Ben Collison
phd candidate @dalhousie.bsky.social || ecohydrology 🌳💧|| impact assessment ⛏️⚖️ || salmon watersheds 🐟 || benrcollison.com
📍 K’jipuktuk (halifax, ns 🇨🇦)
- me, sorting a kick sample of riverine benthic invertebrates
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- Reposted by Ben CollisonIf you can't be bothered to actually write the peer review yourself why should the reviewee have to listen to it? Why write anything at all, ever? If you don't have enough time, fight for better working conditions instead of faking your work
- New @nature.com, ever feel like it takes way too long for you to peer-review a manuscript? AI, plus some voice-control tools, may be able to help. By Dritjon Gruda 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- NEW STUDY: What 50 years of buried data tell us about Canada’s mining oversight ⛏️ Nearly three years of work from a very determined tem has culminated in the first ever database of mines and quarries that have undergone environmental impact assessment (IA) throughout Canada's history. Learn more:
- Fieldwork season = postponed! Side-by-side comparison of the same stretch of river one year apart (Aug 2025 vs Aug 2024) to further highlight how extreme this current drought is across Nova Scotia.
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- Reposted by Ben CollisonHard to think of a clear depiction of climate politics in Canada than provincial premiers calling for more pipelines and deregulation of oil and gas development as climate-amplified wildfires rage in their own provinces. #cdnpoli
- Nova Scotia committed to reform its outdated environmental assessment (EA) process before the end of 2024. It did not happen. but yeah, let’s promote knowingly destructive industries without any solid mechanism to assess the impacts of new projects - sounds like we thought this one through 🙃
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- Gotta break up the dystopian timeline with some herpetofauna! this was quite the colourful friend i stumbled upon doing fieldwork this summer. anybody got other nature pics to share?
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- Reposted by Ben CollisonBetween 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
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- Reposted by Ben CollisonWhere are all the field studies? This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer. A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork) www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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- Alberta’s rather puzzling decision to allow the possibility of coal mining in a significant (for many reasons) headwater supply reminds me to plug one of my fav papers: doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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- Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Hydrologist: it was caused by an early spring freshet followed by a sustained period of low rainfall.
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- Reposted by Ben CollisonThings seem to be picking up around here, so figured it's about time for a starter pack of ecohydrologists! 💧🍃 Please share and lmk below if you want to be added (I know there are lots of folks I missed so help me build out our ecohydro fam!) go.bsky.app/SPotVGiat://did:plc:xosz4zdwstx5guit2vyscpdk/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laogsmiwgy2g
