Addressing the US President's concern about air quality! 👍💯 JK #cdnpoli

Climate change is a major reason for more fires in Canada's boreal forest and smoke over climate deniers 🧪

2018 JWildlManage commissioned a model to question that prolonged, intense selective hunting leads to evolutionary shrinkage of mountain sheep horns. Then stonewalled rebuttal, despite positive referee comments, 6-mo COPE probation for unethical behavior. Rebuttal: 🧪 www.nwsgc.net/proceedings/...

Meet the Canadian civil servant responsible for sending our wildfire smoke to the U.S.

Sorry, if you are not going to provide a response letter I am not going to review your revised paper. Just saying 'responses have been highlighted in the document' with no explanations just does not cut it.

Just biked to the US border. This side of Canusa Street is in Vermont.

Once again, my friend Rob Cottingham nails it. 

As wildfire smoke lands in Toronto, Amara Possian tries to keep her newborn calm while confronting raising a child in a warming world. "For now, my job is to keep swaying, to keep the room calm, to let you sleep a little longer before any of this is yours to carry." thenarwhal.ca/parenting-am...

2 milliards pour moins de 200 véhicules. C'est le budget total consacré à la recherche scientifique au Canada par année.

Mark Carney's made deep cuts to Natural Resources Canada that strip away science-based expertise on forest fires, "decimating capacity" to track wildfire activity. Only one forest pathologist now monitors the entire forestry system east of the Rockies. 5/ www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/n...

The Drill-Baby-Drill Party blames wildfire smoke on anyone but themselves. 🌎 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Après le pipeline, le gouvernement Carney financera le projet de capture et de stockage de carbone de l'industrie des sables bitumimeux. Au mieux, le projet capterait 6% des émissions de GES en 2035. Les GES de l'industrie ont augmenté de 529% depuis 1990. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...

Same for field crews in Alberta Rockies working on bighorn sheep or mountain goats - now regularly losing days to weeks of fieldwork almost each summer because of unbreathable air.

That is certainly my impression over the last few years. Lots of new scars on mountainsides. The road to my hometown used to be blocked by avalanches in winter, now it is regularly blocked by landslides, often more than once a summer. 🧪

Very nice review on the cultural integration of non-native species In 2014 I interpreted this integration as a form of shifting baselines syndrome, since degraded (ie invaded) ecosystem states are perceived as normal or desirable See paper below www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Perhaps, but I think the real reason is to breeze past me as my lungs are about to explode going up a steep hill.

I often give similar advice to my former postdocs / students as they begin faculty jobs: the first year or two are really really hard. It gets much better and is worth it. The successful senior faculty had shitty first years too.

Cerca: hybridization of wild and escaped semidomestic reindeer appears to assist selection against traits induced by domestication. Nothing to do with snakes 🤔 🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Drum roll! 🧪

Olè! 🐂

pipeline is moving forward so it’s fine to admit the carbon capture supposed to make it “green” was bullshit the whole time

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Carney-Smith find more ways for Canadian taxpayers to subsidize fossil fuel industries, many American-owned. If this unproved technology works, it may take about 6% of C emission from the tar sands, down from 25% touted a few months ago. A fig leaf. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

VERY cool! 🧪 www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

Very relevant for people involved in long-term studies. Always worried about self-plagiarism in describing study area and basic procedures - apparently it's kosher. 🧪

Again, no mention of climate change as part of the reason ticks and Lyme disease are spreading north. I doubt this will work but I like this quote "Guinea fowl are known for being loud and hard to breed in captivity, and their intelligence is slightly questionable." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Scan your local news today. How many stories are about something climate change is making worse...without saying so? I counted 8 of those in my feed today, vs just 1 that named climate change directly. Why does this matter? Research shows that making this connection changes how people see it.

This is good news. I wonder if the Alberta gov't will ever release my updated G-bear status report, which they paid for 4 years ago.

“Which is why we fired all our climate reporters”

Black swallowtail? Found on fennel today, my backyard in Sherbrooke.

This account posts eye-catching bird content for which i can be a sucker. But were all the posts AI generated? This one is just utter garbage, ornithological misinformation to an unacceptable degree

Ghost pipes, a parasitic flowering plant without chlorophyll. My backyard.

Holy smokes! And look at that variability, especially in recent years.

I wonder how they tell apart the aggressive ones www.science.org/content/arti...

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Carney's Canada: subsidizing fossil fuels, cutting science. Data-based blog by E4D evidencefordemocracy.ca/canada-is-cu...

I saw these on St. Kilda in 1989 - far more interesting than the feral sheep. But what do I know? www.economist.com/britain/2026...

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Elections Alberta uses dodgy stats to reject petition the gov't dislikes. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Morales-Gonzalez on wolves in Spain: if you stop shooting them, they will expand their range. 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Kugluktuk Angoniatit Association opposes the Grays Bay Road & Port Project. Caribou harvesters and Elders explain why in this short film. I study how roads affect caribou, and these concerns track a growing body of scientific evidence closely. Please watch and share widely!

Canadian taxpayers will spend billions subsidizing American fossil fuel companies and placating separatists by building a pipeline to a market that may no longer exist when said pipeline is finished. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

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What she said

Cheering for Belgium, as is most of the world.

Just found this dead cuckoo behind the house, I am afraid it must have hit a window 😰

Michael Gove, 2016 "The British people have had enough of experts'. Sauf que les experts avaient raison sur Brexit car, justement, ils et elles savaient de quoi qu'ils et elles parlaient. Pas comme Drainville.

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