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Ingrid Stairs

@ingridhstairs.bsky.social
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Pulsars and other fun stuff. And some Canadian politics.

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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Gens du pays” is back. 🙄 But luckily the PQ got a minority government and even if they do hold a referendum, they don’t have the numbers. Now we hope for sensible outcomes in Alberta and BC.
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 01/10/2026
Lighthouses of the BC South Coast. Cool. mapped.earth/lighthouses/...
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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Now somewhat confirmed by 🇬🇱🇩🇰 also includes " en aftale, der samtidig anerkender Kongerigets suverænitet og territoriale integritet og det grønlandske folks ret til selvbestemmelse." "Recognition of kingdom of Denmark's sovereignty and right of Greenlandic people to self-determination"
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Trump melder ud: Vi har indgået en aftale med Danmark og Grønland | Nyheder | DR
Ifølge den amerikanske præsident, Donald Trump, så har Danmark og USA indgået en aftale om Grønland.
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lesiadub.bsky.social @lesiadub.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Roughly 40% of the Canadian landmass is forests, amounting to 369 million hectares. Sure Donald, we'll grab our rakes and get right on that. Also, glass houses..
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Go women astronauts, and all that. But zoom out and look at that mess of cables. Yes, there are a few cable ties, but there are also individual cables strung around all over the place. This is not a situation where you want to mistakenly attach a cable to the wrong connector...
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is beyond stupid. One of the last things we need is giant space mirrors destroying the night sky, if this actually works. ca.pcmag.com/networking/1...
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FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate
The FCC says the most controversial aspect of Reflect Orbital's Earendil-1 satellite, its giant mirror, falls outside its authority since the regulator mainly focuses on radio spectrum.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A story about Morrie and his emotional support carrot 🥕 IG: toosdayswithmorrie
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Oh, good grief.
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
So mad that the boneheaded plan to replace the 50m pool with a 25m is going ahead. #vanpoli vancouver.ca/news-calendar/vancouver-aquatic-centre-scheduled-to-close-june-28-2026.aspx
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Vancouver Aquatic Centre scheduled to close June 28 for planned renewal
Vancouver Aquatic Centre is scheduled to close June 28, 2026, for planned renewal and construction of a new accessible facility.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Yeah Canada’s mishmash use of imperial and metric systems is insane 🤣 this can confuse anyone….but maybe not the Brits 😏 Credit to marioadrioncomedy1
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
There is something very, very Canadian about holding a referendum to decide whether to hold a real referendum. (Sorry not sorry to AB separatists who didn't want to hear that!) #cdnpoli
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A controversy that seems to perfectly fit our time. 👇 Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
BC doesn’t want this pipeline. Many First Nations don’t want this pipeline. Oil is not the future. Why is Carney trying to appease Smith’s separatist base? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney, Smith reach energy agreement that could see pipeline construction start in 2027 | CBC News
The federal and Alberta governments have advanced a climate and energy agreement that could see construction on an oil pipeline to the West Coast start as early as September 2027.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/05/2026
Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
If you’re a follower of mine in the United States, please take a look at the post below, and please consider sharing it. I presume it WON’T be covered in American media.
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Morning chuckle: "...your article titled Diseases pattern among patients attending Holy Mosque (Haram) Medical Centers during Hajj 1434 (2013)‍ . ...it may be a good fit for the Journal of Orthopedics & Bone Disorders (JOBD) and would welcome your submission for consideration." (I'm an astronomer.)
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
A good read. #cdnpoli #bcpoli bchumanrights.ca/news-and-eve...
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Statement: Commissioner calls for a return to facts as misinformation undermines human rights and democratic systems in B.C. | BC's Office of the Human Rights Commissioner
BCOHRC releases new parody video taking aim at mis and disinformation.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 24/04/2026
Well, isn’t this a sight for sore eyes! 😍 Our beloved Hubble appears in this amazing image from one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites. It was 36 years ago today that Hubble was launched in the bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Vantor.
A detailed image of the Hubble Space Telescope floating in space, showing its solar panels and cylindrical body in space.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
www.thebeaverton.com/2026/04/albe...
