New to #UBC this fall? Get to know your library through the UBC Library Crawl. Visit all 8 locations from Sept 3 to 6 for a chance to win one of 100 mini office kits. bit.ly/3Tao9ps

Hey students! Curious about physics & astronomy programs? Come join us as we present on our Department faculty, courses, clubs and programs at UBC Imagine day on September 3rd. Imagine a place with us! UBC Science UBC Engineering @ams_ubc #physics #astronomy #science #careers

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology are hiring 1 Assistant Professor Position! Apply by October 16: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28185

Dr. Daniel Pauly, UBC Science professor and Sea Around Us principal investigator, wrote about the need for simple, more accurate fish stock assessment models. via Earth.com earth.com/news/fish-stoc…

Rainer Froese and Daniel Pauly, two of the world’s most cited fisheries experts, call for the revision of current stock assessment models, advocating for simpler, more realistic models based on ecological principles. earth.com/news/fish-stoc… via Earth Sea Around Us

Hey, parents! Here are some tips from UBC Math Department profs to set your kids up for math success this year. bit.ly/3T8WB3b

“Math is the art of thinking, so it's not just about numbers,” says Dr. Melania Alvarez of UBC Math Department. “Math is fun and interesting and a part of what also makes life interesting is the challenges. The rewards of the challenges are tremendous.” vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/exp…

The AI Scientist in Nature News! Great quotes from Cong Lu eg "This is the GPT-1 of AI science" & "People will say, I have 100 ideas that I don’t have time for. Get the AI Scientist to do those". Thanks Davide Castelvecchi for a great article! nature.com/articles/d4158…

OMNI-EPIC is open-sourced! github.com/maxencefaldor/…

Thousands of invasive peach blossom jellyfish are appearing in B.C. waters, marking their furthest northern range in North America. According to @UBCScience research, sightings are predicted to increase due to climate change. Read more: bit.ly/3TyCZpJ

Royal Society of Canada welcomes UBC Science profs Drs Margo Seltzer Margo Seltzer UBC Computer Science Marie Auger-Méthé Marie Auger-Méthé UBC Oceans UBC Statistics Kayla King Prof. Kayla King UBC Zoology UBC Dept of Microbiology and Immunology & Andrea Reid (Centre for Indigenous Fisheries). RSC // SRC bit.ly/3MrC1HL

A model by UBC Math Department & Hungarian Research Network | HUN-REN mathematicians shows that as conditions for cooperation improve between 2 species, mutually beneficial behaviour can get unbalanced. Cooperative behaviour pools in one species, the other consumes the spoils. NSERC / CRSNG science.ubc.ca/news/september…

The #KronstadLab is working hard to uncover weaknesses of C. neoformans, which is the fungal cause of cryptococcosis, hoping to open doors for drug and vaccine development. Learn more about what they’ve found so far: msl.ubc.ca/kronstad-lab-u… UBC Dept of Microbiology and Immunology UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems UBC Science

Applications for the 2024/25 IBPOC Student Support Fund are now open! Created in partnership with UBC EOAS, this award supports students from Indigenous, Black, and other racialized communities of colour studying climate change at UBC. Learn more & apply: bit.ly/IBPOC_student_…

Evolutionary mathematicians at UBC Math Department & Hungarian Research Network | HUN-REN have found that cooperation between species might unexpectedly decline even as conditions for mutualism improve. scitechdaily.com/natures-unexpe…

New paper shows rapid ocean deoxygenation during the Early Cretaceous linked to volcanic CO2 emissions implying a tight coupling between volcanism, weathering and ocean oxygen content characterized by a climate threshold. Ocean Networks 🇨🇦 UniversityOfVictoria @ubceoas go.nature.com/47b3O8R

An invasive, freshwater jellyfish is popping up in B.C. lakes at an exponential rate, according to from EOAS and IOF researchers Dr. Florian Lüskow and Dr. Evgeny Pakhomov. Read more below: ubctoday.ubc.ca/news/september…

"We argue that a society collapses when it suffers a loss of collective capacity to meet the basic needs of the majority of the population," say Dr. Amanda Giang of UBC IRES & colleagues. via The Conversation Canada theconversation.com/what-is-societ…

A new study led by ONC's director of science, Kohen Bauer, was published yesterday in nature, identifying a 'tipping point' for climate warming that could lead to widespread ocean deoxygenation. Learn more 🪨 bit.ly/3AODeX0

Join #WilliamCheung, Rashid Sumaila, Megan Bailey, Derek Armitage and more on September 18, 2024 @ 11 am PT for a webinar: Charting a sustainable future for oceans in Canada oceans.ubc.ca/seachange/