I guess we’re celebrating ferry week @jmcelroy.bsky.social. Missed last ferry by one car. Looking forward to the car alarms

☔ 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

You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇

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."

I hate where we're currently at in science. depressing

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.

BREAKING: Signal, the #1 privacy protecting messaging app, is saying they will pull out of 🇨🇦 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...

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/...

(1/2) Put your hands together for the recipients of SCN’s 25 for 25 Silver Anniversary Awards! 👏 Join us in celebrating the outstanding individuals and organizations whose contributions have strengthened Canada’s #RegenerativeMedicine ecosystem and helped shape SCN over the past 25 years. ✨

Canadians have had a couple of gas tax cuts (fed or prov) in the last little while. Does this fit our facts?

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

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

I posted about these acting CDC director’s 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.

Mélanie 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?"

Today I’m 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

Pearson couldn't get much worse than it already is but happy if they leave Vancouver alone.

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.

Still amazing to me how many looking for positions expect me to consider an application where they’ve clearly plagiarized from my website. Don’t you see the copyright logo on there?

This is shameful, the NDP suck

Am I wrong though?

Brief vigorous exercise snacks improve glycaemic regulation in people living with type 2 diabetes #T2D #DiabetesResearch link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🔓

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim proclaimed May 29, 2024 as “Guy Felicella Day” in honour of my work advocating for “BOTH HARM REDUCTION AND RECOVERY.” Tomorrow, I’m returning it. I won’t be used as part of a disingenuous display of fake compassion. My full statement is below 👇

Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe.

“A 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 of…advances.” Over reliance is bad #Canada 🧪 theconversation.com/to-lead-in-g...

Strange coincidence that this gets completed just after the voter lists in Alberta were leaked?

Actually a cool idea I stole from @rachaelabay.bsky.social Everyone in the lab gets one to encourage applying for stuff!

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!

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...

(🧵 1/22) Many publications from the CIRTN labs this Spring 🌷! 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.

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

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!

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 is out now. shorturl.at/kHf9Y

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?

me too. if you use this word, you are a dweeb.

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

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."

This is awesome! (and how have i not heard of it before?) https://youtu.be/ICyqwn6ihTs?si=sn4qcWZ9O8xIvgM0

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?'"

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.

here we go, going to be a rough, smoky summer in BC

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.

wonder what Michael Smith would think of getting rid of Trainee and Scholar awards www.healthresearchbc.ca/news-events/...

Think it's just the US that is leaking scientific talent to China? Think again.

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

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.

Still has the *highest* confidence/credibility of any profession in the US. www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...

Considering how much $ is spent on defence this is really remarkable.

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