Ingrid Stairs
@ingridhstairs.bsky.social
Pulsars and other fun stuff. And some Canadian politics.
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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Attention #YVR physics enthusiasts, especially high school students, there are two exciting TRIUMF Saturday Morning Lectures by @sfuphysics.bsky.social faculty happening next weekend (Nov 15th) in Surrey. ⚛️ 🎢 🧪
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Attention #YVR physics enthusiasts, especially high school students, there are two exciting TRIUMF Saturday Morning Lectures by @sfuphysics.bsky.social faculty happening next weekend (Nov 15th) in Surrey. ⚛️ 🎢 🧪
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As we watch Trump & the GOP ignore the Constitution & the concept of human rights in the United States, consider what’s been happening in Canada with right-wing Premiers and Poilievre normalizing the common abuse of the Notwithstanding Clause to make Canada’s Charter of Rights & Freedoms irrelevant.
November 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
As we watch Trump & the GOP ignore the Constitution & the concept of human rights in the United States, consider what’s been happening in Canada with right-wing Premiers and Poilievre normalizing the common abuse of the Notwithstanding Clause to make Canada’s Charter of Rights & Freedoms irrelevant.
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AND today would be ANOTHER good day for Pierre Poilievre to prove to Canadians that he’s actually capable of passing the same, normal security check, & getting the standard security clearance he’s STILL refusing to get.
Until he does, I’m still assuming that it’s because he KNOWS he can’t pass it.
Until he does, I’m still assuming that it’s because he KNOWS he can’t pass it.
Two things can be true at the same time, Canada.
1. Yes, I’m disappointed with some of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s approaches so far, particularly around climate action, and his definations of “nation-building.” We should expect better.
2. Carney is still light-years better than Pierre Poilievre.
1. Yes, I’m disappointed with some of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s approaches so far, particularly around climate action, and his definations of “nation-building.” We should expect better.
2. Carney is still light-years better than Pierre Poilievre.
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
AND today would be ANOTHER good day for Pierre Poilievre to prove to Canadians that he’s actually capable of passing the same, normal security check, & getting the standard security clearance he’s STILL refusing to get.
Until he does, I’m still assuming that it’s because he KNOWS he can’t pass it.
Until he does, I’m still assuming that it’s because he KNOWS he can’t pass it.
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Timeline cleanse
“Wait for me I got little legs!!”
Denali National Park, Alaska
Denali National Park, Alaska
October 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Timeline cleanse
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We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.
The degree to which those comments can undermine public health—is violence against the truth.
- Barack Obama
The degree to which those comments can undermine public health—is violence against the truth.
- Barack Obama
September 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.
The degree to which those comments can undermine public health—is violence against the truth.
- Barack Obama
The degree to which those comments can undermine public health—is violence against the truth.
- Barack Obama
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Could Karen Attiah please be reinstated now? Himpathy—the endless prioritization of white men and their feelings over everyone and everything else—distorts who we rally around as well as who we memorialize katemanne.substack.com/p/what-we-do...
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Charlie Kirk
Resisting the attentional himpathy that remembers some at the expense of all others.
katemanne.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Could Karen Attiah please be reinstated now? Himpathy—the endless prioritization of white men and their feelings over everyone and everything else—distorts who we rally around as well as who we memorialize katemanne.substack.com/p/what-we-do...
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Autism does not need to be cured
Ableism does
The end
Ableism does
The end
September 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Autism does not need to be cured
Ableism does
The end
Ableism does
The end
A plea on behalf of special-relativity instructors everywhere: could we have one major pop-culture franchise with plausibly relativistically-moving characters that is NOT owned by a problematic entity?
September 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A plea on behalf of special-relativity instructors everywhere: could we have one major pop-culture franchise with plausibly relativistically-moving characters that is NOT owned by a problematic entity?
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Someone took the chip from their Presto Card and put it into a magic wand.
September 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Someone took the chip from their Presto Card and put it into a magic wand.
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I will say tongue in cheek it's a bit funny! Y'all be out in the streets fighting for the free speech of rich white men actors Stephen Colbert & Jimmy Kimmel. Alright now, we need that same energy for everybody else!
September 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I will say tongue in cheek it's a bit funny! Y'all be out in the streets fighting for the free speech of rich white men actors Stephen Colbert & Jimmy Kimmel. Alright now, we need that same energy for everybody else!
Teaching astronomical coordinate systems is always fun. Lots of arm-waving and spherical trig, and huge discussions about which direction the Sun actually sets in Northern summer.
September 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Teaching astronomical coordinate systems is always fun. Lots of arm-waving and spherical trig, and huge discussions about which direction the Sun actually sets in Northern summer.
