Friday, May 1, 2026

Celebrating John Robinson

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John Robinson is retiring from U of T. John was a colleague for a decade at UBC, and I was privileged to learn a ton from him. I wouldn...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

PhD Student Ad: Bird Communities, Scavengers, and Disease Ecology & Evolution

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We are seeking up to two PhD students to undertake research involving interactions between bird communities, urban food waste, scavengers, a...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Announcing Season 2 of Small Planet Heroes, a CoSphere podcast—for you

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If you're reading this, I'm guessing you're devoted to societal transformation toward genuine social and ecological sustainabil...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Pitching YOUR Uncharted Territory: How to think of your proposal in relation to your supervisor when applying to grad school

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by Kai Chan This is an extra post in a series, How to Write a Winning Proposal—in 10 Hard Steps Every day, millions of prospective graduate ...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Trump and Mega-Fires

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by Kai Chan With yesterday's election result, authoritarianism is at our doorstep . Western nations were so certain that state-run medi...
Monday, May 27, 2024

System Change is Needed but Elusive: What Next?

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Dr. Kai Chan is a professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, a TEDx speaker , and founder of CoSphere , a C...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Steller's Sea Cows: did they decline before human beings arrived?

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by Kai Chan Were Steller Sea Cows very rare as of 400,000 years ago? (If so, human beings were likely not the main cause of their decline.)...