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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar
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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
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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.
Looking at flights Saskatoon to Winnipeg... nothing less than $1,000. OK.
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Watson: great scientist, piece of shit human.
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Bannock dogs for supper.
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Cree fry bread for dessert smothered in honey butter.
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Great play by play from ⁦‪JP Tasker‬⁩ of last night’s theatre. At least the NDP caucus was honest about the quandary they faced and the strategy they chose. The CPC cannot say the same. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
How the Conservatives helped pass Carney's budget, avoiding an election | CBC News
Minutes before time ran out on Monday's budget vote, two senior Conservatives swooped into the chamber claiming their electronic voting app wasn't working and declared they wanted to vote against Prim...
www.cbc.ca
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Dang it. I tried to make a reservation at the library today but.....they were all booked. All booked.
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
So I said 'listen buddy there is no reason to tailgate me when I'm already doing 105 in an 80 zone'. 'plus those flashing red and blue lights are ridiculous.'
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
So Andrew Scheer did not vote on the budget motion in the House of Commons today, November 17, 2025.

He was present in chamber but it is rumored he couldn't figure out if his vote could be aimed specifically at Trudeau somehow.
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
On this day sixteen years ago I got my letter of offer from the University of Saskatchewan for my faculty position and my life changed dramatically in all kinds of ways. Best professional decision of my life. I wouldn't say its always been easy, but the cold never bothered me anyway.
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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A shorter snout is one of several physical traits linked to domestication. Using almost 20,000 raccoon photos from iNaturalist, researchers found that urban raccoons' snouts were 3.5% shorter than rural ones.
November 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
As a Sask resident I find this immensely in good humor and did indeed LOL.
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
USASK bricks my lab and office landline phones then asks me to make a 'business case' to get them back...I don't necessarily need them but a very odd way to go about it.
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I'm less than three years from being out of the teenager business and having two 'adult' children.

Sweet fanny adams time flies by. Don't blink.
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
In my family, who ever comes in dead last playing cards is the "losingest loser". He is 100% the losingest loser ever. He loses better than anyone I know.
Area man whose team hasn't won in over a decade offers coaching tips.
November 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Does anyone have a recent Saskatchewan quarter section layer as .kml handy?

[email protected]
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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The House of Commons is set for one final vote on the main budget motion that will determine if the fiscal policy can go ahead and if the Liberal Party can keep governing. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Budget, government’s fate up in the air as MPs prepare for crucial vote | CBC News
The House of Commons is set for one final vote on the main budget motion that will determine if the fiscal policy can go ahead and if the Liberals can keep governing.
www.cbc.ca
November 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I was just at the hardware store and asked what I could use to get get rid of really bad stains.

The person said 'ammonia cleaner'

So I replied - oops sorry I thought you worked here.
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Spicy MN Gov! 😆

COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein's estate, released by the US House Oversight Committee on November 12, 2025, into an easily searchable repository.

Find something interesting? Let us know: [email protected]
journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Yeah I'm mad, but not ostrich farm mad.
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Homage to Xavier Bou: little swifts at the Olifants River high-water bridge, Kruger National Park. Unstacked from video taken with an Iphone 14. #birds #photography #SouthAfrica #iPhone
October 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I've been uploading species occurrences into iNaturalist for a few years now with a primary focus on the Hudson Bay coastal area in Manitoba.

If you have some free time I would appreciate your help confirming species identifications- plants, mammals, bugs, all kinds of fun stuff.
November 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
17 years ago we were about to have a baby. Now all we have are stinky teenagers that give us endless joy.

Becoming a dad was the best thing I ever did in my life.
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM