RonRRead

An introductory message. I’m a prairie boy, now living in the mist in the intertidal zone. Life is now governed by wind and tide; my neighbours are bull kelp and otters, and my house rocks me to sleep at night.

I think the Greenland threat is a troll. I think. But it would sure be nice for some senators and GOP house members to speak up now and make it clear that an attack on a nato ally would lead to removal from office

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf

In the same way that the Arab world acted as the keepers of knowledge during the Middle Ages, perhaps Canada will need to act as the keeper of American history until this nightmare is over, if it ever is.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Public health is political. I am constantly astounded by the apathy, complacency and deliberate ignorance of colleagues in public health and the health social sciences as they line up with the ideologies of vested interests

I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.

The AP should stop covering Trump events. Instead send those White House reporters out into the field to report on the harms and repercussions of his policies. The U.S. public never needed coverage of pseudo-events anyway.

Dipping into the archives today for this hydroid, Orthopyxis integra, covered in diatioms from the genus Licmophora. I have to admit, it’s one of my favourite images. 🦑

Wearing diatoms is a popular fashion choice among some groups

One of my friends has a grant from the #FDA to look at disparities in clinical trial research and just submitted a manuscript with the findings. She was told today by the collaborators from the #FDA to rescind it. #Censorhip has started, we are living in authoritarian government.

FOX News blaming Native people for the California fires is unspeakably irresponsible, devoid of anything near journalism, colonizer dodging of responsibility.

I can't believe there's people finding out about THE ODYSSEY because of the new Nolan film and complaining about spoilers. Sir please it was written almost 3000 years ago what spoilers are you talking about.

We can all resist fascism.

“The reality is that people are dying from COVID in our hospitals, and we really are doing very little to prevent them getting ill and getting infected. And we wouldn't do the same for any other infectious disease,” Vipond said. www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/o...

i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

For #ArtAdventCalendar today, the #SketchvsFinal of the Multicolored Tanager illustration. With a limit of 16 hours, I originally didn't expect to even get time to do much with the plants at all - I'm so pleased I got everything I wanted done in time and more! 🎨🪶🐡

Pasteur wasn’t such an old fool.

Why are we ignoring the concerning evolution of #H5N1 influenza?👇 🧪

Trolls are here too now. For those who are sincerely interested in why many infections in kids are worse these days, here's an article from 2 years ago: calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

It doesn't get better than this. A Rock Wren on a blueschist cobble. This is a snapshot of the bird just before it hopped to the next boulder. When geology and birds come together.

🪶🦉 #bird Pic #1- The Harlequin from the Commedia dell’arte c. 1670 CE. Pic #2-4- the Harlequin ducks of Clover Point, Victoria BC. They prefer the rocky shore on an incoming tide, and are beautiful to see on the rock, swimming in the water, or whizzing by in flight. #nikond500 #nikkor200_500

Man, now Saudi Arabia has apparently been caught editing official COP29 drafts, maybe granted edit access by the COP presidency, Azerbaijan. Rough. “We are in the midst of a geopolitical power play by a few fossil fuel states.” -a German minister in Baku

Kelly Wrighton & colleagues out in Nature today "A functional #microbiome catalogue crowdsourced from North American rivers" www.nature.com/articles/s41... commentary: agsci.source.colostate.edu/researchers-... @csusoilcropsci.bsky.social on #environment #microsky 🧬 🦠🧪

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

@parkerklund.bsky.social Thanks for the follow. The world is small- one of my retirement things-to-do is spend Wednesdays on the SEM at UVic imaging diatoms as part of a collaboration with Laura and Siobhan. Best wishes on your work- I will follow with interest!

🪶🦉First #bird group post_ the toasted marshmallow beauty that is the snow bunting. Clover Point, Victoria BC.

@daryllmarie.bsky.social #addbirder Hi Daryl Marie, please add me to the group. I’m a retired physician/microbiologist now living in the intertidal zone on Vancouver Island. I spend most of my time doing lots of birding things in support of citizen science.