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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar

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🍁• #ElbowsUpCanada • Community Engaged Wildlife Research • Professor • University of Saskatchewan • farmkid • dadof2 • Rebel Scum • born@330ppm CO2 now 428 • 7x covid vax • caribou • invasive pigs • wolves • peatlands in the Hudson Bay Lowlands Manitoba .. more

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · Nov 16

Let me introduce myself. I'm a professor @usask.bsky.social at the University of Saskatchewan. My group works on invasive wild pigs, caribou, wolves, and other beasties. I take the responsibility of my academic freedom very seriously and use it and good science to hopefully have some influence.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 7h

This year Santa was cleared to travel through Canadian airspace.

Crazy that he has higher security approval than Poilievre.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 22h

Returns are down because so many are detained by ICE and can’t get home.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 3d

I remember when we used to call chronic wasting disease “a disease in slow motion”. No longer.

The Brandon Sun @thebrandonsun.bsky.social · 3d

WINNIPEG — Five new cases of chronic wasting disease have been detected in Manitoba, the province announced Monday. www.brandonsun.com/local/2025/1... #bdnmb

Five cases of chronic wasting disease identified

WINNIPEG — Five new cases of chronic wasting disease have been detected in Manitoba, the province announced Monday. The disease, which affects members of the deer family, was found for the first…

www.brandonsun.com

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The Brandon Sun @thebrandonsun.bsky.social · 3d

WINNIPEG — Five new cases of chronic wasting disease have been detected in Manitoba, the province announced Monday. www.brandonsun.com/local/2025/1... #bdnmb

Five cases of chronic wasting disease identified

WINNIPEG — Five new cases of chronic wasting disease have been detected in Manitoba, the province announced Monday. The disease, which affects members of the deer family, was found for the first…

www.brandonsun.com

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 3d

This could be a winner.

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 3d

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

Stranded man airlifted from Mount Fuji — then rescued again days later after he returned to get his phone
--CBS, 28 April 2025

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 3d

It's almost like Moe is evil and doesn't care.

Reposted by Andréas Nilsson, Ryan K. Brook

Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 3d

Global solar deployment in 2024 shattered records, with nearly 600 gigawatts (GW) installed worldwide, a massive increase driven primarily by China, followed by the U.S. and India. 2025 will shatter that record, hitting over 800 GWs, despite the glass-half empty reporting out of the USA.

Reposted by Ryan K. Brook

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 3d

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 3d

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (February)

Mark Zuckerberg Says ‘Everything I Say Leaks’ in Leaked Memo
--Vice, 4 Feb 2025

Reposted by Charles W. Smith, Ryan K. Brook

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 3d

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)

Louvre Heist Fallout Reveals Museum’s Video Security Password Was ‘Louvre’
--Vice, 5 November 2025

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 4d

Nyquil has been extremely helpful.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 4d

I'm on day 11 with this influenza A business and finally not coughing up my lungs.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 5d

Agreed. I like the not dying part the best.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 5d

I got the flu shot early as I always do. Got the flu anyway and 8 days later finally feeling a bit better- it is brutal.

One thing the flu shot does well is reduce the number of people that end up in the hospital or dead due to flu. For that I am grateful.

healthsci.mcmaster.ca/seasonal-flu...

healthsci.mcmaster.ca

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 5d

Before and after pictures- SPCA saved her from the streets as a skinny bag of bones - we hit the jackpot 8 years ago and now she’s part of the family. aka double stinky or tick tick or Phoenix.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 5d

Its easy to see how crazy movies have become. John McClane killed 71 people total. John Wick killed 439.

a man is laying in the water with the words welcome to the party pal .

ALT: a man is laying in the water with the words welcome to the party pal .

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 5d

I repeat, you literally could NOT pay me enough to go to the US right now. Fuck that noise.

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Irish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · Aug 13

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal

Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from CanadaA New Zealand woman who is being held at a US immigration centre with...

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal

Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada

www.theguardian.com

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 5d

My Dad always enjoyed this Mark Twain quote, and I do as well.

"When I was 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in 7 years,"

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 5d

Total count of wildlife overpasses in Saskatchewan remains firmly set at zero.

Reposted by Wolfgang Huber, Ryan K. Brook, Andrew Baillie

PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 5d

H0 H0 H0 😂

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 6d

The EOS R6 Mark II can effectively track the whole body, face, or eye of animals, which is really slick and the autofocus is pretty outrageous.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 6d

Ouch. That causes me physical pain to hear that. I like Nikon a lot but have been a Canon EOS guy for a long time now. Some of my friends have purchased really nice Nikon's but then struggle to afford to buy a range of lenses as they are so pricey and so don't have a good macro rig and longer zoom.