I'm going to share this story one more time, because I think the problem it describes -- being unable to determine what is true online or in the news, and just giving up entirely on trying -- is going to get more and more common. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What a study - nearly 15,000 people followed up 4-8 years after a *sole* antibiotic treatment and some *still* had disrupted gut microbiome diversity. Pretty incredible. We’ve always been taught that such disruptions are ephemeral.
#IDSky #MicroSky
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/h...
A colleague that gets it!
Excellent video explaining the abc’s of early childhood infections, and why getting a stack load of them, with maximum exposure methods is not good, and can be mitigated using simple measures.
Thank you!
The immune system is not a muscle.
It is a cleansing fire.
It causes collateral damage.
It has a limited supply of fuel.
It can get out of control.
Don’t burn your whole house down every time by catching every disease without caution.
“And doubts about vaccines are increasingly spilling into refusal of other mainstays of pediatric medicine… At a hospital in Boise, Idaho, for example, three infants died last year after their parents declined a shot of vitamin K, administered to newborns to prevent bleeding, said Dr. Amanda Lee”
It's absolutely bonkers that we learned with clarity that we can dramatically reduce or even possibly eliminate many respiratory viruses & we choose to embrace them instead.
Misinformation a barrier to women’s health: experts www.timescolonist.com/local-news/m...
"...rampant misinformation online about side effects of contraception."
@drjengunter.bsky.social: "... #misinformation is 'becoming a health crisis unto itself.'"
“At a Forever Canadian event in Edmonton this week, former deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk delivered a blunt message: the push to tear Alberta out of Canada is reckless, economically naïve, and legally dubious.”
#ForeverCanadian
#ableg
#CdnPoli
prairiesexposed.medium.com/forever-cana...
“Instead of producing what looks like a generic critique from a nameless LLM,” Wired reported last week, Expert Review “lists a number of real academics and authors available to weigh in on your text. To be clear: Those people have nothing to do with this process.”🤬
7/ Our findings suggest that COVID-19 may not be a short-lived shock, but a multi-year disruption w/ lasting implications for population health. #mortality #demography #covid @oxpop.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @erc.europa.eu
1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography
“When asked if Alberta should stay in Canada, 70 per cent of respondents said the province should. Only 17 per cent believed Alberta should become an independent country & 4 per cent believe Alberta should join the United States.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
This has always been Kennedy's goal.
The Carney government is also cutting prison librarians to save…$2.5m. This is now a theme with the federal budget - it’s not about cost savings, it’s about destroying access to knowledge and information. #Cdnhist
On a warm summer late afternoon, I once sat down and talked to a honey bee, finishing her shift.
"I've seen you, hard at work, day in, day out. Buzzing flower to home and back again. And again. and again. Why work so hard?"
I'll never forget her answer: "Sometimes I get to nap in flowers."
Both of the options here are human writers. The first option is unprocessed human writing and the second option is human writing run through a language model to reproduce the same outputs with different words
If it couldn't have existed without training data, it isn't creating anything at all.
“When I got home, I sat on the floor, wearing my helmet, and sobbed until I was hoarse with the overwhelm of my joy. I’d just ridden a bike for an hour! A bike! For an hour!”
The “greatest feeling in the world” after Long COVID. E-bikes and accessibility, via @heatherhogan.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth
A watercolour painting of a bald eagle
And the Bald Eagle is finished 🥰
#watercolours #birdart #baldeagle 🪶
Alberta oil sands near Fort Mac
Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada's Oil Sands Wastelands https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/health/canada-oil-sands-fort-chipewyan-alberta.html
↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁
who could have known that the Ponzi scheme of low taxes and delayed infrastructure maintain would one day have to be paid for?
True in city infrastructure, true for climate change.
The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.
Five glass bottles shaped like maple leaves sit in a row on a wooden railing outdoors. Each bottle is filled with maple syrup in different shades ranging from very light golden to dark amber. The bottles have gold-colored caps. Trees and a house appear blurred in the background under a bright blue sky.
Between 2011 and 2012, several individuals stole 9,571 barrels of maple syrup, worth $18.7 million, from a warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Quebec.
This theft from the Maple Syrup Strategic Reserve became known as The Great Maple Syrup Heist.
This is the story.
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No AI, I don’t want you to summarize everything. I want to read things and think about them with my own brain.
As the White House posts videos blending real footage of its war in Iran with clips from movies and video games, this talk from @justinling.ca is incredibly timely.
It's this Wednesday evening, at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Also will be livestreamed.
And it's free!
Registration ends soon:
You could get lung cancer even if you've never smoked.
www.cbc.ca/radio/whitec...
Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.
"Pluralists should avoid treating these votes as a normal exercise in democracy... It is a referendum on an approach to governance — a way to manufacture legitimacy while dodging the institutions that test ideas, protect rights and force compromise."
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026....
Lots of good reasons to mask, including:
“I like to keep an air of mystery”
