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Brian Ingalls
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He/him | Husband | Father | Researcher: systems & synthetic biology | Educator: math & biology | Advisor: UWaterloo iGEM | Learner & Supporter: equity, inclusion, and Indigenization | Views my own
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maxfawcett.bsky.social
Canada has the opportunity to help create a global tech landscape that isn’t dominated by US oligarchs.

That won’t happen if our political leaders refuse to quit toxic platforms like Twitter. What are they waiting for? #cdnpoli

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/12/o...
Twitter is a litmus test for Canada
With Twitter, the medium really is the message — one that should be clearly unacceptable for our elected officials and political leaders.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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0lsi.bsky.social
🇳🇴 Norway just capped off 2025 with about 97% of all new cars sold being electric. For the first time ever there are more #EVs than diesel cars on the road. It comes to show how fast the country’s shifted away from #FossilFuels 👀⚡️ Most cars still run on gas overall, so there’s more change coming 🚘.
Norway reaches 97% EV sales as EVs now outnumber diesels on its roads
97.6% of Norway's car sales were all-electric in Dec., and 95.9% for the full year. Also, there are now more EVs on Norway's roads than diesel
electrek.co
January 10, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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ediparolev.bsky.social
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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inanna-nalytica.bsky.social
I am an evolutionary biologist (though publishing more in medicine these days). I think trans modality is an evolutionary spandrel. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandre...
December 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
When my business school colleagues insist that ChatGPT is “just another tool in the toolbox,” I’m tempted to remind them that Facebook was once “just a way to connect with friends.” But there’s a difference between tools and technologies. Tools help us accomplish tasks; technologies reshape the very environments in which we think, work, and relate. As philosopher Peter Hershock observes, we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself. A pen extends communication without redefining it; social media transformed what we mean by privacy, friendship, even truth.
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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adsumforwomen.bsky.social
We remember them always.

Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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stevenguilbeault.bsky.social
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.

You can find my full statement below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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baym.lol
Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics
From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating g...
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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harshawalia.bsky.social
Falling for anti-migrant racism doesn't protect workers, it entrenches capitalism by making workers more vulnerable & exploitable! Our enemy arrives in limousine, not someone on a boat fleeing colonial devastation.

Being pro-migrant is central to our collective fight against fascism!
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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seema.bsky.social
Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.
heimbergecon.bsky.social Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · Nov 18
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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cfarrior.bsky.social
Like math and plant community ecology?

I am recruiting one or two new Ph.D. students to work on theory and its integration with data in the areas of forest dynamics, species coexistence, or plant community ecology more generally.

Deadlines for the EEB and Plant Biology programs are Dec. 1.
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
The Ecology, Evolution and Behavior graduate program at The University of Texas at Austin is top-10 ranked.
integrativebio.utexas.edu
November 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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thomasjuneau.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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canopyrobin.com
Immensely proud to share that I am the designer of the official badge for LGBT+ History Month 2026.

Last night, @lgbthm.bsky.social revealed that the 2026 theme for the month will be 'Science and Innovation', so get ready to learn about some amazing queer scientists next year!
Robin holding a sheet of pin badges with their design The LGBT plus History Month 2026 logo – an eruption of rainbow colours from a conical flask containing pink, white, blue, and brown fluids . At the top, the flask is fizzing yellow with purple bubbles . The overall effect reflects the colours of the intersex -inclusive Progress Pride Flag .
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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napaaqtuk.bsky.social
I had student meetings yesterday for my class. It was a writing class so most meetings started with my comments on their papers, but I told them they could ask about anything. Some asked for advice for gap years, how to choose the next career step, even audio books :) my favorite question was...🧵
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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graemesmith.bsky.social
You could also work with Debbie Leung, Richard Cleve, David Gosset, Luke Schaefer, Ashwin Nayak, Norbert Lutkenhaus, Mike Mosca, Christine Muschik or some combination of us if you do theory.
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.

