these researchers head back to green southern pastures, or
3. the new researchers inevitably run up against Canadian science funding austerity.
Whichever one comes first. 🧪
This was inevitable, the scientific research once done in the US will be done in Canada and elsewhere and all the discoveries will generate enormous wealth and business opportunities. Well done Canada.
December 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
These are extremely important points
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Canadian scientist here. I don't want this. I want you to fund our excellent early career scientists who do great work in Canada. Fund them properly and that will help 1000x more than recruiting handfuls of cherry picked bigwigs from Harvard, Stanford and MIT who will leave after a few years.
December 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Canadian scientist here. I don't want this. I want you to fund our excellent early career scientists who do great work in Canada. Fund them properly and that will help 1000x more than recruiting handfuls of cherry picked bigwigs from Harvard, Stanford and MIT who will leave after a few years.
Gratitude to my ancestors for switching energy providers
Operating costs are admittedly a bit higher, but I’m really enjoying the perks of Endothermy™️
🧬 🧪
Operating costs are admittedly a bit higher, but I’m really enjoying the perks of Endothermy™️
🧬 🧪
December 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Gratitude to my ancestors for switching energy providers
Operating costs are admittedly a bit higher, but I’m really enjoying the perks of Endothermy™️
🧬 🧪
Operating costs are admittedly a bit higher, but I’m really enjoying the perks of Endothermy™️
🧬 🧪
Literally going to walk to campus wearing long johns and snow pants, will change into work clothes in my office. Yes, it is THAT cold today in Calgary 🥶
December 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Literally going to walk to campus wearing long johns and snow pants, will change into work clothes in my office. Yes, it is THAT cold today in Calgary 🥶
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Pretty sure I hate this: got an email from a group “studying how AI helps scientists extend their work in new directions”, who had applied ‘custom’ AI models to a recent preprint of mine. Would I like to see the five extensions? Thanks, but no
December 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Pretty sure I hate this: got an email from a group “studying how AI helps scientists extend their work in new directions”, who had applied ‘custom’ AI models to a recent preprint of mine. Would I like to see the five extensions? Thanks, but no
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Check out the latest publication from my MSc research with @nigeleraine.bsky.social where we surveyed bee and plant communities in rare TGP and savanna habitat and looked at what factors may contribute to their success 🔥🌼
New 📰| Wild bee biodiversity in tallgrass prairie and oak savanna habitat in southern Ontario 🐝https://ow.ly/Hcpf50XATTc
Explore how restoration and land management decisions can make a big difference for wild pollinators. Nigel Raine Janean Sharkey University of Guelph
Explore how restoration and land management decisions can make a big difference for wild pollinators. Nigel Raine Janean Sharkey University of Guelph
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Check out the latest publication from my MSc research with @nigeleraine.bsky.social where we surveyed bee and plant communities in rare TGP and savanna habitat and looked at what factors may contribute to their success 🔥🌼
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Nice article in UToday highlighting some #UCalgary projects supported by Mobilizing Alberta, including a partnership between @resilienceinstitute.ca, @piikanination.com, and the Biogeoscience Institute
#CommunityBased #Indigenous #ClimateResilience
www.ucalgary.ca/news/indigen...
#CommunityBased #Indigenous #ClimateResilience
www.ucalgary.ca/news/indigen...
Indigenous-led climate action initiatives in partnership with UCalgary
Community-based projects drive climate resilience through collaboration and research
www.ucalgary.ca
December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Nice article in UToday highlighting some #UCalgary projects supported by Mobilizing Alberta, including a partnership between @resilienceinstitute.ca, @piikanination.com, and the Biogeoscience Institute
#CommunityBased #Indigenous #ClimateResilience
www.ucalgary.ca/news/indigen...
#CommunityBased #Indigenous #ClimateResilience
www.ucalgary.ca/news/indigen...
Come for Dan, stay for the world class mountains and city ranked #1 for livability in Canada
If you missed the four tenure track positions' deadline (today) in my department, there's another position in Geography @ucalgary.bsky.social as Assistant Professor in Climate Change and the Critical Zone. Come be my office neighbour! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1710469... 🧪⚒️
December 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Come for Dan, stay for the world class mountains and city ranked #1 for livability in Canada
Nice article in UToday highlighting some #UCalgary projects supported by Mobilizing Alberta, including a partnership between @resilienceinstitute.ca, @piikanination.com, and the Biogeoscience Institute
#CommunityBased #Indigenous #ClimateResilience
www.ucalgary.ca/news/indigen...
#CommunityBased #Indigenous #ClimateResilience
www.ucalgary.ca/news/indigen...
Indigenous-led climate action initiatives in partnership with UCalgary
Community-based projects drive climate resilience through collaboration and research
www.ucalgary.ca
December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Nice article in UToday highlighting some #UCalgary projects supported by Mobilizing Alberta, including a partnership between @resilienceinstitute.ca, @piikanination.com, and the Biogeoscience Institute
#CommunityBased #Indigenous #ClimateResilience
www.ucalgary.ca/news/indigen...
#CommunityBased #Indigenous #ClimateResilience
www.ucalgary.ca/news/indigen...
I’m fine with Alberta separatists advocating for any lands in the province that aren’t Treaty 4, 6, 7, 8, or 10 and/or a National Park #abpoli
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I’m fine with Alberta separatists advocating for any lands in the province that aren’t Treaty 4, 6, 7, 8, or 10 and/or a National Park #abpoli
Going through old annual reports and theses at the Barrier Lake Field Station. Look what I found, @albrechts-h.bsky.social ☺️ 🌎
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Going through old annual reports and theses at the Barrier Lake Field Station. Look what I found, @albrechts-h.bsky.social ☺️ 🌎
Egads! I’m going to need somebody to explain the (relevance/choice of) bicycle to me
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Egads! I’m going to need somebody to explain the (relevance/choice of) bicycle to me
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We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
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#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
University of British Columbia, Botany
Job #AJO31140, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NON-SEED PLANT DIVERSITY (BRYOPHYTES, FERNS, LYCOPHYTES), Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
academicjobsonline.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
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CTV: Alberta musician and rancher Corb Lund has filed a new application for a citizen's initiative petition to stop coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rockies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fQV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fQV...
Musician Corb Lund files application for petition to stop coal mining in the rockies
YouTube video by CTV News
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November 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
CTV: Alberta musician and rancher Corb Lund has filed a new application for a citizen's initiative petition to stop coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rockies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fQV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fQV...
Just found out that “Chatty G” is Aussie slang for ChatGPT, and I’m here for it
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Just found out that “Chatty G” is Aussie slang for ChatGPT, and I’m here for it
Disorienting to see a post advertising a faculty position in the USA directly below one documenting yet another random ICE abduction #AcademicSky
November 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Disorienting to see a post advertising a faculty position in the USA directly below one documenting yet another random ICE abduction #AcademicSky