The best guess of climate experts at this Overshoot Conference is that - in an optimistic scenario - we return to 1.5C (where we are now) in 7 generations time. That's about the same distance from now as the start of the Industrial Revolution.

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku. www.science.org/content/arti...

I guess there's no Alberta oil or Saskatchewan potash, either www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

What happens when a critical sector like forestry, the backbone of so many rural communities in western Canada, is no longer viable or sustainable because so much standing and future volume has been lost to wildfires? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

what if the reason whales don't like ferry noise is because of all the fucking car alarms

Stopped to look on the way back from McNeill to Nanaimo and after 10 minutes

Lower oil price outlook, sufficient current pipeline capacity, scant support from BC and First Nations, and no private sector interest. Will the rather compelling facts outweigh her feelings? Danielle’s fever dream and lust for power may meet its match.

Working on the moist tip of BC

CBC: plays a clip of BC First Nations chief saying their goal is no pipeline and no tankers on the north coast Danielle Smith: we’re committed to working with First Nations - but we don’t respect their right to say no. Oh yeah that’ll work #canpoli @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social

Love this concept (intuitively obvious and profound, not yet empirically demonstrated to my knowledge): that mycorrhizal fungi distribute salmon-derived nutrients throughout forest and thus extend benefits of carcasses. Beautiful idea. From Lynda Mapes’ THE TREES ARE SPEAKING.

Well, that's a headline! "After losing billions of dollars on Keystone XL and tank cars, Alberta is pursuing another pipeline" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Maybe one day there will be a field guide to Fungi of the Boring Billion www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

New article alert! Is there always longitudinal connectivity in rivers? What about those fragmented by lakes and semi-alluvial reaches? We found extremely low connectivity in paraglacial regions based on continuity of channel width changes and in riparian vegetation. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play go fuckin Huskies Nazi UW students fuck off

I’m old enough to remember when natural gas was the “bridge fuel.”

DOORWAYS IN THE SAND, Roger Zelazny, except it wasn't a speedrun

Carpenter is also an owner of the Black Press chain in western Canada. www.blackpressmedia.com/black-press-...

On opposition for her pipeline project… Smith said today is she had her way she would redraw the borders and then went into a treatise on how failure of Canada to give her what she wants is indicative of Canada being a failed state. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Nice light show on the nooner to Nanaimo right now. If only there was a humpback breaching right in the middle 🌈 🌈

I had an idea, and I don't know if it's necessarily a good idea or not, that I'd do a thread of my favorite 10 landslides from the database. But why not? I'll probably do it next week when I'm back in the office.

TV VOICEOVER, SCREEN SHOWING MISTY FERN FOREST: "The pre-Anthropocene, when paleontologists roamed the Earth."

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."

well, this is a new and terrifying wikipedia article alert

"Scientists targeted by dark PR tactics" Good coverage of the coordinated, anonymous attacks that have hit scientists who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences (me included) www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

People have lost their effing minds.

A cartoon from my new book PHYSICS FOR CATS which comes out a week tomorrow! Preorder at you local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

A thread about how two geologists went to a beach with a plywood board and a protractor to see how variable wind directions influence bedform orientation - and published a paper in Science that blew my mind. 🧪⚒️🧵 1/23

Folks in the neighbourhood chats "OMG DEATH CAPS". Actual mushrooms observed: harmless white dapperling. Actual poison mushrooms popping up right now in parks and lawns: Earthballs and poison pax. Activity level on groups about actual poison mushrooms: zip zilch nada

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nothing starts geomorph fights faster than the old "Neoglacial moraine vs. protalus rampart" trick

At tonight’s “consultation”… When a high school kid tried to raise concerns about the teachers strike, Bruce McAllister cut the kids mic and then suggested his parents should have beaten him more. Listen to the clip yourself… It’s… Telling. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

This is the company that now runs the majority of community newspapers in B.C. (and whose management has repeatedly ignored my requests for an interview about their business plan)

Learning that 85% of ChatGPT users are men, and AI users are between 2-6x more likely to be men overall, and suddenly everything makes sense

Cream of white chanterelle soup 🍲

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Bumping again for the afternoon crowd.

Satellite images from @planet.com show the level of damage in Guangfu in the aftermath of the breach of the Matai'an landslide dam in Taiwan in typhoon #Ragasa. It is clear that a very large part of the community suffered inundation. In total, 18 people were killed and seven are still missing.

Had a lot of fun presenting first results of my postdoctoral project at #ESHE2025 beginning to explore chimpanzee rock climbing in the wild 🧗‍♀️🙉 collab w/ @gmerc-tz.bsky.social @mbchimp.bsky.social Excited for the next steps, watch this space!

Over the last three years, @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social, @geocron.bsky.social, me, and twelve colleagues have been compiling a Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database. Version 12 is now available and contains 25,500 entries. zenodo.org/records/1721...

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Canada Post is a service. Like other govt or quasi-govt services, it is not supposed to turn a profit. It needs to be efficient, but so do healthcare, the military, food inspection, schools, and other govt services. We subsidize it because people, businesses & remote communities rely on it. #cdnpoli

This site is an aggregator that steals content from media outlets. Rewriting copy for profit using AI is not journalism. It's dishonest theft that takes readership and funding away from legitimate news outlets who are paying staff to produce news etc. Don't repost articles.

I was driving on Highway 1 and saw a wankertruck with Alberta plates and I was ready to make fun of it as I passed it but then I saw it had its rear bumper held on with duct tape and I figured the driver had already come to rue the error of their ways

Bumping this now that Ezra Klein is back in the news

Another day in the woods with dog 🍄‍🟫

Having thousands of large animals grazing at once may seem like it would inhibit plant growth. But this study showed the opposite.

Too tired to climb Walked dog, ambushed by chanterelle buttons