As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
Maxime Blanchette-Joncas: I'm tabling the following motion: That the committee request the three funding councils, namely the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), as part of the study on the impact of federal funding allocation criteria on research excellence in Canada, to provide it with the disaggregated data of all submitted applications, whether funded or not, for all student and faculty funding programs from the master's level onwards for applications made between 2020 and 2025. That this data include (1) demographic data of applicants and collaborators, including applicants' responses to the equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) questionnaire, (2) the institutions and departments of applicants, including the institutions of collaboration, (3) the language of the application, (4) all data regarding the type of application and project content (application year, grant program, discipline, title, summary, amount requested by the applicant), as well as (5) the identity of the evaluation committee, comments, opinions, scores assigned to applications for each criterion, and (6) the outcome of the application and the amount awarded. That the three funding councils submit all this data to the committee within 15 days following the adoption of this motion, in an Excel spreadsheet format.
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
thinking about potato house this halloween
a post showing a bowl of candy with a single potato in the center with the text: Tonight kids chose potato more than 25 times, each time triumphantly proclaiming to friends and family, "I GOT A POTATO!" One kid shouted, "A potato, just like last year!" and another group said, "Oh, youre the potato house? You're legends!" This has become an unexpected and joyful tradition. Kids are given the free choice and over and over again they choose Potato. My friends, every day you are given a choice. I encourage you: choose potato
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
I was recently invited to present my thoughts on the role of universities in the #climate crisis

Several audience members asked that I share my slides, so I've decided to post them here too as an open resource

I'd love any feedback, & for you to share examples of projects & best practice.

Long 🧵😊
October 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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cvkvlv.com
Honor the kids who didn't make it home from residential schools by wearing orange on September 30th (Orange Shirt Day)

#NDTR #TruthAndReconciliation #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters
EVERY CHILD MATTERS ORANGE SHIRT DAY September 30
September 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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policingblack.bsky.social
Hot off the press! Out Oct 16, featuring two new chapters, Against the Romance of Police Reform and Futures Beyond Policing. Hoping this study of anti-Black criminalization is helpful as we face the rise in fascistic authoritarian rule, and the policing used to enforce and enable it.
September 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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macleans.bsky.social
She spent years spouting conspiracy theories about vaccines. Now, as measles rages in her home of Alberta, she’s trying to convince vax-hesitant parents to inoculate their kids. https://macleans.ca/longforms/confessions-of-an-ex-anti-vaxxer/
Confessions of an Ex-Anti-Vaxxer - Macleans.ca
I spent years spouting conspiracy theories about vaccines. Now, as measles rages in my home of Alberta, I’m trying to convince vax-hesitant parents to inoculate their kids.
macleans.ca
September 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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ryankatzrosene.bsky.social
Percent change in GHG emissions (CO2eq) per year since 1990, G7/EU.

🫣🇨🇦
September 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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jessicacalarco.com
On this Labor Day, let's remember that today isn't likely to offer a respite for those--disproportionately women, and especially women of color, immigrant women, and low-income women--who do the unpaid and underpaid labor of care. In fact, that labor may even be greater on days "off" like today. 1/🧵
September 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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carlyziter.bsky.social
MSc/PhD at Concordia (Montreal) or U Laval (Quebec): csee-scee.ca/job/funded-m...
Funded MSc position: Effects of urban landscape structure on biodiversity within and across cities (PhD also possible) | CSEE: Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
The Ziter Urban Landscape Ecology lab (Department of Biology, Concordia University) and Sivarajah Lab (Research Chair on Urban Trees and its Environment (CRAUM), Université Laval) are seeking a motiva...
csee-scee.ca
August 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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lucianachr.bsky.social
We are hiring a PhD candidate to work on modeling soil processes in regenerative agriculture 🌱.
If you have experience in process-based modeling and a background in agriculture, we invite you to apply.
Deadline, September 30, 2025.

More info here:

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
PhD on Modeling soil processes/functions at the field scale in regenerative agriculture
www.wur.nl
August 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM