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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This week's blog post is about book awards - the anticipation of being a finalist and the disappointment in not winning. But there are still silver linings! watershednotes.ca/2026/09/23/a...

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Always the Bridesmaid, Never the Bride

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks since my last post. I was feeling pretty good about my book being shortlisted for the BC/Yukon Book Prizes Hubert Eva

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy equinox! We were behind on our planning so didn't even have a homemade apple pie to celebrate. For winter solstice we'll be more prepared!

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Two defeats in a week! Glad to have been shortlisted for the @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social Hubert Evans Non-fiction Award, but congratulations to Julian Brave NoiseCat on his win. Thanks to the jury for selecting my book as a finalist. @ualbertapress.bsky.social

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pleased to have been shortlisted for the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award. Unfortunately I didn't win, but congratulations to the winner! (I don't know who that is yet). Also thanks to the jury for reading all those books.. www.linkedin.com/posts/swccbo...

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#swccbookawards #sciencebooks #canadianbooks #sciencewriting | Science Writers and Communicators of Canada

We're celebrating the 2025 SWCC Book Awards 📚 🏆 shortlist! Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist by Sarah Boon, PhD, FRCGS, published by the The University of Alberta Press is reco...

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Fifth World Congress of Environmental History is Coming to Toronto in 2030! We are excited to welcome @iceho.bsky.social and environmental historians from around the world to Canada! niche-canada.org/2026/09/18/t... #envhist #envhum

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The Fifth World Congress of Environmental History is Coming to Toronto in 2030!

York University in Toronto will host the 2030 Fifth World Congress of Environmental History, marking its North American debut.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Before 'Lake America,' There Was 'Lake Frontenac'" by Scott Berthelette is part of our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series, published in collaboration with @activehist.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/09/14/b... #envhist

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Before “Lake America,” There Was “Lake Frontenac”

Lake Ontario's history shows political renaming attempts often fail, as Indigenous-derived names endure despite official decrees or vanity.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Look what Trump and Russel Vought have done to our Yosemite. The Tioga Pass entrance gate and sign are literally being held together with ratcheting trailer straps. Meanwhile at NW entrance on 120, the visitor station bathrooms are closed and row of horrendously full porta potties await guests.

The wooden entrance gate at Yosemite has its stone pillar made of granite Boulder been stacked like masonry wrapped in neon, orange and yellow ratcheting tiedown straps to prevent the rocks from presumably falling off the center post. There is a orange caution cone in front of the gate as well.

Yosemite’s Northwest entrance public bathrooms with two bathroom clothes, signs in front of the door, preventing people from going in and also have directions pointing folks to the left which leads to stinky nasty porta potties

A row of 12 Porta potties lining the sidewalk of the parking lot in Yosemite that is apparently good enough to take care of the needs of the thousands of visitors that come through this entrance gate every single day.

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My hot take: We are not arguing about SSRIs. Some of us are using them as prescribed by our doctors to treat mental health difficulties. This administration has decided that's a problem based on no actual research.

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"At the heart of AI therapy is a paradox: We embrace it out of our longing for exactly what it cannot ultimately give."

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Evan Walker @ecologicalev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Strategically placed greenbelts in the suburbs could cool some of the world’s biggest cities by almost half a degree across at least half their area” 🌎 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/08/urba...

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Urban heat's overlooked fix: Greening the land upwind of cities

A study published in Nature Cities suggests that forests placed strategically outside urban cores can lower temperatures across much of a city.

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

OK I'll bite. My book is MELTDOWN: THE MAKING AND BREAKING OF A FIELD SCIENTIST. It follows me on my fieldwork adventures on Arctic glaciers, scaring away grizzlies and gauging large rivers. It also shines a light on academia and how I left the university due to mental illness. melt-down.ca

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MELTDOWN – The making and breaking of a field scientist

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For those of you interested in the impacts of Canada funding 64 new US (22 Canadian) research chairs, here's a post from 2013, about the CERC program in Canada which did the same thing (lots of money, few people funded). labandfield.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/t...

