7,000 years before farming reached Scandinavia, hunter-gatherers carried live trout past waterfalls to stock fishless mountain lakes. Newly dated fish traps at Lake Tesse, Norway show planned ecosystem management long before agriculture. 🐟🏔️🦴 #Archaeology #Mesolithic @antiquity.ac.uk

The Fish That Shouldn’t Have Been There

Every trout in the Norwegian mountains got there because someone carried it.

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@umbmg.bsky.social at the @umanitoba.bsky.social is recruiting a full-time Instructor I/II to join our teaching team beginning February 2027. Join a great team of colleagues and contribute to an engaging teaching environment Application deadline: August 14 viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...

Ontario's jails are using an artificial intelligence tool that disproportionately places Black prisoners in maximum security The government anticipated its tool AI would produce biased outcomes, but used it anyway My latest @breachmedia.ca investigation breachmedia.ca/black-prison...

Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach

Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities

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***JOB ALERT*** My department is hiring an Instructor I or II! If you are passionate about medical genetics and/or biochemistry and are looking for a teaching job, this one's for you! Information and how to apply here: viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...

Climate change denialism in Canada is not just "Climate change is a hoax". It's also: "Before we deal with climate change, we need to... ... defend against Trump. ... appease Alberta separatists. ... make enough money to switch to renewables. ... not crash our fossil fuel-based economy."

The person who has 445 AI-generated books on Amazon told @kashhill.bsky.social that “It’s a very romantic concept to sit down and toil, page after page and paragraph after paragraph, but it doesn’t make economic sense.” (I wonder what he would think of Roald Dahl's Great Automatic Grammatizator)

Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. (Gift Article)

Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

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The Liberals continue to fight against First Nations water rights, both in court and with their new Bill C-37. "'It’s another example of what Amnesty International confirmed: a rapid rolling back of Indigenous rights by the Carney government,' Gazan said.”

Liberals continue court fight against First Nations drinking water rights, despite new bill | CBC News

The Carney government continues to fight First Nations in court to deny Canada has any legal duty to ensure they have safe drinking water on reserve, even as the Liberals advance legislation aiming to...

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Incredibly brazen for the Prime Minister to boast about the “lasting benefits” of expanding fossil fuel production on a day like today. Record-breaking heatwaves. Toxic smoke engulfing cities and towns. Out of control wildfires forcing entire communities to evacuate. /1

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 3w ago

The world wants to do more with Canada. Our MOU with Alberta will unlock those opportunities in energy — and create lasting benefits for Canadians.

This feels very real to me, and aligns with the advice I give lots of folks starting out. The first years are TOUGH. You have to learn so many new things. But that's why you got the job, you're good at learning new things.

Science Magazine@science.org · 3w ago

"You feel stretched to the point of breaking. The waves of emotions are rolling over you. I am here, your future self, to tell you that you are enough. You don’t break. You put one foot in front of the other, and you not only make it through, but you have fun." https://scim.ag/3SWodeP

📢 Super excited to promote that our #Immunology department is recruiting a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Immunobiology of Chronic Disease!🎉🥳 Please note this is a targeted recruitment with more details via QR code. I am lucky to work here in such a collaborative environment Please share widely

In my lifetime, I've seen segments of society lose trust in evolutionary biology, climate science, and vaccines. None of this was due to anything scientists did. All of it was because non-scientists perceived some advantage (political, cultural, financial) in attacking science's credibility.

At a time when contraceptives could be banned, it can feel like there are only two camps: those who champion birth control and those who criticize it with hopes of making it go away. But there is a third camp: People scrutinizing birth control not to get rid of it, but to make it better.

Did birth control make my depression worse?

What I wish I'd known about my IUD.

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1/ Very excited to share the first publication from my lab! In this work, we developed an efficient strategy to precisely mutate mammalian histone genes in their native genomic context using CRISPR prime editing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Identifying critical lysines in mammalian histone H3 with high-throughput CRISPR prime editing - Nature Genetics

This study uses a precise and efficient clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) prime editing system to substitute lysine residues in histone H3, individually or in combinat...

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Just saw this from @drjengunter.bsky.social — absolutely right! “We know we know that in Canada when you build a private clinic you take away from the public.” #OwnIt #PublicHealth

Jen Gunter on Instagram: "In Canada, the private system weakens the public."

276 likes, 12 comments - drjengunter on July 8, 2026: "In Canada, the private system weakens the public.".

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Thread on why social media age restrictions are both doomed to fail and a deeply terrible idea.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last mo.

