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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Call for plant ecophysiologists! Do you have Fv/Fm or F0-rise data? Do you know someone who might? @seanmichaletz.bsky.social and @nicolebison.bsky.social would love to hear from you. (Bonus if your data are from Asia or Africa.) Please share widely! #ecology #botany #ClimateChange #HeatTolerance

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Guys there is a TikTok trend right now where high school OL are posting videos like these and I am watching and liking every single one

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Jay Cockburn @jaycockburn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

We cannot afford to do this. Quite literally, the economic cost of investing in oil and gas now will be a colossal burden on future generations.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The pipeline announcement begins with Carney acknowledging, without a hint of irony, the “biblical weather” in Ottawa yesterday. Extreme weather huh? Like the kind exacerbated by climate change? You don’t say! Hm!!!!

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Jay De Santi @desantijay.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

reposting this because it's still a major story in MTL (at least en français) & i don't see any of the usual english-language outlets covering cdn police violence discussing or reporting the suspending (w pay) or reassigning of a whole nightshift for TAKING TROPHIES OF BLACK MEN THEY ARRESTED

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Jay De Santi @desantijay.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"Of the 16 cops taken off the front lines, two are facing possible criminal charges from Quebec’s crown prosecutor. They had faced complaints from citizens, but it was the testimony of their fellow officers that ultimately tipped the scales." therover.ca/how-many-mot...

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“How Many Mothers Have You Made Cry?” – The Rover

In Montréal-Nord, a community rises up against police brutality and racial profiling.

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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“In other words, unwritten science is not just incomplete; it simply does not exist for the purposes of the field. When you look at it this way, the job of a scientist - having ideas, testing them, and persuading others they are right - turns out to be, fundamentally, an act of writing.”

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Stefan Hupperts 🌲🍄🦠🏳️‍🌈 @stefhupperts.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

We're searching for a postdoc fellow to conduct research on biological nitrogen fixation in boreal forests! The postdoc will join a dynamic and fun research group in Umeå. Deadline Aug 27th. Reach out if you have any questions! www.slu.se/en/about-slu... @michael-gundale.bsky.social

A pine-dominated boreal forest in northern Sweden, with some field equipment patiently awaiting the researchers' return.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 03/06/2026

So overwhelmed with rage I passed out

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

But seriously, distracted driving is a huge, lethal problem but the way y'all engage in surveillance culture is wild. We could eliminate flashy screens and all the bells and whistles and curb a ton of bad driving habits without driving a panopticon on 4 wheels.

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Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info · 12/04/2026

To emphasize, USFS employees are BARRED from speaking to press about reorg. That’s right— like any abuser who threatens their victim not to tell of the abuse. This is why USFS supporters’ voices are key now. Please call your reps 🙏 Guide for first-timers: www.lcv.org/blog/how-to-... #SaveUSFS

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How to Call Your Members of Congress in 3 Easy Steps

New to calling members of Congress? We’ve got you covered with this simple how-to guide to making your voice heard on Capitol Hill!

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/04/2026

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Hey US Air Force targeting analyst, if they’re saying “find me all the desalination plants“ that’s a big old illegal order and war crime target and you don’t want no part of that

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 10/03/2026

"AI will let us turn PhDs from 4 year degrees into 6 month degrees!" Literally shitting on the part that makes it intellectual development. It requires things like *reading* for yourself and *writing* for yourself. Those aren't chores, they're part of skills acquisition and critical development.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

A Better World Isn’t a Dream. It’s a Choice. And we’re currently choosing poorly.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Me, dumb and politically correct: Firing on unarmed ships or double-tap military strikes on schools are bad things.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

How come “How are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

As good a time as any to remind people that the vast majority of deaths from the Iraq war were due to preventable disease from destroyed infrastructure and sanctions.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

You can rest assured that someone w/ administration ties will make bank from this directly and also that from now on the private sector will be even more prominent in the provision of a public good - information - w/ all accompanying inefficiencies & inequities. Really selling the country for parts.

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Jay De Santi @desantijay.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

obscene. as alan richter says in the article: the officers would have known through that encounter that she was a lawyer. impossible not to see the confluence of anti-black racism, misogyny, & unchecked police violence so familiar to the criminal system, now turned against one of its members.

