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dad, lab head, brewer, baker, beta cell maker
https://lynnlab.com
I guess weβre celebrating ferry week
@jmcelroy.bsky.social
. Missed last ferry by one car. Looking forward to the car alarms
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Science in Vancouver
4 days ago
β April showers bring May flowers and this past month, Vancouver researchers were absolutely showered with success! We've highlighted Dr. Nicole Krentz
@nkrentz.bsky.social
, who was awarded a Breakthrough T1D Career Development Award. Check out the full April Award Summary:
https://bit.ly/4uJ7DMX
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Mark Hamill
1 day ago
You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts.
#BelieveTheScience
What he said π― π π π
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Michael Hendricks π¨π¦
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Interesting. Meanwhile in biology, the consequences are still "Erratum: We were unable to contact the former postdoc who made those 8 Western blots in Photoshop, but here are some real Western blots."
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I hate where we're currently at in science. depressing
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Andrew Pruszynski
4 days ago
CIHR has launched a trial ballon that suggests shifting to one competition a year. This is the worst idea I have heard in a long time. The only benefit is making top-line success rates look better than they are. Keep it as is, do in-person reviews, and keep the pain in the open.
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OpenMedia
4 days ago
BREAKING: Signal, the #1 privacy protecting messaging app, is saying they will pull out of π¨π¦ ENTIRELY if they're scoped into
#BillC22
without large changes. This should be our final alarm bell:.We can have privacy or we can have C22, not both!
#cdnpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill
Secure messaging service says it will not weaken its encryption, privacy safeguards for government
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-signal-warns-it-would-pull-out-of-canada-if-made-to-comply-with-lawful/
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Craig McCormick
4 days ago
Very cool study demonstrating the relative genetic stability of the Andes hantavirus in serial passage experiments. Lots more work to do, but these kinds of limitations are reassuring (and light years away from highly mutable influenza viruses).
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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High genomic stability of Andes virus following successive passage in vivo in Syrian hamsters | Journal of Virology
Infection of Syrian hamsters with Andes virus (ANDV) can result in disparate outcomes, depending on the source of the virus used for the infection. The ANDV strain CHI-7913 does not cause lethal disease in hamsters but is able to replicate in hamster ...
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.00512-25
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Stem Cell Network
5 days ago
(1/2) Put your hands together for the recipients of SCNβs 25 for 25 Silver Anniversary Awards! π Join us in celebrating the outstanding individuals and organizations whose contributions have strengthened Canadaβs
#RegenerativeMedicine
ecosystem and helped shape SCN over the past 25 years. β¨
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Alex Usher
6 days ago
Canadians have had a couple of gas tax cuts (fed or prov) in the last little while. Does this fit our facts?
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) π¦ π€§π§¬ππ¦π§
6 days ago
Version 3. I've extended the orange-shaded area to cover the full 45 days (WHO number) and indicated each week since the date post-onset of Case 1's symptoms (dpo). May 10th was a day when 2 people became symptomatic and also tested positive. I've used green
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Dacks Lab (Evolutionary Cell Biology)
7 days ago
New paper alert! Led by David Montagnes, this one is for scientists and non-scientists alike. The history, benefits, and future of Learned Societies. We need community, fostering of critical thinking, and communication, more than ever!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#protistsonsky
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The value of learned societies in the biological sciences: benefits, threats, and futures - BMC Biology
Learned societies play a vital role in fostering interactions that are important in scholarly discourse and the advancement of biological sciences. However, they now face threats from declining fundin...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-026-02583-x
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Carl T. Bergstrom
8 days ago
I posted about these acting CDC directorβs incompetence regarding the Hanta virus response, but I want to be careful not to cause undue alarm. Here is a very good epidemiologist,
@billhanage.bsky.social
in the Guardian. I largely agree with his assessment.
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Scott Robertson
9 days ago
MΓ©lanie Richer: "[Pierre Poilievre] talks a lot about 'Ottawa elites' and I don't know who is more 'Ottawa elite' than somebody who's been elected since -- how many years is it? 22 years?"
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Today Iβm wondering if a similar thing could happen with Workday at UBC and imaging what a disaster it would be if financial and employment information was held ransom
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Pearson couldn't get much worse than it already is but happy if they leave Vancouver alone.
