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Lab Alumna: Dr. Adriana Puentes

June 26, 2014dbazely

A pillar of persistence as a woman in #STEM I'm still playing around with the best way to make posts about past students from the lab, within the limitations imposed by the YorkU wordpress template. Adriana did her BSc at the University of Toronto, in the Department of Botany (now called EEB: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). […]

Repost: Food blog no. 1 - waste not, want not

May 1, 2014Sustainability, UncategorizedFood Securitydbazely

I'm headed off, with Ellie Perkins, to a conference in Brazil, called Adaption Futures. It's all about how we are living and will live in a hotter, crazier, more ecologically unstable world. Since things have been a bit busy at the end of term, I'm recycling blogs! HERE'S an updated REPOST. It was originally Published May 6, 2010 My […]

This late post is a #Storify about #DataProvenance @HarvardForest

March 23, 2014dbazely

[View the story "Data Hygiene: #DataProvenance @HarvardForest #HFSymp14" on Storify]

York University Mathematics Professor, Lee Lorch, September 20, 1915 – February 28, 2014

March 2, 2014dbazely

Lee Lorch died on Friday at 98 years of age. And, what a life! I was privileged and honoured to get to know him as a colleague and friend, even though he retired in 1985, five years BEFORE I joined the Biology department, in 1990, as an assistant professor. How could this be? Simply put, […]

Sheila Embleton & Diane Orihel: more Bold Vision Conference Nominations

February 17, 2014dbazely

This website says that I post a new blog on the 1st & 15th of each month.I should have no excuse, since it's Reading Week and we all have a bit of a breather. Yet, here I am, late again (it's the 17th). The reason is directly related to this post's topic of strong women […]

Happy New Year: My favourite iPad Apps: Early Adopters and Laggards: Part 3

January 1, 2014dbazely

2013 whizzed by. It felt like I blinked, and it was over. It's nearly a year since I got hold of an iPad mini. It hasn't replaced my computer, but it has definitely made a whole lot of tasks much faster and more efficient. Here's the re-posting of the 3rd blog that I posted to […]

When to be an Early Adopter and when to be a Laggard: Part 2

December 16, 2013apple, Apps, iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone, Optical Character Recognitiondbazely

Despite my best, most sustainable, low consumerism intentions, I got sidetracked by Christmas stuff this weekend. The good news is, that not only am I recycling (regifting?) blog posts on Twitter, but also, here! Hi, Maddy's Mum here, with blog no. 2... and more thoughts on iPads. Technology is neutral – the situation determines whether […]