To help reduce the risk of wildfires, the #BCWildfire Service is supporting City of Kimberley in conducting a prescribed burn in the Matthew Creek area. This burn is located approximately eight kilometres southwest of the #KimberleyBC and will cover up to 20 hectares.

Lytton burned down three years ago and not a single home has been fully rebuilt yet.

NEW PAPER: We followed the fate of 40 caribou herds —the southern mountain caribou population—to assess their trajectory and response to recovery actions. What we found was surprising and bitter sweet: dramatic declines but recent recovery due to controversial measures. 🧵 (1/n)

This is a great thread and example from Canada of bending the curve on biodiversity loss - and that achieving recovery of threatened spp (Target 4 of the Global Biodiversity Framework) can involve difficult choices (reducing wolf numbers in this case).

Jean-Philippe Lessard $1.8B is earmarked to grants across the Triagency over the next 5y. The percentage increases per year will be 3% (y 1), 3% (y 2), 5%, 8%, 8%. This is a big investment, but there is more that has to be done. We'll continue to advocate for grads/postdocs et al to #SupportOurScience

Borders are violent. Science is political.

#EGU24

This is one of the most important findings in Canadian wildlife restoration:

this is key - the new scholarship values now serve as benchmarks when we budget our proposals.

congratulations to Support Our Science, Marc Johnson, Andrea Wishart, PhD, and all the post-docs and grad students that advocated for increases to scholarships and stipends. Great to see yesterday's budget, but we must not be complacent! We don't want another 20 years without an increase. 1/2

I am thrilled by the precedent set, and although there is still a ways to go (eg. to index with inflation), this will make it easier to compensate ALL grad students with a living wage. I look forward to a day when we all take fewer students who are better supported.

If you did not realize that Canada’s most prestigious awards were set to poverty wages and that makes you uncomfortable - I am sorry, but imagine how uncomfortable your students must be living on them. Yes there will be growing pains, but this is still a much needed win.

Happy to see the budget 2024 federal funding increases. However, as others have pointed out, in many cases this will not be enough. $27,000 a year, $21,000 after tuition, is not a living wage. In Vancouver, it isn't even minimum wage. We deserve better than incremental change.

Over the weekend, conditions were favourable on the Kettle River prescribed burn, located around three kilometres northwest of the community of Rock Creek.

Indeed, though a commitment to tie future increases to inflation in some way would be a real victory.

In yesterday's federal budget, Canadian grad students finally got the raise they've been waiting 20 years for. My story for Nature. #SupportOurScience #Budget2024

nature.com/articles/d4158…

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#Budget2024 💰 makes the largest investment in 20+ years for grad students & postdocs! It will support financial needs, boost mental well-being, allow focus on research, & promote diversity by easing barriers for underrepresented groups. 🎉💪🏽 #SOSBudget2024

Very good news in the 2024-2025 budget for the tri-agency scholarship. Congratulations Support Our Science for the hard work, we did it, one letter, one phone call, one walkout at the time! #SupportOurScience 🎉🥳

Budget win for Support Our Science ence —after 20 years of scholarship stagnation the government has finally agreed to allow our best and brightest grad students to live at or above the poverty line!

Well there it is. Graduate awards get their bump