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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
@watershedlab.bsky.social
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I make ice cream and do science and suck at fly fishing. YYC

glaciers - geohazards - climate - geomorphology - geomatics - gelato

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watershedlab.bsky.social
When professional journalists are obviously fed up with your lying, it’s time to admit you have a problem
davidakin.bsky.social davidakin @davidakin.bsky.social · 11h
Poilievre just told #CP26 "There's never been a referendum crisis or a national unity crisis when Conservatives have been in power It's an interesting coincidence isn't it" False. BQ was the product of Mulroney's time in office. Borden - WWI conscription crisis. Sir John - Louis Riel. C'mon man.
January 31, 2026 at 3:45 AM
watershedlab.bsky.social
Would you look at all that sand!? 🤪🧪⚒️
pomarede.bsky.social Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 2d
Check out the first post-conjunction navcam views from Perseverance, processed by @areoinfo.bsky.social

areo.info/mars20/ecams... #Mars 🧪🔭
The Mars rover Perseverance with its shadow projected on the ground. The Mars rover Perseverance with tracks receding away.
January 31, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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akearthquake.bsky.social
Good afternoon! We have reviewed a M4.3 earthquake that occurred at 12:27 pm. This event was located 31 miles SW of Cantwell at a depth of 53 miles. We have not yet received any felt reports. If you felt this event, or woud like more info, please go to earthquake.alaska.edu/event/ak2026...
Cantwell M4.3 | Alaska Earthquake Center
Alaskan Earthquake Center
earthquake.alaska.edu
January 30, 2026 at 10:34 PM
watershedlab.bsky.social
Friends in the USA - @planet.com is hiring for a (remote) education and research program manager, which seems like a sweet gig. 🧪🛰️ www.planet.com/company/care...
Careers - Satellite Imagery and Monitoring | Planet
We image the world everyday and make global change visible, accessible and actionable. We understand that images can tell the most powerful stories and we are dedicated to being a voice for our Planet...
www.planet.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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meadekrosby.bsky.social
"A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming."

Gift link.
A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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jameswsthomson.com
Reading Arno's piece this morning, it occurred to me how unsettlingly disconnected from even a generous interpretation of the truth many Conservative supporters have become. I don't mean that in the partisan kind of way; it's genuinely distressing to see people fleeing from shared reality.
nationalobserver.com Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 16h
CNO's @arnokopecky.bsky.social is on the ground at the Conservative Party convention in Calgary. And although he was barred from entering, he has been hanging out with the delegates and influencers crowding outside. They have had a lot to say — and a lot more than what's been happening onstage.
The sad predictability of the CPC Convention
None of what Arno Kopecky saw from Conservatives speaking on the first night of the party's Calgary convention was any more surprising than the strange disconnect from reality he encountered among att...
www.nationalobserver.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
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January 30, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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northernck.bsky.social
Don’t tell Alta separatists, banking on having no carbon tax, no personal income taxes, & 3X Alta oil prod’n, that India is following China’s footsteps in a race towards renewable energy.
Alta projected export mkt will vanish in no time:
“embracing clean

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/27/o...
India is leapfrogging into clean energy. Alberta's separatists should pay attention
Sorry, separatists: Oil isn't going to make an independent Alberta great again. If anything, it might be its undoing.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:48 PM
watershedlab.bsky.social
😍😍😍😍😍😍 STUNNING displacement map of the Niscemi landslide in Italy using @planet.com superdove imagery🧪⚒️
geocron.bsky.social GeoCron @geocron.bsky.social · 17h
Couldn't help but get COSI with it.
January 30, 2026 at 8:55 PM
watershedlab.bsky.social
Legit guffaw over here
trickweekes.bsky.social Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 17h
New dating profile just dropped.
January 30, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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merriam-webster.com
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January 30, 2026 at 7:57 PM
watershedlab.bsky.social
Tired of doomscrolling? Enjoy this #FieldworkFriday pic of Denny Capps (L) and I enjoying fancy drinks while camped on a glacier. 📷 @charlesincities.bsky.social 🧪⚒️
Two men in woolen toques and puffy down jackets with cocktails served in coconuts and with little umbrellas
January 30, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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reuters.com
UN chief Guterres warns of 'imminent financial collapse' reut.rs/49RzsLy
UN chief Guterres warns of 'imminent financial collapse'
The U.N. chief has told states that the organisation is at risk of "imminent financial collapse", citing unpaid fees and a budget rule that forces the global body to return unspent money, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Friday.
reut.rs
January 30, 2026 at 1:30 PM
watershedlab.bsky.social
I really don't care, do u?
January 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
watershedlab.bsky.social
Any journalism mutuals interested in working on Canada's best science show? 🧪 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Radio-Canada hiring Senior Producer, Quirks & Quarks, English Services, (On-Site) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada | LinkedIn
Posted 8:01:32 PM. Position TitleSenior Producer, Quirks & Quarks, English Services, (On-Site)Status Of…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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January 30, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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legal.reuters.com
BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56
January 30, 2026 at 3:21 PM
watershedlab.bsky.social
Every time a player from the Hong Kong Tycoons scores a goal, they will pass Go and collect $200
akurjata.ca Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 1d
Because Trump keeps warning China will ban ice hockey in Canada, I need to show you the logos for the four teams in the Chinese Ice Hockey League
The Hong Kong Tycoons: essentially the Monopoly Man if he had no mustache and was openly nefarious and also held a hockey stick The Kowloon Warriors: long-haired warrior with a Fu Manchu and a hockey stick The Macau Aces. A Chinese leprechaun? With a pot of gold and deck of cards. And a hockey stick The South China Sharks. This one is pretty generic, it's a cartoon shark with a hockey stick
January 30, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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facetsjournal.bsky.social
Curious about peer review beyond authorship? FACETS is welcoming early career researchers to join our editorial board as ECR Editors. Submit your application before Mar. 9!

