Simon Gadbois

Demain dimanche (5 octobre), à "Dessine-moi un dimanche" sur la radio de Radio Canada, à 7:30 am (Montréal), 8:30 am (Moncton/Halifax).
L’héritage de Jane Goodall
Avec: Simon Gadbois, éthologue (spécialiste du comportement animal) à l’université Dalhousie, à Halifax.

Demain dimanche (5 octobre), à "Dessine-moi un dimanche"
L’héritage de Jane Goodall
Avec: Simon Gadbois, éthologue (spécialiste du comportement animal) à l’université Dalhousie, à Halifax.

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘳.

Yes I am anti-fascism. Go ahead, label me. What a stupid way to lose people.

A known potential neurotoxin. Got to love natural selection. Problem here, children will be getting this, more likely to be immune compromised than middle aged adults. This is insane.

So Dalhousie U. … what are you going to do now?

www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...

https://www.livescience.com/63923-why-cities-have-so-many-pigeons.html

1/2 Pigeons pay attention to where other pigeons are looking

They used a motion capture system to study this. The probability of them paying attention to an object increases with the number of pigeons already looking at it. It is linear, with no quorum or limit

(paper) www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Canada Day pup. The palpable angst is felt by all Canadians.

Hahahahahahahahaha. Awesome dumbest excuse ever. FFS.

Isn’t that a quote from Revelations?
Maybe not…

Canada?

Show or no show? Canada has some 'wild cards' for northern lights display - The Weather Network An intense geomagnetic storm at G4 strength reached Earth’s atmosphere early on June 1, and is expected to create a northern lights show for parts of Canada Sunday night, if wildfire smoke and cloud c...

An intense geomagnetic storm reached Earth’s atmosphere early on June 1, and is expected to create a northern lights show for parts of Canada Sunday night––if wildfire smoke and cloud cover aren't blocking the skies. www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/scie...

"It’s not a dire wolf. It’s misleading to call it that," Vincent Lynch, an evolutionary biologist at the University at Buffalo, told Chemical and Engineering News. “I can't explain how pissed off it made me, because they're still saying this stuff, and they know it to not be true.”

… you would recommend? I am thinking directional, good recording quality, and sturdy for field conditions.

Ok. Be patient with me. I trust “BlueSky” Science. I used to record wolf and coyotes vocalizations with “old” equipment, borrowed from Fred Harrington (grand sachem of wolf vocalizations). I am getting into waterfowl vocalizations following a long hiatus. What is the basic yet high res equipment…

Gah… I need to know more about this!

Diagram from Herter's Inc. Complete Professional Duck and Goose Calling Manual (1964) of how to use a duck call to make "Greeting Call Number 2." It is a two-dimensional plot, with pitch as y-axis and time as x-axis. The caller makes the smaller font sounds (ex. "HOO") into their call and should hear, like the ducks, the larger font sounds (ex. "QUA").

Historians of science and technology: Any of you attending ICHST *in person* and desiring to chair my panel on bird sounds, recording technology, mimicry, toots and booms? I'm happy to chair your panel in return!
#histSTM #HPS #STS #histsci #histtech #philsci

(duck-calling diagram for attention)

People with lower cognitive ability more likely to fall for pseudo-profound bullshit A new meta-analysis published in Applied Cognitive Psychology finds that people with lower cognitive ability are more likely to find meaning in pseudo-profound nonsense. The study identifies key psychological traits linked to susceptibility to feel-good but meaningless statements.

People with lower cognitive ability more likely to fall for pseudo-profound bullshit

For those requests, or when they ask me to review their submissions, I simply ask how much they pay. They disappear quickly.

This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it

Insane.

Trump swings budget ax at USGS biology research Plan to eliminate $307 million ecosystem program could face obstacles in Congress

Trump proposes eliminating funding fo USGS biological sciences. Combined w/ the termination of USFS forest & rangeland research, this will be catastrophic to our public lands, natural resources, wildlife, & other tragic consequences.
#EcoCrisis
#ScienceForAll
#PublicService
🌎🌾🧪🌿🌱🍁🌲🔥🦋🐍🦅🐺

Oh wow. 😣

American friends and colleagues: Save science. Save academia. Save higher education. Don’t give up the fight.

Pushing against the illegal Gestapo/Stasi tactics. Why are they surprised?!

Key to the high aggressiveness of pancreatic cancer identified Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive cancers and has one of the lowest survival rates—only 10% after five years. One of the factors contributing to its aggressiveness is its tumor microenvi...

Key to the high aggressiveness of pancreatic cancer

There may be a cure for Pancreatic Cancer rather shortly. It appears there is a new protein called Galectin-1 inside the nuclei of fibroblasts. This protein causes proliferation of aggressive cancer cells.

A little retro pug lays on the bed. He is chunky but seems more athletic than the modern pug. This wonderful pug face has fewer wrinkles and a real nose.

What did we do, where are all the pug noses? This woofalicious retro pug has a cute nose and the pugliest little face. Bring it back! Dogs need noses.
#AllDogs #Dogs #DogsofBluesky #DogsofBSky #ThrowbackThursday

Not the same genome and what, 14 to 20 edited genes is far from the real thing. I mean, not even close.

Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains - Nature Medicine Pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry reveals the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in human kidney, liver and brain tissue samples from 2016 and 2024, with higher proportions found ...

Microplastics in our brains - what are the health consequences ? #OneHealth @enviroman.bsky.social @unep.org @carsoncenter.bsky.social @earth-science.bsky.social @onehealthapha.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

But … her emails !!!