Craig McCormick

If you are in Halifax Thursday, March 12, please join me for what I promise will be an interesting discussion on the future of humanity. @dalhousieu.bsky.social @docdellaire.bsky.social @drcchambers.bsky.social @dentremy.bsky.social @jgdownie.bsky.social @jasonhaslam.ca @juliamwright.bsky.social

Let’s keep fighting ALL of these cuts! ❤️‍🔥

⏰ Tuesday, March 10th, 12:00 PM
📍Province House (1726 Hollis St)

🔃 Reposed from Nova Scotia Arts Coalition

📸 Photo from the People’s Parade for Life on Earth courtesy of Ecology Action Centre

Feds announce nearly $1 billion for domestic defence innovation, drone technology with Bombardier As the federal government seeks to bolster its domestic defence industry, Industry Minister Melanie Joly announced more than $900 million for defence innovation in Canada, including money for drone te...

Canada is getting ready to design and build drones!
Minister Joly's wish for Canada is coming true.
Canada will once again be a aerospace and defence leader.
Many of us share that wish.
Also - Biomedical Countermeasures Initiative and quantum technology development.
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

New preprint on the limits of detecting higher-order interactions in microbial communities.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We find that the dominance of additive and pairwise interactions on community function may not reflect biological simplicity, but fundamental limits of statistical detection.

Set of 3 Itty-bitty virus paintings - Michele Banks's Ko-fi Shop 3 tiny original watercolor paintings in 5x5 inch mats This set features a bacteriophage, HIV and coronavirus on a dappled background of light blue. ...

Some new itty-bitty virus watercolors #sciart ko-fi.com/s/44054b7b68

PC government, feeling pressure, moves to restrict public movement inside Province House  - Halifax Examiner As of Friday, there are new restrictions on where people are permitted to talk to their MLA in Province House (aka “The People’s House”).  Danielle Barkhouse, the Speaker of the House, informed MLAs a...

PC government, feeling pressure, moves to restrict public movement inside Province House  www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...

Structural studies have provided new insights into lenacapavir's unique mechanism of action. Using electron cryotomography, researchers found that treatment of intact HIV capsids with lenacapavir causes capsids to rupture, with ruptures occurring first in areas of the capsid with the highest level of curvature. The walls of lenacapavir-treated capsids were observed to flatten during early time points and fragment over the course of the experiment. This process is shown in the animation, created by Rachel Torrez in collaboration with Owen Pornillos (University of Utah). The animation was created using pdb_00009pry and pdb_00009y7j and their corresponding models in the EM Data Bank, EMD-71816 and EMD-72657.

Researchers found that treatment of intact HIV capsids with lenacapavir causes capsids to rupture, with ruptures occurring first in areas of the capsid with the highest level of curvature. #ASBMB2026 #ASBMB26
Watch in 3D at PDB-101: pdb101.rcsb.org/motm...

A press conference at Province House shows Claudia Chender and advocates announcing an NDP bill to create a task force on women’s health following cuts in the Houston government’s budget, alongside a Halifax Examiner headline.

The Houston government is cutting funding to women's health research when it's clear we need more research into women’s bodies, symptoms, and experiences — not less. That's why we introduced a Bill for a Women's Health Strategy — to make sure people get the care they need.

Retired wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft wants his name removed from Nova Scotia Forestry Hall of Fame - Halifax Examiner Premier Tim Houston listens only to industries, facilitating their wish to make money by degrading the land and its freshwaters. Those who speak for nature and environmental consequences are labelled…

"Retired wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft wants his name removed from Nova Scotia Forestry Hall of Fame.
'It’s time for forest and biologist professionals to stand up for fair nature process' " - Halifax Examiner.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/r...

Prokaryotic defense systems: Diversity and evolutionary adaptation
#microbiology #virology #prokaryotes #archaea #bacteria #virus #phage
@mlifejournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/mlf2...

'Beware Tim Houston, we're coming': "Special interests” rally held in Halifax - Halifax Examiner Mi'kmaw activists, social justice, labour, and environmental groups organized event to oppose changes by government.

So, this Brandon Blades used the below photo from a story about the "special interests" rally I reported on March 5, 2025 and used it in a Facebook post he wrote last week.

We politely asked him to at least give us credit and then he blocked me.

