Cohen: "any paper we accept will be scraped up and fed to the next generation of LLMs, and we don’t want to contribute to a death spiral of nonsense and hallucination" @philipncohen.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Preston St is in the core of the city, a handful of blocks from a bustling commercial street, a university, and several parks and hospitals. If staff didn’t envision quite this many units here, staff are either unqualified for their jobs or lying.

Evil Developer: We want to help address the housing shortage by building a place to live that's close to everything, close to transit, and a bikeable distance to anything you'll ever need. Wholesome Residents: No. No!!!!

The developer also talks about how there will be on-site bike storage!! And they aren’t planning for car storage because it isn’t needed. More of this, please!!

ICYMI: “A lot of us are trapped in 1-Hour Cities right now. The alternative — having a lot more things close by, and a lot more time in our day — isn’t the conspiracy. It’s the cure.” Read all about the #1HourCityCinsoiracy in @usa.streetsblog.org. #UrbanTruth usa.streetsblog.org/2026/04/27/u...

“The project is designed around active transportation, with bike racks and bike lockers on site, and limited on-site parking reflecting the location’s proximity to transit and daily amenities.” I can’t wait to see how this plays out TBH. I want more details about the bike racks and lockers.

Motornormativity is everywhere: "The IWK encourages patients to travel to the South Shore Regional Hospital or use mobile clinics...Cheryl Coolen of Halifax said she's likely going to have to travel for her next checkup, even though she doesn't drive". www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #CarBrain

To be fair, there’s not really a right way to drive down the sidewalk!

In today’s spicy (but not surprising to any of us that have been paying attention) news: Mayor Andy Fillmore met with an Uber lobbyist one day before the mayor persuaded council to delay the vote on a proposal to increase oversight of ride-hailing drivers. 👀

Heard we were hating on bike lanes tonight. I never use those. Anyways here's me and 8 other people yesterday on Hennepin's bike lane for my fiancé's birthday

Hey @jhu.edu I heard you like #sciart

Baltimore! Artscape is this weekend and I will be there in the Artist Market #sciart

Have you ever seen someone get groped on the bus? Ever overheard slurs being thrown around at a coffee shop? Maybe you've been out for a walk and witnessed catcalls? We're not powerless to stop this nonsense. Bystanders can make a HUGE difference! Truly. Let me teach you! zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Mobility lanes move more than just people on bikes - they unlock safe and enjoyable movement for everyone.

After years of trimming blackberry bushes out of the painted bike lane with hand pruners, I've finally upgraded. ⚡️✂️

The mess in Alberta is outrageous. If this isn’t treason, nothing is. The more we learn, the worse it gets. Lock them all the fuck up. I’ll have more to say about this soon.

Also “influx of vehicles”, as if all will share a state of pathetic car-dependency.

'Staff never thought 26 families would want to live in this amenity rich, tree-lined neighbourhood close to employment centers and multiple low cost transportation options' Skill issue!

The % of scientists who think public engagement makes science better has gone up from 21% in 2006 to 64% now. That's huge.

My first time presenting in a theatre! About the upstream ORF in Enterovirus species. I liked it - maybe I should go on tour 🤔😀 #ViBioM2026

Danielle Smith is pushing her separatist referendum to save her job. We're fighting back to save our country. 🇨🇦

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

We would never do this bsky.app/profile/reze...

"Heat pumps just shift gas burning to the power station." Wrong. Even if 100% of electricity came from gas, a heat pump at SCOP 3.8 uses 51% less gas than a boiler. At a terrible SCOP 2.5, still 25% less. David MacKay made this point in 2008. The maths hasn't changed.

I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done. Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.

It's a great day to buy a painting #sciart artologica.etsy.com

Woo, I got $49.11 from the class action bread lawsuit. I can buy two whole loaves of bread now!

Auto deposit apparently: globalnews.ca/news/1185142...

Woohoo!

My short scientific bio as I excitedly engage in my new role as part of the editorial team at Developmental Dynamics @dvdy.bsky.social @anatomyorg.bsky.social @brchfx.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social #DevBio

Vibriophiles! Achtung! Come to Berlin Sept 13-16 to learn the latest about your favorite bacteria. Great speakers, great venue, great topics, great location (home of Robert Koch). Oral abstract deadline June 15. Please share. @asm.org @rki-de.bsky.social #Vibrio26 #VIS

Very exciting transit expansion coming over the next few days to Montréal: the REM automated metro's Anse-à-l’Orme Branch. Extension will add 4 stations & 14 km to the city's west. REM already carries 75,000 daily riders, about the same as Atlanta's MARTA (Montréal's metro carries ~1 million/day).

Giving bus riders 20-30 minutes back each round-trip is the kind of improvement that gets people out of cars and onto buses. It's totally worth it.

This should be Exhibit A in a massive lawsuit.

The Zoonoses, AMR, and BioInformatics (ZAMBI) meeting is July 6-9 in Halifax. ZAMBI brings together cross-disciplinary researchers and trainees working at the intersection of AMR, emerging zoonotic diseases, and computational biology. For more info: zambi.ca

HMCS Harry DeWolf (AOPV 430) Harry DeWolf-class offshore patrol vessel coming into Halifax, Nova Scotia after 10-month refit - sporting a new mascot painted on the side- May 14, 2026 SRC: FB- Royal Canadian Navy

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Well, would ya look at that! NSF is going to send >10% of its current budget to industry (read: tech start ups) instead of universities…it’s as if the admin is trying to dismantle our basic science mechanism and use it as a start up fund for private companies 💁🏻‍♀️ www.nsf.gov/tip/updates/...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Excited to announce that we are moving the lab to Minneapolis to join the University of Minnesota Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Institute on Infectious Diseases this summer!! We will be hiring so please reach out if interested in viral evolution, viral immunology, etc.!!

Engineering high-titer lentiviral vectors for robust expression of RNA-based gene circuits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.12.724401v1

On this day, in 1961, two articles appeared in Nature announcing the isolation of messenger RNA (mRNA) www.cell.com/current-biol...

Dr. Johnson knew three centuries ago

Confirmed

Mabrey with the (pretty much) logo 3 dagger for the #Tempo 😳

RNA Canada ARN is excited to be at the 2026 RNA Society Meeting. We will be set up at a table in the exhibition hall! Stop by to talk with RNA Canada members, grab some free swag, and sign up to renew your membership. !

RNA Canada ARN is having a flash sale for T-Shirts! The sale ends Friday to pick up your shirt at the RNA Society Meeting. Shirt pickup will be at the exhibition hall at the RNA Society meeting. Order our shirts now to show your Candian RNA pride: gametime.gearware.com/Shop/Store.a...

Brace yourself This is an extraordinary thread, highlighting both the astounding work of the WHO & the Nebraska biocontainment unit, & also the sheer incompetence of—& the dangerous steps taken by—Bhattacharya, RFK Jr, & Trump, who’ve destroyed US outbreak preparedness & response Read it & weep

Zbigniew Ziobro was one of the authors of the attempt to transform Poland into an authoritarian regime. Ziobro is a wanted man with no passport. The Trump White House just went to a good deal of trouble to bring him to the US. snyder.substack.com/p/copycat-ty...

Very cool study demonstrating the relative genetic stability of the Andes hantavirus in serial passage experiments. Lots more work to do, but these kinds of limitations are reassuring (and light years away from highly mutable influenza viruses). journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...