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watershedlab.bsky.social
🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share!

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Launch of new Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
As announced in Budget 2025 -
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December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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merrykerry.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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calgaryclimatehub.ca
#EnergyTransition musings from #SantaClaus

#HappyHolidays #Christmas #Christmas2025
Santa & Mrs C on an ice flow looking at a polluting factory says "maybe I should've been giving all the naughty kids solar panels instead of coal"
December 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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djclimenhaga.bsky.social
Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next Panel report has dropped and, boy, is it ever a pitiful little squib! albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/dani...
Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next Panel report has dropped and, boy, is it ever a pitiful little squib!  - Alberta Politics
We paid $2 million for this?  The report of Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next Panel dropped Friday afternoon and, boy, is it ever a pitiful little squib!  There’s no report, really, just a few recommendat...
albertapolitics.ca
December 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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visualisingdata.com
NEW POST: I wrote a guest article for Sage Research Methods about 'Embracing AI as a collaborator in data visualisation design' - trying to take a more positive and hopeful view (to counter the numerous negative thoughts I also hold).

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December 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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jwolondon.bsky.social
Interested in a fully-funded #datavis PhD with training?

Applications for our 2nd cohort of PhD students at Diverse-CDT open! We're keen to diversify the sector, encouraging anyone with enthusiasm for using 📊 to make change, even if you've not considered PhD study before:

diverse-cdt.ac.uk
Photo of students and staff from our first Diverse CDT cohort working through a group data visualization exercise together around a table in our dedicated visualization lab. Photo of three students from our first cohort of Diverse-CDT PhD students reading and discussing visual thinking in our dedicated visualization workspace. Sketch of a 'skills map' design co-created by Diverse-CDT PhD students during their first 'immersion week' at the start of their PhD journey. Sketch courtesy of Ana Marques, one of the students. It comprise a series of coloured dots, each representing a skill held by one or more of the students. Dots are clustered by skill type with some labelled for context. Dots are connected with lines in a tree-like structure with 'Diverse CDT' at the centre emphasising relationship between skills and skill types. A photo of our first cohort of Diverse CDT PhD students who embarked on their PhD journey together in October 2025. Students are located in our dedicated Visualization learning space, posing for the camera with arms folded.
December 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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ebonawitz.bsky.social
eh, It wasn't that high up... and 4-year-olds can take it. 😜

But if you're looking for other good moments in the paper... I also recommend reading the acknowledgments closely.
The acknowledgment section of a paper stating that the construction crew at Rutgers drilled a hole in the lab and dumped several pounds of concrete on the stimuli
October 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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alexselbyb.bsky.social
A really nice—and surprising—chart from Amanda Shendruk's excellent newsletter, Not-Ship

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Heatmap showing the number of people covered by a public holiday on each day of the year. Around 5.5bn people are off on Dec 25th, but 5.8bn are off on Labour Day (May 1st)
December 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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theprogressreport.ca
Big Lakes County is out $9.3 after oil and gas company Razor Energy walked out on millions in unpaid property taxes.
Bankrupt oil company leaves Alberta county with $9.3M unpaid tax bill | CBC News
Big Lakes County in northwestern Alberta says it has formally approved the write off of more than $9 million in unpaid property taxes owed by the now bankrupt Razor Energy Corp.
www.cbc.ca
December 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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theprogressreport.ca
Razor had been failing for a while—yet the provincial pension manager AIMCO, which had recently been given control over many public sector pensions, kept investing in them, even going as far as to set up an obscured holding company to funnel more money into it.
AIMCo has a “shadowy” holding company it’s using to mitigate losses in oil and gas investments
www.theprogressreport.ca
December 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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pervocracy.bsky.social
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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akshatrathi.bsky.social
It's crazy that the US has the nearly the same rate of road traffic deaths per 100,000 people as India, Brazil and China. It does worse than Indonesia and Mexico. Wow!

