Adam C Smith

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) was sold by Harper government to SNC Lavelin (now Atkins Realis)

Atkins Realis is now giving US firms the largest contract in Canadian history (costing taxpayers 24 billion)

petition parliament to review this deal.

#elbowsUp

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

A nice tutorial on distributed lag models using #rstats 📦 {mgcv}. But if you want to fit these to time series you might want to consider the {mvgam} 📦 instead ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/distrib...

🚨 New Paper 🚨
Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living.
On average, $10kCAD below cost of living.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Research opportunities | GAMbler If you are interested in joining my research group, or for any other enquiries, please contact me. You can find my most up-to-date contact details on my [University of Queensland page](https://about.u...

I'm currently seeking PhD candidates to help me work on exciting ecological forecasting problems using #rstats ecogambler.netlify.app/opportunities/ 🌎

Ontario is planning to replace its Endangered Species Act with weak legislation that will allow habitat destruction, killing endangered species and withdraw the province from planning for conservation of ES ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0... Send comments to ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0...
From CSTWS:

This is from a letter sent from MECP (Hilary Gignac, Manager, Landscape Species Recovery Section, Species at Risk Branch) describing the replacement of Ontario's Endangered Species Act in more detail. It is BAD NEWS. Please send comments to the ERO as linked by @marcofesta.bsky.social below. #onpoli

I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪

(1/) On Good Friday, David from the BBS Team at BTO HQ completed his ‘Early’ visit to his square in Dorset. Although it was a challenging square to survey due to the terrain, he enjoyed it and it got him outside before it rained! @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social

alright i have my laptop, guess i'm livetweeting the dire wolf preprint.

so a quick reminder: this is not yet peer-reviewed, so there's some different expectations re: quality.

also let's be clear, i'm a hella biased reader, bc i don't trust the hype they're courting

🦉Join us for the next Low-key Bird Walk on 4/17! Led by our very own #BirdNerd Extraordinaire, Lishka Arata, these monthly events are a great way to connect with nature, discover avian life, and build community. All are welcome! 🌍🤝🔗 shorturl.at/LJ6rt

@timothysnyder.bsky.social, author and one of America’s most famous historians, has seen tyrants like Trump before and has this to say: macleans.ca/the-intervie.... Snyder’s book “On Tyranny” provides guidance for action in . . .

2025 U.S. State of the Birds Report Addresses Conservation Needs Across Habitats and Species The release of the 2025 U.S. State of the Birds report was announced today at the 90th annual North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The report, produced by ...

abcbirds.org/news/2025-st...

"The report highlights findings from the 2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, noting that the total economic output related to birdwatching activities is $279 billion, and birding-related activities support 1.4 million jobs."

Any photos of gulls eating stuff? Submit them to the project database at citsci.org/projects/gul...

YouTube video by CityNews FULL: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's response to Donald Trump's U.S. tariffs

This speech by Justin Trudeau is quite impressive, especially the part in French at the end where he is actually inspiring (of course he's not the most popular man in Canada, so it might be a bit late for the flowery words).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CRO...

I still haven’t seen JD Vance say “thank you” to the American taxpayers for his little skiing vacation.

March 7

Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...

Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....

#Wisconsin

Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...

And the gutting continues. Hope ppl will continue to fight back by SIGNING/sharing this declaration against #censorship. It's for all irrsp of field, lang, expertise. #scienceforall #defendresearch #moretocome docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Scottish Terrestrial Breeding Bird indicators. The all-species indicator shows an increase from 94-05, but a gradual decline since.

1/ The @naturescot.bsky.social Scottish indicators were published last week. The data, a lot from @bbs-birds@bsky.social from 94-23, show how Scottish birds are doing in different habitats. Woodland birds are doing relatively well, but upland birds are in decline.
www.nature.scot/doc/official...

Hey bird people! Join us in Saskatoon for SCO-SOC 2025 Conference in Aug 13-16. Symposia and workshop submissions are open now until Jan 31!

conferences.usask.ca/sco-2025/ind...

Like birds and models? Dr. Erin Bayne and I are currently recruiting a 2 year postdoc to come work with us at the Boreal Avian Modelling project on boreal bird models and applications of those models. Full details are here tinyurl.com/4yxju63k. Feel free to get in touch with qs!

“The whole room seemed uncomfortable,” added the lawyer, who is known to the Star but requested anonymity to speak freely. “I felt like I was in a bit of an alternate reality. I felt like I was in the States. It felt very Trumpian.”

Women are credited less in science than men - Nature The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.

1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by Shoshanah Jacobs IMG 3885

Welcome to the Canadian High Arctic Research Station
#HigherEd 🧪
#UofG
#Gryphons

youtu.be/n6fnKCUSnWQ

Photo of Charles Darwin with the quote “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.” -Charles Darwin

Apparently it’s #DarwinDay, so I’m sharing the most relatable quote by any scientist ever

JOB: Program Director, Quebec, @ncccnc.bsky.social

* Create protected areas or OECMs in northern Quebec, incl strong relationships with Indigenous communities.
* Flexible location in Quebec
* Salary $99k-112k/yr
* Apply by 25 Feb 2025
www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar...

#ConservationJobs

Recent updates to extinction risk assessments for Canadian birds - Birds Canada | Oiseaux Canada In 2024, the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) assessed the status of six bird species, two for the first time. Of the reassessed species, just one improved in status ...

Pete Davidson and I recently wrote this blog for Birds Canada: an update on conservation assessments of Canadian birds in 2024.

#COSEWIC #birds #conservation

www.birdscanada.org/recent-updat...

📷 Ian Routley