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Canada plans a 15% budget cut. Scientists are alarmed Cuts could erase promised boost, researchers fear

“…Canada 🇨🇦 continues to lag behind other countries in R&D spending; it spent 1.8% of GDP on research in 2024, placing it sixth in the G7 industrialized nations and well below the 2.7% average among the 38 nations that are members of the OECD.” 🧪

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Anti-science kills: From Soviet embrace of pseudoscience to accelerated attacks on US biomedicine This Essay argues that COVID-19 exposed how a rising tide of anti-science rhetoric and activities can dramatically exploit society's vulnerabilities to an infectious disease, suggesting that anti-scie...

Article here journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

This is what they did in Stalinist Russia in the mid twentieth century to control the scientists and intellectuals. Here’s my 2021 article in @plosbiology.org about what’s going on, attached

Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Calgary, ... Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Calgary, ...

Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Canada #academicjob careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...

Fireworks by the Hip reference the flexed arm hang!

"Next to your comrades in the National Fitness Program
Caught in some eternal flexed arm hang
Dropping to the mat in a fit of laughter
Showed no patience, tolerance or restraint"

Only funding pet hypotheses favored by the government is how you end up with Lysenkoism.

(If you’re unfamiliar, it’s essentially a set of disproven ideas about plant growth that led to poor agriculture, famine, and the deaths of maybe 50 million people: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_...)

Canada plans a 15% budget cut. Scientists are alarmed Cuts could erase promised boost, researchers fear

Carney is planing 15% budget cuts across most of government. @supportourscience.bsky.social and @u15ca.bsky.social worry what that would do to a research system that is already lagging behind other countries. My story for @science.org 🧪

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stake through the heart for American science and research at large

honestly, the comparisons betweem Trump, his sycophants and Stalin re: their relationship (or lack thereof) to science and objective reality are truly legit.

Our premier and the orange clown share some opinions about the judiciary

What's Old is New and What's New is Dead Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for mRNA vaccines

RFK Jr is destroying research on vaccine technology that has saved millions of lives in favor of antiquated vaccines that don’t work as well and take longer to produce.

Killing mRNA vaccines will kill people.
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a reminder that RFK Jr is a eugenicist and that he views pathogen as a way to clear out the unfit

Long-term parasite decline associated with near extinction and conservation of the critically endangered kākāpō parrot Boast et al. analyze a unique fecal record of the endangered kākāpō parrot to reveal >800 years of changing parasite communities. Parasite losses occur during the species’ decline to near extinction a...

Parasite extinctions in threatened species may be far more prevalent than previous estimates suggest. Our new study of kākāpō dung spanning from ~1,500 years ago to present, finds >80% of parasite species were lost as the host species declined.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Absolute madness

Rich dude builds "technological marvel". Ignores experts warning about serious safety issues. Inevitable happens and people are killed; families ruined; careers destroyed. Governments spend millions of public money to respond to the disaster. Clearly no lessons here...

but sure, let's keep promoting raw milk, Secretary Kennedy.

Worth considering that we don’t actually start earning a half decent salary until we’re 30-40, when we typically get our first academic job. Puts pressure on the number of years at the end to earn as much as possible for retirement

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Support Our Science has sent a formal letter of concern to Canada’s leaders.
We’re calling on the PM and ministers to protect research, scholarships, and the future of discovery.

Full letter: www.supportourscience.ca

#SupportOurScience #cdnpoli #STEMCanada

sounds like the origin story for a super-hero

you can even name-drop me

do you know @widowweb.bsky.social ? Make sure you meet her, if not. She's amazing.

Fair Play “[An] electrifying debut…Through in-depth and compassionate reporting, Barnes breaks down the misunderstood science surrounding sex and gender that has b...

worth reading this book if you haven't already (and if you have time!) on trans issues in sports - it's very good.

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"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”

That populations could evolve rapidly was a surprise to many. Even fewer believed that zoo animals could evolve too. We show they actualy do so in this great paper with @sauvedrew.bsky.social and Amy Chabot.
For more info ⬇️

Some recently published work with Amy Chabot and @denisreale.bsky.social out in Biological Conservation here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV9p_9CgT...

lol - like he's not doing the exact same thing while he's playing around with tariffs etc

Dalhousie, faculty union begin 14-day countdown to possible strike or lockout | CBC News One final date for conciliation is scheduled for Aug. 11, and a labour disruption could start Aug. 12.

DFA President Dave Westwood not optimistic there will be a resolution before the 14-day deadline of August 11. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @caut.bsky.social @ansut.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social DFA trying to #keepdalstrong, but the Board won't come to the table.

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem: