Roberto Quinlan
@robertoquinlan.bsky.social
ex @r_quinla at the bad place 🇨🇦🇨🇱
uni academic, paleoecologist (mainly 🪰, mostly Anthropocene, some Holocene), aquatic ecologist.
I tweet about science, music, politics, living in Dundas/#HamOnt
uni academic, paleoecologist (mainly 🪰, mostly Anthropocene, some Holocene), aquatic ecologist.
I tweet about science, music, politics, living in Dundas/#HamOnt
This should be a case example in a 21st Century updated version of the statistics textbook "How to Lie With Statistics"
This is not how math works, but you know that.
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
This should be a case example in a 21st Century updated version of the statistics textbook "How to Lie With Statistics"
What's going on where the western horizon has a glow to it in the morning?
(and if the image quality doesn't make it clear, it isnt due to an incoming band of clouds reflecting the sunrise - 'something else' is reflecting the sunrise)
(and if the image quality doesn't make it clear, it isnt due to an incoming band of clouds reflecting the sunrise - 'something else' is reflecting the sunrise)
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
What's going on where the western horizon has a glow to it in the morning?
(and if the image quality doesn't make it clear, it isnt due to an incoming band of clouds reflecting the sunrise - 'something else' is reflecting the sunrise)
(and if the image quality doesn't make it clear, it isnt due to an incoming band of clouds reflecting the sunrise - 'something else' is reflecting the sunrise)
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The Trump EPA has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale compared with a Biden-era assessment, which had already significantly underestimated the dangers of the chemical, a ProPublica investigation found.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The Trump EPA has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale compared with a Biden-era assessment, which had already significantly underestimated the dangers of the chemical, a ProPublica investigation found.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
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You know, in the run-up to Iraq, people didn't talk this way out loud. Now? MAGA doesn't understand that there's a loud part and a quiet part.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
You know, in the run-up to Iraq, people didn't talk this way out loud. Now? MAGA doesn't understand that there's a loud part and a quiet part.
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
The conservative members of the Catholic congregation I attended just *loathed* Pope Francis... welp, they must be having conniptions over Pope Leo... and I love it.
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The conservative members of the Catholic congregation I attended just *loathed* Pope Francis... welp, they must be having conniptions over Pope Leo... and I love it.
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Great that top Canadian universities are hiring top scholars (why wouldn't they?) but the Ontario Progressive Conservative government has starved the post-secondary sector and the province has the lowest per-student funding of any Canadian province. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/educa...
U of T hires three top U.S. scholars, plans for 100 new postdocs
Canadian-born MIT astrophysicist Sara Seagar among those joining the university
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Great that top Canadian universities are hiring top scholars (why wouldn't they?) but the Ontario Progressive Conservative government has starved the post-secondary sector and the province has the lowest per-student funding of any Canadian province. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/educa...
I imagine many people are pleased the first snowfall of the year in the GTA #HamOnt occurred on the weekend because when it occurs on a workday the commute home is a nightmare as we go through the annual ritual of fools having forgotten how to drive in winter road conditions.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I imagine many people are pleased the first snowfall of the year in the GTA #HamOnt occurred on the weekend because when it occurs on a workday the commute home is a nightmare as we go through the annual ritual of fools having forgotten how to drive in winter road conditions.
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Since #BjornLomborg is back in the news, re-upping these:
November 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Since #BjornLomborg is back in the news, re-upping these:
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I have an annual MRI following a stroke 5 years ago. Prior to that I had 2 MRIs over 15 yrs due to persistent migraines & tinnitus (turned out it was a neurovascular issue that later caused the stroke...).
Anyhoo, my point is, nobody, NOBODY gets an MRI "just because", so why did Trump get one?
Anyhoo, my point is, nobody, NOBODY gets an MRI "just because", so why did Trump get one?
The president had a MRI but won't say why.
He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why.
He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical.
He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it.
How is any of this ok?
He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why.
He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical.
He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it.
How is any of this ok?