If you have any kind of disability and take the bus (even if just a few times a year!) please fill this out Halifax folks :)

Stares in Halifax

Persistent attenuation of lymphocyte subsets after mass SARS-CoV-2 infection Growing evidence suggests that lymphocyte subsets are declined in COVID-19 patients, but it is unclear if these alterations persist after widespread e…

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"Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise":

Via @virussucks.com

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dal researchers earn prestigious national CIHR career awards for breakthrough health research - Dal News - Vitamin Rush Two Dalhousie researchers in the Faculty of Medicine are being celebrated with prestigious national awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Dal researchers earn prestigious national CIHR career awards for breakthrough health research – Dal News

https://www.vitaminrush.com/316391/dal-researchers-earn-prestigious-national-cihr-career-awards-for-breakthrough-health-research-dal-news/

Two Dalhousie researchers in the Faculty of …

Deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus, they can travel inside it to infect news. A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus”🤯@viroscope.bsky.social @karimaj.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @cellcellpress.bsky.social

Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse Hepatitis D-like satellite viruses, known as deltaviruses, have been recently discovered in a wide range of animals. These viruses are thought to expr…

The Trojan Horse is real, and it’s microscopic! 🐴🦠
Our paper is out today in @cellcellpress.bsky.social!
We discovered that deltaviruses physically hide INSIDE helper viruses to sneak into new cells. And to prove it, we had to image them from every angle. 🧵👇

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The freedom of bike transportation should be available to people of all ages in the city.

#paris #velo #bike #transportation #children #15minutecity #urbanism #cargobike

The best thing about Halifax is its people.
This thread of folks speaking at budget committee this week is a beautiful demonstration of people who care for each other and this city.

Journey of a bike advocate. Goes on bike ride - smile emoji Experiences the danger - shocked emoji Approaches city council - straight face emoji nothing changes angry enoji person throwing a molotov cocktail Dreams of ending car culture

It all happened so fast.

@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Some sort of monsters from another dimension that purport to be the humanoid mascots of the Halifax oyster festival named Pearl and Shellvidor

I need @crashannburn.bsky.social to know that everything I learn about Halifax is against my will.

Halifax teens lament the loss of government program offering free bus passes HALIFAX - Halifax high school student Teddie Rofe says the Nova Scotia government has just made a decision that will strip away some of her independence.

Halifax high school student Teddie Rofe says the Nova Scotia government has just made a decision that will strip away some of her independence.

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Bus pass program cut will result in loss of independence for Halifax teens: students HALIFAX — Halifax high school student Teddie Rofe says the Nova Scotia’s government’s planned cut to the student bus pass program will result in the loss of her independence. Rofe is 17 years old and ...

The Tim Houston government cut the Municipal Student Bus Pass Program for the City of Halifax #NovaScotia #HoustonFail

Bus pass program cut will result in loss of independence for Halifax teens: students

halifax.citynews.ca/2026/03/06/b...

Screenshot of Sesame Street with Elmo in a Brooklyn brownstone type building

I like how Sesame Street represents the dense, walkable urbanism of NYC.

Hard to imagine any of it happening along a suburban stroad.

Despite what N.S. environment minister says, Canada–Nova Scotia Nature Agreement does have timelines and unspent funding will be returned to Ottawa - Halifax Examiner Environment and Climate Change Canada spokesperson confirmed that the Canada–Nova Scotia Nature agreement itself will be in effect until March 2030, but current funding expires at the end of March…

"Despite what N.S. environment minister says, Canada–Nova Scotia Nature Agreement does have timelines and unspent funding will be returned to Ottawa." - Halifax Examiner
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/environment/...

Some students left scrambling as Tim Houston’s budget cuts axe their summer jobs - Halifax Examiner Gwendolyn Williams discovered she couldn't return to Perkins House Museum when she called to inquire about her return, but no one answered. Later, she learned the Liverpool museum had closed.

Some students left scrambling as Tim Houston’s budget cuts axe their summer jobs www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...

Damn.
Imagine being this bad at your job.
Foreign management consultants tell you to cut things, you do so without understanding, and go back to beer pong with your buddies.

CBC Nova Scotia News March 6, 2026 | Tension at province house YouTube video by CBC News Nova Scotia

Look, I get it: "Most embarrassing Nova Scotia cabinet minister" is a really competitive category right now.

But save space on your ballots for Education Minister Brendan Maguire, who gets absolutely bodied by @michaeltgorman.bsky.social in this clip for so-funny-it's-sad student bus pass math.

Given that he was trying to use 20% as a small number and, therefore, justifies cutting the program, he should’ve made an about-face when he realized the number was actually a huge 200%, right? Except the facts don’t matter to these people anyway.

Le rassemblement Stand Up for Science à l’institut Pasteur

One year after, we Stand Up for Science one more time at @pasteur.fr
#StandUpForScience
@standupforscifr.bsky.social
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