.BioZone will be hosting Professor Ryan Ziels, from the Department of Civil Engineering, at the University of British Columbia on Thursday, March 31st from 3 pm - 4:30 pm. See the link for details: chem-eng.utoronto.ca/event/microbes…

Very humbled to be part of this large Ontario initiative to monitor wastewater! Working openly together means highly valuable and useful data! Tracking community transmission: Researchers advance COVID-19 variant detection in GTA wastewater news.engineering.utoronto.ca/tracking-commu…

Come join us for BioZone BITS S2E2: Prof. Ryan Ziels on Thurs. March 31, 3 - 4:30 PM EST! Visit the link for details: tinyurl.com/43mwr3xn

The last time @ongov waited to see how bad things would get before acting they ended up imposing capacity restrictions, delaying school reopening and surgeries were cancelled. Now is the time to : -promote & ramp up shot 3(&4) -encourage shot 1&2 for 5-11 -put masks back on

“When I took this job I said, ‘I won’t lie.’”: Dr. Peter Jüni, epidemiologist at St. Michael’s & outgoing director of the Ontario Science Advisory Table, shares his thoughts on masking, what the summer may bring, and why Toronto is a ‘wonderful place’: torontolife.com/city/we-should…

Advanced polls for Ontario election. We just voted. Make sure you do too!

In new Science Magazine, there are papers from 4 groups describing (super cool) nuclear pore structures. I'd like to use this opportunity to state the obvious - that science is a rich get richer sport. 1/4

Safe abortion care is essential to protect the health of women & girls everywhere. Removing access to #abortion care will put more women & girls at risk of illegal abortions and the consequent safety issues that would bring bit.ly/3kA2Z1P

Wastewater in City of Ottawa rising rapidly...at this rate of increase we are going to reach the maximum measurement ever recorded in the city in a few weeks time. BA4/5 in wastewater now clearly the dominant variants. Ottawa Public Health COVIDPoops19

Congratulations to #ChemE's Professor Christopher Lawson for winning a Rising Star Award from ISME/IWA Biocluster. Full article here: iwa-network.org/news/winners-o…

Now is exactly the time where Canada and provinces should be approaching companies with an offer. Co-invest with us into an SGC-like PPP and let's work together, in the open, to tackle our shared big scientific problems. ISED NSERC / CRSNG Genome Canada cbc.ca/news/business/…

Alfred Spormann speaking about the new Novo Nordisk Foundation-led public-private open science partnership for carbon capture technologies. As Canada waffles, Denmark, one-sixth of Canada’s population, seems to be moving, doing it right, and at larger scale. ISED Genome Canada

Oil companies don’t (won’t) meet climate pledges. We have 3 strategic options. 1. Make, enforce tough regulations. (Politically impossible here). 2. Co-invest in a pre-competitive consortium and share R&D risk 3. Whine Only #2 will succeed. François-Philippe Champagne (FPC) 🇨🇦 cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

Let's work together to keep the #UofTEngineering community safe from seasonal respiratory viruses: 💉 Get vaccinated 😷 Wear a mask in indoor/crowded spaces 🏠 Stay home if you’re feeling sick Learn more at: uofteng.ca/utogether

Let’s go 🇨🇦!!! #WeCAN

14 beams of light to remember the 14 lives lost. #December6

PFAS are a serious problem for drinking water treatment. Removing them from drinking water ($$) just moves the problem elsewhere. We don’t want them in wastewater or sludge either. Sludge incineration generates greenhouse gases. Need source control.

Perry McCarty, Elizabeth Edwards’s PhD co-supervisor Stanford University, has died. A brilliant and outstanding human. cee.stanford.edu/people/perry-m…

Hey Canadians: Wondering what a Climate Emergency looks like?

Free Seminar: “We Should All Try to Save the Planet” by Professor Larry Lessard, August 3 at 2-3PM in WB 407. Professor Lessard is on a 22,000km cycling journey to promote ways to rethink and reuse composite materials. Full details: chem-eng.utoronto.ca/event/seminar-…