Matt McTaggart

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Thank you, Royal Military College of Canada! Merci, Collège militaire royal du Canada !

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Pursue justice, justly how to chase it beyond the slogan

Thinking a lot about moral integrity this weekend (coincidentally, voting opened in Canada).

From @theradr.bsky.social:

"We must not just seek just goals ... we have to get there by striving to be the people we're supposed to be, every single step of the way."

www.lifeisasacredtext.com/pursue/

This easy letter writing tool by @e4dca.bsky.social lets you contact all your local candidates to ask them to commit to protecting and promoting science in Canada!

Take one minute to help put science on the radar this election 👇 #elxn45 #CdnPoli #CdnSci 🧪 🇨🇦

Let’s give this starter pack business a go! Here are (mostly) 🇨🇦 accounts I follow for science policy. Will continuously update! #scipol 🧪

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The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University invites applications for a Tenure Track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in Physical Chemistry. Applications will be accepted until March 28th, 2025. #chemjobs
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Completely condemn the highly disappointing decision by @acs.org to take down and then amend their pages on Diversity, equity, and inclusion - www.acs.org/about/divers... - this is not what #RealTimeChem stands for.

Who runs the ACS? Is it a member-run organization that serves that membership. Or is it a money making publishing house.

This move does real damage to the profession. This move does real damage to my colleagues and peers and trainees and our future chemists.

Grow a spine @acs.org

#ChemTogether.

Forever.

#RealTimeChem #ChemSky #Chemistry

Besides showing basic respect for human dignity, active inclusion and equal recognition of diverse standpoints work to correct long-standing social failures that sabotage science and scholarship.

Attacks on inclusion must be met as attacks on the fundamental mission of higher learning.

Policy-making for innovation requires high levels of collaborative resolve Canada is facing unique challenges including emerging global crises and wicked social issues. Innovation needs to be guided by policies that are adapted to tackle these evolving, unpredictable and unc...

My piece in the Hill Times today is relevant to the challenges Canada is facing in this new version of North America.

Yes, the immediate issue with tariffs is the threat to our economy/trade. But the solutions are not just economic.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Science is political. It wouldn't necessarily have to be partisan.

But when one party is opposed to science-based policy, scientists have a choice between saying "you're right, thoughts and prayers are probably as effective as reducing carbon emissions" or saying "fuck that."

Diversity is a Dangerous Set-up Recreational antiracism won’t change anything: a review of Jonathan Kahn’s critique of implicit bias discourse.

I keep thinking about what might have happened if people had listened to Patricia Williams, Charles Lawrence, Mari Matsuda, Gary Peller, Jonathan Kahn, and other actual critical race theorists about the shift away from racial justice towards diversity as a framework

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Registration for the 16th Canadian Chemical Crystallography Workshop is open! Taking place immediately after #CSC2025 in Ottawa. For more information, including general topics and suggestions for accommodations, check out our website: xtallography.ca/index.php/xt...

Hundreds. Love everything these two touch.

"You do not need a weird evil machine for that, go make a friend" is a great response to most llm applications, really.

Oh my but this looks beautiful

Having now scanned the Wikipedia article, I can see why the experience might put you in mind of postmortem suffering.

Four black and white panels from the Dr. McNinja webcomic where the spirit of Benjamin Franklin explains to a newly deceased man that purgatory is an infinite restaurant with only one waiter so it's a long wait for your sins to be served

Every time I run across this idea I think of @drhastings.bsky.social's depiction of purgatory as a restaurant where your sins are dishes that you wait for an eternity to be served.

William Stephenson - Wikipedia

There's a story that as a WWI POW William Stephenson stole a clamp-style opener that was only patented in Germany and copied the design in England after the war (his biographer said he refused to talk about it).
Later, he was the inspiration for James Bond.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

It's a wild addition to an otherwise interesting if pretty standard press release.

DEADLINE TODAY for applications to Science Meets Parliament 2025!
Research can't speak for itself - we need voices from the natural, social, formal sciences, engineering and the humanities to be heard everywhere that your knowledge contributes to the public benefit, including our legislatures!

25 ans après Polytechnique : 14 visages d'une tragédie 25 après la tragédie de Polytechnique, voici les portraits des 14 femmes qui ont perdu la vie le 6 décembre 1989.

Il y a 35 ans, 14 jeunes femmes étaient tués à Polytechnique Montréal parce qu'elles étaient des femmes

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Just remember there’s a reason that English is now the Lingua Franca of science, not German

Also, a very strange way for the lawyers, financiers, and business leaders in the legislature to say that their specialties create no real economic impact

A surefire way to reduce the total economic advantages of research to a country is to cut off the parts that generate unpredictable or uncountable benefits

Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it? A Nature global survey finds that most specialists are unhappy with systems to provide science advice to policymakers.

In a Nature survey, 80% of science-policy experts say their country’s science advice system is poor or patchy.

I've written about the state of global science advice & what should change.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thnx to @ingsa.bsky.social @transformevidence.bsky.social @jperkel.bsky.social

Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it? A Nature global survey finds that most specialists are unhappy with systems to provide science advice to policymakers.

"But science-advice systems do have one thing in common: many people think they’re not up to the job"
A revealing and timely article on the complicated relationship between science and public policy:
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Science Meets Parliament 2021 (SMP 2021) - CSPC Science Meets Parliament 2023 The 3rd Science Meets Parliament Program for 2023 is now complete and was a huge success. Apply Now Appliquer maintenant See what people have to say about Science ...

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