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Dr Jasmine Janes @jazjanes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Please share 🧪 We seek 2 postdocs to work on Vancouver Island marmots in the following areas : 1 - demographic models. 2 - conservation genomics. Positions based at UNBC, working with MRF. Full details here marmots.org/recovery-eff... #conservation #jobs

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Recovery Efforts – The Vancouver Island Marmot Recovery Foundation

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Phil Millins @philmullins.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Robust universities, with academic freedom for teaching and research are crucial for strong, prosperous, and free societies. Watching the US, and hoping the new Canadian Gov re-invests and strengthens post-secondary. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 04/03/2025

This should not get lost among all the other chaos: “Trump has instructed… officials to circumvent the US’s Endangered Species Act by using unspecified emergency powers to ignore protections placed upon vulnerable creatures’ habitats.” 🌎 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber

President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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