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.

Taps the sign... INDOOR, VERTICAL FARMS WON'T FEED THE WORLD... AND THEY DON'T HELP WITH THE ENVIRONMENT globalecoguy.org/no-vertical-...

Près de 10 ans après l’adoption de la loi censée freiner la disparition des milieux humides au Québec, l’échec semble évident (plus de 5000 autorisations d’empiétement, pour un total de plus de 72 millions de m2). Texte dans Le Devoir: www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

“Every year, when I see 14 beams of light projected into the sky above Mount Royal, I have to catch my breath. “36 years ago, 14 young women were murdered in one of the most violent examples of misogynistic terrorism Canada has ever known.” An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social. #December6

Ça dit tout ce que ça a à dire sur les orientations politiques du PQ en 2025. Les femmes sont bcp moins nombreuses à voter pour la droite et référendum = PQ.

A very 2025 headline

Autour de moi, les témoignages se multiplient: l’abolition du PEQ entraine un exode des cerveaux. lp.ca/jKG81v?shari...

“Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.”— Ronald Purser www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing. Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this? Background readings: Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

I wonder how many times I have had to correct authors when reviewing a paper about the notions of "stock" or "reservoir" vs "sink" of carbon. These words can't be used interchangeably, people! (En français : puits et réservoir de carbone sont deux concepts disctincts !)

Le regard de notre caricaturiste Chloé sur l'actualité du 1er décembre 2025 👉 bit.ly/48J7twX