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Dori Blakely, PhD candidate @UVic describes how a Canadian instrument on the James #Webb space telescope (NIRISS) is helping us understand how planets are forming in a baby solar system 370 light years away.
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ALT IMAGE: Galaxies PDS 70b and PDS 70c with star represented between them. The telltale doughnut surrounds them.
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Kick off #LoveDataWeek by joining the Ocean of Data Challenge!
Post-secondary students + recent grads are invited to create stories that communicate scientific insights using ONC’s data.
Register today 👉🏼 bit.ly/4jR4i9U
@DeepSenseCAv @cove_ocean #LoveData25
ALT Digital flyer for the Ocean of Data Challenge. An image of a sunset over the ocean with an open book in the foreground. A white semi-transparent text box contains event details. Logos of ShiftKey Labs, DeepSense, and COVE appear at the bottom.
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We will have our next FishSounds Educate seminar on Friday Jan 24 at 9 am Pacific—all about underwater invertebrate sounds with Dr. Ashlee Lillis @ashleelillis! Register here: uvic.zoom.us/meeting/registe…
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New year, new cover, but a throwback to a 2024 paper by the @UVicScience group of Jeremy Wulff.
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Rendering of a complex polycycle with exceptionally hindered alkenes, produced through an unexpected ring-opening of a functionalized Thiele cage.
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1/🧽ONC's seafloor cameras captured 4 years of sea sponge life off BC’s coast—the longest continuous recording of these ancient animals!
Dive into the details of this sea sponge stakeout 🌊bit.ly/3W8aT5A
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My first dissertation paper came out in @GlobalChangeBio this week! Marine and Freshwater Sounds Impact Invertebrate Behavior and Physiology: A Meta-Analysis 🦀🦑🐚
Check out the full paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
ALT A representative marine ecosystem depicting the invertebrate taxa and main sound sources included in the meta-analysis.
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Congrats to Dr. Leitch for receiving an NSERC Alliance Advantage Grant titled "Quantitative Structure-Reactivity-Selectivity Models of Organometallic C-H Activation: Advancing Predictive Chemistry and Catalysis". @UVicScience @LeitchLab
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Glad to host this event for @UVicCAMTEC members (faculty, staff and students)!
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The lab coats are on as the Lam Lab welcomes its first group members! Superstar @uvic undergrads Clara, Grace, and Seth have been helping me set up the lab 🧪🥼 @chemistryatuvic #newPI
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#Groundbreaking research using ALMA, led by @uvic grad student @speediejess, discovers gravitational “wiggles” in a planet-forming disk, shedding light on how giant planets like Jupiter form!
@PHASTatUVIC @UVicScience @UVicResearch @uvicnews @almaobs @Nature
ALT image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NSF NRAO), VLT/SPHERE (ESO), Speedie et al.
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Congrats to Dr. Hawkins, Dr. von Aderkas & 2019 FORB PhD graduate Marie Vance on their recent publication in the Journal of Biogeography: ‘The Range-Wide Genetic Structure of a High-Elevation Conifer Species, Subalpine Larch.’ #UVicFORB @UVicScience
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Congrats to the 3 UVic research projects advancing climate science, manufacturing technologies, and utilizing new energy-efficient computing infrastructure with new support from @InnovationCA #JELF
✨Learn about the projects: bit.ly/4e4I69a
ALT UVic researchers -clockwise from top left: Sophie Norris (Geography), Rishi Gupta (Civil Engineering), Bosco Yu (Mechanical Engineering), Sravya Tekumalla (Mechanical Engineering), Heather Russell (Physics and Astronomy) and Thomas Baker (Chemistry)
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An international team of astronomers, led by @UVic PhD candidate Jess Speedie, has unveiled groundbreaking evidence supporting a rapid "top-down" theory of planet formation in new research published in @Nature this week.
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UVic, @UTokyo_News_en and @kek_en have signed an MoU to promote the Hyper-Kamiokande international physics research project.
7 Canadian institutions are participating in this program to elucidate the Grand Unified Theory and the evolution of the universe.
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ALT UTokyo President Fujii (left), UVic Associate Vice-President Research Hof (center) and KEK Director General Asai(right) signing the MoU
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Now online @BioMaterSci - our latest work with @MannersResearch on #drugdelivery #cancer @uvic @UVicResearch @UVicScience
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Curious about the fish sounds that inspired our logo?
Learn about Gulf toadfish calls and how they can be used for monitoring applications with this new article: rdcu.be/dPDjK.
Work done at @NCBS_UF_IFAS and photo taken at the @floridaaquarium!
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Our new paper about what humpback whales are eating is out! doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2024-0…
Here’s a thread of the top findings…
@JuanesLab @UVicScience @UVicResearch @BayCetology @DFO_Pacific
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#UVicInTheNews: Congrats to @UVicSEOS's Dr. Paul Hoffman for being awarded the Kyoto Prize for his contributions to early earth history research! He is the first geologist to receive the honour. Find more on Dr. Hoffman and his work on the #ScholComBlog: onlineacademiccommunity.uvic…
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Thrilled to finally have this work out! We've developed a method to access non-centrosymmetric nanomaterials and were able to leverage this technique to make multifunctional nanorockets! @J_A_C_S @MannersResearch @UVicScience @chemistryatuvic @UVicCAMTEC pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
