HHS Replaces Childhood Vaccination Schedule With List Of Recommended Animal Bites https://theonion.com/hhs-replaces-childhood-vaccination-schedule-with-list-of-recommended-animal-bites/
Andrew Irwin
@andrewirwin.bsky.social
Math, Stats, and Oceanography. Dalhousie, Halifax NS. Born at 328 ppm. https://mmab.ca
A useless thing I still have in my office: a 25’ VGA cable.
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.
elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 4mo agoSummary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
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
Just heard that Jorge Sarmiento passed away. One of the true pioneers in ocean biogeochemistry. www.princeton.edu/news/2026/05...
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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🌊 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...
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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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...
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
Joel Chan@kjoules.org · 6mo agoA then-Chair Professor at the Department of Ocean Science at the HKUST was charged for accepting a HK$40,000 bribe and offering two red packets to colleagues for assisting a candidate's admission as a masters student in 2025 www.icac.org.hk/en/p/press/i...
Watching 63 up. Never get tired of that series. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The 7 Up Series Documentary - YouTube
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Fun to stand on a runway. Never done that before. GIB runway 09.
Alliteration prize of the day: “Consumers crunched by climbing cucumber costs” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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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...
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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Everything you need to know about the ‘spaceport’ in Nova Scotia by Marie Lumsden
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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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.
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
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.
"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
Today’s Canadian artwork is “Placentia Bay Boat in Winter” created by Christopher Pratt in 1995.
A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.
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...
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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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:
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.
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...
