Phil Millins
@philmullins.bsky.social
Associate Professor of outdoor recreation and tourism management at UNBC.
Please share 🧪 We seek 2 postdocs to work on Vancouver Island marmots in the following areas : 1 - demographic models. 2 - conservation genomics. Positions based at UNBC, working with MRF. Full details here marmots.org/recovery-eff... #conservation #jobs
Recovery Efforts – The Vancouver Island Marmot Recovery Foundation
marmots.org
Robust universities, with academic freedom for teaching and research are crucial for strong, prosperous, and free societies. Watching the US, and hoping the new Canadian Gov re-invests and strengthens post-secondary. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This should not get lost among all the other chaos: “Trump has instructed… officials to circumvent the US’s Endangered Species Act by using unspecified emergency powers to ignore protections placed upon vulnerable creatures’ habitats.” 🌎 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber
President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species
theguardian.com
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
