Laura Sikstrom

Congrats to CAMH scientist Dr. Laura Sikstrom for being awarded the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Rising Star Award in Health Services & Policy! ⭐

Dr. Sikstrom’s cutting-edge research will rethink #AI’s role in psychiatric violence risk assessment.

We’re thrilled to announce $4.9M from Brain Canada to support the Brain Health Data Challenge platform led by CAMH KCNI Director Dr. Tristan Glatard that will reimagine #Canadian #brain health data through #AI.

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In the upcoming @camhnews.bsky.social SIMposium of Minds, two of our AMS Fellows are featured as panelists on AI-enabled mental health care.

Join Drs. @danielbuchman.bsky.social and @laurasikstrom.bsky.social to learn about their insights!

Register here:
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‘Fairness’ in AI isn't a feature. It’s a responsibility.

Algorithmic bias in healthcare can have serious impacts. @laurasikstrom.bsky.social co-created a 'Fairness Dashboard' to help data scientists and developers design fair AI in mental health care.

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Congrats to CAMH’s Dr. Peter Zhukovsky & Dr. Shreejoy Tripathy, recipients of Brain Canada Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research grant!

They join 22 researchers nationwide advancing bold ideas in brain health.

Learn more & see the full list here:https://ow.ly/WE2M50X4Ble

Most viewed this week from JAMA: US children's health has worsened from 2007 to 2023 across various indicators, including mortality, chronic conditions, and mental health.

https://ja.ma/3TA6tmx

Climate necropolitics I have been thinking of politics and death recently. In fact it’s all I can think about. I think you should too.

Climate necropolitics: thoughts from the middle of the heatwave.
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I reported a deepfake of Caitlin Clark on X. Instead of it getting removed, here's what happened | Sporting News Trying to get a Caitlin Clark tweet taken down turned into a deep dive on the growing problem of deepfakes on X

I reported an offensive Caitlin Clark fake video on X to try and get it removed. Instead, I saw how deeply the platform is letting women down.

My story on one of the most disturbing issues affecting women in the age of AI, and X's failure to curb it:

www.sportingnews.com/us/wnba/indi...

“A complete cessation of US funding without replacement by other sources of funding would lead to dramatic increases in deaths from 2025-2040:

15.2 (9.3-20.8) million additional AIDS deaths,

2.2 (1.5-1.9) million additional TB deaths,

7.9 million additional child deaths from other causes”

The United States is witnessing the return of psychiatric imprisonment | Jordyn Jensen From ‘wellness farms’ to expanded involuntary commitment policies, the US is embracing psychiatric incarceration under the guise of compassion

The U.S. is witnessing the return of psychiatric imprisonment. From ‘wellness farms’ to expanded involuntary commitment policies, the U.S. is embracing psychiatric incarceration under the guise of compassion, by Jordyn Jensen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... via @theguardian.com #MentalHealth

Carney’s Checkmate: How Canada's Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump to Drop Tariffs Carney, Japan And The EU proved America's Idiot Emperor Has No Clothes

What's that saying... the best defense is a good offense?

Or maybe the aphorism about levers and moving the world is more appropriate here:

The US Treasury Bond attack Carney engineered, forcing Trump to pause tariffs:

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#Academicsky
🇨🇦 postdoc

@meganysta.bsky.social knows a lot about this!

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence
"implications are profound"
New @nature.com
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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work. GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.

How is this not slavery?

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One of my core takeaways from Land of Open Graves was how much money detention/deportation makes for investors. Pretty reprehensible. We should write our banks to find out if our pensions, cpp, rrsps etc are invested in any of these efforts.

The ‘smartwear revolution’ begins: clothing with built-in sensors will improve balance, reduce injuries and support people with muscle weakness An interdisciplinary research team at the U of A has received a $24-million federal grant to develop “smartwear” fabric for clothing that assists with joint injury recovery, posture, balance, arm move...

So proud to have been on the margins, supporting this amazing project team to greater interdisciplinarity & inclusiveness. They may not design a real cape for Batman to fly, but their new fabrics may help friends with MS or frail elders, to walk again. #Superheros! www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...

This is why Canada has plenty of eggs — and the U.S. doesn't While the U.S. grapples with an egg shortage caused by avian flu, eggs remain plentiful and affordable in Canada. There are reasons for that, including that egg farms there tend to be smaller.

While the U.S. grapples with an egg shortage caused by avian flu, eggs remain plentiful and affordable in Canada. There are reasons for that, including that egg farms there tend to be smaller.

🔔 #ICYMI 🔔

📰✨ Congratulations to Dr. Mandeep Singh, Clinician Investigator at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, for his recent interview with The Toronto Star discussing the new social media trend, ‘sleepmaaxing’.

🔗: linktr.ee/krembil

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

The devastating impact of Trump’s slashing foreign aid, in 3 charts From HIV to malnutrition, here’s what the loss of 83 percent of USAID programs looks like.

The cruelty & nonsensicle nature of this horrid policy decision? How is this not a bigger political issue?

The devastating impact of Trump’s slashing foreign aid, in 3 charts www.vox.com/future-perfe...

"...threatening millions of lives and livelihoods around the world."

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. As the world’s richest men slash American aid for the world’s poorest children, they insist that all is well, by @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com #GlobalHealth

Opinion: America’s scientific community is in panic mode The National Institutes of Health - the world’s largest funder of vital biomedical research – is now facing deep cost-cutting and dogmatic governance from the Trump administration. What will happen af...

America’s scientific community is in panic mode as Elon Musk takes a chainsaw to the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, by @mollykraskin.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #cancer

USAID official describes escaping violence in Congo amid agency turmoil YouTube video by ABC News

harrowing story of evacuation from DR Congo, in the midst of USAID's dismantling.

Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw” Gawande, until recently a senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., explains the agency’s importance to America and to the world, and what its undoing by DOGE will bring.

Atul Gawande, who worked for U.S.A.I.D. during the last Administration, calls the agency “America at its best.” But with Donald Trump and Elon Musk, “there’s a different world view at play here,” he says. “Power is what matters, not impact.” Listen here.

Top US university says ending 2,000 positions due to Trump cuts The prestigious Johns Hopkins University said Thursday it is being forced to lay off more than 2,000 employees in the aftermath of the Trump administration's massive reduction in foreign aid funding.

USAID fall out at Johns Hopkins. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...