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Jay De Santi @desantijay.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

in addition to what de melo notes here that defence lawyers may stay late because JUDGES ask us to--if you're in court daily, you start to recognise the faces of the other ppl who work there. are we supposed to believe the officers who (allegedly) assaulted her didn't know who riley was?

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Lawyer alleges Durham Region police violently assaulted her, dragged her to cells in Oshawa courthouse | CBC News

A lawyer says she was left bloody and swollen after multiple Durham regional police officers allegedly slammed her head on a desk without provocation, ripped off her head scarf and dragged her to the ...

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I REPEAT: YOU DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, FUND THE GESTAPO!

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

AI makes everything worse, and science and all of us stupid. Authored by AI, reviewed by AI, edited by AI, published by AI. Next? cited by AI.

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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 27/11/2025

everyone: we just want streets to be safe to walk near, especially around schools ontario: best we can do is street signs so big they fully obscure schoolchildren

photo of a person holding a gigantic street sign next to a regular speed limit sign. the regular speed limit sign says “maximum 40 begins”. the gigantic street sign has an even larger speed limit on it, a note that says “school zone ahead” and a yellow caution sign showing 2 people crossing the street. the person holding the large sign is completely obscured by it

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Nick Ashbourne @nickashbourne.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

You genuinely can’t get much closer to winning the World Series without doing it. That Blue Jays run was incredible, and nothing that came before today was invalidated by that result — but a win sure could have elevated it.

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Nick Ashbourne @nickashbourne.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Players with 30+ hits in a single MLB playoff run: Ernie Clement That's it.

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Stoeten @stoeten.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The job isn't done yet, but the Blue Jays have been getting it done in the World Series. And, of course, this week @nickashbourne.bsky.social and I are talking about the Only Thing That Matters. Have a listen! 👇

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🎧BJHH: 201 - One. Win. Away.

The job isn't done yet, but the Blue Jays have been getting it done in the World Series...

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Nick Ashbourne @nickashbourne.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

In MLB history, 334 hitters have come to the plate 60+ times in a playoff run. Of that group, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s 2025 ranks second by wRC+ (248) behind only Barry Bonds in 2002.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/06/2025

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

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Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This is, by a large margin, the most astonishing sample I have seen in my 'career' (15 yr sampling glacier subfossil wood)! 🥰 Wanted to share it on this first World Glacier Day! 🧊❄️ This trunk has spent almost 10,000 years below a glacier and I have never seen bark better preserved! 💪

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Jay De Santi @desantijay.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

with everything going on in the usa regarding both the major and rapid changes to the law/regs/practice re immigration and trans ppl, how the hell can canada responsibly issue a blanket "normal risks" status without at least a warning for trans people specifically?!

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Travel advice and advisories for United States (USA)

Travel Advice and Advisories from the Government of Canada

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

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Jay De Santi @desantijay.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

whether we can access healthcare or not, we're trans. what these EOs are doing, is hurting and destroying the lives of trans kids, before they take aim at adults. years of treating a marginalised community like a shameful political football, like we're an embarassment to liberal political and legal

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Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation – The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy and

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Posting on behalf of my colleague Sylvie Quideau. She is offering a funded Ph.D. position in Soil Science- Forest Soil Carbon. See ad below for details. Please share. Thx!

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Nick Ashbourne @nickashbourne.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This year, I recorded every movie, TV show, game, podcast, and book I engaged with, which was an experience I recommend. Speaking of recommendations, here are the recs I have to offer based on that undertaking:

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Jay De Santi @desantijay.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

fuck "the cruelty is the point." healthcare bans kill. closets kill. trans death and disappearance is the point.

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Jeff Dukes @dukesjeff.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Interested in how and where trees move water? I'm hiring a plant ecophys postdoc to study hydraulic redistribution in Indiana forests. If you'll be at AGU and want to discuss, please reach out! jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/postdoc...

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Job: Postdoctoral Opportunity: Hydraulic redistribution in forests | Carnegie Science Careers

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Eric Searle, PhD @ebsearle.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It's time for my favourite pastime! Looking at the Ontario 511 highway cameras and saying "Oof, that's alot of snow" Hopefully I get a few months of it this year!

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Nick Ashbourne @nickashbourne.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I have no interest in Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson, but sometimes you find yourself in a bar in Saulte Ste Marie, and it's on 11 screens....

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