Time to plant some herbs!

Volunteers needed for Piping Plovers: Hatching & raising a family on the beach isn’t easy, even for well-camouflaged birds with feathers that blend into the landscape. Piping Plovers depend on dynamic, healthy coastal ecosystems. www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...

I made a vulva #StainedGlass #ArtSky

Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

My baby is in my lap

The people who say, “Food is expensive, just garden” have perhaps not been to a garden store.

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

I finally saw my first golden winged warbler yesterday in Carden, Ontario 😭 A lifer for me #Birds #Birding #SpringMigration #MigratoryMay #warblers

Visiting Carden, Ontario this weekend Deer scat, prairie smoke and some skeletons on the alvar

On my driveway this morning in #Kitchener, Ontario #KWAwesome

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Toad was in bed, taking a nap.

For those of you who were using Seesaw for student portfolios/feedback/SBG, what’s the new alternative platform (now that Seesaw doesn’t allow individual teacher accounts for multiple classes)? #iteachmath #mtbos

WATCH: The freedom of information changes are now law and the government is sending out new rejection letters much quicker than it ever answered requests. Plus, a court challenge? #OnPoli

May the 4th be with you

The paintings of Mitjili Napurrula, Indigenous Australian artist from the Northern Territories #WomensArt

"My job as an educator is to build kids brains, not to have them get answers to math questions" - @pwharris.bsky.social is the opening keynote at the @oamecounts.bsky.social #OAME2026 annual conference

Sigh, I don't know why I overcontributed to my FHSAs last year when I bought a house. Now I have to fill out another CRA form ...

Jack Pine A.Y. Jackson 1950

Today, Trump signed H.J. Res. 140 into law revoking a 20-year mining ban in the Boundary Waters watershed.

I would like to try this!

Imagine making AI bird slop when flickers already exist #birds

Warblers on my mind. Making these two different sets of bird art was a fun way of seeing how my brain works at IDing birds. #birds #BirdArt

Pansies Joseph Plaskett 1970

Waking my kid up he tells me Thursday is the worst day of the week because it’s so close to the weekend “it’s teasing you but you still have a bunch of work to do.”

My quote of the day You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury

The LPBO @longpointbirds.bsky.social Sightings Board is now updated to April the 15th. Check out the highlights from our first seasonal update! birdscanada.mediavalet.com/portals/LPBO

Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Yesterday, I saw more northern flickers in a single day than the rest of my life combined 😭 Birding at @longpointbirds.bsky.social is always such a joy www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northe...

🐋 Exceptionally rare footage of sperm whale giving birth in the wild Scientists have released footage of a spectacular event rarely witnessed by humans: a sperm whale giving birth while other females worked together to support the mother and her newborn 📹 Project CETI

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

There are currently only nine iNaturalist observations of this amazing snail, Antidrymaeus stramineus! Here's the most recent one. 📷 floydh on iNaturalist 📍 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Great to have the ability to create 3D rotatable versions of Pythagoras and angles between lines and planes problems from textbooks and papers.

What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.

Marking some exam Qs today For “Write a power of 5 from this list.” about half of my class (Y11 F) had written 1^5=1, 2^5=32 etc… (none of which were in the list) And I realised that our language around indices/powers is so unhelpful, and why so many were making mistakes. #MathsToday

👆Swipe left or right?!? End-of-term tests approaching → quick revision/fact checking tool for students. FREELY available in revision section: mathswhiteboard.com 🔗Direct link: mathswhiteboard.com/MWB/factchec... @mathsjem.bsky.social @colleenyoung.bsky.social #maths #iteachmaths #MathsToday

Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪 I am here this week giving lectures and learning about an educational system in a country with a social safety net. For starters, undergraduate education is free and doctoral students are treated as employees, including paid medical and parental leave.

Miner's Houses, Glace Bay Lawren Harris 1925

100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride. Mainstream media: nothing Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes. Mainstream media: nothing. This is what extreme media bias looks like.

UPDATE: A tense, day-long standoff outside a South Burlington house ended Wednesday night with federal immigration agents removing three people inside and a series of violent clashes between police and hundreds of activists who tried to impede the apprehension. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

Amazing. Amazon is forcing employees to use its AI tools to speed up work and it’s slowing them down www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Father David Bauer loved the game of hockey. A gifted player, he turned down playing pro hockey to become a priest. But hockey never left him. He mentored many players and created Canada's men's national hockey team program. This is his story. 🧵 1/12

Anyone else stressed about the seaonsally warm temperatures are messing with spring sugar shacks? The trees need regular cycles of big diurnal differences to force sap out

Check out my new can opener

holy shit

I don’t care about the price of oil, I care that Iranians are being poisoned with toxic fumes. What the fuck is wrong with us?

This Painting is a Mirror Christi Belcourt ~ Métis 2012