"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long. His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..

Alberta looks to use notwithstanding clause on its 3 transgender laws: memo www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities

Quand même elle, l’Asiatique préférée du Québec - qui a proclamé depuis des décennies son amour pour cette province et sa population bienveillante envers la diversité - dit sur Radio-Canada qu’elle a songé à quitter le Québec pour fuir le racisme actuel…ça va très mal. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fxX3...

as always, on the 11th of september: allende vive.

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

Every elected Democrat is going to say the right thing, but remember that when 2 Democratic state legislatures were assassinated, elected Republicans went on a smear campaign of disinformation blaming Tim Walz and Democrats themselves.

literally impossible for music to sound more glamorous than this youtu.be/GsY2dxCBMZo?...

Can tropical rainforest trees keep their cool? Now out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social we explored whether intraspecific variation in leaf energy balance was a result of adaptation to local climate. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

🌳🔥Out now: Our review on compound droughts and forest responses - from leaf to ecosystem. Featuring a stunning 20-yr map of canopy temperatures variation across European forests. @chriswernerlab.bsky.social @simonhaber.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Well, the list of books being banned from EPSB is appalling. And it's very likely that an author on this list will get their other works pulled too, especially in the absence of teacher librarians. There are books on this list that changed my life. This is what the UCP is taking away from kids.

🎧 Difficile à croire aujourd’hui, mais le Jardin botanique avait été construit pour être visité en voiture. Ce sont les JO de 1976 qui ont définitivement mis le clou dans le cercueil de cette mauvaise idée. Reportage @francoisjoly.bsky.social ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

In a rare turn of events, a local TV station (Edmonton) does a positive segment on bike lanes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjKp...

Pierre Karl Péladeau, en tant que PDG de Québécor, la même entreprise qui embauche Mathieu Bock-Côté et d’autres réacs et conspis, est profondément complicit dans le recul des droits des personnes trans au Québec. Je suis d’avis que l’Université de Montréal commet une faute profonde en faisant ça.

I can't recommend this opportunity enough—Laura is one of the best scientists I know!

"AI 2027" argues that AI will reach roughly human level in roughly 2027. This just happens to be right about when OpenAI would expect to start to run out of money. I argue that this is not a coincidence at all, and its predictions are all wrong. www.verysane.ai/p/agi-probab...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Scientists of Bluesky, help me! Do you have an example of a question that was (1) studied using both observational and experimental methods, and (2) the observational results are far more trustworthy because of the circumstances and/or quality of design? #AcademicSky #PhDSky #Science

pjreddie, who made the best real-time computer vision system, epically explaining that he quit AI because the primary use case was killing people

📢 Latest from #IDENT-MTL! Here we show that species plasticity in crown shape, leading to positive diversity effects, is in part due to spp strategies in shedding lower branches. But, there's more! 🧵 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cef-cfr.bsky.social @biologieuqam.bsky.social

“Many of us feel paralyzed by despair, waking to images of emaciated Palestinian children on our phone screens each morning, but there are still things we can do to help.”

Well, this is just FANTASTIC news. “Cycle Toronto wins Charter challenge, saving bike lanes on Yonge, University, and Bloor.” Congratulations @cycletoronto.bsky.social, you’ve done a huge service to Toronto. Safe bike-lanes are better for EVERYONE, no matter how they get around.

Bill C-2 lets Canadian cops demand users' info without a warrant—and it paves the way for that info to go to U.S. government agencies.

CANADIANS! Have a read on how the dogshit Bill C-2 is going to infringe on our basic right to online privacy: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... And then do your part by signing the House of Commons petition as well as contacting your local MP! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

"If recognizing a Palestinian state proves to be a barrier in trade negotiations with the US, should Canada reverse that decision?" No, Recognize Palestine: 63% Yes, Reverse The Decision: 20% Unsure: 17% Angus Reid / Aug 1, 2025 / n=1333 / Online

Just learned from LinkedIn that a Heritage Foundation affiliate is now FOIA-ing (or equivalent) instructors’ syllabi to go snooping for supposed illegal DEI at state universities. It’s hard to describe how far past McCarthyism we’re headed here.

They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere

This graphic alone is like a fucking dissertation. Incredible stuff. Master class. Blows a massive hole in every govt's excuse that their level of gov't has no control over freeway spending.

The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...

Happy Canada Day Eve! I can’t wait to share this special Canada Day edition of Alberta Unbound, my interview with award-winning spoken word poet Nonso Morah, the pride of Spruce Grove, on what it means to be Albertan, Canadian and Nigerian #AlbertaUnbound #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #yeg #SenateofCabada

Did I “slam” C-5? Hm. I prefer to think that I offered a fair-minded critique of the policy and the process. Have a listen to my free-wheeling chat with @markhamhislop.bsky.social and decide for yourself! #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #SenateofCanada #C5

This is a must watch for us all, particularly for Albertans. Kudos to @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social for her unvarnished comments on separatism, to @markhamhislop.bsky.social. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAzK...

The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living. On average, $10kCAD below cost of living. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

From outright bans to ambiguous restrictions, the sheer volume of policy changes over a short period has stalled investment in #renewables in Alberta. The Government of Alberta must act fast if it wants to restore investment in this multi billion dollar industry. 1/2

wish people could bring some of their "feeding rainforests to chatbots" energy to meat production but it's passé to be preachy about veganism isn't it. and people love eating meat. so we just ignore it really. no campaigning. eat what you want buddy!

Fun week @idiv-research.bsky.social attending the 1st meeting of sTREND working group on synthesis of tree traits responses to neighbouring diversity with @mixedforests.bsky.social, @ritasousasilva.bsky.social, @habenblondeel.bsky.social, @cavenderg9.bsky.social, @shankothari.bsky.social and others

The administration will incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When it burns, its label will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

“They have betrayed the society that enriched them, and have put us at serious risk of authoritarianism, ethnic cleansing, lawlessness, and stagnation. They have betrayed the values that made that society great, values which they apparently only ever held superficially”

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

There's that Sugar Sammy bit that's like "j'adore la France, c'est mon pays arabe préféré"—but if we're talking Middle Eastern countries more broadly, I'd put in a word for Germany

A regular reminder that using Grok is actively poisoning my former home of Memphis, Tennessee, a relatively poor and majority Black major city in the American South. Allowing the DoD to use it will escalate this dramatically. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how… www.ft.com/content/6c74...

At least 31 Palestinians were fatally shot on their way to an aid distribution site in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, while Israeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians.

I like that this is written like a Michael Porfirio Mason tweet but it's just about a nice new fruit