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Julie Talbot
@julietalbot.bsky.social
Prof, directrice du département de géographie @UMontreal
| Wetland science, biogeochemistry, Anthropocene, environmental impact of research | En français and in English
"L’université, censée éclairer la société, se contente trop souvent d’en reproduire les aveuglements." 💯

www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...
Université | La tour d’ivoire qui devrait nous éclairer
Le professeur Christophe Chowanietz estime que l’enseignement supérieur forme les élites dans un monde imaginaire où le profit fait encore foi de tout, ce qui explique notre incapacité à affronter la ...
www.lapresse.ca
December 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Le gouvernement Legault autorise des travaux forestiers dans une «forêt ancienne» ciblée pour une aire protégée. Ce milieu naturel plusieurs fois centenaires est considéré comme un écosystème unique dans la région de la Mauricie. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...
Québec autorise des travaux forestiers dans une forêt ciblée pour une aire protégée
Ce milieu naturel plusieurs fois centenaires est considéré comme un écosystème unique dans la région de la Mauricie.
www.ledevoir.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
Hype.

No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
Hope or hype? Deep Sky says unique carbon-capture facility eyed for southwestern Manitoba will help ‘save our planet’; critics call technology high-risk and under-researched
Since early October, the rural municipalities of Pipestone and Two Borders — agriculture and oil-dominant communities about three hours southwest of Winnipeg — have found themselves at the heart of a ...
www.winnipegfreepress.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
I don't usually do this but if you love nature & quality journalism please donate to The Narwhal. Their work is more important than ever, and are currently trying to raise $200,000 to keep the lights on. You get a charitable receipt, and a donor is matching funds. Please share 🧪⚒️
@thenarwhal.ca
Alberta officials stalled coal mine pollution study | The Narwhal
An Alberta government scientist was prevented from speaking publicly about his coal mine pollution research, emails show
thenarwhal.ca
December 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
Another problem with CO2? It messes with plants. Some grow faster; others don’t.

But for our food crops, it makes them have lower nutrient levels — and just more empty calories.

Elevated CO2 is plant *junk food*.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
CO2 Rise Directly Impairs Crop Nutritional Quality
This analysis studies the direct effect of CO2 rise on nutrient quality by synthesizing pre-existing data on ~59,000 samples across 43 different food crops, where half of the plants were grown under ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.
Trump moves to shut down Boulder climate research lab NCAR, drawing rebukes from Colorado officials
Federal lawmakers called the planned NCAR closure “deeply dangerous” and “blatantly retaliatory.” Gov. Jared Polis said: “If true, public safety is at risk and science…
www.denverpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Le démantèlement annoncé de NCAR est un scandale. On brûle une cathédrale de la science climatique qui sera pratiquement impossible à reconstruire. Un recul de plusieurs décennies. Je suis sans mots
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.

Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.

Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.

Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
Tired: H-index

Wired: Shit-index
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
Interesting schematic showing various discourses of delay, from a new paper "Countering the Climate Change Counter Movement: Six lessons from Canada's climate delays" by Samuel Lloyd and Ekaterina Rhodes (link in next bleet).
December 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Important work right here 👇

"Our data show a global pattern, a worldwide process of targeting climate and environmental protest. We argue that this reflects a wider ideological and political project to maintain the hegemonic interests of powerful states and corporations"
We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Aaah ces fameux chercheurs d'exception qui vont avoir une charge d'enseignement réduite et peu (voire pas) de charge collective pendant que les chercheurs "ordinaires" et les précaires tiennent l'université à bout de bras ?
Ottawa libère 1,7 milliard pour recruter 1000 chercheurs d’exception à l’international.

Les chercheurs canadiens pendant ce temps :
December 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
Taps the sign...

INDOOR, VERTICAL FARMS WON'T FEED THE WORLD...
AND THEY DON'T HELP WITH THE ENVIRONMENT

globalecoguy.org/no-vertical-...
No, Vertical Farms Won’t Feed the World
While they are well-intentioned, new indoor “farms” won’t help feed the world or reduce the environmental impacts of agriculture. We would…
globalecoguy.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
Près de 10 ans après l’adoption de la loi censée freiner la disparition des milieux humides au Québec, l’échec semble évident (plus de 5000 autorisations d’empiétement, pour un total de plus de 72 millions de m2). Texte dans Le Devoir: www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...
Pas de répit pour la disparition des milieux humides
Le gouvernement a accordé des milliers d’autorisations de détruire malgré sa prétention à «aucune perte nette».
www.ledevoir.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
“Every year, when I see 14 beams of light projected into the sky above Mount Royal, I have to catch my breath.

“36 years ago, 14 young women were murdered in one of the most violent examples of misogynistic terrorism Canada has ever known.”

An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.

#December6
Gender-based violence is an everyday reality, and it starts with minimizing misogyny
As we highlight 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence and the upcoming anniversary of the Montreal massacre, can we take a moment to reflect on all the different forms this violence takes?
cultmtl.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
Ça dit tout ce que ça a à dire sur les orientations politiques du PQ en 2025. Les femmes sont bcp moins nombreuses à voter pour la droite et référendum = PQ.
Sondage @pallasdata.bsky.social : « Si un référendum avait lieu sur la souveraineté du Québec, voteriez-vous pour ou contre la souveraineté du Québec ? »

Ci-dessous : résultats selon les genres de septembre 2023 à novembre 2025.

Analyse → lactualite.com/politique/le...
December 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
Autour de moi, les témoignages se multiplient: l’abolition du PEQ entraine un exode des cerveaux.

lp.ca/jKG81v?shari...
Abolition du Programme de l’expérience québécoise pour les immigrants | Une clause humanité, SVP
Même s’il coche toutes les cases du candidat idéal à l’immigration, Maleck Kadiri a l’impression d’être renvoyé ces jours-ci à la case « néant ».
lp.ca
December 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
“Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.”— Ronald Purser

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing.

Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this?

Background readings:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I wonder how many times I have had to correct authors when reviewing a paper about the notions of "stock" or "reservoir" vs "sink" of carbon. These words can't be used interchangeably, people!

(En français : puits et réservoir de carbone sont deux concepts disctincts !)
December 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by Julie Talbot
Le regard de notre caricaturiste Chloé sur l'actualité du 1er décembre 2025 👉 bit.ly/48J7twX
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM