Nick Cairns

Father, Great Plains natural history, horned lizards, bats, skink/small snake ecology, turtle bycatch (MSc) and phylogenomics/2nd contact in frogs (PhD).

[corblund @CorbLund]

Can we hear from our govt funded scientists, please? (Dr Colin Cooke)

We pay for it. Why's the AB govt not allowing him to speak to media about his findings? He's been their lead on 4 studies showing coal is contaminating both our water and our air.

https://t.co/stVZtuhWVH

[corblund @CorbLund]

Dr Colin Cooke is the lead AB Govt scientist on 4 publicly available studies that clearly show coal mines contaminate our water and our air. Taxpayer funded. CBC, Global and CTV have all requested interviews. Govt of AB has not allowed it.

This should be very concerning to you.

[corblund @CorbLund]

70% of Albertans don't want these mines. Time for our govt to clearly answer the public's questions about why they are determined to push these mines thru despite the terrible economics, the threat to our scarce water supply and the wishes of Albertans.

[Sask PCAP @SaskPCAP]

The prairie grasslands are very biodiverse, this means that there are a lot of different species of plants & animals that live there.
Our partner, #GrasslandsNationalPark preserves the prairie ecosystem & there are over 70 different species of grass found there! Wow!

#PGTGW

[Sask PCAP @SaskPCAP]

Why do ranchers ranch? Learn about what keeps them going for so many years. Join us for a first ever “Coffee Table Conversation” with two producers.
March 12 at 3pm: Art McElory (Frontier)
https://t.co/VGKRwZ1kBb
March 13 at 3pm: Lynn Grant (Val Marie)
https://t.co/QnJj59e7L2

[Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology @RoyalTyrrell]

For next week’s Speaker Series talk, Dr. Lisa Boucher will present,
“Landscape Paleoecology and the Evolution of Late Cretaceous Forests Along the Western Interior Seaway.”

Learn more and register to join us via Zoom: https://t.co/V0Isx0fGJz

[Nick Cairns @cairns_na]

@DanJohnsonAB We had our first spider today as well! Some sort of Philodromid. I can't wait to see some herps again.

[Dane Trembath @DaneTrembath]

Behold, a really nice video we have put together to highlight the Australian Museum Herpetology Collection. Starring all my favorite specimens! and some pretty amazing scientists that study all the specimens!!!

https://t.co/kLSnpn3QEE

@austmus

@FrogIDAus

[David Shepherd @DShepYEG]

A reminder from Dr. Wesley.

Danielle Smith is claiming ignorance & asking for “patience” while her government investigates itself on some of the most shocking allegations of corruption ever made in Alberta.

Not acceptable.

There must be a full, public inquiry. Now. #ableg

[disordered @disorderedyyc]

Coverage of The Breakdown being forced to temporarily shut down by court order on CTV evening news:
#ableg #abpoli

[The AB Teacher Pension War Room🍁 @yomeeks]

The Pension War Room™️ recommends this opinion. It reminds us of how inadequate the current investigation is.

Rob Breakenridge: If everything above board with health-care contracts, show us the proof https://t.co/odqi8yvcVK via @edmontonjournal

[Alberta Bats @albertabats]

#BATJOB
It`s an entry-level job to work on bats in southern Saskatchewan! Work with a graduate student and learn the ropes. Please see the contact information in the posting for more details!

[Mike Gardner @MikeG_lizards]

Are you a student looking for a PhD? I have a funded PhD project on investigating the season of grazing and pygmy bluetongues in South Australia. Please contact me if interested. @AusSocHerp

[corblund @CorbLund]

Alberta, it's getting down to the wire with the coal issue. The govt just opened up the whole Eastern Slopes AGAIN to foreign companies. If you don't want coalmines in our Rockies & water source, flood your MLAs with emails & phone calls. Goal line stand, they're coming for real.

[Nick Cairns @cairns_na]

Canadian Herp Society members check your inboxes. This year's edition of The Canadian Herpetologist is waiting for you. It's a hefty edition this year, chock full of articles, notes, musings, photos and thesis abstracts from your Canadian herp community.

[Donald Miles @LizardProf]

Climate change and the cost-of-living squeeze in desert lizards | Science https://t.co/KYJCEuuzIn

[Nihad نهاد @nihadbs]

Please spread this. A lot of people in Canada are not informed!

[Graham Raby @graham_raby]

Proud of this paper from @erinmcstewart. Pretty unique dataset (I think) to have in situ (field based) CTmax for 20 different populations of the same species, spread across Ontario. Thanks to tons of help from conservation authorities and landowners.