When science is understandable, we all win. I've started a national petition calling on all institutions of higher education, and their accreditors, to require science communication and public engagement training for all STEM degrees. Share and sign today, it only takes a few seconds: bit.ly/3LbnfHB

Delighted to receive this funding to continue our teams’ work on understanding the burden of occupational skin cancer in Canada!

Interesting disclaimer from a group of authors who had been helping develop the latest ROBINS risk of bias tool but jumped ship rather than put their names to the publication researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/46... #episky

struggling with an analogy here but imagine NASA posting a meme about how excited they are to return aviation to the pre-jet age

Vinay Prasad just got fired from the FDA because he was utterly unqualified and could not meet the moment. He can now go back to making his little YouTube videos chockablock with misinformation and continue to deceive the public that way.

This is great to see from CSA! Public comment period is open.

A powerful graph that shows the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine in preventing cancer and saving lives.

Lmao

Returning to the office isn’t the answer to Canada’s productivity problem — and it will add pressure to urban housing

So are all the news outlets saying Zohran Mamdani is using coded antisemitic language and if you read between the lines you can tell how bad he is going to make a big deal about the worlds richest man making a chatbot that advocates for Hitler?

I don't think NYT should know peace until they divulge the full chain of decision making that led to the laundering of Nazi propaganda against a leading anti-fascist politician the same day fascism was codified in Congress.

trump's first post about mamdani is going to be levels of racism we haven't seen since the 19th century

Incredible turn out for #NoKingsDay. Thank you to everyone speaking up and taking action. Dissent is patriotic!

We feed you. They hunt us.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

I think once people realized they can bully ICE agents if they don’t have a full police escort it was kinda over for them.

Israeli tanks opened fire on thousands of civilians gathered at a distribution site in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Sunday morning, killing at least 31 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office aje.io/xx7980

🧵 Police and governments have manipulated media to create a moral panic around crime in homeless encampments. Now, they’re taking the next step to punish unhoused residents through medical incarceration. Once again, major newspapers are serving as tailgunner. 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/bc-governmen...

I'm going to tell you something the government won't (and I can't believe I'm the one saying this): coronavirus damages the placenta. Women who are infected experience double the baseline rate of stillbirths.

Sing it

You can’t compete on what the most devastating cuts to science are these last few months, happening in the US. This one cuts me deeply. And it cuts all workers, everywhere in the world. Shameful, horrible, and stupid.

Trying to think of any previous technology that needed this many people out there telling everyone that they're wrong about how it stinks and it is very good and helpfully actually

Earlier this month, CAREX team members @cherylepeters.bsky.social and @emilyheer.bsky.social joined @marcozenone.bsky.social to share their work on cancer misinformation at the Café Scientifique event co-hosted by UBC's Cancer Prevention Research Cluster and @cancersociety.bsky.social.

Ableism & eugenics 🤝 anti-mask & anti-vaxx ideology If you want to distance yourself from #ableism, #eugenics, anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers as much as possible, an easy way to do this is to wear a mask in public spaces It’s not too late to start again if you’ve stopped #WeAreStillinApandemic

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

You know what actually could be figured out by September? Universal healthcare. 🤷‍♂️

Do not go there unless you must for family reasons. Even then. Probably don’t.

The thieves, liars and grifters in the "AI" industry must be absolutely delighted to have higher education so willingly offer up the brains, work, and labor of their faculty and students to train their planet guzzling chatbot

The pandemic conditioned people to see the disabled as acceptable losses Once you sacrifice an entire group of people, it gets easier for fascism to take hold. The Spanish flu gave way to Nazis, where the disabled were the first people killed. Want to fight fascism? Engage in disability justice

You are not pro vaxx if you are not in favor of supportive measures like masks, testing, ventilation etc. All of these things SUPPORT vaccine efficacy. And read this entire piece by @juliadoubleday.bsky.social

AI is anti-worker. It also just … kinda sucks. Great piece!!

It has been such a great experience working with the talented folks on the Can-PCC initiative (Canadian Guidelines for Post COVID-19 Condition), where I've been on the Prevention team. Have a read of this great CBC story covering our work now that we're wrapping up! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

These images should be preserved.

Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage Even if you think you're done with COVID, COVID might not be done with you www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Very much looking forward to this engaging evening in a few weeks’ time!

We need to stop entertaining conferences there. I will not be going there, and I’m pretty unlikely to be targeted. But I won’t stand by and allow my global colleagues to be barred from conferences because a despot hates people who aren’t white.

Stand Up for Science Burlington, Vermont

I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

I should record these Democratic senators ripping RFK Jr to absolute shreds so I can listen to it for relaxation later.

Super key! The Square One Fallacy www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... @jonathanjarry.bsky.social "We’re about to see an awful lot of this square one fallacy, as disingenuous actors and their ignorant followers argue that we have never studied things that have a large scientific literature behind them."

Worked hard on this, and I hope it will be a useful resource for many. A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms: www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

Meanwhile at CDC... There is no legitimate reason to manipulate data reporting like this. If you're in public health or IPC, and you aren't already fighting the people doing this, and you still think your profession has any integrity? Prove it. www.cdc.gov/nwss/about-d...

Shutting the door on what was probably/possibly/hopefully the worst year of my life. Good riddance and get out.

Wrote about Trump's Time interview, where he sort of kind of tries to pretend to be moderate. Which I think is even more frightening in a lot of ways. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-time...

HICPAC's decision to insist that surgical-style masks are equivalent to N-95 respirators... is emblematic of its commitment to preserving ineffective droplet-based infection control in spite of new information and evidence. www.thegauntlet.news/p/cdc-infect...

This needs to be said, loud, and often.