Aidan Hollis 🇨🇦
@aidanhollis.bsky.social
Prof and Interim Head, Dept of Economics University of Calgary. Interested in pharmaceutical markets, climate change, and life
Ironic that just as we are learning how to reverse aging www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... we are also unable to stop ourselves from progressing AI to the point of being able to develop a virus that could wipe out humanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Senescence-resistant human mesenchymal progenitor cells counter aging in primates
Genetically engineered senescence-resistant human mesenchymal progenitor cells can
reduce aging markers and improve tissue and cognitive functions in aged macaques,
highlighting their potential as a r...
www.cell.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Ironic that just as we are learning how to reverse aging www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... we are also unable to stop ourselves from progressing AI to the point of being able to develop a virus that could wipe out humanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
The key proposal at the upcoming COP in Belém is the TFFF, which is to be funded via speculation in capital markets. It’s a heck of a way to fund protection for tropical forests.
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Should we Fund Schools by Speculating in Crypto?
Imagine the government announcing a bold new idea: instead of using tax revenues to fund schools, it would borrow billions and invest the proceeds in cryptocurrency. Since crypto has historically deli...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The key proposal at the upcoming COP in Belém is the TFFF, which is to be funded via speculation in capital markets. It’s a heck of a way to fund protection for tropical forests.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/should...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/should...
It's a special anniversary for Canadians: the last time the Americans invaded was 2 June 1866. Proud that my great-grandfather stood with the Queens Own Rifles, 2nd Battalion, and fought to repulse them. Let's keep Canada strong. www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembran...
Battle of Ridgeway Memorial | Veterans Affairs CanadaFollow Us
Ridgeway Battlefield was designated a national historic site of Canada in 1921 because the Queen’s Own Rifles, 13th Hamilton Battalion, Caledonia and York Rifle Companies of Haldimand fought here, in ...
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June 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
It's a special anniversary for Canadians: the last time the Americans invaded was 2 June 1866. Proud that my great-grandfather stood with the Queens Own Rifles, 2nd Battalion, and fought to repulse them. Let's keep Canada strong. www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembran...
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Automation technologies can increase the magnitude of electricity demand response, from Megan R. Bailey, David P. Brown, Blake C. Shaffer, and Frank A. Wolak https://www.nber.org/papers/w33836
May 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Automation technologies can increase the magnitude of electricity demand response, from Megan R. Bailey, David P. Brown, Blake C. Shaffer, and Frank A. Wolak https://www.nber.org/papers/w33836
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PSE spending as a percentage of total provincial spending, 2006-07 to 2025-26, Canada and select provinces. It's down everywhere, but the Alberta slump has been especially pronounced.
May 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
PSE spending as a percentage of total provincial spending, 2006-07 to 2025-26, Canada and select provinces. It's down everywhere, but the Alberta slump has been especially pronounced.
Love this essay on pharmacare and the the frustration of a long-time bureaucrat expressed with both pain and humour here:
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April 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Love this essay on pharmacare and the the frustration of a long-time bureaucrat expressed with both pain and humour here:
dclarka175.substack.com/p/waiting-fo...
dclarka175.substack.com/p/waiting-fo...
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Arts Awards! Congratulations, @jlisayoung.bsky.social ! youtube.com/watch?v=aKaO...
Lisa Young
YouTube video by Faculty of Arts — University of Calgary
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April 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Arts Awards! Congratulations, @jlisayoung.bsky.social ! youtube.com/watch?v=aKaO...
The US tariffs are creating a single country that will be facing high tariffs from the rest of the world. If you want to supply the world (including US), locate in Canada or Mexico. If you only want to supply the US, invest there. No chance this will bring manufacturing to the US.
April 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The US tariffs are creating a single country that will be facing high tariffs from the rest of the world. If you want to supply the world (including US), locate in Canada or Mexico. If you only want to supply the US, invest there. No chance this will bring manufacturing to the US.
Hello @ucalgary.bsky.social
Brain gain? Toronto's @UHN hospital system will announce a strategy to attract U.S. health scientists - plan to be unveiled Monday.
Website isn't up yet, but U.S scientists interested check here Monday. Hopefully other hospitals & universities follow UHNCanadaleads.ca
Website isn't up yet, but U.S scientists interested check here Monday. Hopefully other hospitals & universities follow UHNCanadaleads.ca
a canadian flag with a red maple leaf in the middle
ALT: a canadian flag with a red maple leaf in the middle
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April 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Hello @ucalgary.bsky.social
As a Canadian and an economist, I am not always onside with Trump's tariff ideas. But here he is spot on! The US should definitely impose 25% tariffs on the value of the illegal fentanyl imported into the US, whether from Canada or elsewhere. I would suggest even higher!
April 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
As a Canadian and an economist, I am not always onside with Trump's tariff ideas. But here he is spot on! The US should definitely impose 25% tariffs on the value of the illegal fentanyl imported into the US, whether from Canada or elsewhere. I would suggest even higher!
montreal.citynews.ca/2025/03/28/c... Saunders suggests that moving forward, people should double-check what’s on their device if they plan on driving across the border.
Trump's stance on border leads to trouble for Canadians going to U.S.
A Washington-based lawyer says there have been more reports of Canadians being detained at the United States border.
montreal.citynews.ca
March 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
montreal.citynews.ca/2025/03/28/c... Saunders suggests that moving forward, people should double-check what’s on their device if they plan on driving across the border.
Canadians have decided that they dont want to travel to a hostile country… onemileatatime.com/news/airline...
Airline Demand Between Canada & United States Collapses, Down 70%+
Future flight bookings between Canada and the United States are down by over 70% year-over-year in the summer months. WOW.
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March 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Canadians have decided that they dont want to travel to a hostile country… onemileatatime.com/news/airline...
Happy to be quoted in this inspiring article about opportunities for drug repurposing (even with my name misspelled…) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life. (Gift Article)
Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Happy to be quoted in this inspiring article about opportunities for drug repurposing (even with my name misspelled…) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
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"In Bonememory, the questions I am working with are about how memory is held in our bones and what that means personally, familialy, intergenerationally, collectively" @annaveprinska.bsky.social
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Anna Veprinska
Anna Veprinska is the author of Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis . She was a finalist in the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest, has...
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March 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"In Bonememory, the questions I am working with are about how memory is held in our bones and what that means personally, familialy, intergenerationally, collectively" @annaveprinska.bsky.social
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Trump makes an offer Canadians can hardly resist! Sadly, he forgot to mention life expectancy, which is over 3 years longer in Canada than the US. Even if you wanted lower taxes or to be part of "the most powerful nation in the World" who would give up >3 years of their life for that?
March 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Trump makes an offer Canadians can hardly resist! Sadly, he forgot to mention life expectancy, which is over 3 years longer in Canada than the US. Even if you wanted lower taxes or to be part of "the most powerful nation in the World" who would give up >3 years of their life for that?
Proud that the Department of Economics at @ucalgary.bsky.social continues to value diversity equity inclusion and access! Canada isn’t afraid of human values!!
March 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Proud that the Department of Economics at @ucalgary.bsky.social continues to value diversity equity inclusion and access! Canada isn’t afraid of human values!!
Trump using the Putin-Ukraine playbook to attack Canada. Just wants a piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
March 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Trump using the Putin-Ukraine playbook to attack Canada. Just wants a piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
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It’s obviously time for Canada to invest in developing its own nuclear weapons in case a hostile country like “Russia” decides to invade. We have the capability. And flight time to relevant cities would make deterrence highly effective. Let’s keep Canada independent.
March 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
It’s obviously time for Canada to invest in developing its own nuclear weapons in case a hostile country like “Russia” decides to invade. We have the capability. And flight time to relevant cities would make deterrence highly effective. Let’s keep Canada independent.
It’s obviously time for Canada to invest in developing its own nuclear weapons in case a hostile country like “Russia” decides to invade. We have the capability. And flight time to relevant cities would make deterrence highly effective. Let’s keep Canada independent.
March 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
It’s obviously time for Canada to invest in developing its own nuclear weapons in case a hostile country like “Russia” decides to invade. We have the capability. And flight time to relevant cities would make deterrence highly effective. Let’s keep Canada independent.
This new study highlights the importance of targeting vaccination campaigns where they are needed most: especially towards those with less education.
February 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This new study highlights the importance of targeting vaccination campaigns where they are needed most: especially towards those with less education.
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🔓 : #ClimateImpactAuctions can support #mitigation in low & middle income countries by offering greater rewards for stronger performance. Matthey, @aidanhollis.bsky.social et al. find that results-based subsidies can:
💲Decrease costs
🌍 Facilitate participation
⏩ Increase efficiency
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💲Decrease costs
🌍 Facilitate participation
⏩ Increase efficiency
Read more👇
Climate impact auctions: an underused tool for green subsidies in the Global South
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February 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🔓 : #ClimateImpactAuctions can support #mitigation in low & middle income countries by offering greater rewards for stronger performance. Matthey, @aidanhollis.bsky.social et al. find that results-based subsidies can:
💲Decrease costs
🌍 Facilitate participation
⏩ Increase efficiency
Read more👇
💲Decrease costs
🌍 Facilitate participation
⏩ Increase efficiency
Read more👇
More than ever, with budgets tightening, and a concern about whether climate funds are being spent on projects that will deliver real climate benefits, we need to make sure that climate finance works. A mini-thread based on new research...
February 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
More than ever, with budgets tightening, and a concern about whether climate funds are being spent on projects that will deliver real climate benefits, we need to make sure that climate finance works. A mini-thread based on new research...
Amazing. The right to free political speech has disappeared in US universities. wapo.st/3QfuIVw. This repressive regime might as well just send the intelligentsia out for reprogramming. As if it is about vulgarities!
Court blocks professor’s return after profane remarks about Trump, governor
LSU law professor Ken Levy was suspended after he used vulgarities to refer to Trump and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry during a lecture.
wapo.st
February 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Amazing. The right to free political speech has disappeared in US universities. wapo.st/3QfuIVw. This repressive regime might as well just send the intelligentsia out for reprogramming. As if it is about vulgarities!
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As always, @jlisayoung.bsky.social ‘s latest is an essential read on Alberta’s place in the current crisis.
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Time to step off the tightrope
Yesterday, Donald Trump carried out his threat to impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian imports, except energy which will face a 10% tariff.
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February 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
As always, @jlisayoung.bsky.social ‘s latest is an essential read on Alberta’s place in the current crisis.
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