🟪 Crossings for cars (17) 🟨 Crossings for pedestrians (2) Also note the bus stop without a pedestrian crossing.

Via @echinoblog.bsky.social 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3s...

I hope you all enjoy this beautiful video as much as I did

TIL CELA has an audio archive of interviews examining key ideas, events and people in #Ontario's #environmental #history. "Beginnings" was started in 2014 by ECO Gord Miller & lawyer and scholar John Swaigen, with Anne Wordsworth coordinating. celafoundation.ca/beginnings/ @nichecanada.bsky.social

Wow!

Perhaps this will help, Trish. I built this 13 years ago for the Orange County Register.

in the past year scientists found *1,100* new species in the ocean 1,100!

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

"It would be so nice if Canada did the right thing instead of being in their comfy seat as a middle power. Middle power doesn’t mean middle cowardice." Francesca Albanese: 'It would be so nice if Canada did the right thing' on Gaza genocide: ca.news.yahoo.com/francesca-al...

I recommend this article in Australian Geographic (by Bec Crew) to learn more. www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatu... Watch out for my *future projects*: hats for earthworms, and oven mitts for pandas.

Here's a thread on the adults.

You're looking at a Rainbow Tripod Fish (genus Bathypterois) observed on a blackwater dive near Cozumel, MX. This species demonstrates "ontogenetic vertical migration": young of this species mimic jellyfish near the surface, but descend in depth as they age. (📷: Frida Yolotzin, Blackwater Cozumel)

Happy #WorldTurtleDay! 🐢❤️ To celebrate here’s an ancient turtle-shaped clay container, handmade around 2,000 years ago! From Colima, West Mexico 📷 The Met #Archaeology

It's World Turtle Day! 🐢 Celebrate with 50% off Turtles of the World (using code SPRING50). Discount runs through June 9th and applies to hardcover & ebook editions: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #WorldTurtleDay #TurtleDay #Turtles

This one is well worth a read for anyone interested in the Ediacaran

@greenpeace.org filmed a Cirroteuthis next a pumping vent during Dive 4 today! That's the 1st time I've seen an octo swimming around a chimney venting. #DeepArctic #MarineLife

update: bsky.app/profile/lizs...

sure, preventative measures might be necessary first/short-term steps but the longer solution has to be: education matters! you matter! I matter! thinking is a pleasure! hard work feels good! everyone's gifts are necessary! getting something wrong is not a moral failing or permanent stain!

#AcademicSky I think a lot about this. AI will perpetuate all kinds of biases already found in the literature. Not just racism & sexism, but Matthew Effect and others. It's a prediction machine, based on what's in the ether.

The mayhem continues. #academicsky

#Canadian researchers: Have you struggled with writing your narrative CV for Tri-Agency funding applications? Here's some helpful guidance (including *a template*) from Letitia Henville via University Affairs. #AcademicSky #CIHR #NSERC #SSHRC universityaffairs.ca/career-advic...

Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

If you've ever thought to yourself, "I wish there were a theorist of ecological communism who also made great wallpaper," then I have an article just for you. doi.org/10.1177/1474...

Imagine you're shrunk down to amoeba size & could observe a tiny plant root under the soil. The first thing you might notice is that the root isn't all plant cells. Both inside & outside the root are symbiotic fungal cells (grey in photo) in close association, working together. (🔬:Eye of Science)

If you’re a writer, write “I waited” without saying it. "I work in a restaurant to support my writing habit."

He’s back!!! We just captured male Bobolink LGB (light blue, green, blue) for the third year in a row here in Oswego. That means he’s been down to Paraguay and back at least three times- flying roughly 30,000 total miles! Simply an incredible feat for a bird that weighs as much as six nickels. 🤯

Wow. The first was a doozy. I can't say I'm looking forward to more but, like with a good horror movie, I feel I've got to keep watching.

