Chris MacQuarrie
@cmacquar.bsky.social
Husband, Dad, Entomologist, Ecologist, Researcher with NRCan Canadian Forest Service , and a (lapsed) Curler. Occasional climate scientist.
Agreed!
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Treble Charger at USask homecoming caberet
Tragically Hip at Another Roadside Attraction
Weakerthans at Dewey's
Corb Lund at the Winspear
Michael Kaeshammer at the Yardbird
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Treble Charger at USask homecoming caberet
Tragically Hip at Another Roadside Attraction
Weakerthans at Dewey's
Corb Lund at the Winspear
Michael Kaeshammer at the Yardbird
Yea ok this one seems fun
Tragically Hip at the Corel Centre
Big Sugar in Porter Hall at Carleton University
Rise Against / Against Me / An**-Fl** at Capital Music Hall
Billy Talent at Capital Music Hall
Flogging Molly at The Rainbow in Montreal
Tragically Hip at the Corel Centre
Big Sugar in Porter Hall at Carleton University
Rise Against / Against Me / An**-Fl** at Capital Music Hall
Billy Talent at Capital Music Hall
Flogging Molly at The Rainbow in Montreal
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
Tragically Hip at the student union cafeteria
Big Sugar at Barrymore's in Ottawa
REM farewell tour
Blue Rodeo (a few times)
Alanis Morissette at Sommo Fest this summer
Tragically Hip at the student union cafeteria
Big Sugar at Barrymore's in Ottawa
REM farewell tour
Blue Rodeo (a few times)
Alanis Morissette at Sommo Fest this summer
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Agreed!
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Treble Charger at USask homecoming caberet
Tragically Hip at Another Roadside Attraction
Weakerthans at Dewey's
Corb Lund at the Winspear
Michael Kaeshammer at the Yardbird
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Treble Charger at USask homecoming caberet
Tragically Hip at Another Roadside Attraction
Weakerthans at Dewey's
Corb Lund at the Winspear
Michael Kaeshammer at the Yardbird
What's the over-under on the reviews also being AI generated?
UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
What's the over-under on the reviews also being AI generated?
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild:
Emerald ash borer
Spruce budworm
Mountain pine beetle
Forest tent caterpillar
Birch leafminer
Emerald ash borer
Spruce budworm
Mountain pine beetle
Forest tent caterpillar
Birch leafminer
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
Black bear cub (I ran before mom arrived)
Two bobcats (went into prey freezing mode as they passed 10 feet away)
Bighorn sheep (happy I was in a bus, those horns are big)
Several mooses
A baby hare (almost stepped on it in a rainy night)
Black bear cub (I ran before mom arrived)
Two bobcats (went into prey freezing mode as they passed 10 feet away)
Bighorn sheep (happy I was in a bus, those horns are big)
Several mooses
A baby hare (almost stepped on it in a rainy night)
Black bear (A mom and her cubs)
Moose
Elk
Indigo bunting
Macaque
Moose
Elk
Indigo bunting
Macaque
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild:
Emerald ash borer
Spruce budworm
Mountain pine beetle
Forest tent caterpillar
Birch leafminer
Emerald ash borer
Spruce budworm
Mountain pine beetle
Forest tent caterpillar
Birch leafminer
In my whole career I've never had a study where I've thought 'gee, maybe this is a Nature journal paper' and then you see this, and I think: Apparently they're quite a bit dumber than I took them for and I'm not shameless enough to send something this awful: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bridging the gap: explainable ai for autism diagnosis and parental support with TabPFNMix and SHAP - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Bridging the gap: explainable ai for autism diagnosis and parental support with TabPFNMix and SHAP
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In my whole career I've never had a study where I've thought 'gee, maybe this is a Nature journal paper' and then you see this, and I think: Apparently they're quite a bit dumber than I took them for and I'm not shameless enough to send something this awful: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Forest Futures – new forest-climate knowledge hub based at uOttawa – is hiring three key positions:
🔹 Senior Research Associate lnkd.in/gfByajdH
🔹 Research Associate / Post-Doctoral Fellow www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
🔹 Coordination / Partnerships Manager lnkd.in/gyKz_eNu
🔹 Senior Research Associate lnkd.in/gfByajdH
🔹 Research Associate / Post-Doctoral Fellow www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
🔹 Coordination / Partnerships Manager lnkd.in/gyKz_eNu
Forest Futures hiring Senior Research Associate in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | LinkedIn
Posted 1:07:03 PM. Job Title: Senior Research AssociateJob Type: Full-time Contract (Part-time 50%+ options…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
lnkd.in
November 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Forest Futures – new forest-climate knowledge hub based at uOttawa – is hiring three key positions:
🔹 Senior Research Associate lnkd.in/gfByajdH
🔹 Research Associate / Post-Doctoral Fellow www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
🔹 Coordination / Partnerships Manager lnkd.in/gyKz_eNu
🔹 Senior Research Associate lnkd.in/gfByajdH
🔹 Research Associate / Post-Doctoral Fellow www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
🔹 Coordination / Partnerships Manager lnkd.in/gyKz_eNu
When I lived in Alaska I was told that locals don't get excited about anything less than 6
A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Alaska on Thursday, according to the USGS.
