Some epic shots of Pyrocumulus clouds indicative of extreme fire behaviour associated with the wildfires near Boston Bar including a new start that’s threatening the main townsite. Seen from 125km away in Coquitlam BC! H/T 📸: @brad604.bsky.social #BCWildfire #BCStorm #BCStormWatch #BCWX

Urban spaces should be colorful. It enhances livability and well-being. When you design for people, you can cast aside the grey sterilization of car infrastructure and focus on what's important.

@thebeaverton.com joked that Ontario Premier Doug Ford would build more spas to fight wildfires. It may well be that soon, the only place we can go in summer to beat the heat and the smoke, if we can afford it, is one of Doug Ford’s domed pleasure palaces. lloydalter.substack.com/p/when-parod...

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

Thrilled to see that the Stop the Closure of the National Archives at Chicago petition is at 1000+ signatures! Please sign AND take the actions outlined in the petition. Let your reps and those in power know how important this issue is. www.change.org/p/stop-the-c...

MAKING GAUDÍ GAUDY: TOURISM, TECHNOLOGY & THE ARCHITECTURE OF SPECTACLE Recognised by UNESCO, Casa Batlló is now a tourist attraction with over 1.9 million visitors annually who experience the architecture & a programme of immersive digital art projects. recessed.space/00328-Gaudi-...

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants - AP News apnews.com/article/cali...

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

Stunning vertical panoramas of churches and their beautiful ceilings. [kottke.org]

Canada cancels joint bridge celebration with US, citing Trump trade threats reut.rs/3TcYaAc

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1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

🏆We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners and Commendations recipients for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! 👏Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/2lUKGFd

Thanks for speaking about Chicago's DuSable Lakeshore Drive. @betterstreetschicago.org has proposed an alternative plan that makes access to the lake easier and allows more land to become parkland. www.betterstreetschicago.org/dlsd

German political scientist Peter Lösche once described the Social Democratic Party (SPD) as “loosely coupled anarchy”. In Canadian federalism, we call this “Team Canada”. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

"[…] without UBI, people like this are exceedingly rare. Einsteins are rare. Khns and Kleks are rare. With UBI, they will be less rare. That is not a hope. That is a statistical near-certainty." www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

Latest report from the Behavioural Insights Team looks at social cohesion in the UK: “Rebuilding social cohesion requires shared spaces, activities that encourage people to come together, agency for communities, and platforms that connect people rather than divide them.”

A relaxed Monarch enjoying the Echinacea... #pollinators #monarch

If anyone would like to see a short video of a dog using their tail as a rotar blade, this is your lucky day.

SIPS meetings happen once a year, but improving psychological science is a year-round endeavor! Because of this, SIPS is launching a Pop-Up Event series, where SIPS members can propose monthly unconferences, hackathons & workshops, open to everyone!💪 buff.ly/OFgUncY #OpenScience

There’s a lot of space for greenery on our streets if you just reallocate a bit from cars.

Metascience 2027 is scheduled for June 14-16 in Montreal. We are delighted to partner with the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute for this important meeting. Join the mailing list for updates at: metascience.info

What is it with dogs and sticks! 🐕🪾😂

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness:

Absolutely WTF, just searched for a book which had a chapter from me in Google and it came up *in Google* with the tracking "utm_source=chatgpt.com" in the link. (Probably needless to say, but I wasn't using ChatGPT.)

New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >

A global sporting final has a remarkable way of bringing people together. ⚽🌍 Across Canada, communities will be gathering in public squares, parks, civic plazas, waterfronts, streets and other shared spaces to experience the excitement together.🧵

We are accepting nominations (including self-nominations) by August 23, at 11:59 PM US Pacific Time. 📅 buff.ly/nFEGTts

Imagine opposing the transformation of an abandoned, derelict power plant into a gorgeous coastal park because of “traffic.” Naturally there’s no consideration that anyone would bike or take transit The ultimate combination of car brain and MIMBYism www.thehour.com/news/article...

And so after a very brief hiatus, version 0.7.0 of "learning statistics with R" exists. Full rebuild in quarto, stylistic fixes, "epilogues from 2026" to comment on how the world changed since original publication, and as an added bonus, no longer misgenders the author learningstatisticswithr.com

People view AI as “unbiased” in the same way that people have less issue with statistical versus taste-based discrimination. As long as you can ground it in numbers by saying people with x characteristics are more likely to do y. And never ask about the training data.

River at Dusk Matthew Wong 2018

I am losing my mind. Chat isn’t a search engine. this isn’t normal. framing it as normative is slimy. Tone, vibes all bad.

Attention, innovation urbaine... On ne se libérera pas des stationnements ; pourquoi ne pas les embellir et les rendre profitables à tous ? Les villes sont au centre du réchauffement climatique, et, en plus, bon nombre d'entre elles sont des stationnements à ciel ouvert. N'ayons pas peur d'oser.

Meanwhile Chicago's Mayor still hasn't taken down the fencing in Millennium Park.

US politicians blaming Canada for the wildfire smoke is deplorable. The USA is the #1 producer of oil and gas on this planet. Fossil fuels companies have lied to us for decades about the energy transition. Their product and lies are the cause global heating. It is harrowing to know what is coming.

While Carney doubles down on oil, Poland is busy transitioning coal miners to deliver clean energy. And they’re doing this while *also* cutting themselves off of cheap russian gas. Where there’s the will, there’s a way.

This is not spinning. Helical walkway tower, San Siro stadium, Milano, Italia 🇮🇹 youtube.com/shorts/aFeh4...

Unpacking this famous quote by our Fred Kent: www.sociallifeproject.org/streets_as_p... @placemakingx.bsky.social @ethankent.bsky.social

ass out flower ate this is how i like pollinate

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

Truly unhinged idea that surely is just based in trying to humiliate people, but at least it has decent psychometrics compared to every mandatory training course I have ever been made to take by my employer.

Canada is home to the Boreal Forest, often called the ‘lungs of the planet’ which is currently on fire It equals about 30% of the world’s forest. It is the world’s largest intact forest, larger than the Amazon. Canadian taxpayers pay to maintain the world’s largest forest. You’re welcome. 🇨🇦

A Republican lawmaker was called out on Friday for her remarks about Canada's wildfires and smoke — comments critics said overlooked Canada's help fighting California's own fires, the Daily Beast was first to report.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

Republicans in Congress are threatening Canada's sovereignty over climate change fueled wildfires. Here's how much money they've taken from the fossil fuel industry recently. James: $308k+ Bergman: $175k+ McClain: $105k+ Moolenaar: $133k+ - oh and he's a climate denier. Completely shameless.

Please donate whatever you can when you can. Even a tiny amount can make a difference to someone in dire need. MARKET BOX is a mutual aid project that sources food from small farms and distributes it for free across the South Side of Chicago marketboxchi.org

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In his book Values, @mark-carney.bsky.social wrote about climate change: "It imposes costs on future generations that the current generation has no direct incentives to fix.” But how about this for an incentive? The country is burning. PM2.5 pollution shortens lives and kills. This is now.