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Yeah going to play outside in the winter like a good Canadian !

NSERC-DG evaluations done for 2026. An intense but very satisfying week for my first time on the committee (1503). Happy to say we have a great community that evaluates thoroughly, with care and thoughtfulness.

Happy Valentine’s #Caturday

Picture of a wild turkey on a ski path

Please enjoy this wild turkey I crossed paths with while skiing at the crack of dawn today.

Perhaps an eventual paper in there for submission to the Journal of Plankton Research 🔬 🧐

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

Prime Minister Mark Carney will address Canadians at 1 p.m. tomorrow from Quebec City "on the choices on which Canada was built and the shared values that make us Canada strong."

Exciting opportunity for undergraduate students!
#ASLO is now accepting applications for the Limnology and Oceanography Research Exchange and Mentoring Experience #LOREX! Be part of an incredible learning journey and gain valuable research experience. Apply by 15 Jan 2026!

Immersion dans 55 ans d’histoire uqamienne | UQAM Une exposition étudiante invite à redécouvrir l'UQAM à travers ses archives matérielles, photographiques et institutionnelles.

🎨 Chemins de désir: traces et mémoires uqamiennes.
Une exposition étudiante invite à redécouvrir l’UQAM à travers ses archives matérielles, photographiques et institutionnelles.
#UQAM #Expo #Art

Hurray and congrats to my new colleague @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com

What Canadians Heard—and Americans Didn’t The Canadian federal election, on Monday, which culminated in Mark Carney’s retention of the Prime Ministership, was won by defying Trumpism.

“Many Americans don’t take Trump’s threats to Canada seriously — or seriously enough — and dismiss them with the same exhausted shrug that too many of Trump’s words inspire…. In Canada, he doesn’t sound like a troll. He sounds like a threat.”

You do eventually pass a threshold when it stops happening. And you won’t even notice - until you do.

[“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”]

Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate

Please read even if you are not from Canada or the USA.

Great work Charles!! So glad to see this out.

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In case you were wondering how Americans feel about annexing Canada.

Source: Angus Reid

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Move beyond ‘publish or perish’ by measuring behaviours that benefit academia A standardized system to measure contributions in mentorship, collaboration and more could bring about systemic change in science.

I just love these ideas. Let's make this G-index work for academia!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more - Photosynthesis Research This is a tribute to a truly inspirational plant biologist, Prof. John A. Raven, FRS, FRSE (25th June 1941– 23rd May 2024), who died at the age of 82. He was a leader in the field of evolution and phy...

"John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I hereby create a community of people who love, respect, and admire boglands. They are mysterious, beautiful, and powerful to ecology, archaeology and climate. Yet these systems continue to be misunderstood and threatened. Who wants to join my bog fan club? Please share - bogs need friends right now

Let's have some fun with Google.

Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States Americans have already been defeated by insurgents all over the world. Invading Canada would be no exception.

Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States
theconversation.com/why-annexing...

Yes the Ecological Society of America has just sent and email to say they remain committed!

This is so good.

What you need to know about Trump’s tariffs and the rest of Trump’s madness The art of the deal, with him as dealer

What you need to know about Trump’s tariffs and the rest of Trump’s madness robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-n...

To all my American friends: We Canadians are well aware that there is only one person to blame for the trade war against our country - the Felon In Chief. We will fight because that is what we do, but our anger is not against you. Our bond will endure. 🇨🇦🫶🇺🇸

Drinking to #fucktrump

And guess who will be blamed when prices go up for Americans building hatred for Canadians. We’re so screwed and had no say in any of this!

True! But then again many society journals are published by for profit behemoth companies.