A dose of hope, from one of my fav climate scientists @drkatemarvel.bsky.social. A long read, but a good one.👇 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

This is an excerpt from Kate's new book, which is just out in the UK. I've been inspired by Kate's work for a long time, so I'm super-excited to read it. I bet a lot of you will enjoy it too!

Other than standing in a greeting line at the Calgary airport on Sunday, Indigenous leaders had nothing to do with the meetings taking place around a very small table of the world’s G7 leaders.

🤩 “The court…confirm[s] that private companies can… be held liable for their share in causing climate damages. This finding has major ramifications for the wider legal battle to make fossil fuel companies accountable.” #swiss #us #uk #japan #netherlands #cdnpoli theconversation.com/one-lawsuit-...

Listening tonight and glad that you touched on Myanmar earthquake. Here’s a number for you @adamtooze.bsky.social: $12. That’s how much a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh gets to spend on food all month, ~13 cents per meal, if you want three meals a day. (The bulk of it funded by USAID.)

“Specifically, various contrasting narratives were spread on WeChat about Mr. Carney – first amplifying the candidate's stance with the United States[ii], then targeting his experience and credentials.” www.canada.ca/en/privy-cou...

Statement from the director of the Voice of America (who has been placed on administrative leave).

“The focus of the U.S. government is dealing with its yearly deficit in federal spending” www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Immediate thoughts as an economist: Volume drives revenue, but industrial policy restrictions may conflict with this. Trade reciprocity ~~> current trade systems.

Winter’s cold blanket, Contrasted by cardinal. Spring still holds its breath. 🪶🇨🇦

Affrontement Trump-Zelensky | L’Ukraine a besoin de garanties de sécurité, exhorte Mélanie Joly

Inspired by the thought of balancing darkness and light: butterfly closeup #NaturePhotography 🦋🌿

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

New day, new lawsuit against the Trump admin: latest challenging the halt of USAID funds, brought by plaintiffs incl. private contractors, small business group, nonprofits and the American Bar Association (gets $ for int'l rule of law programs) assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

Here is United States law regarding the President's attempts to close our development assistance agency in secret over the weekend. It is illegal. No ambiguity. Americans decide with their actions, today, if the US is a country of laws or—something else. —> crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...

/ So the moral of the story, after everyone spent the day arguing about, "He just wants some changes at the border," versus, "He wants a whole bunch of other stuff," is: Trump wants both. As per last post. We're through Round 1. Onto Round 2.

This is nuts. On av. 15% of families with children who have disabilities have considered placing their child into foster care, solely to access disability services not funded if their child remained at home. My latest for @indiginews.bsky.social.

Each State's Top Country For Exports. Canada is number 1 for 32 states, Mexico for 6 and China for 5 See the import map here: brilliantmaps.com/the-top-i...

Our Litigation Tracker is now souped up with interactive Table. ⬇️ Now tracking 23 cases and expecting more to drop soon. Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.

From December, Northern Cardinal in juniper tree. 🪶

Great White Pelican, inspired by @edyong209.bsky.social 🪶📷

Gray-crowned cranes 🪶

Red-vented Bulbul 🪶

Coppersmith Barbet 🪶

Afternoon nap 🪶

“Success!” / “Oh wait, it’s stuck..” White-throated Kingfisher #bird

A spot of pink -- Vancouver, May 16 #photography #birds #AnnasHummingbird

Ah, that’s the spot. Black-hooded Oriole #birds

Finally got the shot I been trying all week. Breath of a red wing black bird. 🪶

A couple of blue-tailed bee-eaters catching dragonflies. 🪶 #birds #bangladesh

This male northern flicker has been around the area for a few weeks now, but he’s very wary and usually stays hidden in the branches. But sometimes he just needs to perch in the open and show off those spots!🪶

A kakīānau (black swan) cygnet I met this morning. 🪶

Really enjoyed reviewing Jonathan Silvertown's new book for Nature. A quick and great read that asks some big questions about cooperation and parasitism — and how we often and mistakenly apply moral frameworks to the world of biology 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Told myself I was going take it easy and not bird myself to death today. Mission not accomplished. #birds #birdphotography #herons #kingfishers

Good morning/good night. Spotted owlets. 🦉🪶

🔊 🐬 ➡ Check out our new #OpenAccess paper where we present evidence that harbour #porpoises on the Scottish west coast responded to intense & chronic Acoustic Deterrent Device (ADD) noise from #aquaculture using 9-years of HWDT data! Paper link 🔗: lnkd.in/eMzGD_t6 #MarineLife #Animals