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The value of the Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) program

The CERC program currently hosts 19 chairs across Canada, bringing “big-name talent” with a $10 million research grant for 7 years. Researchers have argued that the CERC program is bad…

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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Meanwhile on X, from Evan Hubinger, who leads the Alignment Science team at Anthropic.

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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Global demand for oil is forecast to... peak... in the early 2030s" Math: 2030 - 2026 = 4 years Canada's (expensive to extract) Oilsands oil "is unlikely to be economically viable once demand starts to fall sharply.” Subsidizing increased extraction makes no sense. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

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Global move away from oil could lead to conflict and migration, experts say

Researchers urge governments to help worst afflicted countries, such as Nigeria and Algeria, which rely on oil revenues for public services

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"the motives on display in this incident were significantly more concerning and significantly closer to AI takeover, or just much more harmful actions, than what we’ve seen even six months ago." This is a creepy read about AI "independence." (read the transcript) www.dwarkesh.com/p/ajeya-cotra

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Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face

"This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get."

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

An undercover agent attended an anti-ICE meeting at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in suburban Minneapolis, recorded the license plates of attendees and then matched the plates to their owners, creating dossiers that included photos, addresses, and info about their families and employment.

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This federal case against Minnesota protesters is worth watching if you care about your civil liberties

A discovery motion could reveal how far DHS went in surveilling Minnesota activists and other administration critics.

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Smith just goes from bad to worse to even worse.

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Graduate students aren't abandoning academia. They're asking whether the academy, as...currently structured, deserves their trust. That is not a political question; it is an institutional one. And it is one that universities cannot afford to leave unanswered." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

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Grad Students Wonder if Academia Is Worth Saving (opinion)

It’s not just the federal government that’s telling grad students their work doesn’t matter.

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Carlyn Zwarenstein @carlynzwaren.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This question must be asked of infrastructure big projects spending, of hospital, school, police & other data management systems, of privatization of social services. Who owns us and who benefits from that & how can we get our resources, data, production, services back in our own hands?

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sometimes I feel like I'm living on a different planet than the one I grew up on, not just a new climate ... global warming is a profoundly planet-altering process.

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Europe Faces Surging Wildfire Threat, New Research Shows - Inside Climate News

From the Scottish Highlands to coastal France and Belgium’s boggy forests, conflagrations are already spreading into new regions.

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

22 of the chairs are Canadians returning home, but it doesn't change the fact that the Cdn government has invested heavily in research chairs when basic Cdn academic funding via NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR are seeing cuts.

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"The sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing." --John Keats

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We all know this inevitably ends with “agent just makes up data for months after instrument breaks and no-one notices”, right?

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A lovely hike on the trail today, feeling better when going longer distances. Huffing and puffing aren't as bad. Lots to see: slugs, squirrel leftovers (one threw a pine cone at us!), and more. A good way to start the day.

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

JFC. It never gets better for women, does it?

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Impeach Trump ❤️🤍💙🌊 @potusvpotus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It was a suicide attempt. The Navy is charging him with “malingering” and being AWOL. Instead of giving him the obvious mental health care he needs, they’re going to pressure him to succeed the next time. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Trump #EpsteinFiles #POTUS www.ms.now/news/navy-sa...

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Navy sailor who jumped off USS Lincoln faces disciplinary charges

The sailor on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier who jumped overboard in an attempt to die by suicide has been charged with violations and could have his pay docked.

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Definitely not something to be proud of.

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Natural hazards in a climate -changed world.

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Corvids hang upside down hanging on to a branch ornithologists view this acrobatic behaviour as a relaxed way for the intelligent corvids to test their balance, strength, and coordination. This acrobatic behaviour builds muscle, and improves agility which they use for reaching for food.

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