When I was a fellow training in pediatric critical care, one of my attendings would wander by just when I needed him and say "I thought you might need a friend" Anyway, be like Don Vernon, MD

That first paragraph is SO true. One needs to understand what peer review can and cannot do.

"Scritchy appeared sort of like Batman, just when society needed Scritchy the most" 🦝 CBC's "This is Nova Scotia" covered the saga of Scritchy the Raccone. I made sure to plug this Saturday's litter clean-up. #BikeHfx #PylonWars

For the geneticists, child neurologists, GCs, and those with terrible insomnia who need something to read: Babies identified via newborn screening with infantile Krabbe disease need EMERGENT referral for transplant assessment to improve outcomes❗️🧠💕🧠❗️ www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

people don't really get that because witches can't sink, they're a direct threat to surface combatants

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

How anti-vax advocacy is making Big Pharma bigger www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap-op-ed... @cidrap.bsky.social "The people who spent years insisting vaccines were making pharmaceutical companies rich have, through their own policy choices, created conditions for pharmaceutical companies to become richer"

"The [OECD] report notes that long COVID has a health system and economic impact that is similar to stroke or multiple sclerosis, but has not sparked the same response." That cost? $135 billion per year over the next decade, comparable to the entire annual health budget of the Netherlands or Spain.

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

What’s missing in women+ health research? IWK Health is asking people across the Maritimes to help answer that. If you’re 18+ and live in the region, you can share up to five questions you think research isn’t addressing. SURVEY: www.maritimewomenshealth.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Absolutely gorgeous day to bike around Halifax!! Started with very delicious brunch at Almonak with a mentee (bacon, Brie & onion jam Benny, omg), and then meandered around the Point Pleasant Park weekend bike route with incredible views of the ocean glittering in the spring sun. 🌊 😊🚲

All are welcome to join to honour the memory of Scritchy Raccone, our fallen hero of the #PylonWars. A small service will be held at the intersection of Harvard and Allan Streets in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Saturday, April twenty second 18th at 2:00 PM.

ICE detaining doctors is absurd. Let me explain something: foreign-trained doctors get trained and practice in places where American medical graduates often do not want to go. They are not taking jobs from anybody. They go to undesirable locations and take undesirable jobs.

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

An absolutely stellar recital poster from my church choir colleague this morning

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

I am so glad they are safe. My 2026 heart could not have handled it honestly.

Brutal.

there's just no way that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords could be even half as bad as this

I never thought I would read anything like this as a headline on the @nytimes.com

God this poem is haunting me again.

During this incredible, unifying moment of inspiring international cooperation and spectacular technological achievement, I would really appreciate it if the US president would stop threatening to murder an entire country with bombs.

Happy First Contact Day 🖖🏽

Happy Easter! 💐 🐣 🐰 🎶

Contemplative crafting after a lot of singing. #GoodFriday

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

If a job requires more than 50 hrs/week to do, it is in fact more than 1 job

Try Canada out before you move here

This is the situation we find ourselves in

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

Preceding thread recommended.

A long day of operating today, but timing of case turnover meant I managed to catch the last few minutes of the livestream of Sarah Mullally’s installation as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury. 🥰

FRIDAY. NOON. PROVINCE HOUSE. ALL HANDS ON DECK: WE WON'T STOP SINGING! We've been thousands strong before. Can we grow even more, and surround the whole building with song?

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

“I asked ChatGPT.” Yeah well I asked KITT 2000.

To this day whenever I nearly injure myself (which we all know is … often), I say to myself “I’m Astar, a robot. I can put my arm back on. You can’t, so play safe.” But the story behind Astar is WILD

“Compared with non-active travelers, the cyclists had a 19% lower risk of all-cause dementia, a 22% lower risk of Alzheimer's, a 40% lower risk of young-onset dementia (before the age of 65), and a 17% lower risk of late-onset dementia.” Getting around a bike more often could reduce dementia risk.

there should be virtual attendance options for all upcoming academic conferences. & full refunds for any attendees who registered but don’t want to risk further exposure to gestapo. schedules should include, in bold italics: “presentation moved online due to risk of disappearance”

Please repost & help me find a home (UK) for Johnny. Needed through absolutely no fault of his own - details in alt text. Scottish Borders but will travel. Many thanks.

The best time to have invested in renewables, walkable cities and transit to avoid the oil crisis shock was twenty years ago. The second best time is today.

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

I have a scientist joke, but with an n of 1, it's not that significant.

“This is not a temporary slowdown. It is a structural collapse”. A former NIH Program Officer takes a deep dive into the data on the destruction of NIH research funding mechanisms.

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

Fresh blog: Six reasons to stop relying on the NPi (neurological pupil index) 👁️ NPi is based on a secret, proprietary formula used by one company 👁️ The neuroICU field was somehow convinced that we're too stupid to understand pupillometry tracings, so we need the NPi...(#1/2) #EMIMCC

Happy Mothering Sunday!