UVic Science

📻 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. ▶️ tinyurl.com/t4z93u5j #NSERCsupport @NRC_CNRC @NASAWebb #JWST

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

We're exploring our guts at this week's Café Scientifique talk! Join UVic microbiologist Lisa Reynolds to learn more about how the immune systems manages the intestine and keeps us safe. 📅 Wednesday, February 12 | 7 p.m. | Hermann's Jazz Club 🔗 ow.ly/vLPa50UXh64

🦐🐙🦀 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/regist…

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have long been used to protect declining species and habitats. But could they also be used for climate change mitigation? In a new study, UVic post-doc @graham_epstein and biology prof @baumlab argue YES. 👇 ow.ly/sHiH50UIIor

More about herring, and how LNG projects may impact herring habitats: nsnews.com/local-news/stu…

Unpublished research alert! More eggs are laid when there's more underwater vegetation. Things like eelgrass, rockweed, red algae, flat kelp, and sugar kelp are very important to spawning.

Stuff you (probably) don't know about local herring, courtesy of MSc student @JakeDingwall and @NorthShoreNews. nsnews.com/local-news/stu… 🧵Thread featuring our favourite facts from the article!

New year, new cover, but a throwback to a 2024 paper by the @UVicScience group of Jeremy Wulff. 📰cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Rendering of a complex polycycle with exceptionally hindered alkenes, produced through an unexpected ring-opening of a functionalized Thiele cage.

📢 Hey SEOS alumni, students and friends! Are you in or near Vancouver during @AMERoundUp? We're hosting a free @UVicSEOS Alumni Night on Sunday, January 19 at Steamworks Brewing Co., and we'd love to see you there! Register by Jan. 10! 👉 ow.ly/9Oz050UBniB

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

Join us this Wednesday for the first Café Scientifique event of the year, where we'll be exploring galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope, satellite constellations, and more! 📅 Wednesday, January 8, 2025 ⏲️ 7 p.m. 📍 Hermann's Jazz Club 🔗More info: ow.ly/swLq50UvhCV

Kick off 2025 by looking back at what make 2024 great. From incredible scientific discoveries to major grant funding success to celebrating the accomplishments of our incredible students, it was a remarkable year. 🔗 Read our top 10 stories from 2024: ow.ly/h4WH50UvBza

🌤️ 2024 in review: We celebrated one year of our new BSc in Climate Science program Partway through the year, we sat down with climate science student Camryn Thompson and the co-developer of the program, David Atkinson, to talk about the program. 🔗 ow.ly/GxCc50UvBrL