Problem is, there's no such thing as internet "age verification." What we call "age verification" is actually *mass surveillance*, so invasive and pervasive it makes the ad-tech industry's surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia: pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/b... 5/

Cc: Premier Kinew, @mark-carney.bsky.social

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last mo.

Problem is, there's no such thing as internet "age verification." What we call "age verification" is actually *mass surveillance*, so invasive and pervasive it makes the ad-tech industry's surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia: pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/b... 5/

Is the world about to be overrun by trans mice? Not if congresswoman Nancy Mace has anything to do with it | Arwa Mahdawi

Is the world about to be overrun by trans mice? Not if congresswoman Nancy Mace has anything to do with it | Arwa Mahdawi

Mace’s TRANS MICE Act is designed to end ‘radical transgender-related experiments on animals’. But is this all a stupid misunderstanding, asks Arwa Mahdawi

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'How hard should science trainees work?' Of all the articles on helpimascientist.com, this one garnered the most views—several thousand within a few days after posting about it on Twitter. And I was reminded of the subject after several conversations this week with several new trainees,

At a recent workshop I attended that included a speaker who used AI for grading, I asked this question of whether students who know their work is going to be graded by AI are more likely to use AI to complete it. The speaker responded that students EXPECT AI use in grading, but I was not convinced.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One student wrote of the belief among their classmates in another course that their professor had turned to "robograding," outsourcing evaluation of their work to AI. So why not use AI to write it? This student knows how cynical that is. It doesn't feel good. They wish there was another way. 8/

I swear to god before I die I'm gonna convince other white people that Du Bois was a pioneer of data visualization, not just a content-free placeholder "Black intellectual" www.wbur.org/news/2019/02...

W.E.B. Du Bois Created These Infographics In 1900 To Humanize The African-American Experience

Du Bois wanted these infographics, displayed at the Paris Exposition, to change ideas about how people of color were operating in the world at the turn of the century and show how blacks fit into Amer...

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Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done.

TODAY! I am fully aware of how absurd a <24h deadline is but trust me there’s a good reason. if you’re interested in this postdoc, send me your CV immediately.🧪⚒️

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️

Want to hear something freaky? If a deer gets a cut on its antlers while it's still in velvet, the next year when the deer grows a completely NEW rack, it will often grow an extra branch in the exact spot of the cut. Let's talk about TROPHIC MEMORY, the weird way cells (may) remember each other.

Majestic Deer with Huge Velvet Antlers

Alt: Majestic Deer with Huge Velvet Antlers. To be clear, this is probably a genetic event or even a breeding decision, but it illustrates the strange ways that antlers can grow. This poor buck, I'm assuming probably a white tailed deer, looks a bit overwhelmed to have a monstrous rack.

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This article eloquently summarizes my current feelings on the use of AI in education.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2mo ago

Co-signed, says this UChicago alum, and also this former editor-in-chief of @chicagomaroon.bsky.social, where this essay is published: chicagomaroon.com/52978/viewpo...

After days of tornado alerts, power outages, flooding, fallen trees and Internet outages in Manitoba, you may be storm fatigued. So join me for a few minutes while I recap a story CBC published Wednesday about shifting NDP government interests in AI data centres and hydro megaprojects …

The Researcher Who Didn’t Want to Know Her decades of work on Huntington’s disease helped lead to the creation of a genetic test for the devastating condition. Why didn’t she take it herself? Gina Kolata for @nytimes.com #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/s...

The Researcher Who Didn’t Want to Know

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I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

I have officially become one of those profs with a headshot from a zillion years ago that I am too lazy to replace. Upon reflection, replace “headshot” with “bluesky profile photo”, and still true.

DOHaD Canada@dohadcanada.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The 2026 DOHaD Canada Meeting started with @meaghanjones.bsky.social from @umanitoba.bsky.social presenting about the #epigenetics of early-life cigarette smoke influences long-term lung health. #DOHaDCanada2026

We are hiring again! Our lab is looking for an experimental epigenetics postdoc to work on an exciting 3-year ASAP funded research project studying the role of cell type specific epigenetic regulation in response to toxicant exposures and Parkinson's.

It is going to be extremely hot and dry for the next few days. Make sure to keep yourself and your trees hydrated. The soil around your trees need a good, deep soak, something that a sprinkler can't do. Here are some great tips:

A lot of white people learned about the Tuskegee experiment during the pandemic and believe that is the reason Black people don't trust the medical establishment. This is not true. Black people don't trust the medical establishment because the Tuskegee experiment is not an outlier.

Keith Boykin@keithboykin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Two Black families whose children died after they were used as test subjects in a vaccine trial without their parents’ consent have sued the federal government. Sample tissues from the boys’ autopsies were stolen to develop the RSV vaccine that is now used around the world.