Dr. Az Klymiuk
@klymiuk.ca
Cree | RR Métis | Slavic, 2S nonbinary asexual autistic first-gen scholar studying plant mycobiomes, climate-adaptive agricultural interventions; occasional palaeontologist. Assistant Prof @UManitoba; Indigenous Scholar in Science. www.klymiuk.ca
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New Article: "Grassland degradation alters plant and soil biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships" rdcu.be/ePaQv
Grassland degradation reduces ecosystem functionality while promoting soil biodiversity, highlighting its role in sustaining degraded grasslands.
Grassland degradation reduces ecosystem functionality while promoting soil biodiversity, highlighting its role in sustaining degraded grasslands.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
New Article: "Grassland degradation alters plant and soil biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships" rdcu.be/ePaQv
Grassland degradation reduces ecosystem functionality while promoting soil biodiversity, highlighting its role in sustaining degraded grasslands.
Grassland degradation reduces ecosystem functionality while promoting soil biodiversity, highlighting its role in sustaining degraded grasslands.
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We just published a report that serves as a warning to humanity that we are hurtling towards climate chaos. More info here: doi.org/10.1093/bios... and here www.nationthailand.com/blogs/sustai...
Earth hits hottest level in 125,000 years
A global study finds 2024 was hotter than the peak of the last Ice Age, with record-breaking heat, ocean warming, and ice loss driving Earth toward irreversible tipping points.
www.nationthailand.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We just published a report that serves as a warning to humanity that we are hurtling towards climate chaos. More info here: doi.org/10.1093/bios... and here www.nationthailand.com/blogs/sustai...
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Going to put the news of extreme drought coming out of Tehran up with this map of emerging water scarcity risk from www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Going to put the news of extreme drought coming out of Tehran up with this map of emerging water scarcity risk from www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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In case you're not aware, Tehran is a city of ~10 MILLION people. "Rivers and reservoirs are running dry, while groundwater sources have been overexploited to sustain agriculture and urban growth."
www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...
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Evacuation warning for Iran's capital city
President Masoud Pezeshkian warns Tehran faces a historic water crisis with shortages and possible evacuations.
www.newsweek.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In case you're not aware, Tehran is a city of ~10 MILLION people. "Rivers and reservoirs are running dry, while groundwater sources have been overexploited to sustain agriculture and urban growth."
www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...
www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...
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I know most of my followers probably know this, but just in context:
A billion is a thousand million.
A trillion is a thousand billion.
A billion is a thousand million.
A trillion is a thousand billion.
November 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I know most of my followers probably know this, but just in context:
A billion is a thousand million.
A trillion is a thousand billion.
A billion is a thousand million.
A trillion is a thousand billion.
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Maths...
If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.
If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.
Tax the rich.
If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.
If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.
Tax the rich.
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Maths...
If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.
If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.
Tax the rich.
If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.
If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.
Tax the rich.
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Alberta chiefs say oilsands causing cancer surge, call for halt to tailings plan www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/n...
Alberta chiefs say oilsands causing cancer surge, call for halt to tailings plan
Indigenous leaders in Alberta say unchecked oilsands development is devastating their land and could be linked to rising cancer rates in their communities.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Alberta chiefs say oilsands causing cancer surge, call for halt to tailings plan www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/n...
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Immigration-driven diversity increases innovation
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History
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How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History
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How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Immigration-driven diversity increases innovation
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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A Black freshman’s apparent suicide on campus is one of at least nine Black men who have been found hanging from trees since 2000.
Tree Hanging at Delta State in Mississippi Raises Dread of Past Lynchings
A Black freshman’s apparent suicide on campus is one of at least nine Black men who have been found hanging from trees since 2000.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A Black freshman’s apparent suicide on campus is one of at least nine Black men who have been found hanging from trees since 2000.
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How about instead of bailing out the AI companies, we just don't?
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
How about instead of bailing out the AI companies, we just don't?
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Science has a problem. The integrity of research is increasingly threatened by a deluge of fabricated publications. Estimates suggest that in some fields, as many as 5–15% of all papers may be fake. Artificial intelligence has further accelerated this practice.
November 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Science has a problem. The integrity of research is increasingly threatened by a deluge of fabricated publications. Estimates suggest that in some fields, as many as 5–15% of all papers may be fake. Artificial intelligence has further accelerated this practice.
