Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦
@pamelabanting.bsky.social
The Anthropocene, multispecies studies, environmental literature, psychogeography, energy humanities, wildlife. See "Wild Faces," https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/issue/17/1
Pinned
This is good. Get a Kleenex before watching.
Just dialed the AHS number to make an appointment for a locally administered Covid vaccine, and the message each time is “call failed.” Guess there’s no such number.
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Just dialed the AHS number to make an appointment for a locally administered Covid vaccine, and the message each time is “call failed.” Guess there’s no such number.
Reading students' reading / experiential journals from my August course. For one entry, I offered them the prompt to create a resumé for one of the trees in the Calgary Tree Inventory. Both that I have read so far are brilliant, witty, and formatted like a real resumé. One is for "Barktholomew."
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Reading students' reading / experiential journals from my August course. For one entry, I offered them the prompt to create a resumé for one of the trees in the Calgary Tree Inventory. Both that I have read so far are brilliant, witty, and formatted like a real resumé. One is for "Barktholomew."
Suggest a new license plate slogan:
Alberta
Wrong and Measly
Alberta
Wrong and Measly
A former chief medical officer of health for Alberta says the provincial government should be embarrassed by the role Alberta has played in Canada’s measles outbreaks
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta's role in Canada's loss of measles elimination status embarrassing, former chief medical officer says | CBC News
The latest federal data shows Alberta accounts for 38 per cent of Canada’s cases.
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Suggest a new license plate slogan:
Alberta
Wrong and Measly
Alberta
Wrong and Measly
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
I’m only on p 42 of Lorne Fitch’s new book Conservation Confidential, but it’s lively and brimming with knowledge about Alberta’s natural history, biology, hydrology AND easy-reading. Good Xmas gift for the Albertans on your list and probably SK readers too. I’m in the sturgeon section. Amazing.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m only on p 42 of Lorne Fitch’s new book Conservation Confidential, but it’s lively and brimming with knowledge about Alberta’s natural history, biology, hydrology AND easy-reading. Good Xmas gift for the Albertans on your list and probably SK readers too. I’m in the sturgeon section. Amazing.
Isn’t this how most everyone played soccer at school in Canada?
The CPL Final is in the middle of a snowstorm in Canada, true North American soccer heritage...how could it get any better?
HOW ABOUT A FREAKIN' BICYCLE KICK EQUALIZER!!!
HOW ABOUT A FREAKIN' BICYCLE KICK EQUALIZER!!!
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Isn’t this how most everyone played soccer at school in Canada?
I just watched this episode of The Nature of Things on the discovery of ancient human footprints in New Mexico and how the sedimentary layers in which they appear backdate the presence of humans in N. America by at least 10,000 additional years. #timeimmemorial
www.cbc.ca/documentarie...
www.cbc.ca/documentarie...
New discoveries challenge our understanding of when the first people arrived in North America | CBC Documentaries
Documentary Walking with Ancients follows the renegade archaeologists working to prove that humans were here during the last ice age
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I just watched this episode of The Nature of Things on the discovery of ancient human footprints in New Mexico and how the sedimentary layers in which they appear backdate the presence of humans in N. America by at least 10,000 additional years. #timeimmemorial
www.cbc.ca/documentarie...
www.cbc.ca/documentarie...
Eats shoots and 🍂 🍃 🍁?
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Eats shoots and 🍂 🍃 🍁?
I'm certain I can't hike 120 km/h. Aside from that bad pun, the UCP is a bottomless pit of terrible ideas.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta launches survey to gather opinions on hiking speed limit to 120 km/h | CBC News
The Alberta government is looking at increasing the speed limit on divided highways to 120 km/h but is conducting a survey to find out what people think first.
www.cbc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I'm certain I can't hike 120 km/h. Aside from that bad pun, the UCP is a bottomless pit of terrible ideas.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I'm really sick of this: being led in Alberta by a party that is not Albertan, that says its prayers to the most lunatic US president in history. The Forever Canadian signature drive has proven 456,000 times that this is not an Albertan sentiment.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'm really sick of this: being led in Alberta by a party that is not Albertan, that says its prayers to the most lunatic US president in history. The Forever Canadian signature drive has proven 456,000 times that this is not an Albertan sentiment.
Exit, as if pursued by a bear.
There you have it, America. The US Health boss sees a man collapse and runs away as if pursued.
BREAKING: RFK Jr. flees the scene after Novo Nordisk Executive Gordon Findlay collapsed in the Oval Office.
Findlay is reportedly ok.
Findlay is reportedly ok.
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Exit, as if pursued by a bear.
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦
The print version of my anthology is out in a few weeks, but the electronic version is now available and on sale at the link.
In the free preview (linked) you’ll also be able to read all of the front matter—including the futurisms and thematic tables of contents—and the full intro.
In the free preview (linked) you’ll also be able to read all of the front matter—including the futurisms and thematic tables of contents—and the full intro.
The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction
The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction takes a “broad view” of science fiction in terms of its histories, themes, forms, and communities. Covering over two hundred years, the anthology focuses on ...
books.google.ca
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The print version of my anthology is out in a few weeks, but the electronic version is now available and on sale at the link.
In the free preview (linked) you’ll also be able to read all of the front matter—including the futurisms and thematic tables of contents—and the full intro.
