Stephen Potter
@stephenbpotter.bsky.social
Former Canadian Ambassador to Ecuador. Now retired. Previously in Ukraine, Tanzania, Honduras, Peru with Canadian International Development Agency. Also interested in mushrooms, birds, photography, music. Views my own.
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Please help us spread the word! Please amplify!
We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics
careers.uoguelph.ca
August 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Please help us spread the word! Please amplify!
We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝
Applications are due October 6 2025.
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...
#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...
Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Looking for an Indigenous 🇨🇦Canadian writer or narrative designer for consulting and/or collaboration on a game project.
Bsky, please help!
Bsky, please help!
March 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Looking for an Indigenous 🇨🇦Canadian writer or narrative designer for consulting and/or collaboration on a game project.
Bsky, please help!
Bsky, please help!
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Happy #InternationalPolarBearDay to the Arctic’s most iconic predator! 🐻❄️❄️💙
February 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Happy #InternationalPolarBearDay to the Arctic’s most iconic predator! 🐻❄️❄️💙
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And not one of the polite ones. We’ve written a response to @nytimes.com’s Peter Baker and every other American who is taking the annexation of Canada as a fun thought experiment. Here in @foreignpolicy.com with my daughter @alicesouthey.com. Gift link.
Canada Would Like a Word About Trump’s Threats
Americans should stop treating attacks on their neighbor as a joke.
foreignpolicy.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
And not one of the polite ones. We’ve written a response to @nytimes.com’s Peter Baker and every other American who is taking the annexation of Canada as a fun thought experiment. Here in @foreignpolicy.com with my daughter @alicesouthey.com. Gift link.
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Hoy es más importante que nunca dar voz a los ucranianos y a las ucranianas, silenciados por dos líderes autoritarios. Aquí una entrevista con @oonuch.bsky.social, una de las mujeres que más sabe sobre movimientos sociales en Ucrania. Por @mariaramirez.bsky.social www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
Olga Onuch, politóloga: "Los ucranianos no dejarán de luchar, un acuerdo que no acepte la amplia mayoría no traerá estabilidad"
La catedrática de Política Ucraniana de la Universidad de Manchester, autora de un libro sobre Zelesnki y su generación, y experta en movilización ciudadana, cree que Putin y Trump no entienden la vol...
www.eldiario.es
February 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hoy es más importante que nunca dar voz a los ucranianos y a las ucranianas, silenciados por dos líderes autoritarios. Aquí una entrevista con @oonuch.bsky.social, una de las mujeres que más sabe sobre movimientos sociales en Ucrania. Por @mariaramirez.bsky.social www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
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Our read of the evidence is similar to this paper: even with ambitious demand-side efforts (minimize food waste, shift high-meat diets toward plants, cut biofuels) there is still an “inescapable need for yield increases” to feed 9-10 billion people while halting biodiversity loss and climate change.
Sustainable high-yield farming is essential for bending the curve of biodiversity loss | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Food production does more damage to wild species than any other sector of human activity,
yet how best to limit its growing impact is greatly contested. Reviewing progress
to date in interventions tha...
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Our read of the evidence is similar to this paper: even with ambitious demand-side efforts (minimize food waste, shift high-meat diets toward plants, cut biofuels) there is still an “inescapable need for yield increases” to feed 9-10 billion people while halting biodiversity loss and climate change.
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New report detailing Russia's systematic program of coerced adoption and fostering of Ukraine's children. This is likely to lead to new war crimes & crimes against humanity charges against Putin, Lvova-Belova & others. Madeline Babin, Isabel Gensler & I explain:
www.justsecurity.org/105372/hrl-r...
www.justsecurity.org/105372/hrl-r...
New Report Documents Russia’s Systematic Program of Coerced Adoption and Fostering of Ukraine’s Children
Researchers identified 314 individual Ukrainian children that Russian officials transferred from Ukraine to Russia for coerced adoption.
www.justsecurity.org
December 3, 2024 at 12:45 PM
New report detailing Russia's systematic program of coerced adoption and fostering of Ukraine's children. This is likely to lead to new war crimes & crimes against humanity charges against Putin, Lvova-Belova & others. Madeline Babin, Isabel Gensler & I explain:
www.justsecurity.org/105372/hrl-r...
www.justsecurity.org/105372/hrl-r...
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Today, @carbonbrief.org has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution.
The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...
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The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...
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Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief
Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...
interactive.carbonbrief.org
November 18, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Today, @carbonbrief.org has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution.
The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...
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The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...
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