You're both wonderful minor CanCon celebrities in my books!

Might be a day late, but this just came up. The 'Classic' Steeleye line-up from the late 70s. Maddie's voice just gives me the chills, in a good way. Also, the first UK Singles Chart hit fully in Latin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEPm...

Great fun on the Whitehorse, Yukon #ChristmasBirdCount today... warmed up to -32C, so no worries! 12 species in my zone, and at least 5 more that I know of counted by others. We'll end up with a total in the mid twenties as usual, I am sure! Will update when I know more... 1/2

Xylaria sp fungi on a dead leaf. NWT Canada. About 2 to 3cm high. #fungi #fungus #fungifriends

Although the present Yukon cold spell is certainly remarkable in recent history, here is some historical perspective (with temperatures in Fahrenheit)

On the first day of Christmas (in about 2014), @duckswabber.bsky.social gave to me - a partridge in a pear tree. Happy Christmas everyone!

“The Stopwatches in the Bee Brain: How Insects Master Time and What It Means for AI” features our work on #time processing across species ournarratives.net/the-stopwatc... (the front image is not accurate but there are other images in the article) @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

My daughter made these for me from some of my #iNaturalist observations! #bugsky #insects

I'm trying to make Mom's Molasses Buns. As ever, there's no recipe. No one ever thought to write this stuff down. So here's a little thread on me digging through my historic Newfoundland cookbooks.

I expect that everybody is happy see the deep cold leaving the southern Yukon. I haven't measured it, but it seems to me that the snow on the ground is about half what it was due to the incredibly dry air, so skiers, mushers, and snowmobilers will also welcome the snow.

Dawson City in the blue hour at -47⁰C about an hour before today's sunrise at 12:12pm. We woke to no ice fog today and wow, what an absolute gift of a day. #DawsonCity #Yukon

Scary! ... and the staphylinid and ichneumonid drawers?

Hello it is -51C here in Dawson today, here’s my dog in a tie.

I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.

Goldeneye, male, this afternoon at Chew Valley Lake

🎶 "... and a Red Crossbill in a willow tree" 🎶 #birds #Yukon

Caloplaca sp #lichen on seaside cliffs. Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

Great news for the Kootenays!

This is really cool and important.

#newissue Our latest issue Number 58 is now published! doi.org/10.22584/nr5... Thanks to Ray Marnoch, Whitehorse, for the dazzling cover art photo "Layers of Autumn Splendour at the Takhini Salt Flats" #openaccess #multidisciplinary #YukonUniversity

Caloplaca sp #lichen on seaside cliffs. #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

Peak Geminids Meteor shower this past Saturday night captured over Stonehenge. Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869

This is what cougars think of the US-Canada border: #connectivity

Holy turtle!!!

On FB, Yukon Geological Survey posted some spectacular photos of landslides & snow avalanches triggered by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Dec 6 in the St Elias Mountains. Here are some of my favs. @geocron.bsky.social @theronfinley.bsky.social @davepetley.bsky.social @ksvenenvig.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

“Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.” - Ernest Shackleton #Whitehorse #Yukon #minusforty

"Yes it's -41C and the ice fog is thick, but those aren't good reasons to not ride my fatbike" 😆 #Whitehorse, #Yukon

Yesterday, a M7.0 earthquake struck the Alaska-Canada border, directly beneath the Hubbard Glacier. Aftershocks reveal an unmapped fault in this already complex area. Read our post for more, & also: What happens when a fault offsets a glacier? Is the glacier named after one of my ancestors? ⚒️ 🧪

Norway has announced the creation of a commission that will map out the country's path in a post-oil economy. Canada should do the same. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/o...

A developing a Lamproderma slime mold. Northwest Territories, Canada. Photo covers about 6” of width. Pic from a few years ago in August. A day later this had matured into a several iridescent colours. #myxo #slime #fungifriends

Nearly 200 aftershocks (M2.5-5.8) within 30 hours of yesterday’s M7 earthquake in Yukon. Had this occurred in a densely populated region, all/most of these aftershocks would have been felt, with some large enough to cause additional damage. A lot will be learned from this earthquake sequence. ⚒️🧪

A Rhizocarpon (I think) lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Just heard Tom Powers interviewing Con O'Brien of the Irish Descendants on CBC, lovely that they finished by playing "Let Me Fish off Cape St. Mary's", one of the greatest Newfoundland songs of all times. I used to live in the lighthouse at the Cape back in 1976... www.google.com/search?sca_e...

Patrick Weiler is right--it makes no sense to give $$ to the highly profitable oil industry when we could be encouraging clean energy. The NDP fought these subsidies for more than a decade and thought the Liberals were finally onside, but now Carney caves. nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/03/c...

A Canadian publisher has called out the United States for using the image of a children's book character to brag about murdering unarmed people in international waters. This is a decrepit gangster state. This is the world of Donald Trump. This is demonic.

Wow

At least one federal Canadian politician has a bit of integrity

This exceptional #UNBC student is waiting right outside my office at the moment. So I might as well use this opportunity to advertise our Wildlife and Fisheries B.Sc. 🔗 www.unbc.ca/programs-and...

Birds Start to Show Signs of Recovery After Bee-Harming Pesticide Ban in the EU https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/birds-start-to-show-signs-of-recovery-after-bee-harming-pesticide-ban-in-the-eu/ #goodnews

Terrific new paper by @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social and others on dragonfly wings, in particular the hydrocarbons which act in multiple ways - structurally, pheromonally and in terms of water resistance. Wish I were still teaching, I'd use this as a great example. of multiple adaptations.

A carload of somewhat crazy birders drove to the beautiful little town of #WatsonLake, #Yukon today to see the female #EurasianBullfinch that has been visiting a feeder there... First record for Canada! (that wasn't an escaped cage bird) #birds #listers

More decades-long studies like this, please! Science crammed into short grant cycles misses important patterns.

For the first time, humans have tracked an individual butterfly, as shown in the Monarch migration of north America. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s... @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social

Unbelievable - my Liberal federal MP emailed his constituents today asking us to consider supporting a local non-profit because orgs providing housing and food to our neighbours are so stretched thin. If only there was some kind of central governing body that could provide funding and services

On Oct 28, a male monarch called XOKC005 (does he need a nickname?) was this year's 1st Xerces-tagged butterfly to make it Mexico, but he's already joined by several others! See their journeys on the Project Monarch app⤵️ 🍎iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/proje... 🤖Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Providing a springboard for early-career researchers to turn curiosity and passion into conservation action is one of the things I value the most. One example is leading the Weston Family Conservation Science Fellowship Program at @ncccnc.bsky.social! natureconservancy.ca/what-we-do/c...

Congratulations to Kate White and the entire Yukon NDP team on forming the Official Opposition! When New Democrats come together, we win! We’re all cheering you on as you continue to stand up for working people and for the North. 🧡

If you’re in Vancouver, don’t miss this 🌿 On Nov 20, WCS Canada’s Justina Ray joins UBC for a talk on reframing biodiversity - from “what we can spare” to “what nature needs” in planning, policy & climate action ↓

Found this while digging through my old boxes... so glad my mother made sure I got me every vaccine going!