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Dale Leftwich

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Policy Manager SaskOilseeds. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. R.W. Emerson

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
4. So why the massive emphasis on food waste? Because it avoids confrontation with powerful economic interests. Everyone can agree that people should waste less. Intentionally or otherwise, it involves individuating blame for a systemic problem: a classic neoliberal gambit.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
1. This is a thread about why Food Waste is so often, and wrongly, identified as the major problem with the food system. Yes, it's an issue, but in the rich world, it's far smaller than many others. It’s massively over-emphasised, while other, far more important problems, are ignored and avoided. 🧵
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"Substituting butter with plant-based oils, particularly olive, soybean, and canola oils, may confer substantial benefits for preventing premature deaths." Butter and Plant-Based Oils Intake and Mortality jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Cohort study. Nutrition research hard. Still, interesting...
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Butter and Plant-Based Oils Intake and Mortality
This cohort study investigates associations of butter and plant-based oil intakes with risk of total and cause-specific mortality among US adults.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
How does health misinformation spread? www.cma.ca/healthcare-f... cc @scienceupfirst.bsky.social Many forces, including: - Confirmation Bias - Availability Heuristic - Emotional Reasoning "...stopping its spread requires us to be attentive & discerning consumers of online content."
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How does health misinformation spread?
Health misinformation spreads rapidly through social media, online forums, and word-of-mouth, fueled by algorithms and cognitive biases. Learn how false health claims gain traction, why people believe...
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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"Agricultural cold shower"
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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Last look, pretty sure my place will be fine but gonna sleep better complying with evac.
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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
It was a great winter day - kayaking in the South Saskatchewan River this morning and nordic skiing this evening (plus chores and making supper in between).
Me under a bridge in a kayak on the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon.My daughter and I in touring kayaks on the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon. The snow covered riverbank hill is in the background. It is a grey day. Photo of me in a touring kayak on the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon with 2 bridges visible. The snow covered riverbank is in the background. It is a grey day. Night picture of the Wildwood ski trails in Saskatoon. The snow and ski are lit by reflected city light. There is a string of white lights in the adjacent bushes. Everything has a grey-orange cast.
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thewesternproducer.bsky.social @thewesternproducer.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Sask. canola group makes crop disease its major focus vist.ly/3mqi5pd #cdnag #westcdnag
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Sask. canola group makes crop disease its major focus | The Western Producer
Free disease testing for farmers, field training days for agronomists and farmer-conducted on-farm research trials were the focuses of SaskOilseeds this
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Enough with the f*cking seed oil noise! Seed Oils Probably Aren’t Giving You Cancer gidmk.medium.com/seed-oils-pr... by @gidmk.bsky.social "...the study in question didn’t show that at all. This is quite a remarkable case in which the reporting is almost entirely divorced from the data at hand."
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Seed Oils Probably Aren’t Giving You Colorectal Cancer
Some of the worst media coverage of science I’ve ever seen
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Senior Citizen Center Flaxton, ND
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Volcaholic @volcaholic1.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
That's one way to do it 🤣
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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
So I would advise sticking it into any spare corner, with a little shelter from other shrubs if possible. Mahonia will do well in any ordinary decent soil, and it doesn’t mind a bit of shade. Both are out-of-door plants to be grown in anybody’s #garden. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Dale Leftwich @leftwichd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Canola Discovery Days, Saskatoon #agsky #Fertilizermanagement
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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Good drainage is essential, meaning a number of holes drilled in the bottom, and then a 2” layer of broken crocks, and then a thick layer of fibrous leaf-mould half the tub deep, then on top of all that the main soil in which your plants will have to grow for years and years.
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Art Quotes @artquotes.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Realize that everything connects to everything else. Quote by Leonardo da Vinci overlayed on image of his painting Mona Lisa. #art #artquote #artistquote #davinci #monalisa
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Shanna Whan (AM) @sobergal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Bit hot & dusty out in the paddock today. Tim looked at me sideways when I came in and just burst out laughing. … I’ll take being remote, filthy and tired and going to bed early any day over city life and makeup 😝 #agsky
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Lyndsey Smith @realloudlyndsey.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Our grasslands are as important (or more!) than our trees when it comes to carbon storage and biodiversity. So can we preserve what's left? www.realagriculture.com/2024/11/cana... #westcdnag #agsky #conservation #soil #carbon #organicmatter
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Canada’s grasslands aren’t coming back — can we keep what we have?
For the average Canadian, the long, lonely drive along the Trans-Canada Highway across southern Saskatchewan and Alberta is capital B boring. For those not from the Prairies, the seemingly endless, mo...
