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Jessica Theodor

@jmtheodor.bsky.social
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Ungulate paleobiologist, fibre nerd. Professor @UCalgary in Canada. Opinions mine. Born in the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee, living on Treaty 7 land. She/her.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11h
So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1h
It’s long past time for the U.S. to get a new president.
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Alberta's Voice @albertasvoice.ca · 1h
Get informed and help spread the word about #abreferendum 2026. 🇨🇦 Explore and share our referendum information sites to understand the questions, how we got here and what's at stake on October 19. Stay in Canada. No to the Nine. 🔗 albertasvoice.ca/projects #abpoli #ableg #alberta #referendum
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 2h
Heather McPherson: "Get out there, vote. We didn't want to have this referendum. We shouldn't have given voice to these separatist jerks that are traitors to our country. But here's where we are. And I believe in Albertans. I believe that we have what it takes to get this over the finish line."
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 12h
There is literally nothing you can say to get through to them. They need that hate like the rest of us need air. 🙄
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 3h
Martin Patriquin isn't buying Danielle Smith's belief that a referendum will settle the separatism debate: "The idea that this issue is just going to go away because the Alberta separatists lose a referendum on a referendum is pure delusion."
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 5h
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10h
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Lawrence Herzog 🇨🇦 @lawherz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lies and weasel words. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is deliberately obtuse because she wants to wait until she sees the results so she can twist and bend them to her will. A woman with zero integrity, zero courage and zero respect for democracy and good governance. #abpoli
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Alberta premier unclear when asked to define threshold for questions 1 to 9 on referendum ballot | CBC News
On Thursday, CBC News asked Premier Danielle Smith to define what she considers a strong mandate and what the thresholds will be for taking action on each question.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Ctenophores Rock! @ctenophoresrock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Much older than dinosaurs, comb jellies have been around since the Cambrian Period (~500 mya) 🤯 Fossils found in Utah suggest early species had upwards of 24 comb rows & a sensory system! Learn more about the findings: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Stay tuned for more #CtenophoreFunFacts! 🦑
Figure 2 taken from Parry et al. 2021

Holotype specimen of Ctenorhabdotus campanelliformis sp. nov. from the Drumian Marjum Formation in Utah

(A and B) Counterpart and part (mirrored) of UMNH.IP.6125, photographed immersed in water under cross polarized light; dotted line in panel (A) indicates area examined for elemental analysis.

(C) Energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) elemental map of carbon in the counterpart.

