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savewildbees.bsky.social
Associate Professor #YorkU, York Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Conservation Science, #GND, #MarginSci, #Mesothelioma Survivor, #Ecology and conservation of wild #bumblebees www.savethebumblebees.ca
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#BeachesEastYork, today is the last day to advance vote. I went last night, and it took just a few minutes. We are so lucky to have an amazing candidate in @DrKateTO to vote for. So beat the Eday rush and vote for Kate today!

💔 February 14 is National Missing and Murdered Relatives Remembrance Day We honor and remember our stolen sisters, girls, two-spirit, and relatives who have been taken by the #MMIR crisis.

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Definitely an unserious politician 🤡 www.instagram.com/reel/DF8sfMB...

This is super cool! Browsed with my evening tea ✅

On #WorldCancerDay I'm finally being released from the hospital after being admitted w/ a fever due to my low white blood cell counts. I don't know how I'm going to get through my chemo w/ my 8 & 11 yr olds bringing in all sorts of things circulating in schools. Please @fordnation, #CleanTheAir

Trump is considering executive action to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

@ukulelebee.bsky.social cute name!

It's hard to imagine a more brutal illustration of climate injustice and a failed society than indentured teenage slaves being used to protect the homes of wealthy Americans.

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... "John Conly, a physician and former head of the University of Calgary’s medical department, on Monday told The Globe and Mail he was not on Alberta’s COVID review panel and never consented to his name being associated with its 269-page report."

To everybody who said our Nazi comparisons were hyperbolic:

Cool, cool. I guess a new generation will be going through the same hell ai am.

Israel’s 15 month war on Gaza has left a trail of destruction, displacement and death, with the lives of more than 2 million Palestinians devastated. — in pictures aje.io/o1ofb8 from Al Jazeera English

Beautiful male rusty patched bumble bee from last summer

Analysis by Dan Balz: Donald Trump will begin his second term stronger and more dominant as a player on the world stage than when he was sworn in eight years ago. The world that awaits him, however, is far different — and more threatening — than when he left the presidency four years ago.

"We hear the voices of the people under the rubble." Rescuers in Gaza rushing to the scene of Israeli airstrikes save those who they can, but are forced to leave many behind, taking a heavy physical, mental and emotional toll. nyti.ms/4a7xaX1

Are you interested in how species distribution models are used in land use planning? Come work us! This is going to be a super cool position understanding how model reliability affects model applications. Creative! Collaborative! Quantitative! Apply by Jan 10: ow.ly/gzPn50UsUQG

JOB: Statistical Ecologist, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) * 2 years, full time * Salary $69k-93k + benefits * Remote &/or in-office (at U Alberta) * Apply by 10 Jan abmi.ca/abmi-home/co... #ConservationJobs #ScienceJobs

In its final days, the Biden administration is pushing an $8 billion arms deal to Israel, right as: –Human Rights Watch & Amnesty say Israel is committing genocide –IDF kills several journalists; babies freeze to death –IDF attacks last hospitals in northern Gaza, detains hospital director

Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettling

The Real #PersonoftheYear

How the right claimed the crunchy. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/w...

Some liberals and leftists have such a strong association with the right being bad on the environment that they missed the gender politics of trad wife content, or have a hard time understanding how overpopulation arguments feed into eco-fascism. And as Devrim says, none of this is new!

So today, in Canada: -Finance Minister Freeland abruptly resigned -Roughly 60 of Justin Trudeau's MPs have reportedly signed a letter calling him to go -Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who has been handling relations with Trump, is now also finance *and* public safety minister.

THIS! We are not less human for being harmed, but we have been harmed. Preventing the harm for others to whatever degree I can is a central part of the work left to me on this earth. Vaccines are an important tool. Many survivors of infectious disease engage in similar work.

What's the human toll of America's for-profit insurance industry? Our latest digs into the grim numbers of an industry rooted in greed, where people "literally can't afford to breathe" and roughly a third of the health care dollar is spent propping up a "bloated, Byzantine insurance industry.”

Ok, plankton people, could you help me put names on the species my son just married for life?

Then CDC offers alternative terms to "stakeholders" They include:  contributors, community, community members, community impacted, community affected, community of solution, coalition members, allies, colleagues, clients, advocacy groups, etc.

No way this would have happened to Taylor Swift.

[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Of all the kids in the child ‘welfare’ system in Canada, 53.7% are Indigenous children despite being only 7.7% of the total number of children in Canada. In Manitoba, Indigenous kids are 90% of all children in child welfare. In Alberta it’s 70%.

I spent so much time explaining this to you and @beynate.bsky.social. Instead of respect, I got blocked and ignored. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Amazing story.

.@WWFCanada HBs are livestock which are not only thriving & among the more common species world wide but they are a threat to native beess through competition & disease transmission. They have travelled w/ colonists & should not be sold as wildlife sp. of concern.

Poilievre's Free Ride to Power Has to Stop via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Ocean issues are environmental justice issues. Read more about how marine pollution, plastics, climate change, fisheries declines, and biodiversity degradation impact human wellbeing in coastal populations. Environmental injustices in the ocean are growing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

'[Young] farmers rank access to stable, affordable land as a top challenge. For Black, Indigenous, and other farmers of color, it’s an even more formidable barrier. And access to capital is right up there alongside—and intimately tied to—land access.'