Public comms on vaccine availability in #Manitoba is definitely lacking this year, but appointments in various pharmacy online platforms are starting to pop up. Some out there for shoppers, too.

Ready for some good news? Earlier this year The Narwhal teamed up with journalists at the Investigative Journalism Foundation to break stories about how more than 1,000 potential oil and gas infractions were left unchecked by B.C.’s energy regulator.

This is fucking brutal. Paris is incredibly intelligent & among the best informed out there on digital sovereignty in Canada as well as the EU, Australia etc And if your goal is to make this a bigger public issue, why not get the guy with a sizeable online following on board?! I mean come on…

This made me curious, so I looked it up. MDPI publishes 482 journals. 482.

Wellington Cres would look like this right now if it weren’t for Janice Lukes

I'm super bummed to be missing #ESEB2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social due to a cancelled flight! Here's a quick overview of my talk "Gene- and genome-focused perspectives on microbial pangenomes" slated to be part of The Evolution of Microbial Pangenomes -- which I recommend you attend tomorrow (Fri) ! 1/n

In Winnipeg climate-driven migration is often imagined as a distant threat that affects others in the world. But summer evacuations foreshadow a future where internal displacement becomes a regular feature of Winnipeg life. theconversation.com/canadian-cit...

Health Canada has authorized the LP.8.1 variant adapted Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for individuals aged 6 months and older. The updated COMIRNATY® vaccine targets the Omicron LP.8.1 variant, one of the most recently circulating SARS-CoV-2 lineages. It will be made available this Fall across Canada.

I need to update my presentation on how to prepare fellowship applications for graduate students and postdocs. Any advice you think should be in there, beyond "read and follow the instructions"? I promise I'll cite my sources. Memes are welcome. Please share in your academic circles.

Do You Realize, Flaming Lips and then Beck covering it, in the same weekend, Sasquatch, 2006. Incredible weekend. Best song. www.concertarchives.org/concerts/sas...

Just want to share this wild revision history of the Wikipedia page on Linkage Disequilibrium where Felsenstein himself debated people on the correct use of notations & definitions. After 100 years of #popgen people does not seem to be totally agree on what LD is? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Li...

I am in London this week for the Royal Society Future of science publishing conference. I think publishing will get worse before it gets better, but the organizers have invited ppl with equally spicy opinions so should be fun royalsociety.org/science-even...

Dear #Winnipeg, The transition to the new #transit system isn't working for everyone. Yet this is an incredibly overdue re-alignment of routes, bringing us into the 21st century (25 years after it started). What's the problem? Transit underfunding, a political choice by our elected reps 1/

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

Wake up, losers - new giant rat testomcelles have just dissilced, and they have truly got their dck out. If you go to Africa, here are some localities you should avoid: GUTNED CLINE LSOGLE NAOZAWA V GROSGRIVER

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

We are joining @migrantrightsca.bsky.social and 200 organizations in calling on Prime Minister Carney to withdraw Bill C-2. If passed, it gives the cabinet the authority to ramp up deportations “en masse,” violate people’s rights to due process, and expand surveillance powers. It must be rejected.

Sometimes people ask if for me as an educator the most frustrating part of “AI” is students cheating and like yeah I don’t love that but I’m much more worried about their brains atrophying than whether they’re being honest in my class

If #BillC5 passes as-is it would be a HUGE gift to Big Oil 🚨 With climate-supercharged wildfires raging across Canada, that's the last thing we need. Tell your MP to take action now: win.newmode.net/350org/c5 #cdnpoli #climateaction

Rainy (halllujah) Sunday afternoon and the library is closed. I know this is just screaming to the choir but how did our funding priorities get so screwed up along the way?

Winnipeg cyclists build their own bike lane, because the city is taking too long, and declare @thewaroncars.bsky.social

My feed is a mix of politics that lead to the destruction of the level of scientific funding as we have known in our lifetime (and other terrible things), interspersed with announcements of new research papers and findings. My brain doesn't quite know how to process the disconnect. Anyone else?

