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calewis.bsky.social
Retired 2008, 1 of 2 Coordinators of Community Brain Injury Program for Children & Teens in BC Canada. Member BC Genealogical Society [Canada]. Love to write, genealogy is my passion, reading is a daily requirement, plus anything science.
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Canadian response to Wayne Gretzky. youtube.com/watch?v=_2xz...

Some of my favourite #mushrooms Love the colours and patterns! A moment of wonder...

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... 🧪🌎🦑

🧪 Good morning #Canadian Academics. We know there'll be a federal election sooner rather than later Time to support candidates who support investments in research that make #CanadaStrong. Follow @core-coeur.bsky.social core-coeur.ca #VotonsRecherche #ResearchersVote 🧪

It’s an obvious point but apparently we have to keep making it: when Trump weakens Ukraine he created the conditions for a longer and bloodier war.

Who wouldn't love this-!! #genealogy plus #murdermystery and add in #Hollywood His books are always a good read!!

“Purge of journalists” underway at Voice of America, I’m told. Ukrainian correspondent Ostap Yarysh already impacted.

🧵 🗃️ It saddens me to have to bring you news of yet another casualty of the Trump administration's war on any history that does not conform to a white-centered narrative. For the past few summers I've worked with teachers at Arlington National Cemetery. The historians and educational staff...

Great #genealogy reading.

I've been watching specific presentations the last 2 days and this morning - likely later this afternoon/evening too! All presentations are saved online for three (3) years!! Free online. Watched several top-notch presentations/presenters so far - inspiring! RootsTech.org

This coming St Patrick’s Day the IGRS will celebrate Ireland’s patron saint with an exciting celebratory draw for three free annual memberships for the Society. Anyone, anywhere in the world, can take part. Click on the link to read more and to enter the draw… www.irishancestors.ie/paddy-day-dr...

International Women's Day is a reminder of The Untold Stories of Ireland’s Forgotten Women now uncovered in Chancery Records: voicesproject.ie/impact/fight... @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

Robert Charles Anderson, Director of the Great Migration Project @americanancestors.bsky.social - Many have asked about his official obituary so wanted to share this. He will always be missed by his friends and colleagues here and in the greater #genealogy community www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

Please help with #Haskell if you can donate. It's an awful time and we must stick together and share resources. lawrencekstimes.com/2025/02/25/h...

If you're an NWS employee (fired today or not) and you'd like to speak to a journalist, my email and signal are up in my bio.

Another company to celebrate...

Critical ocean current AMOC weakest in 1,600 years and even without an imminent collapse its weakening will have a devastating impact on billions Prof Niklas Boers "in the short term, it doesn’t really matter if we have a strong weakening, say 80%, or a collapse.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I've researched a lot of soldiers who lost their lives at Cabanatuan, so am hoping some will be identified. #WWII www.daytondailynews.com/local/remain...

Preparing data from the 1941 National Farm Survey for addition to my #OnePlaceStudy website, but along the way finding things to check / analyse further! Then I checked the parish's Farm Survey data from 1946 for comparison and saw that 2 farm workers in the parish were Prisoners of War... #GenHour

Mmmmhmmm A little science for today...

Super excited for this paper to come out, building upon findings from my first PhD pub 10 (?!) years ago. This work demonstrates that using internal water storage in stormwater basin design can help maximize nitrate removal, while also reducing biologically produced GHG emissions

This is evil. Pure evil.

More than half of countries are ignoring biodiversity pledges – analysis buff.ly/41vi2A0 🧪🌎

I think about this map a lot. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

I've done some updates to my review of irishgenealogy.ie - clearly they are still working on it. Good news! cbgenealogy.ie/new-site-for... #GenHour #AncestryHour #Genealogy

“Harsh words” exchanged at the G20 ministerial. The U.S. “alone.”

An insanity bill... kind of like shooting your foot - in advance of the gun moving closer. Aaaack!!

DOGE's chaos is spreading across federal agencies -- and now it's hitting scientists in Antarctica. "There’s a sense of unease...like people have never felt before. The job still has to get done, even though people feel like the next shoe can drop at any moment." www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

Fascinating new rulings - not touch screens!! I agree with the concept, regardless of the humourous images here... 😀

“There are certain storms that don’t care about El Niño & La Niña. And the #AtmosphericRivers are those storms." Scripps researcher Sasha Gershunov spoke to @kpbssandiego.bsky.social on how these powerful systems complicate efforts to predict snow & rainfall in Calif. 🌧️ www.kpbs.org/news/environ...

Marvellous views of the moon captured by private lunar lander. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

What many don't know is that our government makes the #flu #vaccine because there's no money to be made--so pharma companies aren't going to make it. And strains are selected months in advance to target. FDA cancels vaccine advisory committee mtg www.statnews.com/2025/02/26/f... via @statnews.com

Andrew Tate being allowed to come to the U.S. and avoid facing trial for sex trafficking in Romania is beyond stomach-churning. This man is a HUGE influencer and uses his platform/following to further abuse women who have accused him. Now he won’t face justice, reaffirming his lies to his followers

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

Some of DOGE is retribution, some is corruption, some is incompetence, some is a mix of those, but this is destruction for destruction's sake. It's undermining American science, industry, and commerce just because they can.

The endangered New Zealand Sea Lion, the rarest sea lion in the world. Seen around Stewart Island/Rakiura. 🦑

One of the best humpback #whale breaches I've ever gotten on video. Standing on the coastal road, glad no cars came by. 🦑 🦊 #marinelife #nature #wave #humpbackwhale #love #maui #hawaii #amazing #animalvideo #wildlife #ocean #photography #mammals #seascape

A #publichealth professor looks at how the CDC protects Americans’ life and how it’s likely to be affected by the Trump administration’s actions, including laying off thousands of its staff. By Jordan Miller, Arizona State University #COVID19 #BirdFlu #Ebola 🧪 🩺 #EpiSky

In these trying times, when we all feel like screaming, I present to you the best explanation of the Cosmic Microwave Background #CMB I've ever come across: "The Surface of Last Screaming" #Science #Physics #Cosmology #Astronomy 🧪⚛️🔭 Source: ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March...

🧪 I am enticing with this image, but have something serious to say: I am saddened for USA & our much-valued federal agency science partners that 🍑🤡🤡🤡 &🐛with small ❤️, smaller 🧠, & even smaller 🍆are indiscriminately ✂️🪚🔪what we do, how we do it, & who is involved. But scientific research will continue.

In case you are operating under the shred of delusion that Musk gives a shit about space, astronomy, or science 🔭🧪🛰️

Data Rescue Project - you can help save US Gov data 🧪

Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded & what’s next Once upon a time leaders believed that science was essential to nation’s security, to better health, to more jobs, to a higher standard of living & to cultural progress 🧪 #academicSky @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Q's re legality of recent EOs, layoffs and other actions 🧪