#uofa — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #uofa, aggregated by home.social.
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Join us on Thursday January 29th from 3-4pm in CAB 239 for our inaugural ISSET Seminar "Bioengineered Functional Cartilages and Mechanical Unloading of Simulated Microgravity in Osteoarthritis Research" by Professor Adetola Adesida. Dr. Adesida studies the effect of simulated spaceflight microgravity facilitated by parabolic flights on tissue-engineered cartilage. There even is a chance of the Adesida team gaining a slot in the ISS to conduct research! #spacemedresearch #isset #uofa #yegspace
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so let me get this straight: it cost us $27M to switch from No Name brand to Becel?
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so let me get this straight: it cost us $27M to switch from No Name brand to Becel?
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those who went to the u of a in the 90s and 2000s will remember this staple of HUB, SUB and the tory building
every morning you'd see a long snaking lineup of bleary eyed folks waiting for their day to start. til, it was the first campus location to serve "european-style" coffee.
sadly, it closed in 2013 after aramark foods took over campus and effectively forced it out of business.
https://globalnews.ca/news/447336/end-of-an-era-as-java-jive-outlets-at-u-of-a-set-to-close/
rip my old friend. you made a lot of grouchy 8am students/faculty lives liveable for decades.
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those who went to the u of a in the 90s and 2000s will remember this staple of HUB, SUB and the tory building
every morning you'd see a long snaking lineup of bleary eyed folks waiting for their day to start. til, it was the first campus location to serve "european-style" coffee.
sadly, it closed in 2013 after aramark foods took over campus and effectively forced it out of business.
https://globalnews.ca/news/447336/end-of-an-era-as-java-jive-outlets-at-u-of-a-set-to-close/
rip my old friend. you made a lot of grouchy 8am students/faculty lives liveable for decades.
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the whole reason i rescued these NeXT machines from a garage an hour away was because of the asset tags still glued to them.
i know exactly where and when the machines came from: the university of alberta's General Services Building (GSB), 8th floor, computer lab, in 1995.
when i was a teenager, my mom would take me to the university and let me wander around campus with a pocket full of quarters for the arcade
her grad student office was on the 8th floor. across from it was the department computer lab, which consisted of three rows of boring beige 386 SX-20's and a massive line printer. i used to goof around playing Jezzball and Pipe Dream on those machines.
but tucked off in the corner were four jet black machines. they all had huge monochrome monitors, and a gorgeous GUI with Wile E. Coyote on the login prompt. there was a big sign that read "you must have permission from CNS to use these computers". i'd sneak over and try every login/pass i could dream of, and never figured out how to login.
ffwd to the 2000s:
i've hunted every week for the past 25 years to find those machines. i suspected they might turn up on some local ad eventually, and today they did.they were bought by a gentleman (now in his 80s) from a provincial government surplus equipment auction sale 20+ years ago. they were decommissioned by the department, boxed up and auctioned as e-waste. he thought they'd be valuable, so he bought them all for a pittance. they sat in his garage for 25 years collecting dust, until his wife asked him to start clearing out his computing junk. (i'll post a pic of his garage soon)
so here they are - the department's most expensive asset at $10-20K CAD (after upgrades and accessories), ready to be put back to work again soon
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the whole reason i rescued these NeXT machines from a garage an hour away was because of the asset tags still glued to them.
i know exactly where and when the machines came from: the university of alberta's General Services Building (GSB), 8th floor, computer lab, in 1995.
when i was a teenager, my mom would take me to the university and let me wander around campus with a pocket full of quarters for the arcade
her grad student office was on the 8th floor. across from it was the department computer lab, which consisted of three rows of boring beige 386 SX-20's and a massive line printer. i used to goof around playing Jezzball and Pipe Dream on those machines.
but tucked off in the corner were four jet black machines. they all had huge monochrome monitors, and a gorgeous GUI with Wile E. Coyote on the login prompt. there was a big sign that read "you must have permission from CNS to use these computers". i'd sneak over and try every login/pass i could dream of, and never figured out how to login.