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Thys emayle koude have been a sonnet
September 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Thys emayle koude have been a sonnet
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Inviting an evil, racist, misogynist to speak to the cabinet is not a good look. I don’t care what playbook he knows. Don’t normalize this. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Project 2025 mastermind invited to Carney's cabinet meeting no longer speaking | CBC News
A prominent conservative figure in American politics and the mastermind behind Project 2025 — the infamous policy blueprint that proposed a drastic overhaul of the U.S. government — was invited to spe...
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September 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Inviting an evil, racist, misogynist to speak to the cabinet is not a good look. I don’t care what playbook he knows. Don’t normalize this. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Using Preview on Mac to annotate a pdf with tutorial solutions (yes, clunky, but for *reasons* I inherited tutorials in Word format, so I'm working with this scheme). Preview's annotate is helpfully trying to provide answers, with units, to the equations I type out. But they're incorrect!
August 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Using Preview on Mac to annotate a pdf with tutorial solutions (yes, clunky, but for *reasons* I inherited tutorials in Word format, so I'm working with this scheme). Preview's annotate is helpfully trying to provide answers, with units, to the equations I type out. But they're incorrect!
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A science journalist and PhD astrophysicist, Adam Becker spent the last several years investigating the futurological vision of our tech-bro masters – and found it’s a bunch of nonsense.
The Mad Religion of Technological Salvation
A science journalist and PhD astrophysicist, Adam Becker spent the last several years investigating the futurological vision of our tech-bro masters – and
www.counterpunch.org
August 22, 2025 at 6:18 AM
A science journalist and PhD astrophysicist, Adam Becker spent the last several years investigating the futurological vision of our tech-bro masters – and found it’s a bunch of nonsense.
Not terrifying at all.
Fascinating piece by @stephenornes.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social on “emergent misalignment” showing that we really don’t know much about what LLMs are doing. www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-f...
The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side.
www.quantamagazine.org
August 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Not terrifying at all.
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my daughter came home from her first day of 10th grade and said that her history teacher told her that if she refuses to use AI for assignments, she has to cite her sources.
i asked how she’d cite it if she used AI, and she said, that’s not required.
i’m still internally fuming up about this.
i asked how she’d cite it if she used AI, and she said, that’s not required.
i’m still internally fuming up about this.
August 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
my daughter came home from her first day of 10th grade and said that her history teacher told her that if she refuses to use AI for assignments, she has to cite her sources.
i asked how she’d cite it if she used AI, and she said, that’s not required.
i’m still internally fuming up about this.
i asked how she’d cite it if she used AI, and she said, that’s not required.
i’m still internally fuming up about this.
Good essay: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...
Opinion | ‘Acute, Sustained, Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada Finds Its Voice
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Good essay: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...
More academic freedom concerns, and I can’t help but suspect there could be racism involved, too.
A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation
University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas
The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.
lailluminator.com
August 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
More academic freedom concerns, and I can’t help but suspect there could be racism involved, too.
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NYT (Jan. 1963): MOSCOW REPORTS BOOMING ECONOMY
"Every three months, statistics on results of the state plan are published. The statistics are unfailingly optimistic. Each time they raise questions ... about the relationship of statistics to reality."
www.nytimes.com/1963/01/28/a...
"Every three months, statistics on results of the state plan are published. The statistics are unfailingly optimistic. Each time they raise questions ... about the relationship of statistics to reality."
www.nytimes.com/1963/01/28/a...
MOSCOW REPORTS BOOMING ECONOMY; But Observers Find Facts Unsupported by Figures 9.5% Growth Asserted Local Statistics Questioned Soviet Maintains Industry Showed 9.5% Growth in '62 (Published 1963)
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
NYT (Jan. 1963): MOSCOW REPORTS BOOMING ECONOMY
"Every three months, statistics on results of the state plan are published. The statistics are unfailingly optimistic. Each time they raise questions ... about the relationship of statistics to reality."
www.nytimes.com/1963/01/28/a...
"Every three months, statistics on results of the state plan are published. The statistics are unfailingly optimistic. Each time they raise questions ... about the relationship of statistics to reality."
www.nytimes.com/1963/01/28/a...
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You kan not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys ther to make a profit. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.
August 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
You kan not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys ther to make a profit. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.
When the campus coffee spot is training new people, and your iced latte becomes a lukewarm overly foamy cappuccino-type thing... Ah well.
August 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
When the campus coffee spot is training new people, and your iced latte becomes a lukewarm overly foamy cappuccino-type thing... Ah well.