I'm going to start teaching again shortly so here's my list of examples. We'll start with the dominant shell in Linux. If you make a mistake you see: bash: <what you typed>: command not found And it feels weird to see 'bash' as the first thing back at you. What kind of sick joke is this!? Well...

Italy's parliament on Tuesday approved a law that punishes femicide with life in prison. The vote coincided with the international day for the elimination of violence against women. n.pr/4olzAHf

I am a serious professional scientist. I am also a commissioner of climate change and have to discuss practical and pragmatic solutions with people who disagree strongly with climate action. I have a calm and optimism-driven approach to climate action. 40 inches of rain is biblically catastrophic.

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Have you ever seen a baby gar eating? This little Spotted Gar is about a week old and has started feeding on zooplankton (in this case brine shrimp/Artemia/ aka "sea monkeys").

Atlantic killifish are robust little fish, but now @tblanchard.bsky.social & co reveal that fluctuating temperatures while the embryos are developing in the egg can have beneficial and damaging consequences journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

climate change is causing larger temperature variations BUT we know very little about how variable temperatures impact sensitive, developing fish in this new study with @tblanchard.bsky.social & @trishschulte.bsky.social we found surprising impacts during development and after hatch!! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 🐠 🌎 🌐👇🏼

Thinking about all of my US colleagues today that work for USGS, USFWS, US Parks Service, NOAA and the EPA. From front line environmental practitioners to scientists and policy makers, these folks ensure that waters are swimmable, fish are edible, that natural areas are accessible, etc, etc, etc.

#sturgeonsaturday 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐 the last 2 years i’ve been investigating why these giant fish are dying across BC and i’ve started to identify the stressors that could be driving mortality!! if you want to learn more, check out this video: tinyurl.com/4m4xxrkh tldr; it’s getting hot out here yall 🥵

Just in case you were wondering why capital letters are also called "UPPERcase" :)

At @patferreira.bsky.social's request, a box to incubate slides during immunostaining. Might be useful to other folks out there :)

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Another little creb 😊

I am again improving my respirometry controllers in prep for an experiment 🐟 Today, I learned how to use one arduino to control any number of others! This is a huge upgrade because now I can control _any number_ of flush pumps while using only 1 USB port on the computer.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Earlier this year, @andyturko.bsky.social taught me how to use a 3D-printer. It's the most useful skill ever for experimental biologists! Today, I decided to create a printables account to share my models with the world :) Only one simple model there for now, but more to come!

At work, we often anaesthetise, perform surgery on, and tag juvenile fish. We wanted to find out if these procedures impact their oxygen consumption in the following days. Good news, we didn't find cause for concern! 🙂 Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

JUST IN: A historic conviction: Brazil's Supreme Court delivers a majority vote to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro over a plot to overthrow the government.

This week we drove 4000km to collect giant floaters and tiny lake sturgeon and bring them back to Halifax. What a journey it was! Our new guests are now happy in their new homes 😊

This week we drove 4000km to collect giant floaters and tiny lake sturgeon and bring them back to Halifax. What a journey it was! Our new guests are now happy in their new homes 😊

Essay: I’m aware of how vulnerable I am on my bike when I place my left foot on the pavement, waiting for the light to change, surrounded by cars next to me ready to roar, writes Mathilde Piton. At the same time, there’s a feeling of power. I’m in charge.

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

New research tracking the first-year survival rates for lake sturgeon released to a #GreatLakes tributary, the Maumee River, in 2018, 2019 + 2021 suggests that efforts are on track to achieve naturally-reproducing lake sturgeon in the river (hopefully) by 2038 news.utoledo.edu/index.php/07...

Congratulations to Patricia Ferreira, the winner of this year's JEB sponsored YSAS award at the 2025 #SEBconference for their talk titled 'Will you miss me when I am gone? Gastric proton pump knockout and the importance of gastric acid in digestion, metabolism & growth in fish'

#seb2025 Here we go!

Whenever I leave from/return to Halifax I get to see the gigantic, all-caps "Prices more stable than some world leaders" billboard from a local Internet provider, and it puts a smile on my face every single time 😄 On my way to #SEB2025! It's been too long since I was last in Europe 🇪🇺❤️

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Our 🇪🇺 budget sends support rapidly when and where it's needed. In 🇵🇹, EU funding boosts firefighting with upgraded helicopters, equipment and facilities, to protect people and nature. Europe invests where it mattes, making a difference for 450m Europeans. #ThePowerOfTogether

Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.

Alright I have a question for *all of you*, esp for those of you who are not into environment stuff. When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything. RTs appreciated here.

Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice

"This again?" the dragon said. "It's been just a few centuries since the last time.' "Please," the knight said. "I asked you to make sure you had a way of getting rid of bad kings yourself, before you made any new ones." "We didn't understand we made a king." "You are such fools. Very well."

A man impersonating a police officer assassinated a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz said on Saturday, and killed the lawmaker’s husband. The assailant also shot and injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife, officials said. nyti.ms/4jRTrvw

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Latest CBC reporting on closures due to detected right whales in the Gulf of St Lawrence. DFOs Whale Insight shows the positions, and also the @oceantracking.bsky.social gliders patrolling the shipping lanes!

holy shit -- GOP Rep. Mike Turner tries to "help out" Hegseth by getting him to confirm that the Pentagon does not in fact have plans to take Greenland by force, but Hegseth instead more or less testifies that yep, they have devised plans for that

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

Big day of implanting bowfin with telemetry transmitters.

Canadian man reading date never knows which is day and which is month unless day is above 12

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

"There are protests, your majesty." "Good," said the Emperor. "What are they protesting?" "Grain prices. But why are protests good?" "What would you call a society with no protests?" "Happy, your majesty." "I would call it oppressed. Prepare a report on their grievances."

Cycling isn’t just good for your health – It’s good for the planet, our cities, and the economy. ✔️ Over 92,000 km of EuroVelo cycling routes across Europe ✔️ Nearly 10 million bicycles produced yearly in the EU ✔️ 1.35 million jobs supported by the EU cycling sector

Lately, I've been working on a map for a mystery novel. After much back & forth & redrawing, the book's authors decided not to use it. That's frustrating, 'cause it was a lot of work & rework. And I like to help readers see a book's world. Sigh. But it's a good map, & so I'm sharing it with y'all.

Look closely... Big fish Big snout Armoured Oval mouth Barbules Interesting to think that this 16th Century image represents a sturgeon Especially as historical records show the Severn estuary/river being of major importance to this species uksturgeonsightings.org?page=Map

Today, over 20,000 bee species are buzzing for #WorldBeeDay 🐝 Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive. Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.

It’s World Endangered Species Day! 🐟 Both plant & animal life face numerous threats that have led to population declines and even extinction. In aquatic environments, these risks usually include overfishing, habitat degradation, pollution, coastal urban development and climate change...

The state of Georgia is using the body of a brain-dead woman as an incubator. Because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she died, and their abortion ban is from about 6 weeks, they are sustaining her on life support, without input from her family, until 32 weeks of gestation. A true dystopian nightmare.

Some thoughts on the push to fast track development in Canada at the cost of the environment. theconversation.com/elbows-up-in... @pagse-pfst.bsky.social @e4dca.bsky.social @cdnsciencepub.com @carleton.ca @scas-scsa.bsky.social @csee-scee.bsky.social @rcgssgrc.bsky.social @wwfcanada.org