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Denis REALE 🇨🇦 @denisreale.bsky.social · 8h

Profits = short-term benefits for a minority
Biodiversity = long-term COSTS for the majority

martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social · 1d

The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

Front cover of the European Butterfly Red List, showing Polyommatus humedasae. The report can be downloaded at https://www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?name=red-list-butterflies-2025

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Dan Israel @dan-mdpt.bsky.social · 1d

"Ce qui frappe aujourd’hui, dans tous les sens du terme, c’est la confiscation du pouvoir par quelques hommes désavoués par l’expression populaire et la représentation nationale." @ilyesramdani.bsky.social trouve les mots pour dire notre sidération et notre dégoût.
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Ce mépris venu de l’Élysée

La reconduction de Sébastien Lecornu à Matignon, cinq jours après sa démission, est stupéfiante parce qu’insensée. Le président de la République a définitivement renoncé à aligner ses décisions sur l…

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 9h

This Is Fascism

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19h

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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SAPIENS Magazine @sapiens.org · 15h

From the archive. Society increasingly accepts gender identity as existing along a spectrum. The study of people, and their remains, shows that sex should be viewed the same way. Read more: www.sapiens.org/biology/inte...

What Our Skeletons Say About the Sex Binary

Society increasingly accepts gender identity as existing along a spectrum. Human remains show that sex should be viewed the same way.

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Denis REALE 🇨🇦 @denisreale.bsky.social · 10h

This post was followed by another one about North Korea showing its most Powerfull missile… This world is so fucked up.

Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 11h

Extinction is forever www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country

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Denis REALE 🇨🇦 @denisreale.bsky.social · 16h

Is that what Trump calls « a war »?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23h

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 18h

www.earth.com/news/seeds-o...

Seeds of change: How invasive animals are replanting islands

When native island animals vanish, plants lose their seed carriers. This shift weakens forests, water systems, and local cultures.

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La Presse @lapresse.ca · 18h

Le prix Donald de la paix

Depuis quelque temps, la MAGAsphère est mobilisée pour réclamer un prix Nobel pour son gourou qui est en train de massacrer à la tronçonneuse la démocratie et le tissu social américain.

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Denis REALE 🇨🇦 @denisreale.bsky.social · 18h

Pendant ce temps, le Canada réduit l’arrivée d’étudiants étrangers…

Courrier international @courrierinter.bsky.social · 21h

🇩🇪 Berlin a investi 75,2 milliards d’euros dans ses universités en 2023 pour séduire près d’un demi-million d’étudiants internationaux, explique Die Welt. Une stratégie payante, mais menacée par l’exode record des jeunes diplômés allemands.

L’Allemagne mise des milliards sur les étudiants étrangers

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Courrier international @courrierinter.bsky.social · 21h

🇩🇪 Berlin a investi 75,2 milliards d’euros dans ses universités en 2023 pour séduire près d’un demi-million d’étudiants internationaux, explique Die Welt. Une stratégie payante, mais menacée par l’exode record des jeunes diplômés allemands.

L’Allemagne mise des milliards sur les étudiants étrangers

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Alexandre Shields @alexandreshields.bsky.social · 20h

Non seulement l’étalement urbain, l’agriculture et l’artificialisation généralisée du territoire ont grugé la majorité des milieux naturels méridionaux du Québec, mais le gouvernement Legault continue d’autoriser des projets nuisibles à la biodiversité. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...

Le Québec tiraillé entre protection et destruction de la biodiversité

Le gouvernement veut conserver plus de territoire tout en autorisant des projets qui nuisent à la nature.

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Denis REALE 🇨🇦 @denisreale.bsky.social · 19h

Sabi en mode Rantanplan

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Le HuffPost @huffingtonpost.fr · 1d

Ce film d’horreur du point de vue d’un chien ne sera visible que 48 heures en salles, voici pourquoi

« Good Boy », film d’horreur du point de vue d’un chien ne sera visible que 48 heures en salles, voici pourquoi

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 23h

My naive wish is that even one Canadian journalist, one politician, one security analyst, would address the implications of Canada choosing military integration with an authoritarian power that no longer respects the rule of law or international law.
Looks like that’s not going to happen today.

Golden Dome signals change to Canada’s long-time opposition to joining U.S. missile defence

Canada opted to stay on the sidelines in 2005 as the U.S. developed defences against ballistic missiles

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 23h

“Carney’s decision to work with Donald Trump on an advanced missile shield ... will set the stage for deepening military co-operation between the two countries.”

How much more directly can it be said? This is deeper integration. Where you buy your guns doesn’t matter if you’re still on Team USA.

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 23h

Carney’s strategy is the exact opposite of what Canadians voted for. It’s clear that he’s making many unacknowledged/unexplained assumptions, while ignoring many obvious risks.
Mark Carney is not the CEO of Canada. He’s an elected leader. He needs to explain himself to Canadians.

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Radio-Canada Info @info.radio-canada.ca · 1d

Après Spotify, Neil Young veut boycotter Amazon Music

Le rockeur canadien invite le public à oublier Amazon, Whole Foods et Meta, et à privilégier l'achat local.

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Phyllis Lee @pili-scotland.bsky.social · 2d

What a wonderful study. Long term data on a long lived species

Mark Spa @markspa.bsky.social · Sep 3

1. My first ever paper is out! With
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How do older siblings, and their sex and age, affect the survival of younger siblings? Find out by checking below.

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Age- and sex-dependent associations between the number of older siblings and early-life survival in pre-industrial humans | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Siblings are an important part of an individual’s early-life environment and may therefore play an important role in shaping an individual’s survival. The quantification of sibling effects on survival is challenging, however, especially in long-lived ...

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Miki Perkins @mikiperkins.bsky.social · 2d

This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct.

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And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 2d

Canids seem to be the routine lovers, reusing their travel routes more than felids. This shapes hunting, encounters, and even disease spread. Insights from 1,239 GPS-tracked carnivores, including the Arctic foxes we track on Bylot Island 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦊. Read in the latest PNAS at bitly.cx/TxI2

Pictured is a male jaguar (Panthera onca) equipped with a tracking collar. William F. Fagan et al. tracked the movements of 1,239 mammalian carnivores, including 16 canid species and 18 felid species, on six continents. On average, compared with felids, canids displayed a greater density of trackways within their range and were more likely to reuse established trackways. According to the authors, the evolutionary differences in carnivore movement patterns could aid efforts to model encounters among carnivores, prey, and humans. See the article by Fagan et al. e2401042122. Image credit: Sebastian Kennerknecht (photographer).

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Denis REALE 🇨🇦 @denisreale.bsky.social · 1d

Freedom frogs!

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 1d

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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 1d

As a Montrealer, this makes me so proud! 🙌
“Though other cities offer bike-sharing programs, “Montreal revolutionized the trend,” TIME wrote, calling Bixi’s technology “the backbone” of bike-sharing services in cities including London and New York.”
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Bixi bike-sharing program among the top 25 inventions in 25 years, TIME Magazine declares

The list also includes the iPhone and the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator.

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 2d

The world’s longest rainbow path. The 600 metre “Long Walk to Equality” by artist Travis Myers at Hanlan’s Point on Toronto Island … the location of Canada’s first Pride in 1971.

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