Map: 6.0-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Alaska Near Anchorage
View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
nyti.ms
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
When I lived in Alaska I was told that locals don't get excited about anything less than 6
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The suspects....
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The suspects....
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
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My team is hiring! 👩💻 Product manager for digital credentials, deadline to apply is December 9th. (Based locally in Whitehorse, Yukon.) It’s a great crew! yukon.ca/en/digital-b...
Looking for a product manager for digital credentials and identity management program | Yukon.ca
Details about a job competition at eServices for the digital credentials and identity management project manager position.
yukon.ca
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My team is hiring! 👩💻 Product manager for digital credentials, deadline to apply is December 9th. (Based locally in Whitehorse, Yukon.) It’s a great crew! yukon.ca/en/digital-b...
Ontario tried this in the 90s. You know what happens? Executive positions drift back to the capital while lower-paid, lower-influence positions stay in the regions. Nothing is any different but the whole thing is more expensive and that means less $ for frontline work.
As frustration in Western Canada deepens over decisions handed down from Ottawa, one writer says the country’s survival may depend on scattering the federal government far beyond the capital’s bubble. https://macleans.ca/politics/how-to-fix-western-alienation/
How to Fix Western Alienation - Macleans.ca
Ottawa feels out of touch. Spreading the federal government across the country would rebuild trust.
macleans.ca
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Ontario tried this in the 90s. You know what happens? Executive positions drift back to the capital while lower-paid, lower-influence positions stay in the regions. Nothing is any different but the whole thing is more expensive and that means less $ for frontline work.
This is hilarious. If they'd been paid to build a building and it was discovered some of the floors were made of Bologna would we invite them to do a review?
ChatGPT fake citations in a 1.6M$ report! Absurdly unprofessional by Deloitte, NL gov't should sue for a full refund. I expect in a few years this too may be seen as 'normal'. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
N.L. asks Deloitte to carry out review after 'incorrect' citations found in $1.6M provincial health plan | CBC News
The Newfoundland and Labrador government says it's been in contact with the private company responsible for a new report meant to guide the province into the future, which was found to contain fake ci...
www.cbc.ca
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is hilarious. If they'd been paid to build a building and it was discovered some of the floors were made of Bologna would we invite them to do a review?
Some boats are OK to miss. See: Titanic.
EU missing the boat on AI, jeopardising its future, Lagarde warns reut.rs/4oyUdQt
EU missing the boat on AI, jeopardising its future, Lagarde warns
Europe is jeopardising its own future by missing the boat on artificial intelligence and must quickly remove obstacles that prevent the diffusion of this new technology, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Monday.
reut.rs
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Some boats are OK to miss. See: Titanic.
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Don’t miss this! #WalrusTalks are free to watch online — register.
Dr. Bobiwash is an Assistant Professor and an Indigenous Scholar @umanitoba.bsky.social He’s also a researcher in residence at the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada.
Insightful and a great speaker. 👏
Dr. Bobiwash is an Assistant Professor and an Indigenous Scholar @umanitoba.bsky.social He’s also a researcher in residence at the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada.
Insightful and a great speaker. 👏
At Universities Canada presents The Walrus Talks Innovation Nation, Dr. Kyle Bobiwash invites us to look at the connections between people, place and ecosystems through a new lens.
Buy tickets: WalrusTalksInnovationNation.e...
#InnovationNation #InnovateCanada #MadeInCanada
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#InnovationNation #InnovateCanada #MadeInCanada
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Don’t miss this! #WalrusTalks are free to watch online — register.
Dr. Bobiwash is an Assistant Professor and an Indigenous Scholar @umanitoba.bsky.social He’s also a researcher in residence at the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada.
