Alison 🇨🇦

Annette Hamm, Janie Chang, and Kate Quinn seated in front of a packed audience at the First Unitarian Church in Hamilton, Ontario.

The title page of The Astral Library signed by Kate Quinn.

The title page of The Fourth Princess signed by Janie Chang.

It was so fun to attend the #HamOnt #gritlit event today with Janie Chang and Kate Quinn in conversation with Annette Hamm. I finished reading The Astral Library earlier this week and am excited to start The Fourth Princess.

What will we share? Updates on by-elections and general elections, important news releases, reports, and much more! A computer with elections.ca on the screen.

Hello Bluesky! 👋

This is the official Elections Canada account. Follow us to stay updated on Canada’s federal electoral process.

#CdnPoli

BYD launches "game-changing" new Blade battery with 5 minute charge time BYD announces game-changing charging tech with next generation Blade Battery allowing 10-70% charge in 5 minutes.

#BYD announces game-changing charging tech with next generation Blade Battery allowing 10-70% charge in 5 minutes.

Black-and-white portrait of Norman Bethune standing outdoors. He wears a light-colored turtleneck sweater under a textured jacket. His hair is receding, and he has a short mustache and goatee. He looks slightly upward and away from the camera. A brick wall and a wooden post are visible behind him.

Dr. Norman Bethune was one of the most influential physicians of his era.
He pioneered the use of a mobile blood transfusion unit in war zones, and introduced modern medicine to rural China.
Revered in China, it took decades for Canada to honour him.
This is his story.

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This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Ontario's COVID Forecast outlook is HIGH [increasing] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 7.7 About 1 of every 82 people is infected. Estimated infections this week: 261,400-323,300 What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada? Waste water, infections: HIGH; 7.8X higher Long COVID: HIGH; 5.9X higher Hospitalizations: HIGH; 7.4X higher Deaths: HIGH; 8.0X higher HOW TO HELP: EVERYONE: UPDATE vaccines every 6 months WEAR N95-type masks Who is HIGH RISK? People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca

Canadian COVID Forecast Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026

ONTARIO

HIGH [increasing]

About 1 of every 82 people is infected.

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections: 7.8 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.9 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 7.4 x higher
-Deaths: 8.0 x higher

That people today accept continued circulation and re-infection as normal is just ... 🫠

Queen's University group stranded in Middle East looking for a way home | CBC News Sixteen students and their professor from Queen's University are safe in Doha, Qatar, after their plan was turned around mid-air on Feb. 28.

Whoa. I hope they can come home safely, soon.

Isn't it fun to watch and count them? 😊

Oh yes, all these renewable energy companies making record profits out here.

A Pine Siskin hanging off of a small blue cage feeder, eating sunflower seeds

I finally FINALLY got a Pine Siskin visiting my feeder! 🥹 That's species #70 for my eBird yard list! 🪶

Enabling Fieldwork for All (EFFA) Framework: Supporting physical, social, financial, and psychological safety in the field Comprehensive review of fieldwork safety literature across disciplines yields synthesized recommendations.

Excited to share a new paper written by a AAAS Policy Fellow I mentor, Dr. Lisa Walsh.

“This review synthesizes literature on fieldwork safety across scientific disciplines, highlighting four facets of safety for leaders and researchers to address: physical, social, financial, and psychological.”

Alison taking a selfie on a curling rink, holding the handle of the broom and wearing a black N95 mask and a knitted toque with two puffins on it.

Curling is fun! @sonnec.bsky.social and I might find a league to join next winter 🥌

The Narwhal is asking for your thoughts on the use of AI tools — please take a few minutes to fill it out if you have strong feelings (or questions!)

This looks exciting! Monitoring ecosystem change and attributing the impacts to planned (like forest management) and unplanned disturbances (like fire & drought) has become the primary focus of our team at work.

Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years - Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health - Anthropogenic activities are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Well here's a new one. Rising atmospheric CO2 may be turning our blood more acidic, and if we stay on this path, we will start experiencing direct health effects from this in a few decades.

Migratory bird stopover patterns linked to urbanization and social landscapes - Nature Cities Urban ecology traditionally focuses on single cities, yet cities play key roles in ecological processes such as migration. Radar analysis across the continental USA reveals that nearly half of stopove...

A study I led came out in Nature Cities yesterday!

We used radar to study the role that urban landscapes play in migratory bird stopover. Spoiler: birds use cities a lot, and the patterns of their use reflect social processes and the inequities embedded in them.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A screenshot of Rachel Dratch from SNL. She's a white woman with short dark hair and blue eyes, and she's making an awkward expression that implies, "Sorry I have to tell you this and ruin your good time. But also I'm kind of not sorry about it." I've added a subtitle that reads, "That's AI."

an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:

Comic: Reasons to wear a mask in 2026 - The Sick Times Artist Gillian Levine recently wrote and illustrated a comic sharing reasons to continue masking in 2026.

"Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away...if you truly care about other people, you'll put [a mask] on."

We republished illustrator Gillian Levine's comic, "Reasons to mask in 2026" in @thesicktimes.org. Check it out 👀😷

thesicktimes.org/2026/02/27/c...

A picture of the screen showing "Geai bleu" instead of Blue Jay, while the remaining text is in English.

This whole thread is a very important insight as to why getting information from an LLM, even if you are dutiful and vigilant, corrodes your ability to ascertain what is true or not

** LLMs do not provide the info you need in order to evaluate truth. **

🪞 My Health Identity Snapshot

Movement ████░░░ 4.10
Airborne ██████░ 5.85
Proactive █████░░ 4.70

Largest gap: Movement ↔ Airborne (1.75)
Pattern: Compartmentalized (81% convergence)
Structure, not judgment.

Yes, I jest of course. I told my husband I'm keeping my eye out for charities looking for in-kind donations for raffles or auctions.

Toronto Maple Leafs "premium" jersey with MAGAt Auston Matthews' name and number and C for captain.

What's the best use for my Auston Matthews jersey*?

A) bath mat
B) wipe the winter grime off my car
C) line the bottom of my parrot's cage
D) all of the above

*note: won in a prize package, I never would have paid money for one

Meeting @raffic.bsky.social was a highlight of my Salt Spring #RunLikeAGirl book tour weekend — brunch, conversations about #ChildHonouring and protecting nature, and lots of laughs (a bit of singing too)! Thanks Raffi! 🙏

🚨 MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH: Moderna’s single-shot flu + COVID vaccine delivers strong 6-month immunity in early trial

One dose of mRNA-1073 produced durable immunity against matched flu and SARS-CoV-2 strains a potential game-changer for respiratory virus protection.

Went out for a hike for a boost of #VitaminN but now I'm just more tired and still disappointed.

#ReadTheRoom

Being the most passionate, it never makes it hurt any less

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Yeah I'm not a fan of how they keep adopting NHL rules. 3v3 during regular season play for 5 minutes is fine. But to decide a tournament final this way is ridiculous.