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i am once again asking marine invertebrates to stop looking like dicks

Hopefully this does start a conversation. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Upscale cookbook assumes you can afford food

When you've been in the cell culture hood all day and finally get to take off your gloves:

Our paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"... how the agency's 600 layoffs could impact access to critical weather predictions." via ABC News

Seed acquisition update: we have cucumbers sprouting!

Roman concrete's 2,000-year durability secret finally decoded The exceptional strength comes from 'hot mixing' quicklime directly with volcanic ash at high temperatures. This creates distinctive lime clasts that grant remarkable self-healing properties. buff.ly/3EQOcxi #ShareGoodNewsToo

Update: 1/ Public Health Ontario is now reporting 142 confirmed or probable measles cases for 2025. That's a significant jump from previous reports. 177 cases since Oct 28, 2024, 90% not immunized. www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Docu...

New set out now Friends. youtu.be/TgKsG6NZSIo?...

There have been 77 measles cases in Canada for the first 6 weeks of 2025, including 34 in the latest week (25 new in Ontario). 2021/22/23/24 saw 0/3/12/147 measles cases. Majority are children. 60 of the current cases were unvaccinated. More here: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

New plant just dropped 🚨 And of course, the little guy is growing on America's public lands.

This short video on the false promise of using AI for climate is brilliant. The speaker worked years at Microsoft and resigned over the AI's broken promise. It's only 5 minutes, but a high quality 5 minutes:

Dissecting Barn Owl pellets today with prospective MMU students at an open day and we came across this AA ring which transpires was from a Wren ringed in 2022... 🪶 #UKBirding

An Indigenous organization's building in northeastern British Columbia was recently targeted with racist graffiti. Now, B.C.'s Indigenous Relations minister and the City of Fort St. John are denouncing the vandalism.

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“…concentrations of cyanide in Haggart Creek have been well above what guidelines would consider an "acute" risk to aquatic wildlife. Levels of cobalt, nickel and chloride in the creek have also risen and are at unsafe levels…” #Yukon #mining www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Many birds-of-paradise species emit light through their plumage, study finds. Researchers found that most birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent – meaning they absorb light through their bodies www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Don’t worry, it ends well - but I’m shocked there isn’t more yelling. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Apple Maps plans to show ‘Gulf of America,’ following Google

We knew this already but here is more confirmation. www.bbc.com/news/article...