Presenting my first feature for Nature Careers on some practical advice on how to make the leap into industry after a PhD. With shrinking academic positions, more PhD graduates are finding rewarding careers in various industries. So, where does one start? nature.com/articles/d4158…

And don’t forget Mahi Pono, who purchased 41,000 acres of A&B plantation land, is owned by the Canadian Public Sector Pension Plan, with beneficiaries like the Canadian military and RCMP. How is Canada invested in colonial greed on Maui? Read more here: breachmedia.ca/canadian-pensi…

Our new paper is out now! How socioeconomic and historical factors shape nature in cities? Luxury and Legacy effects shape spatial patterns of biodiversity, green cover, and ecosystem services in Vitoria-Gasteiz🏙️🌿#UrbanNature #Biodiversity OA:nature.com/articles/s4294…

"We think they're very smart, but they're a very under-studied species."🦝 #UBCForestry and UBC Science prof. Dr. Sarah Benson-Amram (Wolvie) is calling on Vancouverites to help discover how smart raccoons really are. Read more via CTV News Vancouver bit.ly/47seDTE

The game has changed alright: As Council undermines District staff's already woefully inadequate environmental policies to advance market rate housing, we're supposed to celebrate the bare minimum to mitigate downstream effects?

Dr. Lindsay Ems | she/her In “Just Urban Design” Kian Goh and contributors approach how to deliver social, spatial and environmental justice in cities through the lens of urban design (#OpenAccess edition available!) mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544276/…

And just like that, the most special place to me is gone. I can’t believe it.

Countering false and omitted evidence of historically heterogeneous western US dry forests and mixed-severity fires phys.org/news/2023-08-c… via Phys.org #thinning #wildfire #misinformation #forests #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Cash in lieu for social housing units through development are working every bit as poorly as cash in lieu for tree replacement through development. Not all developers wear capes. cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…

New paper! As #greeninfrastructure increasingly is proposed as ‘the fix’, questions continue re: what problems GI is the solution to? Ian Mell & I explore if GI is a panacea, deus ex machina or both in a Town Planning Review article. Liverpool University Press liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/tp…

About 10,000 years ago, XAALS came to our people of W̱SÁNEĆ and told us to prepare for a flood. 🌊⛰🌧 30 years ago, an Archaeologist asked if I knew of a flood in our territory back then. I said, "Of course, that is the history of our people" As told to WLC by Eric Pelkey

The Canadian housing crisis didn’t start a couple of decades ago. This is a false claim cited by leading scholars & urbanists. In Canada, the housing crisis was precipitated by the colonization of Indigenous peoples & the values shift from land stewardship to land ownership.

Electeds and staff in every level of government seem emboldened after the Secret Canada series. Local governments follow the feds' lead and we can expect transparency/accountability gets worse before it gets better. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

August in the nursery.

Los pueblos antiguos de #Mexico consideraban que el cielo y la tierra se mantenían separados gracias a los árboles, particularmente las ceibas. Son árboles de gran altura y en cuyo tronco es normal encontrar espinas. #Arqueologia

Maybe the public is catching on that high profile resilience/sustainability pros working in local government are caught in a vice between CAOs and electeds that are determined to greenwash us to death. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Thank you, MPP Sarah Jama, for raising your voice--the only one among any elected official in Canada--to call for an immediate cease-fire and an end to 75 years of apartheid and occupation. Marit Stiles, we support Sarah, and so should you.

People this is what a government embroiled in a scandal and about to be investigated by the RCMP does—distract, distract, distract. This time on the political back of a Black woman with disabilities who dares to use her constitutional right to free speech and her political mic 🎤

What you're doing, Premiere Ford, is putting conflict over peace, lawlessness over int'l order, and harm over human rights. I stand w/ Sarah Jama and any other politician who has the courage to speak up for peace, justice and international law. We will not be silenced.

Aren't you famous for lying to justify a war?