The anti-tylenol lobby is winning! arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

A big study in JAMA last year in which 185 909 children were exposed to acetaminophen during pregnancy. Conclusion: Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children's risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38592388/

Area man who couldn't convince his local constituents to elect him says he'll convince American authoritarian leader to be nicer to Canada.

I have gotten a bit behind at sharing the lab’s latest work - this paper is now published - check it out! www.cell.com/cell-reports... Long story short: insulin is the major determinant of female fat storage, with a relatively minor effect on males.

Oh Canada, don’t look this gift horse in the mouth. Highly skilled people have just been priced out of the US. Come north where the only taxes on your brain are the worlds most important scientific questions that you’ll help to answer.

"Moderna liked Canada because it is a country where 'science is at the forefront.'" I hope this remains the case @mark-carney.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2109fef...

Dear Rest of the World - please view this devastating situation as a major opportunity and argument to step up your investments - NOT as a signal to make your own cuts to research activities.

Save the date for the 2026 A-BC Islet Biology meeting! Looking forward to many fantastic presentations by trainees in islet biology from all over Canada as well as great keynote lectures. Please share widely! isletmeeting.weebly.com

A new #ClinicalTrials unit at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital in Vancouver will allow B.C. life sciences companies to test early-stage drugs locally. It's the first facility in the province with the capacity to perform non-oncology Phase 1 clinical trials: https://bit.ly/4pzFQNu

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science. Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024. Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

Congratulations to Taylor Scheidl, the senior PhD student in the Thompson lab, on her new preprint 🎉 She showed that offspring born to obese dams are more likely to become obese due to more proliferation in early-life adipose progenitors, which leads to higher adipocyte numbers.

Not good: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I can see why folks in BC might applaud the brutal indecision of the NDP government when it comes to making tough financial decisions because it means fewer cuts in the short term. But boy, lemme tell you, Budget 2029 is going to be freaking brutal.

Charlie Kirk supported the 51st state annexation of Canada 🇨🇦 and the Canadian House of Commons clapped for him, could they be more embarrassing? #cdnpoli

(1/2) Congrats to Dr. Joshua N. Awoke, recipient of the 2025 J. Andrew McKee Fellowship in Type 1 Diabetes! 👏 ✨ His work aims to predict disease risk and track how well therapies are working, paving the way for earlier detection and improved care. 🔗 stemcellnetwork.ca/stem-cell-ne...

🧵(3/3) Cont' beginning of Sept 2025: 1) www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce... 2) academic.oup.com/edrv/advance... 3) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵(2/3) Cont' beginning of Sept 2025: 2) “Glycerol and glycerol-3-phosphate: multifaceted metabolites in metabolism, cancer and other diseases” PMID: 40927981 3) “Osteocalcin has many tricks to get γ-carboxylated” PMID: 40913186 Links in last thread

🧵(1/3) Our first post highlighting publications coming from CIRTN groups (first half of September 2025)! We have works from the labs of Drs. Marc Prentki, Timothy Kieffer and Mathieu Ferron. 1)“From β soloist to endocrine symphony: Subtype-complete islets conduct glucose harmony” PMID 40912231

Congratulations to all the Endocrine Society @endocrinesociety.bsky.social 2026 awardees including Emerita Professor Patricia Brubaker recognized for outstanding mentorship www.endocrine.org/awards/laure...

Wow! Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion. A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!! This is why vaccine equity matters! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

As well as many other savings (and funerals). Perhaps one of the most underestimated impacts was that the Covid vaccines essentially saved the medical profession from total burnout. It was teetering. Remember the pots and pans? We forget so soon.

I was pretty shocked by how Canadian universities handle research misconduct until I found out how they handle asbestos.

For 58€ a month I can ride on almost any public transport anywhere in Germany. Within a 15 minute walk from my house I can access 4 S Bahn lines, 3 UBahn lines, regional trains (I honestly don’t even know how many of those), 3 tram lines and at least 4 city bus lines (probably more).

