Women's heart attacks often don't look like men's, & they're often caused by very different things. In women, myocardial infarction often isn't due to high cholesterol & plaque at all. (My arteries were clear!) 🔹️But "When the root cause of a heart attack is... 1/3 share.google/jFwSthNZuZYD...

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Regular reminder there’s this cool setting you can use to help you remember to use alt text.

Just in case you weren’t sure how awful Doug ford is. The courts ruled against him based on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms because PEOPLE WILL DIE IF HE REMOVES SAFE BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE. So he’s considering ABUSING the Notwithstanding Clause just for ego and some cheap suburban votes.

The focus on creating fear/hatred around autism isn't random, nor is the desire to create lists. Neurodiverse people are generally not followers. They ask questions, are critical thinkers. They see patterns and connect details in ways others can't. This makes them more dangerous to the system.

They've lost the 9yos

I fucking hate writing sometimes. It's like somebody hands you a tree and an axe and says "I need a table by dinner time, and make it pretty." Like, fuck you. Who the fuck does this for a living? It's fucking stupid.

Meanwhile in my institutional mass email dump folder every day: TEACHING WITH GENERATIVE AI!! COME TRY CO-PILOT!! BETTER PROMPTS FOR CO-PILOT!! DESIGNING ASSESSMENTS AROUND AI!!!

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This looks like the exact right amount of pens for a work bag to me!

telling my boss I’m going to fuck up roughly 30% of the time and it’s math’s fault

this exists it is called thinking

Canada could benefit massively by greatly increasing funding for science and engineering, but we won't. Carney will probably do the opposite.

In this era of poly-crisis and growing anti-science sentiment, now more than ever Canada must invest in investigator-driven science. Science is fundamental to our ability to survive and thrive @mark-carney.bsky.social

Don't underestimate the effect of the arts—music, dance, visual, gardening, crafts, theater—for promoting health, a systematic review @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'll be the first to applaud the federal government if we actually see new investments in research and science. I fear, instead, we're about to see significant cuts. Fingers crossed that when Carney shows us what kind of leader he is, we'll be clapping.

We have spent more than a decade uploading our politics and civil society to a cloud owned by oligopolistic tech firms. As the Trump administration moves to take over those companies, it is a direct threat to democracies everywhere. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I love the idea of a Canadian 🇨🇦social media platform. More of this please! gandersocial.ca#early-access

One part I struggle to understand with AI-generated “art” is what is the appeal? If the humanity is removed from art, why would I want to view/listen/read it? Part of my enjoyment of art comes from knowing and being amazed by the fact another human created it!

Imagine if Canadian taxpayer dollars were spent on improving access to quality healthcare and education services instead of paying for the campaign promises Doug made to guests at his kids’ stag n does.

A new study from @kiteuhn.bsky.social highlights how tailored therapy programs can help people with primary progressive #aphasia preserve communication skills and promote overall well-being. 🔗 Read more: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/preserv... @uhn.ca

Happy #PostdocAppreciationWeek! 🎉 At @uhn.ca, our postdoctoral researchers are an integral part of #TeamUHN. Join us this week as we highlight some of the individuals who make up our postdoc community:

the only AI i need is an earpiece i can wear at my kid's birthday party that tells me the name of the parent i've met like four times before

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

I found at least 30 of my publications in this database.

If cabinet is hoping the guy who wrote the fascist playbook will give advice on stopping fascism then we are in trouble. Adorno reminds us that clever people were the first to be suckered by the fascist playbook because they thought they could outsmart it. There is nothing hidden in their plan.

Policy announcements I'd love to hear in tandem with a mass return to office: - congestion pricing - GO full system electrification/ten minute frequency - bike infrastructure rollout focusing on suburban commute routes Unfortunately the province forbids Toronto from implementing any of these.

Uh oh. This presents a very upsetting conundrum for SCAD patients (almost always women) & their cardiologists, considering that the only treatment previously shown to be effective in reducing the risk of another SCAD heart attack is beta-blockers (esp. metropolol). 1/4 www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/h...

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I’ve polled 40 students at my liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest. 60% report that they avoid AI chat bots like the plague. 75% report having a generally or strongly negative opinion about how AI will impact the future.

Airlines aren't the only sector where women work unpaid hours Healthcare, education and other woman-dominated fields are often underfunded, experts say #Canada www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/a...

Charging for vaccination is bad public health policy. Even worse for a disease that continues to spread, unchecked, causing death and permanent disability.

Leading physicists claim Mark Carney’s elbows are in a quantum superposition of up and down simultaneously

I hope this helps someone: Regardless of your intention when using AI, it doesn't change the processes involved in using it, which include excessive consumption of water & other finite energy sources and data centers that are placed in vulnerable communities, polluting both people and land.

The rise in A.I. preprints and plagiarism nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/d41...

The University Health Network's Pride in Pride in Patient Engagement in Research (PiPER) team is excited to host its Third Annual PiPER Research Day on October 8, 2025 at the beautiful Guild Inn Estate in Scarborough! See below for more details about the event venue. Register NOW: lnkd.in/eJC9Nvg6

Doesn’t seem very *elbows up* to order mostly women back to work without pay for a large corporation basically acting as a monopoly while the execs all make many millions every year.

In this existential 'Elbows Up' moment for Canada's economy, public discourse has been overly influenced by loud demands from corporations & their political backers to implement their age-old agenda: deregulate (especially environmental rules), cut taxes, build more pipelines. /2

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The paper highlights actionable steps to help improve these double standards, including more RESEARCH RELATED LANGUAGE in P &T letters for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous women to improve their outcomes.

This is the most dangerous shade your brush water can be.

Despite initiatives to increase women in STEM, progress remains slow. A physics professor's course tackles this by focusing on self-awareness, mentorship, and communication skills:

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.  That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

I fear there is deep truth here.

If you're going to pretend AI is people (qua "digital labor" or "digital colleague"), then hold it accountable as you do people. Nobody accepts "I was hallucinating" when you screw up at work -- so why shrug and accept it as a baseline feature from AI?

This newsletter shares an interesting perspective. One of many statements that will stick with me … “Anthropomorphising concepts such as “hallucination” […] help dismiss the fact that statistical responses are completely disconnected from meaning and facts. “

Doug Ford’s commitment to building a tunnel under Highway 401 is bold, misguided, and almost certainly doomed. Here’s why journalist @davidmoscrop.com says it “ought to disqualify him from the Ontario premiership”: thewalrus.ca/a-highway-to-hel...

You sure about this, Google?

The Ford government wants to dig one of the most expensive tunnels in the world under the 401 Highway. It's a joke, but the premier isn't laughing. What's going on with these toddlers running the province? www.davidmoscrop.com/p/the-ford-g...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.