In the upcoming @camhnews.bsky.social SIMposium of Minds, two of our AMS Fellows are featured as panelists on AI-enabled mental health care. Join Drs. @danielbuchman.bsky.social and @laurasikstrom.bsky.social to learn about their insights! Register here: buff.ly/9wkUrZL

‘Fairness’ in AI isn't a feature. It’s a responsibility. Algorithmic bias in healthcare can have serious impacts. @laurasikstrom.bsky.social co-created a 'Fairness Dashboard' to help data scientists and developers design fair AI in mental health care. More here: buff.ly/oLYfiRq

Congrats to CAMH’s Dr. Peter Zhukovsky & Dr. Shreejoy Tripathy, recipients of Brain Canada Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research grant! They join 22 researchers nationwide advancing bold ideas in brain health. Learn more & see the full list here:https://ow.ly/WE2M50X4Ble

Most viewed this week from JAMA: US children's health has worsened from 2007 to 2023 across various indicators, including mortality, chronic conditions, and mental health. https://ja.ma/3TA6tmx

Climate necropolitics: thoughts from the middle of the heatwave. jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr...

I reported an offensive Caitlin Clark fake video on X to try and get it removed. Instead, I saw how deeply the platform is letting women down. My story on one of the most disturbing issues affecting women in the age of AI, and X's failure to curb it: www.sportingnews.com/us/wnba/indi...

“A complete cessation of US funding without replacement by other sources of funding would lead to dramatic increases in deaths from 2025-2040: 15.2 (9.3-20.8) million additional AIDS deaths, 2.2 (1.5-1.9) million additional TB deaths, 7.9 million additional child deaths from other causes”

The U.S. is witnessing the return of psychiatric imprisonment. From ‘wellness farms’ to expanded involuntary commitment policies, the U.S. is embracing psychiatric incarceration under the guise of compassion, by Jordyn Jensen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... via @theguardian.com #MentalHealth

What's that saying... the best defense is a good offense? Or maybe the aphorism about levers and moving the world is more appropriate here: The US Treasury Bond attack Carney engineered, forcing Trump to pause tariffs: open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

#Academicsky 🇨🇦 postdoc

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

How is this not slavery? www.propublica.org/article/geo-...

So proud to have been on the margins, supporting this amazing project team to greater interdisciplinarity & inclusiveness. They may not design a real cape for Batman to fly, but their new fabrics may help friends with MS or frail elders, to walk again. #Superheros! www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...

While the U.S. grapples with an egg shortage caused by avian flu, eggs remain plentiful and affordable in Canada. There are reasons for that, including that egg farms there tend to be smaller.

🔔 #ICYMI 🔔 📰✨ Congratulations to Dr. Mandeep Singh, Clinician Investigator at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, for his recent interview with The Toronto Star discussing the new social media trend, ‘sleepmaaxing’. 🔗: linktr.ee/krembil

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

The cruelty & nonsensicle nature of this horrid policy decision? How is this not a bigger political issue? The devastating impact of Trump’s slashing foreign aid, in 3 charts www.vox.com/future-perfe... "...threatening millions of lives and livelihoods around the world."

Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. As the world’s richest men slash American aid for the world’s poorest children, they insist that all is well, by @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com #GlobalHealth

America’s scientific community is in panic mode as Elon Musk takes a chainsaw to the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, by @mollykraskin.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #cancer

harrowing story of evacuation from DR Congo, in the midst of USAID's dismantling.

Atul Gawande, who worked for U.S.A.I.D. during the last Administration, calls the agency “America at its best.” But with Donald Trump and Elon Musk, “there’s a different world view at play here,” he says. “Power is what matters, not impact.” Listen here.

USAID fall out at Johns Hopkins. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

“After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID,” Marco Rubio wrote on Monday. (trib.al/nBk143S) Now, the staff has been directed to shred and burn classified documents—an illegal move under the Federal Records Act.

💜Epilepsy Canada and UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute are joining forces this #EpilepsyAwarenessMonth to shed light on epilepsy — what it is, how it impacts lives today, and the relentless research driving new treatments for tomorrow. 🧠🔬📚 🔗: instagram.com/krembilresea...

“Petite spring” really was delightful in Toronto today.

For students and recent grads, I'M HIRING for our summer fellowship @policyalternatives.ca . You'd help with the Alterative Federal Budget, an unprecedented networking opportunity to meet the who's who of progressive policy minds. Like prog. policy and Excel? Apply now: ccpa.bamboohr.com/careers/41

The Times obtained a recording of a meeting of U.S. health and security experts and Embassy staff, who described how the Trump aid freeze means that there is limited disease surveillance or contact tracing in Uganda's growing Ebola outbreak. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/h...

Russian disinformation floods AI chatbots, study www.axios.com/2025/03/06/e... via @axios.com @newsguard.bsky.social: "By flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, the network is distorting how large language models process and present news and information."

In which HIV and TB treatment, food aid projects get asked: do you stop illegal immigration? Are you securing rare earth minerals? "Protecting women from gender ideology"?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/health/usaid-freeze-review.html?unlocked_article_code=1.104.Ogv3.35H7I2MmcZ9V&smid=url-share

Fight between bald eagle 🦅 and Canada goose ‘highly symbolic, says photographer. Eagle gave up after 20 minutes of squawking. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca

Street art, Vancouver, B.C., Canada: #DonLovesVlad

Integrity and courage from our remaining #USAID career leaders 🙏

Ukraine, Somalia, South Sudan, Afghanistan and many African countries will be hardest hit by USAID's shutdown • US foreign aid disbursements represented 7-9% of GDP in these economies • USAID closure opens path for China to double down on foreign aid in bid to court favours in developing economies

“People are knocking on the volunteers' doors," says Duaa Tariq, one of the emergency room organisers. "People are screaming from hunger in the streets." “we expect to see a lot of people starving". #USAID #freeze consequences #Sudan #Trump #Musk #starvation

Without USAID, My Neighbors in Sudan are Starving: As armed factions crippled the economy, civilians created a massive grassroots network to feed people. But someone has to provide the food, writes an Emergency Response Room founder.

Sudan conflict: USAID cut hits people 'screaming from hunger'

As the U.S. exits foreign aid, who will fill the gap? by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/h... via @nytimes.com #GlobalHealth

Spotted in the hallway on campus today. My kids couldn’t even guess what it be. Do you think it’s still in use? Or being shipped off to a museum 🤣

The elite war against public wellbeing proceeds.

The Story You’ve Been Told About Recycling Is a Lie. Plastic waste mostly ends up in the developing world -- clogging waterways, exacerbating air pollution, and infiltrating human brains, by @alexclapp.bsky.social, author of "Waste Wars." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com

I was previously told by Republicans that the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was one of history’s greatest scandals. But the chaotic withdrawal of *all* USAID from the whole globe?! Crickets.

“Palestinians do not need President Trump to talk about Gaza as if it were an empty hotel room that needs redesigning,” Mosab Abu Toha writes. “What we need is for the rest of the world to hear about Gaza’s basic, immediate necessities.”

Worth listening to this interview with @karaswisher.bsky.social and @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social ... Kara really has the smartest and what seems to me to be the most accurate take on Elon Musk that there is, because she has covered these tech bros for years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xXL...

Breaking news: 22 states are suing to block NIH’s cutting of indirect costs. See our updated story on the Friday night news and its aftermath. scim.ag/4hTJQ6v