Yeah Canada’s mishmash use of imperial and metric systems is insane 🤣 this can confuse anyone….but maybe not the Brits 😏 Credit to marioadrioncomedy1

There is something very, very Canadian about holding a referendum to decide whether to hold a real referendum. (Sorry not sorry to AB separatists who didn't want to hear that!) #cdnpoli

A controversy that seems to perfectly fit our time. 👇 Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

BC doesn’t want this pipeline. Many First Nations don’t want this pipeline. Oil is not the future. Why is Carney trying to appease Smith’s separatist base? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

If you’re a follower of mine in the United States, please take a look at the post below, and please consider sharing it. I presume it WON’T be covered in American media.

Morning chuckle: "...your article titled Diseases pattern among patients attending Holy Mosque (Haram) Medical Centers during Hajj 1434 (2013)‍ . ...it may be a good fit for the Journal of Orthopedics & Bone Disorders (JOBD) and would welcome your submission for consideration." (I'm an astronomer.)

A good read. #cdnpoli #bcpoli bchumanrights.ca/news-and-eve...

Well, isn’t this a sight for sore eyes! 😍 Our beloved Hubble appears in this amazing image from one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites. It was 36 years ago today that Hubble was launched in the bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Vantor.

It's true that the evil-river store has saved my parenting bacon a few times, but when my Sunday afternoon included an unexpected and spectacular end to my stand-mixer bowl, it sure was nice that the London Drugs a few blocks away lived up to its old slogan of doing "everything."

CBC At Issue pundits pointing out that 3 years (which the new majority gives the govt) is a long time in politics. Yes, and in 3 years there will (there had better be!) a different US president and the whole context that made Carney succeed will have changed.

Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, Thence to a lightness, and by this declension, Into the madness wherein now he raves, And all we mourn for.

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!

Thinking deeply is, itself, beautiful and productive work, to turn the developer's ridiculous reasoning back on him. Cogito ergo sum, and all that. If people delegate their thinking, we will collectively lose what makes us human. www.404media.co/whats-the-po...

This is important...

I’d rather be a Canadian with a Silver than an American with a Gold.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

I was on a career panel tonight with several awesome women* but the best questions probably came in the short networking time afterwards.

Love this!

"...we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together. That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently. And it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us." www.policymagazine.ca/the-old-orde...

Depressing but probably right. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-th...

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

“Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Canada are sending troops to Greenland amid continued threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to annex the territory, multiple outlets reported.” Good.

Has not one reporter asked why NATO would not be intervening in the case of a Russian or Chinese invasion of Greenland??

PSA: if you have a mini-split heat pump and (ahem) don't always get around to cleaning the filters on time, do it today. It makes a big difference!

The “End of NATO” clearly isn’t a deterrent for Trump and Putin. IT HAS TO BE A DETERRENT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

Denmark, however small, has been a vocal and financial supporter of Ukraine. Punishment for that could absolutely be part of the plan here (similarly for Canada and the 51st-state nonsense). Europe needs to stand firm on both.

Conic Sections xkcd.com/3189/

“I love maps,” the president continued. “And I always said, ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States.’” Does he know about the Mercator projection?

Greenland is not for sale, and not for taking over.

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

In my upper-year astro techniques course, I get the students to do basic ray-tracing for eg a Gregorian telescope. This is giving me lots of new ideas. :-) xkcd.com/3182/

Usually I find the Vancouver winter rain to be an OK tradeoff for warmer temperatures than the rest of the country. But atmospheric rivers are just gross (much more so for the people dealing with flooding).

In the last couple of days, I have had to push back on TWO requests to review proposals for the last week of December or first thing in January. After the term I've just had, I am not planning to work over the break, and no one should be trying to impose that expectation on anyone.

I like "Country Roads" as much as the next person who has spent time in WV. But, UBC folks, classes are not over yet, some of us are in frantic work mode, and having loud music blast on campus is just not helpful.

Hey you, at the entrance to the pool! That sign saying, “Please remove shoes here?” That’s directed at you. Your shoes are not magically cleaner than anyone else’s.

The doublespeak is astounding.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Attention #YVR physics enthusiasts, especially high school students, there are two exciting TRIUMF Saturday Morning Lectures by @sfuphysics.bsky.social faculty happening next weekend (Nov 15th) in Surrey. ⚛️ 🎢 🧪

As we watch Trump & the GOP ignore the Constitution & the concept of human rights in the United States, consider what’s been happening in Canada with right-wing Premiers and Poilievre normalizing the common abuse of the Notwithstanding Clause to make Canada’s Charter of Rights & Freedoms irrelevant.

AND today would be ANOTHER good day for Pierre Poilievre to prove to Canadians that he’s actually capable of passing the same, normal security check, & getting the standard security clearance he’s STILL refusing to get. Until he does, I’m still assuming that it’s because he KNOWS he can’t pass it.

Timeline cleanse

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven. The degree to which those comments can undermine public health—is violence against the truth. - Barack Obama

Could Karen Attiah please be reinstated now? Himpathy—the endless prioritization of white men and their feelings over everyone and everything else—distorts who we rally around as well as who we memorialize katemanne.substack.com/p/what-we-do...