Ben Scott

What would it take for a GO bus network in south western Ontario? Specifically how much $$$ it would cost, and ridership expectations, for this rough area.

Daily, multiple trips for Windsor/Sarnia-London-Stratford-KW-Guelph

Summer service: Goderich and Simcoe areas for those amazing beaches ⛱️

If Canada was the 51st State this would be our Vichy Gov’s official statement:

Oh FUCK this and fuck anyone who voted for this

We use these to help regulate moisture in our lab fridges. They work well! Just make sure to have a secondary container when pouring them out...they tend to spill everywhere

Here's another #MegabaseSpark submission, from
@osn-scott.bsky.social: "The Open Yarrowia Collection" (detail in reply) Like and repost if you like this idea! #SynBio #RootPath

@bhutilakarpoche.bsky.social has been a steadfast ally from Day 1. When other politicians turned a blind eye to price fixing and predatory landlords, Bhutila stood up for tenants. That's what true leadership looks like!

Finally identifying the problem with AI I couldn't quite articulate.

TORONTO’S NEW LANDLORDS: They’re ultra rich & over the next 8 years they’re bringing 21,000 units without rent control to a new building near you.

Meet the corporate firms that a growing number of Torontonians are paying their rent to.

www.westendphoenix.com/stories/toro...

✍️: Emma Paling

The iGEM Grand Jamboree and the Serious Fun of Engineering Biology

The iGEM
Grand Jamboree doesn't feel like any other scientific conference. It's zany, it's authentic, and most of all, it's FUN

I wrote this OpEd piece for ACS Synbio about what makes iGEM work and why other scientific events need to take notes

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

RBPAMFM was right there for the taking!

Would you rather live in a world without modern medicine or a world without B2B SaaS?

When someone claims "biotech shows a lack of progress relative to digital tech" let's keep in mind that there are other metrics of progress besides how fast you can start and 100x a company

Can I ❤️ this more than once?

How To Fix Canada’s Housing Crisis - Macleans.ca Twenty-five bold, entirely doable ways to make Canada affordable again

"3D printed homes" but no mention of rent control. Are you kidding me? Real rent control, including vacancy control, is the simplest and fastest thing that we can do to tackle the #housingcrisis macleans.ca/longforms/ho...

Are you a tenant in Canada 🇨🇦? You will NOT want to miss this!

A digital poster that reads: HOW WE’RE TAKING DOWN THE LANDLORD CARTEL Legal, Media & Organizing Strategies to combat Rent Price-Fixing LIVMORE HIGH PARK TENANTS’ ASSOCIATION YSW TENANTUNION ZOOM: Tuesday April 15 at 7:00pm EDT PANEL SPEAKERS: Chiara Padovani - YSW Tenant Union Cynthia Black - Livmore High Park TA Geordie Dent - Tenant Organizer REGISTER AT: www.tenantunion.ca/landlordcartel

Need a little hope?

Join us April 15th to learn how tenants have been working to #StopTheLandlordCartel

Register for this FREE virtual event:
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Samsonite, hands down. I've been traveling regularly with the same set for over 15 years and zero issues. They're an American company, but Canadian distribution and a great outlet are in Stratford ON.

"The housing crisis will not be solved by a policy debate. This is a social movement. This is class war!" - John Clarke #housingjustice

We're at @housingjusticenow.bsky.social in Montreal where @cynthiablack.bsky.social is speaking about Big Tech vs #housingjustice

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Not a bad article, but this is irritating. Why should someone being "caring" or "aggressive" be specific to a gender? I get that politics was historically mostly male. But everyone can be caring or aggressive.

Agree that we need more caring leaders.

No they don’t. Canada and Mexico want none of this. They want the president of the United States to respect and abide by the trade treaty he negotiated with them - and not make up bogus pretexts for plunging us all into a gratuitous no win economic debacle.

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

Thinking of my family, friends, and colleagues in the US.

It's obvious that this 🇺🇸🇨🇦 #tradewar is delusional. But the manufactured crisis may boil over into long lasting tension.

Never forget who the real enemies are — the ones who gain power and popularity by sowing division.

Which DNA polymerase / PCR kit would you recommend to genotype from crude lysates?

This is for heat-lysed cultured mammalian cells right after clone picking.

We need robust on 2-3kb amplicons.

KOD Xtream works amazing but $$$ and backordered

- Thx!! 🧬

There are some weeks in the lab where absolutely nothing works.

And then there are weeks where just one thing works, but it validates all hard work before it.

This week was the latter...and I'm very excited about what happens next!

I really like phenotypic screening, but it always leaves me thinking "there must be more to this!"

Ultimately the distinction between #techbio and #biotech is a small one at the bench. But the overall ethos seems different to me.

There is an undercurrent of voracity with #tecbio. Biology becomes an opportunity and something to be extracted. Not necessarily something to be understood and nurtured. Life's inherent qualities are reduced to "what will this give me?" instead of "how does this work and why?".

I don't think this is disparaging, but #techbio is a shortcut. Phenotypic screening for example, where the mechanism is less important than the result, and yet great amounts of valuable data can be generated.

Maybe it accomplished a goal, but if no one understands it can it be improved upon?