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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I got great seats to watch the sunset at BMO Field as the #CANvsCHI game started. #Canmnt A very large Chilean supporters contingent here tonight.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

To be honest I actually never thought the northern cod in Canadian waters would come back again in my own lifetime. This is great news! I look forward in the future to a healthy sustainably managed fishery, so that I can enjoy Canadian cod in my fish & chips, as I did in my youth. #cdnenv

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Former CIA asset Gloria Steinem, dead at 92.

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Dr. Sarah Fortner @erthsarah.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Thirty-one years apart, about the same place on the Llewellyn Glacier.

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Where do you even go with this?

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The coldroom storage of last fall's apple harvest has run out. I don't see grocery stores carrying Canadian apples anymore, because there aren't any. Would it kill you to go without apples for a month? The shelves are bursting with Canadian peaches, nectarines etc. #BuyLocal #BuyCanada 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This isn't new science. I learned this in my undergraduate limnology course (which was taught by Dr. John Smol), and it is spelled out in black and white in hydrological budgets - the vast, vast majority of water in the #GreatLakes is "fossil water", only slowly replenished by annual rainfall.

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Scientists determine the Great Lakes are nonrenewable

The Great Lakes hold about 21 percent of the planet's surface fresh water, yet less than one percent of that volume renews each year. That second number, not the first, sets the limits on everyone who...

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So, has there been a tear in the space-time continuum where the rule that you have to first tag up when a fly ball is caught has been suspended? #MLB #BlueJays #RedSox

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 10/08/2026

This will literally kill people here's how... During cold and flu season, pediatric offices are at max capacity. That means an individual provider might see 30-40 patients per day. If you add in extra visits for shots, that just squeezes out slots for sick babies.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Apparently it is really, really hard for Argentina to commit a foul despite doing all the things that in the rule book constitute committing a foul. #FIFAWorldCup #FIFAWorldCup2026 #Spain #España #Argentina

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Welp, now that Colombia is out, who should Latinos cheer for? The answer is not often Spain. (the answer is NOT Argentina. the answer is NEVER Argentina) #SUIvCOL #SUIvsCOL #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Since you're a kid you practice just drilling that ball into the top corner of the net... WHY CAN'T YOU SHOOT THE BALL INTO THE UPPER CORNER OF THE NET?!?!? #SUIvCOL #SUIvsCOL #FIFAWorldCup

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I adore you Leon, Egyptologist here, they were built by a largely volunteer force (corvée labor) of 25,000. The builders were very well fed, paid in bread and beer, and received excellent medical care. There was no slavery whatsoever, it is a common misconception.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I know social media rots the brain, but I can't ever quit it when it produces art like this

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

*Nelson Muntz voice* "HA HA !!" PS I don't drink alcohol, so I'm not bothered about the inevitable tsunami of tariffs the Trump-tantrum is about to bring upon Stella Artois beer. #USAvsBEL #USAvBEL #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Oi @tsnofficial.bsky.social I'm not paying extra on my streaming package to subscribe to your channel to listen to two tossers with English accents exclaim "It's coming home!" at the conclusion of the England-Mexico game. It's a Canadian sports channel fertheloveofPete. #FifaWorldCup #ENGvsMEX

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

As we're at the 75 minute mark at 3-2, piss on that TSN sports commentator with the English accent who called the match over at the 60 minute mark. #MEXvsENG #FIFAWorldCUP #Mexico

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The ones wearing long sleeves are hiding identifiable tattoos.

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 25/06/2026

The news saying we shouldn’t get aircon in the uk due to environmental concerns have been very quiet about ai data centres.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It was only a matter of time that #FoxNews would start denying aquatic biology

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A Northern Flicker woodpecker in my backyard. (southern Ontario, Carolinian forest ecosystem) I've never seen one before. I had to Google Lens it to figure out why a bird with the beak of a woodpecker was foraging in my backyard for soil invertebrates. #ornithology #birds #HamOnt

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I'm watching this on my phone (livestream of Trump's name being chiseled off of the Kennedy Center) and the Canada-Bosnia World Cup game on the TV at the same time. A very entertaining afternoon. #uspoli #usapoli #uspolitics #usapolitics #FifaWorldcup #WorldCup

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

CONMEBOL refs are the VAR team? Oh boy I don't think any of the VAR challenges are going to go Canada's way... #Canada #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

What a lousy goal to end the game. Nonetheless, it took 2 OT periods to win at home after a four-goal comeback by Carolina in the 3rd period. Methinks Carolina is gonna win the Stanley Cup. #NHLplayoffs #StanleyCup #CARvsVGK

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

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Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting

Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions

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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"The study found that resettled refugees contribute $6 billion more to the U.S. economy than they take out. Per year. The Trump administration did exactly what you’d expect: They suppressed the study, and then they lied about it."

