Merrin Macrae
Merrin Macrae
@merrinm.bsky.social
Professor, University of Waterloo
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Interested in #bigdata #river #Biogeochem #interdisciplinary collaboration? A postdoc opportunity in the Sullivan group, one of the most supportive & nurturing mentors I ever know.

sites.google.com/oregonstate....
Sullivan Lab - Opportunities
Recruiting Postdoc Scholar in Big Data and River Biogeochemistry
sites.google.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Ahh, the sound that spring has arrived in the Dundas Valley - the calls of the spring peepers in the wetlands of our green spaces in #HamOnt
April 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Not that we really need more ways to show how unusually warm 2024 was...

Here's the joyplot updated with the past year.
January 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Climate change is pushing up food prices — and worrying central banks.

Shifting weather patterns are reducing crop yields and squeezing supplies, creating what could become a permanent source of inflation
www.ft.com/content/125e...
Climate change is pushing up food prices — and worrying central banks
Shifting weather patterns are reducing crop yields and squeezing supplies, creating what could become a permanent source of inflation
www.ft.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:08 AM
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This thread is epic and really worrying.

What can we do about it? Well for a start, as a science community we can do our jobs as editors and peer reviewers properly. And refuse to review for, publish in, cite etc journals that don't.
THREAD

This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact

An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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December 20, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged 424 ppm in October 2024

10 years ago October averaged about 397 ppm

Preliminary NOAA data: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/ 🧪⚒️
December 7, 2024 at 1:17 AM
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"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."
A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester
Dear Committee Members, As part of the faculty review process, I am pleased to report to you on my work. In this letter, I will offer information ...
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December 5, 2024 at 5:15 PM
November 27, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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I've started working on this starter pack (Hydrology+Hydrogeology+Water in general) to help friends/colleagues who are migrating from the other place.

Please note that this is work in progress and that more people will be added. Feel free to suggest BlueSky handles in comments.
go.bsky.app/2h9ouZY
November 17, 2024 at 1:52 PM