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Angelo Iulianella
11 days ago
Pierre Chambon made seminal contributions to transcriptional regulation, Hox genes, retinoid signaling, and his group was among the earliest to adopt mouse knockout technology. He trained many mouse developmental geneticists. Sad to hear of his passing.
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Still amazing to me how many looking for positions expect me to consider an application where theyβve clearly plagiarized from my website. Donβt you see the copyright logo on there?
11 days ago
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This is shameful, the NDP suck
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Nelson Flores
11 days ago
Am I wrong though?
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Diabetologia
11 days ago
Brief vigorous exercise snacks improve glycaemic regulation in people living with type 2 diabetes
#T2D
#DiabetesResearch
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Exercise snacks performed in real-world settings reduce postprandial hyperglycaemia and glycaemic variability in individuals living with type 2 diabetes: a randomised crossover study - Diabetologia
Aims/hypothesis Using a randomised, crossover design, we investigated whether exercise snacks could improve indices of glucose regulation assessed by continuous glucose monitoring, compared with an eq...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00125-026-06741-2
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Guy Felicella
12 days ago
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim proclaimed May 29, 2024 as βGuy Felicella Dayβ in honour of my work advocating for βBOTH HARM REDUCTION AND RECOVERY.β Tomorrow, Iβm returning it. I wonβt be used as part of a disingenuous display of fake compassion. My full statement is below π
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The New York Times
13 days ago
Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe.
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F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
The agencyβs scientists and data contractors reviewed millions of patient records for studies that were pulled back before release.
https://nyti.ms/48JQ330
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Daniel MacPhee π¨π¦
13 days ago
βA country that under-invests in basic research does not stop benefiting from science. It becomes more reliant on other systems to take the early risks, generate the foundational knowledge and shape the next generation ofβ¦advances.β Over reliance is bad
#Canada
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theconversation.com/to-lead-in-g...
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To lead in global innovation, Canada must prioritize basic science
Canada must decide what kind of country it wants to be: One that generates new scientific knowledge, or one that waits for other nationsβ discoveries.
https://theconversation.com/to-lead-in-global-innovation-canada-must-prioritize-basic-science-279713
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Strange coincidence that this gets completed just after the voter lists in Alberta were leaked?
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13 days ago
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
14 days ago
Actually a cool idea I stole from
@rachaelabay.bsky.social
Everyone in the lab gets one to encourage applying for stuff!
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Timothy Caulfield
14 days ago
8 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
"Multiple large observational studies have found that routine adult vaccines are associated with a reduced risk of dementia, with some showing risk reductions of 25% to 40%."
#VaccinesWork
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Eight vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia
A growing body of research is beginning to reveal the impact that regular routine vaccines could be having on the likelihood of conditions like dementia. Here are the jabs with the strongest evidence ...
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/eight-vaccines-linked-lower-risk-dementia
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15 days ago
Donald Trump's green new deal My latest column for
@financialtimes.com
: The US president has inadvertently raised the appeal of renewable energy across the world:
as.ft.com/r/ac96a71b-a...
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CIRTN-R2FIC
16 days ago
(π§΅ 1/22) Many publications from the CIRTN labs this Spring π·! Works are from Drs Bruin, MacDonald, Johnson, Mulvihill, Chen, Verchere, Kolic, Huang, Hull-Meichle, Kin, Shapiro, Korbutt, Pepper, P. MacDonald, T. MacDonald, Rideout, Riddell, Rutter, Rabasa-Lhoret and Prentice.
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Aparna Nair
16 days ago
Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can
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so refreshing to have a meeting with a senior trainee that has taken responsibility for their project, makes no excuses, and just gets shit done. easy to supervise that!
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Bailey Weatherbee
17 days ago
It's difficult to succinctly summarize a entire germ layer, but Aaron Zorn, Scott Rankin and I tried recently! Our "Endoderm at a Glance" review with
@dev-journal.bsky.social
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shorturl.at/kHf9Y
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Umm, the CPP doesn't need the contributions to meet its obligations. So unless we're going to increase those obligations why pay more into it than needed?
