Sean Smukler

This issue is critical to the well-being of our faculty, staff and most importantly our students who struggle to find housing anywhere near UBC. This must be addressed! vancouversun.com/news/local-new… via @VancouverSun

Visit our 𝗣𝗼𝗽-𝘂𝗽 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 on May 18 at the UBC Farm from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Enjoy 'everlasting' dry flower bouquets, tea blends, and the season's first lettuces, salad mix, fresh herbs, and green garlic. Can't wait to see you! ubcfarm.ubc.ca/pop-up-market-…

Our reduced tillage and crop rotation trial is now underway ⁦@ubcfarm⁩! Nice work farm and research team!

Support Our Science is thrilled to see a significant investment in graduate student scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships in Budget 2024! See our full statement: supportourscience.ca/post/support-o…

Sustainable farming does pay off, B.C. scientists find vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/sus… via @viawesome

Join our team! We are hiring a Research Manager to help coordinate and mobilize food systems research at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm. ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcstaff…

Join me in asking decision-makers to increase funding for grad students and postdoctoral scholars in Budget 2024! #SupportOurScience nwmd.io/s/twitter/ZBU6…

BC agriculture just keeps getting hammered. We've got to do more to support our farmers! cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

New SAL Lab paper out! 25-years of stewardship programs enhance regenerative outcomes in rive... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New Assistant Professor opening in Plant Science @ubcLFS for the position I’ve vacated! I will strongly encourage all small-grains researchers to consider applying. I’ve left behind research equipment worth >$1 million which could potentially be yours! landfood.ubc.ca/assistant-prof…

A consensus view amongst major environmental organizations as to how to define a high quality natural climate solution project -- they must be nature-based, sustainable, climate-additional, measurable, and equitable. nature.com/articles/s4146…

This the the challenge we face. The global stocktake, the accounting of climate progress for COP28, shows that pledged actions (red) are finally bending the emissions curve, but not sharply enough for a good chance of achieving the Paris climate goals. unfccc.int/topics/global-…

Cindy Prescott and Navin Ramankutty are the Plenary Keynote Speakers at the CSSS 2024 Conference, June 9-13, 2024, Vancouver BC. The theme is “Soil Functions for Future Generations.” Learn more here: csss2024.landfood.ubc.ca

We tend to drown in the complexity & our inability to bend the global curve of fossil-fuel emissions. Here is the obvious 1st step to succeed - stop subsidizing oil, gas & coal. 7 trillion USD. Almost 10% of the global economy… Let, at least, clean energy compete on fair terms.

In support of commitments to inclusive excellence in academia and research, #UBC has launched a Black Faculty Cohort Hiring Initiative to recruit up to 23 Black scholars over four years. Visit academic.ubc.ca/black-faculty-… to learn more and view open positions.

While I hope this year's record temperatures inspire climate action, we've made the mistake in the past of assuming THIS will be the storm, heat wave, flood that does it. We need things to run toward, not just to run from. That’s why it is so important to talk about solutions.

Land prep continues with the awesome support of @ubcfarm Converting a hedgerow to Garry Oak meadow/food system. Indigenous Ecology students have been hard at work & planting is just a few weeks away! Bridging food systems promotes biodiversity & farm resiliency! #nativesinstem #ecology @ubcforestry @ubcLFS

This year’s insane heat has coincided with (perhaps driven?) a bit of a wedge between two leading “climate urgency science narratives”… 🧵

Just out! A new framework for developing soil pedotransfer functions. Includes improved pedotransfer functions for carbon and bulk density for British Columbia soils. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Finally out! 1st diagnosis of the entire Planet. All the 9 Planetary Boundaries quantified defining Our Safe Operating Space on Earth. Bad news: 6 of 9 PBs breached. Good news: Window still open, we know what to measure, we can return and we win if we do! science.org/doi/full/10.11…