On the first day of Christmas (in about 2014), @duckswabber.bsky.social gave to me - a partridge in a pear tree. Happy Christmas everyone!

Trump claims he's “the most transparent president in history"

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate

“To shutter this facility is, frankly, a national security risk,” Kim Cobb told @bloomberg.com about NCAR, given its cutting-edge work on extreme weather and across fields including machine learning and AI. Story w/ @eroston.bsky.social @willwwade.bsky.social: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.

"Without NCAR’s infrastructure + supercomputing abilities, many small colleges & universities wouldn’t be able to do research with the latest models. NCAR research influences every piece of weather & climate prediction in the US: air quality, droughts, hurricanes + more." - @carlonimbus.bsky.social

⭐EDITOR'S CHOICE Distinct patterns of movement in monthly space use across Lake Winnipeg by a population of south basin walleye Turner et al., incl. freshwater fELA 🇨🇦 https://ow.ly/jzzw50XH6So #OpenAccess 🔓

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

I’ve asked this exact question 👇to editors-in-chief of many (even society) journals. Many answered “because it’s been always like that”. Even though we know that it can reduce some biases. So what’s to loose by being double-blinded?! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reiner and his wife were found dead in an apparent homicide Sunday that Trump claims was related to the actor’s dislike of the president.

Love aquatic research, teaching, and outreach? Want to join us at our terrific field station and live on Yellow Bay, Montana? University of Montana seeks a new Director for Flathead Lake Biological Station. Position details here: apply.interfolio.com/178916

We love to fetishize "top" researchers and give them special big pots of money. But we get far more science by spreading money among all researchers (closer to the NSERC DG model). This old post is magically relevant again... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/w...

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Just. Fund. Canadian. Researchers. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

A new space for contaminants research is here! Contaminants, Environment, and Society publishes insights that link science, community, and policy. Check out the scope and submit your research ▶️ https://ow.ly/En6N50XunSP #PollutionResearch #OpenForSubmissions #Microplastics

On facing death, with dementia, Robert Munch, when asked if he’s afraid said ‘I’m an atheist. There’s nothing to be afraid of’. Well said.

Seriously, what the fuck www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

seriously, what the fuck www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

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Fantastic work by former MSc student Nicole Turner (now Biologist with DFO)- some evidence here too that differential movement also links to different patterns of life histories (repeat spawning). Check it out!

⭐NEW EDITOR'S CHOICE Distinct patterns of movement in monthly space use across Lake Winnipeg by a population of south basin walleye Turner et al., incl. freshwater fELA 🇨🇦 https://ow.ly/lHyP50XGwO8 #OpenAccess 🔓

Did you publish with researchers outside your lab during grad school? Or published as faculty with a student not under your supervision? I’m collecting examples of cross-lab collaboration in graduate training. Please share your experience & this post! Repository: bit.ly/4pT66BE (list is growing)

SNL needs to get Ryan Gosling back for a shocking finale to the Papyrus Trilogy.

In memory of Dr. Keith Hobson, the Society of Canadian Ornithologists is collecting donations to support the Keith Hobson Early Career Research Award. If you have the means, join me in supporting this initiative: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati... Details: www.sco-soc.ca/early-career...

This seems like kind of a big deal given the tumultuous history involved... www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

john rustad right now

EEB Postdoctoral Fellowship @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 15 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us! eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/

Congratulations to Yuhan for successful PhD defence: Shrimps and water fleas in distress - Artificial light at night disrupts freshwater ecosystems www.helsinki.fi/en/news/anim...

What is the rule that prevents the media from using the term "racist"?

very cool: hydroacoustics shows "daily migration of both fish and mysid shrimps spanning several hundred meters throughout Lake Superior" -- in the Fall IAGLR Lakes Letter iaglr.org/ll/2025-4_Fa... 👏

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Over my dead body will I let those fuckers Pepe Franklin.

That petition drive for a non-binding referendum for Alberta to STAY in Canada is now verified. One in 7 Alberta voters signed it. Wow, did Lukaszuk's bid worked. Lessee how Danielle Smith gov handles it.

Sue the fuck out of this monster for copyright infringement www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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"Orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal."

Editing lectures seems... extreme www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Even a decade ago I'd have far sooner predicted that the US would succumb to authoritarian rule than that it would become a state where vaccines were unavailable. But if we don't throw RFK Jr. out on his ass, we're headed there fast.

Not always a fan of Guilbeault, but it's nice to see there are still politicians willing to act on principle sometimes. globalnews.ca/news/1154707...