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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦
@marcofesta.bsky.social
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🇨🇦🇨🇦 Retired ecology prof in Sherbrooke, Canada. Evidence-based wildlife conservation, mountain ungulates, kangaroos, ice-free fishing. 🇨🇦🇨🇦 elbows up!
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 21h
Methinks sentence would have been harder had they been Natives or visible minorities. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Canada Freedom Convoy leaders spared more jail time at sentencing
Tamara Lich and Chris Barber led a trucker protest that gridlocked Canada's capital for weeks in 2022.
www.bbc.com
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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 22h
Umm, no. No we won't. 🇨🇦
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Halbeerz @halz.bsky.social · 22h
'Canada will love us again,' T...
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'Canada will love us again,' Trump says as he meets with Carney to hash out tariff deal | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he's working on a trade deal with Prime Minister Mark Carney that he believes will be well-received by Canadians, telling reporters assembled for their bilater...
www.cbc.ca
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Anne-Marie Dion-Côté @amdioncote.bsky.social · 1d
Nous avons un beau poste régulier (pouvant mener à la permanence) en biologie marine, très largement défini 🎣🦐🦠🌊

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PROFESSEURE OU PROFESSEUR EN BIOLOGIE MARINE
https://emplois.careerbeacon.com/details/professeure-ou-professeur-en-biologie-marine/2179975
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 2d
Kind of a weird day to be switching to winter tires. Normal high in Sherbrooke in early October is +12.
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 2d
Looks great but it's a freshwater otter.
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libererofellows.bsky.social @libererofellows.bsky.social · 4d
La bourse Liber Ero offre 2 ans de soutien et d'incroyables opportunités d'apprentissage et de réseautage. Le dépôt de candidatures est ouvert jusqu'au 1er novembre. Consultez liberero.ca/fr pour plus de détails.
Accueil - Liber Ero Fellowship Program
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 4d
Some good points here: downlisting of wolves in Europe is a sign of success, not impending doom. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Now What? The Conundrum of Successful Recovery of Wolves and Other Species for European Conservation
The recent decision to downlist the wolf from a “strictly protected” to “protected” status in the Bern Convention and Habitats Directive marks a turning point for European conservation. While reflect...
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 5d
Sad event just in front of my driveway, porcupine got hit.
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 7d
Northrup: polar bears are hard to count cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....
Estimating the abundance of a polar bear subpopulation at their southern global extent
Climate warming is causing global biodiversity loss, with impacts to ecosystem function. Warming in the Arctic outpaces global averages, and projected declines in Arctic sea ice have led to prediction...
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 7d
Anybody else fed up with desk rejections citing 'the species-specific nature of the findings' by journals that publish about 50% of their articles on single species? And wax lyrically about the importance of long-term studies on marked individuals? Geeeez....
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 8d
The American Society of Naturalists is looking for a new Editor-In-Chief to begin Jan 2027. Info here:
www.amnat.org/announcement...
Call for new Editor-in-Chief (2027–2030)
<p>The ASN is seeking applicants for Editor-in-Chief, to begin in January 2027</p><br/>
www.amnat.org
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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 9d
The Australian dollar is currently $0.91 Can. BYD now sells an #EV with >300km of range for under $20K Aus. They were selling the #Seagull in Australia for $12K Aus.
EVs are now WAY CHEAPER than gas cars with operating costs pennies a day.
The only reason Canadians can't get them? 100% tariffs.
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The Driven @thedriven.io · 9d
BYD cuts prices on one of its most affordable electric models - dubbed the Corolla-killer - as it launches new electric versions.
BYD cuts prices on its low cost "Corolla killer" EV to as low as $A19,200
BYD cuts prices on one of its most affordable electric models - dubbed the Corolla-killer - as it launches new electric versions.
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Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social · 9d
Only a few days to go… please share!!!
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Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social · 20d
Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 12d
Remember this?
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 11d
Enjoy this live feed of the supplemental feeding station for the Kennedy Siding caribou herd in British Columbia, Canada: mlibwildlife.ca/live-cam/

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 11d
Nice group of toms seen during my bike ride today.
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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 12d
We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 12d
MAGA types wrong to blame Canada for forest fires caused by carbon emissions and resulting climate change www.bbc.com/news/article...
America's blame game over Canada's wildfire smoke misses the point, experts say
US officials have blamed Canada for not doing enough to stop its wildfire smoke from wafting south. Climate experts say it’s not so simple.
www.bbc.com
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 13d
After a 1-year absence, a grey fox makes another appearance at the backyard camera trap. Grey foxes now appear to have established a population in southern Québec. Possibly a consequence of climate change? Or land use change? Or, who knows? Great to have them around.
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Alexandre Shields @alexandreshields.bsky.social · 13d
Réforme forestière abandonnée: Le projet caquiste risquait de fragiliser nos forêts face aux impacts de la crise climatique, avaient déploré plusieurs experts. www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...
La réforme du régime forestier fragilisera la forêt, préviennent des experts
Aucun scientifique indépendant n’a été invité aux «consultations particulières» en cours à Québec.
www.ledevoir.com
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Katherine Drotos @spiritofcavalia.bsky.social · 14d
Google: here's an AI summary!
Adobe: want an AI assistant?
Zoom: get more done with an AI companion!
Outlook: don't you want to turn on copilot??

Me: I trained for 10 years to think. I like thinking. Please just let me think.
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 14d
Probably not, because it involves innovation and support to universities. We'd rather pour taxpayer money into the sinkhole of carbon capture, yet another subsidy to fossil fuels. www.bbc.com/news/article...
H-1B visa changes may give Canada an opportunity. Will it seize it?
The US visa shake-up could push talent north — but experts caution that Canada’s immigration system has its own challenges.
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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 14d
Just as adding a filter to a cigarette doesn’t promise cancer-free smoking, pairing oil production with carbon capture doesn’t actually decarbonize the fuel. Here's Catherine McKenna on the grand bargains being discussed and why she sees CCUS as a dead end.
Catherine McKenna isn’t buying Carney’s carbon capture grand bargain
In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the launch of her memoir, former climate minister Catherine McKenna warns consequences are coming for the fossil fuel industry, even as the federal government purs...
www.nationalobserver.com
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d
Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
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