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🆕 BLOG 🆕
The UK Government's 2025 National Risk Assessment identified crypto assets as a growing risk to money laundering and terrorist financing
Our new explainer looks at how crypto works and potential risks it poses to political funding.
Read more ⤵️
www.transparency.org.uk/news/does-cr...
The UK Government's 2025 National Risk Assessment identified crypto assets as a growing risk to money laundering and terrorist financing
Our new explainer looks at how crypto works and potential risks it poses to political funding.
Read more ⤵️
www.transparency.org.uk/news/does-cr...
Does crypto pose a threat to our democracy?
Exploring how cryptocurrency works and potential risks the technology poses to political funding and democratic integrity.
www.transparency.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
🆕 BLOG 🆕
The UK Government's 2025 National Risk Assessment identified crypto assets as a growing risk to money laundering and terrorist financing
Our new explainer looks at how crypto works and potential risks it poses to political funding.
Read more ⤵️
www.transparency.org.uk/news/does-cr...
The UK Government's 2025 National Risk Assessment identified crypto assets as a growing risk to money laundering and terrorist financing
Our new explainer looks at how crypto works and potential risks it poses to political funding.
Read more ⤵️
www.transparency.org.uk/news/does-cr...
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The carbon market is not the way to do CO₂ removal (CDR). If we're serious about this, it has to be a government-led effort.
‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect?
After it was found most offsets did not represent real carbon reductions, the money dried up. But successful schemes such as Kasigau in Kenya now face a stark future
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The carbon market is not the way to do CO₂ removal (CDR). If we're serious about this, it has to be a government-led effort.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
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@reuters.com #Chicago
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November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
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@reuters.com #Chicago
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[New Paper Alert] Online toxic speech as positioning acts: Hate as discursive mechanisms for othering and belonging socialmedialab.ca/2025/11/03/n...
[New Paper Alert] Online toxic speech as positioning acts: Hate as discursive mechanisms for othering and belonging - Social Media Lab
Toxic speech is an endemic threat to civil discourse on social media; it’s marked by incivility, intolerance, and the intent to harm through threats, insults, and patronizing language. Further challen...
socialmedialab.ca
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
[New Paper Alert] Online toxic speech as positioning acts: Hate as discursive mechanisms for othering and belonging socialmedialab.ca/2025/11/03/n...
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This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
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Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Bittersweet morning: it’s Rosie’s last morning here, she goes to her Nana’s farm next, where she will have deer, squirrels, bunnies, groundhogs, grouse, and foxes to chase.
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Bittersweet morning: it’s Rosie’s last morning here, she goes to her Nana’s farm next, where she will have deer, squirrels, bunnies, groundhogs, grouse, and foxes to chase.
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Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100.
Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
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Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100.
Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
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Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
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How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In #Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In #Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In #Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In #Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The Okanagan Indian Band has received unanimous support from Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs in its push to protect the nation’s watersheds from a gold mining operation.
“These areas ... hold deep cultural, spiritual, and ecological importance for the syilx people."
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“These areas ... hold deep cultural, spiritual, and ecological importance for the syilx people."
indiginews.com/news/ubcic-s...
UBCIC declares ‘unwavering solidarity’ with syilx opposition to gold mine
Grand chief says organization offers support for Okanagan Indian Band’s push to protect watersheds from Ximen Mining
indiginews.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The Okanagan Indian Band has received unanimous support from Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs in its push to protect the nation’s watersheds from a gold mining operation.
“These areas ... hold deep cultural, spiritual, and ecological importance for the syilx people."
indiginews.com/news/ubcic-s...
“These areas ... hold deep cultural, spiritual, and ecological importance for the syilx people."
indiginews.com/news/ubcic-s...
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This @skynewsrss.bsky.social analysis confirms that X's algorithm is blatantly boosting far-right content
If you are still posting or engaging there, you are volunteering your time and effort towards actively assisting a racist, white supremacist project
STOP ALREADY
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
If you are still posting or engaging there, you are volunteering your time and effort towards actively assisting a racist, white supremacist project
STOP ALREADY
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This @skynewsrss.bsky.social analysis confirms that X's algorithm is blatantly boosting far-right content
If you are still posting or engaging there, you are volunteering your time and effort towards actively assisting a racist, white supremacist project
STOP ALREADY
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
If you are still posting or engaging there, you are volunteering your time and effort towards actively assisting a racist, white supremacist project
STOP ALREADY
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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