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My Experience and Journey to Becoming a Student Wikipedia Expert

Prior to taking Applied Plant Ecology with Dr. Bazely, I didn’t know that “Wikipedia Editing” was something that the globe was raising awareness about. However, by completing my training modules on Wiki Education Dashboard, I have gained a lot of new knowledge about what goes into developing Wikipedia pages and editing them as well. IContinue reading “My Experience and Journey to Becoming a Student Wikipedia Expert”

Do You Know What’s Missing from Tansley’s 1917 Paper???

Arthur Tansley published a paper in the Journal of Plant Ecology in 1917 titled “On Competition Between Galium Saxatile L. (G. Hercynicum Weig.) And Galium Sylvestre Poll. (G. Asperum Schreb.) On Different Types of Soils”. The original method was to plant the seeds of the two species together in different types of soils. The fourContinue reading “Do You Know What’s Missing from Tansley’s 1917 Paper???”

Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Literature – Monkey Puzzle Tree

Students can easily get confused between the different class of literature when they are first starting off writing their very first essay or lab report. I’m sure I did! However, before I started doing my research for those assignments, I took a lot of time to understand the differences between a peer-reviewed primary, secondary andContinue reading “Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Literature – Monkey Puzzle Tree”

#WomenInSTEM – Carrie Derick: Canada’s First Female Professor

For a long time, we have been seeing white males getting recognized for their research, even if they have stolen the findings from other researchers and scientists (most of the times from women). Why is this? Why did we see only males going to university? Why did we only see male professors? Why was thereContinue reading “#WomenInSTEM – Carrie Derick: Canada’s First Female Professor”

Sustainable Agriculture and Local Food Security

For many years we have produced majority of our food through Industrial Agriculture. Industrial Agriculture can be defined as a system dominated by large farms growing the same crops every…single…year. They use a massive amount of chemical pesticides and fertilizers that damages the soil, water, air, and climate. With the damage it has caused weContinue reading “Sustainable Agriculture and Local Food Security”

UN Article-IPBES Report: Biodiversity and Extinction

The United Nations (UN) recently reported about nature’s dangerous decline and its accelerating extinction rate on the report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). I personally, took an interest on this document I found on the UN website because I truly believe that biodiversity is being lost right before ourContinue reading “UN Article-IPBES Report: Biodiversity and Extinction”