Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦

@watershedlab.bsky.social

I make ice cream and do science and suck at fly fishing. YYC glaciers - geohazards - climate - geomorphology - geomatics - gelato He/him Fellow, @rcgssgrc.bsky.social

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
@watershedlab.bsky.social

Fuck right off with this bullshit.

Springer Nature@springernature.com

How can AI support researchers in peer review? Springer Nature and Google DeepMind are partnering to co-design an AI peer review assistant that helps reviewers navigate manuscripts and focus on where their scientific judgement matters most. Learn more: spklr.io/63320EVgT8

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
@watershedlab.bsky.social

Friends don’t let friends ChatGPT

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte
@valmasdel.bsky.social

Stay strong, attribution scientists - your work is under attack because it matters Climate scientists face deluge of public-records requests about fossil-fuel studies www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.comClimate scientists face deluge of public-records requests about fossil-fuel studiesA Nature investigation identified more than 30 requests since 2024 to US universities in a campaign questioning climate attribution science.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
@watershedlab.bsky.social

39,855 words written so far....and some of them might even be good. (and author mutuals want to read a chapter and give me some feedback?) ⚒️ #WithIdiotForScale #BookSky #AmWriting

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social

The book shall be called “With idiot for scale” 🧪⚒️❄️

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I support Somali-Americans
@adamrothman.bsky.social

Replying to @adamrothman.bsky.social

People forget that artisanal cheesecake craftsmen were rendered obsolete by the rise of the Cheesecake Factory in the 16th century. Roving bands of unemployed cheesecake workers would sabotage industrial cheesecake ovens in protest. You can read about it in *The Cheesecake and The Worms.*

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Obama: "That well-known evil empire Canada. That historical adversary of ours. Canada! *laughs* It's your neighbor. It's a few minutes' drive over the bridge! These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup. They are the nicest people! And someone we've gotten them so mad."

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦
@senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social

Buckle up, friends. This is going to be a thread. A thread of thanksgiving, my gratitude for the people of the city and the province I love. The people who stood united to defeat a dark and narrow vision of Alberta's future. The people who stood in defence of Canada. 🧵 #Alberta #Canada #yeg

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
@watershedlab.bsky.social

“Slop jockey” is my new favourite term

Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃@caseyexplosion.bsky.social

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
@watershedlab.bsky.social

I'm not a big rugby fan but super proud of 🇨🇦 women's team who bested England not once but twice (first time England has lost two in a row since 2016). www.cbc.ca/sports/rugby...

cbc.caCanadian women's rugby team scores 2nd straight win over powerhouse England | CBC SportsOne loss isn’t a losing streak, but dropping two in a row is cause for concern. That’s exactly where the England Red Roses find themselves following Friday’s 31-22 setback in Ottawa, falling to Canada...

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PSAC-AFPC
@psac-afpc.bsky.social

2,671 PSAC members at Parks Canada received notice this week that their positions may be cut. These cuts put our environment, natural and cultural heritage, parks, and national historic sites at risk. psacunion.ca/psac-raises-...

psacunion.caPSAC raises the alarm after more than half of all Parks Canada workers receive workforce adjustment notices<p>2,671 PSAC members at Parks Canada received notice this week that their jobs may be cut. That’s more than half of all workers at Parks Canada.</p>
Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
@watershedlab.bsky.social

The 🧪⚒️ peer review system is broken: 1 paper has been stalled since a reviewer failed to submit their review a month ago; 1 has been sitting on editor's desk for more than a month after we revised it; 1 has only now had an editor assigned after being submitted 2 months ago.

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Prof Ian Hall
@ianhall.bsky.social

Climate change has stopped the next Ice Age For thousands of years, Earth’s orbital cycles favoured cooler northern summers, the kind of conditions that help ice sheets grow. Then GHG emissions changed the balance reversing ~2,000 years of ice-sheet expansion. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.orgLate Holocene reexpansion of the Laurentide Ice SheetDuring interglaciations, the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS), which is the largest of the Pleistocene ice sheets, retreats to Arctic Canada, where it achieves a minimum configuration. The reexpansion of th...
Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
@watershedlab.bsky.social

Not @theonion.com

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Andy Burnham says he has emergency stockpile of beans, soup and Twiglets

theguardian.comAndy Burnham says he has emergency stockpile of beans, soup and TwigletsPM’s revelation follows launch of advice for households to have enough water and food to get by in civil emergency * UK politics live – latest updates Andy Burnham has stockpiles of beans, soup and Twiglets in case of a civil emergency, he has said, adding that a new government campaign was not reason for panic buying. The prime minister was questioned on his domestic supply situation after the Be Ready campaign advised households to have enough bottled water and long-life food to keep going in case of an emergency, such as one caused by a weather event or cyber-attack. Continue reading...

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Jeremy Appel 🍉
@readtheorchard.org

Jeffrey Rath and Mitch Sylvestre were terminated from their roles with the Alberta Prosperity Project "with cause" in September. This is particularly strange, since both men were at the group's referendum watch party and spoke to media on its behalf.

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Dr. Dawn Wright
@deepseadawn.bsky.social

Check out this new #openaccess, peer-reviewed article highlighting the Black in Marine Science Tidal Wave program's role in advancing equity & representation in marine science. ✊🏾 openpublishing.library.umass.edu/pare/article... #BlackSky 🌊 🦑

openpublishing.library.umass.eduReclaiming Narratives and Redefining Equity: A Values-Engaged, Educative Evaluation of the Black in Marine Science Tidal Wave ProgramUtilizing culturally responsive evaluation approaches and methods  in equity-focused STEM programs and initiatives supports evaluator efforts to attend to the historical exclusion of Black communities...
Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
@watershedlab.bsky.social

New @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social prof Katie Biegl (not on bsky, starting at UofC summer '27) is looking for grad students interested in seismology and remote sensing approaches to studying cascading slope hazards in Western and Arctic Canada. Email her kmbiegel@ucdavis.edu katie-biegel.github.io 🧪⚒️

katie-biegel.github.ioEnvironmental Seismology @ UC DavisEnvironmental Seismology at UC Davis, part of Amanda Thomas' Observational Seismology Group studies debris flows, outburst floods, and other slope hazards using seismic observations.

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Geography at Durham
@geogdurham.bsky.social

We are looking forward to welcoming @watershedlab.bsky.social as a visitor this autumn! Dan is giving a public lecture on Tues 24 November (17:00-18:30, W309, West Building, Durham Uni) - all welcome to attend! 🏔️“Mountains in motion: how climate change is rewriting hazards in Earth’s icy regions”❄️

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
@watershedlab.bsky.social

On 26 Aug Nepal was hit by the Rasuwa disaster w/ >1400 deaths & >5000 missing. Less than 10d ago another permafrost rock avalanche resulted in flooding on Budhi Gandaki. We need to re-think risk analysis & management in cryosphere mountain regions. @nature.com 🧪⚒️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.comNepal’s disaster is an urgent wake-up callRecord-breaking avalanches and floods are signs of things to come. Scientists must evaluate and respond to growing risks in mountain regions.