In the free preview (linked) you’ll also be able to read all of the front matter—including the futurisms and thematic tables of contents—and the full intro.
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦
"The lake's waters reached 41ºC, or 105.8ºF — hotter than most spa baths."
"You couldn't put your finger in the water."
Just terrible. There's no other way to describe this.
News: www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin...
Peer reviewed: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌎 🧪
"You couldn't put your finger in the water."
Just terrible. There's no other way to describe this.
News: www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin...
Peer reviewed: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌎 🧪
Hundreds of dolphins found dead in Amazon lake were in water hotter than a jacuzzi, study finds
"You couldn't put your finger in the water," said the lead author of the study, which spotlights the impacts of planetary warming on aquatic ecosystems.
www.cbsnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"The lake's waters reached 41ºC, or 105.8ºF — hotter than most spa baths."
"You couldn't put your finger in the water."
Just terrible. There's no other way to describe this.
News: www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin...
Peer reviewed: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌎 🧪
"You couldn't put your finger in the water."
Just terrible. There's no other way to describe this.
News: www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin...
Peer reviewed: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌎 🧪
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦
Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦
HOLD. THE. FUCKING. PREMIERS. TO. ACCOUNT.
N.S. patients waited for more than 70 hours in the ER for hospital admission
HALIFAX - Paul Wozney says he received a blunt assessment of an overcrowded emergency room where he was told some patients had been waiting over 70 hours.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
November 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
HOLD. THE. FUCKING. PREMIERS. TO. ACCOUNT.
Informative article about how many trees are being logged out of the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies, and how many more the company plans to log:
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
'Lots of resolve': Activists blockade road to halt logging in south Kananaskis
Environmental activists have erected a log blockade on a road leading to a proposed clear-cut logging site in south Kananaskis.
calgaryherald.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Informative article about how many trees are being logged out of the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies, and how many more the company plans to log:
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
Position in Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing and Practices, U of Calgary, Alberta: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1699885...
Assistant Professor in Indigenous Literatures and Intercultural Understanding in
Calgary,
...
Assistant Professor in Indigenous Literatures and Intercultural Understanding in
Calgary,
...
careers.ucalgary.ca
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Position in Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing and Practices, U of Calgary, Alberta: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1699885...
I'm hoping the FIRST Muslim mayor in North America, @naheednenshi.bsky.social, and the Alberta NDP MLAs will together draw energy and renewed encouragement from the win of the SECOND Muslim mayor in North America.
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I'm hoping the FIRST Muslim mayor in North America, @naheednenshi.bsky.social, and the Alberta NDP MLAs will together draw energy and renewed encouragement from the win of the SECOND Muslim mayor in North America.
I remember listening to Brian Jean’s final campaign speech and he spoke at a Grade Two level of comprehension. No exaggeration.
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I remember listening to Brian Jean’s final campaign speech and he spoke at a Grade Two level of comprehension. No exaggeration.
The whole post but especially the first sentence.
If we don’t fix the climate, pollution, and nature crises, we can’t fix anything. They are already actively amplifying poverty, hunger, and division. They are what stand between all of us, regardless of geography or ideology, and the better future we all seek. That's why I'm convinced that ...
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
The whole post but especially the first sentence.
Look at this. The hurricane downed and washed away the vegetation. One of my students told me today that the soil of her dad's farm just washed away. He has no farm now.
🔴⚠️🌀🇯🇲In the aftermath of hurricane #Melissa, the tropical vegetation of southwestern Jamaica has been devastated by the landfall at almost 300km/h.The first #Sentinel2 images after the event show the extreme consequences on BlackRiver and the wider area. #ClimateEmergency
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Look at this. The hurricane downed and washed away the vegetation. One of my students told me today that the soil of her dad's farm just washed away. He has no farm now.
Deer crossing the river.
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Deer crossing the river.
Just watched a male deer swim and wade across the river.
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Just watched a male deer swim and wade across the river.
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Reposted by Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦
This is a great point. There's so much resistance to increasing ventilation/air purification in classrooms to lower levels of Covid & other illnesses for kids & staff, & so much resistance to masking in healthcare
BUT they'll get busy ventilating chicken barns against avian flu
because profit
BUT they'll get busy ventilating chicken barns against avian flu
because profit
We'll protect chickens from H5N1 but not kids in schools and patients in clinics from Covid?
Sound about right....
'He pointed to one research project studying air filtration in barns.'
#BCpoli #H5N1 #Covid #Covid19
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sound about right....
'He pointed to one research project studying air filtration in barns.'
#BCpoli #H5N1 #Covid #Covid19
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Avian flu strikes farms in B.C.'s Fraser Valley, with 7 outbreaks this month | CBC News
Avian flu has broken out in at least seven locations across B.C.’s Fraser Valley this month, with six cases cropping up since Thursday, and local farmers are doing all they can to protect their flocks...
www.cbc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
This is a great point. There's so much resistance to increasing ventilation/air purification in classrooms to lower levels of Covid & other illnesses for kids & staff, & so much resistance to masking in healthcare
BUT they'll get busy ventilating chicken barns against avian flu
because profit
BUT they'll get busy ventilating chicken barns against avian flu
because profit