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I have an annual MRI following a stroke 5 years ago. Prior to that I had 2 MRIs over 15 yrs due to persistent migraines & tinnitus (turned out it was a neurovascular issue that later caused the stroke...).
Anyhoo, my point is, nobody, NOBODY gets an MRI "just because", so why did Trump get one?
Anyhoo, my point is, nobody, NOBODY gets an MRI "just because", so why did Trump get one?
October 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Early morning shadows and frost on front lawns.
October 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Early morning shadows and frost on front lawns.
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“Papers, please.”
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“Papers, please.”
As someone who spent many months in my research career poring over topographical maps for planning fieldwork, coupled w/ reading books about the Canadian WWII liberation of the Netherlands dealing with flooding for both combat defense & offense across a vast flat landscape, ... things are afoot...
🌊 Russia: Massive flooding in Belgorod region after successive Ukrainian strikes on the dam to cut off tens of thousands of Russian soldiers from supply routes.
October 27, 2025 at 4:23 AM
As someone who spent many months in my research career poring over topographical maps for planning fieldwork, coupled w/ reading books about the Canadian WWII liberation of the Netherlands dealing with flooding for both combat defense & offense across a vast flat landscape, ... things are afoot...
There was a coyote barking about 2 backyards over. I got my dog to bark back and it sounds like the coyote approached to the next door neighbour's yard. What I didnt expect was that for the next half hour my dog was all amped up, perched up on the furniture barking at the back windows.
October 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
There was a coyote barking about 2 backyards over. I got my dog to bark back and it sounds like the coyote approached to the next door neighbour's yard. What I didnt expect was that for the next half hour my dog was all amped up, perched up on the furniture barking at the back windows.
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I was told getting rid of the carbon tax would solve this problem.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
Opinion: Food inflation is going up. And there’s nothing anyone can do about it
While world events have greatly contributed to food inflation, environmental factors are a major driver
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I was told getting rid of the carbon tax would solve this problem.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
My 16 year old daughter did not know who Colonel Sanders was when I pointed him out. And we ate KFC plenty of times when she was growing up. *head shake*
#bluejays
#bluejays
October 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
My 16 year old daughter did not know who Colonel Sanders was when I pointed him out. And we ate KFC plenty of times when she was growing up. *head shake*
#bluejays
#bluejays
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I’m in standing room at @torontobluejays.bsky.social , behind accessible seating, where a kid/teen in a wheelchair is distraught because he can’t see anything with everyone standing up. If anyone happens to be in a box or something with extra seats, this is your chance to do a good deed.
October 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I’m in standing room at @torontobluejays.bsky.social , behind accessible seating, where a kid/teen in a wheelchair is distraught because he can’t see anything with everyone standing up. If anyone happens to be in a box or something with extra seats, this is your chance to do a good deed.
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
This is where Pete Langdon at @unisouthampton.bsky.social Geography Dept goes back to Iceland in 2-3 yrs & collects sediment cores from lakes he studied previously for subfossil midges, re-analyzes them for mosquito subfossil remains, and BAM major research paper(s).
Pete, you owe me a beer mate.
Pete, you owe me a beer mate.
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country.
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is where Pete Langdon at @unisouthampton.bsky.social Geography Dept goes back to Iceland in 2-3 yrs & collects sediment cores from lakes he studied previously for subfossil midges, re-analyzes them for mosquito subfossil remains, and BAM major research paper(s).
Pete, you owe me a beer mate.
Pete, you owe me a beer mate.
Reposted by Roberto Quinlan
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country.
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country.
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
October 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
My final act as I leave Kingston #QueensU Homecoming - buying a fresh baguette from Pan Chancho which I will consume on the drive home as my late lunch/early dinner - yes, I will eat the whole baguette myself, I have walked/cycled across France & Spain so I know it is a fulfilling meal.
October 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
My final act as I leave Kingston #QueensU Homecoming - buying a fresh baguette from Pan Chancho which I will consume on the drive home as my late lunch/early dinner - yes, I will eat the whole baguette myself, I have walked/cycled across France & Spain so I know it is a fulfilling meal.