William Boddy

Of the 50,000 heat deaths in Europe in the summer of 2026, 32,000 were killed by fossil fuels. Meanwhile, $65 billion in windfall profits for five biggest oil and gas companies in second quarter of 2026. www.npr.org/2026/10/23/g...

Making small changes to roadsides can help pollinators

Endangered species in Canada face extensive delays receiving protection

Toronto bike lane removal. When your infrastructure project has huge police protection and the contractors hide the logos on their trucks and gear, you are in the wrong.

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Red Sumac Tom Thomson 1916

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

“Scientists believe the most likely cause is climate disruption. Human-driven heating has pushed up winter temperatures on and around the Antarctic peninsula to 5C above preindustrial levels, one of the fastest rises in the world.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The House of Commons is debating the price of food, which is a bit weird because eliminating the carbon tax was supposed to solve that problem.

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

Disgusting

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

Millions of people voted for this man and would do it again

OpenAI may have solved the Navier-Stokes equation — but mathematics is more than $1 million trophy hunts

The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.

What is tiny but has a PLANET-sized influence? Sphagnum of course. A 🧵 on why this moss matters more than ever. Holding more than 20× its dry weight in water, halting decay, shaping entire ecosystems, thwarting fire. Never underestimate a moss. 1/

Need a little bright spot in a bleak week? For @thetyee.ca, @sarahkcox.bsky.social visits the folks bringing locally extinct bluebirds back to Vancouver Island: thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

Planting trees in the wrong places is not a climate solution

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

After Ontario replaced the Endangered Species Act, ministry biologists were told they couldn't review developers' plans. We found that over 12 have since left, feeling their jobs "stopped feeling meaningful." Here's our latest investigation: thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan... #onpoli

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I like to think about the ozone hole and acid rain situation in the 80s and how we don’t worry about those so much anymore because a lot of people worked really hard to fix them (as best they could)

El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds arstechnica.com/science/2026...

UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke to combine herbaria, creating the third-largest university plant collection in the United States ncbg.unc.edu/2026/08/31/u...

🔭 Earth's Shadow Visualized with Lunar Eclipses Image Credit & Copyright: Tim Martin ap260825

"Their hydronyms" is a legitimately funny punchline.

Hiiii ! This is your Canadian ceramic artist writing! Soooo after this week-end debacle, I just wanted to write a little update about the Canada - USA trade war and how art is actually political. 80% of my work sells to the U.S. and it looks like I just lost my main source of income.

Vulnerability to wildfire smoke is in our genes, thanks to an evolutionary quirk

OK, but it would be funny — and thus Canadian — to go with Lake of Mexico for a while.

Horse and Train Alex Colville 1954

formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format

How plant populations keep a genetic memory of the past

The Ontario government wants to rewrite the law that compelled it to disclose documents revealing the Greenbelt land scandal, the Skills Development Fund controversy and others. For @nationalobserver.com 🧵

NEW: Doug Ford’s ⁦‪@OntarioPCParty‬⁩ government is changing the law to protect the premier and his ministers from public scrutiny. Freedom of information “modernization” will shield politicians. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

The Doug Ford government’s proposal to amalgamate conservation authorities received 14,000 public comments. Ontario now has a $20-million final plan to make it happen. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...

Quite noteworthy that the same people who years fighting the energy transition are now demanding quick dismantling of climate laws in response to the US/Israel-Iran war-made energy crisis. How much better would we be prepared in Europe if we had more forcefully transitioned to headpumps and EVs?

Canada credits gold medal curling win to expert fingering

Danish PM on Facebook this morning: “I am happy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to healthcare for everyone. Where insurance and wealth do not determine whether you receive proper treatment. The same approach exists in Greenland. Happy Sunday to you all”

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

The Desert Candles are already up (1.5 months early :/) along with A LOT of other #flowers in the #Carrizo Plain. This Brassicaceae has it all - showy intricate flowers, a Dr Seuss level swollen hollow stipe, the ability to grow in nutrient poor soils and the capacity to get super tall. #california

Scotland has passed a law that all new buildings must install ‘swift bricks’ which are hollowed out bricks to help nesting swifts and other endangered birds! Swifts are especially endangered because so many chimneys now have chimney caps. Swifts return to the same nesting spot year after year.

Your periodic reminder that you can start learning ancient Greek right now, free of charge!

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

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As Okanagan officials warn about an invasive 'pine beetle of the water,' the B.C. government says it doesn't have enough money to ramp up enforcement to ensure invasive mussels don't arrive in the province's lakes. Today in @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

Wildflower watch 2026 continues and all eyes on Death Valley, world renowned wildflower hotspot 👀. It was a pleasure to speak w/ @alanhalaly.bsky.social as I conducted reconnaissance w/ the supreme defender of wildflowers 💚 @bitterwaterblue.bsky.social. www.reviewjournal.com/news/environ...

The Doug Ford gov’t got 14,233 public comments on its plan to transfer 60% of Wasaga Beach to the town. ~98% opposed citing environmental harms "We did not consider any changes to the proposal based on the feedback received," the gov't decided My latest on this saga: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...