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DEAR MEDIA: STOP FRAMING THE UNIVERSITY BUDGET CRISIS AS PRIMARILY ABOUT INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS. THIS IS A CRISIS CAUSED BY PROVINCIAL FUNDING CUTS AND TUITION CAPS. calgary.citynews.ca/2025/02/18/p...

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lmao the island is Newfoundland; they stayed in St. John's www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

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Looking back at temperatures averaged over the last 3 months - find your location... 🟥 warmer than average 🟦 colder than average Dataset (NOAAGlobalTempv6) described in doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

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I know that there is lots happening south of the border - but I am fairly certain that a financial shock, and some knee jerk reactions, is hitting Canadian higher education right now, and not just at York 👀

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I worked on this story for a decade and he just said it out loud on Fox News

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Our team's been on weather hold on our way to northern Labrador since Thurs. As always, lack of weather stations & weather radar coverage means greater delays & risk. We had to turn around yesterday after unexpectedly encountering freezing precipitation with no de-icing available in N. Labrador.

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And up next in this same area, some amazing retrogressive-thaw slumps. These occur when ice-rich permafrost is exposed. A vertical headwall retreats as thaw progresses, and a slurry of mud flows downslope. Larger slumps occur in areas like this with lots of buried glacier ice… 1/

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So media will fail to inform, or outright misinform, about the nature of the government-imposed financial crisis on universities, and then turn around and tell us voters don't care. Well, how can they care if they don't get accurate information about what is going on?

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

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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Back of the envelope calculations: this costs the university sector between $3-$4B per year, and the college sector about $1B. That's how much public money it would take just to keep institutions from being worse off as a result of this policy. No way the Libs stump up this amount of change.

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The degree to which some people in education are passively accepting or even welcoming gen AI into what we do seriously enrages me. Put aside the unethical & environmental aspects of model development; telling students it's ok to use betrays the non-negotiable core of our responsibility to them.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Keep your money local and buy oral history magazines from Labrador that have been publishing for the past 50 years and safeguarding Labrador's history in a public regional archive. 😘 (It's us, we're that magazine and archives.)

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Happy to share our new paper out in Facets; "Inuit uses of weather, water, ice, and climate indicators to assess travel safety in Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland: a scoping review" www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/...

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"Our results suggest that students’ attentiveness may be most strongly influenced by the classmates sitting next to them, especially if those classmates are inattentive (though attentive classmates may be more influential in classes with a “lower attentiveness baseline,” as theorized above)."

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The gap between First Nations and non-First Nations life expectancy in Alberta is 19 years, and wider now than any other point on record. This is a provincial and national emergency. #ableg www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/f...

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After spending the last few weeks traveling extensively, talking with a wide range of people, one thing has become clear: it’s painfully obvious who relies solely on social media for information. The amount of outright misinformation being swallowed whole on multiple subjects is startling.

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So I get why people are upset. This will be hugely negative for science and the economy in the US. However, I also can't help thinking though as I read comments on the issue that some of the overhead rates charged by Universities with huge endowments are outrageous. Small unis will hurt the most.

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Global average January temperature - color coded by ENSO status. One of these years is not like the others.

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

Incredibly important and useful use case for AI

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Has the latest version of Google Gemini changed the game for LLMs being able to help with weather data rescue? @brohan.org says yes! brohan.org/AI_daily_pre...

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 19 days ago • 40 comments

A lot of folks asked why I through this January's record global temperatures were so unexpected. I think this graph shows it pretty clearly: pretty much every other January with La Nina conditions has been a cooler than the surrounding years.

submitted 19 days ago • 26 comments

Our laboratory the Northern Environmental Geoscience Laboratory (www.labradorgeolab.ca) is advertising for two phd positions here in Kingston. Please feel free to reach out to me if interested! We may have some future MSc positions as well!

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It would only begin with our caving to Trump's immediate demands on border security. Next he demands US banks enter Canada. Then it'll be ceding Arctic sovereignty. Then it will be the 51st state. No concessions. It's time for a proper war footing, and Vichy Canadians can get fucked.

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Good speech from the PM, but I'm underwhelmed by the measures announced. I'm not enthused by a countertariff-only approach. To be fair, we did hear about non-tariff actions that may be coming. Let's hope this is a strategic rollout; a 1st wave with other strong and smart measures to follow.

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University presidents that point to the length of the university’s history as a hopeful indication of durability could be reminded that German universities had a long history and the strongest academic culture in the world in 1933.

submitted 22 days ago • 14 comments

This, from @pkrugman.bsky.social, is worth reading. Markets have shrugged so far, so the tariffs are now in fact coming. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

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