@mac64.bsky.social
NOAAβs National Weather Service holds the federal responsibility for tsunami warnings, and has historically been a primary supporter of seismic data collection in Alaska
NEW investigation from me!
The wife of Ontarioβs labour minister registered to lobby for an advocacy group for career collegesβ¦
β¦and two of those colleges received millions from a government fund overseen by the minister, the Skills Development Fund.
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
We are in a serious govt shutdown, but instead of negotiating, Trump posted several pics of his WH bathroom remodel today and now this. He is currently headed to Palm Beach for another golf weekend.
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We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word
www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...
Yeah. Itβs Climate Change. In the last 45 years the most extreme Atlantic hurricanes have nearly doubled and extreme rapid intensification has increased by 6X!! #climatechange #melissa #hurricane #fyp #florida
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Russian army chiefs torturing and executing soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine, report says
This is pure evilπ€¬
Investigation lists 101 superiors accused of tactics such as using drones to βfinishβ off retreating troops and sending soldiers on death missions
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Not a good day for science and research in Canada. The Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry is replaced by a Ministry of Industry (only), under the leadership of MΓ©lanie Joly. π±
And the new Minister of Health, Marjorie Michel, has a background in social and organizational psychology. π¬
Minister of Health Marjorie Michel rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, June 2, 2025.
Health advocate says minister's pharmacare comments send 'bad signal' https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/28/health-advocate-says-ministers-pharmacare-comments-send-bad-signal/
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Canadian Medical Association president Dr. Margot Burnell "told Canada Healthwatch that cutting health spending undermines the economic stability the prime minister wants to achieve. βA strong economy requires healthy Canadians,β she said. Economists have long echoed that link..."
#CdnPoli
Our system is crumbling around us, and it is by design. We are burning it to the ground so provinces can push for privatization. Demand better people, vote and advocate like your life depends on it.οΏΌ
31.10.2025 15:06 β π 16 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Every health minister, federally and in each province, needs to get their act together and quickly because this is going to result in catastrophic outcomes, if they havenβt already.
31.10.2025 12:31 β π 20 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
31.10.2025 08:19 β π 14768 π 6041 π¬ 636 π 1078I didn't see this until this morning ππ₯π«³
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What a f'ing embarrassment this regime is.
Mike Waltz United States Ambassador to the United Nations
cut off in middle of UN speech: βThis is the UN General Assembly, it is not a Signal chatβ
Deaths will rise, probably more so with children, but other than that, what could go wrong?
βFord has said speed cameras don't work to slow drivers down β though evidence collected by municipalities and Hospital for Sick Children researchers says otherwiseβ
#onpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The global return of childhood vaccine-preventable infectious diseases
Truly outrageous that we are failing children everywhere in this day and age!
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
This is figure 5, which shows global hotspots and coldspots of non-native mosquito introduction and establishment, and their socio-economic and environmental drivers.
Globalization has accelerated the spread of mosquito species that transmit human diseases. An analysis in Nature Communications shows that 45 disease-vector mosquito species have been introduced to non-native regions worldwide. go.nature.com/4hn6ogW π§ͺ
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If you are a Canadian scientist π§ͺ alarmed by the unfair targeting of academics working on research related to EDI in the US β‘οΈ
Turn your attention to our own House of Commons' Standing Committee on Science and Research and consider signing this open letter:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
GISAID is now blocking genomic sequencing access to critical resources like Nextstrain, Covspectrum, Outbreak-info, & others.
This makes us less safe, as live tracking of viral evolution remains critical for assessment of emerging threats. This needs to be escalated.
The labs and people who contribute all the data to GISAID had zero say in any of this and were not even informed of the change. π
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Interesting that there has been absolutely no communication with submitters/users of the system, and no statements from the scientific governance or compliance boards on what would seem to be a fairly significant change to GISAID data access policy and platform operations. gisaid.org/about-us/gov...
17.10.2025 19:07 β π 14 π 9 π¬ 0 π 2Bad. No justification, no communication, no standard procedures for making changesβjust arbitrary pronouncements cutting off access to some of the most valuable resources we have.
17.10.2025 20:34 β π 60 π 20 π¬ 1 π 1This will be every application--funded or not--and every comment and score. Everyone's identities, demographic profiles, personal informational, for every CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC application from the last five years.
30.10.2025 20:33 β π 38 π 17 π¬ 1 π 1Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Thanks for flagging this! This initiative seems indeed set on attacking EDI and academic freedom under the guise of promoting excellence. They are digging obscure projects and then asking how this helps Canadians, as if this was not already an important criteria adjudicated by actual expert.
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βBad actors are spreading lies to protect fossil fuel interests and delay the inevitable transition to clean energy. This weakens public resolve at a crucial moment, when we need courageous policy decisions to steer us away from the climate and health crises caused by burning fossil fuels.β
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Schizophrenia exists.
Mental illness exists.
Psychiatric medications can be life-saving.
Psychotherapy can be life-saving.
Don't let misinformed people like @profjohnread.bsky.social tell you otherwise.
Enough with the anti-psychiatry propaganda and stigma. βοΈ
βBased on what we have seen from this administration to date, there is every reason to fear that this study will be a cherry-picking, data-contorting exercise designed to support a predetermined conclusion of lack of safety," said @drpeterlurie.bsky.social. www.scientificamerican.com/article/fda-...
30.10.2025 18:14 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Todayβs Defend Public Health blog post by Dr. Kathleen Shoop describes the choking smog that occurred in Donora, PA exactly 77 years ago today.
Imagine being trapped in a pot of greasy, sooty air pollution with the lid on.
The smog killed 20 people and sickened 6000. It could happen again.
RFK Jr, arguably the worldβs most extreme & dangerous conspiracy theorist & anti-vax activistβhe has a record of 2 decades of vile anti-vax activismβreally did find a perfect partner in Martin Kulldorff, a guy who helped to boost RFK Jr to become the most powerful person in public health in the US
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