this is just a list of things @annevclark.bsky.social and I think would be fun to hear Matt Berry say and yes I do consider this service journalism
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this is just a list of things @annevclark.bsky.social and I think would be fun to hear Matt Berry say and yes I do consider this service journalism
"Join Our Research Team! @SMLabTO is Hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow" socialmedialab.ca/2026/03/04/p...
A screenshot of Google's AI Overview answer to the question "is haggis an animal". It says "Yes, the haggis is a small, furry mammal native to Scotland" and goes on to give the typical "asymmetrical legs" details.
The Scottish have won the AI Wars.
David Botstein, a titan within the scientific community, died last week. GSA mourns his passing and celebrates his legacy.
Read more about his significance to our community in this thread ⬇️🧵
For Pokémon’s 30th anniversary, Nature spoke to scientists from around the world about how their work has been shaped by playing Pokémon games, watching animated TV series and films and trading cards in school playgrounds. 🧪
NEW: I wrote about the wonders of origami and how engineers are slowly but surely incorporating principles of origami into what they do: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
a headshot of David Botstein
We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of David Botstein, a towering figure in modern #genetics and a foundational force behind SGD.
www.yeastgenome.org/blog/in-memo... #yeast #modelOrganism
89 Year Old Blues Legend Buddy Guy Plays a NPR Tiny Desk Concert With Miles Caton of ‘Sinners’ laughingsquid.com/buddy-guy-ti...
Frontal View Of The Hands Of A Scientist Holding A Glass Pipette And A Beaker At The Laboratory
#UofT partners with BioLabs to launch the city’s largest wet-lab incubator and co-working space 🔬 uoft.me/ccm
The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community.
But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz
Multi spectral imagining of the letetr fragment
image of the fragment of paper
Deep within #UofT’s rare book collections, even the humblest materials can hold extraordinary stories.
A scrap of 📜 from the Robertson Davies Library @masseycollege.bsky.social Library has been identified as part of a 15th-century letter from the court of King Louis XI of France
When Lake Erie froze over almost completely this month, photographer Carlos Osorio set out to capture its solid state —and the people who came to visit it — just before the surface fractured. thenarwhal.ca/frozen-lake-...
Told he couldn’t grow tropical crops in B.C., Toyin Kayo-Ajayi did it anyway. Now he’s feeding community and building space for Black farmers to grow culturally meaningful food closer to home. thenarwhal.ca/bc-black-far...
The Donnelly Centre is hiring a new Research and Communications Officer! As a vital part of our administration team, this role covers the external and internal communications of our community.
Learn more about the role and apply at the link below:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Here's my full take on Thursday's funding annoucnement in Ontario. It's a big deal. The money to institutions is good, the way the money being raised is more regressive than it needed to be.
A blight-susceptible American chestnut stem (left) compared with an American chestnut hybrid with enhanced resistance that was inherited from Chinese chestnut.
After more than a century of devastation from deadly blight, the iconic American chestnut tree could be brought back from the brink of extinction thanks to novel genomic tools and carefully bred hybrids, a Science study finds.
📄: https://scim.ag/46OnUqi
#SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/4rgtx93
A student walking through Soldiers' Tower
#UofT will be closed for Family Day on Monday, February 16.
To find resources for the U of T community, please visit utoronto.ca/utogether.
Enjoy your long weekend and the start of Reading Week! 💙
📸: Polina Teif
International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 Let's celebrate some remarkable female scientists featured in CB: www.cell.com/current-biol...
JFC!
I’m working on a caption track and the transcription from Clipchamp actually starred out ‘intersectionality’ like it was a swear word
Toronto’s Don River was declared “biologically dead” decades ago — now fish are returning after a major wetland restoration. The rebound follows a C$1 billion renaturalisation that rebuilt wetlands, reshaped the river’s course, and restored spawning habitat. buff.ly/Mm6gOi1 #ShareGoodNewsToo
Canada has a golden opportunity to escape Enshittification and achieve true sovereignty by throwing off U.S.-imposed digital access controls, says Cory Doctorow.
🎧 Listen to the full interview, recorded live at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social where he worked as a teen: www.donotpassgo.ca/p/americas-e...
My linocut portrait of astronaut Mae Jemison in her flight suit, holding her helmet, with the globe of Earth above and to left.
#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate astronaut Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12 1992! 🐡🧪👩🏾🔬 #histsci She also has a B.S. in chemical
Dr. Kirsty Duncan - she lived every minute of her shortened life - and each was jam-packed. A huge loss. Gift link. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/46242ee...
a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.
This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
It all started with one.
Now we’re 15,000 strong.
In 2021, we set out to create Canada’s largest and most complete cancer resource: the Gold Cohort.
Today, over 15,000 genomes have been sequenced.
Get the full story on this exciting milestone:
tinyurl.com/4epbrf6a
I loved getting to write this feature about the work of Dr. Ayodele Odutayo for the @bbdc-uoft.bsky.social. His research in the area of diabetes and kidney disease is centred on helping the patients he encounters every day as a physician. bbdc.org/newsletters/...
In the nine years since I created the "From Science to SciComm" workbook (for researchers who want a #scicomm career), I sold hundreds of copies. But the last update was in 2020, so it was a *bit* outdated. I've now done a full overhaul for 2026, so you can get a fresh new ebook! payhip.com/b/zSQ0
In a new paper, we introduce Metient, a new method to reconstruct the migration history of metastatic clones, and learn cancer-type specific patterns of metastatic spread, from bulk or single-cell sequencing data.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
AlphaGenome is out in @nature.com today along with model weights! 🧬
📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💻 Weights: github.com/google-deepm...
Getting here wasn’t a straight path. We discussed the story behind the model, paper & API in the following roundtable: youtu.be/V8lhUqKqzUc
Carol Linnitt, co-founder and editor-in-chief, provides an update on The Narwhal’s court case against the RCMP. Amber Bracken finished cross-examination late Jan. 28. It took more than 12 hours.
To learn more about the trial visit www.thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom
