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Andrew Irwin

@andrewirwin.bsky.social
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Math, Stats, and Oceanography. Dalhousie, Halifax NS. Born at 328 ppm. mmab.ca

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
new toon: large language muddle www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Large language muddle
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/08/2026
HHS Replaces Childhood Vaccination Schedule With List Of Recommended Animal Bites theonion.com/hhs-replaces-childhood…
HHS Replaces Childhood Vaccination Schedule With List Of Recommended Animal Bites
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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A useless thing I still have in my office: a 25’ VGA cable.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Just heard that Jorge Sarmiento passed away. One of the true pioneers in ocean biogeochemistry. www.princeton.edu/news/2026/05...
princeton.edu
Remembering Jorge Sarmiento, a ‘giant’ in climate studies
Climate scientist Jorge Sarmiento was Princeton's George J. Magee Professor of Geoscience and Geological Engineering, Emeritus, and a professor of geosciences, emeritus.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
🌊 The ocean absorbs >90% of Earth’s excess heat, and our ability to track it depends on a fragile global network of floats, ships and sensors. New research warns that cuts to the Global Ocean Observing System could make climate signals indistinguishable from noise. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Critical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate Change
International collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ...
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Prof Alessandro Tagliabue @altagliabue.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Fantastic review on the ocean carbon cycle and climate led by Laure Resplandy that pulls together impressive budgets and tackles some key narratives 🌊 www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Integrated perspective on ocean carbon cycle:
Untangling facts, fluxes, and fictions
Laure Resplandy1*, Marina Lévy2, Laurent Bopp3
The ocean carbon cycle spans multiple scales and reservoirs, challenging efforts to build a coherent picture and
fostering misconceptions or fragmented narratives in science and public discourse. Common examples include
the belief that the biological processes control the ocean’s carbon sink (i.e., fraction of human CO2 emissions ab-
sorbed by ocean), that restoring coastal ecosystems is highly effective at mitigating climate change, or that whales
substantially contribute to carbon sequestration. We provide a comprehensive review of living and nonliving
ocean carbon stocks and fluxes—from plankton to mangroves, whales, fish, and plastics—and an integrated per-
spective on global ocean carbon cycling, disentangling well-­ supported insights from misconceptions. This syn-
thesis reaffirms the ocean’s key role as a physics-­ and chemistry-­ driven carbon sink, while clarifying the limited
contribution of coastal and open-­ ocean ecosystems to carbon sequestration and climate mitigation. We caution
against frameworks that justify marine conservation through climate mitigation—a narrative useful to draw
attention, but not always robust and unnecessary, since marine biodiversity is worth preserving regardless of its
impact on carbon.
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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 13/05/2026
Hongbin Liu today pled guilty to 1 count of conspiracy for a public servant to accept an advantage, and 2 counts of offering an advantage to a public servant, after he accepted a bribe of HK$40,000 and then gave $5,000 & $1,000 bribes to colleagues. • Placed in remand; he awaits sentencing May 28
HKUST Plankton Lab webpage as of March 2026, which has since been scrubbed, featuring Hongbin Lu's photo and bio
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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Watching 63 up. Never get tired of that series. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com
The 7 Up Series Documentary - YouTube
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Carl warned us
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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Only 3-6 scheduled flights a day here.
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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Cars use a tunnel now. Pedestrians walk above ground.
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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Fun to stand on a runway. Never done that before. GIB runway 09.
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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Alliteration prize of the day: “Consumers crunched by climbing cucumber costs” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Why are veggies so expensive? Consumers crunched by climbing cucumber costs | CBC News
Fresh veggies cost 7.8 per cent more in March compared to March last year, according to Statistics Canada's most recent inflation numbers. And the worst offender? The mighty cucumber.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/04/2026
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement.
Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Everything you need to know about the ‘spaceport’ in Nova Scotia by Marie Lumsden
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Everything you need to know about the 'spaceport' in Nova Scotia - Halifax Examiner
You see, almost none of the government and corporate propaganda is true.
