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docleslie.bsky.social

Biologist and science/environment/adventure travel writer for Canadian Geographic and others, tracking the intersecting climate and biodiversity crises; my books stray into fields like herpetology, invasive species and... skiing (weird, eh?).

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🧪⚛️ Now is the time to push back on the proposed cuts to science and engineering research funding in the US. Congress appropriates, not the executive. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/06/push...

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Stand up for weather and climate science! Marathon nearing the halfway point. See the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNE_... @wclivestream.bsky.social wclivestream.com ❄️🧪 #scicomm #climate #science 🌎 🔬 ⚒️ #ClimateAction

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Honestly I'm still not over the Department of Defense removing references to the Enola Gay from their website because it contains the word "Gay." These jabronis have done much more harmful things, but that's the one that's stuck in my craw for being so deeply and profoundly stupid.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

Glacier Collapse in the Swiss Alps Destroys Most of a Village www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/w...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

There is absolutely nothing more 21st-Century karmic—or laden with schadenfreude—than wildfires threatening Alberta’s oil industry.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Undeniably, science is under attack Look forward to reading this upcoming new book by @michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Like the New York Times?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Lest we forget, that number eventually soared to over a million. Much of that was due to the Trump 1.0 administrations’ gross ignorance and poor response to the crisis. And yet he’s an office again and actively dismantling U.S. science, medicine and disaster-response capacity. Make it make sense!

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This administration's approach is clear to anyone paying attention: stop gathering data, replace information with ideology/propaganda, create scapegoats to blame for societal problems that data could have predicted: www.utilitydive.com/news/noaa-st...

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

F--k the New York Times. I just canceled my subscription.

submitted 10 days ago • 1712 comments

In the annals of scary fascist shit coming out of the U.S., this is the fascistist yet. THEY—the grossly unqualified gargoyles of Trump's kakistocracy who know nothing of, and could care less about, science (a fact on sad display daily)—will now decide what is worthy vs. unworthy science. WTAF? 🧪

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

What a mess. The longer we wait to address climate change, the worse the impacts. This affects us all.

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

This is total and utter insanity.

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World Turtle Day reminds me of the awesome teaching moments these ancient and stoic animals gifted my daughter and I when she was young and wowed by the world. 🐢🧪

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2024 set a grim record for tropical forest loss, with Bolivia losing 1.5M hectares, a 200% surge and Brazil clearing 6,288 km² of Amazon, largely due to fires set for soy, cattle, and sugarcane production. Climate-driven droughts also turned these fires into megafires, fueling a cycle of destruction

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

You can bet your life that this is indeed as Orwellian as it sounds and will ensure future science 🧪 in the U.S. isn’t science at all. How the AF did we get here?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I deeply dislike the word "stakeholder." If the political, government and public policy worlds could bury that euphemism, I'd appreciate it.

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

Would it have killed them to mention the fact that this was due to climate change? @powcanada.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 33 comments

Why is this happening? What on earth is the calculus here?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Thank fuck.

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Because they want to kill us, Congress voted to overturn a Clean Air Act regulation limiting toxic emissions from industrial facilities like refineries, chemical plants, and steel mills. This marks the first Congressional rollback of the landmark environmental law's protections since its creation.

submitted 13 days ago • 111 comments

I am extremely disappointed in the Canada Pension Plan's shortsighted and cynical decision. Watchdog says pension plan dropping net-zero target a ‘failure of its fundamental purpose’ www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/21/n...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

No doubt it is strong enough to convict them. The question is what kind of judge will have the balls to do so in this political climate.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

With global warming, there is no new normal, only ever-accelerating change until we stop increasing CO2.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

No one does corruption like Conservatives, they're truly a cut above the rest #cdnpoli

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This is... not good. El Salvador President Bukele is a well known fascist. But disappearing the lawyer who is representing deported Unitedstatesians? I wouldn't be surprised if Trump gave the order. They are 2025's Hitler and Mussolini. #Trump #Bukele #fascism #ElSalvador #cdnpoli

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This is sad.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

submitted 17 days ago • 468 comments

I can't believe this is where we're at. Something's seriously wrong with conservatives in general, but the sycophantic lickspittles Trump appointed to positions of national importance, now bent on the installation of some form of retributional ignorance, are a whole new level of mean and stupid.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I wish they'd had this showcase when I was in graduate school—we were always taking striking photos of life in the field with no one to show them to except colleagues at lunch-hour seminars. 🤓 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment