Scott Toews
@stoews.bsky.social
Mundus sine caesaribus
Marine ecologist at large, owner of a dog that is large, and largely trying to understand what is going on.
Marine ecologist at large, owner of a dog that is large, and largely trying to understand what is going on.
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My take on today's big announcement. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My take on today's big announcement. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
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‘This Is Corruption’: ’60 Minutes’ Reports Trump Pardoned Binance Boss After He ‘Enriched’ Crypto Business Tied to Trump Family
‘This Is Corruption’: ’60 Minutes’ Reports Trump Pardoned Binance Boss After He ‘Enriched’ Crypto Business Tied to Trump Family
"60 Minutes" reported President Trump pardoned the founder of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange after he "enriched" the Trump family during its crypto push
The post ‘This Is Corruption’: ’60 Minutes’ Reports Trump Pardoned Binance Boss After He ‘Enriched’ Crypto Business Tied to Trump Family first appeared on Mediaite.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
‘This Is Corruption’: ’60 Minutes’ Reports Trump Pardoned Binance Boss After He ‘Enriched’ Crypto Business Tied to Trump Family
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This is the best takedown of Musk I’ve ever read. From a beloved author around my age no less, Joyce Carol Oates.
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is the best takedown of Musk I’ve ever read. From a beloved author around my age no less, Joyce Carol Oates.
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In case you didn’t see the original post. Just wow:
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
In case you didn’t see the original post. Just wow:
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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"You and I could try and talk about this like it were economics or like it were international relations, but it's not. It's a soap opera. It's Sons and Daughters. It's Home and Away. It's Neighbours. And it's going to be a soap opera that goes on and on for the next three and a half years."
October 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"You and I could try and talk about this like it were economics or like it were international relations, but it's not. It's a soap opera. It's Sons and Daughters. It's Home and Away. It's Neighbours. And it's going to be a soap opera that goes on and on for the next three and a half years."
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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
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This is a metaphor that applies more broadly, too: pandering to a tiny minority of conspiracy-curious Albertans makes life objectively (and needlessly) worse for the rest of us.
Remember that. #abpoli
Remember that. #abpoli
When the election is long past and you still don't know who your councillor is, please remember it's because Danielle Smith's base doesn't like electronic vote tabulators (which are accurate, have been used for decades, and saved time and money).
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The long count: Alberta communities prepare to tally ballots by hand | CBC News
Alberta municipalities are in for a long night — and in many cases, days — to complete the more complicated process of counting every ballot on election day by hand, rather than machine.
www.cbc.ca
October 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is a metaphor that applies more broadly, too: pandering to a tiny minority of conspiracy-curious Albertans makes life objectively (and needlessly) worse for the rest of us.
Remember that. #abpoli
Remember that. #abpoli
Excited to have the following publication out. Early Fraser river chinook play an important role in the trajectory of the endangered southern resident whale population.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#SRKW, #whalesky #orca #ecosystem
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#SRKW, #whalesky #orca #ecosystem
Partitioning the influence of Chinook salmon productivity and stock-specific abundance on the southern resident killer whale population
The southern resident killer whale (Orcinus orca, SRKW) population is listed as endangered in both the U.S. and Canada. Reduced prey availability, esp…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Excited to have the following publication out. Early Fraser river chinook play an important role in the trajectory of the endangered southern resident whale population.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#SRKW, #whalesky #orca #ecosystem
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#SRKW, #whalesky #orca #ecosystem
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Source: Charitie Ropati, Intersectional Environmentalist, and Feminist reporting on Typhoon Halong ravaging western Alaska
October 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Source: Charitie Ropati, Intersectional Environmentalist, and Feminist reporting on Typhoon Halong ravaging western Alaska
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There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.
The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.
The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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The Kahneman Chronicles: Lessons from a Fly Lab
Entertaining post from @sameerthukral.bsky.social kicking of a series imagining what would transpire if Daniel Kahneman—the “grandfather of behavioural economics”—took a sabbatical and worked in a fly lab. 🪰
thenode.biologists.com/the-kahneman...
Entertaining post from @sameerthukral.bsky.social kicking of a series imagining what would transpire if Daniel Kahneman—the “grandfather of behavioural economics”—took a sabbatical and worked in a fly lab. 🪰
thenode.biologists.com/the-kahneman...
The Kahneman Chronicles: Lessons from a Fly Lab - the Node
The Kahneman Chronicles #1: When a Nobel Laureate Fixed Our Lab's Scheduling Disasters Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) was a legendary psychologist who
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October 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The Kahneman Chronicles: Lessons from a Fly Lab
Entertaining post from @sameerthukral.bsky.social kicking of a series imagining what would transpire if Daniel Kahneman—the “grandfather of behavioural economics”—took a sabbatical and worked in a fly lab. 🪰
thenode.biologists.com/the-kahneman...
Entertaining post from @sameerthukral.bsky.social kicking of a series imagining what would transpire if Daniel Kahneman—the “grandfather of behavioural economics”—took a sabbatical and worked in a fly lab. 🪰
thenode.biologists.com/the-kahneman...
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Good column.
Overdue, and filled with conclusions a lot of people arrived at many, many months ago, but hey, credit where it's due.
www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...
Overdue, and filled with conclusions a lot of people arrived at many, many months ago, but hey, credit where it's due.
www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...
Jen Gerson: Maybe this angry panel will fix it!
Alberta tries for Round 3 of the Fair Deal panel.
www.readtheline.ca
October 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Good column.
Overdue, and filled with conclusions a lot of people arrived at many, many months ago, but hey, credit where it's due.
www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...
Overdue, and filled with conclusions a lot of people arrived at many, many months ago, but hey, credit where it's due.
www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...
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Emma Watson, who has been appropriately critical of the raging she-devil JK Rowling, said a nice thing about her past relationship with the author in a vain attempt to be kind. Unsurprisingly, the toxic termagant cannot just stifle herself, touting her performative victimhood and endless cruelty.
September 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Emma Watson, who has been appropriately critical of the raging she-devil JK Rowling, said a nice thing about her past relationship with the author in a vain attempt to be kind. Unsurprisingly, the toxic termagant cannot just stifle herself, touting her performative victimhood and endless cruelty.
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I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition.
www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...
www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...
September 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition.
www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...
www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...
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I know no one wants to talk about the pandemic anymore and we're only supposed to talk about bad news, but this seems noteworthy.
globalnews.ca/news/1134908...
globalnews.ca/news/1134908...
Moderna’s latest COVID-19 vaccine is both approved and ‘made in Canada’ - National | Globalnews.ca
An update to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine that targets the newest variants and is made entirely within Canada's borders was just approved by Health Canada.
globalnews.ca
August 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I know no one wants to talk about the pandemic anymore and we're only supposed to talk about bad news, but this seems noteworthy.
globalnews.ca/news/1134908...
globalnews.ca/news/1134908...
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Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats.
Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
August 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats.
Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
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When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.
August 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.
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I guess I don't understand economics
July 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I guess I don't understand economics
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This is yet another problem Canada faces in getting a trade deal by 1 August; No matter what is actually agreed, the Trump administration will just make up lies about what is in it. It is fantasy internatuonal trade.
July 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This is yet another problem Canada faces in getting a trade deal by 1 August; No matter what is actually agreed, the Trump administration will just make up lies about what is in it. It is fantasy internatuonal trade.