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Brent Smedley @boring-smed.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
It’s been an interesting week in Tasmania. 120-200mm across NW cropping region could be a huge boost a month out from most harvests beginning or could spike disease after a long dry spell. Nervous week. Pea crops in my area first casualty. Harvest window came and went. #agsky #rainsky
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David Leftwich @davidleftwich.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Houston: late fall color, riding the wind. #Houston
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Dale Leftwich @leftwichd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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Kevin Folta @kevinfolta.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This week's Talking Biotech Podcast is about MONKEYPOX or mpox. A great conversation with @JohnGRizk about the virus, its symptoms and current vaccines and therapies. share.transistor.fm/s/133f460d
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Dale Leftwich @leftwichd.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Mark Rothko @markrothko.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/unti…
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Jasper Johns @jasperjohns.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Souvenir 2 www.wikiart.org/en/jasper-johns/sou…
Souvenir 2
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Agnes C. Poirier @agnescpoirier.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A Peek inside #NotreDame (Via @rebatirnotredamedeparis on Instagram)
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Peter Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My memory of Notre Dame de Paris is of a vast, impressive but gloomy interior. Now look at it! Amazing achievement in five years
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skphotoguy.bsky.social @skphotoguy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
November 28, 2024 - Another frosty day in #Saskatoon #NaturePhotography
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René Magritte @renemagritte.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Forest of Paimpont
Forest of Paimpont
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Richard Reeleder @nbdatapoints.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Endophytic fungi colonize roots by turning off plant immune system. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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How fungi colonize plant roots
Researchers have identified two fungal enzymes that hijack the immune system of plants, playing a critical role in the colonization of plant roots. These findings open new avenues for interventions in...
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon and Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends who are celebrating today
Arched concrete bridge over a partially frozen river with city skyline beyond. It is dawn.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Did you know the Giant Pysanka in Vegreville was also a weather vane that moved with the wind? 🥚💨
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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We can never hope to grow such fully developed pomegranate fruits in this country, but the tree itself is hardier than usually supposed. It will even flower, producing coral-coloured blossoms among the dark pointed leaves. www.countrylife.co.uk/gardens/gard...
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Matt Dalgleish @meatwatcher.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
#agsky might be of interest
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I am going to Montreal later this week. Now I’m smuggling back a case of Icewine, a dozen Tim Horton donuts, and some poutine before these tariffs hit.
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Dale Leftwich @leftwichd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Now, having indulged myself by writing on a subject which I fear is not of very general interest, let me add a note on the Christmas roses, or hellebores, which are just beginning to show their curly buds not unlike the first growth of young bracken. #gardening
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Dale Leftwich @leftwichd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Emily Carr
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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The study of illustrated books such as Sir Herbert Maxwell’s Scottish Gardens will readily convince the pessimistic that a wealth of perennial plants and flowering shrubs will flourish in northern latitudes. #gardening www.nts.org.uk/visit/things...
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skphotoguy.bsky.social @skphotoguy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
November 21, 2024 #Saskatoon #Saskatchewan
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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
L'Estaque. View through the Trees, 1879 botfrens.com/collections/43/content…
L'Estaque. View through the Trees
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Volcaholic @volcaholic1.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Abbeyfeale football pitch Co. Limerick in Ireland this morning....🌊👀 Via: johna_hayes on X #StormBert
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
What is Canada's Favourite Roadside Attraction? ROUND ONE: ALBERTA We have a list of 448 Roadside Attractions in Canada to vote on. Winner moves on to Round 2! Attraction info in 🧵 CLICK LIKE on the attraction you choose in the 🧵👇 to vote. 1. Starship Enterprise 2. Peter Fidler Statue
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Leander Campbell @leandercampbell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Seems like there's been an upswing in the presence of the Canadian farming community here. 🍁 To celebrate this I've created a Starter Pack for all supporters of #CdnAg. Let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed) and feel free to tag anyone else out there. go.bsky.app/MP7hDqC
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Laundromat Humboldt, KS
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
On this day in 1882, The Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan, Frances Gertrude McGill, was born. She went on to influence the development of forensic pathology and solved several unsolved crimes. Let's learn more about her :) 🧵1/12
The image is a black and white portrait of an older woman with short, wavy hair, wearing glasses. She is dressed in a dark-colored top with a light-colored blouse or shirt underneath. The photograph has a classic, vintage feel, likely from the mid-20th century, given the style of clothing and the quality of the photograph. The woman is looking directly at the camera with a slight smile.
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ᴅᴊ ᴊᴏᴀɴ 🎶 @dj-joan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Good evening everyone 👋🏼🌛✨
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Dale Leftwich @leftwichd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The common clary or Salvia sclarea, is known as Clear Eye and Sea Bright, not to be confused with Eyebright, that tiny annual whose proper name is Euphrasia. #gardening www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/...
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