I am a little biased because of it being here in #montreal , but the real gold standard of this kind of store (that I've ever seen, anyway) is Abra Electronics. They have probably 500x as much inventory, it's all just sitting there on the shelves, usually at a reasonable-for-in-stock price […]

Things are off to a good start at #x2026 with interesting talks and conversations. Today, I will be giving my first of three talks (two on #teaching #science and one on #airquality data analysis from a #citizenscience project ) — First, I will report on a […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

After a pleasant and productive train ride to #toronto, #x2026 is about to start - the annual Chemistry and Chemical Engineering conference (held together this year)

Guilty academic #summer pleasures: Occasionally stopping halfway on my 17 km bike ride to work at my favourite café on the #LachineCanal. At 8 am sharp (when they open) I will have an espresso on the « terrasse » and answer student advising emails. Then […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

ACAA* my latest for @newscientist.com *a cartoon about abbreviations

Le LRC de Bombardier.

#McMansionHell sur Gouin ouest. #montreal #architecture

J’ai essayé d’aller vers l’ouest en suivant l’axe #Gouin et j’ai complètement échoué à #Pierrefonds sans GPS (trop de culs-de-sac, pas de passerelles ni pour piétons, ni pour cyclistes). Le parc nature Bois-de-Liesse était joli par contre. Finalement je suis […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

L’ancien #vélo de mon père (un Puch Clubman, ca. 1977, importé d’Autriche) maintenant prêt à rouler à #Montréal Il reste à faire: L’équipement électrique et la selle.

#silentsunday sur l’avenue Duluth, #montreal

Now THIS is GREAT! Our #UrbanTruth work is inspiring some of you to create your OWN new content. Check these out by @owgf.bsky.social on Mastodon building on our 1-Hour City Campaign. “Where would you rather live? “Which looks like freedom to you?” And which like dependency? #1HourCityConspiracy

Mort d’une cycliste en 2025 – Montréal devrait créer un « lien cyclable » sur l’avenue du Parc, conclut une coroner. Sur l'article, la photo du « die in » de la @MasseCritiqueMTL de septembre dernier […]

J'aime le design des stations @mulocargo.bsky.social !😍 Love the design of Mulo stations !😍 🚲 📷 @jacouzi.bsky.social @ @agoramtl.com #velocargo #cargobike #velomtl #bikemtl #velopartage #bikeshare #montreal

#science contributions are on fire in the latest #homebrew update and listing of new formulae.

Undergraduate Research Day, which runs after each term (S/F/W) at #concordia in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is such an awesome showcase of #undergraduate #research. I am especially happy for those students who saw me as the advisor when they were struggling in their program (and […]

My colleague will be presenting at the Air Sensors International Conference (ASIC) next week on our work estimating wildfire smoke impacts with low-cost sensors. I’ll also be talking about sensor evaluation. I’d love to connect if you’ll be there. #airpollution #airquality #sensors #machinelearning

I’m excited to be heading to Los Angeles next week for the Air Sensors International Conference (ASIC) 2026. I’ll be sharing new findings from our work evaluating low‑cost air sensors for data fusion. Presentation: In-Situ Evaluation of Low-Cost PM2.5 Sensor […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Pourquoi les Finlandais sont-ils plus actifs et en santé que nous? Ils ont intégré l'activité à leur quotidien. Et comment ont-ils réussi? Grâce à des infrastructures sécuritaires et conviviales. #velomtl lnkd.in/eaPwBCnP

RE: https://mastodon.quebec/@lapresse/116470190514541150 « L’accessibilité. Je n’ai pas besoin de payer une fortune ni d’avoir un ensemble particulier, il suffit de se jeter à l’eau ! Je n’ai pas non plus besoin de rouler en auto, je prends mon vélo. Les transports en commun sont aussi très […]

Le stade olympique de #Montréal lors d'une promenade à vélo au parc Maisonneuve. #silentsunday

Last weekend on the bus to Trois-Rivières. Two hours well spent reviewing a manuscript. It might take a bit longer than by car, but way more productive. And despite the many potholes I can still read my comments for the write up. I would rather take a train […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Interesting piece on the fragmenting of digital identities in the sciences. I'm sure mine is scattered all over the place. The key seems to be to keep your ORCID up to date. - and as a model, there are many similarities between ORCID and the fediverse, "keep your ORCID profile up to date... it […]

You'd think after nearly 40 yrs in development, Excel wouldn't continue to be such a menace. Interesting one today, as I downloaded some point data from silo, with the years as yyyy-mm-dd. I briefly opened it in excel to have a quick geeze, and unbeknownst to me Excel changed the dates from […]

If anyone is installing Pyrolite (the excellent python-based geochemical data tool), it currently doesn't install with Python 3.13 and above due to a MatPlotLib compatibility issue. If you're using a managed virtual environment (such as uv), it installs fine with Python 3.12: % uv init --python […]