If I’m understanding right, Aaron Clauset at Peer Review Congress showing that the strongest correlate of peer review outcomes at Science and Science Advances is the prestige of authors’ institutions. Also pretty big association with author geography, not much with author gender. #PRC10

Apropos of nothing.... Peer-review should be rigorous, not rude. Critique the work, not the author team. Explain, don’t sneer. Build science up, don’t beat the authors down. Respect in peer-reviews isn’t optional — it’s how good research gets better.

New preprint from the lab 🎉 on the evolution of gene regulatory network complexity, where we tested whether sexual recombination promotes more complex GRNs using biochemically-inspired evolutionary simulations 🧐. Bluetorial from 1st author @chapelmadison.bsky.social 👇

Thrilled to share that I’ve officially started my new role as a Senior Scientist in the Terry Fox Laboratory at the BC Cancer Research Centre. I’m excited to join this inspiring community, build new collaborations, and explore bold ideas together.

Defence spending must include health spending too www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2109fef...

A B.C. mayor that has feuded with councillors and staff for years and argued that everyone else was in the wrong did the rarest of things today. He publicly apologized.

Hey everyone who signed the letter about increasing funding for research in Canada, you can fill in this consultation and write in "Double Tri-council funding to help secure Canadian Research Sovereignty" as an option under "other" for the first question...

Locked out for 1 week so far. Not a peep from employer. Annoyed by their interference with our teaching and research mission (in my case, virus research for pandemic preparedness). Research grant deadline looms - Sept 10th. Grateful for my @dalfaculty.bsky.social colleagues! #KeepDalStrong

Turkiye used to be one of the very few OECD countries Canada could beat on R&D spending. No longer.

“Communicating science isn’t just a job for doctors or PR teams. It’s a leadership responsibility” www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2109fef...

Congratulations Nike, Nicole, Kathy and the whole team to get this important study into the pipeline. If you womder if stem cell-derived islet compositions matters for safety and efficacy for the graft, our tissue engineering approach gives an answer. Check it out….

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🚀 Our new study is out in Nature Metabolism! We used single-embryo metabolomics and transcriptomics to map the earliest metabolic transitions in Drosophila development, including the onset of zygotic metabolism. Explore the dataset & findings: 🔗 rdcu.be/eAH12 #DevBio #metabolomics #Drosophila

BREAKING: mRNA HIV Vaccine Shows Strong Early Results A new mRNA HIV vaccine triggered robust B and T cell responses, with 80% of recipients developing Tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in early trials.

To say that "the data show these vaccines fail" in regards to the mRNA plaform is unforgivable. For those of you that don't remember - this is the data from a SINGLE dose. In December 2020. So good I cried in grateful tears.

An interesting new article in the journal Diabetes from @danieljdrucker.bsky.social and Jonathan Campbell looks at Therapeutic Targeting of the GIP Receptor - Revisiting the Controversies. diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/art...

Important first-in-human report today for donor pancreatic islet beta-cell transplant to an individual w/Type 1 diabetes. With genome editing, there was no immune response induced or need for immunosuppression. Major implications for transplantation in general @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Very proud of this new paper describing a novel human immune defect caused by ASXL1 deficiency. We really had to open the genomics tool box to solve this one, including neat tricks like calculating the epigenetic age. All led by Dr. Catherine Biggs!

* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED @reuters.com

In usual @bcferries.bsky.social fashion, they’ve managed to reduce service to Bowen during the busiest season. The Summer schedule is horrible

We're thrilled to introduce the first keynote speaker of the 14th Annual DREAM #Symposium: Making Connections for Innovation, Dr. Erin Mulvihill from @uottawa.ca. Mark your calendars for Nov 13! Register here: tinyurl.com/5d6em33b @chrimanitoba.bsky.social @um-radyfhs.bsky.social #Diabetes #Research

Today would be a good day to revive the digital services tax.

Monthly fentanyl data from US border agency. Black line is Mexico. Yellow line is Canada.

The truth about the US dairy industry www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2109fef...

Hey @UBC finance, why has the single purchase limit for university credit cards remained the same since I started in 2009? According to the Bank of Canada, the same goods today now cost 1.42x what they cost in 2009