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-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

“Anti-immigration is always a cheap and available tactic for populist governments,”

“It is an easy way to blame some other people for the challenges that are faced at any given moment,”
#Alberta #Canada

Why it’s important Canada accredits its own medical schools

“It became more evident there were differences in the Canadian approach to medical education,” says Dr. Lisa Graves…adding that "expectations of the Canadian public has shifted [too]”

Other professions need to move in this direction too.
#Canada #Medicine
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Connor McDavid signs two-year, $25M deferral of Leafs fans’ speculation EDMONTON – Connor McDavid and the Maple Leafs fanbase have agreed to a two-year, $25 million deferral of all overoptimistic conjecture about the Oilers captain one day signing with Toronto. The contra...

Connor McDavid signs two-year, $25M deferral of Leafs fans’ speculation

They've been auctioning off land in our provincial parks for years 🤬

Of course it's a cash grab. This is the Moe government -- they can't budget to save their lives. "Not managing" is an extreme understatement.

The ‘Forever Canadian’ Petition Could Bring a Snap Alberta Election | The Tyee Danielle Smith is unlikely to allow a referendum based on the pro-Canada question promoted by Thomas Lukaszuk.

Prediction: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith will call an early election before she allows a referendum to proceed to a vote with the wording promoted by former Progressive Conservative deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk’s Forever Canadian petition.

@djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli

LibreOffice turned 15 years old in September! We also had our annual conference, an update to the software, guidebook translations, news about migrations from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and more: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10...

Sagar Joshi, Lance Davidson and team find that supracellular contractility in Xenopus embryo epithelia is regulated by extracellular ATP and the purinergic receptor P2Y2.
Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#OpenAccess #ReadandPublish

Sask. Crown land auctions privatize public resource for short-term gain, critics say | CBC News After a two-year moratorium, the provincial government is auctioning off thousands of acres of Crown land. Critics of the move include farmers, Indigenous stakeholders and conservationists.

“And so I'm afraid that this is viewed as a quick cash grab for a government that is not managing its finances well."
#Saskatchewan #Skpoli #Canada
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The reviews are coming in on the UCP's American lesson plans they're offering parents while teachers are on strike...

From this Grade 1 teacher, not only do they not align with the UCP's curriculum...

They aren't even based in what most Grade 1 kids can do.

#abpoli #cdnpoli

Entire Trump Gaza Plan just QR code linking to Nobel Peace Prize nomination site WASHINGTON D.C. - With representatives of the Israeli government, as well as Hamas, meeting to discuss a potential U.S.-brokered peace, delegates have reportedly been surprised to find that the entire...

Entire Trump Gaza Plan just QR code linking to Nobel Peace Prize nomination site

Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to hospital administrators for breakthroughs in surliness OSLO - Today the Nobel committee announced that they have awarded this year’s prize in Physiology or Medicine to everyone who works as an administrator in a hospital for breakthroughs in surliness and...

Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to hospital administrators for breakthroughs in surliness

How to spot predatory journals: 4 tips and 2 checklists - The Journalist's Resource It’s important for journalists to be aware of predatory journals because such journals pose a threat for the integrity of science journalism.

Knowledge pollution!

How to spot predatory journals: 4 tips & 2 checklists journalistsresource.org/home/how-to-... w @fleerackers.bsky.social

Fake editorial boards, no peer review, aggressive solicitation, etc.

Do: Check resources like @retractionwatch.com, ask experts, understand pub biz...

Weaponizing uncertainty in science and in public health puts people in harm’s way Those who cite scientific studies to support policies should take care to tell the whole story, especially when it’s complex.

It is sobering that we have to say this: "In science, there is almost always uncertainty. The responsible thing to do is communicate studies in a way that represents the fullness of their findings; and in public health to ensure that decisions are made in line with the consensus of experts."

PTMs as molecular encoders: reprogramming chaperones into epichaperomes for network control in disease Recent discoveries reveal that post-translational modifications (PTMs) do more than regulate protein activity – they encode conformational states that…

💡Have you checked out our latest review in @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social? Discover how post-translational modifications can convert molecular chaperones into #epichaperomes – stable scaffolds that restructure protein–protein interaction networks in disease #PPI
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Oh this looks good.
#Chaperones #sHSPs

text by mariano rodriguez cabal in writing

"Writing isn’t a gift—it’s a skill.” In my book, ecologist Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal (EIC @biolinvasions.bsky.social ) shows why writing early/often sharpens your thinking and your science. Great text! mybook.to/ScienceGuide #SciWriting #ECR

The first ep of Locals Welcome is now on CBC Gem - check it out! You* paid for it and it's good stuff.

*Canadians

Acting CDC director calls for MMR vaccine to be broken up into 3 shots There's no evidence that breaking up the MMR shot would make the immunization safer or more effective.

“I call on vaccine manufacturers to develop safe monovalent vaccines to replace the combined MMR and ‘break up the MMR shot into three totally separate shots’.”
Acting CDC director calls for MMR vaccine to be broken up into 3 shots www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/t...

Pseudoscience is popular in part because it seeks to confirm our beliefs.

Science can be less popular in part because it seeks to interrogate our beliefs.

Good science, like good art and literature, can upset the established ways in which we see the world.

More than a quarter of Canadian teens have experienced sexual violence online A new survey reveals that almost a third of youth have been exposed to technology-facilitated sexual violence. Better protective and educational measures are needed.

More than a quarter of Canadian teens have experienced sexual violence online

A generation ago, measles was declared eradicated from Canada. Today, Alberta reports more confirmed cases than the entire United States. How did it become the epicentre of Canada’s outbreak? Physician and journalist @monicakidd.bsky.social explores: thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-beca...

This Year’s Medicine Nobel Goes to Discovery of Why the Body Doesn’t Attack Itself Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune disease...

This year's #medicineNobel was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi for discovering why the body doesn't attack itself—key for organ transplants and autoimmune disease therapies. By @laurenjyoung.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

Frontiers | Development and evaluation of a Wikipedia based group assessment to enhance science communication This project, conducted in collaboration with Wikimedia Australia, introduced an assessment that aimed to enhance science communication skills among third-ye...

📚 Students learn science communication by editing Wikipedia

A new project had microbiology students assess and improve Wikipedia immunology pages, boosting their critical thinking, teamwork, and AI literacy.

🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...

#SciComm 🧪 #Wikipedia #AI

/3 We would not have all of the incredible social programs, along with our Universal healthcare without our taxes in Canada, anyone who complains about our taxes, would be complaining so much more if they had to pay for everything out of pocket, and we don't have medical bankruptcy in Canada.

Have an American walking into my posts saying we pay high taxes, and get nothing out of it, let me clarify for people who don't know, our taxes, pay for Universal Health Care, Maternity Leave, Dentalcare, & many other social programs, as well, our taxes are now pretty close to the US /1

Reconsider Mastodon
#Fediverse
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Developmental Biology and Disability.

“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.”

Insightful post by Bethan ⬇️👀
thenode.biologists.com/developmenta...

We are different from all other humans in history Countless experiences that have become routine for us are unprecedented in the history of our species. Here's why that matters.

I wrote about all the lived experiences and strange structures of modern society — many of which we take for granted — that were literally impossible for all previous generations of Homo sapiens. www.forkingpaths.co/p/we-are-dif...