Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦

Fuck off, coloniser

Even though I'm an economist, I wish there was more focus on the human suffering from this war and less focus on the economic consequences. Hundreds of little girls are dead, and we're worried about oil prices.

"AI will let us turn PhDs from 4 year degrees into 6 month degrees!"

Literally shitting on the part that makes it intellectual development. It requires things like *reading* for yourself and *writing* for yourself. Those aren't chores, they're part of skills acquisition and critical development.

Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas Scientific awards – which honor research that makes people laugh and then think – to move away from ‘unsafe’ US

🧪 🇨🇭 #IgNobel awards come to Switzerland as US unsafe for scientists
#HoppSchwiiz
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Attacks leave dead vs killed

Does FIFA do a prize for economics

In a world of potlucks, Canada cannot rely on nostalgia for past parties. As the conflict in Iran deepens uncertainty about the global order, the states shaping the future will be those able to bring real capabilities to the table – and invitations to do so will hinge on what we bring. Operationalizing Davos means aligning rhetoric with resources, choosing partners with purpose, showing up when it counts and ensuring our institutions can backstop our promises. If we fail to adapt, the risk won’t just be a lingering sense of exclusion, but diminished prosperity, reduced influence and, ultimately, weakened sovereignty in a far less forgiving international order.

I have a new Op-Ed on how the Carney government can operationalize Davos.

Based on an idea I developed with @thomasjuneau.bsky.social a few years ago but tweaked a bit for our ruptured times.

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."

Read every word.

The horror Israel/US has unleashed on Iran is going to unfold over time, over generations x.com/arianajasmin...

The guy still has an approval rating of 38%. I will never understand America.

It's green so numbers go up must be good, surely

Yes. I was there. It wasn't a war, we were fish in a barrel.

Nice! This is only the beginning of solar season!

Today is definitely the sunniest day of the year thus far. #solar

On this International Women’s Day, we remain vigilant about what we must protect.

And we remain determined about accomplishing the work ahead.

Black puddles by a gate

Now imagine people’s lungs.

Black rain has fallen over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities, coating streets and rooftops in dark, oily water. “The rain is actually apparently saturated with oil,” CNN reports.

This video shows real smoke over Tehran from Israeli strikes on oil depots & fuel facilities last night—confirmed by NYT, AP, Al Jazeera, Times of Israel. Black clouds from burning hydrocarbons—not normal sunrise.

The scenes out of Tehran are horrifying.

What absolute madness.

"I find inspiration EVERYWHERE!"
- Louise Gardiner (1972-2023)
UK artist
#InternationalWomensDay

That quilt is just wow

'I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse... I was too busy rebelling..."
- Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
UK artist
#InternationalWomensDay

'I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned' Yayoi Kusama #InternationalWomensDay

It's morning in Tehran, but the sun cannot get through because the city is covered in black smoke from the oil refinieries/reserves targeted by IDF-US forces. The sun is blocked by Oil! Beyond the immediate consequences, this is accelerating the pathway towards a burning planet that is uninhabitable

Thank you

Olga, do you know whether the reports that burning oil is making its way through the sewage/waterways system of Tehran are verified?

One must assume that anyone who expresses surprise or "shock" that the IDF-US coalition is systematically attacking civilian infrastructure critical for life and is repeatedly commiting actions that kill civilians must have been living under a rock for the past 3 years.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

first empirical paper from the Aulet lab! What does learning to count do to a brain? We trained neural networks on different tasks and only counting (i.e., predicting the number of dots in a dot array) reorganized representations around number. New preprint:

AFP: "It breaks my heart": UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher says "we're seeing staggering amounts of money, reportedly a billion dollars a day” being spent on the Middle East war, rather than addressing the world’s “huge humanitarian caseload.”

Looting and killing all over the globe without any consequences