PhD student @queensu 🤖 Mobile robots for Earth and space 🚀 Also: bikes, the environment, and plants (he/him)
Kingston, Ontario
Joined February 2011
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Kingston's police board silent on deputy chief's suspension thewhig.com/news/kingstons-p…
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35 years ago, these 14 young women were murdered at the École Polytechnique de Montréal — because they were women.
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We will not forget their names.
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This video is for @fordnation, @PrabSarkaria and all others saying bike lanes "stop emerg. vehicles from getting to their destination". They *allow* emergency vehicles to get to their destination, as seen here on Adelaide. They were designed with emergency services in mind.
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#Breaking: Ford government to ban lawsuits against province if cyclists are hurt or killed on streets where bike lanes were removed trib.al/Wr39Had
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You might not be aware, but InDro Robotics has also done research and development in the marine robotics sector. In fact, we’re still quite proud of the Talos Uncrewed Surface Vehicle we built and deployed years ago.
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Learn more about marine robotics:
 indrorobotics.ca/indro-explo…
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If you're seeing the Northern Lights tonight, here's an explainer of how the different colors can appear! We are currently seeing a vivid display of pinks and greens here at the office!
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We unflinchingly stand handlebar to handlebar with @CycleToronto & all other riders, advocacy groups & community members against attacks on safe protected infrastructure in Ontario. Sign the petition: I Love Bike Lanes cycleto.ca/ilovebikelanes?re…
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At #UNGA, I called on Ghanaian Reggae artiste Rocky Dawuni's music and asked, "How many roads we had to walk, just to make it to the door only to be told we were too late?"
Time is short. Yes we've made progress. But we must act now to ensure we aren't too late to save tomorrow.
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POLICE BRUTALITY: Animal Justice has filed a complaint against @OPP for striking an injured deer with the blunt end of an axe & leaving her to slowly die in agony 🦌💔
It’s illegal to cause animals unnecessary pain & suffering, & police are NOT above the law.
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"What our work says is even in the worst case scenarios, the environmental footprint of not only vegan diets but low meat diets are much, much better than high meat consuming diets," said Peter Scarborough, an Oxford professor who led the study. nyti.ms/3Y4Ms9h
ALT A headline reads: "People who eat a plant-based diet account for 75% less greenhouse gas emissions than those who eat meat." A sentence reads: "A vegan diet also results in much less harm to land, water and biodiversity, according to new research from 
the University of Oxford."
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With no funding increases in 20 years, postdocs & grad students say they struggle to pay tuition & rent, while contributing to some of the most important research in the country.
"It really cripples us... by allowing the system to continue this way.” #ygk
kingstonist.com/news/stagnan…
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No Mow May starts tomorrow. Help our pollinator population with this voluntarily initiative. Signs are still available through the Rotary Club. #ygk
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Representing the @csa_asc on #Artemis II to the Moon is @Astro_Jeremy, from London, Ontario.
Jeremy Hansen was a fighter pilot before joining CSA, and currently works with NASA on astronaut training and mission operations. This will be Hansen’s first mission in space.
ALT Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen poses for a portrait in his orange Artemis flight suit. The suit has blue trim around the neck and shoulders, with three patches: one with the Canadian flag on his left shoulder, one with his name and a pair of wings on his chest, and one bearing the logo of the Canadian Space Agency faintly visible beneath the second. The background is dark, and the photo is lit to focus on Hansen’s face, which is facing the camera with a dignified expression. Credit: NASA
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NEW: Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will fly to the moon next year on NASA's Artemis II mission
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#BREAKING: Colonel Jeremy Hansen, a graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, will be part of Artemis II's crew to fly around the Moon. kingstonist.com/news/rmc-gra…
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I talked to a city traffic engineer and it turns out one of the reasons we don’t have real protected bike lanes is because drivers don’t like it when they hit concrete barriers and damage their cars so cyclists are left with plastic sticks and paint for protection.
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No Mow May is a new voluntary opportunity for #ygk residents. It’s one of the small things people can choose to do to give pollinators a better chance in the spring. Little actions, or in this case inactions, can add up when we work together. Bring on the dandelions!
My first motion to council for No Mow May passed unanimously. Yay! Thank you to the Kingston Rotary Clubs for providing signage and @wendy_stephen for seconding the motion. #ygk
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Tune into @cbcfreshair Sunday morning between 8:30 and 9am to hear our Medical Director Leah Birmingham chat with host Nicole Martin about the need for our online course on how and when to help safely rescue wildlife in need!
cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-1…
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This cycle-mad city doesn't stop for snow ❄️🚴
More stories from Finland bbc.in/3ZJGrz0
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Earthrise.
On Christmas Eve of 1968, the Apollo 8 crew photographed Earth rising over the lunar surface as they orbited the Moon.
“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth." – William Anders go.nasa.gov/3GcD3F4
ALT Against the blackness of space, Earth is seen rising over the lunar surface, which is gray and full of craters in the foreground. The lower part of the globe is in shadow, but the rest of Earth is mostly blue water with swirling white clouds and a few patches of brown land.