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.

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as you think. - Globe and Mail

Some breaking news: in a special Vancouver Police Board meeting only announced over the weekend, the police board has requested a $50 million increase to their budget for 2026. This comes as other departments across the city are trying to cut staff to ensure a property tax freeze for next year.

Fact for today: Canada has climbed from 4th to 2nd in the latest international reputation rankings. The US has dropped dramatically, from 30th to 48th among the 60 top economies. Switzerland ranks first, Russia last. The rankings are often a factor in country investment decisions.

Canucks will win the Stanley Cup!

New data from Christine Wardell and the Levings lab at UBC and @bcchresearch.bsky.social has demonstrated that A2-CAR Treg cells have potential therapeutic use to simultaneously control both allo- and #autoimmunity in islet transplantation. Check it the paper: https://bit.ly/4nq3SIg

Other committee members including @taleeb.bsky.social can feel free to invite me before the committee, I actually have a real tri-council funded research program, I'm not a contrarian intellectual dark web podcaster, and I'm only alive because of amazing research conducted in Canada

My undertstanding is it hasn't happeend yet, but not sure. It's obviously a request that could not be competently met in 15 days, so maybe an extension was negotiated.

By my reading it’s already 15 days past too late to stop this. Chances seem high that all this info already fed into an LLM. Those on this committee failed to protect Canadian scientists.

Forcing funders to betray reviewers and applicants by disclosing disaggregated personal and confidential information serves no legitimate purpose. This is an abuse of parliamentary authority that will deeply undermine Canadian science.

(1/2) A century after discovering insulin, Canadian innovation is once again poised to change the world — this time through #RegenerativeMedicine and advanced therapeutics. In an op-ed with Jessica Diniz, President & CEO of @breakthrought1dca.bsky.social,

Basic research is easily mocked because it can seem impractical, but, in fact, it is a major driver of economic growth. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Someone asked me the other day*: How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed? The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible. The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research. 1/ 🧪 #neuroscience

Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

If the Carney government deploys generative AI -- a product that by design cannot be trusted to provide reliable information -- to answer Canadians' tax question, it should be required to forgive the taxes of anyone who follows any incorrect answers.

You will absolutely be judged on the "productivity" from that first big award. We gave you the money - what did you do with it?

Here’s the Government of Ontario anti-tariff advert featuring Ronald Reagan. Trump would be pissed if you watched it:

New from the @heikolickert.bsky.social clan and great work from Carina together with all collaborators and the Theis lab to study pancreas development across species, bringing new insights into conserved pathways using multimodal computational analysis www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PancSky

Of all the housing charts not made by MMI, this one is my favourite. It shows how, despite rhetoric, housing shortages aren't a global phenomenon, but they do seem to be an Anglo-American one.

Reporting on successful use of SC-islets in drug development for #congenitalhyperinsulinism! We identified ghrelin analogues as novel candidate drugs, demonstrating reversal of hypoglycaemia in mice, which was caused by the hyperinsulinaemic human SC-islets #PancSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

These guys keep talking about talent attraction, but never say anything about talent development.

Meanwhile, Canada is still trying to figure out what to do with the official residence of the Prime Minister www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Shazhan Amed about how she is using data in innovative ways to improve outcomes for children and youth living with type 1 diabetes. Thanks to the T2D Network (part of IHSTS) for hosting this conversation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eazx...

"Getting the vaccine was associated with a near doubling of median survival, from 20.6 months to 37.3 months" -

Our....parents...aren't...what?

I am excited to be the co-chair of hashtag#ISSCR2026 with Fiona Doetsch (mostly helping Fiona) and welcome the stem cell community in Montreal! Register to join us in Montréal, Canada on 8-11 July 2026! www.isscr2026.org

🧵(3/4) For the first half of October 2025 Labs of Drs. Francis Lynn, James Shapiro and Tatsuya Kin "Truncated CD19 as a selection marker for the isolation of stem cell derived β-cells" PMID: 41048051 journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

🧵(1/4) For the first half of October 2025 we have 3 publications from the CIRTN labs🍁. These papers are from the groups of Drs. Bruce Verchere, Yi-Chun Chen, Francis Lynn, James Shapiro, Tatsuya Kin and Guy Rutter!

A great shame that Canada still refuses to fund innovation properly! It’s clear we have the experts to advise the government that funding science is a smart investment!!

Correction: it used to be.

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy. #NobelPrize

My breaking file on the province requiring a referendum to kill Vancouver's Park Board. Sim is avoiding criticism of the province on this decision — but he was originally hopeful to get rid of the park board in six months. But he lost political capital, and the province wasn't inclined to help.

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%” Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors

In 2022, Ken Sim said line item budget comparisons were the cornerstone of his budget policy if he got elected mayor. In 2025, he voted against it happening for a budget presentation with potentially $100 million in cuts because his newly appointed city manager told him no.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

I am leaving Rochester NY after attending the retirement fest of four giants in the field of evolutionary biology including my PhD advisor. This visit gave me a chance to revisit old haunts and reflect on my own somewhat unlikely origin story. 1/n

California should probably just join Canada www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...