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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 13h

Good news: there’s better coffee at any of the local cafés around anyways. Ottawa Bike Cafe, Little Victories, etc. #ottawa

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ottawa election betting odds on Polymarket. The amalgamation effect never ceases to amaze. #ottawa / #autowa

Betting odds on Polymarket showing Mark Sutcliffe as 83% likely to win

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New paper alert! 🚨 Incredibly, the western Arctic was warmer in 2023-24 than 1998 during what, at the time, was considered a truly remarkable climatic event. Permafrost is responding in turn. Wonder what the super El Nino will bring this year 🫪 cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

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Response of permafrost to recent extreme warm conditions (2023-2024) in northwestern Canada

The response of permafrost to anomalously warm years is examined within the context of a multi decadal warming trend in the Mackenzie Valley and Delta regions of northwestern Canada. The effects of wa...

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Hazel Newlevant @newlevant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New study suggests that raising school ventilation levels to ASHRAE 241 targets could reduce flu cases by 33% for the WHOLE POPULATION! We need clean air in schools so bad!!! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Climate-Ready Buildings: Insights from U.S. Schools in a Global Context

Climate Week NYC • Sept 23
Projected Health Impacts of Cleaner Air in NYC Schools
Geetha Jeyapragasan and Charlie Whittaker I University of California, Berkeley
We modelled the projected impact of higher levels of ventilation and filtration in NYC schools. We did this by assessing the impact of achieving a field-recognized standard for healthy indoor air (ASHRAE Standard 241), developed by the American Society for Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, the professional association of ventilation engineers. Adopting it in schools would reduce the burden of seasonal respiratory illness and improve preparedness for future epidemics.
We developed an epidemiological modelling framework to estimate how improving building air quality affects airborne disease transmission in schools. Here, using seasonal influenza as a case study, we share results about the potential public health impact of raising ventilation such that all schools met ASHRAE 241 targets, approximately 9 equivalent air changes per hour (ACH).
INFLUENZA INFECTIONS AVERTED
PER YEAR
54%
IN CHILDREN
33%
IN OVERALL POPULATION
Share of influenza infections averted in children and the general population if all schools achieved ASHRAE 241 filtration targets. This also results in 30% reduction in hospitalizations across all ages.
IMPACTS
261K
SCHOOL ABSENTEE DAYS
ELIMINATED PER YEAR
$25M
IN PARENTAL
PRODUCTIVITY LOSSES
SAVED
Days of school absenteeism prevented each year through reduced influenza transmission, and the value of the parental working time no longer lost to caring for sick children.

Why This Matters for New York City
ALL FLU CASES
New York City operates the largest public school system in the United States, with approximately 880,000 students across 1,800 schools. A large portion of this infrastructure predates modern ventilation standards, with the average school building around 70 years old. An inspection of NYC schools i…

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 20/09/2026

Zelenskyy confirmed Ukrainian long-range strikes on a key Russian oil facility and a logistics site in the Moscow region overnight. He said FP-1, RZ-100, MICH-2000, Palianytsia, Vendetta, Liutyi, Bars, Flamingo, Sichen and Pelican systems were used in the operation. #Ukraine

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A “few” black flies out today in a peatland near Kakisa, Northwest Territories

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here are some wild bison we saw today while driving toward Fort Providence, Northwest Territories. Magnificent creatures 😍

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The VW ID Polo, another small affordable EV not coming to Canada because of “market preferences” 🙄 #evs

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here are some nice mountains! It’s crazy how you can be on a plane and take a pic with a phone and then post it to BlueSky from the sky! 🤯

Black and white pic of some sharp mountains

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Isn’t it wild how more than a third of Americans still approve of him tho?

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EllenA + Orcas @eamcur25.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What humiliating defeat caused this return?

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 06/09/2026

100 years of August sea surface temperature anomalies... wait for the last frame showing 2026, where the fingerprint of El Niño is becoming very prominent, even against the background warmth of long-term climate change. Data from NOAA ERSSTv6: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ext... 🌊

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/09/2026

Your 'doom quote' for today: "A few famous environmentalists now state publicly that it is too late for stopping catastrophic change, despite telling those of us who said that before to 'shut up'." jembendell.com/2026/08/28/a...

