And now starting the week with a paper (basically minus a formatting change) acceptance in my inbox. 🎉🥳

My latest investigation for @thetyee.ca details what the UCP government doesn't want the public to know about their private surgery push. Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Ringing the gong to mark an important milestone in my treatment (with my husband who has been with me every step of the way joining by the phone I’m talking to in the corner). As a friend said - the gong is perfect to mark this gong show

Join Energy vs Climate co-hosts Ed Whittingham and @shastingssimon.bsky.social for EvC After Hours in Calgary for Canada Climate Week Xchange — where Canada’s energy and climate crowd unwinds, connects and trades big ideas. #CCWX www.energyvsclimate.com/evc-calgary-...

I integrated a QR code to get to a specific @energyvsclimate.bsky.social page into the last slide of my talk to the drs and I feel like a super master level tech/podcaster 😆💪 (And none of them tried to poke or cut me though it was the most nervous I’ve been to give a talk)

Every time I try to do a little more work in a day thinking that surely by now my fatigue must be better I’m too quickly reminded - nope. Starting to worry that it’s the 5 year med that is causing this (and trying to adjust my long term expectations)

@shastingssimon.bsky.social on how the rest of the world is moving away from fossil fuels and potentially Canada's oil and gas exports. Clip from Real Talk x EvC Full episode: www.energyvsclimate.com/real-talk-ry... #oilandgas #energy #climatechange

Does anyone know if an Alberta learners permit can be used to create a registered Alberta.ca account or if you need to have a regular Alberta ID card if you dont yet have a license?

Nice piece on ecargo bikes (note the author specifies "smug" is under the more ambiguous British meaning). "Convenience, more than, say, environmentalism, is driving the boom. " - this is the key to unlocking it at scale. As well as the option of the second car replacement

Good news for people who enjoy thinking about the roman empire www.nature.com/articles/s41...

in related news, I regret to inform my fellow Calgarians that I am still riding a regular bike with no winter tires so the 8 months of winter means we need to be prepared for winter to extend into mid July #yycbike

Thankfully noticed that the car wasn't going to yield as it was supposed to and avoided being hit while leaving the cancer hospital. As much as I think about how ironic it would be to be hit by a car going to/from cancer treatment I'm just not that committed to the bit. *ban right turn on red*

Journalist: say and spell your name and give me your full title and affiliation Me:

Excellent conference - 100% recommend!

🚨Call for Speakers🚨 ⚡5th Electricity Camp in the Rockies 🗓️May 20-22, 2026 ⛰️Banff, Alberta 👪Academics, policymakers, and practitioners talking about all things electricity (and hiking!) ✉️Email abstracts to: [email protected] by Dec 15 Past programs here: nzeri.ca/electricity-camp

While it would have been soon enough to stop quoting Larry Summers as an expert after his first comment about women while president of Harvard, perhaps this email will be enough to finally do so.

The end of the internal combustion engine? Sales of petrol and diesel cars in China peaked in 2017 and are now falling rapidly. The shift to electric and low-carbon transport is well underway—and EV sales are rising fast.

Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines. Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context. I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.

And if I was given a very narrow set of magic powers it would be that if someone try to say or write the CPS is the "current trajectory" or "BAU" a small air horn would pop up and a voice would say/type "CPS is a frozen world where nothing changes which has never actually happened"

For anyone writing or reading stories about the new IEA global outlook today - reminder that the current policies isn’t a BAU scenario (Sadly I would bet a lot of $$ that it will be referred to as such by politicians and others in Canada)

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

People will literally drive electricity on a train instead of building transmission lines (I haven't looked into the economics/physics of this at all, but its a great example of how policy matters for energy systems)

I'm going to be in a room full of doctors on Friday morning but this time its to give a talk about energy transition its quite the contrast with having to go for an infusion later that day but it feels like a step in the right direction 💪👏

FIFA Puskas Award nominee at the #CanPL final, why the heck not 🥶🚲 📹 OneSoccer

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

When you haven’t given a general “state of the energy transition” talk in a year and you need to update all your slides because of how much things have changed

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According to an email obtained by The Narwhal, MAGA Energy’s revenues had dropped and the company was in “survival mode” when Alberta allowed it to acquire 170 oil wells. Now, the company isn’t paying its bills to landowners and owes taxes to at least one municipality. thenarwhal.ca/maga-energy-...

