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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Nike Co-Founder Phil Knight Gifts $2 Billion To Oregon Cancer Institute—The Largest University Donation Ever Knight is one of America’s most generous philanthropists, according to Forbes data, donating billions of dollars to educational institutions throughout his life.

Knight is one of America’s most generous philanthropists, according to Forbes data, donating billions of dollars to educational institutions throughout his life.

YouTube video by InterestingMD US vs Canada: A Doctor Compares working in Universal Healthcare, Pay & Lifestyle (Ft. Dr. P. Hertz)

Hey, American doctors! Have you ever wondered what it's like to work in the #Canadian healthcare system? Here are the opinions of two doctors, now working in beautiful British Columbia (you're fast-tracked for licensure & immigration)!🇨🇦

#UShealthcare #immigration #Canada

Misinformation lends itself to social contagion – here’s how to recognize and combat it Mass psychogenic illness has happened throughout history, but social media makes it more likely to spread.

Pre-bunking, a method akin to vaccination, trains people to spot and resist #misinformation. A behavioral scientist explains why group-based approaches may be key to maintaining resistance over time: theconversation.com/misinformati... By @bayesbro.bsky.social @cofcharleston.bsky.social

How Trump’s ‘gold standard’ politicizes federal science The first Trump administration also used words like ‘transparency,’ ‘reproducibility’ and ‘uncertainty’ − to try to block regulators from using important health studies when writing pollution rules.

Trump’s “science transparency” executive order is packed with positive sounding buzzwords, but it could gut the use of most health studies in policymaking. It revives tactics once used by Big Tobacco to bury studies that showed the dangers of smoking.

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Star trek’s Enterprise firing rainbow phasers

Happy Pride, friends 🙂

Type “how did the Nazis consolidate their power” into any AI chatbot. Prompt for judiciary and universities. Boom.

“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.”

- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Every time Poilievre says “for a change” Conservatives should drink. Or maybe Liberals. Not sure!?

Shocker

Pluto's moon, Charon, at highest resolution so far captured by NASA

Herb Greene, Who Photographed the Grateful Dead and Other 1960s Rock Acts, Dies at 82 One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s.

Herb Greene, whose evocative portraits of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and others helped define the rock scene that emerged in San Francisco in the mid-1960s, died on March 3. He was 82.

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Good news alert!
CDC data restored.
restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov/

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

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Well said!

If you agree that Musk doesn’t deserve Canadian citizenship, sign the House of Commons petition today! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants.

#IDsky
#Medsky
#Episky

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Attention Health care workers! Want to come to Canada? We are hiring! 🇨🇦

Holy sheesh...

Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Cuts to Medical Research Funding A coalition of 22 attorneys general sued the federal government, claiming that the $4 billion in cuts would “grind to a halt” studies on cancer, heart disease and other conditions.

Breaking News: A federal judge temporarily blocked the National Institutes of Health from enacting President Trump’s cuts to research funding in 22 states.

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

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Canadian researchers in the US! We welcome you home. Canadians and Canada’s economy will benefit in every way from your return.

NIH announces new funding policy that rattles medical researchers The National Institutes of Health has dramatically changed its grant-making terms by limiting how much it will disburse for costs such as equipment and administration.

"’America's competitors will relish this self-inflicted wound,’ Owens says. ‘We urge NIH leaders to rescind this dangerous policy before its harms are felt by Americans.’”

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Are you funded by #NIH, #NSF or #CDC? Please post any letters or communications you’ve received from these agencies or HHS about restrictions on grant funding, publications etc. I want to catalog all of them for the record. #medsky #episky

What she said! ⬇️

Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have surged in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will end its third-party fact-checking system.

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