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Jeff Higdon
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Wildlife biologist and part time tour guide. PhD, U of MB. Arctic enthusiast. Music fan. NL-NB-NS-MB.
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I'm a Cdn #wildlife #biologist and #ecologist, working mainly on #Arctic marine mammals, and a PT #ecotourism guide - #polarbears and #belugawhales in #Churchill. Looking forward to lots of good #scicomm here!
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“Hope you aren’t too attached to whatever fancy crap you eat now, because those little wiener dogs in the cans are coming back on the menu in a big way,” said Donald Trump
theonion.com/trump-i...
Trump Informs Nation They Better Start Liking Those Little Canned Wieners
WASHINGTON—Saying that Americans should anticipate certain lifestyle changes as a result of his newly announced tariffs, President Donald Trump informed the nation Thursday that they better start liking those little canned wieners. “Hope you aren’t too attached to whatever fancy crap you eat now, because those little wiener dogs in the cans are coming back […]
theonion.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Pierre Poilievre vows to stand up to China as the 51st US State
March 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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At Facebook, we are committed to free expression. But we will ban you if you post any footage of our board members beating their wives.
January 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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It was such a pleasure to get out in the field for this story, particularly working with Gavin and seeing the gorgeous Blackfoot territory. His photos are spectacular, go see them.
Bison were once hunted by driving herds over the precipice of a cliff, called a buffalo jump. As buffalo return to the plains, some Blackfoot guardians are dreaming of someday bringing back this traditional hunting method. 🖊️ by @jameswsthomson.com: thenarwhal.ca/blackfoot-gu...
On Blackfoot land, the buffalo roam | The Narwhal
In Alberta and Montana, the Blackfoot Confederacy is working toward free-roaming buffalo crossing the border once again — and revitalizing traditional hunts
thenarwhal.ca
December 5, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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What's the most dangerous season for
#caribou
? According to a new study of an Alaskan herd, that season has shifted from early summer to winter/early spring. New in our news section, www.northerncaribou.ca/news
December 3, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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If you are a Canadian ornithologist (or adjacent) and care about museum collections in Canada, I'm looking for a Canadian partner for a small project (nice honours/museum studies project, too!) #ornithology
related, do I know *ANYONE* doing museum/specimen work on birds in Canada?
December 3, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Does #Tidal allow you to do a year-end summary like Spotify does? Kind of a moot point for me anyway, I use Tidal to check out new albums - 3 or 400 this year, across all genres. My summary would look like 5 different people share my account, lol.
December 4, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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FORT SEVERN, Ont. - Police in a northern Ontario First Nation say a man who jumped onto a polar bear that lunged at his wife early this morning has been seriously injured but is expected to recover.
Man injured while defending wife from polar bear attack in northern Ontario: police
FORT SEVERN, Ont. - Police in a northern Ontario First Nation say a man who jumped onto a polar bear that lunged at his wife early this morning has been seriously injured but is expected to recover.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
December 3, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Hey #wildlife pals! Anyone working on large-scale (eg Canada) #wolverine abundance and distribution? Or interested in doing so? I could compile a bunch of 1800s #furtrade records for a historical perspective. #historicalecology
December 3, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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Gable: wolf predation during a very mild winter in Minnesota insufficient to limit white-tail deer populations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Wolf Predation on White‐tailed Deer Before, During, and After a Historically Mild Winter in Northern Minnesota
We estimated kill rates of wolves on deer before, during, and after a historically mild winter in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem, Minnesota, USA. Kill rates of wolves on deer were low in fall, peake...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.
December 1, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Very cool research paper on newspaper archives as a tool for historical ecology research. Online archives have been huge in some work by a colleague on historic whaling in the Cdn Arctic.
Newspaper archives can inform our understanding of long-term change in marine ecosystems

Sturgeon used to be caught regularly around the Welsh coast, but have now disappeared from living memory

From recent research on century-scale change in fishes & fisheries tinyurl.com/4veee2vt
November 29, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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Join me in welcoming to Bluesky UBC's Biodiversity Research Centre (@ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social)! Scientists here investigate the #ecology, #evolution, and #conservation of biological #diversity through research at all levels, from genes to ecosystems through to interactions with society.
November 29, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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Shocking as it sounds, it’s quite possible people prefer the civility and community of Bluesky over being force fed some cooked up algorithm concocted by a bombastic billionaire to amplify trolls, bots, and miscreants. Imagine that!
November 29, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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Libraries are an investment. Not an expense
November 28, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Looks like I never did an intro post on here...

I'm a Cdn #wildlife #biologist and #ecologist, working mainly on #Arctic marine mammals, and a PT #ecotourism guide - #polarbears and #belugawhales in #Churchill. Looking forward to lots of good #scicomm here!
November 29, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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With help from @marcofesta.bsky.social the Canadian Ecologists Starter Pack is now over 50. Please reply to this with brief information if you'd like to be added.

bsky.app/starter-pack...
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November 28, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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Excited to share our latest paper in Global Change Biology! 🐳Here we examined bowhead and narwhal genomics and the legacy of commercial whaling: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Collabs w/ C. Müller, @biomatt.bsky.social, S. Ferguson, C. Watt, M. Marcoux, S. Petersen, @colingarroway.bsky.social
October 15, 2024 at 4:39 PM