SocialDave
@socialdave.bsky.social
Father, Brother, Husband.🇨🇦, Generalist, #WomenInSTEM & 2SLGBTQI+ 🏳️🌈 ally, World Traveler 🧳, 📚 Book Collector, 🥾Woodlands & Great Outdoors🏕️ (May post in French)
Geek alter ego: @crazykinux.bsky.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/socialdave/
Geek alter ego: @crazykinux.bsky.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/socialdave/
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Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact
Well worth a read...
theconversation.com/sea-level-do...
Well worth a read...
theconversation.com/sea-level-do...
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact
Understanding what happens to Antarctica’s ice matters, because as it melts, sea levels rise, affecting lives and economies around the world.
theconversation.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
“During the weekend, the orbits of Earth and Saturn will combine to create an interplanetary optical illusion for anyone with a good telescope and clear skies.” via @nytimes.com #astronomy
Why the Rings of Saturn Seem as if They’re About to Disappear
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November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“During the weekend, the orbits of Earth and Saturn will combine to create an interplanetary optical illusion for anyone with a good telescope and clear skies.” via @nytimes.com #astronomy
Ok, ok, I’ll watch!! 😋 Seriously though, it’s been on my watchlist.
Have you had a chance to watch Netflix's mini-series about President James A. Garfield? I've got some thoughts about one particular scene. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
"Death By Lightning," the GAR, and Black Civil War Veterans
No doubt, many of you have had a chance to watch Netflix’s mini-series Death by Lightning, a dramatization of the life and assassination of President James A.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Ok, ok, I’ll watch!! 😋 Seriously though, it’s been on my watchlist.
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“The research eyed whether city-dwelling raccoons were developing shorter snouts, a known marker of domestication.” - Amanda Schuman via @cnn.com
New clues hint at early signs of domestication in raccoons that feast on urban trash | CNN
Raccoons have easy access to food in the form of human trash. It could be jump-starting physical and behavioral changes in the masked bandits, new research suggests.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“The research eyed whether city-dwelling raccoons were developing shorter snouts, a known marker of domestication.” - Amanda Schuman via @cnn.com
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Canada, Australia, and India just formed a new trilateral partnership on technology and innovation.
We’ll work more closely together on clean energy, critical minerals, and AI to unlock new research, more opportunities, and greater prosperity.
We’ll work more closely together on clean energy, critical minerals, and AI to unlock new research, more opportunities, and greater prosperity.
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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62 years ago, on the 22nd of November 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. On the same day, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the USA. Oswald was killed in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters while on live television two days later #otd #history 🗃️
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
62 years ago, on the 22nd of November 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. On the same day, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the USA. Oswald was killed in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters while on live television two days later #otd #history 🗃️
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For those of you looking to follow up Ken Burn's documentary about the American Revolution with a good read, check out Richard Bell's new book. It's fantastic. 🗃️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752265...
The American Revolution and the Fate of the World by Richard Bell: 9780593719510 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“American history as if from a barstool, not a lecture podium. Giddy, rollicking, and bold.” —Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Master Slave Husband Wife "Accessible and impassioned...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
For those of you looking to follow up Ken Burn's documentary about the American Revolution with a good read, check out Richard Bell's new book. It's fantastic. 🗃️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752265...
“Qu’un enfant de 14 ans ne joue jamais en situation de compétition, je trouve ça complètement épouvantable. Personne n’a été capable de me faire changer d’avis.” - @jnblanchet.bsky.social via @journaldemontreal.com
Gagner le Bol d’Or, à quel prix?
Qu’un enfant de 14 ans ne joue jamais en situation de compétition, je trouve ça épouvantable. Personne n’a été capable de me faire changer d’avis.
www.journaldemontreal.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“Qu’un enfant de 14 ans ne joue jamais en situation de compétition, je trouve ça complètement épouvantable. Personne n’a été capable de me faire changer d’avis.” - @jnblanchet.bsky.social via @journaldemontreal.com
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November 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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The amount of stupidity the CAQ is able to spontaneously create is beyond comprehension!! SAAQclic, Northvolt, Bill 2 against doctors, and the list goes on Now THIS?!! Seriously, is there no limit to their ability to turn everything they do into a fiasco?!!
