I've been thinking a lot about climate change-related grief. Here's a story about a community art project that honours 84,000 fish that died in the Cowichan River last summer, as well as the grief many are feeling over this loss. thediscourse.ca/cowichan-val...
Project 84,000 brings together community and art ‘for the love of water and fish’ in the Cowichan River and beyond.
Also happening to Q'shintul Mill Bay Nature School. A model for decolonized education, the school works together with Quw'utsun Elders and Knowledge Holders to embrace reconciliation using a land-based approach and Hul'q'umi'num' language learning. SD79 is cancelling this www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
grateful to the support for coastal science from @hakaiinstitute.bsky.socialwww.uvic.ca/socialscienc...
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New NSF DCL - Innovative Use of Scientific Collections www.nsf.gov/pubs/2024/ns...
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Honoured to have received the Open Zooarchaeology Award for my ICAZ 2023 presentation in Cairns, Australia! Thank you to everyone who made this possible @iainmckechnie.bsky.social@uvicanthro.bsky.social@hakaiinstitute.bsky.social Tula Foundation & Mitacs
Despite the big changes this year, I had the pleasure of writing a couple #bchistthediscourse.ca/cowichan-val...
It was the settlers, not the people of this land, who interpreted and applied the place names we commonly see on maps today, writes historian Kelly Black. And that can lead to confusion.
new science paper about the genetics and history of Coast Salish wool dogs hakaimagazine.com/news/the-sto...
A biologist, an anthropologist, Indigenous weavers, and an epic collaboration to unveil the life of an ancient dog breed found only in the Pacific Northwest.
BREAKING: AOS will change all English bird names currently named after people within its geographic jurisdiction—one step in an effort to address past wrongs and engage more people in the enjoyment, protection and study of birds. americanornithology.org/about/englis...#BirdNames
AOS will change all English bird names currently named after people within its geographic jurisdiction—one step in an effort to address past wrongs & engage more people in the enjoyment, protection ...