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me too. if you use this word, you are a dweeb.
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SEAN ORR
20 days ago
Nearly 140 Canadian workers died on the job, here in BC. Behind each statistic is a family and community in mourning. Workers die when employers cut corners and face no consequences. Remember the dead. FIGHT for the living.
#DayOfMourning
#WorkersMemorialDay
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Justin McElroy π¨π¦
20 days ago
The next time you wonder why the City of Vancouver can't do things in a quick of efficient manner, remember that council unanimously said "we want you to start posting information about council somewhere other than X", and staff said "that will take us nearly a year to accomplish."
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This is awesome! (and how have i not heard of it before?)
https://youtu.be/ICyqwn6ihTs?si=sn4qcWZ9O8xIvgM0
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The Underground Bike Race in Vancouverβs Richest Neighbourhood
https://www.patreon.com/NicTheDoor Join Patreon for early access and extras.This is the Crescent 200, an unsanctioned bike event that takes place around Shau...
https://youtu.be/ICyqwn6ihTs?si=sn4qcWZ9O8xIvgM0
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Scott Robertson
23 days ago
David Cochrane: "I never stop to be shocked at how shocked the Americans are at the logical consequences of their actions, 'Can you believe they're not selling our booze after we disrupted all of their core industries?'"
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I can safely say that an 8.5 hour meeting on zoom, with less than 1 hour break, is way too long. Never want to do that again.
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here we go, going to be a rough, smoky summer in BC
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Andrew G. York
24 days ago
I've been getting questions about this paper all week:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
They make EXTRAORDINARY claims - fortunately, these are trivial to verify/falsify. Unfortunately, there's other concerns.
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Electromagnetic field-inducible in vivo gene switch for remote spatiotemporal control of gene expression
The EMF-inducible gene switch (Ei) platform provides precise spatiotemporal control of gene expression through Cyb5b-mediated calcium oscillations. This system enables Ei-OSK-driven in vivo rejuvenati...
https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(26)00330-2
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wonder what Michael Smith would think of getting rid of Trainee and Scholar awards
www.healthresearchbc.ca/news-events/...
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Evolving our programs to support BCβs health research communityΒ | Michael Smith Health Research BC
Health Research BC is modernizing how we support health research talent across the province. We're taking steps to ensure our investments are better aligned with BCβs current and future needs.
https://www.healthresearchbc.ca/news-events/evolving-our-programs-to-support-bcs-health-research-community/?utm_source=Michael+Smith+Health+Research+BC&utm_campaign=4b8298b60d-November-2025-connections_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-eb532dacd0-226335693
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Alex Usher
25 days ago
Think it's just the US that is leaking scientific talent to China? Think again.
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Canada Research Chair chemist Janusz Pawliszyn joins Chinese university
The Polish scientist who invented two widely used analytical chemistry techniques has been hired by one of his former students.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3350619/canada-research-chair-chemist-janusz-pawliszyn-joins-chinese-university?tpcc=GME-O-enlz-uv&utm_source=cm&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20260423_China_Science_FW&utm_campaign=GME-O-enlz-uv&UUID=85983c79-8f5a-498e-9142-aad79fe0cb4c&CMCampaignID=6e6ed3b566e5a570a87997af130fa4f8
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Love how those in the west have to get online for grant reviews at 5:45AM so those in the East can get home by dinner time
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Idealistic Pragmatist
26 days ago
Apparently the NHL playoff round one tickets for the games in Anaheim between them and the Oilers are not selling out because Oilers fans are refusing to travel to the US to attend them this year.
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Brandon Bishop
26 days ago
Still has the *highest* confidence/credibility of any profession in the US.
www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...
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The Globe and Mail
26 days ago
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Decline in government funding for universities will hamper research, undermine economic growth, report says
Canada has to boost funding to meet economic challenge of changing geopolitical order, says president of Universities Canada
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/education/article-university-government-funding-decline-report/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Considering how much $ is spent on defence this is really remarkable.
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planners: our two universities will be at the end of a peninsula and at the top of a mountain people: won't people complain about how removed they are from the city? planners: almost immediately people: will rapid transit be created in response? planners: we'll talk about it for decades, but no
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