!ubc@lemmy.ca
The Lemmy community of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada!
To contact the mods, we recommend sending a modmail on Reddit until there is an equivalent feature on Lemmy. If you want, you can also message @Otter on Lemmy.
A community project with:
Summarized Guidelines:
Be polite: Treat each other with respect. No slurs (ex. racial, gender, homophobic, mental health, etc.)
Engage in good faith: If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.
Use Megathreads: If your question can go in a megathread or stickied post, you must post it there.
Keep content relevant: Posts must be related to UBC or its community. All memes must be OC and/or explicitly related to UBC.
Follow community rules: This includes illegal activities, linking to unauthorized copyrighted materials, doxxing, and violations of UBC academic conduct policy (read more).
Advertisements: UBC affiliated non-profit organizations may advertise within reasonable limits. Everyone else must contact us before posting. No private advertisement of any sale or purchase. (read more).
Surveys: Surveys should be posted only if they are related to UBC or are of unique interest to the UBC community. Only some survey types are allowed (read more).
No discussion of foreign politics unless it has clear and direct implications for the UBC community (read more).
Lost & Found Posts are only allowed for some items (read more). Found posts SHOULD NOT include images or descriptors (color, location) of the item. Pictures with personal information are also prohibited.
In addition, we strongly frown upon reposts and LQ posts, and such posts may be removed.
If you see a post or comment which is not in accordance with these guidelines please use the report feature and DO NOT ENGAGE with it.
FAQs/Megathreads:
!ubc
@lemmy.caAs we head into the new school year, we are finally excited to announce the launch of the new UBC Wiki! This wiki was started years ago by the /r/UBC moderation team, and it just never got to a point where it was ready to be shared with the community. We are now ready to get it going again, and we hope that it will become a useful resource for everyone.
Over the next few days, we will be swapping out outdated links and content to this new wiki website. We hope that this new wiki will be easier to navigate and more accessible to all students. Having the wiki off site also means that we can make changes more quickly and easily, and that it isn't affected by the limitations of one platform.
Over the next while, we will be adding more content to the wiki, and updating content that was written for the old wiki. We will also periodically post a thread for one particular topic to crowdsource information from the community. This should help us keep the wiki up to date and detailed.
The UBC Wiki is intended to be a community project, and we welcome contributions from all UBC community members. If you would like to contribute, you can see the instructions on this page, or see below:
If you are familiar with GitHub, you can also create an issue, or implement the changes yourself and submit a pull request into the STAGING
branch. New ideas submitted by other means will be added as issues.
Technical details about the wiki can be found on the ⚙️UBCWiki Project page.
We hope that you find this wiki useful, and we look forward to seeing it grow and improve over time. Welcome to the new school year, and good luck with your studies!
https://canvas.fediverse.events/?a
https://www.ubcastronomyclub.com/post/northern-lights-resources
The Northern Lights can be quite unpredictable at our latitude, and be hard to spot due to the light pollution and weather conditions in the city. We would recommend using forecasting applications like My Aurora Forecast to stay updated on any opportunities to catch the Northern Lights at your location.You can also check NOAA's forecast for the Northern Lights that updates regularly.How to view the Northern Lights?1. Find Dark Skies: Wait for the sky to get dark and then head away from city ligh
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/pretty-remarkable-ubc-study-finds-e-bike-rebates-led-to-decreased-car-use-1.6876226
There's new evidence that offering people incentives to purchase e-bikes can significantly reduce their reliance on cars.
https://www.ubyssey.ca/features/uytae-lee/
When STEM tutorial YouTube channels were “popping off” in the early 2010s, Uytae Lee wondered how he could address the lack of comprehensive videos dedicated to teaching people about their cities.
https://science.ubc.ca/news/new-gravitational-wave-signal-helps-fill-mass-gap-between-neutron-stars-and-black-holes?eid=caad8f9b320b32a4d764a8892dc27f9e
Location: UBC Robson Sq. C680 HSBC Hall
Join the CS department in a public lecture to learn more about the societal effects and implications for regulations in the development of Generative AI systems from the advancements of machine learning and cloud computing! The panel will include Prof. Lilian Edwards (Newcastle University), Prof. Christopher Millard (Queen Mary University of London), and Prof. Vered Shwartz from UBC Computer Science. For more info on the event and panel keynotes or to register, please visit myCS.