top 10 worm species 🧪🌊 www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te...

Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun. n.pr/48nQMqI

Congratulations to all the students convocating this week. Thank you to those who chose #anthropology as their degree. Interview with Jennifer Preece, Anthropology major/Indigenous Studies minor grad who walked across the stage today. tinyurl.com/5xzxjb77 @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

these social media places are often overflowing w flooded s#$! & yet are also places where its possible to strengthen channels, dikes, & riparian zones to eventually filter into cleaner, clearer, faster flowing water [aka. news?] 🗞️🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

i had forgotten this moment

High resolution images from satellite and from eddy-resolving ocean circulation models point to an ongoing decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation, a key ocean current for our climate. Read more about it in my new blog article. 🌊 www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Thanks, New Yorker

How does one make tea - is it boiled ?

“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”

historical ecology of tuna (incl. giant bluefin) fisheries in Canada🧪🐟

This is so pathetic. we need to stop being afraid of this clown.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Biggest story in the world, told in the mainstream press perfectly well: AP/PBS headline: TRUMP'S MOVES AGAINST MEDIA OUTLETS MIRROR AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO SILENCING DISSENT www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

A thoughtful mini history of fascism

"A behavioral ecologist at the University of Tokyo, Dr. Uesaka had intended to study how the seabirds run along the water’s surface as they take off in flight. But when the No. 1 thing he noticed in his recordings was No. 2, he decided to shift his focus." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/s...

🏺 #archaeology

Hmmmm, beyond being Democratic cities, what else might they have in common??? 🤔

the wolves in the henhouse are shameless

recovering and caring for big histories through small surviving objects and teams of good people - power amidst tragedy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/a...

Not all humans are an invasive species:

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We are pleased to invite you to the Oceans Past XI Conference! Taking place between 15-19 June 2026 at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada (www.uvic.ca) Abstract submissions open early Autumn 2025; stay tuned for updates! More info: oceanspast.org/conferences/... (1/2)

8.8 is a huge earthquake. Holy mola. The 2010 Chile Earthquake was an 8.8., for reference.

Not a conspiracy theory, more just a kind of obvious thing that operates in plain sight. www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

Elwha River salmon impacted by diesil fuel spill near Port Angeles www.sfgate.com/national-par...

@barnaclebarclay.bsky.social (Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship @uvic.ca in collaboration with #uvic researchers @juliabaum.bsky.social & @iainmckechnie.bsky.social as well as a Tseshaht First Nation representative, Denis St. Claire.

genocide studies is having a moment

no matter how ancient, streams & waterways still have power 🧪🗽

Japan transport agency singles out innocuous looking migratory shorebird as a "hazardous species" and... a "flight risk" including mug shots of males, females & juvenile stages www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/... 🦆🧪✈️

Check out this beautifully shot film produced by Prof. Anne Salomon & @hmkobluk.bsky.social (PhD candidate) on their latest work in Landscape 6 - Pacific Coastal Fisheries and as part of the Coastal Voices research collective!

Today's #WorldOrcaDay. I can't say happy because who's happy today? Orcas rule, and far too many people meme about them attacking boats, which you'll never see personally, and not attacking sea lions and dolphins, which they openly do near us Thank you for your murders, orcas. 🐬

art has the power to change the world

On the 40th anniversary of Live Aid, the concert is being streamed in sections on Live Aid's YouTube channel today. Dire Straits now.

shell science 🧪🦀🐚

im in (& hopefully it is cheaper) 🐈🐕🪰 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/s...

Former New York Times public editor says @nytimes.com’s use of private information stolen from a university by hackers and obtained from an unnamed source who also happens to be a well-known eugenicist failed to meet traditional journalistic ethical standards: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

good explainer reaction video to nonsense from ai Alberta www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDI1...

an Ireland size fishery footprint in British Columbia? 🐟🧪 www.biv.com/news/environ...

the power of listening to stories about the night sky www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/s...

wish i could be in Wales to dig for a week and learn www.strataflorida.org.uk/archaeology-...

💥 @repdangoldman.bsky.social speaks out about his confrontation with “plain-clothes ICE agents” wearing masks. “You can’t require Columbia University to ban masks in order to get federal funding while you turn around and have federal government enforcement law enforcement agents wearing masks.”

How herring lost their memory (over-fishing of older individuals) 🐟🚫🧠 @judeisabella.bsky.social @iainmckechnie.bsky.social nautil.us/how-these-fi...

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. This first-of-its-kind look at AI's energy use tells a story you haven't heard: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

"authoritarian technocrats... own ... AI infrastructure"

How would you not see this as profoundly sad?? Like what marketer came up with this

move to make “ozowned“ a verb, all in favor

Indigenous led archaeological work in Comox reveals a perfectly preserved splitting wedge submerged in ground water for almost 4000 years komoks.ca/press-releas...

spend 2 hours with octopus www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzkN...

In case you needed another reason to eat ice cream.

exciting new Crab🦀 science🧪 publication led by @barnaclebarclay.bsky.social Banting postdoc working to apply paleobiology techniques to learn about Indigenous crab fisheries via the scars left on clam shells