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Lars Sturm

@dinivateres.bsky.social

PhD student at Simon Fraser University under Dr. Chelsea J. Little. Studying riparian restoration effects on stream carbon dynamics in agricultural landscapes. https://littleecologygroup.ca | https://percs.landfood.ubc.ca Likes to take photos. he/him 🇨🇭🇨🇦

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Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 6h ago

The most blissful pooping alpaca you have ever seen. This one goes on the wall. Taken in Langley, BC, Canada 🇨🇦 #nature #mammals #photography #film

A freshly shorn, white alpaca stands in front of its herd. Its eyes are closed with a smile and blissful expression as it lifts its tail and poops.

Frank Burdon @fburdon.bsky.social · 3d ago

What co-benefits do we gain when planting trees along stream margins? We don't fully know. Fully-funded PhD going now — mapping food webs across Mt Taranaki's "ring of restoration" 🌱🐟 Please repost among your networks Email: frank.burdon@waikato.ac.nz

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · last mo.

Cutie raccoon really wants to go to uni, too. #nature

Cutie raccoon looking through a glas door of my university building.

Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m excited to share our @globalchangebio.bsky.social article about water quality in UK lowland peatlands! dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Land‐Use Effects on Surface Water Quality in Temperate Lowland Peatlands

We examined the effects of land use on UK lowland peat surface water chemistry, finding similar macronutrient stoichiometry at conservation-managed and rewetted sites (indicative of nitrogen and phos...

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Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · last mo.

Had a blast presenting my poster at the @aslo.org - @sil-limnology.bsky.social joint meeting in Montréal in May. Big thanks to the ASLO student committe for awarding me with an honorable mentions of the student presentation awards! 🥳 Looking forward to the next one with data ^^

A dorky guy (me) in dark jeans and a grey-blue shirt standing to the right of a scientific poster (close up in the next picture), being very excited.

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Got the first samples of my PhD today 🥳 #freshwater #carbon

A guy in a white shirt, blue cap, and green-grey waders stands thigh deep in a stream amidst a sea of reeds, back to the camera. In his right hand is a plastic syringe filled with water.

A guy with a white shirt with a zebra head print, blue cap, and grey-green waders stands hip deep in a stream amidst a sea of reeds. He holds a mallet in his right hand while his left points at a green stake poking out of the water. He looks unreasonably excited about this.

Mikko Tiusanen @mikkotiusanen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Are you interested in flowering plants, pollinators or Alps? Plant Ecology Group at ETH Zürich is looking for a PhD student! I can warmly recommend the group! The meadows of the study area are simply amazing to anyone interested in biodiversity! Application DL 30.6. @ethz.ch @usyseth.bsky.social

A jpg version of the call pdf linked in the following message

Dryas octopetala. White flowers with mountain peak in the background

Ophrys sphegodes. A small orchrid with brown flowers

Rosalia alpina. A light blue long-horn beetle with black spots

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Saw some groundhogs on the Île Sainte-Hélène in Montréal 🇨🇦. Cute little buggers. Ready for #ASLOSIL26 where I‘ll be presenting my project poster on Friday. Come say hi and chat about riparian restoration effects on carbon dynamics in streams!

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A Douglas‘ squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) sizing me up. By SFU, Burnaby Mountain, BC 🇨🇦 #sqrlpix #nature #photography #film

A reddish-brown squirrel sits in a forked branch, looking straight at the camera, the front left paw suspended in mid air.

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Show me the way, oh robin of the forest! American robin (Turdus migratorius) on Burnaby Mountain, BC 🇨🇦 #birds 🪶 #nature #photography #film

An american robin with a red chest and belly, grey back, black head, and yellow beak sits atop a forest trail marker that reads „k 1.2 Trans Canada Trail (arrow up) SFU (arrow left, 150m)“.

