Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.

People are being arrested for wearing a medical mask in Savannah, Georgia #NoKings

This is bunker logic. Let the floods come—as long as the wealthy are sealed in. Naomi Klein calls it End Times Fascism: Governance by abandonment. Collapse as strategy. Relief dismantled, suffering privatized. #EndTimesFascism #DisasterCapitalism #NaomiKlein

happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living. On average, $10kCAD below cost of living. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

An excellent reflection on our societal response to climate change mirroring our response to COVID. "We can “follow the science” even when it scares us, instead of insisting that “we have to live our lives” until those lives go up in flames.” yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...

When someone dies of a disease like Covid or measles, the first question is often “did they have any pre-existing conditions?” People want to blame the victim. They want to believe they were vulnerable & therefore expendable. No one is expendable. Demand better from governments & public health.

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

1. Absolutely outstanding article on the increasing prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) diagnoses amongst patients with Long Covid. This possibility is the primary reason I avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2. www.wsj.com/health/welln...

h/t @earthlyeducation.bsky.social

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing. Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases. No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.

The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com was everything I’d hoped for. Brimming with love, it felt like a story that’d been passed down for generations before landing in my lap. And the acknowledgments - “…I am here to tell you they made a difference to me” - that call us to act with that love

Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism

no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

a blessing adriennemareebrown.net/2025/02/12/a...

American Eco-Evo types! Looking for a conference where Equality Diversity and Inclusion are celebrated, not hidden? Interested in opportunities for collaborations, grad studies, postdocs, faculty jobs in Canada, a functioning democracy? THIS IS IT: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pages

Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it

Incandescent with tariff rage all weekend, I’ve decided that I’m slashing the price of Year’s Best Canadian F&SF books IN CANADA for the duration. Let’s read more of our own stories. I recommend getting the ebook via Kobo (a Canadian-founded company now owned by Rakuten in Japan). Pls share widely!

Hey Ottawa, if you haven't you should head over to the 2SLGBTQIA+ Valentine's Day Market happening today. It's life affirming to be in a queer, trans, covid-safe community space 💫

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

Make them tell you, specifically, what you're not allowed to do. Don't make changes you guess that they want. Don't offer them a menu of things that you infer they might be telling you not to do. Do the work you proposed, and received funding to do, unless instructed otherwise in specific detail.

During 2012-14, at least 16 science libraries in Canada were gutted. We were not prepared. Scientific books, records, reports, theses, journals, etc dating back decades were thrown out — literally in dumpsters. We still don’t know what was destroyed.

We need to learn to live and thrive without all these sugar daddy billionaire fantasies. It is a way of ignoring our own power.

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

I’m a pragmatist not an optimist but even so, the point is: Don’t say what we can’t do. Figure out what we can do.

Thanks to @supportourscience.bsky.social , Canadian grad students and postdocs just got their first raise in 20 years. I interviewed the leaders of this impressive organization. 🧪 www.southernfriedscience.com/canadian-gra...

In yesterday's federal budget, Canadian grad students finally got the raise they've been waiting 20 years for. My story for Nature. 🧪🇨🇦 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great work by @supportourscience.bsky.social ! I’m interviewing them, what would you like me to ask? www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Over the last two years, I've witnessed a lot of vile behaviour. There is absolutely no reason to be punching down, or letting your anxiety get the better of you and deciding it's "grants vs scholarships/fellowships". We can acknowledge yesterday's step was crucial AND that there's much more to fix.

If you have power in this system (PIs, I mean you) please DO NOT send hateful, patronizing, or generally rude messages to SOS. Especially not to the grad students and postdocs (who do this work for free). We unequivocally support increased funding for grants. We're on the same side.

SOS has taken up a significant portion of my life over the last 2 years. Today feels surreal. I'm so goddamn happy to know everyone who comes after me will be paid more & I hope it inspires others to fight for change - there was nothing special about us, besides how hard-headed and focused we were.

Today, #Budget2024 will shape Canada's research & innovation future. We hope for in Tri-agency scholarships, fellowships, & grants. New investments could empower grad students & postdocs, boosting diversity & excellence. Stay tuned! #SupportOurScience

Over 500 emails sent in less than 24 hours -- let's keep this going!! #SupportOurScience

Budget 2024 is currently being finalized - and after 20 years of stagnant funding, it's about time graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are included! Use the link to call, email, and tweet at decision-makers before March 8th #phdsky #academicsky 🧪 www.supportourscience.ca/action-budge...

"Black Canadian scientists, researchers and environmental advocates discuss the importance of mentors, protégés and friends in their fields" Great read as usual from @thenarwhalca.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/black-enviro...

This year, share your amazing #wetland science! Submit by Jan 12 to Session #6 “Advances in Wetland Science: Connecting the Land, Water, and People” at #IAGLR24 in Windsor. Co-Chairs: @kirkwoodlab.bsky.social @girls-can.bsky.social @cdrobich.bsky.social @tylerbhampton.bsky.social bit.ly/3RnM2HT

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Dr. Zoe Todd's keynote for the UBC's Centre for Climate Justice (CCJ): Freshwater fish and Indigenous legal orders and sovereignty in Canada A beautiful keynote, I hope you take an hour to listen and engage. It is relevant to everyone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofcn...

If you want to know how the #COP28 UN Climate Change Conference is going, this post says it all...

this beautiful, nuanced, deeply clarifying essay by @polgreen.bsky.social on gender, selfhood, regret, choices, what makes a life and what gives it meaning made me weep this morning. I can’t recommend enough you stop what you’re doing and read the whole thing. gift link here:

We are excited to announce that PhD student Kaitlin Kharas is Support Our Science’s new Executive Director. Kaitlin studies paediatric brain cancer at SickKids. She was co-president of Toronto Science Policy Network, & has served on SOS’s Executive Council. Congrats Kaitlin!