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Robert Way

@labradorice.bsky.social
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Labrador Kallunângajuk from Vâli. Dad. Hunter. Geography prof. Canada Research Chair in Northern Environmental Change. @queensu. Views are my own.

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What might global fossil CO2 emissions do in 2026? Based on IEA estimates, fossil CO2 emissions could decline 0.5% in 2026. A big 2.4% drop in oil & small 0.5% drop in gas, is partially offset by a 1.2% increase in coal. All very uncertain! www.energiogklima.no/nyhet/hormuz...
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 22/09/2026
The world has made real progress in steering away from some of the darkest climate futures where global emissions doubled (or more) this century. But as David Wallace-Wells and I note in today's NYT, we are not out of the woods yet, and climate uncertainty is not our friend: www.nytimes.com/2026...
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 15/09/2026
Example: theconversation.com/budget-cuts-...
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Budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten Arctic science
For decades, ECCC research scientists have been integral to the work of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 04/09/2026
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Ottawa issues comprehensive climate report that reflects country’s physical transformation
From retreating glaciers to fire weather and marine heat waves, climate change will likely become even more pronounced, assessment finds
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
2025-26: the first year Canadian universities employed more tenured/TT professors over the age of 70 than under the age of 35.
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Laura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A short but excellent video on El Niño/La Niña! I love the visuals: one more format by which to better understand and marvel at this climate phenomenon.
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Rodney Barney @rcbstormpost.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Hot Sunday for many! 🔥 33.1°C Goose Bay #YYR (2nd highest in 2026); 32.8°C Cartwright (warmest s/Aug 13, 2025); 32.6°C Mary's Hr (warmest s/Aug 11, 2025); 30.2°C Badger (first 30+°C & warmest s/Aug 13, 2025); 27.8°C Sagona I (warmest s/all-time rec 28.3°C on Jun 11, 2007!). Data s/1994. #nlwx
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/07/2026
jesus
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Tornado harbinger 🤣 xkcd.com/3267/
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Types of Tornado Alert
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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.
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Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds
Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 12/06/2026
The world has warmed by around 1.4C since 1850. It took 148 years for the first half of that warming to occur, and just 27 years for the second half!
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Robert Way @labradorice.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A new paper by the Northern Tornadoes research group (I think) highlights some major concerns for Canadians outside of existing weather radar coverage. I noticed that in the Quebec/Labrador border region near two major communities there was an EF2 tornado. There is no weather radar coverage here.
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Northern Tornadoes Project 🇨🇦 @westernuntp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A new Canadian 30-year tornado climatology has been published by NTP researchers in the Canadian peer-reviewed journal Atmosphere-Ocean. It can be freely accessed here: uwo.ca/ntp/blog/202... A companion 'fact sheet' full of useful statistics can be found here: uwo.ca/ntp/docs/Tor...
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Does El Niño forecasting have their own version of a "hot models" problem? There are currently 13 seasonal forecast ensembles used to predict future El Niño / La Niña. Diversity is good, but there remains broad disagreement among them, with some suggesting all-time records. 🧵
Plot segmented by month showing model forecasts for the Relative Oceanic Nino Index (rONI) during 2026 as well as historical record highs.
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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Latest by me at the Globe and Mail, on the substantial drop in children under-5 living in the GTA and Greater Montreal Area, and the "doom loop" it creates when amenities for kids close, furthering the exodus of young families. Read here:
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Why families with small children are leaving Toronto and Montreal for Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa
Lack of housing affordability and decreasing daycares, schools make Toronto and Montreal less friendly for young families
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Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is what every game developer sounds like right now.
A chef insisting that his cake made with diarrhea is perfectly fine to consume.
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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 27/05/2026
Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.
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NTV News @ntvnewsnl.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Labrador woman makes history this week by becoming N.L.’s first Innu lawyer ntv.ca/news/labrado...
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Labrador woman makes history this week by becoming N.L.'s first Innu lawyer - NTV: Newfoundland and Labrador's Most Trusted News Source
A Labrador woman made history this past week by becoming this province’s first Innu lawyer. NTV’s Rosie Mullaley spoke with Jolene Ashini whose call to the bar was momentous occasion. Related Articles...
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Robert Way @labradorice.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Left out of this article is that this is all happening in the backdrop of Canada decimating its climate observing network over the past several decades. See the presentation below for examples: 84bbf97c-1ba3-4840-8e5a-93b4adf7881f.usrfiles.com/ugd/84bbf9_1...
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Alexander Quon @alexanderquon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Weather experts concerned about public safety as Environment Canada disbands radar research team www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Weather experts concerned about public safety as Environment Canada disbands radar research team | CBC News
From hail sizes to wind speeds, weather radars help Environment and Climate Change Canada track storms and issue public warnings. But the organization has recently disbanded its radar research team. M...
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Even moderate levels of wildfire smoke are damaging. For PM2.5 in the yellow AQI range (10-25 micrograms/m^3): 10% increase in emergency department visits for acute respiratory conditions; 25% increase for asthma. But people don’t avoid exposure until the AQI hits 137. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
A shocking report by Ontario’s Auditor General concerning the Ontario government’s use of AI by the public service! Very poor controls of how AI is being used and lack of training! Unacceptable risk to citizen’s privacy and the accuracy of work done!
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This should be applied to proposals too.
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Simon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Ooof... this paper on AI use in academic writing, based on submissions to the journal Organization Science. Sadly agrees with my anecdotal observations as an editor. AI-tinged submissions have increased, and readability and quality have decreased. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10....
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Dave Sills 🍁🌪️🎶⚓☮️ @davesills.ca · 09/05/2026
This letter-writing campaign to restore the radar science team that supports Canada's new radar network has already seen 9200 letters sent. An amazing response! If you haven't sent one yet, please consider it. ECCC's new alert colours are nice. But for severe weather warnings, radar is foundational.
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Dave Sills 🍁🌪️🎶⚓☮️ @davesills.ca · 12/05/2026
Globe & Mail reporting that the radar scientists supporting EC's new $180M national radar network have been disbanded. They did the work to ensure the 'essential functionality' of the network - providing timely, high-quality data for weather warning decisions. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1fa5cdb...
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Environment Canada disbands radar research team amid cuts to weather services
Reductions could hamper Canada’s ability to track severe weather events, experts warn
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This is one of those "wait for it" things: simulation of the #TracyArm landslide tsunami by Pat Lynett for our paper that came out this week in @science.org. This one is from the vantage point of a jetski at sea level. 🧪⚒️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026
personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.
Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned.  The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.
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Robert Way @labradorice.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I'm somewhat agnostic about this. But the privacy concerns are certainly not compelling to me. Private companies and governments are already collecting most of this data and in some cases selling it. Social media is actively being used to harvest data on people too young to give consent.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/05/2026
A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Retraction Note: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis
Jin Wang & Wenxiang Fan 
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 13, Article number: 528 (2026) Cite this article

