Update: FAMU says banning the word Black from a law student’s Black History Month flyer was a mistake, and the result of an “overly cautious interpretation” of Florida law www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/10/b...

Incredible accountability reporting from @bethanylindsay.bsky.social highlighting how B.C. misrepresents how many ‘treatment and recovery’ beds it has. Even a year after public outcry, nothing has changed. theijf.org/article/addi...

More details are emerging of the harrowing hours that Tumbler Ridge endured yesterday: (no paywall) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/91472a3...

BREAKING: At least 10 people are dead, including the suspected shooter, following a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Tuesday afternoon. Police say around 25 others have sustained non-life-threatening injuries. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

Vaughn Palmer: David Eby's deficit is so deep, it will take years for B.C. to recover vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

Basically, Rebel News produces almost no original content. I think I am surprised it produces <1% of its content given how much its own likes to mouth off. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

An interesting study on AI and learning skills: AI-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence. (Authors are part of the Anthropic Fellows Program.) arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

How does a nation recover from this level of corruption?

Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.

Dr. Kirsty Duncan - she lived every minute of her shortened life - and each was jam-packed. A huge loss. Gift link. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/46242ee...

Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...

This is pretty great. Thanks to VSE team members for bringing home the trophy: Irene Berezin Goli Eshtiaghi Katherine Karapetrovic Sahaj Khanna Sean Li Krishna Paudel Luigi Vicencio The team was coached by VSE faculty Emrul Hasan and Amartya Lahiri. Congratulations!

BC Human Rights Commissioner says the media exclusion zone established by the Vancouver Police Department while dismantling the Hastings encampment in 2023 unjustly restricted press freedom It unjustly restricted press freedom and compromised transparency, per the new report

On point. @mark-carney.bsky.social

Blatantly unconstitutional. And anti-constitutional. What a fucking clown.

How learning handwriting trains the brain: www.nature.com/articles/d41... "Research has consistently shown that handwriting is more challenging and stimulating to the brain than is typing." Interesting. I LOVE writing. Often mapping ideas with a (too fancy) fountain pen my first step...

Investigation into social media platform looks at complicity in crimes including Holocaust denial and child pornography.

"If these folks really hate Canada and they really adore the United States and [President] Donald Trump, then there's a border crossing or two that they can take tomorrow," Kenney said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Meanwhile, in VIC, Australia... www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

Decades ago, a history teacher I had talked about the "leader principle." Arendt elucidates this principle by comparing Nazism and Bolshevism. She discusses the mixture of gullibility and cynicism as pertains to the masses, and how such movements take advantage of it.

"But the substance was the same. There was no shift, no pivot, no updated agenda. It could have been a speech he delivered a year ago. Or in 2024." www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/65d6ffc...

The research of Dr. Gladys West, who died Jan. 17 at 95, laid the groundwork for the GPS. Thanks in part to her, anyone with a smartphone can navigate easily from one place to the next, without having to stop to ask for directions.

But far less interesting than the Borgias.

Vancouver councillor Pete Fry has announced he’s running for mayor. Here’s my interview with him on his candidacy, priorities, and the current state of the race. And we’ve got a BONUS FRIDAY podcast episode with him coming out today as well.

Oh, no. One of the absolute greats: she was such a delight in everything she did. A treasure, gone too soon.

BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56

Full-scale AI swarms remain theoretical but early warning signs include AI-generated deepfakes and fabricated news outlets that influenced recent election debates in the US, Taiwan, Indonesia and India, says UBC computer scientist Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown. @cs.ubc.ca science.ubc.ca/news/2026-01...

The Société Mathématique de France withdraws from the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia. Their statement is succinct. smf.emath.fr/actualites-s...

And now judges are weighing in. This is an extraordinary letter. Glad to see the judiciary standing up for democracy.

A federal agent allegedly tried to enter Google’s Cambridge campus in the fall, WIRED has learned. Now, staffers want policies that protect them from immigration officials. www.wired.com/story/google...

This amazing woman worked so hard for science and sport in Canada. She set up the Standing Committee on Science and Research, was a powerful voice for science in parliament and after being diagnosed with two cancers continued to advocate for good. Proud to have known the Rt Hon Kirsty Duncan. RIP 💔

Gutted to learn of the passing of Dr Kirsty Duncan. She was a tireless fighter for the people she served, not only her local community in Toronto but others, especially the science & research & athletics communities too. She championed equity, diversity, inclusion and made change happen. 🤍🙏🏻

The people of Minnesota give us hope that we can overcome the violence and cruelty of MAGA fascism.

Cool science.

Fair bit of a scene at the OneBC event at UBC and the counterevent organized by students. Close to a thousand people here, mostly drowning out OneBC supporters. Some pushing and shoving, nothing escalating past that yet it seems.

Researchers are calling for a part of the former Sumas Lake to be restored, following recent floods in Abbotsford, BC. 💧  A study by #UBCForestryES Prof. Tara Martin concluded that restoring would cost less than proposed projects by the City of Abbotsford. 🔗 ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/221...