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Welcome to the Fascist States of America, where the EiC of a leading journal is forcibly removed by police for passing out his own editorial at the annual meeting of the field’s association…because it’s “too political” (read: it calls on scientists to speak out & stand up). We are here. This is it.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Despite wearing long pants I've already had my first tick attachment this season. I'm going to work along the back fence line so I'm duct taping my socks against my pants this time and will do the same with the gloves against my long sleeves. #Lyme #HamOnt

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

There's a persistent fantasy that maybe some other nice countries will start mass-hiring US scientists. That's not going to happen. A few high-profile, big name researchers will get poached, sure. But most countries, including some very nice ones, are underemploying their own scientists already.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

At the #Costco, they are out of the generic (#Kirkland) brand toilet paper, a small crowd of disgruntled people gathers, staring at the empty floor space where normally the pallet of toilet paper resides. Plenty of Charmin to be had, but ppl are smart, they aren't paying $3 more for 48% less sheets.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Sorry for photo quality, my cell phone camera doesn't have a macro function, for those of you who aren't entomologists, this is the rear-to-rear, or back-to-back, f-ing position in whatever species of insect this happens to be (Google Lens is telling me they are milkweed bugs). #entomology

Two adult milkweed insects getting it on along my garage door, rear-to-rear style (what is the terminology of the human equivalent? Is that position possible? I don't know. That's outside of my experience. I'm not about to go exploring the cesspool of the internet to find out, I don't want to inadvertently download some malware to answer that question for the sake of mere curiousity).

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Examples of striking Dutch bike-lane and urban biking infrastructure via Modacity Life.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I didn’t support Canadian cities bidding on the FIFA World Cup because costs greatly exceed local benefits. But after getting some games, our cities SHOULD try to benefit as much as we can. But with FIFA’s corruption & Trump collaboration, I recommend not giving a dime more to FIFA than we have to.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20/05/2026

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

US Department of Education Facebook post saying SKILLS THAT PAY OFF, showing an AI image of a White man and a brown-skinned woman wearing blue coveralls and tool belts. He's pointing off into the distance and she's working on a sink that has way too many exposed copper pipes in all the wrong places

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Here it comes into Dundas. And we just lost power. Batten down the hatches. #Onstorm #HamOnt

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The first time I've ever seen a red trillium in the wild while hiking in the forest! (and there were many more, but just in this one locale)

A flowering red trillium in the understory of a southern Ontario forest

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Saw Canada Goose parents and their goslings on the #Kingston waterfront this morning. Thankfully this isn't the proper climate for people doing ornithological things to catch hantavirus. Kingston Waterfront beautiful in the sunshine as always. Happy Mother's Day!

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Jesus. Did that sergeant at arms walk there directly from the Pettus Bridge? The hair, the whole look, everything. Make the photo B&W, and you wouldn't know if it was 2026 or 1965. And the reasons are the same. And the fight's the same. Confederacy and Jim Crow lost before. They'll lose again.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Oh, the people who blow up ships are the bad guys? Huh.

A timeline of US strikes on boats that have killed at least 187

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Why can’t we rely on Canada, did our government do something that alienated them

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Canada Post delivers to 17.6 million addresses every day (business and residential). At 260 work days per year, that is 4.57 billion deliveries each year. Over eight years, that is 36 billion mail deliveries in 8 years. Canada post delivered mail 36 billion times and it only cost $6.1 billion.

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Roberto Quinlan @robertoquinlan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Pets make great examples to use in intro to evolutionary biology courses, specifically to talk down students from the "vast uniqueness" of humans they might have been taught - for example, we are not the only species capable of the very complex & sophisticated behavior of manipulation and guilt...

Our pet dog is perched at the edge of the dinner table, chin resting on edge, staring imploringly into the eyes of the weakest link in our family, wanting a portion of the steak that has been cooked for dinner.

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