FIFA making Trump a peace prize has got to be one of the dumbest example of pandering corruption in a while (and thats a high bar)

I know I shouldn't have but I clicked on it - women in the workplace are bad because they care about people and make things woke - date rape shouldn't be considered rape if the men are just awkward (this is an insult to all awkward men out there who manage just fine to not rape women) then I stopped

Some comments from me on the geohazards that could impact an oil pipeline from AB to BC coast, following @davidebybc.bsky.social and First Nations' continued opposition. More thoughts in the below thread from ~6 months ago 🧪⚒️ @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

I don’t know if anyone will believe it but he came up with this idea all on his own (my help was just in how to look at existing laws to find examples of how different parts are written)

Claudia Sheinbaum says she's pressing charges against the man who groped her this week outside Mexico's presidential palace. “It is something that all women in our country experience,” she said. “If I do not report the crime ... what condition will all Mexican women be left in?” wapo.st/4852563

I sometimes get offended that my kids go to my husband and not me when they have questions on their math homework (I’m not a theoretical physicist but I’m pretty good at middle school math) but they have a homework assignment where they have to write a legislation and I’m feeling very valuable!

In Alberta, landowners can’t deny oil and gas wells on their properties, but they’re entitled to compensation. Some companies fail to pay those bills — and rural Albertans are tired of waiting. They're also tired of that repayment, eventually, coming from taxpayers. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...

Requiring cyclists to come to a full stop at stop signs just slows drivers down. I know because I, the canonical rule follower, come to a full stop, and then I have to slowly accelerate when it's my turn. Same with making cyclists dismount to cross the crosswalk - much slower than riding across.

Rather than a broad take on the budget I will put forward an offer - I will make a wager with anyone who believes that, as the budget states, in the absence of the oil and gas gap that roughly the same emissions reductions will be achieved through other measures (for 2030, especially oil sands)

In many places, these covenants banning multi-unit housing served to perpetuate exclusion and class segregation after racially discriminatory clauses became unenforcable. They continue to keep apartment dwellers out of some of Halifax's most walkable, centrally located neighbourhoods.

Canada needs to catch up! @energyvsclimate.bsky.social hosts @davidkeith.bsky.social, @shastingssimon.bsky.social, & Ed Whittingham lay out how we're lagging behind in matters of energy, environment, and the economy... 📺 FULL: rtrj.info/103125RTRT 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/103125pod #cdnpoli 🇨🇦 #RealTalkRJ

Research explainer for some of my #energydemocracy work @royalroads.ca, with researchers and practitioners from across #Canada. Features our new map of energy co-operatives and how grassroots #innovation, #diversity and #justice is essential for #climate action. #energysky youtu.be/9qy7EKgYTok

I have no idea how either of them might be problematic (or not!) but I love this and Denmark must have the coolest gifts to give other nations.

Yet another pedestrian death on Calgary's streets. This article doesn't include the context that last month, three pedestrians were killed in 24 hours and #yyc surpassed last year’s 10-year high for fatal traffic collisions. We need to talk about this more. #yyccc www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Not sure how to do this but dear councillors and new mayor the University is here to help you. We have an existing agreement to help you research anything you need evidence for. I mean not just me. Anyone. It’s called the Urban Alliance agreement

Repping one of my favourite energy technologies for my cancer workout class this morning.

Jeff Jones continuing to do yeoman’s work bringing the O&G closure liability fiasco to #ableg and #cdnpoli. Willful ignorance at the top — among the c-suite, auditors and investors — will keep pushing this bill down onto taxpayers’ lap. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

🔌💡 What does it take to build multi-megawatt charging stations to support #electric fleets? Our @sarabaldwin.bsky.social & Terawatt's Jason Berry discuss the challenges & approaches to building this infrastructure Listen to the Electrify This! #podcast energyinnovation.org/podcast/long...

Had a good time with my @energyvsclimate.bsky.social cohosts in this wide ranging convo on the Ryan Jespersen show, which led to the funny moment of the guy tiling my bathroom realizing he was listening to me while doing so. Show drops on our feed later this week m.youtube.com/watch?v=f4sG...