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On the last scheduled day of #IPCC62, delegates are working to finalize the three Working Group report outlines on #climate #science, #adaptation, and #mitigation, and resolve outstanding plenary items. Intense discussions continue as the session nears its conclusion. @ipcc.bsky.social #IPCC

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TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

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Ancestry is a key part of identity. But any attempt to use it to claim superiority or to demean the identities of others is almost certainly based on fiction. Don’t be sucked in by anyone who claims the contrary. (DM me for a PDF if the paywall snags you) www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

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It’s Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl. They keep leaving off the “Dr.” Pay attention to how Idaho & the msm media infantilize her, calling her a “little girl” and ignoring her academic achievements. None of that is on accident.

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Few things contain so much hope as a seed. "dormant seeds preserved in sediment... had germinated, bringing back a variety of aquatic plants, including rare fen pondweed." "More than 90 wetland plant species have emerged from the preserved dormant seeds" #MacrophyteMonday @carlsayer.bsky.social

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I was gonna take today off, and then the CBC pissed off the internet, so I'm making a video talking about it. But I want to be really clear: it's not really about the CBC. I'm mad at Hanomansing and CCCU, but this isn't really about them. It's about the illusion of balance in media.

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if you're reading this 50 years from now I need you to know that this series of world events isn't as dumb as it probably seems, it's actually much, much dumber than you can possibly imagine

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Kevin O'Leary to @ianhanomansing.bsky.social on Cross Country Checkup, rough quote: "The Canadian dollar has dropped 40% against the US dollar under Trudeau." Fact check: the CAD has dropped 34% from the 2011 peak, but just 4% of that drop happened under Trudeau. The big drop happened under Harper.

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"it's not as bad as it sounds!" Turns out it was pretty much exactly as bad as it sounded

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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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And who they didn't like

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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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It is National Pizza Day, so this is your periodic reminder that Hawaiian Pizza was invented by a Greek-Canadian named Sam Panopoulos at his Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario in 1962. A True Canadian Hero 🫡

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For those who celebrate, here are my SuperbOwls #LEGO #owl

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I think today's the day I am supposed to post the best owl I saw in 2024. 🪶

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Happy #SuperbOwl Sunday! 🪶

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Worth noting, other NDP parties watching this, they're kicking ass because they are actually rolling out a policy vision. They are funding evidence based programs AND helping the public to understand what and why they're doing. The Kinew Government should be a model for provincial NDP

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Superb Owl gameday face. #SuperbOwlSunday 🪶

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A 9th #entomology #StarterPack is 1/2 full. Check out and follow! go.bsky.app/Lo456Qj Who have I missed? Nominate widely and supportively! 🧪 You can also pin this list 1000+ entomologists from all 9 starter packs - bsky.app/profile/did:... 🐜🪲🪰🦋🕸️🕷️🐛🐝🐞🦗🪳🦟🦂

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Review Alice in Bloomland Contest

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New post: "Charlie Dalin wins the 2024 Vendée Globe" https://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/article/charlie-dalin-wins-2024-vendee-globe

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The 80-year project to make this country completely car-dependent is complete, and now that you're trapped, you need to spend an average of $737 a month for your own economic and social mobility.

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UPDATE! Charlie Balin has won the @vendeeglobeeng.bsky.social in record time!!! Around the world solo under sail in 64d 19h 22m, cutting the previous record by over nine days! www.vendeeglobe.org/cartographie

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Congratulations to leaders in the @vendeeglobeeng.bsky.social race nearing finish line! Leader Charlie Balin (France) may make landfall Monday, around the world non-stop in 73 days! The first such finish in 1969 by Robin Knox-Johnson took 312 days! www.vendeeglobe.org/cartographic #Sailing

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It is entirely logical to be furious at the fossil fuel industry, whose decades-long campaign of corrupting politicians, crafting fake science, sowing false doubt, and lying at an industrial scale has brought us to this moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. - Frank Wilhoit, 1989 source: Grabar, Henry, Slate Mag. 2002-06-03

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Free public presentation Saturday night, 24th Dr. John Rae Lecture "Visiting Qausuittuq National Park in the Canadian Arctic" by Marlis Butcher. 7:30 PM, Ewart Agnus Centre, McMaster University Hospital, Hamilton, ON. www.haalsa.org/index.html #HamOnt #Parks #ExplorersClub

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"the fact that these fires are burning in unusually dry winter months has highlighted how climate change is reshaping fire seasons around the world" Jo Lauder at the ABC puts the shocking LA fires in all-important context: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

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Canadian Member of Parliament Richard Cannings found an unusual antlion in his backyard, posted it to iNaturalist, and just published it as being a new genus record for Canada in a regional society journal journal.entsocbc.ca/index.php/jo... Can't ask for much more in an elected representative TBH!

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This short film explores how Indigenous communities are combining ancestral wisdom with cutting-edge technology to map and monitor their territories. From ancient traditions to modern tools, these approaches can help protect their biodiversity and heritage. @nature.org

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"Who cares if Miami is 6 meters underwater in 100 years?" / "Who cares if LA is on fire in two years?"

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A cultural loss I just found out about from my dad who is an art historian. www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/...

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The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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If you've noted the massive failure to mention climate change in mainstream coverage about the LA fires, here is a piece that specifically discusses how climate change has exacerbated wildfires in California in the last decade. The current fires will likely go down as among the most destructive.

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These fires are an especially acute example of something climate scientists have been warning about for decades: compound climate disasters that, when they occur simultaneously, produce much more damage than they would individually. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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“From what I’m seeing, you are not really de-extincting anything. You are creating something else.” (Dr. Clare Palmer, Texas A&M) Efforts focus on vertebrates, which are ecosystems to many other creatures. Many of those creatures went extinct with their ecosystem. 🧪 🌎 e360.yale.edu/features/de-...

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The irony of today, with 2024 being reported by @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social as the warmest on record, is that I am now sitting down to write a section for a chapter on "Climate change mitigation and adaptation" for a forthcoming book on plant silicon 🧪 #plantscience #Climatechange

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🌾🌱🌍🌳🧪 Deciduous trees shed leaves as protection from cold. Leaves thin, flat readily damaged by freezing. Shed annually in controlled process after salvageable materials withdrawn to branches & trunk. Also protects branches from storm wind damage. Worldwide where climate is cold in winter. #BUC2025

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CPW will continue with its plan to release 10-15 more wolves in CO this month after the CPW commission voted Wednesday night to deny a petition asking for a pause in the wolf reintroduction program.

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And we're only just getting started - #climatechange - www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Nominations for 2024 Hamilton Environmentalists of the Year Awards now open! Event will be held on 4 April, Lois Wilson Hall, McMaster University. See web site for details and forms. #HamOnt #EnvironmentalistsAwards #Hamilton #Ontario eoyawards.com

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Happy Christmas! 🎄 'Christmas day is one of great importance to the men: the whole of it has been given up to revelry, at present there is not a sober man in the ship', Charles Darwin, 25 Dec 1831 🍾 thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/c... @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social #histsci #histbio 🗃️

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Good news in #Arkansas!! How wild is it that this is happening in the #UnitedStates tho? Many judges are fighting to protect librarians just so they can do their job at the LIBRARY. Why is America attacking its own people?

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ICYMI: “A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing ‘harmful’ materials to minors.” apnews.com/article/arka...

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