“The New York Times found that at critical points, as measles was gaining new footholds in Canada, provincial politicians stopped public health officials from speaking out about the value of getting vaccinated” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...

Robert Munsch has donated his personal archives of stories and materials to the Guelph Public Library. This is wonderful for such a valuable archive to be given to a public municipal library. www.guelphpl.ca/Modules/News...

Budget analysis part 1

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as you think. - Globe and Mail

🧵(1/4) We have finished up October 2025 🎃, and the CIRTN groups had several more publications coming from the labs of Drs Rennian Wang, Megan Levings and Marc Prentki.

This! Fancy web interfaces let you explore the data, but they are not the same as sharing the data. You can do both!

If you are a Canadian scientist interested in the protection of identifying information about applicants and reviewers of tricouncil grants please read and sign this letter. Thank you. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢 Support Our Science in the news! We’re proud to be featured in CTV News’ latest story on Canada’s emerging “brain gain” — a scientific migration as researchers look north amid challenges in the U.S.

Interesting paper, but does anyone know if the claim that “…The datasets (genome-wide raw sequencing and individual-level clinical data) … are not publicly available due to EU and national legislation” is reasonable? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21595-1

🧵(1/4) For the first half of October 2025 we have 3 publications from the CIRTN labs🍁. These papers are from the groups of Drs. Bruce Verchere, Yi-Chun Chen, Francis Lynn, James Shapiro, Tatsuya Kin and Guy Rutter!

Today, #ForeverCanadian brought 230,000 petition signatures to Edmonton. Our volunteers will continue collecting signatures until October 28. We need your signature to reach our 300,000 requirement to keep Alberta in Canada. #ableg #Yeg #Yyc #CdnPoli

🧵(1/7)We are now out of September🍁! From the last two weeks we have had publications from the CIRTN labs of Drs Jenny Bruin, Mourad Ferdaoussi, Peter Light, Patrick MacDonald, James Shapiro and Bruce Verchere!

Novel insights into the molecular underpinnings of islet cell dysfunction in #T1D highlighting pathways that may be leveraged to preserve residual β-cell function and modulate α-cell activity @bcellorg.bsky.social www.jci.org/articles/vie...

Yesterday we celebrated our 600th human research islet isolation in support of diabetes research (and then last night isolated the islets in the pic). I’m very fortunate to work with such a dedicated team! See more at www.isletcore.ca

Join us for the revival of the Islet Biology and Diabetes Keystone symposia in Breckenridge, Colorado on March 16-19, 2026, for great science and great skiing. You can register now for early bird rates: lnkd.in/dw59T7tc Joint with Gut-Brain Axis. @linnemannlab.bsky.social Erica Nishimura, Barak Blum

My column in the Globe & Mail: “Those challenges notwithstanding, separation is clearly not the answer. Even the talk of separation damages Alberta’s reputation, creates uncertainty, drives away talent and investment, and divides communities.” #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Decision to cancel my season tix….justified again.

Research is the key to unlocking Canada’s future and it needs proper funding. The federal government must uphold its Budget 2024 commitment to Canadian researchers. Read the Coalition for Canadian Research’s open letter: www.caut.ca/news/coaliti...

Join us this Friday am, in person or online, for new insights into #Islet biology-what should we strive for in islet cell replacement therapy?-some thoughts from Professor Powers, a leader in the field in characterizing human islets across the lifespan #diabetes

Hello! Welcome to the CIRTN-R2FIC BlueSky account! Our group focuses on researching pancreatic islet biology and pathology related to islets such as type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Here you will find bi-weekly updates from the scientists from across Canada that make up CIRTN-R2FIC.

From the Ampofo group! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spatially Bound Functional Heterogeneity Drives Modular Organization in Beta Cell Networks Maja Duh Marko Šterk, Lidija Križančić Bombek, Patrick E MacDonald, Andraž Stožer, Marko Gosak pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40765144/

This is now a long-distance relationship, Tim. #cdnpoli

The official post: apps.ualberta.ca/careers/post...

1/ Canadian govts appear to have decided that they can not or will not fund higher education properly. But they won't admit this, preferring to tell institutions to enshittify themselves and shut up. There are two options: one is slow starvation, the other is radical deregulation.

Guys y’all have the first overtly pro-cancer HHS leaders. Literal death cult. If I was an American, I’d be in the streets every day protesting

The official post: apps.ualberta.ca/careers/post...

Official posting coming soon, but here's a heads-up: #Postdoc Opportunity for individuals with an interest in advancing the understanding of pancreatic islet hormones in health and #diabetes. Diverse backgrounds, skill sets and experiences are welcome! www.bcell.org

Official posting coming soon, but here's a heads-up: #Postdoc Opportunity for individuals with an interest in advancing the understanding of pancreatic islet hormones in health and #diabetes. Diverse backgrounds, skill sets and experiences are welcome! www.bcell.org

Type 2 diabetes is often considered a protein misfolding disease. But where are these toxic proteins found? 🤔 🚨In new work out today in @natmetabolism.nature.com, we show that mitochondrial protein misfolding (yes mitos🤯) leads to beta cell damage in T2D. 🚨 nature.com/articles/s42... 1/n

Excited to share that our recent paper is featured as the Endocrinology Article of the Week! @samanthajsyoon.bsky.social

Would that my institution would support postdoc recruitment like my alma mater. For what it’s worth, I’d be interested to hear from interested potential postdocs. We have $$ ;) www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...

One of the great things about Edmonton are the trails for running and biking.

We are launching a new initiative to support experimental design, data management/analysis and bioinformatics. Early days yet, but check it out here. www.bcell.org/adi-datasci....

We are launching a new initiative to support experimental design, data management/analysis and bioinformatics. Early days yet, but check it out here. www.bcell.org/adi-datasci....

So nice when our data resource (www.humanislets.com) can support outstanding research like this from Liu et al. In Sebastian Barg’s group. diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/art...

Come join us in Vancouver! Exciting opportunity for a more senior investigator researching new regenerative medicine approaches for Type 1 diabetes. $8M in funding for successful candidate research.ubc.ca/media/file/j...

Heading out the door.

Starting July with a bang. 450k human islets for research.

A Canadian classic.

Here’s to not taking ourselves too seriously. Happy Canada Day! youtu.be/04u58ifxmRA...

Happy Canada day folks!

Nice to see @yichunchen.bsky.social profiled among other early career researchers in today’s @theglobeandmail.com. As we turn to recruiting international (US) talent, let’s not forget to nurture and support existing talent here. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/aaa9fec...

Alberta as we know it today simply would not exist without the millions of immigrants and refugees who built it, who loved it, and who were proud to call it home - including my grandparents and my mum. This bitter xenophobia is as unAlbertan as it’s possible to be. I’m ashamed. I’m disgusted.

Review on metabolism in stem cell derived beta cells from former PhD student with us, Frank Lin. Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the #EISG2025 conference in Malmö on June 11-13! 🔬 👏 Diabetes researchers Charlotte Ling and Lena Eliasson from Lund University Diabetes Centre have been part of the organising committe. Read about their work with the conference: www.ludc.lu.se/article/inte...

Rest in Peace, Marc Garneau. Thank you for your service. #cdnpoli

Oilers and Panthers start tomorrow! www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/aaa9fec...