Rooney’s old account @girls_can@qoto.org

The climate crisis, city biodiversity, ‘plant a tree’, ‘if the bees die, we die’ – all the consciousness-raising nudged me into a nervous attempt at a balcony garden. After a lifetime of believing I was incapable of keeping a houseplant alive, I was unprepared for the joy of waking up to discover that a plant has bloomed its first-ever flower while I was asleep. I am not even the tiniest bit embarrassed about how happy this has made me.

#ClimateDiary #Aarhus
#Bloomscrolling

If you were to set up the conditions by which powerful humans can continue to pollute the planet for profit despite years of warnings and everyone actually experiencing a warming, degrading environment. You’d probably want to ensure that people couldn’t trust any of the information they were receiving until they were thoroughly confused and remove any routes to organising that counter-movements might have.

That #AI and Twitter / Threads seem to be on exactly that path is frankly terrifying. #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis

Look at this frog, just look at it. It's glorious.

The fact that this came from someone in a position of power always struck me as remarkable.

The multi-million dollar underground parking garage carved into the shore of Lake #Ontario that the Doug Ford Conservative govt is building for #ThermeSpa will accommodate 2000+ vehicles.

There will be only ONE exit.

For comparison, the lot under #Toronto City Hall has 3 exits for approx. the same number of vehicles.

#MistakeOnTheLake #TrafficJam #onpoli #topoli #OntarioPlace @ONPlace4All

There are two types of cats: murder and doofus.

#caturday #cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #murdercat #humor #humour #funny

The water has to go SOMEWHERE. So when we fill in #wetlands to build #houses we end up building #stormwater ponds. In a pair of papers led by Waverley Birch, we showed that this is happening across 7 municipalities in Ontario and predicted the rate of future #wetlandloss. The wetlands being destroyed are mainly small and the stormwater ponds replacing them are even smaller. You can read about that paper in @thenarwhal https://thenarwhal.ca/southern-ontario-wetlands-study/

In light of Google announcing today that they will block news, read our publisher's words on #BillC18, what it means for Canadian journalism and what it means for Tyee readers.

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/06/23/News-Erased-Google-Facebook/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=062923-m&utm_campaign=editorial

👉​ "Previous COVID infection is associated with an increased risk of #RSV requiring medical attention both for children age 0-5 AND specifically in infants 0-1.
More evidence that “immunity debt” isn’t real & that COVID infection puts kids at risk of worse outcomes from other pathogens."

- Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook MD FRCSC, London, ON. @placentadoc

#LongCovidKids #Covid #onpoli #ontED
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.12.23289898v1.full.pdf

#Introduction

I am a Canadian ecologist, based in #Ontario with a focus on wildlife ecology and evolution, including:

#connectivity #infectiousdisease #climatechange #mammals #genetics #genomics #hybridization

I really, deeply wish everyone would make some collective effort to unlearn the passive argumentative nature we all learned from Twitter.

Everyone always treated posts like invitations to debate or argue every point.

We deserve better than this. We don’t have to do that.

@girls_can @empiricism There is literature describing succession of above and below ground organisms following wildfire. There is also some literature describing what will happen when recovery times between wildfire disturbances decrease and when fire severity increases, as we're seeing now. I've also noticed the wildfire literature has really grown in recent years for some reason...<sarcasm> #wildfire #succession #recovery

I had my goodbye meeting with my writing mentor this morning. She loves my new short story, a #LandBack revenge tale called “The Tupilaq” inspired by my battles in Kitchener over ecological destruction. I entered it in a cli-fi contest. Not sure it’s what the judges are looking for, but I think writing contests should be looking at #IndigenousFuturism , don’t you? #Indigedon @waterlooregion #Indigenous #WritingLife @indigenousauthors

No gym for me. The air quality is too dangerous. I feel like I’m living the bad-air scenario from Total Recall or The Expanse. Worried that I won’t be able to go camping again. Worried about all the people and animals who can’t find clean air. #ClimateDiary #CanadaWildfires #AirPollution

Thames Water is on the brink of collapse. Why? Because, since privatisation, the investment funds that own it have milked it dry. Its debt levels equal the eyewatering amount of dividends paid out to investors. Renationalise all water companies now.

#water #CorporateGreed #PublicServices

https://news.sky.com/story/ministers-weigh-contingency-plan-for-collapse-of-thames-water-12910760