Did you know that Statistics Canada @StatCan_eng has a podcast??
Here's their most recent episode (not the first!) on happiness: https://share.transistor.fm/s/8050e746

Registration now open (or join our waitlist): one-day conference in Montreal on bringing the science of wellbeing to the forefront of policy making in Canada.

Join us on 12 May 2026!

wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca/governingWellbeing2026/e...

#happiness #qualityoflife #cdnpoli

Inscriptions ouvertes (ou rejoignez notre liste d'attente) : conférence d'une journée à Montréal sur l'intégration de la science du bien-être dans les politiques publiques au Canada.

Rejoignez-nous ! 12 mai 2026

wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca/governingWellbeing2026/f...

🗞️ Have you been keeping up with the coverage of World Happiness Report 2026?

We’ve assembled some of the highlights to keep you up to speed…

Read more 👉 mailchi.mp/worldhappiness.report/ma...
Subscribe 👉 https://worldhappiness.report/subscribe/

vibe researching ...

Highly recommended exposition. If you were taught frequentist ("standard") statistics, this is more fun, more beautiful, simpler, and is also what everyone will be doing in the future.

QRT: https://x.com/rlmcelreath/status/2035979868114928084

--dangerously-skip-permissions

(especially before 8am and after 2pm!)

World Happiness Report 2026 is out tomorrow!

Here’s what to expect.👇
video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/20342221826...

A propos of my day: The appointment for my first shingles shot is in 15 minutes.

QRT: https://x.com/agingroy/status/2032484456867492336

No no no no no. Paul M Smith was there, not me.
I will talk with Claude about fixing my repost-from-Twitter code to properly represent retweets!! Sorry, Paul.

At 11.40pm last night, a monster positive lightning bolt lit up the sky just East of Norman, Oklahoma.
And I was in Texas with my camera pointed above that storm, and captured the giant red sprite it produced.

Dr Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing presented our latest seminar in the McGill - UofT Wellbeing Research Seminar series (2026 March 4): "The Ordinary Concept of a Good Life".…
https://x.com/profcpbl/status/2031905243290591578

Don’t miss the #WHR2026 launch events, where you can explore key findings with the authors and editors themselves, as well as regional experts and commentators.

👉 Find out more and register now: https://ow.ly/am4Q50YrIfL

About AI, many economists say "we've seen technological breakthroughs in the past met with fear of job loss, and the long-run outcome has always been new jobs and higher wages". This always astonishes me. Things can happen for the first time!! And they surely are.

We could not be more thrilled to announce our DEEP 2026 Annual Conference happening May 12th!
Governing for Wellbeing: Five Years of Canada's Quality of Life Agenda
Save the Date! www.mcgill.ca/equity-ethics-policy/eve...

Be honest, is this relatable??
video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/20295358293...

This month we're releasing the 14th edition of the World Happiness Report.

But, before we turn the page on #WHR2025, we’ve revisited its key findings.

Read more 👉 https://mailchi.mp/worldhappiness.report/march-2026
Subscribe 👉 https://worldhappiness.report/subscribe/

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basical…
https://x.com/karpathy/status/2026731645169185220

📢 New Issue Alert — Applied Research in Quality of Life; Volume 21, Issue 1 is now online, featuring the special theme:🌍 Geography of Happiness and Well-being. Read it here: https://tinyurl.com/bddr7a58
#GeographyOfHappiness #QualityOfLife #WellBeingResearch #ISQOLS

What can Latin America teach us about #qualityoflife?
Join the ISQOLS Regional Conference!
📍 Buenos Aires | 📅 March 9–11, 2026
🗓 Registration deadline: 15 Jan
👉 https://isqols.org/Argentina
@udepalermo @StatecResearch @HappinessRpt
#ISQOLS #Well…
https://x.com/ISQOLS_org/status/2008939287518302269

🎉 New year, new opportunities with ISQOLS in 2026!
3 conferences—virtual, regional & global—bringing researchers together to network, learn & share work on quality of life, well-being & happiness. 🌍
👉 https://conta.cc/4jrndIT
#ISQOLS2026 #QualityOfLife #Wellbeing #Happiness

Our next CHERN McGill-UofT seminar will be by Prof Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing, on "The Ordinary Concept of a Good Life".

Past seminars, and link to registration:
https://wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca/seminar

Due to my poor calendaring, CWKN is hosting a webinar at the same time!

Our next CHERN McGill-UofT seminar will be by Professor Michael Prinzing, who will present on "The Ordinary Concept of a Good Life".

Past seminars, and link to registration:
https://wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca/seminar

Due to my poor calendaring, CWKN is hosting a webinar at the same time!

Hey @McGillU students! Want a summer fellowship to work with a government partner to catalogue and synthesize Wellbeing indicators in Quebec?
See this and other projects:…
https://x.com/profcpbl/status/2022070581781573935

Hey @McGillU students! Want a summer fellowship to work with a government partner to catalogue and synthesize Wellbeing indicators in Quebec?

See this and other projects:…
https://x.com/profcpbl/status/2022071737589150077

Professor Eran Tal @EranTal presented our latest seminar in the McGill - UofT Wellbeing Research Seminar series (2026 Feb 4).
www.youtube.com/watch
For our full series, see https://wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca/seminar

LinkedIn job posting for this position:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4361445078
Apply before midnight on Feb 22!

❤️🇨🇦
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49-XqrqG4vo

People continue to leave Twitter.

To help discourage that behaviour, here's a new command line tool to cross-post your latest tweets to other platforms.

Developed by Claude for a GNU/Linux system, but easy to adapt. No need to pay X for its API.

https://gitlab.com/cpbl/tweet-reposter

The Canadian Wellbeing Knowledges Network (https://cwkn.ca is looking for someone to help take us to the next level :

Project & Research Network Manager (Montreal)

Apply here:
mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill_Careers/job...