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Consulting scientist (mostly retired). Mum of two accomplished kids. Grandmother. Metastatic breast cancer (almost 6 yrs). Supported by a wonderful husband. Raised East Coaster but West Coaster for 49 yrs. Proud Canadian.
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vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/09/s... So theres an evacuation alert and a state of emergency. But the "risk to the community has not changed." Is it any wonder why the general public has trouble understanding what we are facing?

My daughter told my wife she was going to cut up some strawberries for her. Meet The Strawbster:

my poolside reading for today 🩵 (i miss carl sagan)

Dad's On The Dancefloor

From coast to coast to coast, nature is part of our identity as Canadians — and that’s why our Liberal team is taking bold action to protect it. Happy #WorldOceansDay, Canada.

Brittlestar sure does topical well

In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

So much wrong with this…. Let’s start with “what was we ranked?” Inaccurate information from Mrs. WWE in the middle. Rounded out with throwing “total pole” in at the end. Ffs.

For many marine species, all we have is a name. Now, thanks to a huge effort led by @drcraigmc.bsky.social, for 85,000 species we have body size as well. Version 1 of the MOBS database is published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Enjoy! 🌐🧪

pictures like this make me believe in magic

Canadian Media Fails BIGLY!!!

This is your health on MAGA.

The destruction of the medical research enterprise in the U.S. will go down in history as one of the most damaging choices a government has made in setting its population backwards www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

People are generating more digital records than ever before, resulting in a catalog of clutter. @michaelwaters.bsky.social reports on how our very online lives might reshape the study of history:

Preferred PM (Nanos Research): May 2, 2025: 🔴47% Mark Carney 🔵41% Pierre Poilievre May 30, 2025: 🔴47% Mark Carney (-) 🔵28% Pierre Poilievre (-13) Poilievre Slides in Post-Election Nanos Tracker ↓ www.338canada.ca/p/poilievre-...

🔵Conservative leader down 13 points as preferred PM since election day, while Mark Carney holds a comfortable honeymoon lead. 📊Poilievre Slides in Post-Election Nanos Tracker, the latest from @canadianpolling.bsky.social for 338 ↓ www.338canada.ca/p/poilievre-...

Why is the media even talking to Poilievre? Sheer is the current leader of the Opposition. Poilievre isn’t in the House. He’s just yelling outside the window. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Poilievre is fulla shit. Canada doesnt have a debt problem.

Truth from PM Mark Carney… it became very awkward for Poilievre when Canada came under attack from the very people he’d been cozying up to. A little more articulate than my description of “Poilievre is screwed.” 😅

Again: my man!

In my interviews, I am encountering so much sadness among scientists. I simply do not understand why cancer biologists, ecologists, virologists, physical chemists, algorithm developers, power systems engineers and many, many others face sudden grant terminations, interrupted careers, firings.

We’re working with the provinces and territories to build one strong Canadian economy — not 13.

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

Imagine being more concerned about people being too compassionate than about people being too cruel.

Five years ago, the diagnosis was incurable cancer. The prognosis? Two months. Two months to say my goodbyes. That was supposed to be the end of my story. But grit always beats grim. And here I am - five years later: alive, grateful, optimistic, still battling, still believing. gofund.me/ae4b8a2d