ffwd to the 2000s:
i've hunted every week for the past 25 years to find those machines. i suspected they might turn up on some local ad eventually, and today they did.they were bought by a gentleman (now in his 80s) from a provincial government surplus equipment auction sale 20+ years ago. they were decommissioned by the department, boxed up and auctioned as e-waste. he thought they'd be valuable, so he bought them all for a pittance. they sat in his garage for 25 years collecting dust, until his wife asked him to start clearing out his computing junk. (i'll post a pic of his garage soon)
so here they are - the department's most expensive asset at $10-20K CAD (after upgrades and accessories), ready to be put back to work again soon
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also rescued were these original diskettes
i'm not sure if Maple V and Mathematica for NeXT were ever preserved, but i'll totally see if the disks are still good and make backups to IA
i can only imagine how happy the graduate students were to torture undergrad MATH 210 students with these. these all came from a university of alberta department
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also rescued were these original diskettes
i'm not sure if Maple V and Mathematica for NeXT were ever preserved, but i'll totally see if the disks are still good and make backups to IA
i can only imagine how happy the graduate students were to torture undergrad MATH 210 students with these. these all came from a university of alberta department
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Red-Blue Showcase highlights Wildcats basketball, Gronk and Shaq appearances https://www.rawchili.com/nba/325279/ #AddisonArnold #AnthonyDell'Orso #arizona #ArizonaBasketball #Basketball #BraydenBurries #DwayneAristode #Gronk #KoaPeat #MickaylaPerdue #RobGronkowski #RockyGronkstone #shaq #ShaquilleO'Neal #TommE #TommyLloyd #UniversityOfArizona #UniversityOfArizonaBasketball #UofA #UofaBasketball #wildcats #WildcatsBasketball
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#DanielleSmith 's government says it is planning to introduce legislation that would allow it to IGNORE international agreements signed by #Ottawa #UofA constitutional law professor #EricAdams said it's not clear what #AB is seeking through legislation 🇨🇦 www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
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#DanielleSmith 's government says it is planning to introduce legislation that would allow it to IGNORE international agreements signed by #Ottawa #UofA constitutional law professor #EricAdams said it's not clear what #AB is seeking through legislation 🇨🇦 www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
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Just chillin' in a coffee shop waiting for an email from #UofA administration about the latest in the shitshow that is the US government.
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#MPIA:
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Nahaufnahme eines supermassereichen Schwarzen Lochs in AktionEine neue Art der Beobachtung zeigt, was die Kerne aktiver Galaxien glühen lässt.
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https://www.mpia.de/aktuelles/wissenschaft/2025-01-lbti-isbell17.1.2025
#AGN #Astronomie #Galaxie #LBT #Messier77 #MountGraham #NGC1068 #OVMS+ #SchwarzesLoch #UofA
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#MPIA:
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Nahaufnahme eines supermassereichen Schwarzen Lochs in AktionEine neue Art der Beobachtung zeigt, was die Kerne aktiver Galaxien glühen lässt.
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https://www.mpia.de/aktuelles/wissenschaft/2025-01-lbti-isbell17.1.2025
#AGN #Astronomie #Galaxie #LBT #Messier77 #MountGraham #NGC1068 #OVMS+ #SchwarzesLoch #UofA
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Can we use copper to kill bacteria? UofA researcher got a $1.9 mln grant to research
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I guess I hadn't realized the SSH connector for #Positron is now working. So far works like a dream for connecting to a #jetstream2 instance. Going to try it with the #UofA HPC (although doubtful it will "just work" as it requires some automated installation of stuff on the server side)
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Nice when the Ali Express $4 watch arrives with the (mostly) correct time!
It's fall so Green and Gold? Or is that the (Edmonton) Elks colours? U of 'eh? :)
Original Casio included for reference.
#AliExpressFinds #Casio #F91W #RetroTech #VintageStyle #WatchCollection #EdmontonElks #FallFashion #GreenAndGold #BudgetWatches #Tech #UofA
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Nice when the Ali Express $4 watch arrives with the (mostly) correct time!
It's fall so Green and Gold? Or is that the (Edmonton) Elks colours? U of 'eh? :)
Original Casio included for reference.
#AliExpressFinds #Casio #F91W #RetroTech #VintageStyle #WatchCollection #EdmontonElks #FallFashion #GreenAndGold #BudgetWatches #Tech #UofA
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Season 3 Episode 2: Thinking About How We Think About Animals with Dr Chloë Taylor
Today’s episode is all about animal ethics—or do we mean critical animal studies? Ariel discusses this linguistic nuance and the difference between them (and much, much more!) with Dr Chloë Taylor, professor of women and gender studies at the University of Alberta. Dr Taylor has been involved in a five-year-long project researching the “Intersections of Animality” and is a trained philosopher who works in gender studies, and sees a lot of intersections between the way that we think about and treat animals and the way that we think about and treat minoritized subjects. Come join us for a thought-provoking and highly educational discussion!
