OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Hundreds of Ontario patients have been reimbursed for medical care in US since 2018, costing over $212 million. "We tend to look south as opposed to looking east and west, and if the provinces knew what each other were doing, then we might be able to cooperate more than we do".

@stemcells.bsky.social on new trends in dental stem cell banking: "Some clinics and cell banking firms are already suggesting dental stem cell banking as a source of cells to treat specific health conditions yet there are no proven uses. It’s not clear that the cells involved are even stem cells".

Call for Papers: 2026 Annual CPA Congress 🎓 Join us in Halifax, 6-9 June 2026! Share your work at Canada's premier philosophy conference. 📅 Deadline: 12 December 📍 Halifax, NS 🌊 Where ideas meet the Atlantic #philsky www.acpcpa.ca/articles/cal...

Osborne says more than 140 health-care workers from the U.S. — including 80 nurses and 38 doctors — have accepted positions with B.C. health authorities since the launch of its campaign in March 2025. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

This would affect a lot of Canadians. Third largest H1B source country after India and China. Conversely, Canada might want to re-start its program to bring in highly talented H1B holders who suddenly find themselves unable to enter the States… www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

My department, Sociology at the University of Calgary, is hiring FOUR (4) tenure track professors this fall in the areas of systemic justice and structural harm. Please help us to circulate this widely within your scholarly networks!

"After a screenshot was shared by a far-right media figure who described the comment as a reaction to Kirk’s assassination, Marshall denied that it was about Kirk but rather “atrocity denial in Gaza.” She tweeted her own screenshot of the post in what appears to be its original context".

Surgery wait times prompting GoFundMe campaigns: "Inspired by a neighbour who used GoFundMe for a shoulder replacement, Bestard's wife, Marla Stiles, started one of their own. About 50 friends and family members chipped in $30,000 to cover private surgery at a Quebec clinic, plus travel expenses."

When Carney was elected it was clear so many areas that required major investment, in the name of national protection and nation building: military, housing (public housing specifically), tariff supports, infrastructure (towards econonmic diversification), health care, but hugely, *education*

Now out and open access, Claire Wilson and I examined politically oriented Canadian crowdfunding campaigns posted on the @givesendgo.bsky.social crowdfunding platform. We found that these campaigns are financing politically extremist activities in Canada - more in a short thread:

Congrats to Jiangchuan Liu, Kora DeBeck, TJ Salway and Tammara Soma on being named to the Royal Society of Canada, the country’s highest academic honour. They join the growing number of SFU researchers whose leadership is shaping a better future for Canada and the world. www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor...

What makes me skeptical AGI is around the corner is how ChatGPT is now handling prompts that elicit any kind of self-harm info. Gives a hotline warning, even when the request is a summary of Romeo and Juliet: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Reddit is flipping out: www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/se...

@uvic.ca students "will have free access to Studiosity, an academic writing feedback tool that touts itself as an ethical “AI for learning.”" The university ...is "supporting students and professors in the ethical and appropriate use of AI in learning and teaching."

Jeff McMahan, a prominent just war theorist and Emeritus Sekyra and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, weighs in on the question of responsibility for healthcare scarcity in Gaza. Online first in @JME_BMJ jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

FHS is pleased to announce that renowned health scholar and researcher Dr. David Bangsberg will begin his five-year tenure as dean, starting on October 15, 2025. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Bangsberg to FHS! www.sfu.ca/fhs/news-eve... /1 #SFU #SFUFHS #HIVResearch #NewDean

The new acting head of CDC faces an incredibly tough job. Agency leadership has been decimated, morale is low, and employees no longer believe that the administration respects their mission of protecting public health. So who did RFK Jr. turn to? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...

"Faculty associations say while reforms may be needed, they shouldn't come at the expense of schools, which they say were encouraged by governments for years to pursue international students to help bolster revenues."

"Peng, who has lived in Canada since 2016, has completed a double undergraduate degree... But new federal rules that took effect in November require that international students changing post-secondary schools must apply for a new study permit... processing times can take up to 173 days".

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BC's @kwantlenu.bsky.social‬ making additional staff cuts, equivalent to 45 full time positions. Linked to int'l student numbers: “Lengthy ...study permit processing times and increased study permit denial rates are now the biggest barrier for international students seeking admission to Canada”.

Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity. Deadline to apply: October 1, 2025. #cdnhist @dalhistory.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...

Where to start on how dumb this piece is? How about the very end--the author bio: "He also teaches professional *ethics* to biomedical engineers." Yet he argues the humanities are irrelevant to his work? 🤦‍♂️ Also, curious that, of all philosophers he could use as an example, he only notes Hobbes.

I'm reading an official, French-language gov report on reading habits in students circa 2005 in Quebec, and the authors gave cute nicknames to the different types of readers they found. Do you know what they call a girl who reads all the time? "La boulimique." Meaning, the bulimic one. Wow.