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

“The floating ice shelf of the Thwaites glacier is detaching… “Its final demise could happen suddenly ... we have already prepared an ‘obituary’ press release,” says Rob Larter at the British Antarctic Survey.” via @climateeconomy.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2526...

Important discussion on the latest thinking on the risk of #AMOC collapse, hosted by the Oceanographic Magazine. With input form @rahmstorf.bsky.social & Levke Caesar of @pik-potsdam.bsky.social and @laurielaybourn.bsky.social of @climate-risk.bsky.social #Oceans #Climate

Never feel guilty for borrowing books from a library. Authors LOVE libraries. And libraries pay authors a small sum every time one of their books is borrowed (which in many cases comes to more than the percentage earned from the sale of a book in a discount outlet)...

What science fiction is dealing with climate change's effects on animal life? These will be profound: massive migration in the pursuit of optimal temperatures, ballooning populations of certain species like jellyfish and mice, the "McDonaldsification" of species, etc.

This absolute stunner is an undescribed species of Hypsocompe, known from just a few specimens. There is only one other record from Colorado (Baca Co.), thus, this is the northernmost record for the species (see alt text). Found under the sheet this morning by @nunesnaturalist.bsky.social !

Mayor Mamdani Keeps Raising The Bar, For Other Mayors To Follow His Successful Path.......

Oil + gas drilling is permitted in many Marine 'Protected' Areas in the UK, as illustrated in our Watershed Pollution Map, below. Bottom trawl fishing is allowed in many MPAs. All of which begs the question - what's 'protected' about a Marine Protected Area? share.google/LiNhOTjTO4hY... 1/4

Turns out, if you stop tearing up the seabed, wildlife thrives: ten years after banning bottom trawl fishing, there are 3 times the number of sea creatures + double the number of species in the South Arran MPA, Scotland, than there were before the ban 👏🦪🐟 share.google/2M5WqP3CXwSH...

Today, we celebrate our eighth birthday alongside 7,300 members — a milestone we thought impossible as layoffs and AI erode public trust. And we’ve set a goal to welcome 80 new members in time for our special day. Will you join our eighth birthday celebration? 🎁 🎂 thenarwhal.ca/bsky-member/

Indeed. AI has no sense of the future, but merely repeats and amplifies what is past, all our discoveries and errors and prejudice and banality, and presents this to us as if it is somehow new. Plus ca change...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Peer review is not equipped to fix this, or any other form of research fraud. We rely, collectively, on researchers' own sense of integrity. However, I fully endorse strong sanctions when fraud is detected. Any submission with a fraudulent citation should be rejected, or if published, retracted.

Ontario is staring down the barrel of #water privatization. The Ford government is making moves toward corporate, for-profit models to manage this essential public service and resource. Today is the last day to submit comments on the latest proposed regulations. www.waterwatchers.ca/currentactions

Oh - OK. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... Gift link

Fabulous thread, fascinating nature.

Some sacoglossans retain these chloroplasts, which continue to photosynthesise, producing nutrients just as they would in algae. Sea slug = thank you very much! This phenomenon of stealing chloroplasts is called kleptoplasty. (3/9) Pics: © huxleyrose © Stefan CC BY-NC; © sea-kangaroo CC BY-NC-ND

A two-shelled snail that turns green because it's absorbing chloroplasts from the algae that it feeds on. 'Life,' as the famous scientist said, '... uh... finds a way.'

Scientists are nerds (approving).

Link to fascinating and concerning mapping via @watershed-i.bsky.social. #pollution #mining #DSM #chemicals

At 100, David Attenborough’s legacy reflects our shifting bond with nature. What began as wonder in the 1950s has become a sober assessment of our planet’s trajectory. Understanding nature is no longer just curiosity; it is our responsibility. Read this "Founder's briefs." 👉️ mongabay.cc/AtnBro

Peek! Like most of our native bees, bi-colored sweat bees live in ground burrows that are easy to miss but worth looking for