Andrew Irwin
@andrewirwin.bsky.social
Math, Stats, and Oceanography. Dalhousie, Halifax NS. Born at 328 ppm. https://mmab.ca
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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...
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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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If only we had cleaner units to describe the weight of a litre of water.
October 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
If only we had cleaner units to describe the weight of a litre of water.
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Six people had their visas revoked due to their social media posts.
Six people are being deported because of what they said online.
Six people have had their freedom of speech suspended.
It won’t stop with these six people.
Either we all have freedom of speech or none of us do.
Six people are being deported because of what they said online.
Six people have had their freedom of speech suspended.
It won’t stop with these six people.
Either we all have freedom of speech or none of us do.
October 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Six people had their visas revoked due to their social media posts.
Six people are being deported because of what they said online.
Six people have had their freedom of speech suspended.
It won’t stop with these six people.
Either we all have freedom of speech or none of us do.
Six people are being deported because of what they said online.
Six people have had their freedom of speech suspended.
It won’t stop with these six people.
Either we all have freedom of speech or none of us do.
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Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool galaxy #OTD in 1773. The designation M51 refers to its entry in the catalog he produced.
Pretty good galaxy. 🧪 🔭
Credit: NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith (STScI)/HHT (STScI/AURA)
Pretty good galaxy. 🧪 🔭
Credit: NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith (STScI)/HHT (STScI/AURA)
October 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool galaxy #OTD in 1773. The designation M51 refers to its entry in the catalog he produced.
Pretty good galaxy. 🧪 🔭
Credit: NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith (STScI)/HHT (STScI/AURA)
Pretty good galaxy. 🧪 🔭
Credit: NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith (STScI)/HHT (STScI/AURA)
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I have letter to the editor this week in our local paper.
Our community is, once again, facing a developer who wants to turn public, protected coastal land into a golf course. We've been here before. This time, it's shadier. And God knows it was shady last time. www.invernessoran.ca/top-story/co...
Our community is, once again, facing a developer who wants to turn public, protected coastal land into a golf course. We've been here before. This time, it's shadier. And God knows it was shady last time. www.invernessoran.ca/top-story/co...
October 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I have letter to the editor this week in our local paper.
Our community is, once again, facing a developer who wants to turn public, protected coastal land into a golf course. We've been here before. This time, it's shadier. And God knows it was shady last time. www.invernessoran.ca/top-story/co...
Our community is, once again, facing a developer who wants to turn public, protected coastal land into a golf course. We've been here before. This time, it's shadier. And God knows it was shady last time. www.invernessoran.ca/top-story/co...
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Based on the experience of countries that have tried this, there’s overwhelming evidence that it is utterly unnecessary.
This serves absolutely no purpose other than to reduce vaccine uptake:
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Based on the experience of countries that have tried this, there’s overwhelming evidence that it is utterly unnecessary.
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Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)
October 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)
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Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.
sites.stat.columbia.edu
October 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.
