Scott MacDougall-Shackleton

2/ Basically, if governments won't fund universities properly, they should get the hell out of the way of unis looking out for themselves. Cut red-tape. No unfunded mandates. Let tuition rise.

And yes, institutions need to cut expenses, too. But on their own, free of government interference.

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

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Weird how the fossil fuel industry claims it's renewables that are expensive.
My solar panels paid for themselves in 7 years (instead of the predicted 13) and our solar electricity is free now. And it runs our car.

Ontario to revamp college and university funding as early as next spring — and lifting tuition freeze may be on table Amid major cuts in the sector, minister seeks to ensure schools are on solid ground financially, with “fair, predictable and transparent” funding.

From the front page of the ⁦‪@TorontoStar‬⁩, @krushowy on ⁦‪@ONgov‬⁩’s planned revamp of post-secondary funding that could include lifting the tuition freeze that has hamstrung universities and colleges.
#onpoli

www.thestar.com/news/gta/ont...

This is why we should not give genes names that refer to their function.

The old is new again

What she means is “researchers in applied fields who can work in companies or develop products in Canada”. She does not mean academics. There will be less $$ and fewer academic jobs in 🇨🇦 for the next several years. It is not and will not be a panacea for research

Could they be nest predators on the sly, or are they grabbing these birds on the wing?

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3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York!
I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene.

Deadline: 10th August 2025.

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NOT the first. They had concentration camps for US citizens in WW2.

That’s a bonobo

Fuck these gestapo losers and the van they drove in on.

Greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta's oilsands have also continued to set new records.

They hit 86.5 megatonnes in the latest National Inventory Report.

(By comparison: Quebec's *total* emissions were 78.9 megatonnes that year.)

American friends, can you call 911 when masked and armed men show up and threaten you and refuse to show ID ?

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Cornwall seagull sips man's coffee before stealing his mug Darren Pardoe was installing anti-bird spikes in a Cornish town before the encounter.

Seagull drinks coffee, steals mug of man installing anti-bird spikes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excellent thread. I make this same point in my textbook. The metaphor of genes acting as a blueprint ignores the importance of development and fuels deterministic thinking.

Effects of wintering under methylmercury exposure on spring reproductive onset in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) - Bottini - 2025 - Journal of Neuroendocrinology - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Journal of Neuroendocrinology</em> | BSN Journal | Wiley Online Library Birdsong learning and production is mediated through a vocal control circuit that exhibits ubiquitous and profound sex differences. In zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) only males sing, and sex dif...

Early testosterone exposure during development advances myelination and affects neurogenesis of the vocal control motor path in male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) - 2025 - Journal of Neuroendocrinology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#ornithology #neuroskyience #neuroethology

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

Danielle Smith doing her best MAGA impression

ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600 And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.

ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

A book cover entitled: Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis by authors Georg F. Striedter and Andrew N. Iwaniuk. It features photos of a turkey vulture, song sparrow, and whimbrel, as well as a drawing of an albatross brain.

Less than two months before our book is finally released. If you are interested in bird behaviour or comparative neurobiology and want to learn more, this is the book for you!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...

And the ebook will be open access!

#neuroskyence #ornithology #birds 🧪🧠

Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism Psychologist and writer’s appearance on Aporia condemned for helping to normalise ‘dangerous, discredited ideas’

In news that will surprise absolutely no one who has paid attention

It is nonetheless astounding to see how far the benefit of the doubt extends for prominent personalities when it comes to their clear far-right beliefs or affiliations...

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Same for 🇨🇦

Andrew wasn’t talking about NIH biosketch.