Alexandra Macdonald, a postdoc in our department, is giving a workshop on harvesting and processing flax at the Brown homestead, Saturday the 19th.
Elizabeth Neswald
@octobeth.bsky.social
historian of science at Brock University standing up for the spineless
heading back from Berlin tomorrow and had bring my bike from my apt in the NE to its winter storage in the SW. Of course I got lost a few times on the way and ended up backtracking, turned around, upside down, roll-wandering through the city for 2 hrs and it was not a bad way to end the visit.
Today in marine invertebrates 😍😍😍
Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is an obvious choice for me. Lovely red Cuprite might be full of copper but Orpiment, which literally means gold pigment is a poisonous pigment used since antiquity! Vote Orpiment! #MinCup26 But, have I got a story for you… Orpiment is used by the deep-sea worm Paralvinella hessleri 🧵
Doug Ford doesn’t know about or care about what works or doesn’t work in city-building. He’s fine with hurting the city (and by extension the provincial economy), killing people, wasting public money, and making congestion worse. It’s about ego, ideology & red meat wedge issues for suburban voters.
Toronto Star@thestar.com · 4d agoToronto Mayor Olivia Chow says the province walked away from compromises to restore traffic lanes while keeping bike lanes on major streets.
Doug Ford actively wants people to die www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...
Doug Ford’s government rejected Toronto’s proposals to restore traffic lanes and keep bike lanes: sources
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says the province walked away from compromises to restore traffic lanes while keeping bike lanes on major streets.
thestar.com
this is the biggest step backward toronto has ever taken on mobility in my lifetime. many years of work undone because of some grumblings over a piece of bike lane on bloor west
Mark Shaw@markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 6d agoThat’s almost the entire network. It’s so much worse than we feared 😔
Just back from a new music concert and they handed out ear plugs. This was definitely a rough one. Final movement consisted of 6 percussionists, 4 additional with gongs placed in different parts of the hall, and some vocal sounds. Those percussionists really got a workout.
It's been disheartening to see climate change be a known issue in the public consciousness my whole life while governments have just sat on their hands. It's infuriating to see this happening and the government, on the federal and provincial level, continue to go backwards on climate policy.
UN Environment Programme@unep.org · 6d agoGlobal warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns. Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.
One of the things that comes out in the book is how the Fords were Trump before Trump - as if they wrote a playbook of sorts. Why Doug's turn against Trump of late rings false: decades of Trump-like behaviour + support of Trump himself. Don't get that be laundered away (note to opposition parties)
Ignore Doug Ford's grandstanding about Trump; this is who he really is:
How-Sen Chong@how-sen.com · 6d agoYesterday Doug Ford did three things that will make congestion around Toronto much, much worse. First, Ford has made made massive cuts to GO Train service on the Lakeshore West, Lakeshore East, Barrie and Stouffville lines. In some cases, GO Train frequency will drop from 15 trains a day to 4 ->
Doug Ford is sole-sourcing Ontario teachers’ entire classroom supplies fund to an American-owned chain in the middle of a trade war. The Premier has big words and big signs, but he could cancel the Staples deal and open the fund to local Canadian businesses instead.
Anyone who believes Doug Ford is any different from Trump (who just defunded and is removing bike lanes) is blind.
Alex Bozikovic@alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 7d agoDoug Ford makes a video about bike lanes, showing 1) zero congestion 2) a driver illegally obstructing the lane www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Not looking forward to returning to Ontario next week after a summer in a city with loads of bikes, safe streets, little congestion, and less road rage.
Lanrick Bennett@lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 7d ago'Tuesday's news release says that the provincial government is going to begin the process of "restoring motor vehicle lanes" that were previously removed to make bike lanes on Bloor St, Yonge St, University Ave, Queen's Park, Queen's Park Crescent & Avenue Road.' www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"I'm going to the darklands To talk in rhyme With my chaotic soul" Darklands was released on this day in 1987.
And today in marine invertebrates In before the next crash www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
'No doubt about it': Heat stress is harming coral reefs, global data shows | CBC Climate Change News
New research highlights the declines in living corals in reefs around the world, showing the unprecedented twin-danger of human-caused climate change and an expected record El Niño.
cbc.ca
