This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%. This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement. www.unep.org/resources/em... 1/

Interested in penguins 🐧 🌊? The webcam is now live for an Adélie penguin colony near Palmer Station, Antarctica www.usap.gov/videoclipsan...

Today’s Canadian painting is “Tamarack” painted by Tom Thomson in 1915.

Live your life so that people don't celebrate your death.

Some nice mountains on the SPU-MUC run.

Zach has a comic up with the most evil yet true red button extra panel of all. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/addition

Ahh- good times

An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

New results from our lab: Polyploidization in diatoms accelerates adaptation to warming. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The fight to limit “screen time” cannot be won, @ibogost.com argues. To recognize that fact—and to understand how it happened—is a small, important step toward salvation:

Eglinton Avenue East at the Don Valley, October 23, 1909. #EglintonAvenue #OnThisDay #OTD #1900s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

If only we had cleaner units to describe the weight of a litre of water.

Six people had their visas revoked due to their social media posts. Six people are being deported because of what they said online. Six people have had their freedom of speech suspended. It won’t stop with these six people. Either we all have freedom of speech or none of us do.

Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool galaxy #OTD in 1773. The designation M51 refers to its entry in the catalog he produced. Pretty good galaxy. 🧪 🔭 Credit: NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith (STScI)/HHT (STScI/AURA)

I have letter to the editor this week in our local paper. Our community is, once again, facing a developer who wants to turn public, protected coastal land into a golf course. We've been here before. This time, it's shadier. And God knows it was shady last time. www.invernessoran.ca/top-story/co...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Based on the experience of countries that have tried this, there’s overwhelming evidence that it is utterly unnecessary.

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

Got a nature climate change paper accepted. Have you seen the page charges? Yikes. “The APC to publish Gold Open Access in Nature Climate Change is £9190.00/$12690.00/€10690.00. “. Didn’t do that!

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

Interesting to note that the coal industry in the U.S. employs just a tad over 40,000 people, according to the BLS. The same source tells us that 64,000 people work at wineries.

So exhausting..

House of William Smith Jr., beside the Don River near Queen Street, Toronto, circa 1912. Artist: Frederick Victor Poole Medium: Watercolour painting Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, TPL #1910s #watercolour #watercolor #torontoartist #art #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

Direct air capture is too expensive and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon.

Mass shootings aren’t random tragedies anymore, they’re policy choices.

RRS James Cook leaving Halifax.

The way people get mocked for not knowing something is part of the reason folks pretend to be experts on every topic.

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

Routine for every class now: - sign out previous person who used the system - sign in to AV system computer - verify sign-in with authenticator on phone - wait for phone face ID to recognize - wait for AV system computer to load - kill Microsoft Teams auto-launch - sign in to course system web page

Happy Stanislov Petrov Day to all that remember and celebrate

Tree climbing lessons.

“Among the many [proposed] deep cuts to scientific research…is the abrupt termination of the Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. icebreaker dedicated to Antarctic research. The budget also pauses development of a new vessel that was supposed to succeed the Palmer in the 2030s.” [gift link]

US to end funding for our only ship monitoring the Thwaites Glacier, the so-called “doomsday” glacier located in a remote region of West Antarctica. www.science.org/content/arti...

"Last year, NSF ended support for its other Antarctic research ship, the ARSV Laurence M. Gould, citing escalating costs and budget constraints. That left the Palmer on its own."

RV Laurence M. Gould (WCX7445) icebreaker operated by the National Science Foundation at Palmer Station, Antarctica - January 25, 2024 #rvlaurencemgould #wcx7445 SRC: webcam

Farewell Maru

YYZ terminal 3 in 2016

As we head into Rosh Hashanah, a very important point of order from Canadian Senate Hansard (1984) :p

Beautiful #Ediacaran fossil light on the E surface at Mistaken Point 🤩

Imagine if, in 1946, President Truman had tried to ban Penicillin and other antibiotics on the basis of conspiracy theories and rumor. That’s where we are today, but for mRNA therapies and vaccines.