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Alison 🇨🇦

@n8rnerd.bsky.social

Consulting Ecologist with a focus on Species at Risk and Impact Assessment/Mitigation, working with bioacoustics and camera trapping. Enjoy iNaturalist, baking, board games, hockey, & reading. Parront 🦜 😷 Based in #HamOnt. She/her.

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Alison 🇨🇦@n8rnerd.bsky.social · 52m ago

Oh, no. No thank you. Google Assistant worked perfectly fine without being "AI powered" to add items to my calendar, set up directions or respond to a text. Anyone else considering the move to Commodore Callback? It's nearly perfect, except for not having email or a browser. #NoAI

Excerpt from an email from Google titled "Google Assistant is going away on mobile devices": We’re writing to let you know that the Google Assistant on your mobile device is being discontinued, and Gemini—our next-generation AI-powered assistant—is now the assistant experience on Android.1 What This Means for Your Mobile Device As we transition our mobile experience to Gemini, Google Assistant will no longer be available on your mobile device. We will begin removing access to Google Assistant starting on September 4, and expect that this process may take a few weeks to reach everyone. Once availability is removed, you will no longer be able to use or switch back to Google Assistant on your phone, tablet, or paired devices.
Alison 🇨🇦@n8rnerd.bsky.social · 3d ago

Always nice to see local conservation wins. Protecting the headwaters of Fletcher Creek is huge, among all the other benefits. #HamOnt conservationhamilton.ca/hca-acquires...

Hamilton Conservation Authority acquires more than 200 acres of provincially significant natural lands - Hamilton Conservation Authority

Hamilton Conservation Authority (HCA) is taking a significant step toward protecting natural heritage with the acquisition of more than 200 acres of environmentally significant land near Valens Lake a...

conservationhamilton.ca

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 6d ago

SCOOP: The Doug Ford government received 98.98% opposition to its plan to replace Ontario’s Endangered Species Act with weaker legislation, according to an internal analysis viewed by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social. The bill passed anyway. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...

98.98% opposition to Doug Ford’s new endangered species law revealed | The Narwhal

Internal Ministry of Environment analysis shows ‘confusion’ and concerns about ‘negative impacts on Ontario’s biodiversity’ raised over the Species Conservation Act, under Bill 5

thenarwhal.ca

Alison 🇨🇦@n8rnerd.bsky.social · 7d ago

MOLEY MOLEY MOLE! 😍 I never dreamed I'd get to see a star-nosed mole in my yard and then this one just scampered alongside my garage while I was watering the garden! They're so weird and I love them ❤️ #neature

A star-nosed mole alongside the foundation of Alison's garage.
Jonathan C Slaght@jonathanslaght.com · 7d ago

it's International Tiger Day! How about you pick up my book charting the remarkable recovery of Amur (Siberian) tigers in northeast Asia? It's got stinky biologists, harrowing adventure in the snow, & lots of tigers! @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social has signed copies: moonpalacebooks.com/item/f10yIDk...

Tigers Between Empires by Jonathan C Slaght | Moon Palace Books

A Best Book of the Year: Scientific American, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, CounterPunch, The Telegraph, BookPageA Chicago Tribune Most-Anticipated Book of the Season“Epic .

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦@emmettmacfarlane.com · last wk.

I've played around with AI enough to know what it is - and any academic using it as more than a fancy search engine is playing with fire. It is capable of some degree of synthesis, often flawed, and that's about it. If you're letting it do your thinking for you, you're a fraud.

Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · last wk.

25 tonnes of nurdles, more than 1 billion nurdles, were spilled into the Tyne last week and are washing up on our beaches, north and south of the Tyne. Likely one of the largest ever plastic pollution events in the UK. There is remarkably little mention of this on here.

Guardian headline from Weds 22nd July reading: “One billion plastic pellets spilled into River Tyne after two ships collide Up to 25 tonnes of nurdles, the raw material for plastic manutacturing, have spread further than initially feared” With an image of a beach covered in nurdles.
Chise@sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2w ago

GOOD NEWS! Phase I clinical trial results out of WashU Medicine show a first-of-its-kind personalized DNA vaccine designed to treat MGMT-unmethylated glioblastoma is safe AND elicits robust and broad immune responses that appears to INCREASE recurrence-free survival in patients after surgery.

Personalized DNA Vaccine Shows Immune Activation and Survival Signals in Glioblastoma Trial

Personalized neoantigen vaccine triggered immune responses and promising survival outcomes in MGMT-unmethylated glioblastoma Phase I trial patients.

insideprecisionmedicine.com

Sabocat@beedut.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry says, as of Thursday evening, there were 139 fires burning, down from 145. Thunder Bay 36 largest wildfire in Ontario history at 315,000 hectares. It’s still the largest ever recorded in Ontario by over 100,000 hectares. It is NOT under control.

The size of Thunder Bay 36 mapped onto southern Ontario