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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 15m

This Raffi’s version?

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 39m

Here’s a wee video just as the snow started falling

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 44m

Just an absolutely glorious Sunday afternoon. Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving to all who celebrate.

Beautiful fall colours in the trees with a river flowing through the scene and a snow covered fence

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 3d

🚨PhD opportunity w/ @venditti.bsky.social and @watershedlab.bsky.social on sediment supply and transport in mountain watersheds in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. 🧪⚒️ Full ad: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jo09s...

The River Dynamics Laboratory at Simon Fraser University, in collaboration with WaterSHED lab at the University of Calgary (https://ucalgary.ca/labs/waterSHED), seeks a PhD student to work on sediment supply in mountain drainage basins in the Rocky Mountains. The candidate would develop and validate a morphodynamic model of changes in river channels caused by coarse sediment delivery by landslides. The candidate will join a large group of students and postdocs at Simon Fraser University and the University of Calgary with expertise in river geomorphology and natural hazards.
The PhD candidate will:
1) Build a one-dimensional numerical model to predict channel evolution that is based on the Parker family of morphodynamic models
2) Collect topographic and sediment texture information to parametrize model in the field
3) Validate the model using channel profiles and newly acquired lidar
4) Experiment with the model to explore sediment removal and augmentation strategies
Minimum qualifications include:
1) A Masters degree in Geology, Engineering, Environmental Science, or Physical Geography
2) Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills, and attention to detail
3) Experience with hydraulic and/or morphodynamic modelling.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 7h

Read the room, Oxford.

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 23d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 17h

Really?

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 17h

IT’S SNOWING!!!!!!

a man and a woman are skiing down a snow covered path in the woods .

Alt: a man and a woman are skiing down a snow covered path in the woods .

media.tenor.com

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 21h

It’s certainly the first time in my voting career where I am undecided

Annalise Klingbeil @annaliseak.bsky.social · 2d

“I've never seen anything like this before at the national, the provincial or the local level.”

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Third of Calgarians still undecided as tight race emerges among mayoral front-runners: poll | CBC News

With a little more than a week until election day, the race to become Calgary’s next mayor is wide open, according to a poll done for CBC News.

www.cbc.ca

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

If you don’t show your work, I must fail you, Dr Oz, on this assignment

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 1d

YOU CANNOT DISCOUNT SOMETHING SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERCENT DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND HOW NUMBERS WORK ANYMORE

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 1d

This is professional misconduct.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

The irony of killing DEI programs because "merit" should be the sole deciding factor in everything, at the same time as wanting elite US universities to sign a "compact" where they would then get special treatment when it comes to awarding grants.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

The irony of killing DEI programs because "merit" should be the sole deciding factor in everything, at the same time as wanting elite US universities to sign a "compact" where they would then get special treatment when it comes to awarding grants.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

There is an iceberg beer from newfoundland

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

When buying beer and wine for a glaciology conference you need to get the appropriate stuff. I don’t make the rules. 🧪⚒️❄️

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

It’s unbelievable that nobody is pushing back

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

nuh uh

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

My order would be for a Montreal-style bagel, because New York bagels suck.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah the latter one (by @goldfinger300.bsky.social) was about coupled quakes but I don't think they said anything about them being within the same 24 hour period! Curious to see what @drwendyrocks.bsky.social described though. And really I know next to nothing about earthquakes so happy to learn.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah?

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa - how often have we had more than one >7 earthquake over the same 24 hours period, and in different places in the world? Surely that's not very common. 🧪⚒️