Extremely important study, with very concerning implications for the future. The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hoping the pivotal finding of increased inflammation with #LongCovid will be responsive to tirzepatide (Zepbound) in our ongoing 1,000+ participant randomized, placebo-controlled trial (full enrollment completed in <1 month!) www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natimmunol.nature.com

I have been working through @parismarx.com ’s guide to getting off US tech, slowly because I am so deep into the Apple world, but today’s events just gave me a big kick in the butt to get it done. disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

“This is a seismic, long-awaited correction of the scientific record,” said Dr. Philip J. Landrigan… “It pulls the veil off decades of industry efforts to create a false narrative that glyphosate is safe…People have developed cancers, and people have died because of this scientific fraud.”

"For Canada to thrive we must decide whether we are a #PetroState of the past or an #ElectroState of the future. Only one has a prosperous place in the #ClimateEra & a majority of Canadians already want stronger #ClimateAction. What's missing is a government willing to act like it." #cdnpoli #abpoli

So, I may have added a bit too much cognac to this French Plombière/Trifle hybrid, but not enough to dissuade an adult palate... rather to keep the kids away.

Respectfully Jon Stewart, you were wrong on the @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social to mock people who mask. ICYMI: there are tens of millions of Americans who have been disabled by #LongCOVID and must do everything in their power to prevent further infections that make them vulnerable to further 1/

Amazing that this review paper from 2021 just became my most cited paper of my 30+ yr career. I am honored to have been the lead first co-corresponding author with @ChiaWang8. COVID is indeed airborne--as are most other respiratory viruses. @ucsandiego.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/full/10....

PSA: if you live in Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, or Nova Scotia, you can order native plant seeds for FREE from the Ottawa Wildflower Seeds Library. Their annual seed giveaway starts today! wildflowerseedlibrary.ca

This is probably the highlight for this year.

You may have seen masks mentioned a lot lately, especially as the spread of multiple viruses is currently high, so it’s important to know the facts in order to protect yourself and others. Learn more and stay safe this respiratory virus season and beyond! (Part 1/2)

House Hippos, on the other hand, are perfectly acceptable gift for a Canadian.

The problem with timing some of your major life events (e.g. anniversaries) with the solar cycle is that the dates shift around a bit. Partners may not be as sympathetic to an absolute time keeping method and would prefer to stick to calendar dates instead.

Euh @cbcpitchbot.bsky.social, did you write this headline? Is there no adult supervision at the CBC? You don't write headlines like that.

#AcademicSky Students PREFER using LLM/AI to notetaking... ... but experiment shows lower comprehension & retention It's like they say, you gotta put in the work to understand things better. No pain, no gain. Shortcuts are, well.... shortcuts. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ATTENTION 🇨🇦 Hospitals & LTC Does your hospital or LTC facility want to be part of a groundbreaking Pilot Project including FREE installation of Upper Air UV? Pls see below & drop me a note. Cheers 🙂

4/ ▶️ "If all HCWs wore N95 masks during treatment, the total hourly infection risk would decrease by 94.7 %". ▶️ "If all HCWs wore surgical masks, the total hourly infection risk would be reduced by 53.9 %". Via @countrybee2.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

LA wildfires public health impacts: What is the main finding? Local residents experienced a 24% excess in pulmonary illness, a 46% excess in myocardial infarction, and a 118% excess in systemic illness requiring emergency medical attention.

Come and join us at Imperial College to work a project looking at mechanisms in Long Covid and ME/CFS We're looking for: A keen, experienced Research Nurse A gifted molecular immunologist with a strong bioinformatics background www.imperial.ac.uk/.../descript.... www.imperial.ac.uk/.../descript....

Great infographic from "Countering the Climate Change Counter Movement: Six lessons from Canada's climate delays" (pub Dec 11, 2025) Infographic: ars.els-cdn.com/content/imag... Full paper (FREE PDF available): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“If we want to use [Direct Air Capture] to limit overall warming to 1.5C, while emitting enough to reach 2.5C, DAC would need to use something like 30% of all electricity consumed over the next 80 years.”

Main paper: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.

Over the years I've noticed several different types of people landing on doom for different reasons. I have a bit of insight into their reasons due to being in the position of being the provider of local projections for adaptation so they often end up exposing their motivated reasoning to me ... 1/x

First, I log Quickbooks online and I'm introduced to their "new GenAI" business helper tool! Excellent, Intuit is now knowingly providing a defective tool that they say can help answer business related questions but that you shouldn't rely on it to make business related decision.

It's the dumbest of bond villain approaches: "See Mr. Bond, I have embedded the shittest product imaginable in every layer of the economy. If you don't pay my ONE GAJILLION $ every day, my machine will fail and collapse the economy!"

Via Rail’s quality of service is far, far below international standards – Canadians need to stop normalizing this: “Via Rail passengers arrived in Ottawa more than 12 hours late on Thursday, after “serious mechanical issues” forced them to spend the night sitting on a train in Brockville, Ontario”

Here's my "appearance" on CBC radio last night youtu.be/t9_Xqtxi2GQ

Snow days are for adults too, right?

Potential Impacts of this change in already opaque system are troubling. Worth a read

Crazy stat to contemplate: In 2024 China added almost exactly 1 GW of solar and wind capacity per day (358 GW across the year) – a pace equivalent to building a typical nuclear reactor every single day.

May this banish your imposter syndrome to the darkest realm of the void.

This article is a few years old now... and if you haven't read it, and are at all involved with 'public engagement' in a professional context, please do so now. www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018...

Doctors still outperform AI in clinical reasoning, study www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202... via @ualberta.bsky.social "...advanced AI models struggle to update judgment in response to new and uncertain information, and often fail to recognize when some information is completely irrelevant."

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates. Thread [1/9]

The prime minister promises he’ll solve climate change … right after he gets a new pipeline built. @balkissoon.bsky.social asks: haven’t we heard that one before?

<< Taps the sign.. >> Blocking the sun as a means to combat greenhouse warming is a really bad idea on multiple fronts… globalecoguy.org/solar-geoeng...

The federal-AB agreement is a love letter to fossil fuels -cancelation of critical policies (OG emissions cap & clean electricity rules) -public $$ for a pipeline (via Indigenous loan program) -more $$ for CCS, incl. enhanced oil production - only mention of electricity is for fossil fuels

Sorry did I say six months? I meant 33 minutes

Another night to sleep on this and I'm solidifying this take There is a reason industry/govt sees a bit win in trading the regulations that would have forced real emissions reductions (oil and gas cap and CER) for vauge future carbon pricing promises that some are claiming will achieve the same 1/

Today’s MOU between the federal government and Alberta risks unravelling Canada’s climate policy. Read our full statement ⬇️ climateinstitute.ca/news/mou-alb...

This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec. You can find my full statement below.

Trudeau-era environment minister Steven Guilbeault has published a resignation letter detailing the reasons for his departure from Carney's cabinet. He directly cites today's MOU:

CAR-T therapies are looking more and more promising as a way to treat--and maybe, MAYBE even cure--many autoimmune diseases. Some of your immune cells are modified in the lab and put back in your body to make important molecules. 🤞 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@mark-carney.bsky.social, SSP5 is a cautionary storyline of extreme disasters, not a "optimal cost-benefit analysis" condition that should be pursued. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

A bunch of white nationalists donned their little costumes, stood on a London, Ontario overpass and demanded to be taken seriously. Of course, this was Second Sons Canada, Diagolon's more militant arm. I spoke with extremism experts about what they hope to accomplish with these temper tantrums: