It’s Not Me, It’s Them: A Breakup Letter to the Calgary School You know that friend who keeps dating the same kind of terrible person? The one who swears each new partner is different, and then six months in you’re hearing the same complaints about the s…

Hate me today

Hate me tomorrow

Hate me for all the things I didn’t do to you

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Something similar happened when Lymantria dispar was renamed by the ESC and ESA to Spongy moth. Various Canadian, US, Provincial and State legislation and regulations used the old common name instead of L. dispar.

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When you write or create, you need unbroken periods of time

"Meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in"

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Agreed! I think there was that obsession with controlling history, but I also wonder if there was some guilt motivating her too for pushing Franklin when he was clearly past his prime. I should re-read it!

Alternate take - Ontario's a huge province and it's reasonable for us outside of S. Ontario to expect a premier and ministers to drop by once and a while. If you think they can fly commercial I'd encourage you to look at Air Canada & Porter's service to N. Ontario.

In the footsteps of Linnaeus: scientists share their passion for species from tiny wasps to hairy plants – in pictures For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linneaus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic syste...

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I mean, c'mon it was right there in the name...

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The ostrich con: Arguments to save birds from cull in B.C. were based on falsehoods, evidence shows | CBC News The 10-month standoff on a B.C. ostrich farm last year was the most expensive poultry cull in Canada’s history. A fifth estate investigation reveals the campaign to save the ostriches was based on fal...

Ostrich farming in Canada is generally a Ponzi scheme (try thinking 'ostrich' and 'Canada' together), but this one tops them all - false claims one on top of the other ended up costing taxpayers $7M www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I'm glad the Astronauts are back safely but I feel bad for Jeremy Hansen. Out of country travel over the start of fiscal year he's going to be forever getting that travel claim approved. Hopefully he doesn't blow the CSA travel cap....

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I dunno man. Birders be pretty set in their ways.

the long tail duck would probably agree with you. But man, good luck getting bird people to change a common name. You'd be more likely to rename BC 'West Alberta'...

I know part of my problem is that I don't read Portuguese, but holy snap, why is it so hard to find email addresses for researchers in Brazil? I handle the occasional paper from S. America and it's always a struggle bus to find contact email addresses. What am I doing wrong?

So this goes full-circle if you really want it to: Atwood's entomologist father Carl establisjed the Great Lakes Forestry Centre in Sault Ste. Marie. It's most famous alum is Roberta Bondar, Canada's 1st woman in space who worked in entomology labs in high school and during university

A good story on the upcoming fire season in Canada by Jordan Omstead -Canadian Press (though I may be biased)

The 2026 fire season is a litmus test?

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Systems like these don't work because technology is never going to solve your HR problem for you: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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📢 The Programme and Book of Abstracts has been added for the upcoming EPPO FAO-REUFIS BFW Conference on Emerging Risks of Agrilus Wood Borers.

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Clearly something must be done about the scourge of ornithologists

Sunburst diagram of taxonomic distribution of occurrences in GBIF in March 2022, as tweeted here https://x.com/rdmpage/status/1501477098434744332?s=20

Sunburst diagram of taxonomic distribution of occurrences in GBIF https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/taxonomy?occurrence_status=PRESENT on 9 April 2026

Four years ago as @gbif.org passed 2 billion records, I tweeted that GBIF was, to a first approximation a database of birds x.com/rdmpage/stat.... Four years later we have nearly twice as many records (3.6 billion) and... it's still a mostly a database of birds www.gbif.org/occurrence/t...

A spiral bound field guide with a photo of sea star and a sea urchin, written and illustrated by Madelynn DeBest.

An illustrated schematic of the zones of the rocky intertidal and which species live at what depths.

An example page from a spiral bound field guide, open to the entry for bladderwarck, a light green seaweed with little air bladders to help it float.

A field guide entry for an invasive blue crab, showing it to be 9” across.

One of my former students took her final project for my field natural history class and turned it into her Honors thesis: a 100% original, hand-drawn field guide to the rocky intertidal! And she got copies printed for her defense!

Hey, I'll takes what I can gets!

Effect of a severe cold spell on overwintering survival of an invasive forest insect pest Cold temperatures can play a significant role in the range and impact of pest insects. Severe cold events can reduce the size of insect outbreaks and …

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[Stares awkwardly in entomologist]