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Ungulate paleobiologist, fibre nerd. Professor @UCalgary in Canada. Opinions mine. Born in the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee, living on Treaty 7 land. She/her.
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I don't know. Four episodes into Tariffs and the storyline starts to feel monotonous.

"Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging... "An emergency order removes protections covering more than half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

That's not deportation. Pretty sure that's extraordinary rendition.

All the Poilievre fear mongering isn’t landing

we are maybe two weeks from jesse watters declaring that it’s gay for men to have sex with women

If I tweaked a few genes in a mako shark to make them look a little more like what I thought a megalodon looked like, and I said "we can now bring sharks back from extinction, the shark conservation crisis is over" I'd be (rightly) censured for violating my field's code of professional ethics.

Rand Paul: "We have to start from talking about the truth. One of the things they say with Canada is, 'Oh, there's a 270% tariffs on dairy products going from the US into Canada.' Well you know what the real tariffs is? Zero. That's a big difference between what the truth is."

such republican bravery

Anyone else think it’s weird that, like Alberta Health Services, Recovery Alberta has only one board member? And like AHS, also a lot of very questionable contracts? @thebreakdownab.bsky.social

Greenland sharks live so long that they aren't considered reproductively mature adults until they're in their late 150's - a very long time to go through puberty!

150 million Americans don't have a passport. Trump thinks you should need one to vote. Marco Rubio is in charge of issuing passports.

This is a dinosaur because morphological species concept. Because he’s got spikes and stuff that people generally associate with dinosaurs. Science!

If all it takes it a light dusting of dire wolf genes to make a normal wolf into a dire wolf, then guess what all of us with any Eurasian ancestry get to call ourselves?

Elon is 53. Navarro is 75.

Under the GOP's SAVE Act, a military ID would no longer be enough to register to vote. Our brave men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for us, but the GOP doesn't think they deserve a voice in our democracy. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/1lfkW2sS

The suggestion that Westerners’ commitment to Canada is in any way conditional is offensive.

Fired Justice Department employee reveals that Trump officials tried to send armed officers to her home to intimidate her and her family: “I will not be bullied into concealing the ongoing corruption and abuse of power.”

Spending to build 10 km of #Canmore highway fencing without #wildlife crossing structures to address the connectivity issue is just another inadequate and undeveloped solution from this UCP government. #mla #banffkananaskis #shadowminister #environment #protectedareas #ableg #abpoli

She obviously has drunk the koolaid already. This is the Jones town effect! www.fbi.gov/history/famo...

Do you know who laid the foundation for the FDA? President Theodore Roosevelt. Do you know why? Because he read a great piece of literature that exposed the mistreatment of immigrant workers and the disgusting, unsanitary practices in meatpacking plants… The book is called “The Jungle.”

Bruce Springsteen: End of the day, factory whistle cries / Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes Howard Lutnick: Finally we are going to re-onshore those wonderful factories from the Bruce Springsteen song, "Factory"

Ok yeah... Today's presser was another crushing blow to publicly funded non-profit healthcare in Alberta... But! It did give us this gem with Rick Bell... #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Good!

he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl. he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Pet peeve: I hate how often ppl claim “all the researchers will just move to Europe/Canada!” You vastly under-estimate how little money there is there vs the USA- and unless that changes ASAP this loss is just going to decimate global science, full stop. 🧪🔭

Remember the "mysterious" hepatitis outbreak in UK kids that baffled experts back in 2022? The one we were told was due to adenovirus (or even strawberries, allergies, and lockdowns)? The one that labeled ppl mentioning the C word as fearmongerers? Turns out it was #covid19 .

I’m in Dublin on vacation, met 4 folks from the UK at breakfast. When they heard I was from Canada, they both said “Vote for @mark-carney.bsky.social or die by #MapleMAGA. The world is watching, Canada. #CanadaStrong 🇨🇦

The people at colossal basically watched Jurassic Park and said don't think about whether or not we should - got it!

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New report from ACWS finds nearly 32,000 people were turned away from Alberta shelter's due to a lack of space last year, with 40% of them being children. That's a new provincial record. #yeg #yyc #ableg acws.ca/strength-in-...

Just remembering how Joe Biden forgiving some student loans was taking the power of the presidency too far.

If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.

Elon Musk now whining about tariffs! Says the US should drop tariffs as his business plummets into the toilet. He bet on the wrong horse! #cdnpoli

I'd love it if this became a thing across Canada.

Nearly 5 million Americans came out for Hands Off protests and the global economy is teetering. It's only the first week of April.

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

Hi. Books are incredibly important. Please let them be.

big lesson for america here: one reason you dont elect people who believe bull shit like "theyre eating the pets" or "theyre putting kitty litter boxes in the classrooms" is bc if they get in power theyll believe bull shit like "tariffs are a tax cut actually"

we don't talk enough about the fact that some people in positions of power are dumbfucks

It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...

Do clients really want to hire a law firm known for how quickly it rolls over? Yet, now this is Paul Weiss's well deserved reputation.

Depressing. 47% of Albertans agree with Smith’s approach to the U.S. threats. 44% disapprove. Nothing seems to stick on her in her home province. I’d love to see the urban/rural split on this in Alberta.

Lmfao and then there's Canada Proud, just fuckin lighting the truth on FIRE about an attempted foreign influence campaign. Security officials were EXTREMELY clear the effort included both positive and negative posts about Mark Carney in order to pollute the infosphere. God this is dangerous.

He’s worse than most of us even said he’d be. I personally didn’t think he’d crash the economy quite so quickly, but never underestimate his idiocy.