Latest video is for students studying conservation and ecology describing how to use the YouTube playlist of concepts undergraduates should know, how to get better marks and 8 tips for getting a job in conservation. Good luck! youtu.be/3wZwkzTSwFA?...

BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!

🧪 Meet Lise Meitner: The nuclear physicist who explained atomic fission in 1939, revolutionizing science. Despite her groundbreaking work, her male colleague Otto Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize while she was excluded. #womenshistorymonth #STEM

You can ban DEI, erase the Tuskegee Airmen, gut Medicare, and ignore climate change—but you can’t erase our memories or silence our truths. Dumb down your MAGAs all you want. Our communities will keep learning, teaching, and fighting. We will never dumb down. #FactsMatter #TruthMatter

Similar surveys have been done in the US in Canada. It seems like dumbing down the generations is really working to the advantage of the Nazis. The number of people who think that the Nazis only put the Jews into concentration camps is alarming.

Trump supporters are already spinning excuses for why he can’t lower egg prices. Their mental gymnastics to defend his broken promises are wild. It’ll be fascinating—and tragic—to see how far they’ll go, even justifying starving to death for him. Cult loyalty knows no bounds.

If you see someone sleeping in their car, no you didn’t. People just trying to find a safe place for the night aren’t your problem. What kind of person reports that? Mind your business and let folks rest. The world’s hard enough without you making it harder.

The communications pause at health agencies has extended to external procurement orders for supplies for internal research @ NIH, sources tell @reportergoodman.bsky.social & me. Some researchers worry they won't be able to buy test tubes to draw blood or food for animals: www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/h...

I answered a reporter's question: "The long-term well-being of our climate system is incompatible with the short-term gains of shareholders." I stand by that statement.

Thoughtful article on peat and whisky by two of my colleagues. theconversation.com/why-peat-is-...

A fantastic interview with Canadian Scientist Katharine Hayhoe about solution aversion manifesting as science denial. A logically and emotionally intelligent perspective. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

Amazon to close Quebec facilities, insists it’s not because of new union ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

Promoting healthy aging in women. Prolonging ovarian life. Slowing the onset of menopause. A feature @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... open-access @lynnpeebles.bsky.social

Nice article in Science from Brian Owens in Science on the Trudeau's science legacy. I like my quote :) www.science.org/content/arti...

Cecile Richards was a champion in the fight for reproductive freedom. She devoted her life to the betterment of our country and her legacy will be felt for years to come. Gwen and I are sending our love to her family. 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...

If you need help spotting a toxic, gaslighting relationship, TikTok has you covered: lies, silence, behavior shifts, and crap communication. 180M Americans: don’t take back that looser boyfriend who stormed out last night. You deserve way better.

Truth in words and picture

ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.

To creators rushing back to TikTok: Did you ask about the creator fund? Are you getting paid? They cut you off yesterday with no promises for last month’s content, and today you assume they’ll pay? That app’s been silent—get answers before diving back in.

On the last day of a Democratic presidency, you can’t help but wonder: how many decades before we see another? Will Trump cement his hold on the GOP, or will someone like Vance challenge him? The future feels uncertain, but history shows nothing stays static for long.

One man had a dream of unity, justice & equality. Another dreams of being seen as something he’s not. On this day, let’s honor the legacy of MLK Jr.—a leader who built bridges, not walls. Choose light over noise, hope over chaos. They can’t stop the dream when we stand together.

🚨🚨 Out TODAY in Psych Bulletin!! 🚨🚨 After 5 long years, the NSF meta-analysis I led on children's gender stereotypes about STEM and verbal abilities just came out today in Psych Bulletin!! In the words of great cultural critic Stefon, it has everything... doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

Thanks to the British Ecological Society for creating these great webpages leading to the YouTube videos "Learn a new conservation concept in just 2 minutes". Part of the educational resources designed and curated by their in-house teachers. www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/cons...