Neat stuff from @ashendruk.com's excellent new newsletter www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
READ THE FULL NATIONAL OBSERVER STORY: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/08/n...
Ostrich deepfakes and online threats forced agency to lock social media
The onslaught came immediately after a federal court judge ruled in May the agency could cull a herd of ostriches in Edgewood, BC, to control an avian flu outbreak. That court ruling fueled a months-l...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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markusoff.bsky.social
I tallied the number of court cases or legal challenges Alberta’s government has recently stepped in to block or pre-empt. Was surprised how long the exercise took - they’re at like a one-per-week clip:
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ANALYSIS | UCP government keeps blocking or nixing Alberta court challenges. Why? | CBC News
From transgender policies to referendums to "conservative" party names, the Alberta UCP has stepped in where others have feared to tread.
www.cbc.ca
December 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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ashendruk.com
Help me find all the data and/or dataviz focused newsletters!
I've got a decent list going on LinkedIn... Add to it, or share in this thread. Let's find 'em all! #dataviz

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December 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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robsonfletcher.com
Quite the scathing 'epilogue' that Justice Feasby added to his decision, in response to legislation tabled by Alberta's UCP government just yesterday:
Judge says Bill 14 changes would 'silence the court' After arguments from lawyers representing a final group of First Nations who were granted intervenor status in the case, Feasby issued his decision from the bench Friday in the Calgary Court of King's Bench. He added what he called an "epilogue," which specifically addressed the impact of the proposed legislation. "The legal consequence of discontinuing this proceeding prior to a decision would be to silence the Court," he said. The judge called the move to change the legislation antithetical to the rule of law and democracy. "The public is entitled to the fruits of this process that has been conducted largely at their expense so that if they are asked to vote on Alberta independence, they have a tool that may help them make sense of the legal dimensions of the secession of Alberta from Canada." Feasby noted that the court case had been prioritized at the expense of other justice system participants waiting for their cases to be heard. "Alberta’s cavalier disregard for court resources and lack of consideration for the parties and First Nations intervenors who participated in this proceeding in good faith is disappointing to say the least."
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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charlesrusnell.bsky.social
ICYMI - The UCP govt was warned this would happen. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
December 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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reuters.com
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show reut.rs/4rCQsMz
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show
The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Canada's main oil-producing province bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a limit on natural gas flaring as Canadian oil production increased, according to documents seen by Reuters.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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calgaryherald.com
Opinion: Too big to fail, too small to save calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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kimsiever.bsky.social
“Rather than reinvesting those profits in the Canadian economy, the four companies paid out $79.7 billion in dividends and share buybacks, nearly ¾ of which went to foreign shareholders, including 62% to American shareholders.”

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U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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naheednenshi.bsky.social
Sixty children have died in the care of this government over the last year.

We cannot ignore the needs of some of the most vulnerable people in our community, and the UCP must do everything in their power to ensure these kids have the support they need.

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60 children died in the care of the UCP government last year. This is unacceptable.
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi
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November 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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kelly-knox.com
narrator: 50 years ago...

me: [nods] in 1945

narrator: in 1975...

me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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brebis.bsky.social
“On February 1, 2022, while facing the Omicron variant and with the older adult newly boosted, Denmark became the first country to drop all NPIs. A few months later, 70% of the population had been infected with the Omicron variant, showing the SARS-CoV-2 transmission potential when unmitigated.”
A disease suppression strategy in action: The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions in the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark
When a new respiratory virus emerges, the only control options are non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) until a vaccine or an effective treatment becomes available. An early analysis of NPIs conclu...
www.ijidonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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natureportfolio.nature.com
The authors of a Comment article in Nature discuss Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT), a tool for clarifying the roles of each author of a research paper and call for CRediT to become the norm, to support researchers and research integrity across the whole academic landscape. #Academicsky 🧪
A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do
Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.
go.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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maxfawcett.bsky.social
Yup. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: AG must launch audit of province's 2023 climate change strategy
Opinion: AG must launch audit of province's 2023 climate change strategy
calgaryherald.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM