Craig McCormick

I’m really impressed with all the HaliSky folks who’ve come together to advocate for fiscal sustainability in Halifax.
Unlike the astroturf landlord group with their clickbait facebook survey, we now have a website with facts & tools for folks to contact council. Send those emails!
#TaxMeDaddy

Bob Bancroft has spent a lifetime fighting - often in vain and against very powerful industrial interests - for the health of Nova Scotia’s forests, biodiversity, and wildlife. With N.S. Premier Tim Houston’s latest all-out assault on nature, Bancroft now asks “What will be left?” Read and weep.

'Medical misogyny': NDP table bill for task force on women's health after Houston budget cuts - Halifax Examiner "We need to fix a fundamental systemic disparity that stems from centuries, thousands of years of women's voices being ignored," NDP Leader Claudia Chender said.

'Medical misogyny': NDP table bill for task force on women's health after Houston budget cuts www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/p...

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 www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/r...

Graphic showing all the many costs of suburban brawl, explaining how many costs are hidden and indirect costs, and sharing stats and data. Prepared by the Sustainable Prosperity Institute.

Suburban Sprawl may seem cheap, but even the costs we CAN count are far too high, and we ALL pay them.

HT Smart Prosperity Institute #UrbanTruth institute.smartprosperity.ca/library/publ...

Not all edge-growth is car-dependent suburban sprawl. But far too much of it is.

It doesn’t need to be. #CarDependency #Sprawl

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets

A wonderful explainer about the NS budget from CBC News's @michaelgorman.bsky.social and @taryngrant.bsky.social

MSVU professor expresses 'deep concerns' about N.S. budget cuts - Halifax Examiner I am asking you to listen to your constituents and not just engage in the very cruel trajectory your government unfortunately has started to follow.

MSVU professor expresses 'deep concerns' about N.S. budget cuts www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/m...

Suburban Plan The Suburban Plan is creating new policies and regulations for development in our suburban neighbourhoods to support complete, healthy and vibrant communities.

🏘️ Halifax is working on a new plan for the suburbs — and they actually want to hear from us. Survey & map open 'til June. What do you love about your neck of the woods? How should it grow?

Have a say: engagehalifax.ca/suburban-plan

#Halifax #SuburbanPlan #HRM #NovaScotia

Poster Text: Antigonish Rally for Arts & Culture 4:00-5:30 Wednesday March 4th, 325 Main St. MLA Office For those of us who cannot make it to Halifax, Join this satellite rally in solidarity of speaking out against the proposed budget cuts that will devastate arts & culture programs that bring inclusion, community, & quality of life to so many Image: line drawings of two protesting people on the right, one holding a sign that says "act now" and the other holding a megaphone

How do you feel about Premier Houston's budgetary cuts? Come to the Antigonish Rally for Arts and Culture outside Minister Thompson's office to have your voice be heard!

4-5:30 Weds 4 March, 325 Main Street

Fatal crashes in HRM since 1 January 2018

It's crash data update day. 105 people struck and killed on our roads since 2018, when we first committed to Vision Zero. Many fatal crashes from 2025 are still under investigation, so not entered in database
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts. City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”

@nondriver.bsky.social in @motherjones.com #Accessibility

CBC radio traffic report this morning warned car drivers that there could be delays here. No mention of the experience of people riding public transit.
#car-brain

🎉🎉🎉 celebrate a small victory 🎉🎉🎉

When someone wants to dismiss esoteric research, please remind them that Ozempic was discovered by research on saliva from the Gila monster lizard 🦎

Do better @npr.org
There is no evidence that horse dewormer is effective against cancer. Headlines needs to make that clear.

Open letter from a physician to the premier and ministers regarding budget cuts - Halifax Examiner These cuts appear to target the most vulnerable Nova Scotians. These harms were preventable.

Open letter from a physician to the premier and ministers regarding budget cuts www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/o...

The last part abt how measles disrupts immunity vs other infections is, imo, underappreciated (& mechanism was recently clarified). It's part of why measles vaccination was seen to help beyond just reducing measles complications - not getting measles reduces severity of subsequent infections too.

AI Keeps Failing at Microbiome Prediction Why simple models keep winning, where deep learning still shines, and where the field is headed

AI has huge promise for genomics -- but it has consistently failed at microbiome-based prediction.

My new post on why simple models keep winning, where deep learning actually earns its place, and where the field is headed

blekhman.substack.com/p/ai-keeps-f...

➡️ preprint from the lab! Bacteria have loads of antiviral defences in their mobile genetic elements (MGEs). So when MGEs move between bacteria, the defences move with them, generating a fast turnover of defences in bacteria. But what about the antiviral defence turnover in the MGEs themselves? 🤔

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🚨3-year Postdoc Position @halloulab.bsky.social (Kennedy Institute, Oxford) - on Spatial Biology & Bioinformatics of Fibrosis🚨

An exciting project combining #SpatialTranscriptomics & #Mechanobiology👇:

shorturl.at/LLS5r

Deadline: 16 March - Please RT 📢!

@kiroxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

This is a graph of the death of US science.

Formalizing our commitment to code sharing In support of open science, PLOS Biology routinely asks authors to openly share their research code before publication. We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory code sharing policy and…

In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication.

We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #CodeSharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing.

A yellow moose is biting through a hockey stick in front of citadel Hill it's very cartoonish and looks like it was made with Microsoft paint

The Halifax Mooseheads are wearing these fan-designed jerseys today and I love them so much

That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

A reminder that we are actively recruiting a geneticist to the Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

careers-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...

Drivers should be paying tolls and for parking. This is the cost of driving!

I would happily pay one more percentage point on the HST, for bridge tolls, and for parking to help fund grants, museums, bus passes for students, and more #taxmedaddy.

I usually don’t subscribe to zero-sum arguments, but this analysis seems spot on. Opposition parties should hammer the government on this.
I am so tired of the PCs ideological populist approach that relies on low-info voters. Our communities deserve so much better.