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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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.
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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
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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.
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If you missed the four tenure track positions' deadline (today) in my department, there's another position in Geography @ucalgary.bsky.social as Assistant Professor in Climate Change and the Critical Zone. Come be my office neighbour! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1710469... 🧪⚒️
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
If you missed the four tenure track positions' deadline (today) in my department, there's another position in Geography @ucalgary.bsky.social as Assistant Professor in Climate Change and the Critical Zone. Come be my office neighbour! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1710469... 🧪⚒️
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Thanks to the Treaty nations court intervention, the American funded separatist group trying to have Alberta separate, was found in court to violate Treaty & Sec. 35 of the Charter. So Treaty rights are being affirmed over redneck buffoonery. Source to share: www.facebook.com/share/p/1KJ4...
December 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Thanks to the Treaty nations court intervention, the American funded separatist group trying to have Alberta separate, was found in court to violate Treaty & Sec. 35 of the Charter. So Treaty rights are being affirmed over redneck buffoonery. Source to share: www.facebook.com/share/p/1KJ4...
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Really love how this guy posted this on TikTok thinking the woman who broke his Meta glasses would come off as the villain, as opposed to him, the guy recording her without her consent for social media content via a surveillance device made by one of the worst companies on earth
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
futurism.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Really love how this guy posted this on TikTok thinking the woman who broke his Meta glasses would come off as the villain, as opposed to him, the guy recording her without her consent for social media content via a surveillance device made by one of the worst companies on earth
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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Since this post, nearly 300 of you donated about $11k and I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. The union shared photos with me today of food being distributed. Remaining money will be evenly distributed among the 160 union members in the form of gift cards. Thank you. ❤️
December 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Since this post, nearly 300 of you donated about $11k and I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. The union shared photos with me today of food being distributed. Remaining money will be evenly distributed among the 160 union members in the form of gift cards. Thank you. ❤️
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📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
Bookshop.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
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The bear would never
Man Charged With Leaving Girlfriend to Freeze to Death on Mountain
The experienced mountaineer is accused of abandoning his girlfriend at the top of Austria’s highest mountain.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The bear would never
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Slime mold, Arcyria stipata. This specimen is about 3” across. At Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Slime mold, Arcyria stipata. This specimen is about 3” across. At Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.
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The greed of these landlords is so ick
“I don’t think that I’ve ever seen a landlord pursue quite such a campaign against its own tenants.”
A Vancouver Landlord Keeps Being Allowed to Evict Tenants. Why? | The Tyee
Residents want to know why BC’s Residential Tenancy Branch keeps siding with Plan A.
thetyee.ca
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The greed of these landlords is so ick
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December 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Explore this deep sea coral garden off the coast of #Labrador #Newfoundland #DeepSeaCoral
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Explore this deep sea coral garden off the coast of Labrador
In 2019, during a routine haul, Joey Angnatok, an Inuk fisherman from Nain pulled up something unexpected on his line — a branching piece of deep sea coral. Angnatok helped researchers locate a deep-s...
www.cbc.ca
December 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Explore this deep sea coral garden off the coast of #Labrador #Newfoundland #DeepSeaCoral
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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“We should not have to take Canada to court through class-action water settlements to get drinking water,” Chief Don Maracle told the ministers.
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Tyendinaga chief chastises ministers over water at Chiefs' Assembly
‘We should not have to take Canada to court’: Tyendinaga chief chastises ministers over water legislation at Chiefs' Assembly
www.aptnnews.ca
December 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“We should not have to take Canada to court through class-action water settlements to get drinking water,” Chief Don Maracle told the ministers.
www.aptnnews.ca/featured/tye...
www.aptnnews.ca/featured/tye...
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Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly opened this week with a blunt assessment from National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, who told delegates the federal government had fallen short on key promises.
Read more on this week's Nation to Nation:
Read more on this week's Nation to Nation:
Chiefs say trust remains a key issue with Carney government
Canada was very present at the AFN Special Chiefs Assembly, but gets mixed review from chiefs on its record so far.
www.aptnnews.ca
December 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly opened this week with a blunt assessment from National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, who told delegates the federal government had fallen short on key promises.
Read more on this week's Nation to Nation:
Read more on this week's Nation to Nation: