Francis Lynn 🇨🇦

latest preprint just dropped! From a fantastic collaboration between our lab and Katie Pollard's @gladstoneinst.bsky.social. @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social graduate student Jodi Lee jodilee539.bsky.social and Gladstone postdoc Jingshing Wu led the project www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/x

gonna walk up to ken sim and wave a fake ai generated photo of elias pettersson holding up the stanley cup so he can tell everyone the canucks are champions

The figure shows gene expression analysis of unsorted, CD49 sorted and CD19 sorted SCβ-cells using NanoString analysis.

Luo Ting Huang, Yaser Tahamtani, @nictitate.bsky.social & co explored the possibility of magnetic selection of insulin-expressing stem cell‑derived β‑cells using a CRISPR/Cas9 technology and transmembrane glycoprotein CD19 as a marker.

@bcchresearch.bsky.social

Read: doi.org/10.1242/dmm....

It’s a nice trail and viewpoint, hope you had good weekend on Bowen

(Axios) - Anthropic's Claude hit No. 1 in U.S. app downloads Saturday, overtaking ChatGPT, after the Pentagon blacklisted the company for refusing to loosen safeguards for military use of its AI model.

@axios.com
www.axios.com/2026/03/01/a...

It's nice to know that the Canadian government can re-discover the value of higher education. Perhaps less nice to note that it perceives the value as that of a prop for a PM's visit to another country.

Canada and India deepen education collaboration with new talent and innovation strategy Today, the Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, celebrated the launch of the new Canada-India Talent and Innovation Strategy, including the signing of 13 new partnerships, during her v...

I am not entirely sure how we can have a joint talent strategy with India when we don't actually have a domestic talent strategy of our own.

Biochem tricks are one thing... I've got mentors who were some of the earliest recombinant DNA psuhers but they remind me that there were never "good old days" just lots of logging counts and screening clones

Being fluent in your current assembly and expression system, now that takes time and years

Sigh, here we go again

How about you apologize to Vancouver now

So cool, congrats!

This is an OUTSTANDING LIFE-CHANGING outcome, based on research and healthcare by @turveylab.bsky.social and colleagues @bcchresearch.bsky.social

Hooray for the family!
Hooray for Stuart T & the other clinicians and scientists!
❤️🎉❤️🎉❤️🎉❤️

Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to answer 275 emails per day and argue with administrators. That’s why I chose a career in academia.

Approximately 20 million vertebrate animals, moslty mice, are used in research each year. Some comparisons on agricultural use.

🚨Don’t upload other people‘s intellectual property to Ai. 🚨

Something about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result seems relevant

Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%).
But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)

I often get this attitude on Vancouver Seawalls when I run in the bike lanes (usually I'm going faster than pedestrians and often some bikes). Often it's from individuals biking without a helmet (which is illegal here).

Congratulations to Drs. Sellers and Wicklow who received $1,484,100 from CIHR for their project titled "Co-designing enhanced models of care for First Nations Children at risk for childhood-onset type 2 diabetes: The Next Generation Birth Cohort"! 👏 Read more: www.chrim.ca/2026/2025-fa...

@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social check out Roon for organization and streaming of your own music

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social can you invite the US women's hockey team up for a celebration along with ours? Because while I was hoping for a different outcome that was an amazing game and everyone involved deserves recognition.

Brain cells drive endurance gains after exercise JAX team helped show that a set of hypothalamus cells are required for mice to improve their endurance in running.

When you finish a run, your muscles may feel like they did all the work, but new research from JAX and the @upenn.edu have discovered that what happens in your brain after a run may determine whether you gain endurance over time. 🧪🧠 https://go.jax.org/brain-exercise

AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).

Proud of these women.

Canada’s great American breakup: Most now see U.S. as a risk, not an ally, poll finds Findings suggest a profound level of distrust after U.S. President Donald Trump’s first year back in office

Congrats to the USA on this milestone www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2109fef...

Only a matter of time

So, is the Canadian 4-minute high sticking vs. the US 2-minute high sticking a result of tariffs?

B.C. was the only place in Canada that let people 55-65 not pay property taxes.

It was the only place where not paying them wasn’t means tested.

It was the only place where not paying them was balanced against loans *below* prime rate.

If that’s your baseline, cancellation feels very mean.

What a waste of 30 million calories

No taxation without representation?