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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar

@ryankbrook.bsky.social

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🍁• #ElbowsUpCanada • Community Engaged Wildlife Research • Professor • University of Saskatchewan • farmkid • dadof2 • Rebel Scum • born@330ppm CO2 now 428 • 7x covid vax • caribou • invasive pigs • wolves • peatlands in the Hudson Bay Lowlands Manitoba .. more

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · Nov 16

Let me introduce myself. I'm a professor @usask.bsky.social at the University of Saskatchewan. My group works on invasive wild pigs, caribou, wolves, and other beasties. I take the responsibility of my academic freedom very seriously and use it and good science to hopefully have some influence.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 7h

A little brisk this morning at minus forty five!

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 16h

The average value of the truck owned by people saying Carney is destroying the economy is $78,000.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 1d

I have taken the VIA train to Churchill 30 times and their policy has shifted from bending over backwards to dealing with major issues by chartering aircraft and paying passenger expenses to their current 'eat shit and die' policy where people are just abandoned to their own devices.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 1d

I've been riding VIA for just under 50 years now and best I can say is that they are remarkably consistent. For quite a while they were consistently very very good. Now they are consistently terrible.

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Benjamin Larue

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone interested in being the next polar bear biologist for Nunavut? Starting at $143,000/year including northern living allowance is not shabby though cost of living is truly insano up there. There is an opportunity for some work from home.

www.gov.nu.ca/en/jobs/wild...

www.gov.nu.ca

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 1d

Yes indeed. and my photography partner--we've been chasing wildlife for a looong time now together and giving eachother feedback on our photos. Can't measure how much I've learned from him over the years.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 1d

The book is full of great wildlife encounter and fieldwork stories- polar and grizzly bear, wolverine, and a wild trip down the Seal River - a big whitewater river that should have the right equipment and training, of which the group had none.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 1d

My father in law Murray Gillespie wrote a book on his 45 years as a wildlife biologist in Manitoba, full of stories of northern and southern fieldwork.

If you are in Saskatoon I can get you one in person or you can order it online for $24.99 +taxes.

redrivermetismarketplace.ca/product/a-wi...

A Wild Life 45 Years As A Wildlife Biologist By Murray Gillespie – RRMM

redrivermetismarketplace.ca

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 2d

Rabies in humans is now extremely rare, but apparently still possible.

Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 2d

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 2d

Wut.

Reposted by Ryan K. Brook

Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 2d

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 2d

Wut.

Man dies of rabies after kidney transplant from donor who saved kitten from skunk

Michigan man received kidney transplant from donor who had fought off a skunk and was later found unresponsive

www.theguardian.com

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 2d

beautiful little beast

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 2d

rangifer because they have antlers?

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 2d

Costco is well known as a failing business that needs massive subsidies.

Reposted by Ryan K. Brook

Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 2d

The Port of Churchill’s expansion could be the first project steered by a new Crown corporation where Indigenous nations are equally involved in decision-making.

Kinew touts Crown-Indigenous corporation

In state of the province address, premier says new agency will oversee northern port expansion

www.winnipegfreepress.com

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 2d

The podcast link doesn't work.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 3d

You will be visited by three spirits.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 3d

I think the worst part of working in the unemployment office is that even if you get fired you still have to come into the office tomorrow.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 4d

If eradication of invasive wild pigs is proceeding so well, why do I keep getting this in my email in places that the province of saskatchewan swears has no pigs?

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Ryan K. Brook, Arman Pili

Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 4d

Really happy to share that the Second Edition of our book, "Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling", is now out and available online!

We provide a foundation for applied spatial ecology with a focus on learning-by-doing.

@camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk

Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling

This textbook provides a foundation for modern applied ecology. It follows a rapidly changing field with updates of concepts, methods, and code.

link.springer.com

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 4d

though it has come to my attention this actually was not in christmas vacation..dammit.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 4d

CLASSIC CHRISTMAS SONG

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY-i...

Jason Owen - Holiday Road

YouTube video by Jason Owen

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 4d

I'm a big fan of air mattresses for days when I want to sleep directly on the floor but not immediately.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 4d

makes no sense!

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 4d

Dang if one was a slalom water skier 'between the bouys' that would be a gooder.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 4d

I missed an obvious opportunity with the last name Brook to work on fish and/or streams though I do babble a lot.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 4d

There are at least four completely different spots in my grocery store where you can get cheese.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 4d

Aptronym is when your name matches your occupation. You've heard of Sarah Blizzard the weather forecaster, Usain Bolt the sprinter, and David Dollar the economist, but have you heard of Dr. Chilly Back working on exercising in the cold?

news.usask.ca/articles/res...