Eric Searle, PhD

A map of Canada with shaded regions showing plant hardiness zones. Fully accessible map available at https://planthardiness.gc.ca/?m=1

Any gardeners in my feed? Or climate and/or environmental data enthusiasts like me? I have some exciting news (ok, exciting for me): Canada’s Plant Hardiness Zone Map just got a major update. Whether you manage a yard, garden, field, or forest, this is big... 🧵

Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

Panel One: A scientist is giving a lecture. she stands at a lecturn. The current slide shows a list of the five kingdoms of living things: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista and Monera. She says "Most people assume that fungi are plants. Whereas in fact, they form a kingdom of their own." Panbel Two: Caption : After the lecture The scientist now appears to be in a subterranean cave, before her stand two very large mushrooms guarding a larger, beardedmushroom who sits in athrone wearing a crown. One of the mushrooms says "His majesty is very pleased with the work you are doing."

A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi

This is, by a large margin, the most astonishing sample I have seen in my 'career' (15 yr sampling glacier subfossil wood)! 🥰

Wanted to share it on this first World Glacier Day! 🧊❄️

This trunk has spent almost 10,000 years below a glacier and I have never seen bark better preserved! 💪

Travel advice and advisories for United States (USA) Travel Advice and Advisories from the Government of Canada

with everything going on in the usa regarding both the major and rapid changes to the law/regs/practice re immigration and trans ppl, how the hell can canada responsibly issue a blanket "normal risks" status without at least a warning for trans people specifically?!

If only they had a 20 year old Juan Soto and a time machine for Mad Max :(

Big oof

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.

On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Policy and

whether we can access healthcare or not, we're trans. what these EOs are doing, is hurting and destroying the lives of trans kids, before they take aim at adults. years of treating a marginalised community like a shameful political football, like we're an embarassment to liberal political and legal

[werner herzog voice] the looney tunes are an abomination. the little bald man shoots the duck in the face but he lives. the coyote is crushed by many anvils, and yet he continues. these unnatural beings cannot die - and without death, what is the value of life itself?

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

Posting on behalf of my colleague Sylvie Quideau. She is offering a funded Ph.D. position in Soil Science- Forest Soil Carbon. See ad below for details. Please share. Thx!

Favorite coast redwood/acorn woodpecker granary tree.🪶

This year, I recorded every movie, TV show, game, podcast, and book I engaged with, which was an experience I recommend.

Speaking of recommendations, here are the recs I have to offer based on that undertaking:

Bluey an obvious omission here

fuck "the cruelty is the point." healthcare bans kill. closets kill. trans death and disappearance is the point.

Gotta honour the hometown heroes

The PhD ain't in English ;)

Track my plow is a great innovation!

Interested in how and where trees move water? I'm hiring a plant ecophys postdoc to study hydraulic redistribution in Indiana forests. If you'll be at AGU and want to discuss, please reach out!
jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Checking the cameras this morning (and less importantly my own driveway), I am upgrading the "Oof" straight to "Holy cannoli" officially bypassing "Uff da" for the first time since moving to the Soo. #onweather #snow #onstorm

It's time for my favourite pastime! Looking at the Ontario 511 highway cameras and saying "Oof, that's alot of snow"

Hopefully I get a few months of it this year!

I have no interest in Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson, but sometimes you find yourself in a bar in Saulte Ste Marie, and it's on 11 screens....

Which bar? Maybe I'll drop by!