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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e2fb8ba...
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Grades are failing first-year students. Let’s scrap them
A pass-fail first year would encourage exploration across disciplines, and allow time to adapt to university
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
No one is allowed to say they didn’t vote for this. You voted for a vulgar, narcissistic, incompetent, mentally ill, bigoted, unfit, incompetent, maleficent person to run the United States of America. You knew exactly what you were doing. Stop pretending.
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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
First strip mall in Canada. leasidelife.com/an-ode-to-su...
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An ode to Sunnybrook Plaza - Leaside Life
It’s gone now. Built in 1952 as the first suburban strip mall in Canada, Sunnybrook Plaza at Bayview and Eglinton had a good run. But it’s gone now.
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Bartek Ciszkowski @justbartek.ca · 21/03/2026
I was at a seed swap today and someone was saying it'd be great if there was a map of public fruit/flowering trees. Well, Halifax *does* publish the data but it's not user friendly (data-hrm.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/HRM...) So here's a little map that's more user friendly justbartek.ca/hfxtrees
Halifax Tree Map with category set to "Fruits & Flowering"
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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I don't know which countries the US will go to war with in the next 100 years, but I do know they will all be armed with US manufactured weapons.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 19/02/2026
Whelp...never using an in-room coffee machine in a hotel again
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A trifecta of AI stupidity Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social
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A trifecta of AI stupidity - Halifax Examiner
Ridiculous questions, terrible ethics, and an attempt to claim chatbot interactions should be covered by attorney-client privilege.
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Cathie from Canada🍁 @cathiecanada.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Lindy Williams @ljdubcan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Today’s Canadian artwork is “Placentia Bay Boat in Winter” created by Christopher Pratt in 1995.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.
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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It’s hard to believe the Atlantic time zone is real. How far East of New York??
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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Saw an A surname result mid-afternoon.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 02/02/2026
Biometric locks for phones aren’t just convenient for you, they are convenient for the cops. “explicitly authorized law enforcement personnel to obtain Natanson’s phone and both hold the device in front of her face and to forcibly use her fingers to unlock it” theintercept.com/2026/01/30/w...
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Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now
The search warrant to raid a Washington Post reporter’s home shows how authorities can open your phone without your consent.
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ACW1234 @acw1234.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”
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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
No word on the status of the pig?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It is profoundly ironic that the whole stated purpose of mass gun ownership in the US - which carries it with the associated cost of frequent mass shootings, including in schools - is to protect against oppressive tyrannical government and yet...
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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Air -17C water +3C #Halifax
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
you don’t have to write “police involved shooting.” use english. It’s not hard
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/01/2026
I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I really am just trying to model that it's ok to say things. We should be using our voices and we should not be looking away. And the more of us that say things, the faster things change.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
In New Brunswick in a new factory after the old one burned in 2024.
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This is what 9300m looks like in the deep sea. Small, free-moving bristle worms swim through dense fields of slender tube worms. The bristle worms are only a few centimeters long, while the tube worms grow tubes up to 30cm, creating a crowded, living landscape on the deep seafloor.
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The ethically challenged Evan Solomon and Mark Carney power dance may lead to the end of Canada Morning File by me
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The ethically challenged Evan Solomon and Mark Carney power dance may lead to the end of Canada - Halifax Examiner
Do we really think that a Canadian government that can't find the moral clarity to act against a child abuse platform will resist a multi-pronged American assault on Canadian sovereignty?
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good. In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric. It’s not. /1
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 08/01/2026
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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Ellen Enders @ellenenders.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
see video (it shows him leaving) bsky.app/profile/mike...
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The arrest of Mark Carney will bring peace, prosperity, and freedom to North America Morning File by me
halifaxexaminer.ca
The arrest of Mark Carney will bring peace, prosperity, and freedom to North America - Halifax Examiner
As with the once-independent countries of Texas and California before it, Canada rightly should become a state under the flag of the United States.
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