Insightful and a great speaker. 👏
Dr. Bobiwash is an Assistant Professor and an Indigenous Scholar @umanitoba.bsky.social He’s also a researcher in residence at the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada.
Insightful and a great speaker. 👏
It's 106 miles to Chicago, Charlie Brown. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses
The line must be drawn here, Charlie Brown! This far, and no farther
Rosebud, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It's 106 miles to Chicago, Charlie Brown. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses
Wanted to be a vet. Until I met the kids that *really* wanted to be vets. Then got my best ever grades in an entomology course followed by a summer job that I loved in a pest lab. Then MSc & PhD b/c they told me I wouldn't get into grad school. Then got the only job I'm qualified for.
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Wanted to be a vet. Until I met the kids that *really* wanted to be vets. Then got my best ever grades in an entomology course followed by a summer job that I loved in a pest lab. Then MSc & PhD b/c they told me I wouldn't get into grad school. Then got the only job I'm qualified for.
Do these Swedish jets come with the Alan key or do we need to have our own?
McGuinty not ruling out fighter jet purchases from several companies with F-35 decision still pending
The Swedish company Saab wants to build Gripen fighter jets in Canada
The Swedish company Saab wants to build Gripen fighter jets in Canada
McGuinty not ruling out fighter jet purchases from several companies with F-35 decision still pending
Defence Minister David McGuinty says Canada isn’t ruling out diversifying its fighter-jet purchases from more than one company in order to fulfil capability requirements.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Do these Swedish jets come with the Alan key or do we need to have our own?
I want to meet someone in the 14% who don't trust the weather network...
From a Pollara survey earlier this year: Trust in Media #media
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I want to meet someone in the 14% who don't trust the weather network...
Reposted by Chris MacQuarrie
What is the point of CanCon if we don’t have a mini series on Farley Mowatt’s service in the Italian Campaign?
One of Canada’s most beloved authors. he wrote a novel and a memoir on his experience
One of Canada’s most beloved authors. he wrote a novel and a memoir on his experience
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
What is the point of CanCon if we don’t have a mini series on Farley Mowatt’s service in the Italian Campaign?
One of Canada’s most beloved authors. he wrote a novel and a memoir on his experience
One of Canada’s most beloved authors. he wrote a novel and a memoir on his experience
100%. Would watch
Band of Brothers was so good. Why have we only had a few others of this type of show?
I want a WW1 CanCon version following the 29th Brigade of the CEF
I want a WW1 CanCon version following the 29th Brigade of the CEF
November 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
100%. Would watch
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Marie-Josée Fortin (@utoronto.ca), a globally recognized leader in spatial ecology with a career dedicated to advancing spatial analysis in ecological research, has been awarded the Miroslaw Romanowski Medal. #COEE2025
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Marie-Josée Fortin (@utoronto.ca), a globally recognized leader in spatial ecology with a career dedicated to advancing spatial analysis in ecological research, has been awarded the Miroslaw Romanowski Medal. #COEE2025
My favorite Gould quote.
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
- Stephen Jay Gould.
- Stephen Jay Gould.
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My favorite Gould quote.
I work in the same research area as my spouse, but she didn't take my last name. So occasionally someone who knows us both individually connects the dots that we are married. It's never not funny when this happens and we're both waiting for the first time someone bad mouths one of us to the other.
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I work in the same research area as my spouse, but she didn't take my last name. So occasionally someone who knows us both individually connects the dots that we are married. It's never not funny when this happens and we're both waiting for the first time someone bad mouths one of us to the other.
Having been in a few #EntSoc planning meetings I would have loved to have been in the one where the Llama was discussed...
Entomologists love insects. Do they also love llamas?
Yes, yes they do.
You never know what you might see at the ESA Annual Meeting. #EntSoc25
Yes, yes they do.
You never know what you might see at the ESA Annual Meeting. #EntSoc25
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Having been in a few #EntSoc planning meetings I would have loved to have been in the one where the Llama was discussed...
You'd have to be at the bottom of @lakesuperior.bsky.social to not have noticed today's the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Gordon Lightfoot's original is the GOAT, the best cover of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is by The Headstones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8LB...
Headstones - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
YouTube video by Headstones
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
You'd have to be at the bottom of @lakesuperior.bsky.social to not have noticed today's the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Gordon Lightfoot's original is the GOAT, the best cover of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is by The Headstones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8LB...