https://youtu.be/qJjoUe2XbkU?si=TmUdezI7NDv9UFyH
#Episode #Season3 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #AnimalRights #CriticalAnimalStudies #UofA #Ethics #Philosophy #AnimalEthics #linguistics #vegan #Intersectionality
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Season 3 Episode 2: Thinking About How We Think About Animals with Dr Chloë Taylor
Today’s episode is all about animal ethics—or do we mean critical animal studies? Ariel discusses this linguistic nuance and the difference between them (and much, much more!) with Dr Chloë Taylor, professor of women and gender studies at the University of Alberta. Dr Taylor has been involved in a five-year-long project researching the “Intersections of Animality” and is a trained philosopher who works in gender studies, and sees a lot of intersections between the way that we think about and treat animals and the way that we think about and treat minoritized subjects. Come join us for a thought-provoking and highly educational discussion!
https://youtu.be/qJjoUe2XbkU?si=TmUdezI7NDv9UFyH
#Episode #Season3 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #AnimalRights #CriticalAnimalStudies #UofA #Ethics #Philosophy #AnimalEthics #linguistics #vegan #Intersectionality
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If it's Friday then I guess I better ask Discogs for a Random Album :)
🎶 Kate Bush
Lionheart
1978, Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold, Sonopresse
FranceAh, one of my personal favourites. Got this one at the old Student Union Records store in HUB mall, University of Alberta campus. Things you find in the imports section. $12.95 new :)
Released just nine months after her debut, Lionheart showcases Kate Bush's distinctive mix of art rock and pop. Though it didn't achieve the same level of success as The Kick Inside, it solidified her reputation as a singular talent. Bush herself later expressed dissatisfaction with the rushed production, but tracks like "Wow" still resonate with her ethereal style.
#KateBush #Lionheart #ArtRock #PopRock #NowSpinning #NowPlaying #Music #VinylCommunity #1978Music #FrenchRelease #UofA #YEG #Vinyl #YEGDigs
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If it's Friday then I guess I better ask Discogs for a Random Album :)
🎶 Kate Bush
Lionheart
1978, Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold, Sonopresse
FranceAh, one of my personal favourites. Got this one at the old Student Union Records store in HUB mall, University of Alberta campus. Things you find in the imports section. $12.95 new :)
Released just nine months after her debut, Lionheart showcases Kate Bush's distinctive mix of art rock and pop. Though it didn't achieve the same level of success as The Kick Inside, it solidified her reputation as a singular talent. Bush herself later expressed dissatisfaction with the rushed production, but tracks like "Wow" still resonate with her ethereal style.
#KateBush #Lionheart #ArtRock #PopRock #NowSpinning #NowPlaying #Music #VinylCommunity #1978Music #FrenchRelease #UofA #YEG #Vinyl #YEGDigs
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The University of Alberta’s free online critical thinking and science literacy course to help people differentiate science from pseudoscience:
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/admissions-programs/online-courses/science-literacy.html
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Incidentally, there is also a free Indigenous Canada class offered by the UofA under the same platform: https://www.coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada
I'm currently doing an IT Support class through Coursea as well (that one is not free though).
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One of my many alma maters is running a FREE course on science literacy: learning how to differentiate between science, pseudoscience, fake science, and fraudulent science – and to explain what makes pseudoscience both attractive and dangerous.
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/admissions-programs/online-courses/science-literacy.html
#ScienceLiteracy #CriticalThinking #YEG #UofA #pseudoscience
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One of my many alma maters is running a FREE course on science literacy: learning how to differentiate between science, pseudoscience, fake science, and fraudulent science – and to explain what makes pseudoscience both attractive and dangerous.
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/admissions-programs/online-courses/science-literacy.html
#ScienceLiteracy #CriticalThinking #YEG #UofA #pseudoscience
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As an alumnus of University of Alberta, (MD, 2003) I want to first of all, express my support for Palestinians to live free and my desire for Canada to recognize the State of Palestine. I call for a halt to the genocide being perpetrated by the State of Israel. I denounce the actions of Bill Flanagan, in summoning the Edmonton Police Service to violently suppress a peaceful protest against genocide. And I call for the resignation of Bill Flanagan. #abpoli #FreePalestineNow #ceasefire #UofA
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Writing is hard work. Getting that hard work published is its own challenge. But there has been a shift when it comes to publishing the work of Indigenous writers.
Take it from the writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta. Wayne Arthurson, who is of Cree and French-Canadian descent, has been in the business for more than 30 years and he’s witnessing change.
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#Zipperman Scholars doing team building activities! #Eller #UofA #Wildcats
