Edward Gregr
@ejgregr.bsky.social
Overeducated and overthinking things. Sharing thoughts on current events and ecosystem science.
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Its insane that American politics now more or less revolves around infrequently passing a single comically large overstuffed money bill instead of like... normal legislation
September 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Its insane that American politics now more or less revolves around infrequently passing a single comically large overstuffed money bill instead of like... normal legislation
This is heartbreaking. Acid rock exposure thanks to thawing #permafrost in the #Arctic. 😢
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"Truly astounding": rivers in Alaska are turning orange. Some are so bright they're visible from space | Discover Wildlife
Scientists warn of widespread ecological damage as thawing Arctic permafrost turns once-pristine rivers toxic with metals.
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September 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This is heartbreaking. Acid rock exposure thanks to thawing #permafrost in the #Arctic. 😢
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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🌊 New research alert! Sea otters, it turns out, aren’t fans of farm-fresh oysters in this study - no matter how fresh they are. In fact, researchers found zero evidence of otters dining on oysters, even when these bivalves were grown in farms right in their foraging zones.
#seaotters #oysters
#seaotters #oysters
JWM: Sea otters don’t dine on farm-fresh oysters - The Wildlife Society
Bivalve cages deep under the surface may be too much trouble for marine mammals
wildlife.org
August 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🌊 New research alert! Sea otters, it turns out, aren’t fans of farm-fresh oysters in this study - no matter how fresh they are. In fact, researchers found zero evidence of otters dining on oysters, even when these bivalves were grown in farms right in their foraging zones.
#seaotters #oysters
#seaotters #oysters
This is just dumb. The raison d’etre for #CanadaPost is to provide affordable services to rural and remote communities.
Not many remote communities in Germany. #Context matters all you budding economists. 🙄
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Not many remote communities in Germany. #Context matters all you budding economists. 🙄
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Opinion: Privatize Canada Post and end its monopoly
Germany dealt with an underperforming postal service by privatizing it and ending its monopoly. Let's do the same with Canada Post. Read on.
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August 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This is just dumb. The raison d’etre for #CanadaPost is to provide affordable services to rural and remote communities.
Not many remote communities in Germany. #Context matters all you budding economists. 🙄
flip.it/lcuC6D
Not many remote communities in Germany. #Context matters all you budding economists. 🙄
flip.it/lcuC6D
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There's only one marine mammal native to Oregon that can shape the future of our nearshore marine ecosystems for the better... and that's the sea otter 🦦
youtu.be/8Ze-SUvEopg?... #seaotters #seaotter #elakhaalliance #oregon #oregoncoast #kelpforest #kelp #marinescience #ocean #whales
youtu.be/8Ze-SUvEopg?... #seaotters #seaotter #elakhaalliance #oregon #oregoncoast #kelpforest #kelp #marinescience #ocean #whales
One Animal Could Change the Future of the Oregon Coast
YouTube video by Elakha Alliance
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August 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
There's only one marine mammal native to Oregon that can shape the future of our nearshore marine ecosystems for the better... and that's the sea otter 🦦
youtu.be/8Ze-SUvEopg?... #seaotters #seaotter #elakhaalliance #oregon #oregoncoast #kelpforest #kelp #marinescience #ocean #whales
youtu.be/8Ze-SUvEopg?... #seaotters #seaotter #elakhaalliance #oregon #oregoncoast #kelpforest #kelp #marinescience #ocean #whales
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Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
These guys are truly batshit crazy. Space jobs to replace those lost to #AI within 10 years?
Seems Chat-GPT isn’t the only one suffering from #hallucinations.
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Seems Chat-GPT isn’t the only one suffering from #hallucinations.
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OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years time college graduates will be working 'some completely new, exciting, super well-paid' job in space
While Bill Gates has said the 2-day workweek could come within the next decade, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Gen Alpha college graduates will be too busy planet-hopping.
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August 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
These guys are truly batshit crazy. Space jobs to replace those lost to #AI within 10 years?
Seems Chat-GPT isn’t the only one suffering from #hallucinations.
