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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar

@ryankbrook.bsky.social

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🍁• #ElbowsUpCanada • Community Engaged Wildlife Research • Professor • University of Saskatchewan • farmkid • dadof2 • Rebel Scum • born@330ppm CO2 now 428 • 7x covid vax • caribou • invasive pigs • wolves • peatlands in the Hudson Bay Lowlands Manitoba

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · Nov 16

Let me introduce myself. I'm a professor @usask.bsky.social at the University of Saskatchewan. My group works on invasive wild pigs, caribou, wolves, and other beasties. I take the responsibility of my academic freedom very seriously and use it and good science to hopefully have some influence.

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 1d

I would have more but Sask has not been good at making covid vaccines broadly available. I have heard stories of how many unused shots ended up in the garbage when people wanted and needed them.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 1d

Albertans have to pay now yes?

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 1d

I'm all booked for a flu shot AND covid booster next week.
How many covid boosters am I going to get? Every goddam one I'm eligible for, most likely for the rest of my life. This one will be #8 and counting.

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 1d

They should face real jail time.

#TRAITORS

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 1d

#Breaking: ‘Freedom Convoy’ leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber given conditional sentences

‘Freedom Convoy’ leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber given conditional sentences

The Crown asked for Lich to be sentenced to seven years in prison, and for Barber to be sentenced to eight years.

www.thestar.com

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 3d

Tough but fair.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 4d

If you drive a 2025/2026 Tesla or still use X, there really isn't an excuse. You really are just an asshole that looks the other way.

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 5d

Lots of discussion this week about the one week additional elk season in Saskatchewan.

Interesting/Not Surprising is that hunting groups are saying they were not consulted.

farmnewsnow.com/2025/10/02/s...

Short-term hunting for antlerless elk in parts of Saskatchewan

The Government of Saskatchewan is implementing a short-term hunt for antlerless elk in an effort to address co...

farmnewsnow.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 5d

"Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science" | Great review of #ScienceUnderSiege by Dan Falk for @undark.org magazine: undark.org/2025/10/03/b...

Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science

"Science Under Siege," by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, is an impassioned manifesto against attacks on science.

undark.org

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 6d

Measles is an IQ test and people are failing.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone automatically covers their drinks when they see these individuals.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 6d

The Vanscoy Dome! Gotta see it. Thirty minute drive from Saskatoon.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 6d

Senior undergraduates playing hungry hungry hippo. No injuries so far!

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 6d

Nope. it is a community hall.

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 6d

This one is bigger!

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 6d

I’m out in rural Saskatchewan- anyone know where I’m at Under this round roof?

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The Agronaut @andrew-m-davidson.bsky.social · 6d

DYK that agriculture.canada.ca 🍁 contributes to the North American Drought Monitor? 🧪

The Prairies/High Plains bulletin for summer is available via the drought.gov Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlooks.

TLDR? A summer of droughts, wildfires, smoke, and heavy rainfall. ☀️🌧️🔥

🔗 tinyurl.com/5xnvrmrs

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Prairies and High Plains - September 2025

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Canadian and U.S. Prairies and High Plains for June–August 2025, with an outlook for October–December 2025. Dated September 2025. Summer brought mostly ne...

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 6d

You get what you pay for.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 6d

In 1979 my parents bought me this bike and what a doozy it was- banana seat, chain guard, hand brakes. At one point even got a light that worked off the spinning front wheel. We all attached AM/FM portable radios to the handlebars.

My coolness peaked 46 years ago.

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Dr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · 6d

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

www.science.org

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 6d

Google docs

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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 6d

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 9d

The Nonsuch at the Manitoba Museum is unreal! I've been going since I was 7 years old and I'm still impressed. It is so well set up and you can actually go onto the ship and visit below deck.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 9d

I do not have the resources necessary to prevent the inequitable use of AI in my course

#HigherEd #Ontario

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 10d

{redoc}, my R package for reversible R Markdown documents that enables two-way workflows with MS Word, needs a new name! Weigh in: github.com/redoc-dev/re... #rstats

A new name for a new era · redoc-dev redoc · Discussion #79

Thanks to support from the R Consortium and the Tribal Exchange Network, we're bringing {redoc} back, with a plan for stable release, including some Quarto support, in the first half of 2026. BUT i...

github.com

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 12d

After earning her Master's in 1951, she began working at the Saskatoon Cancer Clinic where she eventually became the chief medical physicist.
It was in that role she developed the world's first cobalt-60 unit, which used targeted radiation to treat cancer in a patient.

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A black-and-white photograph of two individuals working with a large piece of scientific equipment. One person, wearing a dark jacket with a crest and a skirt, is kneeling and operating the machine, while the other, dressed in a suit and tie, is kneeling and holding a device, possibly a microphone or control, near the equipment's overhead component. The setting appears to be a laboratory or technical workspace.

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