Summer courses at Friday Harbor Labs have launched many scientific careers. Including mine. I was more reluctant to leave at the end of the course than other students. I promise you will have fun and learn more than you can imagine. fhl.uw.edu/courses/cour... 🧪

Up at Silverwood Park in St Anthony, MN, they built an ice carousel. Drill a hole in the ice, put in an outboard motor, cut the ice in a big circle, fire up the outboard, ice carousel. People do fun weird shit outside in Minnesota all winter long. Park was packed. It’s delightful here.

Want to do a postdoc at Friday Harbor Labs? We have two positions open. Apply by March 1st. I am happy to discuss potential projects with fish people. apply.interfolio.com/180092 🧪

My first PhD dissertation chapter has been published! Let me know if you need a copy. Complete species-level phylogeny of Madagascar’s tufted-tailed rats, Eliurus (Rodentia: Nesomyidae) reveals hidden diversity doi.org/10.1093/zool... And please enjoy this sonnet I wrote to summarize it:

Here's the full 40-minute debate between OneCity mayoral candidates William Azaroff and Amanda Burrows that @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social and I hosted on The Early Edition and This Is Vancouver this morning. Like! Share! Subscribe! Mystery Fourth Option!

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

A rare “Waterspout Watch” issued for the Salish Sea and North Pacific. #pnwwx #bcwx #bcstorm

We wrote this post in September. With 5 pedestrians killed in the same area, we explained how the road design almost guaranteed it'd happen again. Today, we learn that another pedestrian has been killed at Lougheed and Laity St, the exact same spot where a pedestrian was killed in 2023 (1/5)

It is utterly unfathomable how often our justice system doesn't even try to hold motorists responsible for their actions. www.nsnews.com/local-news/n...

Drivers are never asked to justify their infrastructure, but bicyclists (and pedestrians) are constantly forced to defend why their infrastructure is "necessary"

11,283 signatures so far. Add yours to voice your objection to using the notwithstanding clause as a weapon to deny people their fundamental human rights.

Feeling grateful this holiday season for starting a new postdoc at NMNH using phenomics to study drivers of #freshwatermussel #plasticity

“Retrofitting something as seemingly mundane as a culvert can have vast ecological & cultural ramifications.” @seattlebryn.bsky.social speaking my language! Also note improved fish passage preventing wildlife collisions. Better culverts work for all. #roadecology magiccanoe.org/salmon-rebou...

Usually you've got to buy somebody at least two Amstel Lights to get them to eat your ass out like this.

Ken Sim and ABC just gutted the Social Housing Initiative. That's not pro-housing: that's full NIMBY.

Everyone loves the fire in winter

Exciting news - I’m seeking the mayoral nomination with @OneCityVan! 1 / 5 youtu.be/2MTf7QmcEpc

Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver just killed the Social Housing Initiative. A program that could have actually gotten people off the streets and into homes? Dead.

"there's a new serif in town"

I want to make public things I’ve been saying in private: I urge the various Vancouver parties to set aside their differences and land on a single progressive candidate to oust Sim. @seanorr.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social @rebeccaleebligh.bsky.social @onecityvan.bsky.social 🧵

Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid

$13.4 million. But Ken Sim said we can't afford $10M for active transport lanes on Broadway because "we don't live in la la land."

The good news is that 2026 is an election year. Let's make vote out everyone in green here. Remember those names, & support those looking to unseat them. Thanks to @lucymaloney.bsky.social @seanorr.bsky.social @ptfry.bsky.social and @rebeccaleebligh.bsky.social for standing up for Vancouverites. 4/

Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Vancouver Council votes this week on a budget that could slash programs supporting public health & climate action. We're submitting this open letter tomorrow. We have >200 signatures so far, including almost 100 health professionals. Help us reach 300 by morning! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

two other quick points: 1) if people are setting plastic change tables on fire, perhaps replace them with metal ones. 2) $28,000 per year in repairs is around 0.05% of the $50 million annual budget increase requested by the VPD, and more cops will not address the root causes of vandalism

Ken Sim’s “Zero Means Zero” budget is reckless austerity dressed as leadership. It guts services while hiding the real impacts. At City Hall, not one of the seven Park Board Commissioner spoke in support because they know these cuts will damage community centres, parks, and programs across Vancouver

I'll never get over how all of these companies folded like wet cardboard when a dim NYC real estate conman operating at a fourth grade reading level demanded they all be more sexist and racist (or at best hide their efforts to be kind and inclusive under a tarp)

“The smallness of Mayor Ken Sim’s vision stands in stark contrast to that legacy. It is even contrary to his own ABC party’s platform for the 2022 election.”

Opinion: Vancouver goes small: The city risks big new problems with its proposed turn to austerity vancouversun.com/opinion/opin...

Today is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. One of our volunteers @margiesanderson.bsky.social spent the morning postering locations where pedestrians have been killed this year in Vancouver alone.

Despite Ken Sim trying to call our reporting "false" regarding the loss of Vancouver's sustainability department, city staff just confirmed under pressure from council that those jobs are not in fact safe in the budget, as it now stands.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the over 500 people who have signed up to speak to the budget and push back against Ken's Cuts.

NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.

Climate change mitigation and adaptation a core service. It is when our streets flood, when our pools crumble into the ocean, when we operate cooling and warming centres…

Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.

"I'm concerned that by cutting environmental programs, we're mortgaging our future," said @lucymaloney.bsky.social, a councillor with OneCity. That includes the city's commitment to fight climate change & improve residents' ability to adapt to climate disasters like extreme heat & wildfire smoke.

This is an unhinged assault on the future of the City of Vancouver

So, remind me again, why we are paying 3x per capita for policing in Vancouver? Must be all the rogue toddlers roaming the streets because they couldn't get in to a swim lesson...

Admiring the Penguin UK edition of my tiger book with a pint of IPA created by Iron Maiden

Nothing. Poilievre is just very aware that attacking Trudeau is literally the only thing in politics he’s ever been successful at. So it’s a variation of the old saying “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Plus, get your security clearance, Poilievre. If you actually can.

I will never forgive the cranks, quacks and charlatans who have brought god-damn measles back in this country

We shouldn't have to put up with this. We have the technology to prevent this deadly, incredibly infectious disease from spreading but we are allowing ourselves and our children to be oppressed by morons

Lucy is really going to let Charlie Brown kick the football this time. She really means it.

42% of residents and 37% of businesses surveyed supported a 5% property tax increase in order to maintain the current level of services in the city of Vancouver but wait there’s more a lot more 1/? council.vancouver.ca/20251112/doc...

Many city halls are deep in budget-time. Some are pushing austerity ideologies, and are ignoring the difference between costs and cost-savers/value creators. Citizens, PAY ATTENTION, and never forget that the TRUTH about a city’s REAL aspirations isn’t found in its visions. It’s found in its budget.

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

A leader would not have lost eight colleagues tonight. This happened because you let it happen or because you’ve totally lost control of the caucus in one of the most important moments since you’ve been Democratic leader. Either way, it’s on you. You need to step down. We need someone who can lead.

I don’t care if Schumer voted no. If he’s unable to wrangle the caucus, he’s not an effective leader. I’ll continue to push for the caucus to elect a new one.

"retain" and "integrity" doing a lot of load bearing work here