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It makes me think of grassroots groups like the Saint John Community Coalition sjcommunity.ca that are using the principle of solidarity to make a better future

Stoked to see @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social tonight in Saint John! His music and message seems so fitting for a city and province that has been subject to the Irvings and had to struggle against an anti-union, anti-mutual aid, extractivist agenda for so long. Hope tonight is inspiring for all!

We're concerned about the SRSR motion requesting 25 years of disaggregated tri-council data. While we understand the data is intended to be anonymized, this wasn't explicitly stated in the motion – and the specific information requested could still enable re-identification when linked together.

Same here!

For #marinemammal lovers, @UBCBookstore now has #seal water bottles for sale! Very cute

Psychiatric patients assaulted while restrained, left soiled in seclusion, N.B. ombud says | CBC News New Brunswick's ombud says Restigouche Hospital Centre staff have been restraining and secluding psychiatric patients improperly.

In New Brunswick, seclusion rooms are used instead of intensive care units because of inadequate healthcare funding—this is what happens when ‘public safety funding’ is prioritized over collective community care.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

‘It’s a warning, set to a dance beat’: Jon Batiste on his new song urging climate action 20 years after Katrina The global music star, whose home town of New Orleans was devastated by the hurricane in 2005, says ‘people power’ can change the world

Jon Batiste is a climate activist

"Their society maintained them in complete freedom from want, distractions, and cares. What they were free to do, however, was another question. It appeared to Shevek that their freedom from obligation was in exact proportion to their lack of freedom of initiative."

Reminds me of a quote from The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin

Too many people confuse convenience with freedom.

smartWhales SBDS The Space-based Detection System (SBDS) developed under the smartWhales Initiative with financial support from the Canadian Space Agency.

Colleagues at Hatfield Consultants also put together a beautiful story map summarizing the novel use of #satellite #technology for #whale #conservation: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/849a...

Semi‐Automated Detection of Right Whales (Eubalaena spp.) in Very High‐Resolution Satellite Imagery Space-based detection of whales is proliferating because it shows promise as a monitoring tool, yet tests of its application across taxa and environments are rare. The objective of this study was to ....

Link to the open-access, peer-reviewed paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@finstacodes.bsky.social
@marinemammalogy.bsky.social
#marinemammalscience

Some more information from our industry partners

Hatfield press release: lnkd.in/dtEG2aR5

AltaML press release: lnkd.in/g9ZdyhtS

#smartWhales #MarineConservation #AI #SatelliteTechnology #NorthAtlanticRightWhale #Innovation

Thanks to Canadian Space Agency, Fisheries and Ocean's Canada, and Transport Canada for funding the smartWhales initiative to make this work possible

smartWhales SBDS The Space-based Detection System (SBDS) developed under the smartWhales Initiative with financial support from the Canadian Space Agency.

Our industry partners Hatfield Consultants and Alta ML made this amazing ESRI storymap to highlight what we did and the issues in right whale conservation that make this work important storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/849a...

Figure of study area in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with an area imaged by a satelite highlighted and then zoomed in on to show a chip of the whole satellite image of the ocean

Examples of whales at the surface of the ocean in satellite images

Happy to announce our new article in @marinemammalogy.bsky.social on finding #rightwhales in satellite imagery using machine learning. Great collaboration with academia, industry, and conservation @cwf-fcf.bsky.social. #whalesfromspace #NARW

Link:
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Updated abundance estimate of the eastern Beaufort Sea #beluga population! I participated in the aerial survey in 2019 as part of my masters project. The last estimate was from 1992.
open-science.canada.ca/items/6fadae...

DFO identifies entangled North Atlantic right whale in St. Lawrence estuary Fisheries and Oceans Canada says an entangled North Atlantic right whale has been spotted on the north shore of the St. Lawrence estuary.

EG5132 recently seen still entangled in St. Lawrence Estuary

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Gear analysis of EG5132 identifying the entanglement as low breaking strength gear

www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-espe...

Right whale detection in Gulf will mean restrictions for some P.E.I. lobster boats | CBC News The P.E.I. Fishermen's Association says the latest detection of a North Atlantic right whale in the Gulf of St. Lawrence region will mean some lobster fishing crews on the North Shore will have to rem...

I'm all for proven #rightwhale conservation measures that keep harvesters fishing but CBC probably should not talk about low breaking strength "whale-safe gear" without mentioning a right whale (EG5132) is currently entangled in Canada in low breaking strength gear

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Was a student at @umanitoba.bsky.social when this work was done

I'm proud of this work and think this information will be very useful to others trying to document the response of species to rapid climate change in the Arctic. These regions have only continued to change since when they were visited for this study.

Figure of the eastern Canadian Arctic with colored boxes outlining the regions surveyed for the study and the panels outlined with the corresponding colour highlighting a more detailed map of the specific region with the survey lines flown for that survey (Blue/B: High Arctic, Yellow/C: Intermediate Arctic, Red/D: Low Arctic)

Birds eye view photograph of ringed seals hauled out on top of sea ice taken by cameras in the survey plane documenting the area along the transect lines of the survey

Excited to share this ms in @ecol-evol.bsky.social looking at ringed seal populations using aerial surveys conducted from low-Arctic Hudson Bay (59N) to the Last Ice Area in the high-Arctic Lincoln Sea (83N)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Figure from the paper. Caption text for the figure reads: Fig. 6. Estimated entanglement risk reduction (±SE) of the annual closure scenarios (2018–2021) among months (May– August) and among the annual detections of North Atlantic right whales (2018–2021). ANOVA indicated a significant effect among whale detections, closure protocols and months (F27,1920 = 13.69, p < 0.001). Post hoc differences (Student-Newman- Keuls test) within each month of the annual detections are indicated by different letters above each bar. Average annual monthly risk reduction (percent) is indicated below each ba

New paper on #rightwhale conversation by Cole & Brillant

www.int-res.com/articles/esr...
"...annual entanglement risk to right whales from the GSL snow crab fishery is estimated to have been reduced by approximately 62 ± 3% (mean ± SE) relative to pre-closure"
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Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre...

How migrating marine megafauna tracks with conservation | Science very proud to be a core @MegaMove_Org author of this very important paper lead by @AnaMMSequeira - we need a dynamic approach to marine conservation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Don't want to add to the controversy 😜...but there are some jurisdictions where indigenous prefer using term killer whale so it can be important to consider the jurisdiction when one is considering what to call them

It would be cool to get a list of all the plants they have on sale at Lowe’s/Home Depot & make a @montereybayaquarium.org seafood-watch-style “best choice/good alternative/avoid” list for creating native gardens. Would need one for each region of course

Don’t reply before you read the whole thread.

Was at the Saint John show on Saturday and it was truly special to watch legends @posplugwon.bsky.social and @talibkweli.bsky.social perform their classics like Stakes Is High and Get By together. Thank you for coming to Canada and the Maritimes!

Instagram post from the Polar Geospatial Center about how they have to shut down. The photos at the top are black and white, organized in a grid, with Instagram post below.

This one hurts. I wouldn’t have a PhD, or have had some of the best experiences in my life, or made some of my best friends #WithoutNSF & without the PGC. I was employee #1 of an organization that grew into an indispensable part of Polar Programs. And it’s being dismantled for literally no reason
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