The Myth of Legal #Neutrality and Its Role in Undermining #AbortionRights in The #UnitedStates
McGill Undergraduate #Law Review No. 10
14 Pages Posted: 15 Apr 2025
B. Sullivan
McGill university wants to cuts ties with one of its student unions,
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mcgill-student-union-protests-cut-ties-1.7504289
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L’université McGill souhaite couper les liens avec une de ses associations étudiantes.
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Imagine parting the veils of clouds that obscure Venus, and seeing through the crustal basalts to understand the mantle beneath. This is the journey Julia Semprich (@planetju) took us on as the Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer.
Thanks to Jackie Goordial #UGuelph for a great guest lecture in our Astrobiology class: on using the McMurdo Dry Valleys as Mars analogs. University Valley has been below freezing for at least the last 150,000 years; extremely dry, and 0.01% organic material. Yet there are cells that remain viable, and that metabolize and reproduce when conditions fluctuate into the slightly more hospitable -perhaps like the Mars subsurface.
McGill University plans to reduce budget by $45M and cut 250-500 jobs.
https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/02/10/mcgill-university-slash-budget-cut-jobs/
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L’université McGill planifie de réduire son budget de 45M$ et couper 250-500 emplois.
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Vandalism spree leaves broken windows, ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti at McGill: police
Police are investigating after a group allegedly smashed windows and graffitied the entrance to McGill University with the message, "Free Palestine."
#vandalism #politics #crime #McGill #Education #McGillUniversity
https://globalnews.ca/news/11006591/palestine-vandalism-mcgill-university-montreal/
The National Research Council of Canada is making great advances in linking laboratory measurements to satellite measurements by using hyperspectral sensors on uncrewed aerial platforms. Dr. Pablo Arroyo presented some of their research today characterizing wetland vegetation and water levels.
An amazing image shown to us in a talk by Elliott Skierszkan of #CarletonUniversity . He is exploring the mobilization of metals into water from thawing permafrost. The XRF image shows uranium (pink, top right image) concentrated along the wall of a plant stem, found in a fresh core of permafrost mud. This uranium (sourced from bedrock) is then soluble in the pore water when the permafrost melts.
Yuji Itoh / 伊東優治
Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo gave a very clever talk yesterday on using GNSS solutions every 30 minutes to constrain mm-scale slow-slip deformation in the Cascadia subduction zone. This is not RTK, but standard GNSS, coupled with seismic locations of small, short-period episodic tremors.
Another early career presenter at AGU Thursday:
Dr. Regina Gonzalez Moguel
Spatial Distributions of CO₂ and CH₄ and their Stable Isotopes in an Urban Environment: Aircraft-Based Observations over Montreal
Thursday morning posters, A41N-1770
Early career presenters at AGU Wednesday:
William Fajzel
Constraining the role of human economic activity across the Great Acceleration
(Eric Galbraith's group)
Wednesday morning posters, GC31W-0138
Robert Bogue
Ground Truthing a Novel Remote Sensing Method for Satellite Detection of Volcanic CO2 Emissions Using Tree Ring Isotopic Data
(John Stix and Peter Douglas' groups)
Wednesday afternoon posters, V33B-3099
An eye-openning talk by Mette Bendixen (Geography, #McGillUniversity ) on artisanal extraction of sand and gravel for concrete in the developing world.
Back breaking work, low pay, environmentally destructive and controlled by powerful syndicates.
Below is from Rwanda.
Early career presenter at AGU Tuesday:
Dr. Regina Gonzalez Moguel
Mapping Urban Methane Enhancements: Three Years of Mobile Monitoring in Montreal
Tuesday morning posters, A21K-1911
A well illustrated talk by Dr. Ali Polat (University of Windsor, Ontario), the 2024 Geological Associate of Canada Robinson lecturer. He gave persuasive evidence for compressive tectonics throughout the Archean.
Figure is of refolded isoclinal folds in the Archean (2.8 Ga) Storø Greenstone belt, southern West Greenland.
Any eye-opening talk today by Dr. Peter DeCarlo, Johns Hopkins University. His group is measuring organic air pollutants in residential areas near industry.
Context for the map below: 11 parts per trillion is the EPA level for a 1:10,000 cancer risk from long-term exposure.
From:
Robinson et al. (2024) Environmental Science & Technology 2024 58 (25), 11084-11095. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c10579
The photo posted with the CBC News story is of the 2017 McGill Vertebrate Palaeontology Field Course crew removing overburden along the erosional edge of Quarry C (photograph courtesy of K. Dumas)
Graduate and undergraduate students who participated in the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2018 editions of the Field Course (run by Dr. Hans Larsson) are acknowledged in the published paper.
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Paleontologists discover Sask.'s 1st fossil specimens of horned centrosaurus
McGill University students and paleontologists have documented what they say are Saskatchewan's first confirmed centrosaurus fossil specimens.
#cbc #news #News #Canada #Saskatchewan
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/1st-fossil-specimens-of-a-horned-dinosaur-species-1.7390820
Link to the science:
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjes-2023-0125?journalCode=cjes
Thank you to Dr. Joy Buongiorno (Senior Editor of BioGeoChemistry at Nature Communcations) for a fascinating inside-look at publishing and the editorial process. Many helpful tips, especially with respect to the all-important cover letter that accompanies your manuscript submission.
Congratulations to Dr. Fiona D'Arcy, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, "Carbon isotopes as monitoring tools for active volcanic systems"(John Stix, supervisor). Fiona designed and flew gas sampling systems on UAVs into the gas plumes of Poás, Costa Rica and Stromboli, Italy.
