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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Brutal.

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
@michaelfdubois
Mukad A QuBoy
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Swiss Ornithological Institute @vogelwarte.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This week, we're hosting an international workshop focusing on decoding animal movement. We're happy to welcome 40 participants from all continents! #EUFLYNET @biologists.bsky.social

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Théo Michelot @theomichelot.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

We have a preprint about modelling three-dimensional movement tracks, led by @njklappstein.bsky.social. The model takes the form of a step selection function and, just like in 2D, it can include directional persistence, attraction to targets, and habitat selection. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Figure with two panels. Left panel: visualisation of a 3D movement track. Right panel: visualisation of the 3D direction of movement as two angles (one horizontal angle and one vertical angle).

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CCPA Nova Scotia @ccpanovascotia.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

“Fighting for the right to a public university”, written about the Dal Faculty strike, also applies to @cupe3912.bsky.social's strike mandate, which can “be seen as strong resistance to right-wing neoliberal tendencies that strangle universities”. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #Nspoli

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Fighting for the right to a public university - CCPA

The Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) was locked out by the university three weeks ago (August 20th). The DFA’s calls for fair wages and supportive measures for newer and precariously employed facul...

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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science. Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024. Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

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Théo Michelot @theomichelot.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The hmmTMB paper is finally out in the Journal of Statistical Software! An R package for hidden Markov models with random effects, flexible spline-based covariate effects, and fast inference using TMB or Stan. Check out the GIthub repository for more examples. doi.org/10.18637/jss...

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hmmTMB: Hidden Markov Models with Flexible Covariate Effects in R by Théo Michelot

<p>Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are widely applied in studies where a discrete-valued process of interest is observed indirectly. They have for example been used to model behavior from human and animal...

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Natasha Klappstein 🐻‍❄️🇨🇦📈 @njklappstein.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Yes! Very happy to see the DSU finally taking a public stand!

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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Uniforum (Nous Group) has been at Dal since 2022 and they've likely been advising senior administration on creating the crisis narrative since then. Read these articles: circles.eduvation.ca/posts/inviti... and nationalpost.com/feature/how-...

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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board of Governors' "offer" for interest arbitration won't resolve this. It's just creating further delays. Bargaining on the issues important to our members is required. Stop with the stunts, let's get back to the table and talk. It's the only way to #KeepDalStrong

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Luc Cousineau @luccousineau.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Perhaps you have seen the newest presser by @dalhousie.bsky.social (www.dal.ca/dept/hr/labo...) about interest arbitration. Note: THEY CONVINIENTLY LEFT OUT THAT THE @dalfaculty.bsky.social WOULD HAVE TO DROP ALL UNRESOLVED ITEMS They have had since May to bargain and have not. #KeepDalStrong

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Message to faculty and staff, August 27, 2025

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Craig McCormick @craigmccormick.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

How does locking out faculty achieve this objective? Uncompetitive offer followed by lockout disproportionately affects junior faculty (poor retention) and makes Dal less attractive to future hires (poor recruitment). #Solidarity #KeepDalStrong @dalfaculty.bsky.social

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Strategic plan

Dalhousie's Strategic Plan (2021-2026): Third Century Promise, signals our long-term ambition and provides a clear, actionable strategy to guide us.

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 21/08/2025

This is just it. Strikes & lockouts are the big tools unions & employers use, often to bring the other back to the table. Dal’s prez locked us out—while voting on her “offer”!—after her team walked away. I guess just to show she could? That’s not leadership; it’s childish bullying. #KeepDalStrong

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 20/08/2025

Students have set up an open letter, which students can sign, in support of @dalfaculty.bsky.social! THANK YOU! forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

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Microsoft Forms

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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

As if a terrible offer wasn't bad enough, @dalhousieu.bsky.social walked away from the table, AGAIN! Won't even talk about our members' priorities. The disrespect is baffling. DFA wants to bargain, and we need the other side to engage and help us #KeepDalStrong. @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

@supportourscience.bsky.social's letter of concern covered in @science.org's News today #cdnpoli #cdnsci

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Natasha Klappstein 🐻‍❄️🇨🇦📈 @njklappstein.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Concerned about the yellow bars here though. Over a third of researchers are open to using AI to compose a draft. Plus more for editing… so basically using AI for the entire writing process?

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 19/03/2025

Sheer insanity. Can you imagine this in any other industry? Not only giving content away for free, but paying billions for the privilege of doing so, and then paying yet more billions in order to access the content we paid to give away. Make it make sense. 📚

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.  I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Well over 600 signatories now. Please keep the momentum going. Sign and share to show how much the wider scientific community is concerned by the Royal Society's silence over Musk's FRS. Members of the UK and international scientific community are all welcome to sign.

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Martyn Obbard @martynobbard.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

With help from @marcofesta.bsky.social the Canadian Ecologists Starter Pack is now over 50. Please reply to this with brief information if you'd like to be added. bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Recently discovered a fun webpage called Probability Playground where you can interactively explore probability distributions. It’s helpful especially for distributions with parameters that are not immediately intuitive. Very cool! www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~adamcunn/pr...

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