Robert Way
@labradorice.bsky.social
Labrador Kallunângajuk from Vâli. Dad. Hunter. Geography prof. Canada Research Chair in Northern Environmental Change. @queensu. Views are my own.
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w agoThese photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.
Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds
Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.
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The world has warmed by around 1.4C since 1850. It took 148 years for the first half of that warming to occur, and just 27 years for the second half!
A new paper by the Northern Tornadoes research group (I think) highlights some major concerns for Canadians outside of existing weather radar coverage. I noticed that in the Quebec/Labrador border region near two major communities there was an EF2 tornado. There is no weather radar coverage here.
Northern Tornadoes Project 🇨🇦@westernuntp.bsky.social · 2mo agoA new Canadian 30-year tornado climatology has been published by NTP researchers in the Canadian peer-reviewed journal Atmosphere-Ocean. It can be freely accessed here: uwo.ca/ntp/blog/202... A companion 'fact sheet' full of useful statistics can be found here: uwo.ca/ntp/docs/Tor...
A new Canadian 30-year tornado climatology has been published by NTP researchers in the Canadian peer-reviewed journal Atmosphere-Ocean. It can be freely accessed here: uwo.ca/ntp/blog/202... A companion 'fact sheet' full of useful statistics can be found here: uwo.ca/ntp/docs/Tor...
Does El Niño forecasting have their own version of a "hot models" problem? There are currently 13 seasonal forecast ensembles used to predict future El Niño / La Niña. Diversity is good, but there remains broad disagreement among them, with some suggesting all-time records. 🧵
Latest by me at the Globe and Mail, on the substantial drop in children under-5 living in the GTA and Greater Montreal Area, and the "doom loop" it creates when amenities for kids close, furthering the exodus of young families. Read here:
Why families with small children are leaving Toronto and Montreal for Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa
Lack of housing affordability and decreasing daycares, schools make Toronto and Montreal less friendly for young families
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This is what every game developer sounds like right now.
Game Informer@gameinformer.com · 2mo agoSega confirms and responds to generative AI content in the new Crazy Taxi. "Generative AI was used to support our teams during the development of background assets for Crazy Taxi: World Tour," Sega says. gameinformer.com/2026/06/07/s...
Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
Labrador woman makes history this week by becoming N.L.’s first Innu lawyer ntv.ca/news/labrado...
Labrador woman makes history this week by becoming N.L.'s first Innu lawyer - NTV: Newfoundland and Labrador's Most Trusted News Source
A Labrador woman made history this past week by becoming this province’s first Innu lawyer. NTV’s Rosie Mullaley spoke with Jolene Ashini whose call to the bar was momentous occasion. Related Articles...
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Left out of this article is that this is all happening in the backdrop of Canada decimating its climate observing network over the past several decades. See the presentation below for examples: 84bbf97c-1ba3-4840-8e5a-93b4adf7881f.usrfiles.com/ugd/84bbf9_1...
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Alexander Quon@alexanderquon.bsky.social · 2mo agoWeather experts concerned about public safety as Environment Canada disbands radar research team www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Weather experts concerned about public safety as Environment Canada disbands radar research team www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Weather experts concerned about public safety as Environment Canada disbands radar research team | CBC News
From hail sizes to wind speeds, weather radars help Environment and Climate Change Canada track storms and issue public warnings. But the organization has recently disbanded its radar research team. M...
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Even moderate levels of wildfire smoke are damaging. For PM2.5 in the yellow AQI range (10-25 micrograms/m^3): 10% increase in emergency department visits for acute respiratory conditions; 25% increase for asthma. But people don’t avoid exposure until the AQI hits 137. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A shocking report by Ontario’s Auditor General concerning the Ontario government’s use of AI by the public service! Very poor controls of how AI is being used and lack of training! Unacceptable risk to citizen’s privacy and the accuracy of work done!
Ooof... this paper on AI use in academic writing, based on submissions to the journal Organization Science. Sadly agrees with my anecdotal observations as an editor. AI-tinged submissions have increased, and readability and quality have decreased. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10....
This letter-writing campaign to restore the radar science team that supports Canada's new radar network has already seen 9200 letters sent. An amazing response! If you haven't sent one yet, please consider it. ECCC's new alert colours are nice. But for severe weather warnings, radar is foundational.
Northern Tornadoes Project 🇨🇦@westernuntp.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt's Emergency Preparedness Week, and your help is needed on a related letter-writing campaign. ECCC has decided to shut down its long-standing radar research program. This affects severe weather warnings, and the work of the NTP and its partners. Details here: actionnetwork.org/letters/reve...
Globe & Mail reporting that the radar scientists supporting EC's new $180M national radar network have been disbanded. They did the work to ensure the 'essential functionality' of the network - providing timely, high-quality data for weather warning decisions. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1fa5cdb...
Environment Canada disbands radar research team amid cuts to weather services
Reductions could hamper Canada’s ability to track severe weather events, experts warn
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This is one of those "wait for it" things: simulation of the #TracyArm landslide tsunami by Pat Lynett for our paper that came out this week in @science.org. This one is from the vantage point of a jetski at sea level. 🧪⚒️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.
I'm somewhat agnostic about this. But the privacy concerns are certainly not compelling to me. Private companies and governments are already collecting most of this data and in some cases selling it. Social media is actively being used to harvest data on people too young to give consent.
Dale Smith@journodale.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt doesn't look like they polled as to whether these Canadians want the entire internet surveilled in order to achieve this social media ban. I suspect that it might have changed the results if people knew what such a ban (which is easily circumvented!) actually entails. cc @supriya.bsky.social
A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper published in PNAS today! Joint work with Jeffrey Shrader, Stephan Thies, Derek Lemoine, and Laura Bakkensen: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Woo!!
Julian McKenzie@jkamckenzie.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe New Jersey Devils have defeated the Detroit Red Wings tonight, which means the Ottawa Senators have clinched a playoff spot. The #Sens had a 15 percent chance of making the playoffs in January and at one point were tied for last in the East. But they're going dancing, now.
Abstract: The case is made that machine-learning statistical estimation neither can nor should be expected to supplant physics-based simulation for weather forecasting. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
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