Hillary’s 2016 National Security Address reads like a prophecy. She called his ideas “dangerously incoherent… a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies.” In 2026, Truth Social IS the policy channel. Tariffs announced and reversed by post.

Should we care about far away outbreaks of infectious disease? by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com

Lorsqu'on a écrit ce petit opus avec @julietalbot.bsky.social, je n'imaginais pas qu'il serait encore si nécessaire de rappeler la situation dramatique dans laquelle nous sommes. Pourtant, force est de constater que la désinformation climatique est encore puissante ! pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/le...

Ever wonder why USA does not have health care? Read Emily Abel substack.com/home/post/p-...

Just back from France and Switzerland for the double launch of my book: Laennec: l'invention du diagnostic moderne. 2026, 640 pages, 46 illustrations, 22 tableaux (Format 140/225) ISBN : 978-2-940527-64-9 pur-editions.fr/product/1145... and www.chuv.ch/fr/ihm/ihm-h...

Il est là! Petit, mignon, pas cher, mais surtout particulièrement instructif. Dans toutes les bonnes librairies le 11 mai prochain.

My very wise sister interviewed about medical humanities. You need to hear her physician/historian’s perspective! So great! medhum.org/interview/pr...

“The regulatory system is failing to protect people’s health from excessive flaring at LNG Canada" — Dr. Tim Takaro, CAPE BC physician-scientist, on news that Canada's largest LNG export facility was flaring an average of 40 times more gas than its permits allow. Full story: bit.ly/4c9xLu5

Les belles surprises de la boîte aux lettres 😍

April 12, 1980. "Today is the day it all begins". 46 years ago today at 2:30 pm in St. John's NL, Terry Fox started to run across the country. "I touched the ocean before I left, up this old dirt road that was impossible to run on." via @terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social

Sleep peacefully, little angel... Odessa has bid farewell to the victims of the April 6 shelling on their final journey: little Hanna, who was not yet three years old, her mother, and their neighbor. Odessa. 09.04.2026. May their memory be bright!

Q for any historians out there: Has any previous election (anywhere) seen the White House and Kremlin both meddling on behalf of the same side?

this: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/our-darkes...

At last Canada gets something like an essential medicines list...an important step in managing drug shortages! www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...

This: theconversation.com/fact-check-p...

My latest essay for Medhum.org medhum.org/article/refl...

Four pandemic truths that became clouded over time: #COVID19 was serious; lockdowns served a purpose; benefits of vaccines were oversold; governments flip-flopped on policies, by @fenitn.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/... via @washingtonpost.com

Don't lose sight of this story as the ON govt tries to shift the narrative towards successfully "attaching" patients to primary care teams. Many people are still paying thousands/yr to join private NP clinics. Is this the dumbest way to entrench illegal 2 tier care in ON? Probably yes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with children in Zaporizhzhia, a city that continues to endure heavy Russian attacks. The video captures a genuine moment — no pomp, no formalities, just hugs and smiles, as if the war felt far away 💙💛

McMaster University researcher Gerry Wright is searching for the next generation of life-saving antibiotics. More than 5 million deaths every year are caused by or linked to superbugs, by Jennifer Yang www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

This: www.cnbc.com/2026/03/16/s...

Trump tried again and again to stop the first, large-scale offshore wind project in the country from being built off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. I sued Trump and I won. This is a victory for clean energy, good jobs and lower utility rates in Massachusetts.

I keep thinking that if Donald Trump had gone to prison for January 6, as he should have, all those Iranian schoolgirls would be having dinner with their families this evening.

This moment from Feb 2025 may go down as one of the most prescient exchanges in modern diplomatic history. Zelenskyy warned Trump that while the United States may feel protected by an ocean today, a time could come when America would need help in war. Trump scolded him instead.

“Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors ‘to keep out of the newspapers anything which…tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly.’” - William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 405

"it is hard to see on what moral grounds we claim the right to decide the fate of those overseas about whom we clearly care so little." www.publicnotice.co/p/iran-eleme...

Des arbres matures sauvés de justesse dans une aire protégée projetée en Estrie ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/223...

a nice antidote to everything else you'll read this morning "The library may have presented itself as a yawningly worthy establishment, but — as with so many things in DC upon closer inspection — it proved to be delightfully barking mad."

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Women's Day: Forthcoming in autumn, Victoria Van Orden Martínez, Female Stem Pioneers who Survived the Holocaust

Here's one we made earlier for #IWD - 8 women in Scotland who shaped #histSTM www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

Pour lutter contre le drame des grossesses non désirées, Marie-Andrée Lagroua Weill-Hallé créa l’association à l’origine du Planning familial. La chercheuse Bibia Pavard nous éclaire sur cette initiative fondatrice des droits des femmes.

Exporting the US healthcare system might constitute an international act of aggression

During the 1964–1965 U.S. rubella epidemic, about 20,000 infants were born with congenital rubella syndrome, including deafness, heart defects, and other severe disabilities. historyofvaccines.org/history/stan...

Ontario govt, 2024: unprecedented population growth means we're forced to cut health care funding Ontario govt, 2026: unprecedented population "flattening" means we're forced to cut health care funding So many excuses for starving public health care. Who cares if they make sense or are consistent?

US-style pharma ads don't belong in Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Illinois will join WHO's outbreak response network in defiance of Trump https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/illinois-will-join-whos-outbreak-response-network-defiance-trump-2026-02-04/ ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Thank you Jacalyn Duffin @drugshortage.bsky.social for this generous and thoughtful review of our archive 😍 medhum.org/review/jacal...

First, U.S. states started creating their own vaccination consortiums. Will participation in global health networks be next? www.npr.org/2026/01/28/g...

In a perfect world, vaccine childhood vaccine mandates wouldn't be necessary. But we live in a world where grifters will sacrifice children for political and financial gain, so we need to protect kids, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com

@christian-s-warren.bsky.social Good points! Also Pete Seeger recorded (but did not release) a cod-liver oil parody about Canadian medicare, written by Helen and Earl Robinson www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNvp.... Read all about it in our 2018 article utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

about the nonsense about allies hanging back... eloquent editorial in Toronto Globe and Mail www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

In 2023, I wrote about "Hansen's Disease, Han's Disease, & the Global History of Leprosy," doi.org/10.17613/pad.... All three of these essays still make good reading today, b/c they capture the important work that's been done the past few years not just in #histmed, but also in the paleosciences.

excellent thread on the costs of Trump