"Belugas travel to warm, shallow estuaries to give birth and care for their young. Knowledge holders inform us that some of these estuaries have been visited by belugas for several hundred years. But not just any estuary will do!" A summary of our new BES paper by @jaclynaubin.bsky.social 👇

Still haven’t read Constructing Brexit Britain? There’s a 40% sale on the eBook on Bloomsbury’s website which means you can get it for just over £15!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/construct...

Reading: The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence #cdnpoli xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

Why is the Washington Post cratering so spectacularly? #journalism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reading: "Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker Who are the real people behind the accounts spreading fury about the capital online? And what motivates them? #misinformation #cdnpoli www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Inside the Far-Right Push to Influence Canadian Political Parties A conference call shows a political operative with past Conservative connections advising several white nationalist groups. #cdnpoli #conservatives thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Think about every time someone needs the help of a Toronto police officer. That information is kept in a database that members of the TPS have allegedly sold access to, for the purposes of shooting people. How can this organization rightly expect anyone to place trust in it when they call 911?

Watching people today saying “wait, are you suggesting that the Toronto Police have ties to the MOB?” is real teeth-gritting for any of us who’ve paid attention to this city for the last three decades 😡

I cannot see how a police chief remains standing after at least nine of their officers are arrested for allegedly being involved in some of the city's most frightening violence, some allegedly directed at other members of their staff.

"You can't cut public science or staff without increasing public risk.” There needs to be more coverage of this in Canada so people know what's going on. www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton...

More corrupt cops: "The officers are accused of trafficking, leaking addresses to hitmen, and leaking police officer addresses, the sources said." #police #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The world is trying to log off U.S. tech Some global users are turning to services like Proton Mail and UpScrolled instead. #cdnpoli #infosec restofworld.org/2026/big-tec...

📊 Data comes from an independent study Coast Funds published in November: coastfunds.ca/news/economi...

Wedding Photo Booth Company Exposes Customers’ Drunken Photos #security www.404media.co/wedding-phot...

Crosswalks need to be daylighted for pedestrian visibility: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interse... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #safety #urbanism #yyj

I missed this one last year. Deloitte was paid 1.6 million dollars by the Government of Newfoundland to produce a report full of AI slop and fake citations. #AI #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

This one is about 6 feet long.

Reading: Lawyer says Durham Region police violently assaulted her, dragged her to cells in Oshawa courthouse #cdnpoli #police www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Judge says a police officer lied to protect himself and aniyher cop when he testified at a trial more than two years ago. #cdnpoli #police www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Reading: Eby calls reported meeting between Alberta separatists and US officials 'treason' #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/29/n...

"If the US government has essentially just kidnapped two people without even telling our government about it, that raises serious concerns over whether US troops should even be allowed on Scottish soil at all."

As a Canadian one cannot look south of the border and remain silent while our own government hands refugees over to ICE

Thanks for the shout out @nolore.bsky.social!

a bird is basically a flying rat

Belugas are fascinating! So glad there are people out there finding out more about them 🐳

We have a new paper out this week "Beluga societies: the social and cultural lives of an enigmatic odontocete" led by @jaclynaubin.bsky.social. Our collaborators @raincoast.org have made this cool video highlighting some key elements of our paper. Check it out: 👇

Reading: Testimony in legislative committees focuses on when a toxic tire chemical should be banned #6PPD #Drive www.pugetsoundinstitute.org/testimony-in...

This is one of the most rewarding reviews I’ve ever had the pleasure of participating in! So pleased to see it published. First author @jaclynaubin.bsky.social summarizes it beautifully.

Our new review of beluga sociality and culture just dropped at Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology! Some of our key conclusions summarized 🧵 doi.org/10.1007/s002... @marine-valeria.bsky.social @dmennill.bsky.social @raincoast.org

Today we're leaving X. If you're still there, we think you should consider leaving too. A word on why it is so difficult to leave collapsing platforms, why we're making this decision today, and where else you can find us: openmedia.org/article/item...

By Letting Go of Ambition, She Reclaimed Herself In a new memoir, Amil Niazi rejects hustle culture for a more authentic way of living. #whiteness thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

Reading: Regulating cars #policy www.oliveridley.org/2025/12/31/r...

Last year, Gitga’at Guardians: ✅ Spent over 1,430 hours patrolling more than 17,500 kilometres of marine territory ✅ Recorded over 1,000 sightings. And that's not all. See the full impact of their work here: https://ow.ly/mZfO50XVKb1

Reading: Why being ghosted is inevitable and being a ghoster is too #ghosted psyche.co/ideas/why-be...

Nothing Is Secure The home of Hannah Natanson, a Washington Post reporter, was searched by the FBI. Her devices were seized. Runa Sandvik, whose life’s work is protecting journalists’ digital security, assesses the damage. #journalism www.cjr.org/news/hannah-...

Mountain Voices is about a century of change: "My story talks about how I found my own way to approach mountaineering as queer/trans person who does not fit into the dominant hypermasculine culture in the outdoor industry." #outside webelongoutside.com/2026/01/moun...

Every UX professional should watch my mom try to turn on her TV, watch ten minutes of news, and then find Lucifer. Specifically: the designer of the Google TV icons needs to provide phone support. #UX

Since 2020, “rule of law” became politicians’ mantra, urging police to shut down #Wetsuweten solidarity blockades. Fast-forward six years, the line has been abandoned in favour of something suggesting law is not so much a rule but something to be manipulated. @amandafollett.bsky.social writes. 🪧💬

"Left alone, a cup of coffee will gradually cool until it reaches room temperature... Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature." seths.blog/2026/01/room...

Reading: Americans generally like wolves − except when we’re reminded of our politics #polarization #identity theconversation.com/americans-ge... By @metcalfhdlab.bsky.social and Justin Angle.

This is a succinct summary of why journalism norms are failing us and how fascists will exploit them. #ICE #journalism vt.tiktok.com/ZS54EGd2S/

Storytelling in Science & Research: A Non-Fiction Writing Workshop with Journalist Anne Shibata Casselman #yvr #PR upstartandcrow.com/event/storyt...

Can Two Detroit Papers Survive a Split? The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News had the last joint operating agreement in the country. It just expired. #journalism #Detroit www.cjr.org/news/can-det...

Evidence from British Columbia shows decriminalisation reduced police interference with access to harm reduction — a key public health objective. Rolling it back didn’t correct failure. It reversed progress. Full study:

Rescinding decriminalization was a profound betrayal of every principle that the BCNDP claims to hold.

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

Your local librarian here to say that it’s great if you read lots of books this year, alright if you read barely anything, that audiobooks, romance and graphic novels are all valid formats and genres, and that some authors suck but we’re still not stopping you from reading them.

Reading: Exactly when and how children discover they’ve been duped makes an important difference to the revelatory experience #SantaClaus #humanism psyche.co/ideas/at-wha...