Have you ever tried just laying on the floor with your pets when you get overwhelmed? Really something to it. They may be onto something.

Andrea D., Bob B., & Paul DeCampo @pauldecampo.bsky.social will lead Jane's Walks @janeswalk.bsky.social on Sun., May 3, at 11am & 1:30pm from Jane Jacobs's erstwhile home. Learn how our co-op's activities build on Jane's vision of community-driven neighbourhoods🏡 www.karmacoop.org/events-calen...

The Lady of Elche — an iconic Iberian limestone bust from the 4th century BCE. The intricate headdress, layered jewelry, and calm expression make it one of the most striking pieces of pre-Roman art in Europe. #AncientIberia #Archaeology #Museums #PreRoman

The secret rule book for India’s English-language news desks. 🧵

Evening viewing recommendation?Watch TOKYO MELODY: A FILM ABOUT RYUICHI SAKAMOTO (1985) ❤️ Experience time, music, and Tokyo through the eyes and ears of the visionary composer with this collage-like immersion into his world.

Axel Digoix has directed a beautiful 3rd music video for the band Tinariwen: "Erghad Afewo" (produced at WIZZ studio, France). Full MV >> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-03...

Why aren't people using LLMs to write their own apps to replace expensive, big-company products that increasingly suck?

Sniff Sniff - Gator Days

Having a PhD doesn’t mean you’re always right, but it does mean that you unlock new and more powerful ways to be wrong.

Thrilled to announce Critical Mass Ventures, a philanthropic initiative bridging science, capital, and community to close the gap between lifespan and healthspan. Our inaugural postdoc fellowship is now open. 🔬 criticalmassventures.co #ScienceSky #AcademicSky #Healthspan #Longevity #Postdoc

I think about “normal to want and possible to achieve” all the time

👉 Tue Apr 7 → 7pm • in-person & online @thelocal.to's @wencyleung.bsky.social on how local journalism digs into the data — Ontario sold Health811 as a great service, but wait times of up to 11 hours tell a different story. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

Hyperfixation of the week: there is apparently a field called “forensic hairdressing” where people try to reconstruct ancient hair techniques. Below is one from Ancient Rome ca. 120 AD. The leading figure is a hairstylist-turned-archaeologist named Janet Stephens who also does video tutorials. Cool!

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

Continues to ring true - now and for all time

Just added a buncha more respect for Edmonton in my head - simply for naming the 'Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion' An inspired choice *chef's kiss*

Coconuts

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Canadian Network on Cuba with our friends and allies packed up another container full of generators, mattresses, medicines, and food was packed yesterday and is heading to Santiago de Cuba and El Cobre shortly canadiannetworkoncuba.ca/2026/03/09/c...

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters “‘Don’t you want to die nobly for a just cause?’ ‘I’d much rather live quietly for one.’”

Watched Kiki's delivery service 🐈‍⬛ on Imax last night and realized how many small details I missed while watching and rewatching on smaller screens. Plus, the music! 💖 I know I may never get to listen to and watch Joe Hisaishi conducting live, but that would be a perfect dream come true

time-frequency representation of human electrocorticography data. 🌊 one axis shows frequency, the other time. the high peaks correspond to a prominent alpha rhythm at 10 Hz which appears and subsides during the experiment.

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Terry Gilliam's THE FISHER KING (1991) in our VHS Forever collection! 📼 Alongside the film, enjoy a commentary feat. Gilliam, interviews with cast and crew, a video essay featuring Jeff Bridges’s on-set photographs, deleted scenes, costume tests, and much more!

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

Mary Ellen Mark View of the Street at Night, Falkland Road, Bombay, 1978

Purolator delivery vehicles here in the GTA. I'm annoyed for the rest of my walk 😠

🧪 🇨🇭 #IgNobel awards come to Switzerland as US unsafe for scientists #HoppSchwiiz www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

'Not What You Saw' [2024-ongoing] by Keerthana Kunnath Shot across beaches, fields, and village edges in Kerala, India, 'Not What You Saw' documents the lives and presence of India's women bodybuilders.

Everyone talks about pets being confused by the daylight time shift. Freya was at her peak toddler self today - no amount of play, walks and treats was enough - refused to respond to her name by the end of the day - tore her favourite toy - collapsed into sleep with her head under the couch

I've updated wwater.ca so that the next data refresh will generate graphs covering up to 30 months (2.5 years) of data, instead of the current 12 months (1 year). Thank you all for your interest and for sharing wwater.ca with your communities and loved ones. Stay safe!

Legendary Anglo-Indian dancer Olive Craddock who performed internationally as Roshanara. Photo by Underwood and Underwood, New York c 1918. (Thread)

As an Indian who recently became Canadian - I think the Indian data is aspirational while the Canadian data is real. Indians may want to believe that other Indians are good, but I have fewer everyday examples of Indians being morally and ethically good over 20 years growing up.

For the sci-fi folks, ex-partner of Carl Sagan!

brain prize recipients over the years. I remembered that I made this plot last year for a bias watch project (yes, because of that 2013–2018 period 🙃). the prize for this year will be announced later this afternoon, let's see. 🔮

📣 Announcing The Local Fellowship 2026—paid positions designed to provide opportunities to early-career journalists from communities underrepresented in Canadian media. This year's Fellows will join us during the fall municipal election campaigns. Applications are open. thelocal.to/local-fellow...

Me when it’s 50 in October: I’m so cold, I hate everything, this is the worst, I need three blankets and my fuzzy socks Me when it’s 50 in February: tshirt! flip flops! no gods, no masters!

For the world as it is today, posted without comment 🏳️‍⚧️🍁

One of the prettiest bike lanes in the city and my favourite because I can bike downhill while going to work downtown 💖

Everyone should go to a citizenship ceremony. Even people born in Canada. I have teared up every damn time, and I didn’t know the people. I think it might help, if not solve, some of our problems if people could see it unfold.

The fish doorbell re-opened today for the season! visdeurbel.nl/en/

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Moody cold night for some moody, cold, textural music. The Danish String Quartet at Koerner Hall introduced me to Alfred Schnittke's moving, raging work. Alfred Schnittke - Wikipedia share.google/PI7GYQSrPT3B...

Made a little comic about the joys of riding the train, even for just a little while.

Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA about.dandiarchive.org/blog/2026/02...

Last day to apply for a PhD position with me! Fully-funded, three year position in beautiful Oslo. Voltage imaging, ephys, all the cool stuff! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

as seen on reddit, these guys are undertaking a 200 day 8000 km trip across our great country by canoe, to raise $1 million for True North Aid, a charity in support of indigenous communities www.canadabycanoe.com

hey team! I need advice! If there were theoretically an organization whose sole purpose was to systematically identify and break nuisance and stupid IP in the biomedical space, creating shareware equivalents, what would be the highest value targets? e.g., AAV serotypes, antibodies, CRISPR, 1/n

have ppl encountered any IP problems getting to use any of the tools we've made? GCaMP? RCaMP, SnFRs, AAVretro, etc.? we tried to make access trivial and cheap. but if there are problems, please let me know. we could try to break patents on all those to make shareware versions, if this is a problem