Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

"The study found that resettled refugees contribute $6 billion more to the U.S. economy than they take out. Per year. The Trump administration did exactly what you’d expect: They suppressed the study, and then they lied about it."

Welcome to the Fascist States of America, where the EiC of a leading journal is forcibly removed by police for passing out his own editorial at the annual meeting of the field’s association…because it’s “too political” (read: it calls on scientists to speak out & stand up). We are here. This is it.

Despite wearing long pants I've already had my first tick attachment this season. I'm going to work along the back fence line so I'm duct taping my socks against my pants this time and will do the same with the gloves against my long sleeves. #Lyme #HamOnt

There's a persistent fantasy that maybe some other nice countries will start mass-hiring US scientists. That's not going to happen. A few high-profile, big name researchers will get poached, sure. But most countries, including some very nice ones, are underemploying their own scientists already.

At the #Costco, they are out of the generic (#Kirkland) brand toilet paper, a small crowd of disgruntled people gathers, staring at the empty floor space where normally the pallet of toilet paper resides. Plenty of Charmin to be had, but ppl are smart, they aren't paying $3 more for 48% less sheets.

Sorry for photo quality, my cell phone camera doesn't have a macro function, for those of you who aren't entomologists, this is the rear-to-rear, or back-to-back, f-ing position in whatever species of insect this happens to be (Google Lens is telling me they are milkweed bugs). #entomology

President misses own son’s wedding due to high-level not wanting to go

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

I didn’t support Canadian cities bidding on the FIFA World Cup because costs greatly exceed local benefits. But after getting some games, our cities SHOULD try to benefit as much as we can. But with FIFA’s corruption & Trump collaboration, I recommend not giving a dime more to FIFA than we have to.

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

After the storm. Sunset. #ONstorm #HamOnt

Here it comes into Dundas. And we just lost power. Batten down the hatches. #Onstorm #HamOnt

The first time I've ever seen a red trillium in the wild while hiking in the forest! (and there were many more, but just in this one locale)

Saw Canada Goose parents and their goslings on the #Kingston waterfront this morning. Thankfully this isn't the proper climate for people doing ornithological things to catch hantavirus. Kingston Waterfront beautiful in the sunshine as always. Happy Mother's Day!

Jesus. Did that sergeant at arms walk there directly from the Pettus Bridge? The hair, the whole look, everything. Make the photo B&W, and you wouldn't know if it was 2026 or 1965. And the reasons are the same. And the fight's the same. Confederacy and Jim Crow lost before. They'll lose again.

Oh, the people who blow up ships are the bad guys? Huh.

Why can’t we rely on Canada, did our government do something that alienated them

Canada Post delivers to 17.6 million addresses every day (business and residential). At 260 work days per year, that is 4.57 billion deliveries each year. Over eight years, that is 36 billion mail deliveries in 8 years. Canada post delivered mail 36 billion times and it only cost $6.1 billion.

It's Taco Tuesday! #usapoli #usapolitics #uspoli #iran

Pets make great examples to use in intro to evolutionary biology courses, specifically to talk down students from the "vast uniqueness" of humans they might have been taught - for example, we are not the only species capable of the very complex & sophisticated behavior of manipulation and guilt...

It has been many, many years since I sat to watch a NASA launch live on TV. This is exciting! #Artemis #ArtemisII #NASA

For those researchers who search social media for #phenology - 30 March 2026 - first day where the spring peepers can be heard from the wetland beside the McCormack Trail in the Dundas Valley Conservation Area (I've collected yrs of obs from same location) #HamOnt #wetlands #herpetology #ecology

Kirk!!! #bluejays

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

Venezuela wins the World Baseball Classic

Surely the President’s task force on antisemitism will be looking into this pronto to figure out how this could have happened.

The Daily Show reminded us in the montage below how Netanyahu has LIED about the "imminent" threat of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons since 1995. Netanyahu has for years wanted US to bomb Iran. Netanyahu simply found in Trump a moron willing to sacrifice Americans for his cause:

The supposed explosion of the federal public service looks less explosive if you put it in per capita numbers and draw a line graph back to the mid-80s.

@qubiostation.bsky.social Get home safe Steve & company!!! #queensu

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

The hand of god has struck the hour. youtu.be/PD2IT1JASi8?...

#cdnpoli #Canada Contact your MP! This is important. Weather Radio is vital for Canadians everywhere, and particularly Canadians driving on the highways across the vast stretches of rural Canada with spotty cell coverage. www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Do I ever *stop thinking about it*? Yes, but never for that long. seveninchesofyourtime.com/cinemas-grea...

Oooo the USA-Denmark Men's #Olympic #Hockey game is getting spicy now. Rare to see penalties in international play, especially a cross-checking one.

Apparently someone forgot to remind Team USA that Denmark knocked out Canada in last year's World Hockey Championship playoffs. 4-3 in the 2nd intermission. We got a real hockey game going here for Denmark. #Olympics #Hockey

Of the $6.4B announced for Ontario PSE yesterday, 45% or so was just taking $ out of SFA and handing it to institutions. Another chunk of $, maybe as high as $3B (unclear) involved taking $ announced in '24 and '25 & putting it into the base out to 2029-30 Actual new $ over 2025-26 base? $0-2B.

My jaw is just on the floor. I can't believe that a mass shooting has occurred at a high school here in Canada. I've grown so detached to hearing the news of a school shooting because it's in "that country". But this smacked me real hard in the face. So, this is what it feels like to be an American.

US Judiciary deletes a chapter on law and #climate science because apparently science is a left-leaning concept and MAGAs complained. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Post a banger not in English youtu.be/ntWTyf079ho?...

This is exactly the kind of breakdown of the show I, a person who has never listened to Bad Bunny until tonight, need.

There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.

Okay I've stopped watching the #Superbowl now. From my brief time on social media tonight, apparently I'm doing the exact opposite of what Jake/Logan Paul recommended MAGA football fans do tonight. Sounds like I'm living my life correctly.

That's the greatest set design-cinematography-choreography-symbolism-surprise-appearances-EVERYTHING in a #Superbowl halftime show. ¡Que Viva #BadBunny!

Finally sitting down to watch the #Superbowl because it's #BadBunny time!!