Energy Resources, Development and Environment Lab (ERDELab) PI, @UBCforestry Assc Dean EDI. Energy, equity, justice, climate change, bioenergy. But also TTRPGs and photography (https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/499807930552574625). he/him. .. more
Energy Resources, Development and Environment Lab (ERDELab) PI, @UBCforestry Assc Dean EDI. Energy, equity, justice, climate change, bioenergy. But also TTRPGs and photography (https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/499807930552574625). he/him.
A re-intro:
Academic in Forestry faculty but not a forester. Work on energy, land-use, climate, equity, justice. Often at intersection of energy & forests.
With a dash of TTRPGs, nerdy stuff and politics.
And photography:
portfolio.pixelfed.social/nomademoderne
Ideology wins out over science and we all lose.
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is more than sartorial.
Chapeau off to Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux.
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In and out in no time and fully covered (flu and COVID).
Yeah science!
Also, I’m sure that some scenes definitely didn’t age well. Except that Illinois Nazi scene.
Don’t think anyone has mentioned The Blues Brothers yet.
Been citizen since birth (American mother) but born in Arab country. Hence get things like immigration officer asking me 5 different ways when I got my green card. Never had one.
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![Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to establish that the Government's choice to display biological sex "lack[s] any purpose other than a bare ... desire to harm a politically unpopular group." Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by declining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress expressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreigev37etpfwfdxjlnt3pz5qyueldxo3k6rfxw5ip477gp7inlrctq@jpeg)
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And before the “purity test“ people come out to play, this is not about policy differences.
It’s about seeing people as people deserving of all of the rights as anybody else. That should not be up for policy debate.
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This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
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Not sure how to square that sentiment with today's budget - $ for LNG and CCS and sets a path to eliminate industrial cap
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
That appears to no longer be the case moving forward and our media landscape will be all the poorer.
It's a great idea and I will definitely sign up.
Love the concept.
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now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
Your demographic data as an applicant and/or reviewer is being sought by a parliamentary committee where some members are pushing an anti-EDI agenda.
This 🧵 outlines the massive problems with this.
There is a sign-on letter circulating, hopefully you've seen it.
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Vancouver-Jasper is about 100 km further than Munich-Hamburg but takes an extra 13 hours.
And, yes, mountains. But look at Quebec-Toronto (~same distance and 9 hrs + connection)
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By sacrificing his long-held beliefs on climate change (and giving the bad-faith skeptics a win), Bill Gates topped them all. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/01/o...
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
1) Calling people auntie, uncle and cousin is pretty universal (I know it’s a thing in my family)
2) aunt, cousin, cousin once removed - it doesn’t change the fact she was scared to wear her hijab after 9/11. That’s the pt of the story!
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Also…
Stop Shoving Your AI Into Everything!!!! FFS
