Brian e Noble, PhD, dark & light in living relation

winter

Any updates? 2026 looming

light speed
we need something revolutionary, to slow things down, keep things livable

‘Not going to happen’: First Nations threaten to end Carney’s pipe dream The Canadian PM’s breakthrough oil deal with Alberta cost him a cabinet minister and will still face stiff opposition

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Standing for the earth & seas, and against Colonial State presumption… power to them

Primate Encounters A provocative collective reflection on primatology and its relations to broader cultural, historical, and social issues, Primate Encounters brings together both scientists and those who study them to ...

Honoured to write in <Primate Encounters> Fieldwork & thinking of #JaneGoodall transformed #Primatology
Opening worlds of possibility for Human-Chimpanzee understanding, grounded in women’s immersive counter-knowing

Cf my piece “Politics, Gender, & Worldly Primatology: The Goodall-Fossey Nexus”

66 million-year-old dinosaur ‘mummy’ skin was actually a perfect clay mask | CNN New research in a North American “mummy zone” in eastern Wyoming reveals how giant duck-billed dinosaurs were preserved in striking detail.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/s...
#FossilFriday

Soft tissue imprints change how to imagine dinosaurs. Phantasms materialized.

As deadline for Trump's colleges compact looms, schools signal dissent Of the original nine schools that received the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the majority have indicated they are not planning on signing.

www.npr.org/2025/10/20/n...
Support dissenting Colleges & Universities

If yours is not 1, urge your decision makers to refuse & push back

#Trans, Trans-Identifying students being denied their rights are rights-bearing citizens

Institutionalizing oppression is a cog in the authoritarian machinery

‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

“In one of the essays in Burning Questions, Atwood recalls advice on how to escape a crocodile: zigzag…. You have to be wary of the teeth and the tail”

66 million-year-old dinosaur ‘mummy’ skin was actually a perfect clay mask | CNN New research in a North American “mummy zone” in eastern Wyoming reveals how giant duck-billed dinosaurs were preserved in striking detail.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/s...
#FossilFriday

Soft tissue imprints change how to imagine dinosaurs. Phantasms materialized.

A theory why the internet is going down the toilet A new book diagnoses a sickness affecting some of America's biggest companies.

www.npr.org/sections/pla...

Table of contents… amazing range of contributors… leading thinkers in Primatology, Science Studies (Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway) , Philosophy, History of science, Animal ethology, more

As deadline for Trump's colleges compact looms, schools signal dissent Of the original nine schools that received the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the majority have indicated they are not planning on signing.

www.npr.org/2025/10/20/n...
Support dissenting Colleges & Universities

If yours is not 1, urge your decision makers to refuse & push back

#Trans, Trans-Identifying students being denied their rights are rights-bearing citizens

Institutionalizing oppression is a cog in the authoritarian machinery

Judge dismisses activists' lawsuit against Trump, but concedes 'very real' climate harm | CBC News A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block U.S. President Donald Trump's executive orders promoting fossil fuels and discouraging renewable energy.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

“A United Nations agency said on Wednesday that heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, "turbo-charging" the climate and making weather more extreme.”

Seems a bit weird that a position held by about 2/3 of american jews (israel is committing war crimes against palestinians) can get you fired for antisemitism

Good question, except he forgets that it’s all stolen Indigenous land, and that taxes are drawn from an economy built on growing layers of resources extracted from the fruits of that land. Another “thought pretzel”

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

Wait. So Alberta’s federal income taxes don’t belong to Canada but BC’s coastline belongs to Alberta?

What in the When It Suits Us kind of Trumpian thought pretzel is this now?

She’s losing the battle of working hard at trying not to lose

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Canadian softwood producers hit with new 10% tariff on lumber shipments into U.S. Trump issued a proclamation Monday night, imposing a new tariff on imports of softwood from Canada and other countries, effective Oct. 14

So Trump is imposing new tariffs on Canadian lumber & on films produced outside the US.

*Notice that the one industry he is leaving unharmed is oil & gas?*

It's a tell...🧵

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Table of contents… amazing range of contributors… leading thinkers in Primatology, Science Studies (Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway) , Philosophy, History of science, Animal ethology, more

Climate Emergency? Absolutely No doubt
Western Canada / Indigenous Territories are on Fire & we’re past summer already

The very lands where Carney, Poilievre & their parties are demanding accelerated oil & gas extraction ramping up carbonization of the planet

cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-...

Primate Encounters A provocative collective reflection on primatology and its relations to broader cultural, historical, and social issues, Primate Encounters brings together both scientists and those who study them to ...

Honoured to write in <Primate Encounters> Fieldwork & thinking of #JaneGoodall transformed #Primatology
Opening worlds of possibility for Human-Chimpanzee understanding, grounded in women’s immersive counter-knowing

Cf my piece “Politics, Gender, & Worldly Primatology: The Goodall-Fossey Nexus”

What a federal government shutdown might mean for travelers | CNN IThe US is on the brink of a possible government shutdown. The travel impact would be felt in longer airport lines, muddled itineraries and US National Park closures.

“…coming at a time when many tour operators and hospitality industry workers are reeling from the dearth of Canadian travelers, a significant number of whom are vowing to stay away as long as President Trump is in office”

#ElbowsUp has consequences

Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire In the name of ‘pragmatism’, green measures are being ditched, net zero derided. Be very clear: without slashing emissions we are in deep, deep trouble, says UCL professor Bill McGuire

Economies of Planetary Demise

Climate Emergency? Absolutely No doubt
Western Canada / Indigenous Territories are on Fire & we’re past summer already

The very lands where Carney, Poilievre & their parties are demanding accelerated oil & gas extraction ramping up carbonization of the planet

cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-...

Climate Emergency? No doubt.
Western Canada / Indigenous Territories are on Fire. And we’re past summer already

cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-...

Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire In the name of ‘pragmatism’, green measures are being ditched, net zero derided. Be very clear: without slashing emissions we are in deep, deep trouble, says UCL professor Bill McGuire

Economies of Planetary Demise

Then leading to re-election of a conspiracy-ridden party in USA with a narcissist, autocratic leader dismantling its science-based institutions, undermining media sources that rely on meticulous science & social science to verify news, defunding universities, militarizing against public who disagree

Musk calls Anti-Defamation League ‘hate group’ for documenting Christian extremism Organization earlier this year came to the tech mogul’s aid over his widely criticized salutes at Trump’s inauguration

The character of political discourse and the cast of actors exchanging racist / anti-racist barbs gets more and more dystopic by the day

Le declin de l’empire americaine