Elizabeth Neswald
@octobeth.bsky.social
historian of science at Brock University
standing up for the spineless
standing up for the spineless
I think I have found my dream audiobook list. For when I run out of Pliny.
Although I do not understand why James Clerk Maxwell's Introductory Lecture on Physics is on it.
But I am definitely excited about entry #19
librivox.org/insomnia-col...
Although I do not understand why James Clerk Maxwell's Introductory Lecture on Physics is on it.
But I am definitely excited about entry #19
librivox.org/insomnia-col...
Insomnia Collection Vol. 003 | LibriVox
LibriVox
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November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think I have found my dream audiobook list. For when I run out of Pliny.
Although I do not understand why James Clerk Maxwell's Introductory Lecture on Physics is on it.
But I am definitely excited about entry #19
librivox.org/insomnia-col...
Although I do not understand why James Clerk Maxwell's Introductory Lecture on Physics is on it.
But I am definitely excited about entry #19
librivox.org/insomnia-col...
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I wrote about this too. Why isn’t Ontario hitting the barricades in rage? We’ve so little lake access. Entirely privatized shorelines. You could give the province away to oligarchs & people would be meh. Thx to Fatima for calling this early on.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I wrote about this too. Why isn’t Ontario hitting the barricades in rage? We’ve so little lake access. Entirely privatized shorelines. You could give the province away to oligarchs & people would be meh. Thx to Fatima for calling this early on.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
Today in marine invertebrates
have you seen the video about teaching an octopus to play piano yet
it contains the breadth of human/cephalopod experience
youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...
it contains the breadth of human/cephalopod experience
youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Today in marine invertebrates
It is really hard to shake the feeling that the TTC puts a lot of effort into making travelling with it as unpleasant and inconvenient as possible.
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It is really hard to shake the feeling that the TTC puts a lot of effort into making travelling with it as unpleasant and inconvenient as possible.
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Today is the day…
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Today is the day…
Let's jelly-brate #WorldJellyfishDay
YouTube video by WWF-Canada
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The conference schedule has now been adjusted to accommodate the TTC.
Or lack thereof on Sunday mornings.
🙄
#Toronto #WorldCity
Or lack thereof on Sunday mornings.
🙄
#Toronto #WorldCity
Toronto is not a world city example #5798
it is not possible to get from downtown to York University on a Sunday morning in time for the first conference session of the day because the subway does not wake up until 8am.
Or maybe Toronto just thinks transit users have nowhere to go Sunday mornings
it is not possible to get from downtown to York University on a Sunday morning in time for the first conference session of the day because the subway does not wake up until 8am.
Or maybe Toronto just thinks transit users have nowhere to go Sunday mornings
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The conference schedule has now been adjusted to accommodate the TTC.
Or lack thereof on Sunday mornings.
🙄
#Toronto #WorldCity
Or lack thereof on Sunday mornings.
🙄
#Toronto #WorldCity
Richard Lewontin was great. Open, generous, genuinely interested in what other people had to say.
Unless you were E.O. Wilson, of course.
Unless you were E.O. Wilson, of course.
Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Richard Lewontin was great. Open, generous, genuinely interested in what other people had to say.
Unless you were E.O. Wilson, of course.
Unless you were E.O. Wilson, of course.
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If you’re thinking about all the scandals and deadly interference/overreach decisions by Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and thinking “why do people keep voting for him,” remember most people don’t. Ford wins because of “first past the post” and the fact that the NDP & Liberals in Ontario split the vote.
“The Ford Govt in Ontario has passed a controversial omnibus bill banning municipalities from installing speed cameras.
Ford says it will make the province more efficient & reduce red tape.
It won’t do either, and he knows it.
It might get him “speeder votes” though.
This will kill more people.
Ford says it will make the province more efficient & reduce red tape.
It won’t do either, and he knows it.
It might get him “speeder votes” though.
This will kill more people.
Ford government passes bill banning municipal speed cameras in Ontario
The Ford government has passed a controversial omnibus bill banning municipalities from installing speed cameras.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If you’re thinking about all the scandals and deadly interference/overreach decisions by Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and thinking “why do people keep voting for him,” remember most people don’t. Ford wins because of “first past the post” and the fact that the NDP & Liberals in Ontario split the vote.
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As we watch Trump & the GOP ignore the Constitution & the concept of human rights in the United States, consider what’s been happening in Canada with right-wing Premiers and Poilievre normalizing the common abuse of the Notwithstanding Clause to make Canada’s Charter of Rights & Freedoms irrelevant.
November 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
As we watch Trump & the GOP ignore the Constitution & the concept of human rights in the United States, consider what’s been happening in Canada with right-wing Premiers and Poilievre normalizing the common abuse of the Notwithstanding Clause to make Canada’s Charter of Rights & Freedoms irrelevant.
Toronto is not a world city example #5798
it is not possible to get from downtown to York University on a Sunday morning in time for the first conference session of the day because the subway does not wake up until 8am.
Or maybe Toronto just thinks transit users have nowhere to go Sunday mornings
it is not possible to get from downtown to York University on a Sunday morning in time for the first conference session of the day because the subway does not wake up until 8am.
Or maybe Toronto just thinks transit users have nowhere to go Sunday mornings
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Toronto is not a world city example #5798
it is not possible to get from downtown to York University on a Sunday morning in time for the first conference session of the day because the subway does not wake up until 8am.
