Sarah Boon

What a great idea. Hope it works out.

“The extremely rapid loss of the snow that fell during the late Feb storm cycle, which in many cases dropped multiple feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada over just a couple of days, is genuinely remarkable.”

Haha they'd have to commit a lot more money for that!

Really enjoyed this, by @snowhydro.bsky.social - on bodies, how they change, and how we can move with that:

Thanks Kate!

Ha.

Fingers crossed for June!

"Stop using newcomers as cover for decades of underfunding. We are Canadian — and we are not fooled."

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Home Really Is Where the Heart Is Home Really Is Where the Heart Is: It’s an idea we create over time that gets imprinted in the brain

Interesting thoughts on what makes home in @nautil.us by @fleerackers.bsky.social nautil.us/home-really-...

ROFL

2025 Foreword INDIES Finalists in Ecology & Environment (Adult Nonfiction) These are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the cherries on top a metaphorical ice cream sundae of indie books. The Ecology & Environment finalists of the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Y...

So exciting! My book, Meltdown, is a finalist in the 2025 INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Ecology & Environment category. See other finalists here: www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final... @ualbertapress.bsky.social

Tennessee Wants to Let Schools Ban Immigrant Kids, Threatening to “End Public Education as We Know It” A Tennessee bill would take the right to education away from undocumented children. The Heritage Foundation is pushing it in other states.

Tennessee and other states are looking to ban undocumented children from schools unless they pay. The argument is that they are a drain on state resources. Which is not true as argued in this article. theintercept.com/2026/03/04/t...

Rainforests are rain-making machines worth tens of billions of dollars to farmers. A new study puts a price tag on forest-generated rainfall, making the economic case for protecting tropical forests as deforestation rises.

“In Brazil alone, the Amazon rainforest generates rainfall worth approximately $20 billion dollars per year if it went to agricultural activities”

🌎 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/02/rain...

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

'OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it “screwed up” an element of the product. All it takes to accelerate that decline is 10 seconds of your time.'

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Something for your newsletter!

Imagine finding this. How excited would you be?!

Close to 650 federal agents remain in Minnesota weeks after border czar announced end of operation There are still more than quadruple the 150 agents Tom Homan said there would be in the state by the end of last week.

They’re still lying to us.

www.startribune.com/close-to-650...

“[P]erched at the trailing edge of the Holocene, oppressed by the triple assaults of biodiversity loss, climate change, and pollution...we are looking for hope from the powerful creativity and passion that fuels the conservation movement.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal... ht @nijhuism.bsky.social

An adult class would be great! You can do it!

Wow, why are children under attack everywhere?

Assistant Professor- Tenure Track Position- Department of History - University of Prince Edward Island The Faculty of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island, Department of History, welcomes applications for a tenure-track position, Assistant Professor level, beginning on July 1st, 2026, in the...

Assistant Professor- Tenure Track Position- Department of History – University of Prince Edward Island

Closing date for applications is March 13th, 2026.

niche-canada.org/2026/03/02/a...

#envhist #cdnhist #atlanticcanada #publichistory

My latest for Psyche. On overcoming the shame brought up by a random woman's unthinking question in the pool change room. psyche.co/turning-poin...

Sounds fascinating!

@doctorzedd.bsky.social

Wow. And they want to use this technology in the army?

1/4: Statistics Canada's food price list for Jan is available. Grocery inflation just keeps growing.

This is a Made-in-Canada problem. Our food inflation is the highest amongst peer countries, but not due to imports: 70% of food we buy is produced domestically, including 80% of processed foods.

Thanks Kortnee - I swim indoors so the weather is no object!

New: Internal tension at the Associated Press over use of AI. One of the AP newsroom leaders leading the company's AI initiatives told staff that many editors preferred an AI-written article to a human one, and told them when it comes to using AI in the newsroom "resistance is futile."

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.