In plain English: xenophobe spreads bullshit to leverage anti-immigrant bigotry in Québec. A province with shrinking demographics needs immigrants, especially highly educated ones, even if they look different. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/222...

Strychnine is awful stuff, the feds are right in not allowing its use. Dangerous, kills carnivores that feed on poisoned squirrels, and could be used for illicit purposes. Alberta ministers must be getting desperate to find fake fights to pick with Canada www.stalbertgazette.com/beyond-local...

Excited to have this one out after over a decade of work. Strong evidence for why migration matters for ungulates.

Tiens, tiens, tiens. "Après avoir écarté une clause de droit acquis pour les travailleurs étrangers déjà au Québec, Jean-François Roberge s’engage maintenant à admettre les 6300 employés du réseau de la santé visés par l’abolition du PEQ." www.lapresse.ca/actualites/s...

Milan-Cortina makes about as much sense as Toronto-Iqaluit. Milan is as 'winter sports' as Croydon.

Maybe we shouldn't be accepting climate policy advice from two Epstein Files alumni (courtesy of @desmog.com): www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

She is her inventing a grievance to be mad about. There are no distinct legal traditions in the province. They are a common law jurisdiction like eight other provinces in the country. Quebec has a civil code, which is a distinct legal tradition, and Alberta does not.

Here’s a useful reminder of what our federal courts SHOULD be doing to uphold our constitutional traditions:

Snow bunting impression in snow.

The recent work of a pileated woodpecker on my ski trail.

Indeed, except for Haliffax.

Interesting. In Sherbrooke, we have not gotten above -8˚C for 12 days, coldest -32˚... It's chilly

Academic freedom disappearing from red states www.economist.com/united-state...

I love the stuff and I am Canadian and Italian.

A bit chilly but the snow is great. #XCountrySki

That one pintail looking like it showed up at the wrong party.

Lots of snow buntings this morning, attracted to cracked corn in the -20 weather. A winter highlight of living here.

Oh dear. Our favourite Fellow of the @royalsociety.org is in the news again

Une autre baleine noire de l'Atlantique Nord retrouvée morte à la suite d'un empêtrement dans un engin de pêche. Cette baleine, nommée «Division», était âgée de seulement 4 ans. L'espèce, qui compte moins de 380 individus, est toujours menacée d'extinction. Photo: Clearwater Marine Aquarium.

Wild turkeys trudging through the snow.

If you love wildlife conservation and mountains, consider working for us this summer! We are seeking 1 to 2 seasonal Wildlife Technicians to join our team. Deadline for applications is Feb 17th. marmots.org/recovery-eff...

There is an old word to describe going to a foreign power and asking for their assistance in breaking up a sovereign country — it’s treason. Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦

Gone fishing

The Boreal Avian Modelling Centre is hiring a postdoctoral fellow to develop high-resolution, Canada-wide models of waterbird density. The models will be used as indicators of local wetland health and large-scale environmental change. Open until filled! borealbirds.ca/postdoctoral...

📣🐦This is a reminder that early bird registration for the CSEE 2026 Conference ends tomorrow, January 30! Register here: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026/reg...

Très bon article qui souligne les vrais coût pour le Québec des politiciens - et voteurs - xénophobes qui blâment les immigrants pour tout.

'Cause Trump needs to distract from Minnesota? www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Current status

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I predict that the CDC will soon be forced to stop collecting data on measles.

OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free. Writing a paper has never been easier. Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier. It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct. prism.openai.com

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The snow buntings are back!

Nunca creí que los leopardos comerían MI cara

The farmers planted soya very late and it was a dry summer, so they never harvested it. It's attracting a lot of white tail deer, we have seen up to 33 from the back window.

Royer: sharks stay warm in deep water by holding their breath. But can you say breath if it is through gills? Good on Science to provide a Bluesky link! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Arrghhh Métis!" *chefs' kiss* open.spotify.com/track/5XbtJ6...

Worth a read. Quote "Trump is obviously aware that the speech Mark Carney...gave at Davos was hailed around the world for its courage and clarity, while his own rant was widely seen as evidence of his cognitive decline. So Carney must be humiliated." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-canada...

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Elle a été responsable des portefeuilles du sport et des sciences de 2015 à 2019.

Palm: If you build it, they will avoid it: new mines in the Canadian Rockies will further diminish habitat connectivity for G-bears 🧪 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

True, very true. That is why I will have nothing to do with MDPI, Frontiers and Hindawi. Quote: "Now, even the most mediocre researchers receive a flood of invitations to edit one of these countless special issues, which have become a multi-million dollar business" 🧪

Canada wildfires: #ClimateChange has led to an increase in area burned and in number of huge fires, but overall number of fires has declined. Lightning still the major cause, but human-caused fires increasing 🧪 cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....

Trump n’aurait pas pu plus mal s’y prendre pour communiquer sur le Groenland

Hey Environment Canada, how about quitting the nazi site and moving to 🦋 ? Baffling how Canadian gov't agencies and ministries continue to support an enabler of fascism. Also, it's chilly in Sherby

Deer out the back

‘We were the frontline’: Canadian veterans outraged by Trump’s NATO comments www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

📣 Join us - we’re hiring an engagement officer for the CAN BON 🍁 initiative! An effort to transform Canada’s capacity to mobilize its knowledge about the changing state of nature. See the job posting here👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

I like to tape these graphs next to the asbestos monitoring air pumps that have been running in my building since 2014.