Accurate: Never enough money for paid family leave, universal PreK, subsidized high quality childcare, etc....but always enough for 'defense' and 'war'.
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Accurate: Never enough money for paid family leave, universal PreK, subsidized high quality childcare, etc....but always enough for 'defense' and 'war'.
REACH BC | Research Study:
Using Photovoice to Share Experiences of Recovery After ICU
Have you been an ICU patient or a family caregiver of an ICU patient?
reachbc.ca/project/961
Call for BC Rural Health Conference poster abstract submissions! 📝 Topics may cover improving the health of rural patients and communities, cultivating rural innovations, creating high-quality health system improvements across British Columbia or globally, and more.
➡️ Submit by March 16, 2026
⚠️ Beware peptide hype! ⚠️
Not all peptides products are the same!
Some are informed by good (impressive!) research (eg, insulin, GLP-1s), but be HIGHLY cautious of the grey market stuff pushed by wellness influencers!
My take on CTV Edmonton: www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/vid...
Politicization of science in Canada: what’s happening and what can we do about it?
sciencepolicy.ca/posts/politi...
@bcchresearch.bsky.social
On #CMAJPodcasts, Drs. Megan Cooney and Matthew Carwana discuss how the TEN‑4‑FACESp rule helps identify bruising patterns concerning for physical abuse, and what pandemic-era hospitalization trends reveal about the severity of maltreatment in infants and toddlers.
➡️ www.cmaj.ca/transcript-251219
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large
Cover story from The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious and high-impact general medical journals, that says "The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.
The Lancet spells out the case against RFK Jr so clearly.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (1/4🧵)
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Join us online tomorrow 11am EDT to catch PhD candidate Veronica Tran talking about work from her recently accepted mBio paper on #Pseudmonas mutants selected by type IV pilus-targeting #phages! @mcmasteriidr.bsky.social @mcmasternexus.bsky.social
Allies in Action Registration:
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Figure 7 of the article referenced in the post. Those PhD graduates with Master's degrees had more scholarship money, took less time to complete, but were older at the time of graduation.
The pathway to a #PhDLife might include a Master's degree.
But, it might not.
Whichever you follow, there are costs and benefits.
And your context really matters.
Learn more about our study: www.sciedupress.com/journal/inde...
#HigherEd #PhD #AcademicLife #AcademicChatter
We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
Did they address you by first name?
Like all the emails do.
Text graphic congratulating the book Geographies of the Heart for winning a cultural diversity award.
Congratulations to the editors of, and contributors to, “Geographies of the Heart: Stories from Newcomers to Canada” for being awarded a Fraser Valley Cultural Diversity Award in the Individual Initiatives category! 🎉
archway.ca/news/23rd-an...
graphic card listing jobs available - Program Manager, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Senior DevOps, Senior Software Engineer at DHDP and Terry Fox Research Institute
We're hiring!
Join the DHDP team & help develop secure, effective data sharing, #AI and #ML to accelerate #precisionmedicine research to benefit patients across Canada.
We're seeking experienced & enthusiastic professionals.
Full details: www.dhdp.ca/about/careers
Please apply, & please share!
And $6 for 250ml of coffee
We’re pleased to share the revised 2025-2029 Strategic Plan!
We’re grateful to our patient and family partners, researchers, institutions, and collaborators who shaped this evolution.
Read the full plan here: static1.squarespace.com/static/662c1...
#RareDiseaseResearch #PediatricRareDiseases
Hyperinsulinema, adiposity weight gain and #obesity Associations vs. causality #insulin www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Longevity craze + celeb endorsements + exploitive wellness influencers + RFK Jr push = UGH! 🚨
Wellness #peptide craze: Why people are injecting? www.bbc.com/news/article...
"The people using these products are, in essence, becoming lab rats."
Soon: on CTV Edmonton to talk peptides...
And women in all disciplines
Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com. The company gave me this statement over email: We’ve heard the feedback about this tool and appreciate the engagement from those who have taken the time to raise thoughtful questions about the functionality and the experts surfaced. We agree that the product experience can be improved for both users and experts. The agent was designed to help users discover influential perspectives and scholarship that add value to their work. We want the people behind those perspectives to have greater control over whether their name is used, while providing new ways for influential voices to reach new audiences. Our goal is to improve Expert Review to deliver this outcome.
NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
I used to get us both to initial the meeting notes.
If you are in Halifax Thursday, March 12, please join me for what I promise will be an interesting discussion on the future of humanity. @dalhousieu.bsky.social @docdellaire.bsky.social @drcchambers.bsky.social @dentremy.bsky.social @jgdownie.bsky.social @jasonhaslam.ca @juliamwright.bsky.social
Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper?
Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.
Could say 100%, depending on the books.
Using a Star Trek GIF, post where you’re at right now
Do you find it difficult to understand why LLMs — like ChatGPT and the like — are a form of ‘automated plagiarism’?
Take 3 min and listen to this excellent explanation by @gwenvarley.bsky.social
youtu.be/1ON-FJHq9aM?... (h/t @olivia.science) 1/🧵
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Also: please don’t use white text on light backgrounds. Very very unreadable.
@neurodevkathy.bsky.social