Or maybe Toronto just thinks transit users have nowhere to go Sunday mornings
it is not possible to get from downtown to York University on a Sunday morning in time for the first conference session of the day because the subway does not wake up until 8am.
Or maybe Toronto just thinks transit users have nowhere to go Sunday mornings
Today in marine invertebrates
Armored worms and death-ball sponges among array of life newly documented from the deep sea
news.mongabay.com/2025/11/armo...
news.mongabay.com/2025/11/armo...
Armored worms and death-ball sponges among array of life newly documented from the deep sea
In the darkness of the deep ocean, where pressure crushes and light fails, an expedition has found an astonishing array of life, including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge (from the genus Chondroclad...
news.mongabay.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Today in marine invertebrates
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Ontario’s government is nakedly corrupt, and working aggressively to defund and destroy the twin pillars of public health care and public education that sustain Canadian civil society. We must not allow these national treasures to be degraded like this. Where is the credible opposition?! #onpoli
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ontario’s government is nakedly corrupt, and working aggressively to defund and destroy the twin pillars of public health care and public education that sustain Canadian civil society. We must not allow these national treasures to be degraded like this. Where is the credible opposition?! #onpoli
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The axis of Liberal/Conservative/Authoritarian/Billionaire politicians just abandoning the climate crisis really spells disaster for life on this planet. It is shocking how countries have just given up on trying to stop global warming.
Opinion: The fight against climate change appears to be officially dead
Rich countries are feeling less inclined to fight emissions in the years ahead, which will affect the world’s most disadvantaged
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The axis of Liberal/Conservative/Authoritarian/Billionaire politicians just abandoning the climate crisis really spells disaster for life on this planet. It is shocking how countries have just given up on trying to stop global warming.
There goes Captain Canada wasting more of my money
Yesterday: Ontario huffy that federal budget didn’t include commitment to idea of tunnel under Hwy 401
Today: Ontario announces award of $9M contract to see if the idea of this 60km dig is even feasible
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Today: Ontario announces award of $9M contract to see if the idea of this 60km dig is even feasible
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Taxpayers on the hook for $9M to study Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel idea | CBC News
Ontario taxpayers are set to spend $9.1 million to learn if or how it is feasible to build a tunnel under Highway 401
www.cbc.ca
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
There goes Captain Canada wasting more of my money
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This Norwegian stabbur, ca 1700, one of the oldest buildings in the region. Used to store foods & other things off of the ground, away from animals.
I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons.
We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely!
imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb
I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons.
We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely!
imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This Norwegian stabbur, ca 1700, one of the oldest buildings in the region. Used to store foods & other things off of the ground, away from animals.
I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons.
We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely!
imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb
I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons.
We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely!
imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb
Today in marine invertebrates
Oooo!
Thanks!
Oooo!
Thanks!
ICB's
Fantastic Icy #Invertebrates and How to Classify Them
by Katrina Pinili
on @kmkocot.bsky.social #SICB zoom and research
read in full
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/f...
& watch
youtu.be/fFoCB5MFRU4?...
#polar #science #NSF #biology #molluscs #morphology
Fantastic Icy #Invertebrates and How to Classify Them
by Katrina Pinili
on @kmkocot.bsky.social #SICB zoom and research
read in full
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/f...
& watch
youtu.be/fFoCB5MFRU4?...
#polar #science #NSF #biology #molluscs #morphology
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Today in marine invertebrates
Oooo!
Thanks!
Oooo!
Thanks!
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How much shit will Ontario continue to eat?
"Despite Ford stating speed cameras are ineffective, regional data shows that since launching its program in February (following a pilot program that had been in place since 2021), average speeds in school zones have decreased by 15 km/h."
Waterloo Region forges ahead with speed cameras despite looming ban
The Region of Waterloo will go ahead with turning on six speed cameras despite Doug Ford’s scathing condemnation
buff.ly
November 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
How much shit will Ontario continue to eat?
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The question of our age:
How much shit will Ontario continue to eat?
"Despite Ford stating speed cameras are ineffective, regional data shows that since launching its program in February (following a pilot program that had been in place since 2021), average speeds in school zones have decreased by 15 km/h."
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The question of our age:
Today in marine invertebrates
Nudi says bling
📸: Chad Ordelheide
Nudi says bling
📸: Chad Ordelheide
November 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Today in marine invertebrates
Nudi says bling
📸: Chad Ordelheide
Nudi says bling
📸: Chad Ordelheide
Today in marine invertebrates
Pliny the Elder on oysters and house-flipping
LXXIX. Oyster ponds were first invented by Sergius Orata on the Gulf of Baiae, in the time of the orator Lucius Crassus, before the Marsian ward;
Pliny the Elder on oysters and house-flipping
LXXIX. Oyster ponds were first invented by Sergius Orata on the Gulf of Baiae, in the time of the orator Lucius Crassus, before the Marsian ward;
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Today in marine invertebrates
Pliny the Elder on oysters and house-flipping
LXXIX. Oyster ponds were first invented by Sergius Orata on the Gulf of Baiae, in the time of the orator Lucius Crassus, before the Marsian ward;
Pliny the Elder on oysters and house-flipping
LXXIX. Oyster ponds were first invented by Sergius Orata on the Gulf of Baiae, in the time of the orator Lucius Crassus, before the Marsian ward;