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Alberta announces move to 1950s time
EDMONTON — After weeks of speculation, Alberta’s United Conservative government has announced that the province will be moving to the 1950s on a full-time basis. “Many Albertans just aren’t comfortabl...
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
It's true that the evil-river store has saved my parenting bacon a few times, but when my Sunday afternoon included an unexpected and spectacular end to my stand-mixer bowl, it sure was nice that the London Drugs a few blocks away lived up to its old slogan of doing "everything."
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
CBC At Issue pundits pointing out that 3 years (which the new majority gives the govt) is a long time in politics. Yes, and in 3 years there will (there had better be!) a different US president and the whole context that made Carney succeed will have changed.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/04/2026
Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, Thence to a lightness, and by this declension, Into the madness wherein now he raves, And all we mourn for.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/04/2026
In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!
A scale illustration of the Earth and the Moon, with the Earth on the far left, lots of black, and then the Moon on the far right, about 30 Earth diameters away.
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Thinking deeply is, itself, beautiful and productive work, to turn the developer's ridiculous reasoning back on him. Cogito ergo sum, and all that. If people delegate their thinking, we will collectively lose what makes us human. www.404media.co/whats-the-po...
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What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?
The creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely.
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Shauna Sallmen @sallmenshauna.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This is important...
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Julie MacB 🇨🇦 @juliemacb.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I’d rather be a Canadian with a Silver than an American with a Gold.
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Steve Morgan @steveve.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I was on a career panel tonight with several awesome women* but the best questions probably came in the short networking time afterwards.
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"...we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together. That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently. And it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us." www.policymagazine.ca/the-old-orde...
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'The Old Order is Not Coming Back': Mark Carney's Speech to the World Economic Forum - Policy Magazine
The following is the text of Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 20, 2026.
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Depressing but probably right. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-th...
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This Is the End
Putinism abroad always morphs into Putinism at home. And we chose this path. Why? Because something-something the price of eggs.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
“Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Canada are sending troops to Greenland amid continued threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to annex the territory, multiple outlets reported.” Good.
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Germany, other NATO allies sending troops to Greenland amid Trump threats
Trump said Wednesday that anything less than U.S. control of Greenland would be "unacceptable" in a warning to NATO allies.
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Paul Wren @elevenpointtwo.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Has not one reporter asked why NATO would not be intervening in the case of a Russian or Chinese invasion of Greenland??
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
PSA: if you have a mini-split heat pump and (ahem) don't always get around to cleaning the filters on time, do it today. It makes a big difference!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “End of NATO” clearly isn’t a deterrent for Trump and Putin. IT HAS TO BE A DETERRENT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Denmark, however small, has been a vocal and financial supporter of Ukraine. Punishment for that could absolutely be part of the plan here (similarly for Canada and the 51st-state nonsense). Europe needs to stand firm on both.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 05/01/2026
Conic Sections xkcd.com/3189/
Comic. [Earth next to a satellite with an orbit around the planet shaped like a dome.] [caption] All Keplerian orbits are conic sections. For example, this one uses the base of the cone.
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
“I love maps,” the president continued. “And I always said, ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States.’” Does he know about the Mercator projection?
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Greenland is not for sale, and not for taking over.
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Jane Austen First Drafts @austen1stdrafts.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
In my upper-year astro techniques course, I get the students to do basic ray-tracing for eg a Gregorian telescope. This is giving me lots of new ideas. :-) xkcd.com/3182/
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Telescope Types
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Usually I find the Vancouver winter rain to be an OK tradeoff for warmer temperatures than the rest of the country. But atmospheric rivers are just gross (much more so for the people dealing with flooding).
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
In the last couple of days, I have had to push back on TWO requests to review proposals for the last week of December or first thing in January. After the term I've just had, I am not planning to work over the break, and no one should be trying to impose that expectation on anyone.
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I like "Country Roads" as much as the next person who has spent time in WV. But, UBC folks, classes are not over yet, some of us are in frantic work mode, and having loud music blast on campus is just not helpful.
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Hey you, at the entrance to the pool! That sign saying, “Please remove shoes here?” That’s directed at you. Your shoes are not magically cleaner than anyone else’s.
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