Joyce McBeth 🇨🇦
@biogeomicroblog.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ URegina Earth Sciences. Geomicrobiologist and educator. CLS BioXAS sector Beam Team. Posts about teaching, geoscience topics, sync stuff, occasional canadiana and HR topics. Opinions my own. She/her.
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I'm teaching glacial geology again this semester (yay!) so I'm going to aim to post at least a few times a week with interesting things I have found relating to this topic. Probably mostly reposts of people who are experts :-)
I had to stop three times on the drive home, wish I could have spent an hour just watching them, what a light show tonight!
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I had to stop three times on the drive home, wish I could have spent an hour just watching them, what a light show tonight!
Congratulations to my master's student Collin Burelle on his graduation! It was a privilege to work with Collin over the past 5 years, And I can't wait to see where his career takes him next! @usask.ca #geologicalsciences #convocation
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Congratulations to my master's student Collin Burelle on his graduation! It was a privilege to work with Collin over the past 5 years, And I can't wait to see where his career takes him next! @usask.ca #geologicalsciences #convocation
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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
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Lots of Earthshine on tonight's Moon! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Lots of Earthshine on tonight's Moon! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
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Hey peeps, now it's time to register to the next International Society of Biogeochemistry www.iseb-2025.org meeting in Dublin, in October!!
ISEB 2025
www.iseb-2025.org
April 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Hey peeps, now it's time to register to the next International Society of Biogeochemistry www.iseb-2025.org meeting in Dublin, in October!!
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I absolutely love this map from @parkefont.bsky.social's @ucalgary.bsky.social undergraduate honours thesis about supraglacial channels. 🧪⚒️❄️
April 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I absolutely love this map from @parkefont.bsky.social's @ucalgary.bsky.social undergraduate honours thesis about supraglacial channels. 🧪⚒️❄️
I don't know who needs to hear this right now, but the size of that hex key you're looking for is probably 5/32
April 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this right now, but the size of that hex key you're looking for is probably 5/32
The more I interact with gen AI in all its revolting incarnations both personally and professionally, the more I want to light my computer on fire, crush my phone under my heel, and buy a typewriter and start using a landline again.
April 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
The more I interact with gen AI in all its revolting incarnations both personally and professionally, the more I want to light my computer on fire, crush my phone under my heel, and buy a typewriter and start using a landline again.
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Another one for the "AI is unusable by design" theme: humans are bad at checking AI "work" because the conventional signals indicating An Error are missing. The formatting, the confidence, all suggest "error-free."
Human error: the grink
AI error: you won't regret putting glue in your pizza sauce
Human error: the grink
AI error: you won't regret putting glue in your pizza sauce
ARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH
And also: to err is human
And also: to err is human
March 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Another one for the "AI is unusable by design" theme: humans are bad at checking AI "work" because the conventional signals indicating An Error are missing. The formatting, the confidence, all suggest "error-free."
Human error: the grink
AI error: you won't regret putting glue in your pizza sauce
Human error: the grink
AI error: you won't regret putting glue in your pizza sauce
Interesting to hear about the upgrades at the Aussie synchrotron. People (including this article) sometimes talk about the big annual electrical bill for sync facilities, but apparently hospital annual electric bills are on the order of $1M too - big numbers but context is everything!
March 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Interesting to hear about the upgrades at the Aussie synchrotron. People (including this article) sometimes talk about the big annual electrical bill for sync facilities, but apparently hospital annual electric bills are on the order of $1M too - big numbers but context is everything!
My feed is going to be synchrotron themed for the next few weeks, I'm immersing myself for a bit!
March 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
My feed is going to be synchrotron themed for the next few weeks, I'm immersing myself for a bit!
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Finally got my butt in gear and joined the CISR-ICRS, slightly embarrassing that it took me this long! If you are a Canadian researcher who uses synchrotron tools, connect with the community! Membership is only $25/2 years. www.cisr-icrs.ca
Home | CISR-ICRS
www.cisr-icrs.ca
March 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Finally got my butt in gear and joined the CISR-ICRS, slightly embarrassing that it took me this long! If you are a Canadian researcher who uses synchrotron tools, connect with the community! Membership is only $25/2 years. www.cisr-icrs.ca
Some artists capture a particular place and climate and it's hard to describe why their work is so special but somehow they manage to transform the mundane. Wilf Perreau really captures Regina. mayberryfineart.com/art/2211306/...
There is Light on the Horizon by Wilf Perreault | Mayberry Fine Art
"There is Light on the Horizon" by Wilf Perreault - (84 x 60 in) Acrylic on Canvas, presented by Mayberry Fine Art
mayberryfineart.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Some artists capture a particular place and climate and it's hard to describe why their work is so special but somehow they manage to transform the mundane. Wilf Perreau really captures Regina. mayberryfineart.com/art/2211306/...
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Oh, this is wonderful! Is there anything rocks can't do? ⚒️
March 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Oh, this is wonderful! Is there anything rocks can't do? ⚒️
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Your favourite #sequence database is also available on two other continents, together with tools such as #BLAST: www.insdc.org (International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration) 🧪
International Nucleotide Sequence Database CollaborationInternational Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration
www.insdc.org
March 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Your favourite #sequence database is also available on two other continents, together with tools such as #BLAST: www.insdc.org (International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration) 🧪
Walking the dog the other night - seriously considered going back and getting my skates! The big melt has begun but it also comes with the big ice!
March 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Walking the dog the other night - seriously considered going back and getting my skates! The big melt has begun but it also comes with the big ice!
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Message from the AGU Biogeosciences DEI Committee:
As the DEI Committee of the AGU Biogeosciences Section, we are dedicated to enhancing, supporting, and celebrating diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and justice within our community and the broader STEM fields.
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As the DEI Committee of the AGU Biogeosciences Section, we are dedicated to enhancing, supporting, and celebrating diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and justice within our community and the broader STEM fields.
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February 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Message from the AGU Biogeosciences DEI Committee:
As the DEI Committee of the AGU Biogeosciences Section, we are dedicated to enhancing, supporting, and celebrating diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and justice within our community and the broader STEM fields.
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As the DEI Committee of the AGU Biogeosciences Section, we are dedicated to enhancing, supporting, and celebrating diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and justice within our community and the broader STEM fields.
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A critical question: has the @acs.org rescinded its policy statement on treating people equitably and respectfully?
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February 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A critical question: has the @acs.org rescinded its policy statement on treating people equitably and respectfully?
www.acs.org/content/dam/...
www.acs.org/content/dam/...
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The Godley, Grey and Classen Glacier and their expanding lakes from 1990 to 2015. Red arrows 1990 terminus-yellow arrows 2015 terminus- Landsat images.
February 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The Godley, Grey and Classen Glacier and their expanding lakes from 1990 to 2015. Red arrows 1990 terminus-yellow arrows 2015 terminus- Landsat images.