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A dozen disputed but now demonstrable facts about climate change from the consequential Deep Adaptation paper of 2018

In the months and years after the Deep Adaptation paper on climate change went viral with a million downloads, there was a backlash from top climatologists and environmental professionals. One of t…

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was lucky to be a contributing author to the Cryosphere chapter on permafrost stuff :)

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The rise was vigorous But the hat stayed on

Dough overflowing out of a bowl with a lid looking like a hat barely clinging on. A face has been drawn on the dough

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Now Google has put Lake America in parentheses after Lake Ontario, and the Lake America label is gone on the map. GACO?

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Two amazing loess sections in Nebraska. Left, Middle to Late Pleistocene loess in a canal cut near Elba. Note gullies formed in the Late Pleistocene, then buried by loess. Right, Moran Canyon cut exposing the Brady Soil, formed at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, halfway up by the cedar.

A large, high cut made for an irrigation canal. Layers of loess (wind-blown dust) are exposed, along with soils formed in them. One soil is dark brown, others are reddish brown. There are ancient gullies eroded into loess and then buried by more loess.

Loess exposed in a road cut, most of which is very light grayish to yellowish brown. There is a darker gray buried soil half way up the cut, several meters below the ground surface at the top.

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NanaBlaze🇨🇦 @nanablaze.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Today the petition stands at 261569 signatures . Remove Hoekstra. Please sign and share. #ElbowsUp #CdnPoli #Canada www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Petition e-7531 - Petitions

Only validated signatures are counted towards the total number of signatures.

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I thought you needed to see my friend’s dog’s snoot à la wide angle this morning

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I didn’t believe it but it’s true, how could Google get it so wrong?

A Google map showing Lake Ontario labelled erroneously as Lake America

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Black and white landscape, near Radstock Bay, Devon Island, Nunavut. August 2026.

A landscape photo of a gravelly stream valley with a person in the foreground, and a bay and plateaus in the background

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Royal Canadian Air Force C17 Globemaster takeoff from Resolute Bay, Nunavut 💪

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Here’s a nice picture of sedimentary bedrock cliffs on Devon Island, Nunavut

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cycling in the high Arctic while delayed returning home due to fog… #cycling

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’m glad we didn’t kowtow to MAGA trade demands. Enjoy that sinking ship! We’ll be fine here in the end. 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

High Arctic polar dip on Devon Island. A nearby station recorded a water temperature of -1.4C at 5m depth that day 😃

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Whale rib at Thule whaling camp on Radstock Bay, Nunavut

A whale rib in front of a steep rock slope

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Beach ridges formed during Holocene sea level recession, Radstock Bay, Nunavut

A series of curved beach ridges in a vast landscape, with cliffs in the background

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Seeing a polar bear while out on the land today was magnificent. What an animal 😍 (and thanks Mr/Mrs bear for being polite)

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Thule whale bone house remains, Devon Island, Nunavut (today)

Stones and bones in front of a geologic tower

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Here’s a nice photo I took on Devon Island, Nunavut, today

A geologic tower in the background with a winding steam and hummock terrain in the foreground

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The approach to Resolute Bay, Nunavut, this afternoon. Beautiful!

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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Another active fire day in BC but what scares me is the lightning forecast. Expect lightning in BC for the next 9 days. It is bone dry in parts of BC so if we see the lightning, we could see many new fire starts. ECMWF lightning density maps for Monday and Tuesday.

ECMWF 12-hr lightning density forecasts for BC on Monday Aug 10.

ECMWF 12-hr lightning density forecasts for Tuesday Aug 11

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Praise be to Jimothy New mantra 🦝

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WidowsPique 🇨🇦 @widowspique.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I 💝 Hillary.

Local man suggests jailing his own boss.

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Some of this footage reminds me of WWII fighter gun camera footage. Wild.

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Geological Survey of Canada’s recently published annual report features several of my pics, including on the cover! :) check out what we’ve been up to! doi.org/10.4095/p2pe...

A hand holding a sample of ice drilled from permafrost

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps

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