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Canada can build major projects faster without weakening environmental protections, science, transparency or accountability. I just wrote to my MP asking them to strengthen Bill C-39. You can too 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/have...

Young people are taking the feds to court, arguing Canada’s climate law fails to protect their Charter rights. Ottawa says its control over climate change is limited. The trial could reshape climate accountability. @stefanlabbe.bsky.social's first for The Narwhal: thenarwhal.ca/canada-youth...

Want to save the sage-grouse? Email your Minister of Environment and Protected Areas at aep.minister@gov.ab.ca and your Minister of Forestry and Parks at fp.minister@gov.ab.ca today. Copy my office at Banff.Kananaskis@assembly.ab.ca so we can hear your concerns too! (2/2)

So I’m thinking about that post-secondary review that the BC NDP ran earlier this year, and that never got released (was supposed to be released this past spring). My guess: either the BC Conservatives deep-six it, or they weaponize whatever they can cherry pick against the post-secondary system.

So I guess we’re getting a bunch of bitumen pipelines with a side of climate change denial here in BC. Thanks a lot @davidebybc.bsky.social.

For decades we were told that this plant could exist because “carbon capture and storage” was going to sequester carbon in bedrock — Dear Reader, they told that lie so they could sell gas.

Dang, this is disturbing. And this quote: "...(scholars) will wind up with roughly the same ideas, and all will tend toward the conventional, orthodox, and majoritarian." We're just going to tend towards blah. 🤖📝

Montreal's annual Halloween dog parade is happening tomorrow. 🐕🎃 Dogs can also be entered into a costume contest with prizes for the “most creative, spooky and adorable looks.”

"Bill C-39 countermands the environmental protections currently in place in Canadian law, laws written to avoid irreparable harms." 🌎 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

While Sugar Maple 🍁 is the clear winner here, Red Oak is right there in second, with Basswood as the dark horse candidate for upcoming campaigns. (Honestly, electing trees 🌳 🌲 to run things instead of politicians would generally be an improvement.)

"It's not too late to give coral reefs 🪸 a chance to recover, but this requires decisive action to combat climate change and halt ocean warming." (Grethel Aguilar, Director General - IUCN) 🌍

Ever see a snake do a barrel roll? Scientists disentangle the locomotor kinematics of this behavior in rolling snakes. Learn more in Current Biology: spkl.io/633287ntaA Yosuke Kojima & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social

I'm thrilled to share my first foray into nature writing. I describe my travels through Aotearoa New Zealand to see the country's rarest birds—and use this as a vehicle to tell the stories of the islands' evolutionary history and the bold conservation efforts that saved these creatures. Gift link

Southern resident orca population inches up, but still low

Mom and dad aren't mad, they’re just disappointed that you experimented with separation.

Between Trump weaponizing Russian diesel, forever-wars in the Middle East, separatist nonsense in Alberta and, of course, climate change, fossil fuels are the bane of human existence.

As a practicing scientist with a strong track record in doing high quality science, I know that there is no such thins as a "natural instinct for science." Science does not care about your feelings or intuitions. Nature eats those for breakfast. It only cares about the rigorous analysis of data.

Oh well. apple.news/A9SdyMWmSRdu...

Nothing better than walking up to work on a beautiful autumn 🍂 morning.

This week I handed my newsletter to the one and only @queenofpeat.bsky.social, ecologist Merritt Turetsky. Her big idea? Stop treating wet land as a problem to drain. Start seeing it as something to work with instead! Read on to learn more about becoming a bog champion.

“A South Korean freighter completes a test trip to Europe via the Arctic” Climate change, war(s), and consumerism generally are going to drive more ship traffic through sensitive, remote ecosystems. 🌏

Thanks @motherjones.com for reposting this feature by @sonalg.bsky.social about the first program to build artificial bear dens.

I never get tired of Jasper.

20 years ago today was my first day at the @nhm-london.bsky.social. It’s been packed with learning, travelling, listening, curating, researching and shouting about the wonder of flies & the collection Thanks to everyone who made my double-decades amazing 🤘🪰🦟🤓

🦑 Meet Planctoteuthis sp.! 🦑 According to #SamplingGap Co-chief sci Dr. Perez: “Images have finally enabled the description of this tail, but no one knows what it is used for. It looks like a siphonophore from a distance, and one hypothesis is that it could be used for siphonophore mimicry.”

Spent a fantastic postdoctoral stint at UC Davis. Great univeristy in a great town! And hey, someone should call their comms team to suggest they get the word out that they're now seemingly Ivys instead of Aggies.

🧢 NLCS!! ⚾️

Life of an entomology professor: An upcoming "indoor entomology" lab = collecting critters from my office area windowsills. 🪲🪳

This article is excellent. "As I deconstructed my beliefs, my professors encouraged my journey, allowing me to explore new ideas through reflections and research projects." Score one for public post-secondary eduction. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... 🌎

Did u know?Because an animal is small,doesn't make it insignificant. Even though she's only 2cm long,for a few precious seconds,this Buff-tail bumblebee & I were locked in each other's orbit.Her antennae sniffed the air for my scent & her eyes looked straight into mine. Celebrate the small. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐝

Drone delivery and air taxi use are expanding rapidly. A Comment article in Nature Reviews Biodiversity discusses how ecological safeguards for the airspace shared between drones and flying wildlife are scarce. go.nature.com/3TOyI4y #econsky 🌎🧪

Humpback Whale ‘Rio’ Heads Back West Toward SF Bay After Ending Up In Sacramento River sfist.com/2026/09/22/h... 🧪 🦑 🌍️

The great thing about teaching an entomology course is that there is basically no end of great material. 🪲 The hard part about teaching an entomology course is that there is basically no end of great material. 🪳

"What is irrational is continuing down the road of fossil fuels. That's irrational on the costs, the risks, the impacts. It's an old technology." My comments about the opportunity of solar for all, everywhere, by 2030! #SolarForAll. Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social for leading the way!

Sending more Canadian bitumen and fossil gas around the world, instead of taking this opportunity to build out new, green infrastructure, will only accelerate this process. 🌍 🌡️ 🧊 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Since it looks like we're going to be getting a new bitumen pipeline out to Canada's west coast, it's a good day to re-read this: www.cbc.ca/news/politic... 🌎

There’s a new kind of climate denialism at play. One where those in power no longer deny climate change is happening, but deny what needs to happen in order to step up to the challenge.

It will also generate milions of tons per year of extra CO2. 🌎🔥🌲

Still taking applications for Tenure Track position in Psychology! Share and ask!

Opinion: Bilingualism offers Canada a competitive advantage www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/23/b...

Before European settlement, buffalo migrations blotted out horizons and raised clouds of dust like weather systems. Today, they’re mostly confined to zoos and small enclosures. Writer Neil Griffin explores the eradication of the North American buffalo: https://ow.ly/wHlz50ZRR9G

Fall Florals Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe 2022

cc/ @davidebybc.bsky.social et al. in BC.

Hupačasath First Nation has served an eviction notice to the Boot Lagoon hatchery — an Atlantic salmon facility that supplies 14 farms in Clayoquot Sound and is operated by industry giant Cermaq. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

secrets of wet caterpillars revealed at last cc @mothpotato.bsky.social