Today I learned that scotiabank is pretty big here. Where am I?

Amidated gut hormone peptidergic signaling as a determinant of sex-specific metabolic and behavioral states in Drosophila @MolMetab www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UBC and BC Cancer are recruiting a cancer stem cell faculty member at the Associate Professor or Professor rank for the new Connie Eaves Chair in Cancer Stem Cell Research. A great position recognizing a giant in the field. Please share. #Vancouver ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

To the extent that Canada has any foothold in AI, it's because the government 25 years ago had no idea what it was funding. Top down priorities for academic research are pathetic bandwagoning and strangle real future-relevant innovation.

Great to see! I do wonder how those individuals will thrive in an ecosystem the desperately needs more investment.

One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495

This is a fantastic initiative!! Tho I’d like to see equivalent investment in the researchers and trainees who are HERE now!

Canada is announcing program details for science talent recruitment from abroad. The first one across my desk this morning is support for 600 doctoral students and 400 post-docs. Research investment is greatly appreciated, especially trainees and early career. www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/research_tra...

I have had so many long conversations with seniors about stuff and if they only watch 24 hour news, and I don't care what channel, they are convinced the world is lawless, they're scared, and the know everyone is coming for them. No one believes me when I say crime is down.

Step up the the plate Canada. Science is a remarkable investment for futiure prosperity and the worlds largest competitor is busy dissecting its golden goose to look for the eggs inside.

The Evoke trials have (once again) humbled many of us, reminding the field that "paving the way for incretin-based therapies as a future cornerstone in the management of neurodegenerative disorders" is a far more challenging task then originally envisioned #Alzheimers disease

Worked with a great team to organize @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social Fueling #MASH : #Metabolic Drivers & #Inflammatory Crosstalk, this April! Join us to explore emerging research in Vancouver! keysym.us/KSMASH26 #KSMASH26 Early Registration and Abstract deadline is in less than 2 weeks!

Zero means zero fun, zero community. vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

Islet Biologists in 🇨🇦 🏆 @cirtn.bsky.social

I hope the provincial government takes this into account when setting rent increases in 2026

zero means -2% (inflation rate predicted to be 2% this year)

Huge congratulations to my friend, @jimjohnsonsci.bsky.social on winning the @cirtn.bsky.social Mentorship Award at yesterday's workshop. Reading his nominations was so heartwarming! These events make me so excited about working in science in Canada. @nictitate.bsky.social

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again. #sciencematters

COP30 - another year of disappointment

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

📢🎉New study from our lab on circulating SASP factors suggests a novel senescent cell biomarker across #T1D stages! Congrats🥳Camille Jasmine and @dream-diabetes.bsky.social trainees Grateful to TrialNet @chrimanitoba.bsky.social @cirtn.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Missed my number being called tonight (#609) to speak via phone to Vancouver City Council during their multi-night meeting on the city’s very controversial 0% austerity budget. Remarkable to have that many speakers, and to have almost all opposing the proposed cuts, instead asking for a % increase.

NPR: "Wholesale prices for a turkey have jumped 40% from a year ago, according to the Department of Agriculture."

Apply for the 'Dr. Connie Eaves Chair in Cancer Cell Research' at UBC. Come join the dynamic research community in Vancouver 🇨🇦!

Canada’s research and scientific spending is declining relative to other nations, Council of Canadian Academies report says, by @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien... via @theglobeandmail.com

The lens was manufactured in 1939, in wartime Germany. At this time, the "Leica Freedom Train" was in full operation - smuggling Jews out of Germany by listing them as Leitz employees and sending them abroad to work in Leica offices in Britian, France, Hong Kong, and the United States.

budget just passed

🧵(1/12) November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and we have many works coming out from the CIRTN labs focusing on islet biology and diabetes. For the beginning of Nov 2025, we have papers from Drs Thompson, Verchere, Chen, Dhanvantari, Hill, Hoesli, Kin, Levings, Lynn, Riddell, Rutter and Wheeler.

Many exciting opportunities for a PhD in Life Sciences in CRG, Barcelona. If you are interested in Genomics of Diabetes check out the offer for a fully funded fellowship in our lab - we will consider candidates with experimental or computational backgrounds. Please spread the word!

This car is now added to my list of metaphors for genomics experiments gone wrong

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

Said by someone with a 14 year old daughter, damn.

After a night of fitful sleep I again wonder why organizations cannot live by the golden rule. Still too idealistic I guess.

Some more charts for the Vancouver budget, a response from Ken Sim on the future of the city’s climate department, and a decision to wear a sweater on camera which I’m frankly still on the fence about

I remember the last peak in 1991 as I received a measles vaccine booster in high school. What are we doing this time?

"And while the budget pours money into infrastructure and emphasizes resource extraction, it fails to leverage our country’s most significant economic drivers: people, research and education."

Of course he will

Measles cases per 100K is also a map of how frequently the premier says "parental rights."

Now do universities and colleges

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Happy to share that our preprint is now published at @embomolmed.org! We expanded on the benchmark of porcine ductal organoids by a pretty extensive proteomics dataset to compare organoids derived from different developmental stages of the pig #devbio #PancSky www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Budget 2024 did not disappear. Granting council budgets are still rising, just not as quickly.

Study permit exemption for graduate students...

That’s a wrap for #TMM2025 in Ottawa! 🎉 Highlights included: ✨ SCN’s Celebration of Research Excellence 💡 Plenaries on stem cell therapies 🔬 Christine Mummery’s keynote 🧬 Open symposia on cardiac & neuronal regeneration Thanks to all sponsors and participants—see you next year in Vancouver!

Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Here’s my humble pitch: we stop calling Vancouver’s housing market a “slowdown” or “slump”, implying that it was a great time before. And instead, consider that after three years of similar numbers, acknowledge a new reality that everyone should adjust to.

Although things could always be better, it's great to see the government continuing to support research in this environment...a rising tide lifts all boats.

The Canadian government has seemingly never read a single one of its own commissioned reports on what Canadian science needs. (It's not more people.)

We've been told by Finance that the 2024 budget commitments are intact, minus the $83 million. This is much better than I had been expecting.