Dr. Az Klymiuk
@klymiuk.ca
Cree | RR Métis | Slavic, 2S nonbinary asexual autistic first-gen scholar studying plant mycobiomes, climate-adaptive agricultural interventions; occasional palaeontologist. Assistant Prof @UManitoba; Indigenous Scholar in Science. www.klymiuk.ca
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Dr. Az Klymiuk
@klymiuk.ca
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Pretendian season means it’s time to post genealogy again? I‘m descended of Cornelius Whitford, son of John Whitford & Mariah Bremner (Red River Métis, took scrip in MB), & Emilia Cardinal, daughter of Abraham Cardinal & Mary Nancy Shirt (Goodfish/Saddle Lake FN), prev married to Patrick Pruden Jr.
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Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 426 ppm in November 2025
10 years ago November averaged about 400 ppm
Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
10 years ago November averaged about 400 ppm
Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
December 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 426 ppm in November 2025
10 years ago November averaged about 400 ppm
Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
10 years ago November averaged about 400 ppm
Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
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In Manas National Park, India, Bengal floricans are making a comeback. Critically endangered, their recovery owes much to former poachers now working as protectors, supported by local communities and nonprofits.
Learn how conservation transforms lives: https://ow.ly/c5t450XqtOW
Learn how conservation transforms lives: https://ow.ly/c5t450XqtOW
They used to poach this rare bird. Now, they save them.
After decades of political unrest, former poachers and community members rallied to protect the Bengal florican.
ow.ly
December 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In Manas National Park, India, Bengal floricans are making a comeback. Critically endangered, their recovery owes much to former poachers now working as protectors, supported by local communities and nonprofits.
Learn how conservation transforms lives: https://ow.ly/c5t450XqtOW
Learn how conservation transforms lives: https://ow.ly/c5t450XqtOW
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Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season:
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* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
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* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season:
🧵
* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
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* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
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An extraordinary new series by @gingerthompson.bsky.social w/ Doris Burke: Sick in a Hospital Town
Read part one: The Business of Care
As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
Read part one: The Business of Care
As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 1: The Business of Care
Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape. The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
projects.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
An extraordinary new series by @gingerthompson.bsky.social w/ Doris Burke: Sick in a Hospital Town
Read part one: The Business of Care
As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
Read part one: The Business of Care
As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
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Pierre Poilievre hates women and smirks at not only gender-based violence, but he thinks MMIWG being sexually assaulted is HILARIOUS. Now wonder all the red pillers flock to him. He’s their Temu tyrant
December 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Pierre Poilievre hates women and smirks at not only gender-based violence, but he thinks MMIWG being sexually assaulted is HILARIOUS. Now wonder all the red pillers flock to him. He’s their Temu tyrant
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‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years
‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years
Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve
A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.
It was filmed dragging logs and establishing a lodge in a “perfect beaver habitat” on the River Wensun at Pensthorpe, a nature reserve near Fakenham in Norfolk. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years
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The loggers and ranchers are closing in but still Brazil’s Kawahiva people wait for protection
The loggers and ranchers are closing in but still Brazil’s Kawahiva people wait for protection
Bureaucratic delays and funding shortages stall plans to carve out a forest reserve for the uncontacted Indigenous group on the southern fringe of the Brazilian Amazon
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The loggers and ranchers are closing in but still Brazil’s Kawahiva people wait for protection
I can see this.
in the absence of any major social upheaval that would punt women into being the dominant gender, authoritarianism is primarily a social mechanism for channeling male reproductive anxiety into hierarchy, coercion, and social control
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
I can see this.
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This is immoral. "3-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court. More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to serve as their own attorneys in front of an immigration judge as the Trump admin. ramps up removal proceedings." coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
This is immoral. "3-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court. More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to serve as their own attorneys in front of an immigration judge as the Trump admin. ramps up removal proceedings." coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
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Some good news.
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years
Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Some good news.
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
The Peace River, sâkitâwahk sipi, is just beginning to freeze up. Ice floes are grounding out and freezing to the base in the shallows today.
December 7, 2025 at 5:47 AM
The Peace River, sâkitâwahk sipi, is just beginning to freeze up. Ice floes are grounding out and freezing to the base in the shallows today.
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My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Making progress on these vamps:
December 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Making progress on these vamps:
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This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
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🚨New paper in @ecography.bsky.social! First Pan-Arctic study on how large herbivore exclusion shapes mycorrhizal fungi, brilliantly led by @colebrachmann.bsky.social. Key insight: AM fungi—often overlooked in Arctic research—respond most strongly to herbivory while EcM and ErM vary locally. Thread 👇
Impacts of large herbivores on mycorrhizal fungal communities across the Arctic
Mycorrhizal fungi play an integral role in nutrient and carbon cycling in soils, which may be especially important in the Arctic, one of the world's most soil carbon-rich regions. Large mammalian her...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🚨New paper in @ecography.bsky.social! First Pan-Arctic study on how large herbivore exclusion shapes mycorrhizal fungi, brilliantly led by @colebrachmann.bsky.social. Key insight: AM fungi—often overlooked in Arctic research—respond most strongly to herbivory while EcM and ErM vary locally. Thread 👇
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Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
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Journalist Christopher Read joined us on the news to talk about his new episode of APTN Investigates where he looks at the recent eruption of residential school denialism.
Watch the new documentary this Saturday on APTN.
Watch the new documentary this Saturday on APTN.
New episode of APTN Investigates tackles residential school denialism | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Journalist Christopher Read joined us on the news to talk about his new episode of APTN Investigates where he looks at the recent eruption of residential school denialism.
Watch the new documentary this Saturday on APTN.
Watch the new documentary this Saturday on APTN.
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Scientists: “The study shows… technologies for harvesting are too damaging.”
The Metals Company: “We're encouraged by these data.” 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Metals Company: “We're encouraged by these data.” 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Over a third of animals impacted in deep sea mining test - scientists
The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Scientists: “The study shows… technologies for harvesting are too damaging.”
The Metals Company: “We're encouraged by these data.” 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Metals Company: “We're encouraged by these data.” 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I see this in my mycology class and even in my own lab. A couple students even refused to touch soil samples without gloves, and some point-blank refused to participate in outdoor research and learning activities.
"A lack of contact with nature and limited knowledge about nature can reinforce each other in a negative spiral."
#Biophobia - people can fear what they don't know or understand.
Education in and about nature is vital
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#Biophobia - people can fear what they don't know or understand.
Education in and about nature is vital
phys.org/news/2025-12...
New study challenges the idea of humans as innately nature-loving
Nature is a source of well-being and recovery for many people. However, research shows that there is also a growing number of individuals who experience negative emotions, such as fear, discomfort, or...
phys.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I see this in my mycology class and even in my own lab. A couple students even refused to touch soil samples without gloves, and some point-blank refused to participate in outdoor research and learning activities.
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"A lack of contact with nature and limited knowledge about nature can reinforce each other in a negative spiral."
#Biophobia - people can fear what they don't know or understand.
Education in and about nature is vital
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#Biophobia - people can fear what they don't know or understand.
Education in and about nature is vital
phys.org/news/2025-12...
New study challenges the idea of humans as innately nature-loving
Nature is a source of well-being and recovery for many people. However, research shows that there is also a growing number of individuals who experience negative emotions, such as fear, discomfort, or...
phys.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"A lack of contact with nature and limited knowledge about nature can reinforce each other in a negative spiral."
#Biophobia - people can fear what they don't know or understand.
Education in and about nature is vital
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#Biophobia - people can fear what they don't know or understand.
Education in and about nature is vital
phys.org/news/2025-12...
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I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.