Learn more ▶️ https://ow.ly/4WFa50Y1Ts8

#PeerReview #EarlyCareerResearchers #AcademicPublishing
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January 30, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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leafwarbler.bsky.social
Is LLM/AI driven hypothesis generation the logical culmination of scientists putting all the eggs in the hypothetico-deductive model basket as *the scientific method*?
January 30, 2026 at 2:17 PM
watershedlab.bsky.social
“My dearest Gilbert, oh you wouldn’t believe the man I met today…”
redderbeanpaste.bsky.social Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 14d
Intrusive thoughts about Canadian fictional characters : at one point Wolverine and Anne of green gables were alive at the same time
January 30, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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luckytran.com
US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.
Chart of US measles cases by year
January 29, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
Martin Shuster sdSreptoon1hm9t97235g2u5796glgh0435l6iaf05it1l232lc20cllf4g0 · So apparently on Sunday Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, said in a press conference that "we have got children hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside ... many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody’s gonna write that children’s story about Minnesota.” Then on Monday--one day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day--the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum tweeted in response that: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges." As someone who spent a year at the Museum as a fellow doing research, I feel embarrassed for the institution. First, it is very clear that Walz wasn't drawing an equivalence, he was drawing an analogy. So this kind of response reminds me of the atrocious positions that the ADL has started to carve out, and why it has become mostly a sycophantic joke, now seemingly mostly geared towards currying favor with MAGA. Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime). We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century. In noting this, let me be clear that this does not erase or make less relevant the centuries of European antisemitism that fed into the Nazi project. That's the whole point: these are all related phenomena. European antisemitism influenced the way in which European colonialism and imperialism operated against indigenous populations in the Americas. Strikingly, as innovations mounted in "administering" the Americas, antisemitic policies also evolved in Europe. Administrators (oppressors) would sometimes even move from one sphere to the other and back. They were all synergistic (a brilliant examination of some of this is María Elena Martínez's _Genealogical Fictions_). (And one could, btw, also tell an important story about the development of Islamophobia in this very same orbit, since policies stumbled on in the Americas came back to oppress both Jews and Muslims in Europe). This is all to say: Walz's analogy is not at all far fetched. The history of oppression doesn't move in any kind of neat or purely linear fashion. It is oftentimes recursive, shifting, necessarily granular. Neither is it a competitive history. It is, in the words of Michael Rothberg, a *multidirectional* history. Drawing these analogies in fact *helps* us understand all the involved phenomena better. At least this is what "Never Again" has meant and means to me: it does not mean only never again for me or other Jews. And it does not mean never again only something that looks exactly like the Nazi genocide. I think also, btw, that this is what it meant for Otto Frank, who spent time *editing* his daughter's diary so that it could be available to anyone, not only to Jews. For ultimately the Nazi genocide--any genocide--is a highly mediated phenomenon: it consists of many diffuse events, marshals an immense amount of people and institutions, relies on sometimes conflicting or contradictory cross-sections of society, and, indeed, emerges out of a process that does not neatly, especially as its happening, have a clear beginning, middle, and end, but rather arranges for itself a kind of constellation that harnesses a range of actors, perspectives, and also histories (this is one way to understand how German colonial projects or anti-communism or ableism were no less crucial to Nazism than European antisemitism). The genocidal outcomes emerge from the structural forms society adopts. And all of this without in any way eliding the special role that Jews played in the apocalyptic Nazi worldview.
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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watershedlab.bsky.social
A lot of mutuals follow this account. I’ve just blocked them for weird fucking behaviour.
watershedlab.bsky.social Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d
WTF @kevinleecaster.bsky.social why are you adding me to these lists? Take me off please.
Notifications that an account called Kevin Lee Caster is adding my bluesky account to lists including "Fossil Fools" and "Anti-Democrat Activist"
January 29, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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watershedlab.bsky.social
Just an incredible and unusual landslide at Niscemi, Sicily, Italy, as captured by @planet.com SuperDove satellites 🧪⚒️🛰️
January 29, 2026 at 11:24 PM
watershedlab.bsky.social
Oh I'm great, just fucking peachy, thanks for asking.
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d
Iran prepares for war as US military ‘armada’ approaches https://aje.news/r9k9gd
Iran prepares for war as US military ‘armada’ approaches
January 30, 2026 at 3:33 AM