Learned a new move at aerial silks last night, which means I have interesting weird bruises on my upper arms today, instead of my legs which is the usual. 😅

I really hate private corporations doing any lab work in Canada. These should be publicly owned laboratories and our personal health data should be kept in Canada.

This use of "feasible" by traffic engineers drives me insane. Renovating your kitchen for $1k is not feasible. Building a bicycle-powered helicopter is not feasible. Deciding that safety is more important than delay is not a matter of feasibility, but a policy choice.

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

It's July 1st (the official "first day of school" for interns and residents, so I decided to post once a day for a while with my top pieces of advice for you! It's an overwhelming and an incredible experience, and it's school... so the first piece of advice is keep track of what's happening.

Celebrated this fine Canada Day morning by going out and playing pickleball and yelling, “SORRY!!” for two hours each time I hit it out. 🇨🇦 😂

Happy Canada Day. 🇨🇦

Canada isn’t perfect, and Canada needs a lot of work, but as a trans person, there’s fewer and fewer places where I can be safe and successful and be myself, and it means more than I can ever say that one of those few remaining places that accept me for me is my home town, province and country

Somebody tell the knitters this. 🧶 😛

The beauty bush is looking incredible today. 😊 #summer #garden

Health #misinformation does incredible harm. 26% believe autism / vaccine lie ‼️ 24% believe COVID vaccine changes DNA ‼️ 27% believe COVID vaccine killed more than COVID ‼️ These are Flat Earth level misbeliefs. Lies that kill. #VaccinesWork

This day, a decade ago, I completed my Adult Head & Neck Surgery, Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship in Canada. It was the best year of my life professionally. I apprenticed under amazing mentors and did hundreds of complex surgical cases. #Canada was just amazing.

Eg of impact of private $$ on public system... 👇 Does it seem easier to book a dermatologist for Botox than a mole check? www.cbc.ca/news/health/... Prez of association questions MDs who "get their medical training subsidized by the public system and then end up just doing cosmetic dermatology..."

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

NO AI SLOP ONLY BRAIN, PAPER, PAINT and PIGMENT www.etsy.com/shop/artolog... Support real artists

One of today's political prisoners. Cartoonist & zine maker Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada wasn't even at the ICE protest. He was accused of "moving" a box of anti-Trump zines THE NEXT DAY. A rightwing judge sentenced him to 30 years! Just for possessing zines. The darkness is descending.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Amazing. At age 20, Lionel Messi did a UNICEF Barcelona photo shoot for a calendar, of him giving a baby a bath. That baby was Lamine Yamal. It’s his first World Cup, and Messi’s last. They’ll play against each other. What a crazy story.

France will be at the epicenter of the most significant heat anomaly on the planet over the next few days. The sheer extent of the country that could experience temperatures above 40°C is nothing short of astonishing.

I know a lot of folks my age are concerned about their parents driving and how to navigate conversations about when it’s time to stop. This new tool supports people with dementia and caregivers. It doesn’t address the problem of car-dependent places well, but might otherwise be useful.

Got my ticket to @halconscificon.bsky.social! I think that was easier than Kejimkujik back-country reservations this year. 😂 🛶

When I say Bell, you say Road! When I say flex, you say posts! Bell Road flex posts! BELL! ROAD! FLEX! POSTS!!! #BikeHFX *yes, separated infrastructure would be better, but I’ll take posts over badly scraped paint *this post-related post brought to you by ~8” between my elbow & a garbage truck

Harvard and Princeton graduate, Grammy winner, and former First Lady Michelle Obama appreciation post

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

This is one of my favorite pieces of footage from space. Remember the early Macs had a motorized floppy drive that would eject the disk?

tldr: Fable was asked to brainstorm a problem with a lil html window. It silently spent 12$ in tokens to build from scratch an entire infrastructure suite to take under control computer's browsers, mouse, and keyboard, to debug this thing "by hand". With insane hacking around apparent permissions

LANDSLIDE FOLKS: Time-urgent bat signal going out for a postdoc-to-be who is ready to scramble an application. This is a good team. The fieldwork is gorgeous. You’d get to be in Canada, which is pretty fun on the scale of potential global locations at the moment.

gosh gee whiz no kidding blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Was struck by this from @sphillipsab.bsky.social in her commentary on the federal government's moves on AI and online harms. www.mbpintelligence.com/blog/carney-...

A thread. The other day, I happened to clock the little AI-written bio attached to my name. It announced, quite confidently, that I was married, not to my husband, but to his brother. Particularly amusing, since my BIL is a proud member of the LGBQT community. I love him, but I am NOT his type. 🧵

There's an indicator species for evaluating the safety of your urban infrastructure, and it's not middle-aged men on bikes. It's women, seniors, and kids feeling safe enough to ride in their everyday clothes.

Let's Streisand-effect these people. Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops. Read and share.

quantum entanglement is a phenomenon which causes two unconnected particles to have the same spin when measured #caturday

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

Maritime opera/theatre ppl, we want to e-meet you! Introduce or re-introduce yourself! Singers Stage managers Designers Directors Film makers Arts admin/PR We have projects in F’ton/Hfx. Beyond 2026, we anticipate projects around the Maritimes. Read more: www.essentialopera.com/get-involved

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Excellent thread 👇🏼

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

If these changes go through, it will be impossible to do effective science in the United States. Logistically, labs will not be able to function under these constraints. Team science—vital to almost every discipline—will be impossible under the rules around international collaboration.

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

If this were a human imitating Dr. Fitzharris, it would be fraud, identity theft, and blackmail. But because an AI company has stolen her likeness and public health work, there is unlikely to be much recourse. This is why they use the language of non-consent. Because this is a violation.

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

I just wanna suggest folks consider returning this survey with a grade of “A-minus! I mostly love that we have this!” rather than sniping at it, since there will be plenty of sniping from bike- and scooter-haters

Bluesky is not an echo chamber. Some people here love the character of Tom Bombadil in LOTR: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, some people merely like him a lot, and still more don't offhand know who he is but when you explain are like, oh yeah, that guy, that guy was alright. So we have all kinds here.

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“Science said the forbidden partners could even include foreign students working in the U.S. and scientists who left the country after the research.” So like…every fifth grad student?