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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦

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The Anthropocene, multispecies studies, environmental literature, psychogeography, energy humanities, wildlife. See "Wild Faces," https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/issue/17/1

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · Mar 5

This is good. Get a Kleenex before watching.

Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · Mar 5

Jeff Douglas has updated the "I am Canadian" ad, and it hits hard.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lzh...

We are Canadian.

YouTube video by Average Joes

www.youtube.com

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 2h

If Alberta were free, we could each design our own license plate, have it made, and bands of nice university students would deliver and mount them on our trucks.

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 14h

Smith in 2014: The plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate is a politically motivated distraction.

Smith in 2025: Here's a plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate.

Smith Not Impressed With New Plates "Political Agenda"

Written by Brent Manke Monday, Jul 14 2014, 12:00 AM

The three choices for Alberta's new license plate, plus what we have now. The Opposition Wildrose party is up in arms over the removal of the "Wild Rose Country" slogan from the bottom of the plates, calling it politically motivated.

Highwood MLA Danielle Smith is no fan of Alberta's proposed new license plates.

She supports the new reflective paint job, but not changing the slogan at the bottom from "Wild Rose Country."

She says it's more PC political nonsense.

"All of a sudden this comes out in the middle of the summer, in the middle of a leadership race, taking off the Wild Rose slogan. It's clearly political. People have seen through it. They are outraged and responding in massive numbers. We have a poll going with six thousand respondents so far, most of which, about 70-percent who say keep the Wild Rose slogan."

She says the province would have been better off asking us if we wanted to change the plates in the first place, as well as if we wanted to change the slogan, before moving ahead on their own.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 4h

As a westerner I prefer “slough.”

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 5h

If we don’t need professors any more, then we don’t need students either. We don’t need students typing one-sentence queries into ChatGPT. Surely AI can generate its own questions from its own answers.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 6h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 6h

And a slough is a pond.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 10h

“Independence.”

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 1d

I’d suggest electing someone literate instead.

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 1d

Lucky us.

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 1d

My students and I were talking today about campus wildlife. I told them about the legendary moose who crashed through the glass of the university theatres. Now I can add a bobcat. I also saw a coyote when I was driving home today.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 4d

This thread needs to be front-page news all across #Alberta.

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 4d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 7d

So the only thing that differentiates publicly funded “private” schools in Alberta is the requirement to wear a tie?

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 7d

AI results: How to prevent catching COVID on a plane?
1 Wear a mask.
2 Keep your distance from others, especially when indoors.
3 Clean your hands regularly.
4 Keep the air flowing by turning on fans or opening windows when you can.

!!!!!!!!!!

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 7d

Found a project for after I retire. Snooze and relax with these deer.

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 8d

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 8d

They thought it was “required” and therefore couldn’t be any good.

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 8d

In my observation, conservatives can’t detect irony.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 8d

Mr. Tough-on-Crime wishes the convoy leaders a peaceful and happy life.

@PierrePoilievre
Tamara Lich and Chris Barber peacefully protested the imposition of emergency measures that the Federal Court found to be unlawful and unconstitutional.

Instead of pursuing rapists, drug dealers and other monsters, the Crown sought lengthy prison sentences.

Justice Perkins-McVey rightly rejected the Crown's request, and sent Tamara and Chris home to their families.

We must get to a justice system that ensures the security and freedom of all Canadians.

I wish Chris and Tamara a peaceful and happy life.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 8d

Just encountered a woman on the the walking path wearing a black T-shirt with white letters that read “I hate everything about you.” 😐

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 8d

Guy who never attended university knows everything about it.

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Killer Kim Mannix (she/her) @kimmannix.bsky.social · 8d

#AB pals, I think we should take all the disastrous and terrifying stuff going down in American cities as a reminder why municipal elections really do matter and why we should research candidates at every level...school board trustees and city councillors too, not just mayoral candidates.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 9d

The agenda seems to be to steal people's lives.

Blue Texan @hmdob.bsky.social · 9d

The US is deporting a journalist today.

Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities.

So they grabbed him.

Detained him 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without even letting him say goodbye to his family.

The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally.

#DefendThePress

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Temporal Ecology Lab @temporalecology.bsky.social · 9d

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 9d

The reviews are coming in on the UCP's American lesson plans they're offering parents while teachers are on strike...

From this Grade 1 teacher, not only do they not align with the UCP's curriculum...

They aren't even based in what most Grade 1 kids can do.

#abpoli #cdnpoli

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 9d

Deer ears.

Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 10d

This is an amazing thing. Follow a #river, your natal stream.

Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 10d

Cool #educational #tool (free):

"Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and follow its path to the ocean."
river-runner-global.samlearner.com

River Runner Global

Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the world

river-runner-global.samlearner.com

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