📷 Fog over the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. I work on a farm in the middle of a capital city!
ℹ️🧪 The Central Experimental Farm is located in Ottawa, Ontario and was established in 1886 as the central research station for the federal Department of Agriculture, agriculture.canada.ca.
Gas price being that cheap does not help to change the model for sure. I knew gas was cheap but this here is how it became real for me.
No offence to Richard here at all, but I am amazed at how cheap gas is in the States. 30$ for a tank is "2020 crude oil was under 0$" type of price here. It explains a lot about the car culture - although not why we import it so much!
Meme showing hot peppers saying "evolution can you give me capsaicin to deter mammals? I want birds to spread my seeds?" Evolution, rendered as a DNA double helix, asks "to deter mammals?" and the peppers reply "yes, to deter mammals, that is precisely what I said." Then it shows two cavemen excitedly yelling "mouth hot" at some peppers, to which the peppers say "wait what the fuck?" and the final image is a bunch of hot sauces and dishes, again captioned "what the fuck?"
It's one of my favorite topics to teach in sensory physiology-- how plants likely evolved capsaicin as a deterrent to keep us from eating them and that didn't work out so great for them (or did, since we now lovingly grow and cultivate them):
Rappel : La date limite pour le dépôt des candidatures pour se joindre au conseil d'administration de FTC est ce dimanche 1er mars!
En savoir plus: fermierspourlatransitionclimatique.ca/joignez-cons...
🧪 Qian[ agriculture.canada.ca ] et al, 2026: Simulating climate change impacts on lentil yield in the Canadian Prairies using the CSM‐CROPGRO‐lentil model
TLDR? Lentil yields were simulated for Canadian Prairies with future climate scenarios based on 5 global climate models
🔗 tinyurl.com/2wyp5533
🧪 Jing[ agriculture.canada.ca ] et al, 2026: Growth and yield of forage alfalfa under a changing climate in Canada 🍁
TLDR? Crop models predict increased temperature will lead to an extended growing season, enabling additional harvests and shifts in crop growth dynamics. 🌱
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr2e9wrj
Good days and joy in the answers!
I don't know what triggered the reminder, but it's also good to remember that the francosphere is still, essentially, an very Catholic one.
Non je ne savais pas, c'est vraiment bcp. Je me demande si ça inclut les maladies transmises par des insectes? Si oui, là ça ne me surprend plus. Je pensais que zoonoses étaient les transmissions accidentelles, pas celles qui doivent passer par un autre animal avant de nous affecter. J'apprends!
poulailler, rang 3, saint-bruno
Par la bande oui. Il y a quelques producteurs, plusieurs chercheurs, l'UPA de l'Estrie, mais ça rester léger.
You need to hear the goal call in Inuktitut.
🌳📸 Participez au concours photo de la Journée internationale des forêts 2026 et montrez comment les forêts dynamisent les économies du monde entier !
Les détails sont ici 👉 https://bit.ly/3LiaR9o
#JournéeInternationaleDesForêts
Au-delà de certains édifices insalubres, les soucis les plus fréquents seront le manque de places, les espaces ouverts du gouvernement 2.0 qui empêchent la concentration et la confidentialité, et les coûts d'entretien consacrés aux bureaux plutôt qu'aux labos.
instead of not at all? that's... telling?
ferme, rang 3, saint-bruno
This has got to be the Food Dude’s jump the shark moment, right?
This was a jaw-dropping interview. I had no idea.
🌟FTC est à la recherche d’agriculteur·trice·s, d’éleveur·euse·s et d’autres acteur·trice·s du secteur agricole pour siéger à son conseil d’administration.🌟
2/2 Les activistes et leaders noirs sont depuis longtemps à l’avant-plan de la lutte pour l’équité, la justice et la solidarité au Canada. Joignons notre voix à la leur!✊🏿 #MoisHistoireDesNoirs
En savoir plus : syndicatafpc.ca/lhistoire-ou...
Cette campagne gagnerait-elle à être appliquée dans d'autres régions? Écoutez l'entrevue ici: ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...
No realize ayer que si entiendi a todo le que se decia, mis niñas no. Teni que traducir y explicar muchas referencias!
Il y a des mots vraiment pratiques en anglais qui sont un cauchemar en français. Vu mon domaine de travail, "stakeholders" est tout en haut de la liste de ceux qui me font soupirer d'exaspération.
Heard on the Hill | Meet the nine inspiring Black Canadians who the government is showcasing in Black History Month
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
If you know any senior undergraduate students or graduate students interested in my Arctic field course this year please have them reach out.
ryan.brook@usask.ca
Course starts and ends in Churchill, August 11-25.
Hands on research. Connecting with Indigenous knowledge keepers. Walking the land.
Phengaris teleius (Scarce Large Blue) in a French meadow. One of the 17 species in the European Grassland Butterfly Index. Photo: Martin Warren)
The latest European Grassland Butterfly Indicator is out. It shows that grassland butterflies have declined by 47% since 1991, indicating a huge loss of grassland biodiversity. The data come from 16,150 transects & 15,000 volunteers. We are calling for urgent action. www.bc-europe.eu/documents/69...
Figure of Western U.S. snow cover area from 2001 to 2026 illustrates a staggering decline in current coverage compared to historical norms. While the historical data for mid-January typically clusters between 400,000 and 600,000 square miles, the line for 2026 sits in unprecedented territory at the very bottom of the graph. On January 15, 2026, the snow cover area plummeted to a record low of 142,700 square miles—less than one-third of the median and the lowest point in the entire 25-year satellite record. This visual gap emphasizes a severe "snow drought," with the 2026 data point trailing significantly behind even the previous record lows, highlighting an extreme and alarming anomaly in winter precipitation.
The western U.S. faces its lowest snowpack on record despite average or above-average rainfall. Warmer temperatures mean more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow, and will worsen droughts in areas like the Pacific Northwest and the Colorado River Basin.
science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.
I have one that makes me look like a feathery Pig-Pen, and right now it's the only one I have because the fancy warm coat with a 5 year warranty is at the store for fixing. The feathery Pig-Pen is still doing its job, but it might be empty by the end of the seaon, the way feathers leak together.
