The wholesome story of how the NORAD Santa tracker started. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This morning before the adults were up, the kiddo went downstairs and wrote a Xmas card to Santa thanking him for bringing gifts to all the kids and moms and dads, before quizzing him on the physics of reindeer flight. I also like how she’s concerned for Santa wellbeing, asking if his job is hard.

Happy festivus everyone!

In short, we’re taking steps backward in nature’s protection. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

I just found my spirit animal.

Here’s CNN’s “fact check” guide on Chumps speech tonight. WARNING: The bullsh!t list is lonnnnngggg. 🤣 #FuckTrump www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/p...

This volume comes out in January and will be essential for your university library. I’m also very pleased to have a chapter in it alongside so many incredible scholars. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tt-clark-...

Fascinating interspecies collaboration. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Big news: 'Climate protesters have won a class action against Victoria police over the use of capsicum spray during an anti-mining demonstration in Melbourne.' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It was only a matter of time. www.bbc.com/news/article...

America’s gestapo.

Donald Trump presidency.

Only in Alberta. Lol

A great little piece on the depiction of the human in raced/gendered/linear ways in evolutionary education at the 100th anniversary of the Scopes trial. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

We should all be alarmed

This is why we can’t have nice things. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

"Your pattern of reluctance cannot hold; the dam will break at some point. Every year, you read 'backgammon set' as one of my lovely gift suggestions, and every year you scroll right past it as if you know better than me. Let’s be clear: you don’t."

Omg Matt Berninger is coming to Calgary!

Out late for #FossilFriday, it's our invited @annualreviews.bsky.social paper with @sarahlsheffield.bsky.social and @bigfacecats.bsky.social on why Phylogenetic Paleoecology is useful and how to do it. doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Is this the greatest film ever made? youtu.be/fYBzd8OV6Ys?...

Cater to fanatics and you reap what you sow.

Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to declare herself premier of B.C.

Great picture of a finch on the bird cam.

As an alternative, the Canadian Theological Society, and the Canadian Corporation for the Study of Religion are meeting in Winnipeg this year. cts-stc.ca ccsr.ca/en/

It's a good day for democracy when the UCP are on the run. nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/24/s...

I stand by my decision to not travel to the States this year, but I’ve been missing connecting with great scholars and hearing quality papers. #aarsbl2025

More US adults identify with no religion (29%) than with the Catholic Church (19%) or evangelical Protestant denominations (23%). www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The petrostate is hijacking the future. www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/c...

As if we needed more evidence. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Reading a friend’s new book by the fire is a good way to spend the morning. @janebarter.bsky.social

I hate naked consumerism.

The victims' testimony? Hoax. The hundreds and hundreds of references to Trump in the emails? Hoax. The FBI agents who said they had to redact his name in them? Hoax. Trump's creepy birthday poem? Hoax again. All the photos and videos of them yukking it up together? You got it: H-O-A-X.

Post your favourite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answers only.

I stand in solidarity with the Starbucks workers on strike. When a corporation can pay $96 million to its CEO for just four months of work, it can afford to pay its workers a living wage and decent benefits.

I’m glad to see Pope Leo continuing what Francis started. www.cbc.ca/news/vatican...

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/

This is so sick and illustrative why stronger legal protections and status are needed for nonhuman animals. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Feel hopeful in knowing that after strip-mining the only habitable world we have, the billionaires may build themselves a second one somewhere colder, lonelier, and even easier to keep away from the rest of us."

This is a wonderful article exploring home, democracy, faith/no faith, in a healthy, pluralistic way. Very helpful. h/t Grace Y. Kao religionnews.com/2025/11/03/w...

And also every single county in Virginia shifted blue, two statewide posts in Georgia went blue (for the first time in two decades), three Pennsylvania judicial races went blue, a Maine vote went blue, a Mississippi state senate seat went blue ....

Parenting a 7 yr old means I’m now intimately familiar with the K Pop Demon Hunters…and we had a great time at the big screen theatre doing-a-long showing today.

On a candy mission.

Overt racism masked (well just playing lip service) under language of dignity. Garbage.