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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦
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Biology Prof, uOttawa, Fellow of Royal Society of Canada, Royal Society of Biology, American Association for Advancement of Science, and Sigma Xi. I study biodiversity to save more of it. Inclusion. Nature photography, running, sailing. Photos (c) JK. .. more

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Jeremy Kerr is a biology professor at the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) where he holds the University Research Chair in Macroecology and Conservation. Kerr is a member of the NSERC Council, including its executive committee, and the past president of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE). He is the Chair of NSERC's Committee on Discovery Research and a founding member of its EDI subcommittee. In 2021, Kerr was elected to be a member of Sigma Xi Society and is an elected lifetime Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the Royal Society of Biology. .. more

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · Sep 23
Red and yellow barbet, showing off wonderful colours. This bird is on the cover of my East African bird book for a good reason! Barbets are woodpecker relatives with spiky feathers.
#birds #wildlifephotography #nature #nikon #africa #safari #photography #naturephotography
A brightly coloured small predatory bird perched on top of a short acacia tree. Tarangire National Park, August 2025.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 4h
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.

There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.

This is my favorite guide.
CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
www.nonviolent-conflict.org

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d
Amazing! Way to go Minneapolis!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d
‘House Burping’ Gains Popularity In U.S. https://theonion.com/house-burping-gains-popularity-in-u-s/
“No need to complicate things. Just move to a fresh house every three days.” Mark Laury, Aeronautic Sociologist

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”

-Edward R. Murrow

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CUASA - Carleton University Academic Staff Association @cuasa.ca · 2d
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Opinion: The reasons behind the strike, in the words of a Laurentian faculty member
Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara, an associate professor at Laurentian University, explains why faculty has taken the step of walking off the job and, as many can imagine, LU’s insolvency and its fallout i...
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 2d
How to help students discern fact from fiction in the media they consume ehe.osu.edu/news/listing...

The stake are high! Teach:

- Teach lateral thinking
- Consider multiple sources
- Ask the hard questions (who created content? what was motivation?
- Teach to using primary sources
How to help students discern fact from fiction in the media they consume
The stakes for teaching students to not fall victim to digital rogues could not be higher.
ehe.osu.edu

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d
Health Speculations Swirl As Trump Seen With Damage Numbers Above Head https://theonion.com/health-speculations-swirl-as-trump-seen-with-damage-numbers-above-head/
Health Speculations Swirl As Trump Seen With Damage Numbers Above Head

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 3d
Good to meet with Prime Minister Kristersson today, to discuss the growing partnership between our nations.

We’re leveraging each other’s strengths — in clean energy, critical minerals, and defence — and working together in shared missions, like bolstering security in the Arctic.

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CUASA - Carleton University Academic Staff Association @cuasa.ca · 3d
AI has moved into universities’ engine room, but no one is at the controls www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ai-h...
AI has moved into universities’ engine room, but no one is at the controls
Ever more processes rely on artificial intelligence, yet our governance is still stuck at the level of ‘is it OK for students to use ChatGPT in essays?’, says Tom Smith
www.timeshighereducation.com

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 4d
In an era of great power rivalry, Canada is choosing to be principled and pragmatic. To name reality, to act together, and to build what we claim to believe in.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org

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W. P. Mueller @wpmueller.bsky.social · 7d
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Predicting the fate of tropical forests under intensifying heat
Intense droughts have caused water stress and elevated mortality for trees in the Amazon, foreshadowing the future of tropical forests as the climate changes.
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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · 9d
Female ruby throated hummingbird leaving a feeder in a much warmer day than the blizzard-dominated one here in #ottawa.

#birds #nature #wildlife #photography #nikon
Tony hummingbird leaving a feeder

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · 10d
For #longbeaks #birds, here is the saddle-billed stork, a hunter of little vertebrates in wetlands of Africa. This fellow is from Lake Manyara, Tanzania.
#nature #wildlife #photography #nikon #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #tanzania #africa
The very large saddle billed stork is hanging out in the former freshwater wetland adjacent to the alkaline Lake Manyara. This lake expanded following long rains and a very intensely wet year, and this wetland is now under the alkaline waters of Manyara.

