This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Labrador woman makes history this week by becoming N.L.’s first Innu lawyer ntv.ca/news/labrado...

Left out of this article is that this is all happening in the backdrop of Canada decimating its climate observing network over the past several decades. See the presentation below for examples: 84bbf97c-1ba3-4840-8e5a-93b4adf7881f.usrfiles.com/ugd/84bbf9_1...

Weather experts concerned about public safety as Environment Canada disbands radar research team www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Even moderate levels of wildfire smoke are damaging. For PM2.5 in the yellow AQI range (10-25 micrograms/m^3): 10% increase in emergency department visits for acute respiratory conditions; 25% increase for asthma. But people don’t avoid exposure until the AQI hits 137. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A shocking report by Ontario’s Auditor General concerning the Ontario government’s use of AI by the public service! Very poor controls of how AI is being used and lack of training! Unacceptable risk to citizen’s privacy and the accuracy of work done!

This should be applied to proposals too.

Ooof... this paper on AI use in academic writing, based on submissions to the journal Organization Science. Sadly agrees with my anecdotal observations as an editor. AI-tinged submissions have increased, and readability and quality have decreased. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10....

This letter-writing campaign to restore the radar science team that supports Canada's new radar network has already seen 9200 letters sent. An amazing response! If you haven't sent one yet, please consider it. ECCC's new alert colours are nice. But for severe weather warnings, radar is foundational.

Globe & Mail reporting that the radar scientists supporting EC's new $180M national radar network have been disbanded. They did the work to ensure the 'essential functionality' of the network - providing timely, high-quality data for weather warning decisions. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1fa5cdb...

This is one of those "wait for it" things: simulation of the #TracyArm landslide tsunami by Pat Lynett for our paper that came out this week in @science.org. This one is from the vantage point of a jetski at sea level. 🧪⚒️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

I'm somewhat agnostic about this. But the privacy concerns are certainly not compelling to me. Private companies and governments are already collecting most of this data and in some cases selling it. Social media is actively being used to harvest data on people too young to give consent.

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper published in PNAS today! Joint work with Jeffrey Shrader, Stephan Thies, Derek Lemoine, and Laura Bakkensen: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

IN THE DANCE 😤

Woo!!

Abstract: The case is made that machine-learning statistical estimation neither can nor should be expected to supplant physics-based simulation for weather forecasting. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Stephen Lewis has gone to the angels. He was a relentless fighter for justice. When I was 9 my Granny (an immigrant mining widow) made me sit in front of the TV and listen to him speak about compensation for mining victims. His passion and commitment stayed with me. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The production of ERA6, coming up in 2027, has started. The next‑generation climate reanalysis from #CopernicusClimate will offer >2× finer resolution than ERA5, a coupled ocean–atmosphere–wave model, improved data access & more. Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-c... @ecmwf.int

There is no excuse to be posting on twitter. None.

WHAT A CAREER Brad Gushue has just played his last game at the Brier. A remarkable career. Six Brier titles. World title. Olympic gold and bronze. 15 Slam titles. It’s been an honour to cover so many of those moments. Congratulations @BradGushue.

Wonderful news: my university has announced it will stop using X. uwimprint.ca/uw-announced... And no, this does not violate institutional neutrality, properly understood. Nothing about neutrality in communications requires a university to use any and all platforms.

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

3 on 3 to decide a gold medal game is garbage

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ChatGPT conversations from the Tumbler Ridge teenager who carried out a horrific school shooting were flagged by employees at OpenAI. They raised their concerns but the company ultimately did nothing, according to the reporting. archive.is/GUweE#select...

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

As a Sens fan I do enjoy this.

GOOOOOOAAAAALLLLLL CANADA 🇨🇦 WINS IT IN OVERTIME MOVING ON AT THE OLYMPICS EXHALE CANADA

Peak athleticism! 🐶 A dog got loose on the cross-country ski course. #MilanoCortina2026

Why do otherwise rational people disagree about the same evidence? Our new paper finds that group membership is a deeply rooted influence on how we form beliefs, leading even preschoolers to bias their evidential standards and form inaccurate beliefs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can we assume the elimination of the diploma in Newfoundland and Labrador studies is the elimination of the only such program in the world? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025 ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

1/ If I understand yesterday's Ontario budget announcement correctly, here's what provincial transfers to institutions will look like for the coming few years. Scale is millions of $2025.

Crosby to McDavid to MacKinnon. Come on, man. That shit's unfair. 4-0 Canada.

Our pup is certainly enjoying all the snow and ice this year along Lake Ontario

Beautiful design by Tsmishian (Alaska Native) artist to support those in MN via the ACLU NARF fund www.customink.com/fundraising/...

Despite perfect flying weather this evening, we are stuck in Halifax for the next 2 days because Air Canada cancelled our flight to Goose Bay because of 'weather' (i.e. no compensation). The real reason we are cancelled is cause they didn't want a plane 'stuck' in Labrador tomorrow.

Physical activity and the reduction of all-cause mortality, from 2 very large prospective cohorts 1. The relationship is non-linear, suggesting a threshold effect for many types of exercise as seen below

LAST CALL: We have graduate positions in cryosphere science open for applications in our lab (www.labradorgeolab.ca). Feel free to reach out if they are of interest!

Back in 2008, the EIA believed that natural gas production would be flat through 2030. Then came fracking.

At ArcticNet's ASM 2025 in December I presented on some really troubling developments in Canada's premier weather and climate observing network. I'll share a couple highlights (or lowlights depending on your perspective) in this thread. /1

Big day! CBC News will add 33 local journalists and create 11 new bureaus this year, adding to last year's expansion of 30 journalists in 22 communities across Canada. Many of the new positions are based in Central and Western Canada. My editor's blog: www.cbc.ca/news/editors...

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Important to see provinces investing more in weather stations. But ultimately this is an example of the Federal Government abdicating its responsibilities for weather monitoring and seeing this downloaded to the provinces without financial support. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Colleagues @frosty-feng.bsky.social & Emma Street have led this really interesting chapter on the Impacts of permafrost thaw on Indigenous livelihoods. Reach out via ResearchGate or contact the author team if you'd like to read it but can't get access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

News got you down? How about this little pick-me-up from my friend Brian Menounos at @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social "What we're finding is that these glaciers are disappearing much faster than previously projected." 🧪⚒️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Published today: Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century Defining pre-industrial to be 1750, rather than 1850, produces different (simulated) historical climate changes after 1850. Pre-1850 volcanoes & land use matter. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...