John, Brenda was inspired by your resilience. She died peacefully on April 2nd. (from her husband Paul)

Your book was a comfort to Brenda who died peacefully on April 2nd.

Best wishes! I hope you get some relief, and some rest. ❤️‍🩹

Approval of Mark Carney increases to 66% The approval rating of Prime Minister Mark Carney is currently 66%.

“Mark Carney’s current approval rating is among the highest recorded in Canadian history, tied with former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in December 1994.”

Approval of Mark Carney increases to 66%

Want to know what Carney has done in his first year … this substack by @paulstewartii.bsky.social is an amazing resource

Well researched

This is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to fight back against the CPC claim that Carney hasn’t done anything

#cdnpoli

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

Welcome to Sucker Punch Spring

Gorgeous spot!

HOCKEY and CANADA (if you look closely you can see my tears)

🥳 🥇🇨🇦

2026 Olympic Games: Canada wins gold over Great Britain in tense men's curling final | CBC

www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...

Country diary: Here be monsters – less than a millimetre long | Phil Gates Stanhope, Weardale: One of the best gifts I’ve ever received is a microscope. Sixty years on, it’s still a wonder to watch a mini rainforest in action

If you like tardigrades. Or rotifers or moss. Lovely Sunday read about the teeming #biodiversity we so rarely consider.

Why don't we design cities for far more?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Kingsbury wins dual moguls gold for fifth career Olympic medal - Team Canada Mikaël Kingsbury has won his second medal of Milano Cortina 2026 and the fifth Olympic medal of his career, taking...

Mikaël Kingsbury wins dual moguls gold for fifth career Olympic medal 🥇 #TeamCanada 🇨🇦🍁 🎿

olympic.ca/2026/02/15/k...

From: Madeline Schizas Sat 2/7/2026 5:15 AM Hi Prof. I am a student in your Sociology 2FF3 course and am wondering if I could get a short extension on this week's reflection. I was competing in the Olympic Games yesterday and thought the reflection was due on Sunday, not Friday. Here is the Canadian Olympic Committee press release to confirm my participation: https://olympic.ca/2026/02/06/team-canada-in-top-five-after-first-day=of-olympic-figure: skating-team-event/ Thanks for your consideration Madeline Schizas To Madeline Schizas ... Sat 2/7/2026 11:24 AM Hi Madeline. Wow! What a special moment. Yes, in the circumstances, an extension is perfectly fine. I'd say focus on the competion right now, and submit it directly to me when it is done. The triple lutz triple toe combo is a pretty hard move to master, but you've got this. Good luck-the whole country is rooting for you and your teammates. PS, When I was ten, I scored a goal in hockey and that was challenging enough for me.

Here’s some kindness from Canada..

When Olympian Maddie Schizas requested an extension to submit her assignment, her professor replied this ⬇️🥹

Go Maddie 🇨🇦!

Body image is a well-trodden discussion topic, but I think my perspective as a young cancer survivor gives me a slightly different angle on it all.

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Me, too. It's so hard to put those feelings into words that adequately express how different our lives are when we live with cancer. This author nails it ❤️‍🩹

Poilievre just told #CP26 "There's never been a referendum crisis or a national unity crisis when Conservatives have been in power It's an interesting coincidence isn't it" False. BQ was the product of Mulroney's time in office. Borden - WWI conscription crisis. Sir John - Louis Riel. C'mon man.

Viewed from below; an elongate tiny tardigrade. Its head end with mouthparts is to the right of picture. there are three pairs of stumpy legs with claws to along the sides of the body, and a further pair of stumpy legs with claws at the rearmost part of body (left side of picture).

Who doesn't love a Tardigrade?
One of three found in a clump of moss under pine trees in Brede High Woods. Could be Macrobiotus cf hufelandi, but if anyone knows better ...

#Tardigrade #HighWeald

We don’t talk enough about bureaucratic cruelty. No-one intends for the system to be cruel. But, as a young cancer survivor, I know that cruelty is often the outcome.

The systems underpinning the NHS janky and bolted together. We mustn’t let a misplaced sense of romance impede real improvements.

A LinkedIn post from my profile, reading: “It's a very simple equation, really: Science communication needs to be accurate, it needs to be authentic, and it needs to be transparent. If you're not doing it that way, you're not doing science communication at all. In addition, *good* science communication is inclusive, it's ethical, it's sustainable. If you're not heeding these things, you're not doing science communication right. Which is why I am profoundly shocked by ostensibly reasonable people promoting the use of chatbots for science communication. Their use decreases factual accuracy. It decreases transparency. It decreases authenticity. Those things are true regardless of *which* chatbot you're using and regardless of *how* you're using it. Plus, the tech is not sustainable, not inclusive, not ethical. The promotion and use of Al chatbots is already damaging science communication and, if taken to the extreme, will be capable of quickly destroying it. Not through the rise of evil Al, but through ignorance on part of the users, rapidly destroying the trust that science communicators have been able to build over decades. Everything I will ever publish will be written by humans, and by humans only. If science communication goes the way of the robots, it will go there without me.”

LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it

Visit of the Prime Minister of Denmark 22nd Jawary 2026 We'll get by with a little help from our friends

Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today

Carney:

"In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".

Trump on NATO:

"The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call".

We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.

Photo of Prime Minister Carney speaking at a podium in Davos, Switzerland. A quote from his speech is edited on top: “WHEN THE RULES NO LONGER PROTECT YOU, YOU MUST PROTECT YOURSELF. BUT LET US BE CLEAR-EYED ABOUT WHERE THIS LEADS. A WORLD OF FORTRESSES WILL BE POORER, MORE FRAGILE, AND LESS SUSTAINABLE.”

We can build walls or we can be more ambitious — and build something better, stronger, and more just.

Today we celebrate the wisdom of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, including and especially his lesser known work. Watch and share.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.

All the best, John! ❤️‍🩹

Distribution of trace fossils in rock samples.

A modern analogue for interpreting Soom meiofaunal trace fossils and OMAs.

"Here we document trace fossils of a meiofaunal ecosystem that flourished in the immediate aftermath of the end-Ordovician extinction event...ichnofossils...dominated by nematodes and foraminifera."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio

I'm glad you're still here, John, and honestly in awe of what you've managed to endure. ❤️‍🩹