Banting & Killam Postdoc @ ADaPT lab, UBC archaeogenomics, fisheries, marine historical ecology | herring 🐟 National Geographic Explorer views my own
Canada’s ‘major projects’ should not come at the cost of the environment
Canada’s ‘major projects’ should not come at the cost of the environmentImpact assessments prevent harm before it occurs. Circumventing the process before we understand the risks is misguided and a gamble with our collective future.theconversation.com
Academic journal corps like Elsevier are not just funneling away public research money. They are pouring it into fossil fuels 💸 I document the complicity of academic publishing in Science in Resistance where I interview an employee of Cell fired after digging into its ties to Big 🛢️ Excerpt below 👇
Hey, CBP isn't allowed to do any of the stuff it's doing in Minneapolis even within the confines of its extremely ridiculous "100 miles from any border" jurisdiction. It's 300 miles from Canada and 160 miles to Lake Superior. They're breaking the law standing around, let alone beating up protesters.
MPR NewsBorder Patrol typically only has legal authority within 100 mi. of the U.S. border. That raised questions when Cdr. Gregory Bovino was at the scene of the fatal shooting of Renee Good. MPR News spoke with legal scholar César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández about that agency’s jurisdiction in Minnesota.
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."
Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
Scott HortonBREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Our call for Abstracts & ECR Funding Award submissions are OPEN for the OPI XI Conference! 📍 University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada 📅 15-19 June, 2026 Closing date for abstracts: 19 December 2025 See our website oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/ to explore conference sub-themes & submit!
“There are only three good kings in America: Gayle, Stephen, and Burger.” #NoKings
Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data. We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district. Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):
The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.
Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National ParkThe Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.barharborstory.substack.com40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
PeterMy new premium newsletter is about polls showing that liberals are cutting off their conservative family members, and my theory that this might happen not because liberals are more sensitive, but because conservatives are less tolerable.
The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
The Washington PostStanford University’s student-run newspaper sued two senior Trump administration officials Wednesday, challenging Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.
Supreme Court says the president can’t abolish student debt, but he CAN abolish the Department of Education. This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s end times fascism—a fatalistic politics willing torch the government and incinerate the future to maintain hierarchy and subvert democracy.
Colossal are likely trying to ‘de-extinct’ the moa by tweaking an emu genome. There’s 62 million years of evolution between an emu and a moa. For context, there’s only 42 MY between humans and howler monkeys. You simply can’t make a human with a GM howler monkey www.newscientist.com/article/2487...
Colossal's plans to "de-extinct" the giant moa are still impossibleAfter a controversial project claiming to have resurrected the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now announced plans to bring back nine species of the extinct moa birdwww.newscientist.com
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
Nick KapurMost incredible about this is that IU-Bloomington has long been the no. 1 university in the world for teaching Asian languages and cultures, with many programs found nowhere else. They're slashing many of IU-B's most distinctive programs with zero thought or debate. They probably don't even know.
