A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

Amen. Save the Spring Garden Area Business Association from themselves. Any inconvenience for the business owners (like not being able to park their personal vehicle in front of their business, or having to adjust delivery process) will be greatly offset by increased sales.

Only his advanced age prevented him from being a member of the Trump administration. Otherwise, he would have fit right in.

Imagine having this as your Nobel eclipsing final sentence: "James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97...one of the most important scientists of the 20th century...later to ignite an uproar with racist views." Also, Nobel made by Rosalind Franklin's images, unacknowledged.

I mean, even Smithsonian Magazine even highlighted how horrible he was.

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin: Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author. Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

Lots of specific receipts here for anyone who hasn't followed Watson's legacy of doubling down on racism. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Won't be forgetting the racism, either.

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Save the date for #GIA2026 (Nov. 5-6, 2026) which will feature free #glycotime talks by @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social , Dr. Mia Huang and more!

When you turn on the "bike" layer on Google Maps.

tagging @andrewjroger.bsky.social

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UTHealth Houston has an open search for a tenure-track faculty position. If you are ready (or know someone that is) to start looking for positions, this will be a great opportunity to join the Texas Medical Center. See flyer below. 1/2

Stay tuned for an important update later today! @qedscience.bsky.social

Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response. n.pr/4913a0E

🚨 Publication alert! We are stoked to report the structural basis for activity of a novel class of antimicrobials targeting Gram positive priority pathogens in @natcomms.nature.com. There is something for everyone on this paper, and I will highlight a few things below 👇 1/9 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Bacteria can sense when a virus starts shredding their genome — by detecting methylated mononucleotides. Here’s the story of how we discovered the Metis defense system 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today we had a computational virology workshop with Profs. Veronika Bernhauerova (Charles University Czechia) and Bartek Lisowski (Jagiellonian University Krakow, Dr. Spyros Lytras (Univ Tokyo) and Cedric Tan (UCL Crick Institute). 4 hours of chit chat and coming up with ways to collaborate.

Attn: Canadian researchers/ If you are looking for text/arguments to mix-n-match in a letter to your MP, the committee, Ministers, etc.. here is some. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I would also say thanks to @picardonhealth.bsky.social who elevated this on a national and public stage. MP’s noticed that. He is a gem!

The 🇨🇦 Standing Committee on Science and Research passed a modified resolution this afternoon that the requested ricouncil applicant and reviewer data can be aggregated and anonymized. Thanks to the many researchers who signed letters pointing out legitimate data privacy concerns. 👏👏

HELLO COOPER FLAGG !! 💥💥💥 Catches the poster lob and gives a flex to boot! #NBASky #SkyHoops

So awesome Red Panda came back and recovered from her injury - legend!

a big miss. academic research requires operating funds, which are currently being starved in Canada. How in the world are the international stars we're about to attract supposed to run their labs? (they're not dumb, they won't come if the research funding landscape is dismal)

PUT HER IN THE HALL AS A CONTRIBUTOR YOU COWARDS

my city still talks about 'shared responsibility', which is entirely the wrong framing, and the road death number is likely to be very high this year. Drivers need to not break the law and kill people. Full stop.

💚🍻 Coming soon from Big Spruce Brewing. #NovaScotia #SaveWestMabouProvincialPark

Please repost - Multiple PhDs available www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

Our new preprint is out 🥳🥳🥳 Henipaviruses, like Nipah and Hendra, package their genomes inside helical shells built by thousands of nucleoproteins. These nucleocapsids are essential to protect the viral RNA, but how do they ever let the polymerase in to read the sequence? 👇

Imagine if Canada was investing in research and universities, instead of burning everything down.

Many Canadians have no idea how high tuberculosis rates are in the Inuit population - hundreds of times the non-Indigenous Canadian-born rate. Globally this remains an illness of poverty and marginalization and that's true in one of the richest countries on earth.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Hey Siri, show me the Frenchiest news story

Marie Philip Poulin is in attendance at #WorldSeries #Game7 wearing a Vladdy jersey. #APartOfOurHeritage

For longer trips (45 minutes here), transit gets you much further than walking (obviously) and it’s competitive with cycling. Probably better than cycling because a 45-minute bike ride, while hardly extreme, is more strenuous and less accessible than a 15-minute one.

Just to illustrate the point, here’s how far you can travel in 15 minutes from the Annex in Toronto by different modes. Despite some of the best transit in the country, transit (red) barely gets you further than walking (orange). It also costs money. Cycling (blue) is substantially better.

No, but I built my first smoker out of a file cabinet

Brilliant practical use of the conceptual idea of one-time pad in a real-life situation:

Selective RNA sequestration in biomolecular condensates directs cell fate transitions - @distefanolab.bsky.social @brumbaugh-lab.bsky.social go.nature.com/3X215du

Our latest review is now online! 👇 @martenslab.bsky.social Mechanism of autophagy initiation by transmembrane selective autophagy receptors | The EMBO Journal www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Hey @tomflood.bsky.social I had to write about this. - Walking isn’t Toronto’s Problem. It’s our Superpower. medium.com/@lanrickbenn...

Biodiversity aquarium opens in Halifax with more than 30 exhibits #Halifax #NovaScotia Dalhousie University’s Steele Ocean Sciences Building at 6375 Edzell Castle Circle, Halifax #BeatyMarineCentre www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...