C Barrington-Leigh

Hey @McGillU students! Want a summer fellowship to work with a government partner to catalogue and synthesize Wellbeing indicators in Quebec?

See this and other projects:…
https://x.com/profcpbl/status/2022071737589150077

Professor Eran Tal @EranTal presented our latest seminar in the McGill - UofT Wellbeing Research Seminar series (2026 Feb 4).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svmkhRcJMRk&list=PLCN4RiMNE8UwgwdU44kWSMTGJRnoZiPJZ&index=15
For our full series, see https://wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca/seminar

LinkedIn job posting for this position:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4361445078
Apply before midnight on Feb 22!

❤️🇨🇦
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49-XqrqG4vo

People continue to leave Twitter.

To help discourage that behaviour, here's a new command line tool to cross-post your latest tweets to other platforms.

Developed by Claude for a GNU/Linux system, but easy to adapt. No need to pay X for its API.

https://gitlab.com/cpbl/tweet-reposter

The Canadian Wellbeing Knowledges Network (https://cwkn.ca) is looking for someone to help take us to the next level :

Project & Research Network Manager (Montreal)

Apply here:
https://mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill_Careers/job/McGill-College-2001/Project---Research-Network-Manager_JR0…

Rapid-fire Yann LeCun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWMe7yjPYpE

For the first time among the times I've heard him speak, this makes more sense than the doomers

Professor Gil Hersch presented our fifteenth seminar in the McGill - UofT Wellbeing Research Seminar series (2026 Jan 12).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMeltTM0CC8&list=PLCN4RiMNE8UwgwdU44kWSMTGJRnoZiPJZ&index=14

For our full series, see https://wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca/seminar

My workflow for research is changing drastically over the last few weeks. It's really happening....

@ClaudeAI

Congrats @davidkroodsma and everyone else at @GlobalFishWatch for the #HighSeasTreaty treaty coming into force today! I imagine it is only possible due to work like yours. I love you for this.

My country hasn't ratified yet. :( 🇨🇦

Preview of World @HappinessRpt 2026 ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3tF8oSgpBo

Revised link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsHHwXwVE5E

First I've heard of this brilliant idea.
VLEO would avoid the Kessler risk. This should be the only place we put satellites in the near future. Very optimistic news.
https://theconversation.com/the-next-frontier-in-space-is-closer-than-you-think-welcome-to-the-world-of-very-low-earth-orbit-satel…

Professor Willem van der Deijl-Kloeg presented our fourteenth seminar in the McGill - UofT Wellbeing Research Seminar series (Dec 1).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJDxzaM1hn4

For our full series, see https://wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca/seminar

Subjective wellbeing as a guide to public policy (Le bien-être subjectif comme guide pour les politiques publiques) for public health professionals at JASP :

Did I constructively and graciously but sufficiently clearly communicate my critique?

https://www.youtube.com/live/YbIkaiCo4h8?t=1102s

Here's the second. See also U of T's Canadian Happiness Report (2024) for some research into this:
https://globalnews.ca/news/11578028/quebec-happiness-gap-canada-report/

Two CP stories in the last couple of days on happiness of youth in Canada (and Quebec; see next tweet).

Stay tuned for March 20 when the World Happiness Report will dedicate its annual issue to the question of youth, social media, and wellbeing!

https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/article/how-did-ca…

The solar active region that caused this geomagnetic storm is about to rotate back to Earth-facing position ... and it's still active! Look out for more bangers next week...
(The sun rotates once every 27 days or so...)

QRT: https://x.com/JonnyKimUSA/status/1996106024588046754

Do you have cold-sensitive or poorly-behaved fingers or toes? And do you do extended outdoor winter activities? As the cold arrives, here's my annual reminder of my experience with keeping the bits warm: https://cpbl.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/keeping-your-fingers-and-toes-warm-in-cold-weather-a-guid…

This is the correct policy (simple economics!), if it's properly enforceable. Good for the UK.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jw9l7gx92o

p.s. this is a good old random cite-something-I-read-with-a-comment post, like we used to do before everyone left Twitter

Professor Kristen Cooper presented our fourteenth seminar in the McGill - UofT Wellbeing Research Seminar series (Nov 3).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IszfQnxQWXk&list=PLCN4RiMNE8UwgwdU44kWSMTGJRnoZiPJZ

For our full series, see https://wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca/seminar

Claude code is amazing. Vibe coding with (free) chatgpt makes me want to cry most of the time. Claude doesn't rewrite the code every time you say something; it makes changes through line edits, even in the web chat interface. The command line interface is a wonderful experience

For anyone not yet onto this babyface format of newsfeed... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCQIhNgXs2s

This was in the plateau. Both places told me that this was happening to others, too.

Election irregularities in MTL! I went where http://elections.montreal.ca told me to vote and was told I was at the wrong voting station. They sent me to another, but there they told me with equal confidence to go back to the first place. I could not vote. @mtlgazette @CBCMontreal

Professor Caspar Kaiser presented our thirteenth seminar in the McGill - UofT Wellbeing Research Seminar series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5y87vP5UG4&list=PLCN4RiMNE8UwgwdU44kWSMTGJRnoZiPJZ&index=11

For our full series, see https://wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca/seminar

Congratulations and thank you to the local organizing committee and @ISQOLS_org for another amazing conference, bringing together a rather special supportive, diverse, and passionate research community in a beautiful venue.

QRT: https://x.com/ISQOLS_org/status/1941532844167397700

What's special about 16??
Just make it age zero. If you're old enough to waddle over to the voting booth and read/mark the ballot, you should be included in the deliberation. People will step up to the plate at the right time, and get informed earlier.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c93kkg37n3kt

Kudos to Prof de Neve and his students and the MBA programme directors!

And if you're at @McGillU, you can take the "Economics of Wellbeing" course ECON430 or ENVR430 this autumn!

(Btw, if you're teaching a course on SWB or want to see a global list of them, please let me know)

QRT: https://x.co…

https://lifesatisfaction.ca/trends/

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