Things that brought me great joy today: a trip to the very busy independent book store near my house and a bike ride to the first week of the very busy farmers market.

"In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes." Hyperion, Dan Simmons, 1989

Hi #botany folks, does anyone have the USDA PLANTS complete checklist textfile? It looks like something is corrupted on the USDA downloads page. Thanks in advance! #plants #plantscience @botsocamerica.bsky.social

#canpoli #cdnpoli

Lets talk about an infrastructure deficit that’s 150+ in the making & how it leaves FN communities without the financial or legislative resources they would need to respond to crises like this one: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/wildfire-evacuations-pimicikimak-cree-nation-manitoba-1.7546711

My province, which is known for winter and spring floods, has declared a state of emergency because of wild fire. In May. And politicians continue to manufacture bs to keep us so exhausted that we have no capacity to deal with the real problems. Late stage capitalism blows.

Register for the 5th Virtual CanFunNet Conference: From Local to Global. Join us August 6 - 8th for an amazing line of Plenary Speakers and awesome topics in fungal research. Submit your abstracts by Friday, May 30!

Yes, and a gimmick that can only really play in classrooms with too many students and overstretched, devalued instructors: hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/chatgpt-is-a-gimmick

(Maybe they're trying to help stop all the fentanyl that's coming north from the US? /s)

Sagkeeng Anicinabe First Nation is having its first ever PRIDE parade on June 7! Let’s all go!!! There will be a Pride parade, pow wow, feast, and fireworks. 📅Saturday, June 7, 2025 📍Sagkeeng Anicinabe First Nation, Manitoba

Yeah, it was wild to me to realize that Toronto, including its suburbs, was denser than basically any US city except NYC and maybe LA, and urban (and suburban) areas in Canada are usually *vastly* denser than US urban areas of equivalent population (and mostly denser overall).

Two weeks left for abstract submission and early bird registration for CanFunNet: canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca/registration This virtual conference will be held Aug 6-8, 2025, register now if you plan to present!

Happy free car wash day in Winnipeg to all who celebrate. Somberly, this rain is desperately needed. There have been 80 forest fires this year (well above the avg of 48) and we’ve broken many May heat records. 1000 people current evacuated. Climate change is real. This is what it looks like.

Among the books I will never write is one about how the right wing, largely based in Alberta, managed to convince a national media that they are analogous with and can speak for “the west.”

I wrote this in a week where it felt like professoring while parenting (and equally, parenting while professoring) was impossible. This feeling ebbs and flows. Seems like Mothers Day is as good a time as any to share, maybe it will help someone else feel less alone. The More Paradox 1/8

“The findings suggest that if scientists want to increase public urgency around climate change, they should highlight clear, concrete shifts instead of slow-moving trends. That could include the loss of white Christmases or outdoor summer activities canceled because of wildfire smoke.”

Big story from @reportrix.bsky.social today: Alberta chief electoral officer warns UCP proposals will hurt investigative ability www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...

trust me: this is one of the most unexpectedly charming and heartwarming YouTube videos you will ever see youtu.be/QSMDb1CWD6Y?...

Totally here for Mark Carney giving Jim Halpert face in the Oval Office. #elbowsUp

I'm very impressed with this article by @science.org highlighting how the destruction of science in the US is impacting the careers of scientists who are, you know, real people. They did a great job of capturing my fears and frustrations around my career. www.science.org/content/arti...

My oldest starts "big kid" soccer this week, with a different field for each game. I just looked up where the first game was and had an instant memory of being 17 and flipping pages of the map book, lost somewhere in the city and trying to find an obscure soccer field location. Those were the days.

As a long-suffering Jets-Leafs-Leafs+Jets fan, this feeling is … confusing. Go Jets!!! #NHLJets #GoJetsGo

I saw someone complaining that they were missing their hockey community over here compared to the bad place. Glad that’s not the case for #NHLJets !! #GoJets

Quite the quote.