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Today U of Alberta researcher Hannah Bayne explains how music soothes environmental anxiety.

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#UitC #Music #WinterTerm2026 #UofAlberta
February 11, 2026 at 6:51 PM
nobyrne.bsky.social
The latest episode of Witness to Yesterday with @uofalberta professor George Pavlich is available here: champlainsociety.utppublishing.com/digital-cont...
February 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
irynaskubii.bsky.social
Looking forward to talking in a month at the forthcoming Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (UofAlberta) Seminar, "The Holodomor and Environment." Thank you, Anna Olenenko, & the Envhistua Research Group!

#HREC #CIUS #Holodomor #Ukraine #sovietunion #famine #envhist #morethanhuman #memory
April 30, 2026 at 12:34 AM
chemistryunb.bsky.social
Dr. Ghislain Deslongchamps (left) introducing UNB’s Wiesner-Valenta 2025 speaker Dr. Dennis Hall (UofAlberta) for their seminar on the synthesis and applications of Boron Heterocycles. Impressive portfolio of work, from drug discovery to catalysis!
Ghislain Deslongchamps introducing UNB’s Wiesner-Valenta speaker Dr. Dennis Hall Wiesner-Valenta speaker Dr. Dennis Hall showing a slide of chemistry genealogy.
February 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
floralashes.bsky.social
(Basically if it’s addressed to my name and sent to the UofAlberta Law Centre, it should get to me.)
October 26, 2023 at 12:49 AM
lmacderm.bsky.social
Taking in some #uofalberta basketball tonight 🏀 #goldenbears #pandas
December 1, 2024 at 2:50 AM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
12/15 Private sector developments: Edmonton's EPCOR expands water operations in US Southwest. New Water Research Centre opens at U of Alberta with $1.4M EPCOR funding. #WaterBusiness #Edmonton #EPCOR #ABpoli #UofA #UofAlberta #CDNpoli
February 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
booksyarnlogic.bsky.social
I am so, so excited about this - registration is now open (at UofAlberta and beyond) for our keynote (dr. sarah currie) and conversation panel on "Creating 'Beloved Community': Building and Sustaining Relationships in the Evolving Teaching and Learning Landscape."

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October 2, 2023 at 11:46 PM
vimloc.bsky.social
GenAI is transforming libraries' approach to creating, organizing, and sharing information, with a focus on equitable implementation. Feb 3, 2026 – 1 PM EST Join Janice Kung, Health Librarian at the UofAlberta - let's envision a fair, accessible AI future for libraries. ✨https://buff.ly/c70Ma1D
January 19, 2026 at 7:39 PM
tfkahan.bsky.social
Dreamed about my upcoming visit to UofAlberta tomorrow. Specifically, dreamed that I spent the day wandering around Edmonton instead of visiting the university. Woke up panicked that I'd missed giving my talk and had burned some bridges. Can't wait for tonight's dreams.
July 8, 2024 at 1:42 AM
somag.bsky.social
The event was hosted by the UofAlberta geosciences museums as a fundraiser. There's also an online silent auction! ssl.eas.ualberta.ca/auction/
EAS - Silent Auction
Welcome to the October 2024 silent auction raising funds to support the University of Alberta’s geosciences museums.
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October 25, 2024 at 3:17 AM
coastsofbohemia.bsky.social
For University of Alberta friends and alumni. Our alma mater’s sideline in apartheid and genocide. www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/uofalberta-i...
The University of Alberta invests in human rights violations in Palestine: it’s time for accountability - Just Peace Advocates
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, is conducting an investigation into the involvement of non-state actors in the commission of crimes ...
www.justpeaceadvocates.ca
December 11, 2024 at 5:38 AM
markhamhislop.bsky.social
Defending the oil/gas status quo: University of Alberta energy transition training course is awful

