Let this joyous Canadian pup start your morning off right 🐾🇨🇦

Pulmonary and critical care clinicians 🩺 (among others) do you know the implications of these being deployed in your patients' communities? Especially for our patients, with reactive airways or limited pulmonary reserve?

Thank you to all the lovely folks acknowledging my culture in their New Year wishes, but- hold your horses! 🤣 It isn't the Year of the Horse until Chinese New Year, beginning Feb 17 this (Gregorian) year. Until then, we're still in a Snake year.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Managing federal awards just feels like living inside a salad spinner right now

Plans to lower training requirements for psychologists in Ontario worry clinicians, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Lots of interesting data at the Action Collaborative meeting on sexual harassment in higher ed—these data suggest leaders have a poor insight on their own level of inclusivity. The least inclusive leaders overestimate themselves, and the most inclusive underestimate. Quelle surprise!

Conducting tasks while receiving e-mails and phone calls reduces a worker’s IQ by about ten points relative to working in uninterrupted quiet. That is equivalent to losing a night’s sleep, and twice as debilitating as using marijuana.

📣 ARP members! Great opportunity to work with team of expert arthritis clinicians as Scientific Editor to update ACR’s Advanced Rheumatology Course! New August 16 deadline to apply! @susanbartlett.bsky.social @rheumcat.bsky.social

Get ready for the next International Conference on Deprescribing! #ICOD2026 in Montreal, Canada April 27-29, 2026!!

Why, in 2015, is the New York Times still using the outdated and incorrect term "commit suicide"? The @nytimes.com editors should check out the Mindset Guide chapter on covering #suicide. static1.squarespace.com/static/60c0d... via ‪‬ @mindsetguide.bsky.social #journalism #WordsMatter

Hollowed out: Ontario public hospitals and the rise of private staffing agencies. Hospitals are being privatized through the costly use of for-profit staffing agencies, by @alonghurst.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... via @policyalternatives.ca

On the Amtrak, watching the kid in front of me ask Chat GPT to write his personal statement for graduate school about a time he faced an ethical dilemma and how he handled it, what are we doing here people

Obituary: Visionary Dr. Henry Friesen re-invented Canada’s premier health research funding agency. He also did groundbreaking work isolating and purifying the hormone prolactin, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

The return of #measles is an outbreak of failure. Ontario alone has the biggest measles outbreak in North America, 1,383 cases. Per capita, that's 21X worse than the U.S.: Globe and Mail editorial www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... via @theglobeandmail.com #vaccination

As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵

An anniversary worth marking. I'm sure we're going to see the very people who have trashed its legacy seek to appropriate WW2 today - so let's remember what was really fought for: peace, a more united Europe, a land fit for heroes (mark 2) and the defeat of fascism.

As Chair of the Department of Global and Public Health @healthsciences.mcgill.ca, I am pleased to share two open junior faculty positions! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill... mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...

Ontario is having a major Measles outbreak. >1200 cases this year so far (chart is outdated by 3 weeks) Why? Vaccination rates at 7 years old are only 70%, and 30% for age 5. Expect these case numbers to skyrocket 😞

Canada now fears election interference from U.S. more than from China or Russia. “Which country or countries do you think try to influence Canadian politics and elections through covert, deceptive and sometimes threatening means? Please select all that you think apply" www.ft.com/content/743c...

So a clip with me on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver talking about indirect costs

Congratulations to @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social which celebrated Bhattacharya’s nomination! This is your legacy now. www.panaccindex.info/p/bhattachar...

“This doesn't feel like a strategic plan to reorganize and make the NIH better and more efficient. It feels like a wrecking ball,” says an NIH insider, who asked 60 Minutes to protect his identity due to his concern about reprisal. https://cbsn.ws/3EKcER9

40 years ago, Sheila Zurbrigg wrote this remarkable little book called Rakku's Story This humble book remains a classic for anyone who wants to understand "why preventable deaths fail to be prevented, why simple illnesses fail to be treated" archive.org/details/Rakk...

So damn noticeable! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/t...

Medical journal receives U.S. attorney letter seeking information about alleged bias www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/t... via @statnews.com

Remember when people thought Elon Musk was a scientific innovator

Arthritis Care & Research Editor Kelli Allen, PhD, discusses the clinical research scope of AC&R, efforts to publish more invited reviews, and a new journal club feature to promote discussion of rheumatology research Explore AC&R: acr.tw/4j0GIXN #Medsky

If fear can organise, then so can courage. If division can spread, so can unity. If a small group can change the world, then let it be us. Let it be Canada, and let it be now, because good needs a movement too. ❤️🇨🇦

This is an excellent article. It debunks all of Peepee's attempted smears of Mark Carney.

Dr. Gunter is correct. All Conservative MPs are antichoice. All Liberals, regardless of their personal views, agree to vote prochoice on all bills. Our choice couldn’t be more clear. www.arcc-cdac.ca/media/anti-c... #Vote #Carney

Important Canadian election information. Canada uses ONLY PAPER BALLOTS. NOT voting machines.

This is a great piece.

This needs to go viral in Canada.

Twitter is down — Someone send a SIGNAL 😭🙃😂

The popular DNA test kit company 23andMe announced yesterday that it has filed for bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer. And while the company has promised to continue protecting customer data amidst a possible sale, Wirecutter’s tech experts think you should delete your data now.

“The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said, at a time when top officials have emphasized their determination to curb the incidence of such chronic conditions.”

Someone developed a ChatGPT tool to flag "DEI language" and give suggestions on how to make the grant "compliant with new guidelines". It's actually quite good, but such a weird sign of the times. #academicsky #medsky

Be sure to give any house plant a goog for pet safety before bringing it home.

An Irish Blessing on St. Patrick's Day May those who love us, love us; And for those who don't love us, May God turn their hearts; And if He doesn't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles, So we will know them by their limping.

Being back at a fertility clinic to have a repeat of a painful and traumatic procedure I had one and a half years ago reminds me how painful medical trauma is. I don’t think we as healthcare workers understand it unless we’ve experienced it ourselves, and that’s to the detriment of our patients.

Hallway medicine in full swing in Hamilton today One ward I visited had 3 beds with numbers taped above them - semi permanent - in the hallways One patient I spoke to, in a hallway bed, apologized for not being able to go home Doug Ford - you promised to end this

Bestselling Canadian author Louise Penny cancels all U.S. engagements, citing trade war, by @aislingmurph.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a... via @theglobeandmail.com

'We are Canadian': 25 years later, Joe Canada is back with a new patriotic video. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... youtu.be/1LzhCLzfJFg?... via @cbcnews.ca

So heartbreaking & maddening. People like RFK Jr own a BIG hunk of the blame. Hesitancy on rise. This is driven largely by the increasing link of misinformation & political identity. Second death reported in growing measles outbreak wapo.st/4kv5Mad