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A puffin sitting amidst the flowers. #wildlife #birds #scotland

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

🪶 New study using data from our MAPS bird monitoring program out now! Read it here: royalsocietypublishi...

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

SCOOP: The Doug Ford government received 98.98% opposition to its plan to replace Ontario’s Endangered Species Act with weaker legislation, according to an internal analysis viewed by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social. The bill passed anyway. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...

98.98% opposition to Doug Ford’s new endangered species law revealed | The NarwhalInternal Ministry of Environment analysis shows ‘confusion’ and concerns about ‘negative impacts on Ontario’s biodiversity’ raised over the Species Conservation Act, under Bill 5thenarwhal.ca

it's International Tiger Day! How about you pick up my book charting the remarkable recovery of Amur (Siberian) tigers in northeast Asia? It's got stinky biologists, harrowing adventure in the snow, & lots of tigers! @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social has signed copies: moonpalacebooks.com/item/f10yIDk...

Tigers Between Empires by Jonathan C Slaght | Moon Palace BooksA Best Book of the Year: Scientific American, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, CounterPunch, The Telegraph, BookPageA Chicago Tribune Most-Anticipated Book of the Season“Epic .moonpalacebooks.com

I've played around with AI enough to know what it is - and any academic using it as more than a fancy search engine is playing with fire. It is capable of some degree of synthesis, often flawed, and that's about it. If you're letting it do your thinking for you, you're a fraud.

25 tonnes of nurdles, more than 1 billion nurdles, were spilled into the Tyne last week and are washing up on our beaches, north and south of the Tyne. Likely one of the largest ever plastic pollution events in the UK. There is remarkably little mention of this on here.

GOOD NEWS! Phase I clinical trial results out of WashU Medicine show a first-of-its-kind personalized DNA vaccine designed to treat MGMT-unmethylated glioblastoma is safe AND elicits robust and broad immune responses that appears to INCREASE recurrence-free survival in patients after surgery.

Personalized DNA Vaccine Shows Immune Activation and Survival Signals in Glioblastoma TrialPersonalized neoantigen vaccine triggered immune responses and promising survival outcomes in MGMT-unmethylated glioblastoma Phase I trial patients.www.insideprecisionmedicine.com

Toronto is more than a flight path for jets, it's one for migratory birds. We need to stop the proposed expansion of #BillyBishop Toronto City Airport to accommodate jets and protect nature. Speak up to protect #TorontoIsland before July 24 here: tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry says, as of Thursday evening, there were 139 fires burning, down from 145. Thunder Bay 36 largest wildfire in Ontario history at 315,000 hectares. It’s still the largest ever recorded in Ontario by over 100,000 hectares. It is NOT under control.

Canada Post 🍁 has launched an online store selling home stuff, kitchenware, gift ideas, toys and more from Canadian retailers 🔗 canadashops.ca

Now published: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 Open access in Facets, including open data www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....

This week launched the Grand River Watershed Regional Update, generously supported/hosted by @leaflet.pub A collaborative effort with @kthomason.bsky.social to share what’s going on in our watershed and beyond #ONpoli #WRpoli #WaterlooRegion #BrantfordBrant #Wilmot gren.leaflet.pub

Grand River Watershed Regional UpdateWeekly newsletter with news, events, actions related to environment, planning, land use, water, municipal, provincial and federal politics, protecting and improving the Grand River Watershed in Southern Ontario and beyondgren.leaflet.pub

I fail to see what point Steven Guilbeault is making in this op ed in the Toronto Star. Does he have some strategic insights for the climate justice movement, or just optimism about the efficacy of individual action? 1/ www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

How and why I became Canada’s Minister of the Environment — and why I leftAfter joining Justin Trudeau’s government on the promise of real environmental commitment, I left Mark Carney’s cabinet over substantive disagreements about policy.www.thestar.com

My cartoon in the Saturday Hamilton Spectator: www.thespec.com/opinion/edit...

Ontario budgeted $150M for wildfire response in 2026 despite spending $271M last year. Now, half way through July, there are approx 190 active wildfires. There have been 483 total this season. There were 351 TOTAL last year. Story for @nationalobserver.com from last month.

Ontario budgets just $150M for wildfires despite burning through almost double last yearIn 2025’s budget, Ontario allotted $135 million for its Emergency Forest Firefighting fund, but the province ended up spending double that: $271 million, according to this year’s budget. The same docu...www.nationalobserver.com

Something I wondered so looked up 🌳 “When smoke is heavy, living trees actually "hold their breath" by closing the tiny pores on their leaves so they don't take in the toxic air.” theconversation.com/trees-dont-l...

Trees don’t like to breathe wildfire smoke, either – and they’ll hold their breath to avoid itAn unplanned experiment when wildfire smoke rolled through Colorado shows how trees keep some of the smoke out.theconversation.com

@ualbertapress.bsky.social is having a 30% off sale on all their books about Canada! Use the code iL26 to claim your discount! ualbertapress.ca

Mark Carney's made deep cuts to Natural Resources Canada that strip away science-based expertise on forest fires, "decimating capacity" to track wildfire activity. Only one forest pathologist now monitors the entire forestry system east of the Rockies. 5/ www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/n...

Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warnCarney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...www.nationalobserver.com