Liam Brennan
@liam-brennan.bsky.social
Photographer and Wildlife Researcher | www.liambrennan.ca
From a field course I TA’ed last fall!
"Sitting in a lecture hall and taking laboratory courses are not the same as going out into the field and doing it yourself”
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Cold plunge: how I gained hands-on experience in marine biology
Matthew Kim learnt how to conduct research while studying in a small Canadian town for a semester.
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October 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
From a field course I TA’ed last fall!
A bird and bee from the weekend. Magnolia Warbler and Western Honey Bee
June 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A bird and bee from the weekend. Magnolia Warbler and Western Honey Bee
This morning, the Bay of Fundy and I greeted eachother with a smile. A partial solar sunrise eclipse painted bold colours across the horizon, decorated with the silhouette of a ring-billed gull flying over head.
March 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This morning, the Bay of Fundy and I greeted eachother with a smile. A partial solar sunrise eclipse painted bold colours across the horizon, decorated with the silhouette of a ring-billed gull flying over head.
Illuminated by the glow of car headlights, this Snowy Owl perched along a rural roadside is a reminder of our shared responsibility for wildlife of the far North. Unfortunately, roads and vehicle collisions remain one of the leading causes of death for these Arctic wanderers.
March 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Illuminated by the glow of car headlights, this Snowy Owl perched along a rural roadside is a reminder of our shared responsibility for wildlife of the far North. Unfortunately, roads and vehicle collisions remain one of the leading causes of death for these Arctic wanderers.
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The magic in the mud: Sandipers'migration superfood. Read my latest piece for @cangeo.bsky.social:
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
@audubon.org @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
#shorebirds #photojournalism #birdphotography #britishcolumbia #conservation #wildilfephotography
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@audubon.org @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
#shorebirds #photojournalism #birdphotography #britishcolumbia #conservation #wildilfephotography
The magic in the mud: sandpipers’ migration superfood
An invisible fuel draws thousands of tiny migrating shorebirds to the Roberts Bank Mudflats each year. Now, we’re in danger of losing it forever.
canadiangeographic.ca
March 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The magic in the mud: Sandipers'migration superfood. Read my latest piece for @cangeo.bsky.social:
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
@audubon.org @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
#shorebirds #photojournalism #birdphotography #britishcolumbia #conservation #wildilfephotography
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
@audubon.org @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
#shorebirds #photojournalism #birdphotography #britishcolumbia #conservation #wildilfephotography
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Happy #WorldWildlifeDay from #UBCForestry and The Wildlife Coexistence Lab!🐐🫎🦉
The lab, led by Dr. @coleburton.bsky.social, focuses on human-wildlife coexistence across multiple species and scales, with a particular emphasis on large-bodied terrestrial mammals.
Learn more: wildlife.forestry.ubc.ca
The lab, led by Dr. @coleburton.bsky.social, focuses on human-wildlife coexistence across multiple species and scales, with a particular emphasis on large-bodied terrestrial mammals.
Learn more: wildlife.forestry.ubc.ca
March 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Happy #WorldWildlifeDay from #UBCForestry and The Wildlife Coexistence Lab!🐐🫎🦉
The lab, led by Dr. @coleburton.bsky.social, focuses on human-wildlife coexistence across multiple species and scales, with a particular emphasis on large-bodied terrestrial mammals.
Learn more: wildlife.forestry.ubc.ca
The lab, led by Dr. @coleburton.bsky.social, focuses on human-wildlife coexistence across multiple species and scales, with a particular emphasis on large-bodied terrestrial mammals.
Learn more: wildlife.forestry.ubc.ca
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Hundreds of NOAA employees are being fired by Trump and DOGE.
The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.
A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Again, this isn't about efficiency.
The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.
A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Again, this isn't about efficiency.
March 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Hundreds of NOAA employees are being fired by Trump and DOGE.
The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.
A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Again, this isn't about efficiency.
The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.
A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Again, this isn't about efficiency.
"If the goal is to stop and reverse biodiversity loss, then the 30 per cent needs to be in places where biodiversity is concentrated or threatened to make a difference." @cangeo.bsky.social @wcscanada.bsky.social @wcs.org
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/saf...
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/saf...
Safeguarding the future of Canada’s environment
Environmental scientist Dr. Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne explains how Canada can expand protected areas to maximize biodiversity protection
canadiangeographic.ca
February 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"If the goal is to stop and reverse biodiversity loss, then the 30 per cent needs to be in places where biodiversity is concentrated or threatened to make a difference." @cangeo.bsky.social @wcscanada.bsky.social @wcs.org
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/saf...
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/saf...