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Seems Chat-GPT isn’t the only one suffering from #hallucinations.
flip.it/6iY8Xj
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Nothing better encapsulates the current state of the US than killing funding for mRNA vaccine development - so Covid, Bird Flu and cancer treatments are now woke
and planning to destroy 2 active cutting edge climate monitoring satellites so O&G fuckheads can gaslight the planet
#USpoli
and planning to destroy 2 active cutting edge climate monitoring satellites so O&G fuckheads can gaslight the planet
#USpoli
August 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Nothing better encapsulates the current state of the US than killing funding for mRNA vaccine development - so Covid, Bird Flu and cancer treatments are now woke
and planning to destroy 2 active cutting edge climate monitoring satellites so O&G fuckheads can gaslight the planet
#USpoli
and planning to destroy 2 active cutting edge climate monitoring satellites so O&G fuckheads can gaslight the planet
#USpoli
Of course this is a field of study. I do love #Science.
👋 Hi! Time Perception researcher here. Emotional time dilation has been studied pretty extensively with some neat findings. (I recognize OP was meant as joke but this is what I do). Check out my recent Psyche article if curious psyche.co/guides/how-t...
How to alter the passage of time to feel fast or slow | Psyche Guides
Knowing the psychology behind why moments drag or whizz by can give you a degree of control over your experience of time
psyche.co
August 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Of course this is a field of study. I do love #Science.
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Wonder how sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh and sexual predator Clarence Thomas will vote on the fate of sexual predator Ghislaine Maxwell.
August 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Wonder how sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh and sexual predator Clarence Thomas will vote on the fate of sexual predator Ghislaine Maxwell.
Congratulations @rhizalyssa.bsky.social and @hakai.org for this valuable, groundbreaking work in coastal disease #Ecology. Clearly, we shld be checking w Alyssa for all things #Seastar. :)
Check out the press …
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e270ff4...
#SeastarWasting #NorthPacific
Check out the press …
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e270ff4...
#SeastarWasting #NorthPacific
Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 is a causative agent of sea star wasting disease - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The causative agent of sea star wasting disease has been elusive. This study used genetic datasets and experimental exposures to demonstrate that a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida caused di...
www.nature.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Congratulations @rhizalyssa.bsky.social and @hakai.org for this valuable, groundbreaking work in coastal disease #Ecology. Clearly, we shld be checking w Alyssa for all things #Seastar. :)
Check out the press …
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e270ff4...
#SeastarWasting #NorthPacific
Check out the press …
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e270ff4...
#SeastarWasting #NorthPacific
Previously unknown subglacial lakes under Greenland’s ice sheet - and probably Antarctica’s - an example of unknown unknowns missing from #climate models.
Another reminder that we don’t know as much as we think we do.
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Another reminder that we don’t know as much as we think we do.
flip.it/eBD-cf
Scientists Alarmed as Floodwater Punches Through Greenland's Ice Sheet
Scientists were caught by surprise after discovering a massive flood of subglacial lakewater had burst through Greenland's ice sheet.
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August 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Previously unknown subglacial lakes under Greenland’s ice sheet - and probably Antarctica’s - an example of unknown unknowns missing from #climate models.
Another reminder that we don’t know as much as we think we do.
flip.it/eBD-cf
Another reminder that we don’t know as much as we think we do.
flip.it/eBD-cf
Spoiler: #FIFA keeps all the sponsorship & advertising revenue while #VanCity pays to maintain a “controlled area” around the venue. All for the vague benefit of ‘future visitors’.
Corporate greed is getting increasingly shameless.
#BCPoli #DTES
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Corporate greed is getting increasingly shameless.
#BCPoli #DTES
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Vancouver's set to co-host World Cup next year. Who stands to benefit? | CBC Radio
World Cup soccer is just a year away from descending on Vancouver. And while some are thrilled about international football stars coming to their backyard, others are concerned about the potential neg...
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August 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Spoiler: #FIFA keeps all the sponsorship & advertising revenue while #VanCity pays to maintain a “controlled area” around the venue. All for the vague benefit of ‘future visitors’.
Corporate greed is getting increasingly shameless.
#BCPoli #DTES
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Corporate greed is getting increasingly shameless.
#BCPoli #DTES
flip.it/IoU1Am
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“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt
August 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt
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Universal healthcare? Too expensive.
Disaster relief? Tight budget.
People can’t afford insulin or rent, but they’re building a golden ballroom at the White House.
Priorities.
Nothing says America First like Versailles cosplay during a housing crisis.👇
Disaster relief? Tight budget.