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can. #InducedDemand

"many universities show little regard for the mental well-being of employees and students, continue to invest in companies involved in genocide, and do little to reduce their climate footprints despite climate and ecological breakdown." #HigherEd

No matter how much I like a popular, talented male artist, I cannot help but wonder how many women of equal caliber live and die in complete obscurity, never given the same chances to be weird and experimental. Woman breaks the rules, she's Doing It Wrong, but with men, they're groundbreaking.

Biden Administration Pandemic Roadmap Reflects Right-Wing Pressure www.importantcontext.news/p/biden-admi...

So I guess he’s more than a vaccine “skeptic,” eh? How many hundreds of thousands of Americans would have died if he’d succeeded? Why wasn’t this hammered home by the media in October? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/h...

I love Sphagnum moss! Such a beautiful and often colourful plant. #newfoundland , Canada. #bryophyte #moss #plant

There is a reason that Elon Musk is stumping for Pierre Poilievre. A reason he chose to be interviewed with Mar-a-Lago loser Jordan Peterson. Watch this investigative look into Trump's guy in Canada. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl9b...

The taxpayer-supported University of Arizona is paying nearly $12,000 *per student* to Google and Facebook to recruit customers for the scandal-ridden for-profit online college it bought for $1 and rebranded. Read more from my colleague @jbeowulf.bsky.social : www.newamerica.org/education-po...

a nice video about #alienspecies introductions through plants and cut flowers w @billsutherland.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

The first article from my dissertation on graduate education is out! I find that having parents with graduate degrees is associated with enrollment into doctoral education, but not master's education. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As Trump's inauguration approaches, here's an important new report from Climate Cabinet on all the many ways that states can keep climate progress going. cdn.sanity.io/files/6quqio...

Forgive my shameless advertising in posting this review. I'm proud of the annotated edition that Dan Simberloff & I produced. We spent many months exploring notes from Elton's archives at Oxford, which provided the research material for the book. #invasivepecies neobiota.pensoft.net/article/77920/

Hi there, #FirstGen folx. Please help me get the word out and add more to this #StarterPack!

Let’s. Do. This! 😎✨ 👇👇👇

This is the shape of the crisis: to prevent cataclysmic climate breakdown, we have to RADICALLY cut carbon pollution at a completely unprecedented rate. All prior climate policy has failed. Any university without a massive, cross-disciplinary program to inform this task is part of the problem.

L.A. will never be 100 percent protected from wildfires, Michael Gollner tells Conor Friedersdorf. “But a shift in preparation can make a big difference, especially a community-wide shift”:

Stomach bugs are everywhere right now. Don't sleep on soap. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

AI is already having a profound impact on scientific discoveries. But at what cost? In this episode of “Good on Paper,” Jerusalem Demsas explores what happened when AI took over researchers’ jobs:

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What is happening in Los Angeles is our future | Francine Prose in @theguardian.com #CaliforniaFires #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

We're gearing up for collaborative workshop 2 with #ManufacturedEcosystems. Check out the inspiring Artists who are working with us. So grateful to #NFR and the TriCouncil of Canada 🧪 www.manufacturedecosystems.com/artists

Methinks the recent changes, while not regulatory, will have the same impact which is to diminish use of social media, at least amongst a significant fraction. That is probably a good thing, though it will dial up the hatred and divisiveness among a minority.

I posted on Instagram about @theguardian.com’s article on Zuckerberg’s cancelled fact checking & EDI, pro-Trump policy moves at Meta, suggesting leaving, or at the very least, limiting engagement on FB etc. Unsurprisingly, it got barely any engagement 🤦‍♀️ 🤔 I wonder why? 🙄 #SnowflakeBillionaires 🤷‍♀️

“Canada should quickly convene a meeting of the leaders of Denmark, Panama, Mexico, as well as with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, to formulate a plan for fighting back these threats.”

"The vitriol that Trudeau has — often inexplicably — been on the receiving end of came mostly from those who've been fed a steady diet of disinformation, and whose grievances often stem from suspicion of science and a constantly changing world they can’t keep up with.”

Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter: State of Covid 2025: Five years of failure, People who were supposed to care, Pandemic preparedness, and more johndupuis.substack.com/p/state-of-c...