Shan Kothari

@shankothari.bsky.social

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Assistant professor at University of Alberta. Forest ecology + tree physiology. he/il

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

BREAKING

The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.

The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.

Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...

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Keaton H @keaton-hawk.bsky.social · 1d

CBC posted a video talking about a building losing its on street parking due to bike lanes. Somehow they failed to mention the building’s TWO visitor parking lots. One of which you can even see in the video. #yegbike

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 1d

A big part of the issue is that Edmontonians and new arrivals (for a mix of cultural and job market reasons) don't see a ton of value in living centrally, so development at Century Park, Blatchford, etc is slow. But it is happening!

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 1d

Three out of four of these were also part of the original LRT line in 1978, so I don't think they reflect on the choices in current transit expansions

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, so two of those (Belvedere and Stadium) have big ongoing TOD buildouts, and a third (Coliseum) will once the Coliseum comes down. But also, this has nothing to do with the original contention about building restrictions!

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 2d

I... don't think Alberta's cities have done that? Certainly Edmonton hasn't. We have tons of residential construction downtown and big TOD buildouts around Century Park and the NE stations, and a lot of land around the in-progress VLW has just been blanket-upzoned

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 2d

it's definitely something to work up to, though, I would not recommend it to a first-timer

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 2d

being a mildly precocious anti-war 10-year-old in 2003 and seeing the lust for war from every responsible grown-up institution is a feeling I've never quite managed to shake

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 2d

on the one hand, sure, TOD development has been really sluggish in Edmonton, but on the other hand it's fairly easy and affordable to live in neighborhoods like Wihkwentowin, Downtown, Garneau, or Strathcona with good transit connectivity

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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 3d

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

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Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 3d

honestly more offended as an ecologist than as an Indian person

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 7d

to be clear, I'm not trying to insinuate that Edmonton is actually conservative or that the election results were somehow unrepresentative! but I do think the relative coordination on the progressive side was an asset

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 7d

I mean, it seems reasonable to think that the mayoral election could have turned out otherwise had there been fewer candidates on the right or in a broadly anti-incumbent slant (and of course Anirniq)

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 7d

I'm not sure that any of the incumbents had anyone running to their left who got any meaningful share of votes (except maybe Principe? I don't know much about the other candidates in her ward)—although many candidates in many wards never seemed to articulate much of a platform at all

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 7d

wait, what about Anirniq? (and the mayoral race—there was no incumbent, or PACE candidate, but Knack represents a degree of continuity and nearly all candidates were running to his right to varying degrees)

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 7d

Next-generation specimen #digitization: capturing #reflectance spectra from the world's #herbaria for modeling plant biology across time, space, and taxa

#TansleyReview by Jeannine Cavender-Bares, et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience

Herbarium spectral digitization workflow from specimen collection to global integration, and challenges.

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Edmonton Transit Riders @etriders.bsky.social · 8d

Whyte Avenue is Edmonton's most vibrant main street, but that doesn't mean we have to accept noise, traffic violence, and congestion

In an opinion article we submitted to the Journal, ETR Chair Daniel Witte talks about his experience spending Halloween on Whyte

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Opinion: Let's make Whyte Avenue less scary for pedestrians

We experienced the conflict between Whyte’s energy and vibrancy, with the danger and chaos perpetuated by its car-centric design.

edmontonjournal.com

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · 8d

New paper led by @bposch.bsky.social out in @newphyt.bsky.social . We reviewed evidence, mechanisms, and consequences of high temperature acclimation of leaf heat tolerance: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants

The effect of high temperature on plant performance and survival is a topic of great interest given the ongoing rise in global heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity. The temperature at which ph....

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 8d

I suspect that a big part of it is indeed the perception that BE is UCP-aligned—and also the fragmentation of the right compared to the unity of the progressives

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 11d

a surprising number of my friends in Quebec are devout MSNBC watchers—and not the ones in Montréal proper, who generally consider themselves above that sort of thing

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 11d

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism

The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

yaledailynews.com

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 13d

"ton arrière arrière grand-mère, elle a eu 14 enfants" 😬

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 14d

The days ahead will be crucial.

Not just in terms of public opinion, but in terms of political culture.

Champions of human rights and the constitution must not only outnumber the premier's supporters.

They must persuade Albertans that these positions are dominant, piercing the populist bubble.

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 15d

actually, it's not clear to me what major bodies of theory from community ecology are useful to foresters! lots of theorizing around succession, probably, as well as topics related to disturbance and colonization and patch dynamics... maybe R* theory but just as a matter of loose analogy?

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 15d

I gave my forestry students the 20 minute summary of modern coexistence theory as part of a quick overview of community ecology, and in retrospect I think this was probably not just useless but misleading

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 19d

Does Dr. Mensah actually specialize in municipal politics? I can't find any scholarly work by him on the subject

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Alain Paquette @alainpaquette.bsky.social · 20d

📢 latest IDENT paper, in @journalofecology.bsky.social !
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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 20d

🍃 Functional traits best predict tree growth when age and leaf habit are considered–growth relationships shift over time and between deciduous and evergreen species🌿

@meganedeziel.bsky.social
@alainpaquette.bsky.social

Read more:https://buff.ly/2d9ppq9

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 20d

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Trevor Stenson @kitschyster.bsky.social · 20d

🗺️ SCTV in Edmonton!
Before they were stars, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Rick Moranis & John Candy filmed Second City Television right here in Edmonton (1980–82) — at Global Studios & around the city.

dailyhive.com/edmonton/map...

#SCTV #SecondCity #YEG #CanadianComedy

This map shows you all of the Edmonton 'SCTV' filming locations | Lifestyle

'SCTV' was mostly filmed in Toronto, but between 1980 and 1982, it was shot and produced right here in Edmonton

dailyhive.com

Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social · 21d

Although it's too early to say whether the pattern will hold, I'm not that surprised that it's mostly incumbents leading so far. People seem to be dissatisfied with everyone else's councillor more than their own.

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