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Robert W Park 🇬🇱

@rwmp.bsky.social
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Archaeologist interested in the far north, both Inuit who've been there thousands of years (doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0326) and explorers who died after only three (tinyurl.com/4dk9edt9); in recovery after years as a minor academic administrator

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Dave Nelson 🇨🇦 @davenlsn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Don't buy American produce. Another example: Driscoll's sent millions of pounds of fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals to Canada and the company tried to cover it up. #BoycottUSA #CanadaSky www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...
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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 24/09/2026
We are a very old building. We have lots of keys. We have lots of keys that don’t open anything. Join us for a one off installment of, “Keys of the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall that are pretty but completely useless”. 🔑 🧵
We are looking at two pewter plates with an assortment of large brass and iron keys in various shapes and sizes.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 21/09/2026
"You're right! That runway wasn't actually clear which is why you crashed into another plane. Would you like me to call an ambulance?" www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Inside airlines’ panic as FAA pushed new AI tool
The aviation agency is now going with a more modest rollout to help manage flight scheduling.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pictured today using online app to translate French French to Canadian French.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026
Humaning.
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"
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Yvette d’Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In a post on "that" platform Thursday morning, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez shared an image of the EU flag featuring the addition of a red maple leaf. One commenter had a bit of fun with their reply!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
Just going to keep saying this - the fossil fuel crisis stopped being segmented and is now persistent and probably perpetual. The only way to protect yourself from this is to lobby your politicians to end reliance on this war-torn, unreliable, expensive fuel and switch to modern technology instead.
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Saudi Arabia shuts down key oil pipeline, blaming drones from Iraq
Riyadh has increased use of East-West pipeline since start of war on Iran to bypass closure of strait of Hormuz
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John @dtdeng.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
The usual suspects will reject it, but this resolution is long overdue, well done Togo. Africa is truly very very very massive! “You could fit the United States, China, India, Japan, Mexico and much of Europe into Africa and still have land to spare,”
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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Danielle Smith went on US TV and said Canadians are confused and disappointed about Trump renaming Lake Ontario. No, we’re not confused. We’re not disappointed. We know exactly what’s going on! We’re pissed off because they’re threatening us!” 🇨🇦 OShow youtu.be/OiWbHVN3vSs?si…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Napoleon muses about renaming Waterloo after himself
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/09/2026
I am a scientist – and the answer is climate change. Yes, there is nuance. Yes, it could take a long time to identify the precise mechanisms. But there is no question why ice and snow-related disasters are on the rise. Our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and humans are responsible.
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 01/09/2026
Apple Maps Caves to Trump on Renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America
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Apple Maps Caves to Trump on Renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America
Apple Maps changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America for people in the United States on Tuesday, September 1, days after Google did the same. The post Apple Maps Caves to Trump on Renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America first appeared on Mediaite.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Apple has bowed to the dictator and changed Lake Ontario to “Lake America” on its maps. It’s clear that Big Tech will sell out every one of us if it means another nickel in their bank account.
“Lake America” on an Apple map
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ladies & gents: I give you what is easily the dumbest Canadian think-tank paper of the entire fucking decade. THIS IS NOT HOW YOU USE H-INDEXES YOU ABSOLUTE MUPPETS. H-INDEXES ARE CORRELATED WITH AGE & FIELD OF STUDY ALL THIS TELLS YOU IS WHITE SCHOLARS ARE OLDER & MORE LIKELY TO BE IN SCIENCES.
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The equity excellence trade-off: A study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program | Macdonald-Laurier Institute
The analysis reveals that EDI has actively weakened Canadian research and reduced overall academic performance at Canadian universities.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Permafrost is thawing deeper and it’s happening worldwide. A new study of 156 monitoring sites found that the active layer, the soil that thaws each summer, increased significantly at many sites from 2000–2024. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Long-term monitoring of active layer thickness confirms global permafrost degradation - Communications Earth & Environment
Active-layer thickness increased at 55% and 38% of Arctic and Antarctic sites, and >90% in European, Asian, and South American mountains, driven by increasing thawing degree-days and rainfall, acco...
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Doug Ford going on the news and calling Trump a loser and the "King of Bankruptcies," saying no one likes him, and telling him to kiss his ass brings almost as big a tear to my eye as remembering he's my premier
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/08/2026
The mainstream media has treated the collapse of trade talks with Canada as a symmetrical crisis, with each side blaming the other for a needless trade war. What these accounts leave out is the fact that all of Trump’s gratuitously imposed tariffs were illegal to begin with. buff.ly/jqL1tQ4
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Canada Stands Up to Trump’s Illegal Tariffs - The American Prospect
After the U.S. increased demands over the weekend, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rightly concluded that deals with this president are a fool’s errand.
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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Yikes, this is the stuff of archaeology nightmares, a Mexican museum loaned the artifacts to a researcher, who never returned them and (presumably) they died and everything got thrown out. Rescued only thanks to someone conscientious who was cleaning the house and knew an archaeologist.
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How more than 1,000 artifacts were found in a dumpster, then returned to Mexico
More than 1,000 pre-Hispanic artifacts are being repatriated to Mexico from the United States thanks to Jeremy Pilver, a licensed archeologist in Connecticut, and his high school students.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
authors who put a single endnote at the end of a long paragraph and then cite half a dozen different books without any indication of which factual assertions came from which sources are actually going straight to hell, I'm so sorry to be the one to tell you!!!!
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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
My piece today in The Spectator on the dramatic cuts proposed at Exeter University and the real perils of sacrificing the humanities.
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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
As a physician I would like to point out that there is no such thing as “regular diarrhea.” Americans: WTF is wrong with your country* that having diarrhea is “normal”?! *rhetorical question (you know what’s wrong with your country)
Screenshot from HuffPost headline, “the key difference between regular diarrhea and cyclosporiasis…”
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Antonio RB @antonioreyesb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The one Neil role that ought not to be missed:
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Who would have known Argentina would have so much trouble battling a remote Atlantic archipelago?
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We live in an age of extreme inequality. As archaeologists and anthropologists, I believe it is fundamentally important that we demonstrate that imbalance of power is not inevitable and that there are many other ways of existing as a society.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?
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thegladerunner.bsky.social @thegladerunner.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Ea-nāṣir the copper merchant has been seen entering Downing Street
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Looking for reliable news on the hantavirus outbreak? Stepping out of my vaccine conference to be on the BBC world service radio in a few minutes to get into more detail. I’ll be doing more updates like this with @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social so let me know what you think and ask me anything!
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Dear King Charles Here's a photo to consider as you meet the man threatening our nation. It is of young Canadians putting their lives at risk in the Battle of Britain. I know Keir wants you to restore the "special relationship" with Trump. Canada was there from Day 1. Don't let us down.
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I saw this yesterday. I love when words have multiple meanings.
@ BobGolen

