Iain McKechnie
@iainmckechnie.bsky.social
🐳 archaeologist 🏺- anthropology - fish bones - coastlines - zooarchaeology 🦑 - historical ecology 🌏 - ocean histories 🐳 - uvic faculty member https://hecalab.blog
Don’t know how I missed this story last month. US oil company shows up in Greenland to start drilling. Invasion by dubious permits. Important story for Canadians. #ElbowsUp
Licensed to drill? How a Trump-linked Texas oil company is elbowing its way into Greenland
Greenland Energy says billions of barrels of crude could lie beneath territory and claims it has permission to bring drilling kit ashore – a claim denied by Nuuk
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"with the stranded ships remaining motionless, their hulls were becoming encrusted with marine life – from microbes and algae to barnacles and other invertebrates – that could hitchhike to ports around the world when trade resumed." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ships stuck in strait of Hormuz pose ‘super-spreader’ biodiversity threat, scientists warn
Biologists say cargo ships stranded in Gulf may carry highly potent invasive species around the world as trade resumes
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Issue 26:2 of the ICAZ Newsletter is now available to download: alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/publica... Let us know about your events, activities, publications and achievements for the next issue in Jan 2027 by emailing icaznewsletter@gmail.com and icaznewsletterassistant@gmail.com. #ICAZ #Zooarch
The call for abstracts for the 15th ICAZ Conference in Vancouver 2027 are now open until the 25th of August! There are 32 great sessions to choose from. Head to the website for more details - sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6... #ICAZ #Zooarch #Vancouver2027
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You know who's homegrown South Carolina and recently looking for a job????
Stephen Colbert Waves Enthusiastically
Alt: Stephen Colbert Waves Enthusiastically
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restoring herring spawning habitat in the middle of Vancouver is good news.mongabay.com/2026/07/coul...
Could a blighted urban inlet become a global beacon of waterway renewal?
VANCOUVER — Two hundred years ago, Talaysay Campo’s ancestors harvested clams and cockles along the shore of Vancouver’s False Creek. “It was a huge aquaculture site,” Campo, a member of the Squamish ...
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I was saddened to learn of the death of Raul Pacheco-Vega earlier this week. I’ve known Raul for a very long time. I’ve written something for my website. Read here: jovanevery.co.uk/in-memoriam-...
In memoriam: Raul Pacheco-Vega
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A historic milestone for First Nations’ stewardship, conservation & the future of Canada’s oceans! 🐋 The new Mia-yaltwa Ha’lidzogm hoon National Marine Conservation Area Reserve will protect 6,700 square km of marine habitat – an area larger than Prince Edward Island. https://ow.ly/HFXO50Z4mf2
Perhaps this scheme has been a thing imported from Canada ?
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4mo agoThree Southern California residents were sentenced to jail after masterminding a scheme in which they staged fake bear attacks on their luxury cars, then collected more than $141,000 in insurance payouts, officials said on Thursday.
The 15th ICAZ International Conference will be held next year in Vancouver. Call for Sessions closes 31st of May 2026. For more details check out our website sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6... or email icaz2027vancouver@gmail.com. #ICAZ #zooarch #Vancouver2027
gosh its like some companies are well placed to be cashing in on future profits
Cool shot of an eagle snatching up fistfuls of herring in Haida Gwaii. From @jagsbean on instagram. #herring #eagles #haidagwaii www.instagram.com/p/DWFVvDeARPm/ @iainmckechnie.bsky.social
"researchers found that nearly a dozen leading models were highly sycophantic, taking the users’ side in interpersonal conflicts 49% more often ..... Even a single interaction with a sycophantic chatbot made participants less willing to take responsibility" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...
Seeking a Sounding Board? Beware the Eager-to-Please Chatbot.
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randomly remembered when pelicans aggressively interrupted the Pepperdine graduation www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGBj... 🪶
Pelicans crash Pepperdine University graduation
YouTube video by Grant Dillion
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hey @watershedlab.bsky.social - perhaps you might inquire if this guy needs additional geomorphology advice www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/w...
Iceland’s Chief ‘Lava Cooler’ Is Bracing for the Next Eruption
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Assholes among us. Public shame needed. Hate is a crime. #supportRachel
Jen St. Denis@jenstden.bsky.social · 5mo agoA Canadian journalist documents a group of white nationalists who’ve been meeting at a gym in Montréal, unbeknownst to the owner of the business. What happens after the story comes out? thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
frat boy being epically furious starts to realize he is an idiot
Great to see international attention on Fort Chipewyan & the Athabasca www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/h...
Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands
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On behalf of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group we would like to share the March Bone Tool of the Month - a cassowary bone dagger from New Guinea. See the link to find out more! #ICAZ #zooarch #workedbone www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-...
The perfect Valentine’s gift: assorted chocolate-dipped clams!
Racism Racism Racism Racism Racism Racism Racism Racism Racism The new kickoff rule sucks Racism
Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 6mo agoImagine being the most powerful man in the world and being this much of a whiney victim BITCH. Good god what a child
“The toolbox isn’t particularly varied…the paramilitary thugs; random violence; postmortem vilification of victims. It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, & this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
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great new paleoanthropology 🧪 paper by @robingnelson.blacksky.app onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Adjusting the Aperture: Decolonizing Time in Studies of Human Behavior and Evolution
Biological anthropology has long positioned foraging and often pastoralist populations as the most appropriate referent communities for the rigorous study of human behavior and evolution. With this, ...
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Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun. n.pr/48nQMqI
3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points
Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun.
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