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Dr. Linda Campbell (she/her/elle)
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In between worlds | Local & global ecosystems | Art & Science | Deaf Scientist in a Hearing World | lives in K'jipuktuk - Halifax. |
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Annual NSIS essay contest for science & technology, open to undergraduate and graduate students in NS postsec institutions!

Cash prizes and opportunity to publish essays. Check out @nsis1862.bsky.social for more updates.
Flyer details. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ESSAY CONTEST: NATURAL SCIENCE, SOCIAL SCIENCE, TECH, COMPUTER SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, MATH. The Nova Scotian Institute of Science Student Science & Technology Writing Competition is now open for all students registered at a NS University or College during the current year. CASH PRIZES! Register by December 19, 2025. Submit Essay by January 23, 2026. Submit final essay to nsis.1862.competition@gmail.com. There is a QR code linking to this website: https://nsis1862.ca/for-students/
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Late afternoon at Williams Lake, Spryfield, Halifax. 🌅💙💛🧡🤎 🖤
A lake scene at near sunset with a pine tree silhouetted over the lake.
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Lovely compliment generator by @lukesteuber.com ! Many original and thoughtful compliments. 💌
"You make life gentler, not louder." shown on a coloured background fading from peach to magenta.
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Next week is the Fall Convocation -- always a great time of noting milestones and celebrating achievements!

This year, it will be Enobong Udoh from our team who will be walking the stage for her @smuscience.bsky.social MSc degree. 🥳🎓
A woman wearing waders standing in a wetland full of pickerelweed with purple blooms. She is standing over a small black-mesh mesocosm, measuring plants inside the mesocosm. She is looking at the camera with a smile, although obviously still focused on her task. A woman with a big smile inside the study room next to the ENVS classroom. There is a whiteboard with a calendar and to-do lists behind her. On the table in front is a cake with "MASTER ENOBONG" decorated on the top which Enobong is about to cut. There are plates, forks and napkins arrayed around her, ready for a lab celebration. Enobong behind a podium, about to give a conference talk. Next to her is a giant projection showing her title slide "Using macrophytes to evaluate the efficacy of an in-situ risk management strategy for wetland sediments impacted by historical gold mines". This is at the @ecotoxcan.ca meeting in Victoria BC last October 2025.
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Beautiful sky this morning. What are those wispy clouds called? #parkinglotskies
A photo of a blue sky with lower fluffy clouds and higher wispy clouds. A tree canopy can be seen in one corner.
October 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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It has been busy week at SMU, with midterm exams, assignments and many events and meetings! It was nice to get this little moment of respite and reflection.

#Halisky
Scene from Saint Mary’s University campus. Tree in foreground has yellow leaves, which is also covering the lawn in yellow. Muskoka wooden deck chairs are placed on lawn in a welcoming way. A person can be seen from back sitting in one chair, focusing on a book.
October 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Think autumn may be coming.... 🍂 🍃🍁
Overhead view of birch trees with silvery smooth bark. A mix of green and red leaves can be seen.
October 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Lovely sunset over Halifax last evening.
A bank of clouds hangs over a city horizon with water in front. A colorful sunset can be seen reflected in water and clouds.
September 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Truth and Reconciliation happens every day. Honoured to have a kitpu eagle feather in our ENVS lab at @smuscience.bsky.social.
A beaded eagle feather on red cloth laid upon a small slab of honey-coloured rock. It is sitting on a black lab bench top with some lab cleaning materials and sample jars.
September 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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That time of the year when grass glisten with early Fall dew. Can you see the little glimpse of the red leaf, a sign of the coming season?
Green grass tipped with dewdrops. A slight blur of red leaf can be seen through the grass blades.
September 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Tobacco plant in bloom! (Nicotiana tabacum). This is a part of our Indigenous medicine plant project in our Environmental Science spaces at @smuscience.bsky.social.
Multiple pink and white flowers flowers emanating from a slender green stem.
September 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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A little orbweaver spider tending to its cocoon on the tip of a tomato leaf.
Tomato leaf in a garden. A little yellow spider with red stripes is on the leaf, tending to a white silk egg cocoon hanging at the bottom of the leaf.
August 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Well-managed urban stormwater ponds can be places of refuge and beauty. Here, a pair of pelicans has been in this naturalized stormwater pond for several weeks.

Info (set location to Edmonton): www.epcor.com/ca/en/ab/edm...
An urban pond in Edmonton Alberta. Blue sky with big clouds. Trees, reeds and houses reflecting on water surface. Two white pelicans can be seen swimming by in distance.
August 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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A little wooly bear caterpillar nom-nomming its way in the N Saskatchewan River valley! 🌿🐛😋🧡🖤

Think this is Spotted Tussock Moth bugguide.net/node/view/5241
A very fuzzy caterpillar with yellow central band. There are 2 black ends w long tufts of white hairs. It is perched on a nibbled green leaf. It is impossible to see which side is the head or the bum.
August 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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One of our monarchs posing on the butterfly weed along with many bumblebees. Loving the orange on orange effect here! 🧡🦋🏵️
An orange and black butterfly on a shrub with many orange flowers.
July 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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An albino squirrel at Frog Pond, Halifax. 🤩 🐿 🤍
A white-furred squirrel perched on a rock in a green forest.
July 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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##bloomscrolling with the bumblebees.
Two magenta dahlias with small white petals in middle and a bright yellow centre. A common bumblebee is collecting pollen from one flower.
July 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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What a dehydrated tobacco leaf looks like! I was curious to see how this method worked out. Leaf is very brittle and there is a nice herbal smell.

I will look into proper air curing methods in early Fall when the weather is drier (it's too humid now).
A dried green tobacco leaf on a drying rack.
July 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Dehydrator set up for tobacco leaves.
Looking inside a dehydrator with 5 drying racks with a large green tobacco leaf arranged on each rack.
July 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Preparing one of my tobacco leaves for drying. Single leaf will barely fit!
A large 1-foot tobacco leave on a drying rack.
July 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Our little white sage seedling is growing up!
A tiny white sage seedling growing in a pot. In the background there is a little sign saying "Sage (Salvia apiana)
July 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Mallory is studying plankton for her @smuscience.bsky.social honours thesis this summer. Here's a sneak peek at some of her samples!

(Hastily taken by hand through a microscope using a phone camera. We'll have better images coming soon!)
Two copepod zooplankters with long antennae, a tail, legs Most of the body is translucent white, with round pinkish lipid "drops" visible throughout their bodies. A translucent white round Daphnia zooplankter, with filtering claws and tail just out of focus. Green algae can be seen dotted through the gut.
July 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Constellation of yellow flowers. ✨️✨️🌿
An array of yellow serum flowers surrounding the base of a grey weathered wooden pole
July 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Little green plants. 💚
A suburban setting on a rainy day. There is a crack in road pavement is filled with little green plants covered in raindrops
June 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Our tobacco (Nicotiana rustica) plant is flowering!

##bloomscrolling
Bell shaped green-yellow flowers top of a spike emerging from a circle of round green leaves.
June 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM