Congratulations are in order to Banu Mushtaq, author of Heart Lamp, and Deepa Bhashti, who translated the winning collection.

The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) is proud to announce that award-winning Anishnaabe journalist Lenard Monkman is the inaugural recipient of the CJF Indigenous Health Journalism Fellowship in partnership with the @cmadocs.bsky.social (CMA). Read: www.newswire.ca/news-release... #CJFAwards

This EO is a lot of words for a rule that basically says, political appointees will overrule scientists in deciding what the government considers factual information.

A tiny reef builder lighting up the ocean 🪸. This 1-month-old rice coral (Montipora capitata) glows 🟢 with natural GFP and 🟣 with symbiotic algae 🔬. Image taken by Emma Rangel-Huerta #FluorescenceFriday #ScienceArt #DevBio

Doug Ford's Bill 5 will override Indigenous rights to force risky developments on traditional territories. The people of Treaty 9 will stand up to defend the land. Doug the grifter is about to taught a basic lesson in Canadian history.

“Indigenous resistance made the nation of Canada possible.” “What these Conservatives fail to understand is this: we only have a country today because of the determination of Indigenous leaders like Tecumseh, who led the defence of Canada in 1812.” So much respect for @charlieangus104.bsky.social

More and more chatter in COVID-aware and variant tracker spaces about a COVID summer wave. That includes from modelers who don't constantly and almost always erroneously predict an imminent surge. Notably, there are several multi-recombinant variants gaining significant ground.

#AskWHO Pandemic Accord: A landmark agreement Watch Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VVv...

“Our review revealed complex, often circular patterns involving both healthcare providers & informal caregivers. Our analyses track the number,type & sector (private, public or informal) of healthcare provider visits,offering a framework to capture key elements of these non-linear patient journeys.

China will replace the United States as the WHO’s top state donor, expanding its influence as the U.S. retreats from international cooperation. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

My painting TOWERING STORM

At the #ESCMIDGlobal in Vienna, @msf.ca presented key research on #AMR: 🧪 Salmonella and #HIV in #DRC 📈 Antibiotic use in #Syria 🦠 #NICU outbreaks in #CAR and #Afghanistan 💊 Vancomycin dose monitoring in #Gaza 📚 SR on AMR in #Mozambique Thank you! #medsky #episky #microsky @escmid.bsky.social

Ireland is equipping 4,000 schools with free solar panels and interactive displays, making green energy a core part of education. A big step toward a sustainable future! 🌍☀️📚 🔗 fox59.com/business/press-re... #ClimateAction

AOC: In every single stop that Bernie and I have had in the past couple of days… every single stop has completely blown out all attendance projections.

Our study ‘The global human impact on biodiversity’ is out in Nature! Through an unprecedented synthesis (2133 studies!) we show that humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thursday's deadline for federal agencies to submit plans for large-scale layoffs kicks off a new phase in the dramatic restructuring of how the government operates. Here's what that looks like.

I really don't think this news has made sufficient shock waves. Dr Katherine Calvin, NASA Chief Scientist Trump-Musk just fired, is the highest ranking American on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. She is co-chair of Working Group 3 on mitigation. This is a climate attack.

Here is Jay speaking at an antivaxx conference in front of a slide that used Twitter survey data to claim COVID vaccines killed more than 500K people and helped fewer than 25K people. (COVID vaccines saved more than 20 million lives in their first year alone.) Jay is antivaxx and also bad at numbers

Most people do NOT check their blood pressure correctly Because arteries get STIFFER with age ...3 BP readings should be taken at each sitting. DISCARD the 1st one & record the AVERAGE of the next 2 readings. Thanks for posting. Please SHARE

"This philosophy—supported by tech figures like Sam Bankman-Fried—fuels the AI research agenda, creating a harmful system in the name of saving humanity" And of course now we have a paper on the topic: ➡️ Paper: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... ➡️Talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT...

CDC plans to waste time and taxpayers’ money chasing windmills in the midst of one raging epidemic (and on the precipice of several others) that would not have existed except for people who claimed fraudulently there was such a link in the first place (which there isn’t) Bit longer headline but…

~200 cases in the Texas outbreak, double the count 2 weeks ago. 23 hospitalizations. 2 deaths This outbreak was destined to be terrible bc of low rates of vaccination. Vaccine misinformation & skepticism at the highest levels of government means that more communities will become this vulnerable.

Mike Davis was born on this day in 1946. “At the end of the day, the best measure of the humanity of any society is the life and happiness of its children. We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.”

You won't want to miss this one. Join @bsky.app CEO @jay.bsky.team for a conversation on the future of social and how users can take control over their own online experience at #SXSW. #Bluesky #JayGraber Watch LIVE at 1pm CT: ow.ly/3K0U50Vccnj

You can’t have a functioning democracy with an uneducated populace.

Trump's budget plan may cut NASA science funding by up to 50%, alarming scientists who call it an "extinction-level event" for space science. This threatens ongoing missions and would cede future space exploration to China. Also, about 30% of NASA's science budget is for Earth and climate science.

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mine will always be the sperm whale who reacted to a Roman soldier throwing a bottle at him off the Byzantine coast by sinking every ship he could off that coast for the next 60 years and had the emperor declare him an enemy of the state and name him after the Titan who attacked mount olympus

#BannedBookSkyClub Don't forget! March 2025's book is #ParableOfTheSower by Octavia Butler. I'll start posting talking points on Sunday, March 2, 2025, and post periodically throughout March. See replies for link to Banned Book Club feed. #BookSky

Anyway, those are my thoughts. You can choose to dress in certain ways to elicit certain reactions (e.g., perform respectability), but real respect is about more meaningful actions. Important to not conflate how you choose to dress with how you judge others. Dress respectability is Victorian ethics.

The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

Just look at how we view hoodies. On Mark Zuckerberg, the hoodie is a symbol of whiz kid meritocracy breaking norms and developing the New Economy. On people like Trayvon Martin, the hoodie is sometimes seen as proof of criminality. Again, it's about the bodies beneath the clothes.

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

There are measles outbreaks in the U.S. & Canada. A disease we eradicated is making a comeback due to dangerous anti-vaxx rhetoric We need mandatory masking in healthcare A respirator protects against Covid, measles & more There’s no excuse to expose patients when we have the tools to prevent it:

Don’t be fooled by proponents of for-profit health care. It leads to higher costs and decreased care. For-profit clinics are incentivized to prioritize people who are wealthier and healthy, less expensive to treat, and provide larger profit-margins. #Opinion

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

“A new international survey has been released exploring the experiences of athletes with ME / Long Covid (with PEM)” Via Physios For ME @physiosforme.bsky.social Please share widely - all info on our website here https://t.co/L46bdnd7iS

Can’t believe I’m typing this but… FUCK IT IM PLANNING A STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST IN DC. If you want to be involved, be dm me. I’m nervous, I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world.

Canadians need to keep voting with their dollars. Stay strong Canada. Keep the boycott going. www.ctvnews.ca/northern-ont...

On the pod this week: @ruhisleep.bsky.social talks to hostess @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social about the significance of rest, of sleep as a restorative space, and of self-awareness, in this super interesting and informative podcast episode. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/78ll...

The CDC has removed data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and health disparities from their website. Pages removed include: - Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System - Social Vulnerability Index - Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities

Today we launched the Pledge for Canada. We have voices from across the political, cultural, labour, Indigenous spectrum. We are building a movement to maintain pressure on our leaders not to sell out our nation or our values. Please sign and join the movement. engagement-canada-pledge.ca

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

One impact of the NSF freeze: They fund the small nonprofit, EarthScope, that manages seismic and GPS stations used worldwide to detect and warn of earthquakes and navigate autonomous vehicles. EarthScope can maybe make payroll this week. A prolonged freeze could see stations fail.

Concerned about disappearing pages? Make a recurring donation to the Internet Archive. They fund & run the Wayback Machine, which can be used to see how pages looked in the past. The IA has endured transparent attacks over the past few years. #DoSomething and donate here: archive.org

I mean, literally, the answer to this is "I am federally prohibited from telling you anything about my students without a subpoena or judicial warrant; if you have a subpoena or judicial warrant, please submit it to [Legal Officer/Office] to ensure it is in compliance with all relevant federal laws"

The FAA is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 years without a leader because Elon Musk helped push him out. The former FAA administrator stepped down on Jan. 20th after Musk called on him to resign. Musk was angry after the FAA fined SpaceX for failing to get approval for launch changes.