Erika C. Freeman @ecfreewoman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Two starter packs for the ASLO-SIL 2026 Bluesky community in Montreal. 169 attendees, name-matched against the official list: A-L: bsky.app/starter-pack... M-Z: bsky.app/starter-pack... Reply if you should be on these and aren't, or if I matched the wrong account. @aslo.org #ASLO2026

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Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Open #PhD #position on “Projecting the #human #impact on #biodiversity” (fully funded 4 years position) in my group @University Zurich & @eawag.bsky.social 🌐 🌍 📈 🦀 🐟 🌳 All #details & application instructions 🎯: apply.refline.ch/673277/1356/... ❗Thx for spreading the word / apply now!

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy #EarthDay 🌍 with some of my favourite shots so far. From the ocean to the mountains, from big to small. Beautiful British Columbia indeed! #nature #photgraphy #film

View from Saint Mark‘s Summit onto Horseshoe Bay. October 2025
Green conifer branches frame a view over a green mountain side in the lower left corner leading into the blue ocean. On the horizon the mountains of Vancouver Island are visible in the mist. Red and yellow leaved shrubs and a red leaf covered forest floor fill the bottom edge of the picture.

View from Boundary Bay Park towards Mount Baker. April 2026
A lowtide tidal zone fills the front of the frame. It is a mix of dark, wet sand, pools and streams of water, and a raised sand bank with bright brown sand and some grassy vegetation. At the horizon runs a mountain range with the tips covered in snow. One peak in the right side of the frame stands tall above the rest. The sky is blue-white with high clouds.

Lynn Canyon, February 2026
A treestump in front of a dense conifer forest. The wood of the stump is red. It is covered in light green mosses and lichens.

A small flowering plant in Boundary Bay Park, April 2026.
Shallow focus picture of a small flowering plant on a sandy soil. The plant has many small, white flowers grouped together into a ball and thin leaves.

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#addBirder

A bird with a dark blue body and brown shoulders and head sits at the top of a tree, looking to the right, in front of a blue sky. Steller‘s Jay

A white, fluffy bird with dark eyes and beak sits on a branch close to the stem of a tree, tail extending below the branch, facing slightly to the left. The background is filled with green branches and splots of blue sky. Canada Jay

Two tree swallows sit atop a free standing wooden nestbox. The swallows have a white front and metallic blue-green back and top of the head. The pair is facing each other with beaks opened.

A small hummingbird with a grey-ish body and a dark head speckled with pink iridescence sits on some Himalayan blackberry brambles before a blurred background of green grass, trees, and a sunset sky. Anna‘s Hummingbird

Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I recently discovered this incredible creature while on a night walk in the NZ bush. Known as a 'Velvet Worms', this adorable predator immobilises prey with organic glue fired from turrets on its head! Oh... and they are basically unchanged in about 400 million years! #TheWorldBeneathOurFeet 🧪

A photography of a velvet worm crawling on a moss-covered trunk. The animal is worm-like, with many soft pairs of legs and a pair of long, segmented antennae. All over the animal's body, there are hundreds of multi-coloured lumps, which resemble dress sequins.

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Mount Baker as seen from Boundary Bay Park, Vancouver. 🇨🇦 #mountains #nature #photography #film

A lowtide tidal zone fills the front of the frame. It is a mix of dark, wet sand, pools and streams of water, and a raised sand bank with bright brown sand and some grassy vegetation. At the horizon runs a mountain range with the tips covered in snow. One peak in the right side of the frame stands tall above the rest. The sky is blue-white with high clouds.

A lowtide tidal zone fills the front of the frame. A vegetated shore line transitions into shallow water and some sandbanks. At the horizon runs a mountain range with the tips covered in snow. One peak in the centre of the frame stands tall above the rest. The sky is blue-white with high clouds.

Thomas Shahan @tshahan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

squinting my eyes, blurring my vision, just looking at coarse silhouettes and values... comparing Synemosyna formica's 🕷️ first leg to Camponotus subbarbatus' 🐜antennae... both seen around 1PM 4/9/26 woods NE Oklahoma (unsure of plant ID - maybe young Verbesina?)

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Some very pretty lichen on some dead wood in the Boundary Bay Park, Vancouver. 🇨🇦 #lichen #nature #photography #film

A sun-bleached log sits in a field of dry reeds. The focus of the picture is a lichen atop of the log. The lichen has grey-green branches growing upwards with red tips (fruiting bodies).

