i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

En une de @lapresse.ca et de @iciradiocanada.bsky.social une pléthore d'analyses du match d'hier et du match de demain de Canadien mais pas moyen d'avoir le score live de la Victoire (qui joue son premier match en éliminatoires et qui a par ailleurs terminé au sommet de la LPHF).

Coming soon, a tiny book co-written with historian/philosopher @alexandreklein.bsky.social on the anthropocene world. We argue that the anthopocene as an informal concept (with all its flaws) is useful to think in an interdisciplinary way about what it means to live on a human-dominated planet.

The feeling of marking a copy like this after trying to decipher a million unreadable exams. They even underlined the important parts of their answers. I'm crying tears of joy 😭

New paper out today co-led by former students Philippe Major and Julien Arsenault. This is the result of a huge field campaign to painstakingly map the carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus storage in (usually) quite small peatlands in a diverse landscape. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Magnifiques, mais en première ligne du réchauffement climatique. Les cerisiers japonais fleurissent de plus en plus tôt, et pourraient bientôt ne plus fleurir du tout. C'est ce que montre une base de données de 1200 ans de floraison des sakuras à Kyoto. Explications : bonpote.com/les-sakuras-...

En ce #JourdelaTerre, rappel que le AI slop c'est de la pollution atmosphérique, du gaspillage énergétique, de l'extractivisme matériel, du vol de la propriété intellectuelle ainsi que de la pollution mentale et culturelle. Quand même particulier qu'on n'ait même pas pensé à créer une IA sans slop.

I'm happy to see this new research published! In this paper led by wonderful Aude Flamand we show that anthropogenic influence has reshaped carbon storage in lakes. This is important because lakes store lot of carbon although they cover a relatively small area 🧪🏞 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Great article featuring results from my former PhD student Sophie Pouillé - she tracked the geochemical impacts of dust deposition around Ä'äy Chù using lichen and found the high arsenic concentrations reported in the story 🌲

I got to talk about the impact of wildfires on the carbon balance of permafrost peatlands on CBC yesterday - especially on the work done by Christopher Schulze in northern Alberta. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... doi.org/10.1029/2025...

A little bit of Saturday morning science - Former postdoc Anne Tamalavage led this study showing how organic matter and mercury gets retained along the land to ocean aquatic continuum. This was done in the La Romaine watershed in eastern Quebec 🌲💧 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Hence why I tell my students to ignore anything published in a MDPI journal

“Spring in Canada is so beautiful” says woman about to experience months of grimy dirt snow on the side of roads

On this International Women's Day, a reminder that intimate-partner violence has tripled in Quebec over the past decade, and the CAQ refuses to allocate the funds needed for adequate shelter space. This is a systemic failure. An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social. #polqc

Make it stick.

L O U D E R

21.1°C in Chamonix today! 🔥🥵 A monthly record for February since at least 1880! 🌡️ Words truly fail to describe such early heatwaves, which are so out of season and detrimental to ecosystems. Map via @sergezaka.bsky.social

CBC / Radio-Canada is broadcasting the hockey semi-finals in Atikamekw, Innu, Inuktitut and Cree - that's what public broadcasters are for!

It keeps getting better and better

Excited to report that every answer to "I know the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into" is giving me an existential crisis Are the astrophysicists all right Are you guys all right out there Is this normal for you

📢Feb 2 is #WorldWetlandsDay! A day to celebrate the world's wetlands, including bogs, fens, and swamps. Many Ramsar sites are #peatlands but there are large gaps in global cover. For more on this issue, and on peatlands and @ramsar.org, see my new Peatpedia post: open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...

"Imagine how they lie when there is no evidence to contradict them"

I wish the NHL players would do the same (not gonna hold my breath)

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Drop the names of any Canadian companies you’ve seen working with ICE in the comments. I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite. Would love to gather any and all other names.

Welcome to the Scientific Instrument Society on BlueSky. We promote the study, collection, and preservation of scientific instruments and publish the Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society. For membership, visit us here: scientificinstrumentsociety.org/join/

Je fais partie des signataires de cet appel: "Nous exhortons (...) le gouvernement à prendre ses responsabilités et à maintenir, voire à revoir à la hausse, ses cibles de réduction de GES, dans l’intérêt des Québécois et des générations futures, qui porteront le fardeau de notre dette climatique. "

Je regarde tjs les discours avec l'oeil du métier. Le discours est super bien construit, le niveau de vocabulaire est celui des grands moments, il rattache plusieurs fois ses idées les unes aux autres. Il a un télprompteur qqpart à gauche? mais s'en sert bien. Il a une solide équipe de rédacteurs.

Quebec’s Lake Rouge vanished – but was it a freak natural event or caused by human actions?

The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change.

per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing

In Dec 2025, I published a short comment on whether the emergence of AI has been as revolutionary as other moments of innovation in our species' history (e.g., emergence of technology or agriculture). On balance, current evidence suggests to me that it isn't. www.isita-org.com/jass/Content...

Her "activism" was also deeply rooted in colonialism's legacy and was extremely detrimental culturally and economically to Canada's inuit communities - weird to see so many vegans trying to defend her views

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

Breaking:

There’s an epidemic of people using Grok to do sexual violence to women on Twitter. Yet Canadian politicians, media etc have failed to adopt another platform en masse, making it near-impossible to fully disengage and be tapped in to vital conversations and information. What are we doing.

"L’université, censée éclairer la société, se contente trop souvent d’en reproduire les aveuglements." 💯 www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Le gouvernement Legault autorise des travaux forestiers dans une «forêt ancienne» ciblée pour une aire protégée. Ce milieu naturel plusieurs fois centenaires est considéré comme un écosystème unique dans la région de la Mauricie. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...

Hype. No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.

I don't usually do this but if you love nature & quality journalism please donate to The Narwhal. Their work is more important than ever, and are currently trying to raise $200,000 to keep the lights on. You get a charitable receipt, and a donor is matching funds. Please share 🧪⚒️ @thenarwhal.ca

Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’

Another problem with CO2? It messes with plants. Some grow faster; others don’t. But for our food crops, it makes them have lower nutrient levels — and just more empty calories. Elevated CO2 is plant *junk food*. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.

Le démantèlement annoncé de NCAR est un scandale. On brûle une cathédrale de la science climatique qui sera pratiquement impossible à reconstruire. Un recul de plusieurs décennies. Je suis sans mots

Tired: H-index Wired: Shit-index

Interesting schematic showing various discourses of delay, from a new paper "Countering the Climate Change Counter Movement: Six lessons from Canada's climate delays" by Samuel Lloyd and Ekaterina Rhodes (link in next bleet).

Important work right here 👇 "Our data show a global pattern, a worldwide process of targeting climate and environmental protest. We argue that this reflects a wider ideological and political project to maintain the hegemonic interests of powerful states and corporations"

Aaah ces fameux chercheurs d'exception qui vont avoir une charge d'enseignement réduite et peu (voire pas) de charge collective pendant que les chercheurs "ordinaires" et les précaires tiennent l'université à bout de bras ?

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.