This mind-numbing agitprop for Alberta oil companies should be embarrassing for Prof Brad Hayes and the other "experts" who participated in it.
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Defending the oil/gas status quo: UofAlberta energy transition training course is awful - Thoughtful Journalism About Energy's Future
“The future is already here, it just hasn’t arrived in Alberta yet” – my apologies to cyberpunk writer William Gibson My bastardization of Gibson’s quote is inspired by the University of Alberta’s ene...
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August 20, 2024 at 10:26 PM
wyman10.bsky.social
Catching up on recent University of Alberta #Theses and #Dissertations. This looks interesting
McMillan, Bethany (2025). Conceptions of the Rocky Mountains: A Comparison of Peter Fidler and David Thompson and Their Mapping Strategies.
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#UofAlberta #DavidThompson #PeterFidler
McMillan, Bethany (2025). Conceptions of the Rocky Mountains: A Comparison of Peter Fidler and David Thompson and Their Mapping Strategies. Thesis Abstract: This thesis explores the ways in which Europeans conceptualized the Rocky Mountains by comparing the views and mapping styles of David Thompson and Peter Fidler. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) needed to establish inland trade to effectively compete with their Montreal based Canadian competitors, the North West Company (NWC). The HBC decided to employ surveyors to provide detailed information of new and established inland trade routes. Peter Fidler and David Thompson were trained by the HBC’s official surveyor, Philip Turnor, in the late eighteenth century. Fidler and Thompson developed different conceptions of the Rocky Mountains from their eastern slope, which is evident in their fur trade and exploration journals. Several factors influenced their conceptions of the mountains. Indigenous inhabitants of the Plains shared maps and navigational knowledge of the landscape with Fidler, who did not have the opportunity to survey the region himself, as trade was the top priority for the HBC. Thompson, surveyed for the NWC, and employed Indigenous people, as hunters and guides, to help him expand the reaches of the NWC into new territory as he surveyed the landscape along the way. Ultimately, Thompson demonstrated a tenaciously European and western view of the Rocky Mountains whereas Fidler’s conception of the Rocky Mountains portrayed an early appreciation for Indigenous knowledge as well as a hybrid style of mapping that married Indigenous and European mapping styles. Fidler, Peter. (1801). An Indian Map of the Different Tribes that inhabit on the East and West Side of the Rocky Mountains with all the rivers and other remarkbl. places, also the number of tents etc. "It seems that Ak ko mokki’s 1801 map piqued Fidler’s interest as he worked to secure additional maps, from Ak ko mokki and others, the following season, to further his understanding of Ak ko mokki’s cartographic style. The acquisition of the 1801 map and the 1802 maps demonstrates Fidler’s appreciation of Indigenous cartography and territorial knowledge. Rough copies of several of the maps are located near the end of the Nottingham House (Fort Chipewyan) post journal, dated 1801-1803, and Fidler’s redrafted versions in his journals are evidence of the high value he placed upon them as well as the time he spent working to understand them. Fidler worked to include Indigenous elements when he drafted larger scale maps." (page 66 McMillan, Bethany (2025). Conceptions of the Rocky Mountains: A Comparison of Peter Fidler and David Thompson and Their Mapping Strategies.) Reduced 1/4 from the original size by Peter Fidler (14 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.) (37 x 47 cm.). Latitude 45-60N, Longitude 110-130W. Drawn by Feathers or Ac ko mok ki -a Black foot chief on the 7th Feby. 1801. Transcribed by Peter Fidler. "Old Swan" map. Many variations on the name Ackomokki, Feathers / Painted Feathers / Old Swan / Many Swans Contains lengthy explanations of various Aboriginal tribes noted on the map (names, number of tents). Explains the number of days. HBCA Map Collection, G.1/25 (N4157). Credit: Hudson Bay Archives URL LINK: https://archive.org/details/WCWdb_6921/ McMillan, Bethany (2025). Conceptions of the Rocky Mountains: A Comparison of Peter Fidler and David Thompson and Their Mapping Strategies. Figure 4-6, Sketches of Elevations or Mountains, [ca. 1809] David Thompson. Thompson (David) Papers, Ms. Coll. 21, item 5, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. "Thompson continued to record as much as he could of the territory he traversed. Word-images were not sufficient as a record for him, so he supplemented his writing with illustrations of what he surveyed. The tone of his word-images referencing the mountains varied. As they traveled southward along the eastern slope of the Rockies, with an intention to cross west over the mountains, Thompson perceived the range as an “impenetrable Bank,” yet “The View is grand in a high Degree: on our right we have the Bow Hills, lofty in themselves and Brown with Woods, above them stately rises the Rocky Mountains vast and abrupt whose Tops pierce the clouds – on our left, before & behind us, a verdant Ocean. McMillan, Bethany (2025). Conceptions of the Rocky Mountains: A Comparison of Peter Fidler and David Thompson and Their Mapping Strategies. [map portion] Figure 4-8, Detail of Thompson 1814 Map showing the area from the Mountains to the Pacific. because of the detailed records he kept throughout his fur trade career. Thompson was able to make his Map of the North-West Territory of the Province of Canada because of his diligent record keeping and survey work throughout his travels in the fur trade. These two documents (page 92-93) were recognized as valuable contributions that furthered European conceptions of a territory that was unreachable for most at the time. A glance at this map in detail (see next image), however, shows that it was entirely within the conventions of European mapmaking. (page 91).
April 24, 2026 at 1:16 PM
laurieadkin.bsky.social
The Board of Governors of @ualberta.bsky.social needs to explain how companies on publicly available BDS lists were included in its supposedly 'responsible' investment portfolio --and what it intends to do about this.
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The University of Alberta invests in human rights violations in Palestine: it’s time for accountability - Just Peace Advocates
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, is conducting an investigation into the involvement of non-state actors in the commission of crimes ...
www.justpeaceadvocates.ca
April 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
natingui.bsky.social
Talk about Wood Thrush habitat use and local movements in Costa Rica. Migration session. IX Neotropical Ornithological Congress. #NOC19 #neotropical_ornithology #guanacaste_dry_forest #UofAlberta #BayneLab
December 5, 2024 at 11:45 PM
miriamkb.bsky.social
Streaming services are fighting against the #CRTC policy to fund Canadian content and #news. A professor from UofAlberta argues we should learn from the history of satellite radio and that major media companies shouldn't be "setting the terms of cultural policy". #cancon
June 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Congratulations to @Selena_Sturmay and her U21 @BearsandPandas team for capturing the Canadian Junior championship and going undefeated in the tournament. The UofAlberta continues to have the best curling program in the nation. Congratulations to Rob & the entire coaching staff.
November 18, 2024 at 6:04 PM
ritamc.bsky.social
New, True and Poo. #uofalberta #ebm gurus, Mike A, Mike K and Tina K #toolsforpractice #cfpcfmf
November 30, 2024 at 8:35 PM
charminggrump.bsky.social
It's the UofAlberta men's mascot.
January 18, 2025 at 5:44 AM
theuglytruth2.bsky.social
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February 24, 2026 at 9:01 PM
sameo416.bsky.social
Thanks for the session on BIPOC in STEM hosted by the UofAlberta DivE, Diversity in Engineering team. I learned lots!
https://www.essualberta.ca/dive
DivE — Engineering Students' Society
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November 24, 2024 at 11:36 PM