(D) Interpretative drawing of whole specimen, colors as in Figure 1 and as shown.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...
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How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.
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Anna Lührmann @annaluehrmann.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
I stand in solidarity with researchers at the #disinfo2026 conference. We need brave researchers and civil society in our fight against disinformation. EU institutions and governments should not cave under US pressure.
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This woman and the provincial government have absolutely no right nor position to do this. These are municipal matters. The city is in charge of them. The way these clowns behave like they're libertarians and then slam down authoritarian actions like this to quash any progress is infuriating.
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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Its now been confirmed that Mason and some others at FHSU decided to talk to a london based middle east antiquities dealer that Mason heard on a podcast. So instead of talking to someone in-house or even in the US about ethical deaccessioning, she does this. www.hdnews.net/2026/10/07/b...
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BREAKING NEWS - Salomon Aaron Identified as FHSU’s Outside Museum Adviser; Sternberg Fundraising Goal Raised to $1 Million - Hays Daily News
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Paging Danielle Smith nationalnewswatch.com/2026/10/08/a...
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Alberta's economic prospects depend on immigration, chamber says as…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
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🇨🇦Kanien'kéha🪶 @skeeters2025.bsky.social · 20h
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 12h
The epitome of greed is to have more money than you could ever spend in 100 lifetimes and still refuse to pay your employees a livable wage.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 10h
May your long weekend be filled with more reasons for gratitude than there are leaves on a maple tree. 🍁 Happy Thanksgiving!
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think this is an important point, especially the role museums have bolstered the commercial market and monetization of fossils under the auspices of saving them for science. We are still dealing with the effects of “Sue.”
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#SaveTheAcademy save-the-academy.org #SaveTheSternberg foundation.fhsu.edu/save-sternbe...
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Save the Academy of Natural Sciences
Don't mourn — organize. The museum's last public day is Sunday, Sept 27. Ten things you can do today.
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Remember 'the Grand Bargain' for the Detroit Institute of Arts. They were nearly forced to auction off paintings to pay off city debt. www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/a... Museums should not be held hostage because of the mismanagement and malfeasance of others.
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‘Grand Bargain’ Saves the Detroit Institute of Arts (Published 2014)
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Natural history museums are at an inflection point that started with the auctioning of dinosaurs. If Fort Hays State (Sternberg) or Drexel (Acad.Nat.Sci.) think they can monetize collections (i.e., sell natural history specimens); museums become safety deposit boxes instead of research institutes.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 8h
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 8h
Let's talk PROFITIZATION of healthcare Dual Billing is Step Three of the 3 step plan by govt 1 - Help pay to build private facilities 2 - Force more care in these private facilities 3 - Allow Dual Billing without any discussion - drives workforce to private facilities
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 21h
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Black Panther🍁💪🦫🇨🇦 @blackpanther25.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Jeff Rath is a Traitor😡 #CanadaSky🇨🇦
Jeff Rath is a Separatist
Jeff Rath is a Traitor
Jeff Rath needs to be charged with Treason
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand
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Colleen @collburns.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
For all those Conservatives and so called Liberal supports blaming the Carney Government for the layoffs at Stelco Steel!!!!!!!👇👇👇👇👇👇
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🇨🇦Kanien'kéha🪶 @skeeters2025.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Alberta’s premier lavishes praise on Ottawa for how much it collaborated with the province before making new court appointments, days before Alberta’s referendum Q that proposes to constutionally overhaul the way judges are picked. (bonus, surely, that one new judge was her deputy Justice minister)
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Conservatives are the biggest gatekeepers when it comes to housing supply and affordability in Canada, as I wrote three years ago. Danielle Smith and the UCP just proved my point, again. www.nationalobserver.com/2023/06/12/o...
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Are Poilievre’s conservative allies the real gatekeepers?
Pierre Poilievre likes to rail against "gatekeepers" and the role they play in Canada's ultra-high housing costs — and he has a point. It's one he should bring up with the conservative politicians who...
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@KatyET www.abresistance.ca @katyet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Jessica Theodor @jmtheodor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Enjoy! It's a beautiful time to be in Toronto, I'm jealous.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I remain concerned that the premier will use any potential problems on referendum day/on Elections Alberta's part to justify *another* referendum -- one that would presumably keep the separatists off her back for a little while longer. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/17/o...
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Danielle Smith is sowing the seeds of a democratic legitimacy crisis
Forget about banning American imports. In Alberta, the government is actively importing as many aspects of their political culture as possible. The latest: election denialism.
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 09/10/2026
In an excellent article for the Observer, @maxfawcett.bsky.social explains why Mark Carney should use his political capital to deliver proportional representation. Quebec just proved how first-past-the-post distorts results across parties. Read it here! www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/08/o...
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The Quebec election was yet another example of our electoral system’s flaws. Mark Carney should fix them
It was more than a decade ago when former prime minister Justin Trudeau promised to change Canada's electoral system. Mark Carney should finish the job.
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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When ten percent more girls get to go to school, their nation's GDP rises by three percent. #MatriarchyNow
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cvin.bsky.social @cvin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If the threat of PQ eventually pushing forward with a referendum on separation with 30% mandate from the voters doesn't get @mark-carney.bsky.social to act on #ProportionalRepresentation, I don't know what will.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦 @clnz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Andrew Thompson definitely gets it.
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clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦 @clnz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Greer is deliberately conflating a Quebec provincial election into a judgment on the federal government. PQ won just 27.9% of the vote. That's a minority government, hardly a mandate from Quebec to reject PM Carney or Canada. The US admin is actively trying to divide Canada. Such snakes & liars!
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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Important findings but not surprising. Those gifts should be prohibited, as should the comoany sponsored free lunches and dinners at medical conferences.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There is no faster way to lose the future than to turn away the people who will help build it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work
Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I lived in Miami for six years. The most racist shit I’ve ever heard of my life came from my Cuban and Venezuelan immigrant neighbors, talking about Mexican and Salvadoran immigrants.
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