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Adam
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RNA biologist and botanic garden aficionado
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JCVI and Diploid Genomics Inc. looking to hire several human genome scientists and bioinformatics specialists for the Human Genome Project 2.0 2026. Apply at JCVI.org
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Santa Snaking Thru the City. The CTA Holiday Train on Wednesday night.
December 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Professor friends…anyone still interested in moving to Canada? The government and UBC want you!

research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program
The University of British Columbia is inviting expressions of interest from top-tier, internationally based researchers as
research.ubc.ca
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.

This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
www.euronews.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Worst ever? This Senate is a non-stop, multiple-choice horror show, from dangerous appointees to health care failures to dereliction of its constitutional duties. I talk with Senate expert @irashapiro.bsky.social about its betrayals in my latest at @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/worst-sena...
Worst. Senate. Ever.
Republican senators surrendered to Trump, and now they own this catastrophe.
www.thebulwark.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Look at these baby plants sprouting from detached leaves. So weird yet so wonderful.
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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They sent JD Vance to Indiana and they were like never do that to us again
December 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Wow... NYC's congestion pricing has led to big drops in PM2.5 and real improvements in local air quality.
December 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
December 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Document reveals approval to harvest remnant old-growth in B.C.’s northwest
Document reveals approval to harvest remnant old-growth in B.C.’s northwest
British Columbia’s logging agency has changed a policy that conserved remnant old-growth forest in the province’s northwest, with a government briefing note showing a plan to open those areas for harvesting has been approved.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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BC wines have your epistemic attitudes covered
December 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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When someone says they went to college in Ohio I have to make sure they went to The Ohio State University instead of just a Ohio State University
December 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Advantage of waking up early to give someone comments on a manuscript.... I spotted this beauty strolling across my yard. I stepped outside to get a better angle and we stared at each other for at least a minute before it moved on
December 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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My mother’s people were Hoosiers.
December 7, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Worth noting that some of the people having their car windows smashed and dragged onto the pavement did immigration more "the right way" than the First Lady.
December 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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One of my most favourite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume.
Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD

📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

🏺 #archaeology
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
December 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.

📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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If no oil is extracted within your city limits, every gas pump pumps money out of your regional economy.

Bicycles and pedestrians keep the money circulating.
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Congrats to Justin on getting “It is more important than ever that we...get our shit together" as an on-the-record quote from a sitting MLA published by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Here’s my story on John Rustad’s very bad day, why his failures appear to be rooted politics rather than ideology, and what questions the party will have to quickly answer the moment they stop having two leaders
ANALYSIS | Actual leader of the B.C. Conservatives up in the air — and so are their next moves | CBC News
Wednesday was the final day the B.C. legislature was in session for 2025 — and it sure delivered a season finale.
www.cbc.ca
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM