A heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported #UBCGivingDay ! Your generosity is helping advance healthy lives, create solutions for the planet and shape thriving societies. Together, we're building a better future. givingday.ubc.ca

'Who Owns Outer Space? International Law, Astrophysics, and the Sustainable Development of Space' by Dr Aaron Boley of UBC PHAS & Dr Michael Byers is shortlisted for the 2023 Donner Prize, the award recognizing the best public policy book by a Canadian.

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For six years, grey #whales have been dying en masse. Lack of food, collisions with vessels, & attacks from killer whales have caused thousands of whale deaths in that period. Now, the die off has finally been declared over. canadiangeographic.ca/articles/wildl… UBC Marine Mammal Research Unit

Corallicolids (remarkable apicomplexans typically found in coral reef environments) are prevalent in diverse cold-water anthozoans!

Read our paper online at Current Biology today!
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Celebrate #EarthDay 🌏 with World Premiere Music Performance by Axiom Brass.
'The Heavy Metal Suite' is an immersive concert exploring Earth's mineral resources & the path towards green energy.
Tickets -
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Sponsored by UBC EOAS Canada Climate Law Initiative

📣 We're thrilled to announce Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute is now an affiliate of Quantum Industry Canada (QIC), a national #consortium dedicated to advancing the country’s #quantum technology sector.

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UBC launches Wall Fellowships & Wall Research Awards focusing initially on research across all disciplines relating to sustainability in BC. Almost $4M available annually for faculty and graduate student projects, enabled by the Peter Wall Legacy Fund. bit.ly/3TRY65v

PLEASE JOIN US! UBC/IOF will host Community Dialogues across British Columbia in April and May to ask for your ideas for strategies and actions that could help restore Pacific #salmon populations. See the locations, dates and times of upcoming sessions bit.ly/salmondialogues.

🚨📅📢 1 week left to submit to our Accelerate Conference call for #abstracts !

We’re looking for exciting talks across #ai and #automation ! We strongly encourage diverse candidates to feel empowered to submit.

Deadline: April 15, 2024

Learn more: accelerate24.ca/abstracts

.UBC PHAS professor Dr. Jess McIver is part of a team of researchers that observed gravitational waves from the collision of what is most likely a neutron star and an object likely to be a light black hole, 650 million light-years from Earth.

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'It really moved me,' says UBC PHAS prof Dr. Aaron Boley, who watched the total solar eclipse yesterday.

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Researchers have observed gravitational waves from the collision of what is most likely a neutron star and an object likely to be a light black hole, 650 million light-years from Earth.

UBC PHAS

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Celebrate Earth Day with a world premiere music performance exploring the future of Earth’s mineral resources & the path towards a green energy transition.

All proceeds will support a scholarship for Indigenous students in UBC EOAS.

Tickets: bit.ly/3VSBh4s

Congratulations to the UBC Science Undergraduate Society who won the “Constituency of the Year” award at the AMS Awards Gala on Friday night!

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Science Rendezvous at University of British Columbia takes place on Sat, May 11th. and we need volunteers to help run Math Mania. No extensive training needed. 🕘9 am to 4 pm 🚀Let's inspire young minds together. Sign up via the link in our bio.

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Researchers, including some from UBC PHAS, observed gravitational waves from the collision of a likely neutron star and an object likely to be a ‘light’ black hole, 650 million light-years from Earth.

The signal helps fill the theorized ‘mass gap.’

More: bit.ly/3xqbxlG

Sustainable farming pays off, #UBC scientists find.
'Take the best of what people were doing for many, many centuries, and bring it together with newer methodologies to make this really work,” says Dr. Claire Kremen (Claire Kremen).
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Opinion: Eclipse viewers may see brief, bright glints caused by sunlight reflecting off the surfaces of satellites and abandoned rocket bodies in orbit, co-wrote UBC PHAS professor Dr. Aaron Boley.

via The Conversation Canada theconversation.com/as-the-skies-b…