ZOOTAILS


June, 2025

The newsletter from the
Department of Zoology at UBC

https://zoology.ubc.ca/

Find all previous Zootails here

 

Deadlines & important upcoming dates

 

FOR EVERYONE

2025 Biology Teaching & Learning Retreat, June 19-20 - RSVP deadline is June 4, 2025

RSVP form

Full retreat schedule

If you have any questions, please email:
Christine: christine.goedhart@ubc.ca or
Erica: erica.jeffery@ubc.ca

FOR PI's

Mitacs Globalink Research Internship - deadline is June 5, 2025 at 1:00 pm PT 

This program is a 12-week initiative. Mitacs will pair Canadian faculty with top undergraduate students from around the world for summer internships in Canada.

Mitacs Globalink Portal

 

FOR EVERYONE

2025 BRC save the dates

  • June 12, 9:00 - 10:00 am: BRC "Quality R analysis with large language models" workshop with Chris J Brown - BRC 224. Registration form to follow
     
  • July 25, 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm: Ice Cream Social
     
  • September 8, 9:00 – 11:30 am: Ribbon Cutting ceremony for expansion
  • September 17, 12:00 – 5:00 pm: BRC Symposium and Open House
  • September 23-25: Introductory Workshop on the Basics of Molecular Biology  - - free for BRC members and affiliates. Offered by the BRC Molecular Biology & Ecology Lab
  • October 16, all day: IBioS Symposium -  “Agricultural landscape diversification and human-wildlife co-existence: exploring synergies and tradeoffs”
  • November 10-12Eco-Evo Retreat -  Loon Lake in Maple Ridge BC
  • November 20: Biodiversity Public Lecture. Justina Ray, President and Senior Scientist of the Wildlife Conservation Society, Canada, will be delivering this year’s public lecture

BRC events calendar

 

🖥️  ZCU TIP 💽

  1. Scheduled power outage in BRC building will happen on June 14 - and possibly on June 12 from 1:00pm to 5:00 pm: the following systems/services will be unavailable starting 5pm on Friday, June 13th untill 7pm Sunday, June 15th:
    - Compute cluster;
    - File server;
    - Zoology website;
    - Forms (room/vehicle booking, application etc.);
    - Lab websites, located on the Zoology server;
    - Licensing;
    - Authentication;
    - Database;
    - Ticketing.
     
  2. Thank you for participating in recent UBC self-phishing campaign. If you receive ANY suspicious e-mail, please forward it as an attachment to security@ubc.ca.

Identifying & Reporting Suspicious Emails

 

⛑️  Safety TIPs ☣️

  1. Emergency Management - Earthquake and Emergency Preparedness Workshop
    Workshop schedule for Faculty and Staff: June 13, 12:00–1:30 pm (online)
    Register for this workshop 

    For further information & additional SRS Emergency Preparedness sessions
     
  2. If you have not done this yet, please update your emergency contact information in Workday. In case of an emergency, it is important there is someone UBC can contact if something was to happen.

Adding your emergency contacts

 

Committees and other units - updates

Biology Program

BIO NEWS - Connecting you to what's happening in the UBC Biology Program
 

CIEE ICEE

Living Data Project internships in data rescue and archiving - deadline is June 17, 2025 - for internships Nov 1, 2025 to Feb 28, 2026.

The 6-week internships provide a fellowship of $7000 and are open to graduate students studying ecology, evolution or environmental science at the University of British Columbia, University of Regina, McGill University or Université de Montréal. Internships can contribute to your graduate stipend in accordance with the policies of your department and university. Students who have completed a previous Living Data Project internship are ineligible.

Application: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2hKdkrTMpag6qtE

Course information: https://www.ciee-icee.ca/courses.html

 

Reminders

 

BIOLOGY COMMUNITY PANTRY - please contribute to replenish the pantry!

Who is it for? Biology undergraduate students

Where is it? Biosciences, 2nd floor, East wing

 

REFUNDABLE CONTAINER RECYCLING in Biological Science Building: 100% of the money collected will go to purchase food for the Biology Community Pantry ⬆️

⬅️ Look out for the refundable recycling bins

 

 

 

LAB GLOVE RECYCLING - at the Biodiversity Research Centre & the Biological Sciences Building

 

 

 

More information on Recycling Initiatives

 

All members of the department are welcome!

June   6 - Biosci courtyard or 3rd floor lounge

                (as weather permits)
June 13 - LSC 1330
June 20 - BRC atrium or courtyard (as weather permits)
June 27 - Biosci courtyard or 3rd floor lounge
               
(as weather permits)

Please remember to bring your own mug!

Venues might change - for the latest updates, please check the zoology website:

Friday Coffee and Donuts schedule

 

Check www.zoology.ubc.ca
for news, events, resources & more

Zoology event calendar

 

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