Miriam Richards
@richardsmiriam1.bsky.social
Scientist, professor, gardener, grandmother.
There are 33 free seats on our KLM flight to Amsterdam tomorrow, but the airline stuck us in two separated, middle seats. Clearly trying to blackmail us into giving them another $200 to be seated together. Looks like we'll be avoiding KLM in the future.
🇨🇦🔋📈 Canadian EV sales "soared" by nearly 20% this May compared to last, according to new Statistics Canada data out today. May's EV sales share rose to 9.6% of the vehicle market.
Zero-emission vehicle sales spiked nearly 20% in May, says StatCan - National | Globalnews.ca
Sales of zero-emission vehicles soared almost 20 per cent in May, according to Statistics Canada, with more than 18,000 sold across the country.
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Problems breathing? Just (don't) take a deep breath. Instead, think about new nation-building projects like pipelines. Remember, @mark-carney.bsky.social says a little more heat and smoke is worth it.
Tried out Claude Science today. It figured out in minutes what two profs took weeks to figure out and made amazing figures to boot. Stunning! But left me feeling queasy, not for myself, but for our students and our kids, because who will hire scientists-in-training when they can buy an AI?
@raincoast.org is asking a very important question: What Canada are you for? We’re for a Canada that follows its own environmental laws. A Canada where healthy oceans and Southern Resident Killer Whales are part of our shared future—not just our past. 💙
Raincoast Conservation Foundation@raincoast.org · last mo.Recently, Canada’s federal government proposed sweeping changes to overhaul the laws that protect our lakes and streams, our wildlife, our oceans and the landscapes that are part of our Canadian identity. What Canada are you for? www.raincoast.org/2026/07/what...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...
Opinion | The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact
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It's that time of the year when sweat bees do their thing
This machine applies cake frosting with impossible precision 🎂
The function of this scheme is to provide the resource extraction industry cover to destroy the last remaining habitats of endangered species, with a fig leaf of "we saved some DNA". It is corrupt, and tragic.
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2mo agoThe US government is entering a partnership to store frozen cells and other biological samples from endangered and threatened species with Colossal, a private company best known for claiming to "de-extinct" dire wolves. Story by me & @catrineinhorn.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Rzhfw
PM Carney is giving cabinet the power to override laws on illegal pesticides. @mark-carney.bsky.social - the pollinators are not the enemy. The world depends on them. They just don't hire lobbyists. Unlike Monsanto and the others you have drinks with. Do better. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney government passes law allowing authorization of banned pesticides | CBC News
The federal government has brought in major changes to how pesticides are regulated in Canada, granting cabinet the power to authorize the use of pesticides — even ones that Health Canada has deemed u...
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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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See you in court, Prime Minister Carney. LEARN MORE >> ecojustice.ca/news/youth-u... @environmentaldefence.ca @cape-acme.bsky.social
"The need to transition towards a clean energy future demands investment in new infrastructure. However, the way to do it is not to hollow out the scientific processes designed to safeguard communities and the environment." 🌎 theconversation.com/canadas-majo...
Canada’s ‘major projects’ should not come at the cost of the environment
Impact assessments prevent harm before it occurs. Circumventing the process before we understand the risks is misguided and a gamble with our collective future.
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Lylly in the Brock News on World Bee Day! @brocku.ca
What fuels aggression in male eastern carpenter bees? Researchers now know
At the first hint of the weather warming, male eastern carpenter bees spring into action. A territorial lot determined to mate, they gather near the entrances of nests — where combat then begins. “The...
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May 20 is World Bee Day. 🧪🐡🐝 There are ~20,000 different bee species in the world. Here in Ontario we have at least 400 native bees (none of which are the honeybees, which are from Europe). Bees are key to pollination. According to the UN nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend
Carney clarifies “Buy Canadian” also means public assets
Carney clarifies “Buy Canadian” also means public assets
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced that “Buy Canadian” policies now means Canadians can now support the country’s economy by purchasing local public assets like ports, airports, and cro...
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#Ontario is subsidizing Bruce Power’s $300 million nuclear pre-development budget — even though wind & solar cost less than one-third as much. Stop the nuclear gravy train 🚂 #onpoli www.cleanairalliance.org/gravy-train/
A huge corporate welfare handout for Bruce Power - Ontario Clean Air Alliance
ALL ABOARD THE NUCLEAR GRAVY TRAIN.
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To oppose the wholesale dismantling of environmental regulations in Canada, please go to this page www.canada.ca/en/one-canad.... ignore the very leading 'proposed' questions and submit your comments. CC your MP. If you need inspiration here is what I just sent.
2018: special section in JWildlManag attackied evidence that intense selective hunting leads to evolution of smaller horns in bighorn sheep. Central to the attack was a model with 4 flaws. JWM stonewalled our rebuttal. See it here: www.nwsgc.net/proceedings/... Read on if this interest you 🧪
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First the airports now the seaports don't forget the pipelines and the minerals selling off Canada for parts
Toronto Star@thestar.com · 3mo agoPrime Minister Mark Carney’s government is looking at offering Canadian sea ports for sale. Read more from Star Ottawa Bureau Chief Tonda MacCharles:
Ford government releases spending update for Q1.
Danielle Smith announces referendum to determine her position on Albertan Independence Referendum (podcast)
Danielle Smith announces referendum to determine her position on Albertan Independence Referendum
“Also there will be an introductory referendum to determine what the question on my position referendum will be.” Luke and the Panel (Clare Blackwood and Ian MacIntyre) talk about Carney’s sudden inte...
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All of a sudden, I'm getting one email after another with my name mispelled. Only 6 letters, so not hard. And the spelling is right there for anyone who sends me an email - it's my email address, it's in my signature. Weird. I guess I'll just blame Outlook, which deserves a lot of blame anyway.
I feel like the federal NDP need to skootch over a little to the right so we have at least one centrist party in Canada.
