You didn’t have to worry about getting measles because we protected ourselves AND one another by getting vaccinated Measles was eliminated in Canada in 1998

Peel back the cover on virtually every Western right wing polemicist and you find Russian interference.

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

OpenAI's rapid rush into education has been achieved by habituating users through training programs, institutional lock-ins, strategic marketing partnerships, and third party integrations that together are helping it become infrastructural to teaching and learning. It's going to be hard to get out.

cause cognitive loss (on average a loss of 3 IQ points for EVERY infection): www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... So, every COVID infection is doing damage, whether you get #LongCOVID or not. But people are getting Long COVID - at an alarming rate and at a rate that is not slowing down, 10/

The thing about health disinformation is that when it comes from the highest office, people believe it. Parents & pregnant women want to do the right thing but are now making health decisions based on fear. This is causing real harm. It's also making our jobs as healthcare professionals harder.

"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada. "Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

1. The intense and all-encompassing institutional and societal pushback seen in some countries against any intervention to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19, whether that be vaccines, or air filtration / purification, or masks, is not simply as a result of mandates or lockdowns.

You know, when you really think about it, does all that driving and car dependency really make sense? @adamconover.net weighed in.

It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator

So... I would start meal planning based on what you can access locally. Learn to make noodles and cookies and crackers. Stock up on rice and beans- get a Costco membership if you can. There will be mass shortages and empty shelves. Welcome to 1980s Russia. Don't panic, plan!

Have you ever wondered how the far right manage to normalize their ideologies into the mainstream, as we’re now seeing in the United States? Well, let me explain it to you — because they’re trying to do it here in Canada, too, using the term “remigration.” This is important:

At Issue is a great example of the range of views allowed in Canadian discourse. Coyne effectively calls for privatization. Hebert says backlash is expected when union not consulted, while Raj criticizes the union. None question whether a public service should need to turn a profit.

Any #pharmacist or #MD who have come across this book? I've seen a few 'back to the land' homesteading folks suggest it and it gives me the heebie-jeebies (triggering my antipathy to homeopathy?). Is this a guide to liver failure, placebo bliss, or maybe something beneficial?

This is fucking insane and I am astonished at how irresponsible Global News upper management is being with this. They’re risking the credibility of all their journalists and for…what? Canada’s worst nepo baby?

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Just had another look - they: a) demonstrated the majority of COVID transmission is necessarily airborne b) have been sitting on the data since October 2022, *before* the Loeb N95 study several of them co-authored was published c) won't share the data c) still have these COIs: osf.io/preprints/me...

A beautiful and useful piece. theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...

Given the extreme nature of many of Charlie Kirk’s comments, the simple act of rising for a standing ovation in response to his death has taken on significance. #canpoli #uspoli

Boomers have gamed the system in their favour: "Now the nesting generation can’t afford a home while parents amass unearned wealth. Well done, Canada." www.greaterfool.ca/2025/09/18/c...

Weaponizing rage...👇 Analysts flag rise in Russian-created misinformation posts on social media following Kirk shooting abcnews.go.com/Politics/sec... "...not only spread misinformation about the killing but also look to enrage social media users during an already politically tense situation."

Canada’s Parliament just gave Charlie Kirk a standing ovation. You can oppose political violence without rewriting the legacy of a man who did a lot of harm to vulnerable and marginalized communities. But Canada’s politicians, some media and many employers don’t seem to entirely understand that:

Why are single-stair buildings actually SAFER than two stair buildings in some circumstances? It seems counter intuitive… obviously, more redundancy is better, right?

These characteristic wooden domestic water tanks in NYC help ensure that at least 8 psi/0.6 bar of water pressure is maintained at plumbing fixtures in the building below. Water is pumped from the lower pressure water mains below the street to the elevated tank using an electric transfer pump.

This is also an expression of buckling theorem applied to hydraulic systems. One continuous beam the full height fails. Several pinned beams do not.

For anyone interested in learning more about climate resilient buildings and, in particular, want actionable material, the Climate Risk Institute has two offerings for the Climate Resilient Buildings course this fall. See the landing page for more info: climateriskinstitute.ca/2025/09/15/n...

#YYC #Smoke #Wildfire #ClimateChange #SueBigOil #abpoli #cdnpoli phys.org/news/2025-09...

🚨🚨🚨 STOP PRESS 🚨🚨🚨 Paper published by eminent UK scientists compare the effectiveness of PPE and other risk controls for protecting healthcare workers against Covid infections. academic.oup.com/annweh/artic... Powered hoods most effective FFP3s almost as effective. FRSMs very poor.

Very informative reporting on the resurgence of Typhus is Texas. All infectious diseases seem to have sensed the abandonment of science and public health measures and are seizing the moment. This is not the type of job secure I want 🫠 www.npr.org/2025/09/12/n...

I did a lot of PID tuning during my Masters (proportional/integral/differential controls). I am starting to think the majority of people respond mainly to the rate of change of things (D thinking), and not proportional or long term changes to where a reference should be.

It is nice to see Monarchs again. They were a rare sighting these past few years.

I might be born in the wrong century. But to me, this is degrowth. The scuttle, brush, and razor are less efficient than cartridges, but they will be with me for most of my life. Shaving has gone from a tiring chore to a skill developing moment of meditation.

Life is entropy minimizing.

PREPRINT CLAIMING LINK BETWEEN mRNA VACCINES A D CANCER HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN. Thanks @elisabethbik.bsky.social for your vigilance.

Deforestation is a serious threat to human health. Indigenous territories act as a bulwark against it, protecting millions from health risks, a new peer-reviewed study says. insideclimatenews.org/news/1109202...

Test your knowledge on a SARS-2: seanmullen.com/covidcompete...

It's almost like me screaming about Diagolon for years had a point!

Update on this thread: Thanks to the feedback on this thread, I realized the methodological problems with the Voortman and De Vos (2025) paper (which the New York Post heralded as "Rising-sea hysteria debunked") went deeper than I originally realized, and clearly necessitate retraction. 1/

Fair thee well, my old friend. It's time to put you 📌 out to pasture.

Carbon capture schemes are being pushed by fossil fuel interests. Why? First, so they can benefit from tax credits and government funding. But mostly to slow down the energy transition and prolong our dependence on fossil fuels. Here are the receipts: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hail, wind left 200-km 'scar' across Alberta that's visible from space www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How much carbon can we safely store underground? Much less than previously thought. Carbon storage “can no longer be considered an unlimited solution to bring our climate back to a safe level.” grist.org/science/carb... #Climate #Carbon #Policy #Technology #Solutions #News #Environment

The World’s Most Famous Organ Piece Played on the World’s Largest Fully Operational Pipe Organ www.openculture.com/2025/09/the-...

www.science.org/doi/full/10.... Mandating Indoor Air Quality in Public Buildings. Our paper in Science. 🧪 #healthpolicy

Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.

@sandifp.bsky.social breaking down the CBC investigation on Canadian Banks tilting the table in their favour at your expense. CBC article: www.cbc.ca/news/busines... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPPA...

Great🧵 on covid vaccines.

"Right now for under $600,000, you can get a pretty decent one-bedroom condo." At current interest rates, those are cool $3,000 monthlies. To afford that (~30% rent:total expense), you need to gross ~$10,000/mo, or make around $175k/year. That's affordable for <2% of Canadians.

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