Dr. Jen Frail-Gauthier
@coastalseaside.bsky.social
Running, weights, books, beer. Not necessarily in that order. Mom, wife, educator. Teaching in the sun, sand, water, and mud. Evidence-informed, and hater of pseudoscience. Overly energetic. PhD: salt marsh foraminifera and meiofauna.
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Honour the veterans and punch a fascist!
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Honour the veterans and punch a fascist!
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1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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No one warns you about how attached you get to kitchen utensils that you've had over 20 years. My carrot peeler broke today (it literally pounced out of the dishwasher rack and broke in half on the floor). I have others. They are not good peelers. I have the sad.
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
No one warns you about how attached you get to kitchen utensils that you've had over 20 years. My carrot peeler broke today (it literally pounced out of the dishwasher rack and broke in half on the floor). I have others. They are not good peelers. I have the sad.
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Dunning-Kruger-Times.com
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Dunning-Kruger-Times.com
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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I'm sorry what? I was born with these bay leaves and so help me god I'll die with these bay leaves
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I'm sorry what? I was born with these bay leaves and so help me god I'll die with these bay leaves
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
You know gym culture is getting toxic/obsessive when students ask how long the day/lab will be, because they "have to get to the gym" -- I have seen more of this question in the last 4 months than I have had in my 15 years of teaching.
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
You know gym culture is getting toxic/obsessive when students ask how long the day/lab will be, because they "have to get to the gym" -- I have seen more of this question in the last 4 months than I have had in my 15 years of teaching.
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ICYMI, I wrote about the Florida Safer Seas Act, which would ban SCUBA divers from chumming for sharks in Federal waters off Florida.
www.scubadiving.com/will-banning... 🧪🌎🦑🦈
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Will Banning Baited Shark Diving Off Florida Make Our Seas Safer?
Bipartisan legislation would ban the practice of feeding sharks off Florida’s coast, which supporters say will keep people safer and reduce conflict with recreational anglers. But the scientific evide...
www.scubadiving.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
ICYMI, I wrote about the Florida Safer Seas Act, which would ban SCUBA divers from chumming for sharks in Federal waters off Florida.
www.scubadiving.com/will-banning... 🧪🌎🦑🦈
www.scubadiving.com/will-banning... 🧪🌎🦑🦈
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As a scuba diver who has had (peaceful) shark encounters in the wild, I absolutely do not want operators teaching sharks to associate boats and divers with food.
There are very valid reasons you don’t feed wildlife on land. Don’t start doing it underwater.
There are very valid reasons you don’t feed wildlife on land. Don’t start doing it underwater.
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
As a scuba diver who has had (peaceful) shark encounters in the wild, I absolutely do not want operators teaching sharks to associate boats and divers with food.
There are very valid reasons you don’t feed wildlife on land. Don’t start doing it underwater.
There are very valid reasons you don’t feed wildlife on land. Don’t start doing it underwater.
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If Tim Houston is so concerned about democracy, he’d sit in the legislature for more than eight days, wouldn’t override decisions of Halifax regional council, would talk with reporters, and wouldn’t consider giving part of a provincial park to a private developer for a golf course.
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
If Tim Houston is so concerned about democracy, he’d sit in the legislature for more than eight days, wouldn’t override decisions of Halifax regional council, would talk with reporters, and wouldn’t consider giving part of a provincial park to a private developer for a golf course.
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Nothing to see here, literally! Just 6ft me standing, you read that right, standing upright in front of a truck.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Nothing to see here, literally! Just 6ft me standing, you read that right, standing upright in front of a truck.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
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my city still talks about 'shared responsibility', which is entirely the wrong framing, and the road death number is likely to be very high this year.
Drivers need to not break the law and kill people. Full stop.
Drivers need to not break the law and kill people. Full stop.
When you’re hit by a car, try not to die. It’s a real bummer for the driver.
How to be a good pedestrian; It's harder than you think: https://www.khon2.com/top-stories/how-to-be-a-good-pedestrian-its-harder-than-you-think/
November 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
my city still talks about 'shared responsibility', which is entirely the wrong framing, and the road death number is likely to be very high this year.
Drivers need to not break the law and kill people. Full stop.
Drivers need to not break the law and kill people. Full stop.
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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Thank you to the many Unions and organizations who have donated to support our striking MSVU and SMU Part-Time Faculty. Go here to see the full list: cupe3912.ca/2025/10/29/t...
