Yes! Some days this novel seems more like the evening news. clereviewofbooks.com/kim-stanley-...

"The lake's waters reached 41ºC, or 105.8ºF — hotter than most spa baths." "You couldn't put your finger in the water." Just terrible. There's no other way to describe this. News: www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin... Peer reviewed: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌎 🧪

Pumpkin Spice Bassist

Yayoi Kusama, Fish (+ Depth of the sea, silkscreen; 2 works), 1988 #WomensArt

First, why is the CFL championship game the deadline? Second: “Premier Smith says she wants to fill three or four new pipelines and double oilsands production. That’s going to be pretty hard to do and meet those emissions levels…” (Andrew Leach, University of Alberta) 🌎 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“The creation of corporations was one of the biggest self-annihilation moves of civilisation.These entities exploit humans and the Earth and are governed not by humans or ethics, but by profit. Humanity is now owned by something abstract and inhuman, and this should be of grave concern to all of us”

If we don’t fix the climate, pollution, and nature crises, we can’t fix anything. They are already actively amplifying poverty, hunger, and division. They are what stand between all of us, regardless of geography or ideology, and the better future we all seek. That's why I'm convinced that ...

To add context, universities in smaller centres (like mine) rely heavily on transfer students from rural, regional college programs. When colleges are affected, so are universities. Regional universities and colleges are integral to – and integrated into – local economies, innovation, and culture.

This government's signal legacy in higher education is going to be "we torched whatever we could right across the country because we couldn't figure out how to control the southern Ontario housing market". Ford can't/won't build houses? Better knife some more rural colleges in NB or BC.

This could be our electricity future, if only our government was paying attention.

Orcas are moving north and staying longer, researchers say 🧪🦑🌎

#Kamloops - Kamloops working to remove invasive Russian olive trees — but it could take decades www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

WON IT ALL. #WORLDSERIES

Happy Hallowe'en! 🎃 Spiders 🕷️ aren't scary, of course, but one of their "ecosystem services" is providing a bit of spookiness 🕸️ to this evening. Here are a bunch of other great things that our little eight-legged friends do for us: 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️ 🪲🪳

We rescued several Palm Swifts trapped after Hurricane Melissa. 🌪️ Here’s Iyana, a Life Sciences student, drying off some of the birds. 💚 Share your wildlife updates with @RoostersWorldja 🇯🇲🕊️ #HurricaneMelissa #RoostersWorldja #WildlifeRescue #Jamaica

New #WomenLeadingOnClimate episode drops today! This week, I climate scientist @katharinehayhoe.com and I talk about how to talk to real people about climate in a real way that gives them hope & motivates them to act... Listen, share & subscribe. www.womenleadingonclimate.org/our-podcast

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

I’m not sure if this is real, but it sounds right up my alley.

Minimalist Pumpkin

Please check out this interesting presentation on #stormpetrels and #lightpollution in the Faroes by collaborator and PhD student @bardseyben.bsky.social #seabirds 🧪🌍 kvf.fo/sjon/sending...

Not since 1935 has anyone experienced a storm like Melissa. Melissa's record wouldn't have happened without climate change, which made the hurricane's winds about 10 mph stronger, according to a rapid attribution analysis by Climate Central. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/cata...

it's good that both teams get to have a little nap now

Wild that Kershaw was a rookie when this game started.

This game is lasting so long I can’t remember which jokes I’ve made here and which I’ve made on Reddit.

They could probably send someone to get more mud and the game would still be going by the time they got back. ⚾️

The nice thing about baseball is that the playoffs only last a month. However individual playoff games can last three months. ⚾️

it seems like there are more and more world series each and every year

All of you complaining about having to work tomorrow .... Shohei Ohtani has to pitch game 4 of the World Series tomorrow and he's still awake!!

“The stakes are at least as high now as they were when our forebears made the decision to participate in things like the General Strike of 1919.” (Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan) Solidarity 💪🏼 💪🏾 💪🏻 💪🏿 💪🏽 edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Great that these will be composted, I guess. But here's your annual reminder that pumpkins 🎃 are edible 🍜, and growing them 🌱 takes up valuable agricultural land 🚜 and energy that could have been used for other food. So how about finding a good recipe 🧑🏼‍🍳 instead? 🌎

Tiny miners, huge impact 🌿🦋 Join Butterfly Conservation at Gartmorn Dam, 2 Nov 11 am for a beginner‐friendly walk into the world of leaf-mining moths. Book now – spaces are limited! Visit Butterfly Conservation's website for more info! #NatureWalk #Moths #ButterflyConservation #Scotland

Stigmella samiatella, Chestnut Dot mine on Chestnut from the weekend, again all I need to do now is find it closer to home 😊 #teammoth

À Montréal, l'automne nous déroule le tapis rouge 🍁 📷 karlvibes #Montréal #MTLmoments #PhotoduJour

This is going to scare my fellow Canadians. #GoBlue

Bring the Montreal Expos back

Birds thrive after fire — but only where we don’t log the aftermath. In the Sierra parks, no salvage crews came through. Research shows post-fire logging turns recovery into decline. Snags aren’t waste; they’re home. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Most people don't think about arachnids needing water, but they do need some water. Here a harvester gets a drink from a small puddle of moisture. I don't have an ID for this one yet, but believe it belongs to Superfamily Gonyleptoidea. Bella Vista Cloud Forest Preserve, Ecuador, 2023 #Arachtober

Mid-spring at Parliament and the #bees are loving it! Great start to the season.

#FrogFriday: A Three-striped Poison Frog (Ameerega trivittata) from NE Peru. A large poison #frog, up to 50mm (2in) in length. Males care for the eggs, laid terrestrially, and after hatching, they carry the tadpoles on their backs to water. #herps #frogs #NaturePhotography 🌿

The wonderful @yukihaba.bsky.social and I went beneath London to help solve the riddle of the Underground Mosquito... Debunking rather than spelunking ;) @marakat.bsky.social @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social

Does your ecology journal even lift, bro?

Articles like this are the perfect excuse for my “lazy” yard work. 🌎

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

Certainly mosquitoes (Aedes impiger & A . nigripes) can survive in high arctic Canada (e.g. northern Ellesmere Island). Aedes overwinter as eggs, tho, & Culiseta annulata overwinters as an adult (e.g. caves in northern Europe), so establishment would depend on finding suitable overwintering sites.

Eupsilia transversa is a quite common moth in Berlin. It hatches in fall and hibernates as an adult. In German, it's "Satellit-Wintereule" as beside the bright yellow or white spot, there are two satellites – so nice. #teammoth, #moth, #stadtnatur, #berlinbiodiversity, #berlin, #urbanbiodiversity

Not necessarily. It's hard to say how they got there, nor whether the (small?) population will survive winters. Time will tell. From a larger perspective, it serves to remind that humans – whether through changing the climate or physically moving organisms – have a massive influence on ecosystems.