Global fossil-fuel emissions are likely to hit yet another record high this year, but there are signs that the world is approaching a peak Read the full story: go.nature.com/3LAtSUd

The truth is that people in need are being denied food for political points. Some US food banks have seen an 1800% increase in demand since SNAP funding was cut. Any notions of the GOP being a Christian party championing the poor and marginalized have evaporated just like the SNAP funding.

Quite the show.

Yeeesh.

It isn’t really covert though? For shame IU.

This chart and its implications are absolutely bonkers. From Axios. www.axios.com/2025/11/04/h...

Lest we forget. Family members that served. ❤️

Getting Rosalind Franklin’s story right is crucial, because she has become a role model for women going into science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sunday at St John’s Cathedral.

After the Democrats folded like a cheap tent on the weekend, a small bit of good news out of the Trump-stacked Supreme Court. 🌈 www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...

Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing go.nature.com/49CE3Bt

The play that the MB NDP is making is that there isn’t much choice on the center/left in MB - the Libs are weakened and the Greens won’t get in. So the NDP can lurch to the right and people on the left, center or center right will still vote for them because the MB PCs are terrible. (1/2) #mbpoli

The world’s real concern should be universal access and affordability to the minerals that matter to human development go.nature.com/4hNtI86

I actually agree with Hegseth this time. It is 1939.

According to this ranking, Canada’s reputation has improved since 2024. We are now the 2nd most reputable country in the world. The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…

On Oct 16, 1950 C.S. Lewis published the first of his “Chronicles of Narnia” - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The novel was released in North America on this date, Nov 6, 1950. So happy 75th anniversary to Aslan, Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy, Mr and Mrs. Beaver and Mr. Tumnus!

"On Tyranny" is #1 on the WaPo bestseller list this week. I wish it weren't necessary, but I'm glad that people are finding the book useful. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

NEW: Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee and a state assemblymember, will become New York City’s next mayor, The Associated Press reports. He will be the city’s first Muslim mayor and, at age 34, ties the record for the youngest person to hold the office. https://to.pbs.org/4ovh28q

IT’S ELECTION DAY, AMERICA! Remember to get out and VOTE!!!

Argh.

Untitled - Blue Jays Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe 2025

I didn’t think it was this high of a number. Wow. Trump might undo what took the US scientific community decades to build.

Well done Manitobans. Well done. The road not taken: lowest number of Manitobans in three decades cross border at Pembina in July, August www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Sio Silica plans to drill fewer wells, remove less sand as part of new request for environmental licence www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I’ve said this many times before. Sio Silica is coming back. Sio Silica submits revamped silica sand mining proposal in eastern Manitoba www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Somehow seems appropriate that it is the week of Halloween that the Sio Silica proposal rises from the dead. 🎃 #MbPoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“But by the early 2000s, the NDP—descendant of the old CCF and once an incubator of social gospel ideals—had grown wary of religious language altogether. Blaikie lamented the turn.” Great article on the rise and fall of social gospel movement. I still have hope canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Introducing altermagnetism, a newly-discovered class of magnetism that have applications in spintronics, magnonics and maybe even superconductors.

SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.

Wait, why has the US government allowed a tenth of its population to end up this desperately poor to begin with? I thought America was supposed to be the richest country on earth?

The US has become a strange mixture of 1984, Brave New World, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Maybe think twice about visiting. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

A preview of Halloween! 🎃

Some hard truths here in this letter by a UofW colleague. There is indeed a perfect storm of problems in higher ed in MB. Chronic underfunding is one of them.

We are past the canary in the coal mine for the state of post secondary education in the US. Harvard is nuking their PhD programs.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 32 YEARS, THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS ARE WORLD SERIES BOUND! THEY DEFEAT THE SEATTLE MARINERS 4-3 IN GAME 7!

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.😀

Happy birthday Smith :)

Yikes.

26 🤝 55 Even atop the franchise list!

A mental-health crisis centre in Winnipeg is “dangerously” understaffed and failing to keep pace with a surge in walk-in patients, a union that represents some employees told the Free Press.

"Every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist." Walter Brueggemann

The Trump administration's sweeping Education Department layoffs have cast doubt on a pair of decades-old promises from Congress: ensuring disabled students receive a free and appropriate education and protecting all pupils from discrimination in schools. nyti.ms/4n4yFKq

BREAKING NEWS Canadian Peter Howitt among 3 Nobel winners in economics via CBC

Thanksgiving service at Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist

I am honoured to be named an APS Fellow. Less than 0.5% of the membership can be nominated. The citation is: « For pioneering work on the synthesis of new magnetic materials and for leadership in the promotion of science literacy, political engagement, and underrepresented groups in physics » (1/2)

It doesn’t matter what your politics are regarding immigration. If they do not begin and end with human beings needing to be treated with dignity and respect, especially when it comes to the enforcement of the law, your politics are wrong.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry was awarded today for the development of metal-organic frameworks, molecular sponges with applications in gas storage, water purification and more: www.compoundchem.com/2025/10/08/2... #ChemSky 🧪