It takes a split second of googling to find the evidence. Do not give these "devil's advocates" your time. (Probably a bot since this is well-trod territory, answered many times before, typical phrasing). Sharing the link to so you can too. www.sickkids.ca/en/news/arch...

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

It’s not that unusual to see more Montreal Expos caps than Blue Jay’s in my Toronto neighbourhood but today I saw a Quebec Nordiques hat before seeing any Leaf’s gear.

About goddamn time. Now let's actually do something to help.

Proud of all the work that ordinary Canadians across Canada did in those early days. We shared good information put to together by a true interdisciplinary group of experts from science, medicine, law, engineering and occupational hygiene with anyone who would listen but especially decision makers.

Mask mandates had an incredible impact on covid transmission too. Inconvenient narrative, I know, but facts are stubborn things. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

kind of incredible...what masks, distancing and school closures did to influenza activity early in the pandemic. Dashed line is pandemic onset in Ontario. Red=flu B, blue = flu A. Masking and closures are not sustainable population level strategies, but cleaning indoor air (same result) is.

Sometimes, when something really really needs to be said, @lindamcquaig.bsky.social just says it so well. archive.today/q35Kr

Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.

Reposting this because it's evergreen - characteristic of the culture of silencing and shutting down criticism of medical institutions and the insiders that control them. Rebuilding public trust in public health starts with trustworthiness, and there's a long way to go. #MedSky #ScienceMatters

My surgical oncologist referenced the task force when we were discussing post-treatment surveillance plans a few years ago. I had come prepared and countered his recommendation to which he suggested I should trust the experts.

If I’m honest with myself I should cancel streaming services anyway. It’s so expensive to keep them and don’t need to keep up with so much TV anyway.

Let's see if Doug Ford listens to his private polling or Ontario police chiefs on this issue. #OnPoli

Both flu and Covid vaccination opens to the broader public in Ontario on October 27.

Canada has addressed housing crises before by treating homes as a public good, not a commodity. Today, market-driven policies favour investors while many Canadians are locked out. Social housing, rent control & public mortgages can restore affordability. Homes should be for living, not speculation.

We've done this, more-or-less, with arxiv.org and similar, but hiring committees apparently still focus on actual journals and make like peer review is the be-all-end-all, which it isn't. I'm in favour of the old scientific society model, where only members can publish in society journals, and...

I’ve participated in a handful of academic publications and guys… the system is pretty broken. I get so much spam inviting “Dr White” to submit to predatory journals and attend conferences in fancy places!

The organizers of Taste of the Danforth opened up about why they crashed and burned, not a mention of the bike lanes but for a spell, that's what they blamed. Good work from @dmrider.bsky.social

For some people your attention is as valuable as your cash.

Objectively evaluating his company’s product leads me to wonder why we would listen to any of his predictions. My Facebook experience is mostly ads, AI slop and people arguing with each other. Def don’t need that pumping directly into my eyes.

Sunset in cottage country.

Lessons for me: 1. none of us are right about everything 2. stay humble, you may be wrong 2a. history will be kinder to you if you acknowledge you were wrong (as Pettenkofer ultimately did…very late in his life) 3. the mistakes you make are part of your story, but they don’t define you

Just watched @isaacapeltz.bsky.social’s excellent documentary on the Toronto bike lane issue and court case. It’s good, you should check it out. #biketo youtu.be/W5IYBRI61oQ?...

Yesterday, I spoke at my kids’ school about Terry Fox and cancer research, and next week I’ll speak at their old school — reaching ~1K kids! This Sunday, my boyfriend and I will do the #TerryFoxRun. My kids aim to raise $23,250. Please donate today and share their 🔗👇#TerryFoxRun #CancerResearch

When supporting someone through illness an underappreciated body of work is the volume of communication that the person's friends and family seem to expect. Guidance on managing comms and also boundary setting for the person who is ill and their closest carers is probably an opportunity.

1) We used to transport things like this before cars 2) Via Rail has a program where trains drop people off in the wilderness between stations and you can ask them to pick you up elsewhere along the rail line: www.viarail.ca/en/plan/faq/...

I’m confused about carbon credits. If you drive an electric vehicle to be more sustainable can someone sell credits to someone else so that they can legally pollute more? Is there a tl;dr on this stuff that I should read to get the gist of how these work?

Today, I’m feeling like Frank Grimes, the only normal person in a messed up universe. The only thing keeping me from ending up like Frank Grimes is knowing there a lot of other people feeling like Frank Grimes.

The framing is a bit weird, scientists are "rethinking", etc. Many of the most credible experts disputed the silly "immunity debt" argument and put forward the immunity *damage* argument from the get-go.

There’s a little shop in Toronto called Dowtown Sewing and I learned rolled hems at their serger basics class and I think my pup likes his new bandana.

Good advice from @jerusalem.bsky.social. www.theargumentmag.com/p/a-man-was-...

On this day in 1916, the Quebec Bridge collapsed for a second time during construction. It previously collapsed on Aug. 29, 1907, killing 75 workers. The second collapse killed 13 workers. The bridge was finally completed in 1917 and it continues to stand to this day.

Ottawa considered monetary penalties and “binding legislation” to lower grocery prices. They even considered making “egregious behaviours that harm the food supply chain” illegal. Our reporter Maeve Ellis tells you about the documents she and Zak Vescera found. #cdnpoli

Map of Crowdsourced CO2 in #OntEd: www.google.com/mymaps/viewe...

Going to the library fucking rules. You can walk in and pick your favorite things and then walk right out without paying anything. It's unbelievable and 100% the kind of thing that won't exist in the future unless you recognize the goodness now before it's too late

Ontario taxpayers are on the hook for at least $2.2B to pay for a private spa and a parking lot that they’ll have to pay to use but Doug Ford says “photo radar is a tax grab!”

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal. Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.

I took an art therapy class during treatment and it was a great experience. Sharing for reach.

FFS. This deserves a full on press conference with the local Councillor, the Mayor, and the Chief of Police stating clearly that these acts are not just "vandalism" but are deliberately and recklessly making Parkside Drive a hazard to all road users.

Whoever it is just cut it down for the 7th time. A billion dollar police force can’t figure this out? Maybe the call is coming from inside the house.

Channing Tatum gets it: "I mean, Toronto is dope.... when I worked here and got to live here, riding a bike around was like my favorite thing on the weekends. You just sort of mob around, everyone's on bikes, everyone's sorta you just go to restaurants and bars"

I don’t lose my credit card often but when I do it’s always because I stuck it in a little pocket to go for a jog and then a little treat and then I forget all about it in the post run/donut bliss. Found it!

I love sewing content creators because they casually drop the most helpful little tips and videos without ads or brand sponsorship. Like they couldn’t possibly gatekeep or profit off knowledge they got from their granny. ❤️🧵

Why indulge a 71-year-old, two-and-a-half-term, resigned-in-disgrace former mayor's enormous ego? He wants a do-over so he can have a less shameful legacy, but he doesn't deserve it.

Toronto artist asked to change her mural of a watermelon to something "apolitical." She refused and left instead. Free Palestine. Stop arming Israel. End Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. search.app/eyKPk

A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.

CPE is airborne, primary source is biofilm in sink drains IPAC still thinks it's droplet / contact or "splash" Self-disinfecting plasma-activated water sinks eliminate biofilm / CPE problem Drain trap solns like active Cu ion release, heat, sonic also reduce CPE problem