Julie Talbot

Excited to report that every answer to "I know the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into" is giving me an existential crisis

Are the astrophysicists all right

Are you guys all right out there

Is this normal for you

World Wetlands Day 2026 A call for greater protection and stewardship of the world’s peatlands

📢Feb 2 is #WorldWetlandsDay! A day to celebrate the world's wetlands, including bogs, fens, and swamps.

Many Ramsar sites are #peatlands but there are large gaps in global cover. For more on this issue, and on peatlands and @ramsar.org, see my new Peatpedia post: open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...

L'utilisation des guillemets dans le texte 👌

"Imagine how they lie when there is no evidence to contradict them"

Yep. Very disappointing

I wish the NHL players would do the same (not gonna hold my breath)

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Drop the names of any Canadian companies you’ve seen working with ICE in the comments.

I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite.

Would love to gather any and all other names.

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Révision des cibles de réduction des émissions du Québec | Il faut des cibles à la hauteur de l’urgence climatique Depuis 2009, le gouvernement du Québec s’est muni d’un cadre légal le contraignant à se doter de cibles de réduction des gaz à effet de serre (GES). Les émissions du Québec sont en baisse, ayant attei...

Je fais partie des signataires de cet appel: "Nous exhortons (...) le gouvernement à prendre ses responsabilités et à maintenir, voire à revoir à la hausse, ses cibles de réduction de GES, dans l’intérêt des Québécois et des générations futures, qui porteront le fardeau de notre dette climatique. "

Je regarde tjs les discours avec l'oeil du métier. Le discours est super bien construit, le niveau de vocabulaire est celui des grands moments, il rattache plusieurs fois ses idées les unes aux autres. Il a un télprompteur qqpart à gauche? mais s'en sert bien. Il a une solide équipe de rédacteurs.

But he has the best peat, the most beautiful peat!

Quebec’s Lake Rouge vanished – but was it a freak natural event or caused by human actions? Experts and community trying to untangle mystery of outburst that saw water travel almost 10km overland into a bigger lake

Quebec’s Lake Rouge vanished – but was it a freak natural event or caused by human actions?

The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change.

per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing

"we must try to remember the truth" -- so important

In Dec 2025, I published a short comment on whether the emergence of AI has been as revolutionary as other moments of innovation in our species' history (e.g., emergence of technology or agriculture). On balance, current evidence suggests to me that it isn't.
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Her "activism" was also deeply rooted in colonialism's legacy and was extremely detrimental culturally and economically to Canada's inuit communities - weird to see so many vegans trying to defend her views

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

“Am I invading Venezuela for oil or to distract from Epstein?” Trump asks coatrack

Breaking:

There’s an epidemic of people using Grok to do sexual violence to women on Twitter.

Yet Canadian politicians, media etc have failed to adopt another platform en masse, making it near-impossible to fully disengage and be tapped in to vital conversations and information.

What are we doing.

Université | La tour d’ivoire qui devrait nous éclairer Le professeur Christophe Chowanietz estime que l’enseignement supérieur forme les élites dans un monde imaginaire où le profit fait encore foi de tout, ce qui explique notre incapacité à affronter la ...

"L’université, censée éclairer la société, se contente trop souvent d’en reproduire les aveuglements." 💯

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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Québec autorise des travaux forestiers dans une forêt ciblée pour une aire protégée Ce milieu naturel plusieurs fois centenaires est considéré comme un écosystème unique dans la région de la Mauricie.

Le gouvernement Legault autorise des travaux forestiers dans une «forêt ancienne» ciblée pour une aire protégée. Ce milieu naturel plusieurs fois centenaires est considéré comme un écosystème unique dans la région de la Mauricie. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...

Hope or hype? Deep Sky says unique carbon-capture facility eyed for southwestern Manitoba will help ‘save our planet’; critics call technology high-risk and under-researched Since early October, the rural municipalities of Pipestone and Two Borders — agriculture and oil-dominant communities about three hours southwest of Winnipeg — have found themselves at the heart of a ...

Hype.

No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.

Alberta officials stalled coal mine pollution study | The Narwhal An Alberta government scientist was prevented from speaking publicly about his coal mine pollution research, emails show

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Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’ Group called Robins des Ruelles later said in statement stunt was intended to highlight cost of living crisis Dressed in red suits and backed by masked elves, a group of Santas marched into a Montreal supermarket, loaded their bags with thousands of dollars worth of groceries and disappeared into the night. The bandit Santas later released a statement saying the food would be distributed to the needy, and saying the Robin Hood-style stunt was intended to highlight the spiralling cost of living crisis that has pushed basic necessities increasingly out of reach for ordinary Canadians. Continue reading...

Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’

CO2 Rise Directly Impairs Crop Nutritional Quality This analysis studies the direct effect of CO2 rise on nutrient quality by synthesizing pre-existing data on ~59,000 samples across 43 different food crops, where half of the plants were grown under ....

Another problem with CO2? It messes with plants. Some grow faster; others don’t.

But for our food crops, it makes them have lower nutrient levels — and just more empty calories.

Elevated CO2 is plant *junk food*.

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Trump moves to shut down Boulder climate research lab NCAR, drawing rebukes from Colorado officials Federal lawmakers called the planned NCAR closure “deeply dangerous” and “blatantly retaliatory.” Gov. Jared Polis said: “If true, public safety is at risk and science…

The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.

Le démantèlement annoncé de NCAR est un scandale. On brûle une cathédrale de la science climatique qui sera pratiquement impossible à reconstruire. Un recul de plusieurs décennies. Je suis sans mots