A polar bear feast framed by towering peaks of the Arctic Cordillera and a terminal arm of the Devon Island ice cap | Tallurutiup Imanga, Nunavut, August 2024
February 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
A polar bear feast framed by towering peaks of the Arctic Cordillera and a terminal arm of the Devon Island ice cap | Tallurutiup Imanga, Nunavut, August 2024
A beautiful, biodiverse place—perhaps a reminder of what Canadian grasslands once were and could be again.
🦬 Grasslands National Park & Area: One of Canada's largest areas of undisturbed mixed-grass prairie. Home to Canada’s only populations of Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Plains Minnow, 50% of Canada’s Greater Sage-Grouse, & over a third of Canada’s Plains Bison!
📸 Liam Brennan
📸 Liam Brennan
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A beautiful, biodiverse place—perhaps a reminder of what Canadian grasslands once were and could be again.
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“As scientists, we owe it to the world to do a better job communicating the wonders of science, and the incredible discoveries being made by our field, to everyone around us”
As a young(ish) professor, I feel this deeply. What are we doing this for, if we aren’t sharing? 🧪🌎
As a young(ish) professor, I feel this deeply. What are we doing this for, if we aren’t sharing? 🧪🌎
We need to see science as a social compact where it serves the larger world, not our own interests.
As a first step, scientists must communicate to the larger world much better.
I wrote an essay about this in 2016, which still holds today.
globalecoguy.org/science-comm...
As a first step, scientists must communicate to the larger world much better.
I wrote an essay about this in 2016, which still holds today.
globalecoguy.org/science-comm...
Science Communication as a Moral Imperative
We need to do a much better job of encouraging scientists to be stronger communicators, and share the wonders of science, and the important…
globalecoguy.org
February 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“As scientists, we owe it to the world to do a better job communicating the wonders of science, and the incredible discoveries being made by our field, to everyone around us”
As a young(ish) professor, I feel this deeply. What are we doing this for, if we aren’t sharing? 🧪🌎
As a young(ish) professor, I feel this deeply. What are we doing this for, if we aren’t sharing? 🧪🌎
Four black oystercatchers over a smooth Salish Sea | Fall 2021
January 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Four black oystercatchers over a smooth Salish Sea | Fall 2021
I hope that we can create a society where people are able to spend more time grounded in natural places where they are able to engage with and ponder things like old trees and wild owls.
Photo from the archives, December 28th, 2014. Canon T3, Ottawa, ON
Photo from the archives, December 28th, 2014. Canon T3, Ottawa, ON
January 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I hope that we can create a society where people are able to spend more time grounded in natural places where they are able to engage with and ponder things like old trees and wild owls.
Photo from the archives, December 28th, 2014. Canon T3, Ottawa, ON
Photo from the archives, December 28th, 2014. Canon T3, Ottawa, ON
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Congrats @samandscience.bsky.social & @liam-brennan.bsky.social from the Davies Lab for delivering fantastic #MSc proposals to the UNB #Biology department today! You did swimmingly! 🐋🦈🦐🌊
January 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Congrats @samandscience.bsky.social & @liam-brennan.bsky.social from the Davies Lab for delivering fantastic #MSc proposals to the UNB #Biology department today! You did swimmingly! 🐋🦈🦐🌊
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Again, Canadian Endangered Species law is flaunted by the Canadian gov't. It arbitrarily set a cap of 60 assessments to support in 2023-24, failed to meet that target. Canada not respecting its own laws or its international commitments www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/Eng...
December 17, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Again, Canadian Endangered Species law is flaunted by the Canadian gov't. It arbitrarily set a cap of 60 assessments to support in 2023-24, failed to meet that target. Canada not respecting its own laws or its international commitments www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/Eng...
Bewildering blue water and a familiar Arctic friend. With a special desalinization gland on its beak, the Northern Fulmar can drink salt water to meet hydration needs, making it well suited for life at sea. Croker Bay, Tallurutiup Imanga. For Students on Ice.
November 26, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Bewildering blue water and a familiar Arctic friend. With a special desalinization gland on its beak, the Northern Fulmar can drink salt water to meet hydration needs, making it well suited for life at sea. Croker Bay, Tallurutiup Imanga. For Students on Ice.
The common loon - a sentinel of our watersheds.
Sensitive to environmental contamination, their presence on oceans in the winter and on lakes in the summer can be a reflection of healthy ecosystems.
Sensitive to environmental contamination, their presence on oceans in the winter and on lakes in the summer can be a reflection of healthy ecosystems.
November 22, 2024 at 1:26 AM
The common loon - a sentinel of our watersheds.
Sensitive to environmental contamination, their presence on oceans in the winter and on lakes in the summer can be a reflection of healthy ecosystems.
Sensitive to environmental contamination, their presence on oceans in the winter and on lakes in the summer can be a reflection of healthy ecosystems.