Fantastic day to watch the Vancouver Canadians. Thanks to @miss604.com for the tickets!

The Center for Practical Ethics at @olemiss.bsky.social is hiring a Director of Strategic Ethics Education Initiatives. The Center "models and facilitates civil discourse" and "develops the skills needed for character-building". PhD in philosophy a plus! Job listing can be found in the link below:

SFU is officially on Bluesky! 👋 We're a leading research university, advancing an inclusive and sustainable future for BC and beyond. Follow us to see where we're going next and how we're going to get there.

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary accuses the NIH of funding a lab that "brewed up a virus that killed 20 million people"

Scoop: Vinay Prasad is out at FDA. HHS spokesperson said "he did not want to be a distraction to the great work of the FDA in the Trump administration." Story TK in Pink Sheet.

After BC added full coverage of prescribed IUDs, an additional 11,375 (+50%) people started using them. @drlschummers.bsky.social: "This really tells us that there was a substantial cost-related barrier to using contraception as a whole". www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"it will pause all shipments of Elevidys in the United States after two teenage boys with a rare condition called Duchenne muscular dystrophy, who had received the company's gene therapy, died of liver failure this year."

My university (@westernu.ca) is offering up to $160,000 CAD in funding to support doctoral students impacted by recent changes in higher ed in the US. And I'm keen on supervising students who may be interested (and who conduct research in public health ethics). DM me. grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

This is why we can't have nice things. "...there is evidence that the use of AI tools has enabled Principal Investigators to submit more than 40 distinct applications in a single application submission round." grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

British Columbia's health minister says the province has received almost 780 job applications from qualified American health professionals between May and June as part of its recruitment campaign. globalnews.ca/news/1129132...

📣 Abstract submissions deadline approaching for #TMM2025! ✅ Trainee/HQP deadline to be included in the abstract comp: July 29, 2025 — compete for travel awards & oral presentations, and more ✅ General deadline: Sept 17, 2025 — poster presentations 🔗 www.tillandmcculloch.ca/event/d754f8...

"He is at least the second person to die this year after a fire broke out in a hyperbaric chamber... on its website, the Arizona clinic appears to advertise hyperbaric oxygen therapy for a variety of treatments that are not yet approved by the [FDA], including anti-aging and autism treatments."

You love to see it @sfu-fhs.bsky.social

Passing on an announcement: CITAP at UNC-Chapel Hill is looking for a faculty position in AI, namely someone who "examines the complex interconnections between AI technologies and social, organizational, and/or ethical systems." unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...

"the federal government's cap on international students led to a dramatic decline in enrolment and tuition revenue, and the cancellation or suspension of more than 600 college programs... colleges in Ontario have reported a 48 per cent decrease in first-semester enrolment of international students."

I am happy to share that my project, "The Indigenous Stories of Philosophy," has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant. With this support, I will hire a Graduate Student for the project in the coming year. 1/2

My university has announced a special international graduate fellowship for PhD students whose acceptance at a US university has been rescinded. Check it out: grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

Again, remains noteworthy that the City of Vancouver, TransLink, BC Ferries, and many more government agencies and politicians continue to use a certain website as one of their main modes of providing basic information to citizens on social media

@stemcells.bsky.social: "FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and CBER Director Vinay Prasad recently have emphasized real-world data. ...So on that level, one might think that the agency could reverse course from its past decisions here and potentially give some kind of approval for Nurown."

1. ALS patients have filed a citizens' petition asking FDA to approve an investigational stem cell drug that reviewers eviscerated at a 2023 advisory committee meeting (after they had initially refused to file). www.accessnewswire.com/newsroom/en/...

Harvard U Kennedy School of Government international students who are not allowed back into the U.S. will be able to complete their studies in Canada at the University of Toronto. It's incredible that such contingency plans are necessary, and yet here we are. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/educa...

"Alfarra, 22, applied to nine American universities, hoping for options, but he ended up being waitlisted and rejected for all of them. Most of them told him informally that budget uncertainties in the U.S. were making it difficult for them to accept graduate students".

#Measles cases may be undercounted in B.C., officials fear. Officially, there have 30 cases in the province during the current outbreak, compared more than 2,100 in Ontario and 840 in Alberta, by @pennydaflos.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... via @ctvnews-rss.bsky.social

Our special issue, “Advancing Trust in Science: Institutional Obligations to Promote Research Integrity,” is now live in @jlme-journal.bsky.social. Check out the full line up of leading voices on spotting, addressing, and preventing misconduct. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It. Budget cuts threaten global progress on everything from heart disease to #HIV, and could affect American drug companies, too, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h... via @nytimes.com #GlobalHealth