Robyn Quinn APR, MA,Fellow CPRS

InBC Ramps Up IP Strategy for BC's Tech Investment Portfolio InBC partners with Innovation Asset Collective to boost IP strategy for B.C. companies, helping startups develop and secure their intellectual property effectively.

InBC is doubling down on intellectual property.

Why does it matter? IP helps create competitive advantage for Vancouver companies, yet over half of Canadian IP is foreign-owned. InBC is the latest crown agency to ramp up focus on intellectual property.

Shot from the Sacramento #StandUpForScience2025 crowd. So many turned out to express their appreciation for public health, environmental, and genomic research and to express solidarity in the face of the flailing attacks launched against them of late. #SaveScience

Now that’s a concert to celebrate!

Moosehead offering new 'Presidential Pack' with just enough beers to get through Trump's presidency Moosehead Breweries unveils new 'Presidential Pack' of 1,461 beers, enough to make it through every day of Donald Trump's presidential term

This is great, but it needs to be packaged with a couple hundred bottles of Crown Royal or Canadian Club or we’re not gonna make it

YouTube video by Tod Maffin Pork, Peas, and Payback: China to Hit Canada with 100% Tariffs #tradewar #tariffs

B R E A K I N G :
Pork, Peas, and Payback
China announces 100% tariffs on Canada.
I'll break down the what and why.
www.youtube.com/shorts/UPoIH...

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That was a fairly good shake. Victoria 5:03 am March 3 2025 #earthquake

B.C. mining and the uncertain clean energy transition As the province attempts to develop its vital critical minerals strategy, it must successfully predict shifts in technologies, demand, and policy.

The Province of B.C. is currently developing a critical minerals strategy, which it says will help mitigate climate change, grow the provincial economy, and ensure resilient supply chains to partner nations.

What that document lays out, however, will be influenced by a number of unknowns.

Twelve projects launching with the BC Fast Pilot program $1.5 million from Innovate BC and NRC IRAP will help businesses prove impact and customer value

Innovate BC and NRC IRAP are distributing $1.5 million to help B.C. businesses prove impact and customer value.

I love how damn near all my kitten videos go viral on here.

Feels like old school social media before all the pro-hate algorithms.

Plain speaking. Hurting your loyal and steadfast friend and neighbour will have surprising consequences. Watched this interview, impressed.

No birthdays on the big master list today, so instead here's a link to our books! All the profits from the sale of our #WomenInSTEM titles go back into running the Archive and buying new research materials, so every purchase, rating, and review helps!

#BookSky #EduSky 🧪

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Philosophical Words from Around the World:

Gretchenfrage, German.

Family waits 14 hours in ER for three-year-old to see doctor ‘Families shouldn’t have to wait 14 hours for care, especially when young children are involved,’ mother tells health minister

‘Families shouldn’t have to wait 14 hours for care, especially when young children are involved,’ mother tells health minister

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump

A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

NORAD has had the watch, tracking Santa every Xmas eve in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO). Fun for any budding space-enthused kid out there....

#NORAD #trackssanta #santa #christmas #LEO #VLEO #space

I mean, this Christmas tree just went from good/normal to most badass tree ever. The owl is right, let him make the decisions

Color photo of a chia pet planter that shows Homer Simpson against a wall. When watered, the wall grows sprouts that recreates the classic “Homer backing into a hedge” scene.

Whoever thought of this, deserves a raise.

VPD now on track to spend $2M in overtime on East Hastings cleanup Police Chief Adam Palmer to city council: "We told you all along that if you want us to help out with that, then it’s going to cost money."

Police Chief Adam Palmer to city council: "We told you all along that if you want us to help out with that, then it’s going to cost money."

I loved him in House of Lies

Did you know that Arctic cod make sound? Listen to the CodCast, a podcast telling the story of the research conducted by my friends at the University of Victoria trying to unravel the sounds of the Arctic cod. 🧪🐟🔉 #fishsounds

dspace.library.uvic.ca/items/2076f2...

“The years almost over. We’re in the home stretch” The home stretch: An image from The Never Ending Story. The Sphinx Gate are winged gold creatures with lion legs and a human head.

Or teaching how to mend and repair. It’s a lost skill.

Hello! We are FishSounds, an effort to study and communicate about fish and other underwater sounds, centered on the website FishSounds.net. To celebrate our first post, I hope you enjoy the sounds of the Bocon toadfish, the calls of one of the grumpy toadfish cuties that inspired our logo!

HER: you better not be a fish with a name that sounds like something cute a cat does when I get there

MY SILLY ASS:

Royal Canadian Air Force to Use 19 PC-21 Next Generation Trainers in the Future | Pilatus Aircraft Ltd Pilatus has signed a contract to deliver 19 PC-21 training aircraft. The PC-21 will not only provide Canada with the most technically advanced training system but also a very cost-effective, environme...

While we typically like to focus on stories where we can use the past or present tense, this one — still in the future — is of particular interest to those of us here in the home office. We look forward to seeing them in Canadian skies. Nice plane and we do like it in Ferrari Red. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📰

Join Current Vacancies: Postdoc – Social SciencesPostdoc – Computational Sciences2 PhD Positions Research Fellow (Postdoc) – AI-enhanced Collective Intelligence (S): 20 months; Starting Janu…

I have openings for two fully funded PhD students and two Postdocs to join our forthcoming Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines (SOHAM) at Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin.
Please help me connect with the best candidates!
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I love this show - smart and sassy is not usually terms used for a woman in her seventies so it’s fun to watch. The underlying theme of greed and the opioid crisis is well done too.

I guess I should start off with this pretty massive piece of news:

Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know by Mark Lilla review – the enduring power of stupidity A New York scholar’s study of our long history of acclaiming the fool and ignoring the facts is timely and terrifically witty This is at once a wise and wonderfully enjoyable book. Mark Lilla treats weighty matters with a light touch, in an elegant prose…

Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know by Mark Lilla review – the enduring power of stupidity