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A male willow, enjoying the first days of warm weather. Taken in Boundary Bay Park, Vancouver 🇨🇦 #plants #nature #photography #film

Picture of two willow branches. The branches stands vertically in the frame. The front branch is blooming. At the base of the branch are four male flowers, still covered with grey haired buds. Above are two open male flowers with yellow stamen. The back branch is tipped with freshly emerged, pale-green leaves, sticking out above the flowers of the front branch.

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A young bald eagle sitting in a tree. This one was part of a group of three young eagles and one adult. Haliaeetus leucocephalus in Boundary Bay Park, Vancouver. 🇨🇦 #birds #nature #photography #film

A brown eagle sits on a branch, back to the camera, head turned left, showing its face.

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) munching on some fresh buds. Burnaby Mountain Park, Vancouver. 🇨🇦 #sqrlpix #nature #photography #film

A brown squirrel sits in a budding bush with small, emerging green leafs and red bud covers. The squirrel is facing left and is slightly obscured by the branches.

A brown squirrel sits in a budding bush with small, emerging green leafs and red bud covers. The squirrel is heavily obscured by the branches, facing to the front-left.

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What do you think they are discussing? Two tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) in Boundary Bay Park, Vancouver. 🇨🇦 #birds #nature #photography #film

Two tree swallos sit atop a free standing wooden nestbox. The swallows have a white front and metallic blue-green back and top of the head. The pair is facing each other with beaks opened.

Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 4mo ago

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Minas Karamanis @minaskar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

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Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Slowly making friends with this guy and inching closer. Such pretty eyeshadow! Anna‘s Hummingbird (Calypte anna) in #Vancouver. #birds #photography #film

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Early spring in #Vancouver. #nature #photography #film

Picture of a pink flower (Salmonberry) covered in a little bit of snow. More half opened buds and first leaves are behind it, fading into the blurred background of brown brambles and grey sky.

Silhouette of a small bird (Anna‘s Hummingbird) facing right against a grey sky, sitting on top of a tree with a crisscross of still leafless branches.

A red-brown squirrel (likely an American Red Squirrel) sitting on a branch right by the sun-speckled trunk of a tree. The squirrel is facing slightly right towards the camera.

Low angle image of an orange butterfly facing the camera, wings folded upwards, slightly open, sitting on a grey tree trunk.

Lars Sturm @dinivateres.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For #WorldWildlifeDay a Steller‘s Jay and a Canada Jay from last fall on Cypress Mountain, and a Pileated Woodpecker from Lynn Canyon last month. #birds #Vancouver

A bird with a black body, white head, and red crown sits vertically on the right side of a broken off tree trunk. There are more trees and branches behind it with a white-blue sky shining through the gaps. Pileated Woodpecker

ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · 5mo ago

Over thousands of years, the swamps and peatlands in the Congo Basin have accumulated and stored huge amounts of carbon. A research team led by ETH Zurich has now shown that large lakes in this ecosystem are releasing long-buried carbon. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Peatland lakes in the Congo Basin release carbon that is thousands of years old

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Abby Lewis @aslewis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are excited to officially share GHG-Depths, a database of depth-resolved CO2 and CH4 concentrations in 522 lakes, ponds, and reservoirs worldwide. Congrats to Joe Rabaey and a huge team of collaborators! @gleonetwork.bsky.social

Depth-resolved carbon dioxide and methane concentrations in 522 lakes, ponds, and reservoirs worldwide - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Depth-resolved carbon dioxide and methane concentrations in 522 lakes, ponds, and reservoirs worldwide

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Ang (Angela) McGaughran @angmcgaughran.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The University of Waikato is hiring a Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution! It's 3-yrs fixed term (with extension to 4 yrs if funding allows) with teaching, research, and service. We're especially keen on someone who works with invasive species! Apply: shorturl.at/W66Xy PD: shorturl.at/Ucevh

Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution

A 3-year fixed-term lectureship focused on evolutionary ecology, genomics and research-informed teaching.

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