Any #ocean biologists or #cetologist on hand to answer a 5 year old's question on #humpbackwhales? Why do humpback whales seem to have such large flippers in relation to their body size compared to most other whales?

Althia Raj is doing some of the most important reporting out there right now, exposing how Carney is dismantling any semblance of Canada’s progressive values. Pharmacare, child care, now the environment… Please, pay attention. He’s eviscerating environmental laws worse than Harper. Than HARPER!!!

As more countries add age restrictions to apps and websites, the EU has flagged that VPNs provide a loophole for people to get around these restrictions. There are proposals to require age verification to use a VPN to close this loophole. Papers please, internet version.

This is very worth your time thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

The wheels on the cybertruck go round and round all through the town.

OpenAI was found to have violated Canadian privacy laws. But don’t worry: it won’t face any consequences because the commissioner says the company has changed its ways. 🫠

NEW: Alberta independence leader calls on supporters to join Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party and nominate separatist UCP candidates ”It’s time now to join the UCP,” Alberta separatist leader Mitch Sylvestre told @pressprogress.ca

The human tragedy: the need for adults to take an afternoon nap just when the kids reach peak mayhem.

Today a #histmed🧵of Scottish female medical pioneers. 1st Sophia Jex Blake, who completed Dr training but couldn't graduate cos of her gender. She helped set up London School of Medicine for Women in 1874 & donated her house as a women & children's hospital in Edinburgh. Legend.

Governments need to act! "Surveillance pricing—the individualized, algorithmic practice of charging one person more than another based on data harvested from them—hits the trifecta. Governments ought to ban the practice. It’s insane we must even debate the question." thewalrus.ca/just-ban-sur...

Huh. Imagine that

You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions . That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed. A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵

NEW: My full dispatch for @nationalobserver.com from a very hectic day in Alberta politics www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/30/n...

Update: RCMP now probing Alberta separatist group accused of illegal use of voters’ private information www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/30/n...

As predicted, so much for the federal gas tax cut. 😡 The oil companies just hoovered that up, thank you very much. The gas tax cut ended up being a straight transfer from the public to bursting oil and gas company profits: vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/04/27/f...

This is what moral injury looks like My frail, 82-yr-old pt spent 2 nights on an ER gurney I've been told to “build a wall” between the suffering of my patients & me ...but not how to handle governments failing to hold up their end of the bargain @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Instead, Carney is taking $25 billion of taxpayer money, during an affordability crisis, creating a whole new "Crown" corporation and directing it to do something that sovereign are set up NOT to do - invest in risky, yet to be built, Canadian projects - incl. oil and gas" 5 things wrong with this:

#ClimateAdaptation is a process, not a destination. This is especially true for dynamic resilience measures.

I prepare future teachers, spend lots of time in a lot of different schools, and have kids in public schools. Almost everyone I know questions the centrality of screens in education, including the students! It's really all of us against the tech bros and private equity. No surprise there.

The nation that wipes bums and changes diapers and feeds toddlers and cares for dying parents is not in the project list. The labour that nation depends on is not eligible for the $400/week Apprenticeship Grant or the $5,000 Completion Bonus or the $10,000 wage incentive.

Read the room: decoupling from fossil fuels is the future, not wasting taxpayers dollars on a dying industry.

The insurance industry has direct involvement in developing Alberta’s two-tier health care legislation. By @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

In Alberta, ranchers renting public land can earn way more in oil and gas payments than they pay in rent — say, five times as much. A new analysis by @drewanderson.bsky.social finds taxpayers have been on the hook for millions when delinquent companies don’t pay. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-graz...

Legacy main stream media: "Right wing agents are proposing a faked assassination attempt to boost an ailing president's polling numbers!" ~Assassination attempt against an ailing president occurs~ MSM: "oh noes! Someone legitimately tried to assassinate our president!!!"

