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.)...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Can genetic data motivate people to conserve widespread but declining species?

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This content was reblogged from Relational Thinking , the People and Nature Blog . By Harold Eyster Varied Thrushes have declined by more t...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Launching CoSphere, a Community of Small-Planet Heroes

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On Monday, we launched CoSphere . Here's my invitation to friends, family, and colleagues: Dear friends, (apologies for cross-posting)  ...
Friday, January 21, 2022

From the Seas to the Spotlight: Healing the Planet Will Take All of Us

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This content was reblogged from CoSphere . A Story by Alanna Mitchell Image by: Chloë Ellingson I remember the moment I let myself glimpse t...