That's awesome.

New paper published in PNAS today!

Joint work with Jeffrey Shrader, Stephan Thies, Derek Lemoine, and Laura Bakkensen: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

You should look up the effects of the Spanish flu on Inuit in Labrador. Even higher than the 20% figure you cited.

IN THE DANCE 😤

Woo!!

1 sens win and 1 sens ot loss does it as well.

Abstract: The case is made that machine-learning statistical estimation neither can nor should be expected to supplant physics-based simulation for weather forecasting.
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GDD might be an interesting one as well.

A Humanitarian Giant Has Passed Stephen Lewis has gone to the angels.

Stephen Lewis has gone to the angels. He was a relentless fighter for justice. When I was 9 my Granny (an immigrant mining widow) made me sit in front of the TV and listen to him speak about compensation for mining victims.
His passion and commitment stayed with me.
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The production of ERA6, coming up in 2027, has started. The next‑generation climate reanalysis from #CopernicusClimate will offer >2× finer resolution than ERA5, a coupled ocean–atmosphere–wave model, improved data access & more.

Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-c...

@ecmwf.int

Elon Musk's xAI sued for turning three girls' real photos into AI CSAM Discord user led cops to Grok-generated CSAM of real girls, lawsuit says.

There is no excuse to be posting on twitter. None.

WHAT A CAREER

Brad Gushue has just played his last game at the Brier. A remarkable career. Six Brier titles. World title. Olympic gold and bronze. 15 Slam titles.

It’s been an honour to cover so many of those moments. Congratulations @BradGushue.

The NDP has basically conceded they don't want to compete in half of Canada so it's hard to see how they will be on the radar for the foreseeable future.

Not to be that guy who always interjects these things but Canada really ought to be more transparent that they don't actually measure snowfall very much anymore.

At most observing sites it's total precip + a temperature threshold which in itself is a model.

UW announced departure from X (formerly known as Twitter) UW is no longer using X, formerly known as Twitter, which they announced in a post on Feb. 27.  Before this announcement, the university posted periodic updates about closures, safety alert systems, ...

Wonderful news: my university has announced it will stop using X. uwimprint.ca/uw-announced...

And no, this does not violate institutional neutrality, properly understood. Nothing about neutrality in communications requires a university to use any and all platforms.

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

3 on 3 to decide a gold medal game is garbage

Pretty amazing that the UK managed to miss 4 doubles in a row in one end

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ChatGPT conversations from the Tumbler Ridge teenager who carried out a horrific school shooting were flagged by employees at OpenAI.

They raised their concerns but the company ultimately did nothing, according to the reporting. archive.is/GUweE#select...

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Yeah. They're a tough team to cheer for. As a sens fan I'm still pretty bitter about them getting Stone from us...

As a Sens fan I do enjoy this.

GOOOOOOAAAAALLLLLL

CANADA 🇨🇦 WINS IT IN OVERTIME

MOVING ON AT THE OLYMPICS

EXHALE CANADA

Peak athleticism! 🐶 A dog got loose on the cross-country ski course.

#MilanoCortina2026

Four months after Quebec schools ban cellphones, impact 'is major' Four months after Quebec banned cellphones in primary and secondary schools, many school administrators report positive effects on social life, physical activity, and academic performance. At École Mo...

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Why do otherwise rational people disagree about the same evidence? Our new paper finds that group membership is a deeply rooted influence on how we form beliefs, leading even preschoolers to bias their evidential standards and form inaccurate beliefs.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I do remember him taking a few hard hits though as well. His vision was great but I suspect he was always going to need to be a bit sheltered. Could've been a great PP2 guy.

Also that 9.5 million/year is looking pretty good right now.

Truly the stupidest move in Ottawa Senators history.

Memorial University cuts programs – here’s what’s gone and why | CBC News Memorial University has ended or paused more than a dozen academic programs, blaming poor enrolment as a factor in many of the cuts.

Can we assume the elimination of the diploma in Newfoundland and Labrador studies is the elimination of the only such program in the world? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...