📢 New paper from our team, led by Drs. John MacInnis and @amilaods, shows that proglacial rivers and permafrost thaw are important sources of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contaminants to a remote and "pristine" High Arctic lake ❄️🏔️ 🌊 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

This just might be the polar bear equivalent of a viral cat video. Must see for all Arctic enthusiasts! Polar bears move into abandoned Arctic weather station – photo essay theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…

THREAD: Happy Int'l Day of Women and Girls in Science! We all play a part in creating a new and better normal for women in science. Here are 5 ideas to start with⬇️ #INTERNATIONALDAYOFWOMENINSCIENCE #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

We're hiring!! The Institute of Environmental Change and Society at University of Regina has posted two Research Scientist positions: Quantitative Scientist (urcareers.uregina.ca/postings/7808); and Environmental Scientist (urcareers.uregina.ca/postings/7809)

We are hiring! 📢Check out our Lab Technician position here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug… Work with a great team of staff and faculty while supporting our Physical Geography program!

Anthropogenic #mercury (Hg) emissions have driven marked increases in #Arctic Hg levels In this new Review, Ashu Dastoor et al present a comprehensive assessment of the present-day total Hg mass balance in the Arctic nature.com/articles/s4301… Free to read: rdcu.be/cJzeV

Congratulations Shuhong, fantastic presentation and exciting preliminary results!

Congratulations to MSc student Shuhong Shi (supervisor: Igor Igor Lehnherr) who was selected as the winner of the Best Oral Presentation at the recent Graduate Research Colloquium 2022, for her presentation:

Fascinating anecdote on academic publishing (role of reviewers, editors and mentors supporting ECR), and how reviewer 2 almost prevented the publication of a classic paper that now has 1000+ citations!

Today, the #UofT flag is at half-mast as the UTM community mourns the loss of professor Barbara Murck. She joined #UTM in 1995. Learn more: bit.ly/3SaU3hE

Opinion: To support science research in Canada, we must pay grad students and postdocs better /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Sometimes you just need a glaciologist to help uncover the mysteries of history: Expedition finds cache of cameras on remote Yukon glacier, 85 years after mountaineer left them behind | CBC News cbc.ca/news/canada/no…

MDPI, normally fit to merely be ignored, but this is a new enraging low.

Great show of support from OCUFA Board members to protect our public Canadian universities by changing #CCAA and #BIA laws! Laurentian was the first to be devastated by these laws—and it should be the last! #cdnpse #cdnpoli

#ISupportGradStudents #ISupportPostdocs – #Budget2023 means that my graduate students are making the same I did in 2003, which isn't fair, isn't right, and I will fight for them! #IncreaseScholarshipsandGrantsNow! Chrystia Freeland @justintrudeau #SupportOurScience

Canada's science & innovation talent pipeline is a massive filter, removing those without external financial support. How many potential Nobel laureates have we excluded? How many who may have cured cancer? Pay emerging scientists a living wage Chrystia Freeland. #SupportOurScience