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The Original Article was published on 06 May 2025

Retraction Note to: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04787-y, published online 06 May 2025

The Editor has decided to retract this paper owing to concerns regarding discrepancies in the meta-analysis. These issues ultimately undermine the confidence the Editor can place in the validity of the analysis and resulting conclusions. The authors have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.
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Manuel Linsenmeier @mlinsenmeier.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
New paper published in PNAS today! Joint work with Jeffrey Shrader, Stephan Thies, Derek Lemoine, and Laura Bakkensen: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Ottawa Senators @senators.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
IN THE DANCE 😤
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Robert Way @labradorice.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Woo!!
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Ambarish Karmalkar @ambarish.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Abstract: The case is made that machine-learning statistical estimation neither can nor should be expected to supplant physics-based simulation for weather forecasting. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Stephen Lewis has gone to the angels. He was a relentless fighter for justice. When I was 9 my Granny (an immigrant mining widow) made me sit in front of the TV and listen to him speak about compensation for mining victims. His passion and commitment stayed with me. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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A Humanitarian Giant Has Passed
Stephen Lewis has gone to the angels.
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The production of ERA6, coming up in 2027, has started. The next‑generation climate reanalysis from #CopernicusClimate will offer >2× finer resolution than ERA5, a coupled ocean–atmosphere–wave model, improved data access & more. Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-c... @ecmwf.int
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
There is no excuse to be posting on twitter. None.
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Elon Musk's xAI sued for turning three girls' real photos into AI CSAM
Discord user led cops to Grok-generated CSAM of real girls, lawsuit says.
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Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
WHAT A CAREER Brad Gushue has just played his last game at the Brier. A remarkable career. Six Brier titles. World title. Olympic gold and bronze. 15 Slam titles. It’s been an honour to cover so many of those moments. Congratulations @BradGushue.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/03/2026
Wonderful news: my university has announced it will stop using X. uwimprint.ca/uw-announced... And no, this does not violate institutional neutrality, properly understood. Nothing about neutrality in communications requires a university to use any and all platforms.
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UW announced departure from X (formerly known as Twitter)
UW is no longer using X, formerly known as Twitter, which they announced in a post on Feb. 27.  Before this announcement, the university posted periodic updates about closures, safety alert systems, ...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/03/2026
So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."
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Robert Way @labradorice.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
3 on 3 to decide a gold medal game is garbage
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ChatGPT conversations from the Tumbler Ridge teenager who carried out a horrific school shooting were flagged by employees at OpenAI. They raised their concerns but the company ultimately did nothing, according to the reporting. archive.is/GUweE#select...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
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Robert Way @labradorice.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
As a Sens fan I do enjoy this.
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Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
GOOOOOOAAAAALLLLLL CANADA 🇨🇦 WINS IT IN OVERTIME MOVING ON AT THE OLYMPICS EXHALE CANADA
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TSN @tsnofficial.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Peak athleticism! 🐶 A dog got loose on the cross-country ski course. #MilanoCortina2026
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joshuaconfer.bsky.social @joshuaconfer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Why do otherwise rational people disagree about the same evidence? Our new paper finds that group membership is a deeply rooted influence on how we form beliefs, leading even preschoolers to bias their evidential standards and form inaccurate beliefs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 15/02/2026
Can we assume the elimination of the diploma in Newfoundland and Labrador studies is the elimination of the only such program in the world? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Memorial University cuts programs – here’s what’s gone and why | CBC News
Memorial University has ended or paused more than a dozen academic programs, blaming poor enrolment as a factor in many of the cuts.
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