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · 12d
For #birdsInFlight, please enjoy this gray-crowned crane, an endangered species in East Africa. Always a fair number in Ngorongoro Crater, but we also saw juveniles in Arusha. Happy to see signs of reproduction.

#birds #nature #wildlife #photography #nikon
The massive, and very beautiful, grey-crowned crane, in flight above the floor of Ngorongoro Crater, August, 2025. Taken with Nikkor 200-500/5.6 and ZII

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · 12d
A moment in nature today… Green sea turtle rising for breath from a bed of sea grass. Darkening times but trying to find a measure of peace in such moments. Hope others can too.

#turtles #goPro #gopro13 #diving #snorkeling #nature #wildlife #photography #wildlifephotography
A very large green sea turtle rising for breath in late afternoon light. At Baha Mar, while snorkeling, (c) Jeremy Kerr 2026

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13d
100% this!👇

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · 16d
Worth looking up, not just around, when in Nassau, Bahamas.

#nikon #photography #bahamas #vacation
Colourful umbrellas suspended above the road in downtown Nassau

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · 18d
The most shameful… so far.

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Peter Head @peterheadcbe.bsky.social · 21d
The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment
Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...
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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · 22d
Augur buzzard in some #GoodLight. Does it hover? This bird was stationary in thermals rising over the Ngorongoro Crater rim, so… not really. Fortunate to have an early morning sun to illuminate this beauty.
#birds #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #nikon
An augur buzzard, surfing strong thermals, balanced on the breeze and totally stationary. But not really hovering.

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · 23d
There are many pheasant-like birds in East African savannas. This Yellow-necked Spurfowl generously shared his bright face and neck colours with me. Spurs visible on the legs of this bird, so he is male!
#birds #wildlife #nature #nikon #photography #serengeti #tanzania #wildlifephotography
Yellow necked spurfowl sitting on a branch.

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · 23d
Pearl-spotted owlet, one of the only owls I’ve ever seen in East Africa. This one was backlit against a flat white sky, so it was very difficult to capture reasonably. Contrast enhancement helped.

#birds #owls #nature #wildlife #safari #nikon #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephtography
Pearl-spotted owlet in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · 29d
Superb work. My nemesis bird also - never have I gotten such a photo as yours. Bravo!

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · Dec 21
I shoot a Z6II with an adaptor + Nikkor 200-500. Terrific, so I am holding off upgrading to a Z lens. If I was starting again, I’d look hard at a Z6III and the 180-600. Outstanding frames like Z6III mean you can take Nat Geo shots… with the right lens. I’d think esp hard about lenses.
Nikon Z6II plus Nikkor 200-500.

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · Dec 20
Oh no…. My Nikkor 200-500 is my best friend when I’m in interesting places. Pain to carry but such a great lens.

Sorry for the loss!

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · Dec 19
The most important characteristic of Canada’s oil patch, for me, is that benefits are privatized and harms are public on so many levels.

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · Dec 14
Black-headed night heron with a convincing catfish breakfast in Ottawa, Canada. My second contribution for #heronsAndEgrets day. This is a super popular hangout for herons, with five species present.
#birds #nature #wildlife #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #nikon
A night heron after a successful fishing trip.

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · Dec 14
Black-headed heron on a termite mound in Tarangire National Park, my contribution for #heronsAndEgrets day!

#birds #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #tanzania #nikon
A rather fierce looking heron in a dry overlook by a wetland in Tarangire National Park.

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Jeremy Kerr 🇨🇦 @jetkerr.bsky.social · Dec 7
The increasingly endangered Secretary Bird, not so hard to see in #Tanzania #Serengeti but scarce most otherwise. When I see them, they are usually striding away from me, so I was happy to see this dude looking my way.

#birds #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #nikon
A very tall bird of prey, this secretary bird strides through the savanna, stirring up wee lizards, snakes, small mammals, or bits of leftovers.