“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.” We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.

Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’

A piece in the New York Times brings up a “zombie” proposal to combat climate change — basically using smoke & mirrors to cool the planet. No matter how many times people kill the idea, it seems to come back to the headlines. Don’t let it. It’s not a good idea. globalecoguy.org/solar-geoeng...

De superbes projets avec un super collègue !

"Trust us, AI is good for higher education" say the worst people in the world, and somehow, the universities abide.

As I'm preparing new lecture material, I'm reminded again of what a wonderful ressource the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social is! It's the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives and it is well worth a visit (the images and the thematic collections are amazing)💚

Jesus Christ. A standing ovation — from Liberals too — for Charlie Kirk in the Canadian House of Commons. You can (and should) oppose political violence without doing all this, you know.

More than 100 of Donald Trump’s inaccurate statements are to be dissected by Channel 4 to coincide with his state visit, in what it described as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”.

🚨📸 About 2 weeks left to send in your best #wildlife in a #peatland shot and publish in the 2026 edition of #PeatCalendar Email to: [email protected] Deadline: 30 September

”It’s puzzling why Carney keeps doing things that alienate his own supporters ... the reason Carney is sitting in the PMO is because progressive swing voters made a strategic choice to lend him their votes — they didn’t lend their vote to appease Trump, impose austerity or roll back workers’ rights“

UC Berkeley gives the Trump admin the names of 160 faculty + students for a federal investigation into “alleged antisemitic incidents.” Judith Butler, one of the targeted scholars, tells me: "It is an enormous breach of trust... It's shocking. Did you consider not complying with this request?”

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Carney: Canadians deserve the best 1960s economy money can buy

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

Les tourbières ne sont pas que des milieux essentiels pour la lutte contre les changements climatiques. Elles sont aussi des outils de défense militaire ! www.france24.com/fr/europe/20...

Now, instead of reading the latest email from the Subdean for Academic Affairs and Climbing Wall Management, simply click on the ADMINISTRATOR LANGUAGE DETECTED icon to reveal the message in simple English and determine the threat level to your department, program, or mental health.

New study where McKenzie Kuhn, I and co-authors show that accounting for differences among wetland and lake types is crucial for estimating current and future boreal-Arctic methane emissions – out now in Nature Climate Change. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tech billionaires: "ai will solve all your problems, sack your workforce and pay for a chat bot instead" AI:

We're never running out of things to worry about these days

Conservatives claim they want to protect women but they keep doing the opposite

Is dust helping peatlands accumulate carbon? It depends. Our new paper out in @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social compares the impacts of intense dust input from a road and smaller atmospheric dust episodes on a peatland - led by former Ph.D. student Xiaoyu Li agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

We’re recruiting for a multi-university (and ECCC) cross-city project on urban biodiversity, connectivity, and ecosystem services: 1) a Concordia or U Laval MSc student (PhD possible), 2) a UBC MSc student, 3) a postdoc. I’ll link to each position below. Please share broadly!

Just in case there was any doubt, ChatGPT 5.0 still makes up completely random citations that don't exist and should not be used for literature search.

Pas de vacances pour la recherche au département de géographie ! 🌿🪺 nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...

I spent the last 2 weeks offline, including several days without network hiking in the backcountry, and I swear I have not missed the world a bit

«J’ai dû interrompre mon travail plusieurs fois pour chercher de la nourriture pour ma famille», raconte l’un d’eux. #Gaza #médias

La communauté d’affaires de Rouyn-Noranda doute «de l’impartialité de la Direction de santé publique». Pourquoi? Parce que «la fonderie a engagé un consultant spécialisé qui est venu [leur] expliquer. » Splendide.

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.

I spent this week collecting river samples in northwestern Canada (Dehcho, Hay, and South Slave regions), an area the size of England with ~4,000 km of driving. And so much of the landscape is burned - we drove hours and hours through charred forests. The last decade has been unprecedented.

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

For infectious disease experts (& those who follow them), the Arizona plague death seems to have gotten notice in nearly every news outlet around the world by now. Most of it is repetitive & uninformative. This interview w/ plague expert David Wagner is not www.scientificamerican.com/article/pneu...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

The number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

“A lot of ink is spilled daily trying to convince Quebecers that Montreal’s diversity is a constant source of tensions. That coexistence is untenable. That our plurality is a problem. It’s a lie.” www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...

🚨 My next book, EXTRACTION: THE FRONTIERS OF GREEN CAPITALISM is out 9/23 with @wwnorton.com Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Use code PREORDER25 at www.barnesandnoble.com/w/extraction...

Un beau résumé des travaux de recherche de mon étudiante Élodie, co-supervisée par @tephrabird.bsky.social - Élodie fait un travail minutieux d'enquête pour trouver des traces d'éruptions volcaniques passées dans les tourbières de la vallée du St-Laurent 🌋🔬🧪

Some US members of congress wrote the Canadian ambassador on July 7, 2025 with respect to fire management and the resulting smoke from Canadian forest fires. The reality is that the increase in fires & smoke is largely due to human-caused climate change, and we will see more fire in the future.

Tired of the "women should be more this or less that" take - maybe the problem is not that women are too helpful, it's that many men are not helpful enough (without consequences on their careers)

Ever wondered how functional traits of common peatland plants vary among sites? We got you - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This was a fun group project with @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com and many grad students and post-docs.

There is currently a lot of talk here about how the deep circulation in the southern ocean allegedly reversed. It's based on a exaggerated press release. The actual research says nothing of that sort. It's about connecting sea ice trends to oceanic patterns. I covered similar studies a while ago.

‘There is no safe way to do it’: the rapid rise and horrifying risks of choking during sex

Mais pour avoir leur projet d'égo, Legault et sa gang ont déjà gaspillé des millions qu'on n'a pas et sont prêts à y mettre de milliards qu'on a pas. Et le contrat de construction, si signé avant les élections, va avoir une clause qui va rendre l'annulation plus chère que le f$%?$ tunnel.

For Canada Day, I can't recommend enough this great NFB documentary directed by Noam Gonick on 2SLGBTQI+ activism and resistance in Canada, available for free on NFB's website www.onf.ca/film/parade/

🧵Solidarity with Francesca Albanese. She is facing a barrage of lies and smears + the Trump Admin is calling on the UN to fire her. Why? Because there is simply no arguing with her devastating new report on the companies profiting from genocide. Stay tuned for our interview on @zeteo.com.

Back in the field with M.Sc. student @jhfh.bsky.social and @alexandreklein.bsky.social to study the impact of cormorant colonies on the soils of Mingan islands in northeastern Quebec. You can hear the colony quite well on the video, but fortunately you can't smell the guano!

why are so many wildlife biologists (and vets) doing social science research with no social scientist(s) in the research team? Advice: "Martin, V. Y. 2020. Four common problems in environmental social research undertaken by natural scientists. BioScience, 70(1), 13–16. doi.org/10.1093/bios...

I'm a bit late on this, but here is Sentinel-2 footage (June 6, 2025) of the G90216 fire in northern British Columbia. The western front is over 50 km long, and the entire fire is still out of control, with ~211,000 hectares burned.

I was very lucky to spend last week in the lab of the wonderful @tephrabird.bsky.social, learning so much about tephras and then enjoying a sample of Alberta's outdoors. My job, when I don't have to spend most of my working hours answering emails, is the best!

Andor, saison 2, épisode 8

A late start to the field season, but an important one - 10 years of biogeochemistry monitoring in this lovely peatland (Grande plée Bleue, near Quebec City)