Quebec’s French streaming plan tests whether Netflix and Spotify stay or go montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/...
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The amount of stupidity the CAQ is able to spontaneously create is beyond comprehension!! SAAQclic, Northvolt, Bill 2 against doctors, and the list goes on Now THIS?!! Seriously, is there no limit to their ability to turn everything they do into a fiasco?!!
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Fewer than 150 adult achoque salamanders are thought to remain in the wild, all of them in Lake Pátzcuaro in Mexico’s central Michoacán state.
The lake is shrinking in size and is increasingly polluted with sewage, fertilizer runoff and sediment from deforestation, reports Mongabay’s Liz Kimbrough.
The lake is shrinking in size and is increasingly polluted with sewage, fertilizer runoff and sediment from deforestation, reports Mongabay’s Liz Kimbrough.
Scientists & nuns unite to save Mexico’s rare achoque salamanders
For the last 20 years, Dominican nuns in a Mexican monastery have cared for the largest known captive population of the critically endangered achoque salamander. Now scientists from Chester Zoo in…
news.mongabay.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Fewer than 150 adult achoque salamanders are thought to remain in the wild, all of them in Lake Pátzcuaro in Mexico’s central Michoacán state.
The lake is shrinking in size and is increasingly polluted with sewage, fertilizer runoff and sediment from deforestation, reports Mongabay’s Liz Kimbrough.
The lake is shrinking in size and is increasingly polluted with sewage, fertilizer runoff and sediment from deforestation, reports Mongabay’s Liz Kimbrough.
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“Researchers decoded 40,000-year-old mammoth RNA, unlocking real-time biological secrets frozen since the Ice Age.” via @sciencenews.bsky.social #mammoth #rna #iceage
Scientists recover 40,000-year-old mammoth RNA still packed with clues
Researchers have sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered, taken from a woolly mammoth frozen for nearly 40,000 years. The RNA reveals which genes were active in its tissues, offering a rare glimpse in...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“Researchers decoded 40,000-year-old mammoth RNA, unlocking real-time biological secrets frozen since the Ice Age.” via @sciencenews.bsky.social #mammoth #rna #iceage
“Over the past several decades, the general trend has been that attitudes toward presidents from both parties have exerted growing influence over other elections. But even against that broader trend, Trump stands out.” - Ronald Brownstein via @cnn.com #uspoli #USelections #politics
Analysis: Why Trump’s political shadow is a mixed blessing for the GOP in 2026 | CNN Politics
The biggest lesson of this month’s sweeping Democratic election victories is that President Donald Trump is continuing to cast an outsize shadow over every other election during his presidential term.
www.cnn.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
“Over the past several decades, the general trend has been that attitudes toward presidents from both parties have exerted growing influence over other elections. But even against that broader trend, Trump stands out.” - Ronald Brownstein via @cnn.com #uspoli #USelections #politics
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“Conolly noted other features that were unusual, including the absence of a wheel on the aft deck, a lack of centreboard winch and an early windlass design — all hinting the vessel could be 50 to 100 years older than the Rapid City.” - Colin Butler via CNC News #archeology #LakeOntario #shipwreck
A 19th-century shipwreck near Toronto emerges almost untouched by time | CBC News
An exploration dive team seeking the century-old wreck of the Rapid City has instead found a much rarer prize: a virtually undisturbed vessel, potentially dating back to the first half of the 19th cen...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“Conolly noted other features that were unusual, including the absence of a wheel on the aft deck, a lack of centreboard winch and an early windlass design — all hinting the vessel could be 50 to 100 years older than the Rapid City.” - Colin Butler via CNC News #archeology #LakeOntario #shipwreck