By attempting to abdicate any legal responsibility to provide for a healthy environment, the U.S. is running in the opposite direction as the global legal community, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social reports:

Phenotypic heterogeneity in a batch culture of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with different light tolerances. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667606v1

Disappointed to hear an emphasis on “decarbonized oil and gas” from the first minister’s meeting. What a failure in leadership. We are about to surpass a 1.5oC global temperature increase and it’s business as usual. We are committed to a 40% decrease in CO2 by 2030, yet we dance around the issue.

CO₂ at Mauna Loa just reached a monthly average of >430 ppm for the first time. That's possibly higher than in over 3.3 million years. The global RATE of increase is off the chart. It's hard to exaggerate how unprecedented this is!

Tree and Sky Shannon Craig Morphew 2024

Another reason to not use AI. The thing none of us needs or asked for.

David Do owns a house just outside Toronto, drives a Tesla and is paid $121,000 a year as a hospital pharmacist. But he leads a double life behind the world's most notorious website for non-consensual, AI-generated porn of real people: MrDeepFakes.com. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I'm seeking graduate students interested in studying nectar evolutionary ecology. Masters or PhD. Sep 2025 or Jan 2026 start. Interested students encouraged to apply by May 5 to be eligible for additional scholarships. #gradschool #flower #evolution #nectar #pollination

It’s funny that we are at a stage of censoring art in Canada. Art reflects the time it is made, and this piece does it perfectly. Grow up UPEI. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One of JVL’s darkest columns yet

Chrétien always had a connection to the average Canadian, and his speech tonight hit the right notes. Vive le Canada!

Skipping a conference I love so I don’t have to travel to the US. Maybe in 4 years.

UNB is looking for a Chair in Digital Agriculture. Position has reduced teaching and upwards of 500k research funding over 5 years, with possibility of more. www.unb.ca/hr/_assets/d...

I remember in the 1980’s the the controversy of the original Free Trade Agreement, when there were calls for dropping trade barriers between Provinces. Glad we are talking about that again 40 years later.

Is it odd that some of the richest men have the poorest character?

Got to listen to analysis about the possibility of the US taking over Canada on my way to work. Thanks US voters for another 4 years of this stupidity.

The university gym is mostly people sitting on weight machines looking at their phones.

Walked by someone eating breakfast cereal from glass bowl on the walking trail and I was envious of their ability to multitask.

Darwin's “Origin of Species” was published #OnThisDay in 1859.

I spent a long time writing, and living through, this story about my dad's healthcare journey. It's the most widely read, and consequential, piece I have ever written. Posting it here for anyone interested who may not have seen it. ottawacitizen.com/feature/the-...

More of this from our government at all levels would be great. Government policy is complex and we need to hear about the grey areas of decision making.

I'm excited to be starting as an Assistant Professor (@BiologyUnb) at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, Canada) in July 2025! My group will be exploring the evolutionary forces driving pangenome variation in prokaryotes. Details here: https://buff.ly/3UPVcQ9

The New Brunswick government releases its Ministers mandate letters. Love the transparency. www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/...

15th century, Flemish painting entitled “tenured professor listening to seminar”. National Gallery, Ottawa.

Some 60 million years ago, Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula was a tropical coastline, teeming with primordial life. Today, its history is written in the rocks of lonely Table Point. Explore with Scott Leslie in this recent Saltscapes feature.

Inhibitors in the agar. Interesting story for those that pour agar plates. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

If you think a carbon tax is expensive in Canada, just wait. Someone will have to pay for increased flood, fire and storm damage to property.

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Wild, windy night. Trees down all over the place. Had to saw my way up to the garage.

I’m about as ready for winter as these flowers.

Green algae making itself at home on my cow skull.

Mushroom hike on the weekend. Just past the peak following all the rain but still lots around.

This big, dead birch is a resource for insects, woodpeckers and these fungi poking out a woodpecker hole.

Bracket fungus on a tree.

I’m starting to receive some very well written inquiry emails from international students, and after 26 years of receiving these I’m suspecting AI is assisting in the composition. Makes assessing competency in writing and communication difficult.

Found this Cichorium intybus on campus, a lovely little weed. It’s edible, but comes with a “prolonged use may damage retinas” warning.

Great blue Herron caught on my trail cam.