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

This experiment does not have equipoise. We know, mechanistically, that mosquito screens block mosquitoes. We know proper sanitation reduces diarrhea. We know well ventilated spaces reduces respiratory infection. The medical profession's dogma on RCTs must be tempered by ethics and logic!

"We want medications for our lungs, our hearts, our stomachs, our immune systems, our brains—damaged by the Covid virus." "Real care, not cognitive behavioral therapy. Not meditation." France, this week. Long Covid patients refused to be ignored. Statement ⬇️ Translation: @GreeneWendy

New in plos with colleagues from Pfizer vaccines and IQVIA journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

REVEALED: A French PR executive with gas industry ties linked to a coordinated Facebook network spreading heat pump misinformation. Always the same playbook: manufacture doubt, delay the transition, protect the incumbents. www.desmog.com/2026/04/23/f...

Plan d’électrification : le gouvernement présente 22 mesures pour « ne plus importer les crises du monde dans le portefeuille des Français »

Cherry trees in Kyoto. Not a subtle signal.

Holy hell. This thread 😱

This is a fun read. On one hand, kids are dumb for not buying overpriced condos; they are scared of the economic boogie man and are chicken. On the other hand, investors are savvy and aren't buying condos because they are overpriced and don't have good economic prospects. Witness the ageism.

My child has joined Chaos Undivided...

COVID-19 was still the largest driver of hospitalizations for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases in 2024 www.cihi.ca/en/priority-... via @cihica.bsky.social #VaccinesWork

There's a lot of unresolved, and even unrecognized, societal trauma. It is leading to a whole bunch of really weird, asocial behaviours, like what Richard illustrates below.

As part of our new Super Warrior program, we will be injecting all servicemen with radioactive mantis blood, which will turn our army into unstoppable super mantis warriors!

The Western Oil-igarchs would rather burn their kingdoms down rather than relinquish power and live as Lords in a prosperous nation.

Many govts hope capturing carbon from power plants burning wood will cause "negative emissions." New Nature Sust. paper today finds this likely increases emissions for decades, generates no negative emissions within 150 years, and increase electricity costs ~3.5-fold. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).

VERY BIG NEWS out of France a week ago: "French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Friday, April 10, a ban on installing gas heating systems "by year's end" in new buildings, including multi-unit housing, to curb France's dependence on fossil fuels." www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...

The intersection between "Palantir must support US interests uber alles"; "this means exercising hard power via software"; and "Palantir software gets access to everyone's private information across the UK's NHS, plus whatever the Canadian government is doing, etc" is...not reassuring.

Hey @avilewis.ca, can we start raising a fuss about offloading Canadian autonomy and privacy to a technofascist surveillance company?

Just think of the potential shareholders returns by turning the basic necessities of life into a commodity!

Chadwick "Black Panther" Boseman. James "Dawson Leery" Van Der Beek. Two men who died of colorectal cancer in their 40s. They are part of an uptick in colorectal cancer in people under the age of 50. Why? My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Study links long COVID in kids to worse grades, attention span, and social life. School-aged children with long COVID had more than double the risk of decreased academic performance than those without the condition. 📝 Read more: ow.ly/uLlh50YLc1t

Tomorrow's engineers aren't learning about induced demand. "3 [of 7] textbooks omitted the idea entirely, whereas the others offered only partial coverage." "The engineering textbooks reviewed here leave students unprepared to understand induced travel." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Behavior & morphology are an important part of animal mating practices & can be encoded on non-sex chromosomes, but respond to hormonal signals, producing complex "mating phenotypes" like this. There are some obvious parallels to "gender expression" in human populations. Paper here:

New piece in BMJ by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social, Sam Lovell, @jvipondmd.bsky.social, @mjnabuurs.bsky.social and myself on how poor quality trials can bias evidence against respirator use. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

CIDRAP: 'Only 6 symptoms, conditions appear unique to long COVID, suggesting overlap with other post-viral infections' www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/onl...