People can’t afford insulin or rent, but they’re building a golden ballroom at the White House.
Priorities.
Nothing says America First like Versailles cosplay during a housing crisis.👇
August 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Universal healthcare? Too expensive.
Disaster relief? Tight budget.
People can’t afford insulin or rent, but they’re building a golden ballroom at the White House.
Priorities.
Nothing says America First like Versailles cosplay during a housing crisis.👇
Disaster relief? Tight budget.
People can’t afford insulin or rent, but they’re building a golden ballroom at the White House.
Priorities.
Nothing says America First like Versailles cosplay during a housing crisis.👇
“Most of you don’t know what’s hard”. #Gratitude
Be Proud 🇨🇦
You don’t know what you’ve got. Make sure you realize it before it’s all taken away fueled by hate & lies!
#BuyCanadian 🇨🇦
#BoycottUSA 🇺🇸
You don’t know what you’ve got. Make sure you realize it before it’s all taken away fueled by hate & lies!
#BuyCanadian 🇨🇦
#BoycottUSA 🇺🇸
July 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“Most of you don’t know what’s hard”. #Gratitude
Yup, clearly hashtags are a thing. Ok, then. 👍👍
"Memo to Carney and Robertson on Fixing Housing" via @thetyee.ca
#vanpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli #vanre
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
#vanpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli #vanre
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Memo to Carney and Robertson on Fixing Housing | The Tyee
Noted BC urban experts pen an open letter with six musts for making homes affordable in Canada.
thetyee.ca
July 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Yup, clearly hashtags are a thing. Ok, then. 👍👍
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Journalism has to choose between political neutrality & truth. If it wants to pursue truth, it's not going to be neutral, it's going to end up on the other side from reactionaries, over & over again. That's been the basic problem for decades now & at the very least we should frame it clearly.
July 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Journalism has to choose between political neutrality & truth. If it wants to pursue truth, it's not going to be neutral, it's going to end up on the other side from reactionaries, over & over again. That's been the basic problem for decades now & at the very least we should frame it clearly.
Seems the experts agree with me.
(do we use hashtags on sky? #VanPoli, #BCPoli, just in case)
Developers, aided by city councils, are often “building the wrong kinds of housing, in the wrong places, for the wrong reason,” say experts.
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(do we use hashtags on sky? #VanPoli, #BCPoli, just in case)
Developers, aided by city councils, are often “building the wrong kinds of housing, in the wrong places, for the wrong reason,” say experts.
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Duelling B.C. letters to Mark Carney on housing expose stark clashes
A conflict over foreign investment in Canadian housing is just one contrast that comes to the fore in two open letters to the PM, one from B.C. developers and another from 27 housing experts.
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July 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Seems the experts agree with me.
(do we use hashtags on sky? #VanPoli, #BCPoli, just in case)
Developers, aided by city councils, are often “building the wrong kinds of housing, in the wrong places, for the wrong reason,” say experts.
flip.it/sg5gGY
(do we use hashtags on sky? #VanPoli, #BCPoli, just in case)
Developers, aided by city councils, are often “building the wrong kinds of housing, in the wrong places, for the wrong reason,” say experts.
flip.it/sg5gGY
Well isn’t this fun - something that ties all the bits together: pics of #Trump and young girls, money laundering with Russian oligarchs, & evidence tampering to protect the rich and famous. 😮
But the mainstream media lies, right? 🙄
#EatTheRich
www.thenorthstar.com/p/cbs-just-e...
But the mainstream media lies, right? 🙄
#EatTheRich
www.thenorthstar.com/p/cbs-just-e...
🕵🏽♂️ CBS Just Exposed the Epstein Prison Video as a Lie. And Michael Wolff Says Epstein Told Him Trump Was a Rat
The footage was edited. The entrance was off camera. And the “raw video” was stitched together and released years later. Meanwhile, Epstein told Michael Wolff that Donald Trump was the “rat."
www.thenorthstar.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Well isn’t this fun - something that ties all the bits together: pics of #Trump and young girls, money laundering with Russian oligarchs, & evidence tampering to protect the rich and famous. 😮
But the mainstream media lies, right? 🙄
#EatTheRich
www.thenorthstar.com/p/cbs-just-e...
But the mainstream media lies, right? 🙄
#EatTheRich
www.thenorthstar.com/p/cbs-just-e...
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It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
July 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.