The speed at which a virus spreads depends on:
1. How dense the population is.
2. How dense the population is.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Yf thys skeet doth receive 3,000 reposts then the Tolkien Estate will sue Palantir.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/04/2026
why the hell would we put windows 11 in space
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Bible believers who have not been totally brainwashed by the MAGA cult might be a tad disturbed about Trump’s plan to put his signature on our money.
Revelation 13:17: So that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Sad news: www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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Famed primatologist Biruté Galdikas dead at 79 | CBC News
Biruté Mary Galdikas, a Canadian scientist who dedicated her life to the study and conservation of orangutans, has died. She was the last living member of the renowned primatologists known as "trimate...
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
World leaders need to look to Spain right now. I am so exhausted hearing about polite, calm diplomacy in the face of two countries starting illegal wars, lying about it, murdering children, and committing genocide in plain sight. It's shameful. I can't stop thinking about the Iranian girls' school.
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Robert W Park 🇬🇱 @rwmp.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Cathal Kelly’s columns are among the few reasons I continue to subscribe to the Globe and Mail, and him upsetting US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra is a huge bonus
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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, I find your presence in Canada disappointing & outrageous, but I can only wait with hopeful patience for my government to serve you notice under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961). Cathal Kelly is awesome. You are not. Regards, Heather
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty" Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Steve Postman 🇨🇦 @steve1970peng.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Eisenhower
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Robert W Park 🇬🇱 @rwmp.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
#Caturday finding radiant heating 😺
A black cat on a counter under a window which is the best place to soak up some sunlight heat
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Probably fine
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 22/02/2026
Remember this next time this country asks us to send troops to Afghanistan or Iraq
White House: 

Image (probably AI) of a Bald Eagle and Canadian goose
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 19/02/2026
every British historian rn frantically trying to find examples of British royals being arrested that don’t end with their execution
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