Andrew Irwin
@andrewirwin.bsky.social
Math, Stats, and Oceanography. Dalhousie, Halifax NS. Born at 328 ppm. https://mmab.ca
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Debbie Martin: "The lasting harm of universities’ rush for Indigenous identity policies" policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/indi...
The lasting harm of universities’ rush for Indigenous identity policies
Universities are cracking down on pretendians, but poorly designed policies are harming people with legitimate claims to Indigeneity.
policyoptions.irpp.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Debbie Martin: "The lasting harm of universities’ rush for Indigenous identity policies" policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/indi...
Landlord reports net operating income of $1050/month on rentals averaging $1576 in Halifax. Is that possible? Seems high. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Big Halifax-based landlord says it's seeing rental market returning to historical norms | CBC News
Halifax-based landlord Killam Apartment REIT says tenant turnover and the pace of rent increases are going back to historical norms. However, it still expects its Atlantic Canada apartments to lead th...
www.cbc.ca
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Landlord reports net operating income of $1050/month on rentals averaging $1576 in Halifax. Is that possible? Seems high. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Caturday celebrated by Max.
November 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Caturday celebrated by Max.
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We joked that kids would ask "why is the save icon a floppy disk" but they don't even know what a floppy disk is.
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
We joked that kids would ask "why is the save icon a floppy disk" but they don't even know what a floppy disk is.
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#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊
📅Nov 20, 1869 Charles Joseph Minard published his iconic flow map graphic of Napoleon's March on Moscow.
Some called it best graphic ever produced, but EJ Marey put it best:
"Defies the pen of the historian in its brutal eloquence"
No known portrait of CJ, only .sig
📅Nov 20, 1869 Charles Joseph Minard published his iconic flow map graphic of Napoleon's March on Moscow.
Some called it best graphic ever produced, but EJ Marey put it best:
"Defies the pen of the historian in its brutal eloquence"
No known portrait of CJ, only .sig
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊
📅Nov 20, 1869 Charles Joseph Minard published his iconic flow map graphic of Napoleon's March on Moscow.
Some called it best graphic ever produced, but EJ Marey put it best:
"Defies the pen of the historian in its brutal eloquence"
No known portrait of CJ, only .sig
📅Nov 20, 1869 Charles Joseph Minard published his iconic flow map graphic of Napoleon's March on Moscow.
Some called it best graphic ever produced, but EJ Marey put it best:
"Defies the pen of the historian in its brutal eloquence"
No known portrait of CJ, only .sig
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They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
(Sarcasm) Be it resolved that undergraduates should be encouraged to use LLMs on writing assignments because most undergraduate writing is so bad it’s hard to grade sensibly.
November 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
(Sarcasm) Be it resolved that undergraduates should be encouraged to use LLMs on writing assignments because most undergraduate writing is so bad it’s hard to grade sensibly.
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And for the carbon cycle community, here are (most of) your figures in units of carbon instead of CO₂:
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/GtC/
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/GtC/
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
And for the carbon cycle community, here are (most of) your figures in units of carbon instead of CO₂:
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/GtC/
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/GtC/
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
1/
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
1/
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Interested in penguins 🐧 🌊?
The webcam is now live for an Adélie penguin colony near Palmer Station, Antarctica
www.usap.gov/videoclipsan...
The webcam is now live for an Adélie penguin colony near Palmer Station, Antarctica
www.usap.gov/videoclipsan...
November 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Interested in penguins 🐧 🌊?
The webcam is now live for an Adélie penguin colony near Palmer Station, Antarctica
www.usap.gov/videoclipsan...
The webcam is now live for an Adélie penguin colony near Palmer Station, Antarctica
www.usap.gov/videoclipsan...
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Today’s Canadian painting is “Tamarack” painted by Tom Thomson in 1915.
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Today’s Canadian painting is “Tamarack” painted by Tom Thomson in 1915.
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Live your life so that people don't celebrate your death.
November 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Live your life so that people don't celebrate your death.
Some nice mountains on the SPU-MUC run.
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Some nice mountains on the SPU-MUC run.
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Zach has a comic up with the most evil yet true red button extra panel of all.
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/addition
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/addition
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Addition
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Addition
www.smbc-comics.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Zach has a comic up with the most evil yet true red button extra panel of all.
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/addition
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/addition
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Ahh- good times
October 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Ahh- good times
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An embarrassingly obvious point, but...
This. Is. Illegal.
If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.
In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...
This. Is. Illegal.
If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.
In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...
Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business
President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...
www.cnn.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
An embarrassingly obvious point, but...
This. Is. Illegal.
If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.
In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...
This. Is. Illegal.
If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.
In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...
New results from our lab: Polyploidization in diatoms accelerates adaptation to warming. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Polyploidization in diatoms accelerates adaptation to warming - Nature Climate Change
The authors obtained large-volume individuals of diatom cultures under thermal stress. These polyploids (having more than two sets of chromosomes) are shown to rapidly adapt to high temperatures, high...
doi.org
October 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
New results from our lab: Polyploidization in diatoms accelerates adaptation to warming. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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The fight to limit “screen time” cannot be won, @ibogost.com argues. To recognize that fact—and to understand how it happened—is a small, important step toward salvation:
‘Screen Time’ Does Not Exist
The first step to recovery is acceptance of this fact.
bit.ly
October 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
The fight to limit “screen time” cannot be won, @ibogost.com argues. To recognize that fact—and to understand how it happened—is a small, important step toward salvation:
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Eglinton Avenue East at the Don Valley, October 23, 1909.
#EglintonAvenue #OnThisDay #OTD #1900s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
#EglintonAvenue #OnThisDay #OTD #1900s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
October 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Eglinton Avenue East at the Don Valley, October 23, 1909.
#EglintonAvenue #OnThisDay #OTD #1900s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
#EglintonAvenue #OnThisDay #OTD #1900s #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
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