Thank You for Solidarity Donations to MSVU and SMU Part-Time Faculty Strike - CUPE 3912
We would like to thank the following Unions and organizations for their strong solidarity as we head into almost week two of the strike. AASUA (Association of Academic Staff, University of Alberta): $...
cupe3912.ca
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Thank you to the many Unions and organizations who have donated to support our striking MSVU and SMU Part-Time Faculty. Go here to see the full list: cupe3912.ca/2025/10/29/t...
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“For 29 remarkable days in October (and November) they made us feel like we were in something together.” An excellent opinion piece on the Blue Jays losing the World Series last night:
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/643477e...
#Uplift
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/643477e...
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Congrats on the loss, Toronto. It was a masterpiece
It’s easy to focus on the little things after a loss as heartbreaking as this one, but the Blue Jays played one of the greatest games of baseball ever
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“For 29 remarkable days in October (and November) they made us feel like we were in something together.” An excellent opinion piece on the Blue Jays losing the World Series last night:
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/643477e...
#Uplift
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/643477e...
#Uplift
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Good mourning, fellow Jays fans. An extra hour to reflect on physics and fickle fate and then reset our hearts for hope, like love, is a muscle. #BlueJays
November 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Good mourning, fellow Jays fans. An extra hour to reflect on physics and fickle fate and then reset our hearts for hope, like love, is a muscle. #BlueJays
Epitome of driver-entitlement witnessed this morning: a dump truck was waiting to turn left into a construction site. It can't turn in 3 seconds, so TWO SUVs behind it swerved out around it on the LEFT hand side. I don't know about you, but I don't wanna ever get in the way of a dump truck.
October 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Epitome of driver-entitlement witnessed this morning: a dump truck was waiting to turn left into a construction site. It can't turn in 3 seconds, so TWO SUVs behind it swerved out around it on the LEFT hand side. I don't know about you, but I don't wanna ever get in the way of a dump truck.
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Hey Siri, explain the divide between a university president’s salary and the pay of people teaching hundreds of students on per-course contracts as well as the difference in their relative necessity in actually making the university function…. but do it with a baseball meme.
October 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Hey Siri, explain the divide between a university president’s salary and the pay of people teaching hundreds of students on per-course contracts as well as the difference in their relative necessity in actually making the university function…. but do it with a baseball meme.
Goodness help us all. This video was made in 2003. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpj...
October 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Goodness help us all. This video was made in 2003. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpj...
SEASIDE calendar math due last week... now, SEASIDE budget math due this week... Thankfully Admissions Math isn't until February!!
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
SEASIDE calendar math due last week... now, SEASIDE budget math due this week... Thankfully Admissions Math isn't until February!!
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First week in the books!
Thanks to colleagues at @smufu.bsky.social, @dalfaculty.bsky.social, @caut.bsky.social, @cupens.bsky.social and many more, as well as our fantastic #TAs and students.
We'll be back on the picket line tomorrow—come by and say hi!
#SMUstrike #FairDealNow #cdnpse #canlab
Thanks to colleagues at @smufu.bsky.social, @dalfaculty.bsky.social, @caut.bsky.social, @cupens.bsky.social and many more, as well as our fantastic #TAs and students.
We'll be back on the picket line tomorrow—come by and say hi!
#SMUstrike #FairDealNow #cdnpse #canlab
October 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
First week in the books!
Thanks to colleagues at @smufu.bsky.social, @dalfaculty.bsky.social, @caut.bsky.social, @cupens.bsky.social and many more, as well as our fantastic #TAs and students.
We'll be back on the picket line tomorrow—come by and say hi!
#SMUstrike #FairDealNow #cdnpse #canlab
Thanks to colleagues at @smufu.bsky.social, @dalfaculty.bsky.social, @caut.bsky.social, @cupens.bsky.social and many more, as well as our fantastic #TAs and students.
We'll be back on the picket line tomorrow—come by and say hi!
#SMUstrike #FairDealNow #cdnpse #canlab
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Yeah, this is what I wrestle with -- a college freshman today was only nine when Trump first ran for president. They've grown up with him as a baseline, not an aberration.
It's odd for me to realize that my first-year undergraduates are at an age where they don't really remember that there was a form of US politics prior to Donald Trump. For them, Trump is not an aberration from the normal course of political discourse, but just how US politics is done.
October 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Yeah, this is what I wrestle with -- a college freshman today was only nine when Trump first ran for president. They've grown up with him as a baseline, not an aberration.