Good story on it here (gift link): www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...

had to go see the landback skyscrapers for myself

#SARSCoV2 has optimized its replication fitness in the human host. @rorymulloy.bsky.social @corcoranlab.bsky.social &co show that a #nucleocapsid gene mutation enhances production of a truncated protein that boosts viral fitness by suppressing #antiviral responses @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3PIZMjr

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

New post! The people who actually know Jaden Ivey are worried about him. The people who've never met him want him to keep talking. I wrote about the difference. www.readtpa.com/p/useful

I am biased but this is the greatest and possibly only Artemis II video you need 🌝 www.youtube.com/shorts/Tc2vN...

There have been no federal funding opportunities in the infectious disease space for close to 1.5 years. A while back, a few "forecasted" opportunities popped up, however, all of those just went the way of the dodo 👇 Good read on what's happening here: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Tim Houston says 'progress' is more important than 'process,' echoing Mussolini's promises to make the trains run on time www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

There is no small irony that so-called "libertarian" Danielle Smith is creating a Soviet system of denunciation for political wrongthink.

Deploy the raccoon! A new front in #PylonWars has opened up & it is darn cute. A good likeness to our bike mayor too @seebo429.bsky.social #BikeHFX

Community speaks up and wins. DFO denies ARCP's Dartmouth Cove infill application; company suing fisheries minister, MP www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/f...

“I feel I have done my job. People can see through the lies because they see, live and breathe it and they see things are better for them.”

New #preprint 😍‼️ led by 2 incredible postdocs @ninizhani.bsky.social & Ranj Papareddy: transforming #UFMylation from a local ribosome rescue pathway to systems level regulator of mRNA splicing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A short 🧵

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

It's my peanut-shaped roundabout dream! Still possible if we don't cater to large truck turn radius?? #BikeHfx

and instead they KILLED IT just weeks after introducing version 2.0, which was absolutely certainly the death knell for Hollywood, except for the tiny problem that it was setting more money than you’ve ever seen in your life on fire every minute it was alive and it had no monetizable use cases

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

Join the One Health research meeting at Dalhousie University, July 6-9. Topics include zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, and bioinformatics. Registration is $50. Details: https://zambi.ca #conference

Advocacy may take a while but it does get results! I-90 ramps at Rainier finally have raised crosswalks and warning lights. @nondriver.bsky.social @jrock08.bsky.social @r343l.bsky.social

Rokin, Amsterdam in 1979 and today

This is what municipal politics could look like everywhere.

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why? Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia… 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?” A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages. It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Do the steps sound familiar?

8. Too many engage in what I call “The Populist Playbook,” where lies and disinformation are deliberately spread and then used as an excuse to delay or derail badly-needed urban change in cynical ways. Chances are you’ve seen this where you live. It’s dishonest manipulation. bsky.app/profile/bren...

A 20% budget cut atop multiyear funding-induced cuts to research and direct terminations of projects underway will further degrade American leadership in science. This is early news & not even a proposal or appropriations - precisely the reason to speak out now. rollcall.com/2026/03/27/s...

We’re building the Manhattan-side bike lane and pedestrian entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge in time for the World Cup. New Yorkers deserve to enjoy the game on their feet, on their bikes, and with ease.

A politician with the guts to say it: "No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die fighting in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein War." - Premier Wab Kinew at the NDP national convention, Winnipeg.

More superb science from Team Nguyen. So nice to see these structures come together!

PA-ADOPT is pleased to announce our 21st free and open eTextbook: "Virology Lab Exercises for Undergraduates" by Eric Ryndock, Associate Professor of Biology at @millersvilleuni.bsky.social paadopt.org/bookshelf/vi... #HigherEd #OER #EduSky #AcademicSky

#Virology Prenatal exposure to #Zika virus disrupts social-emotional development and cortical visual function in infant macaques @mohrlab.bsky.social

Dalhousie University graduate students who receive funding from the provincial government were stunned to learn their scholarships are being cut from next year’s budget. dalgazette.com/news/provinc...

Dalhousie University is hiring a limited term instructor! See link for more info: csmb-scbm.ca/instructor-d... #ScienceJobs #CanadaResearch

Backed by the $1.7-billion Canada Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative, Dalhousie is recruiting world-leading researchers to Nova Scotia. We invite candidates from around the globe interested in bringing their impactful research programs to Canada to apply by April 19: buff.ly/GSXNHkr

Dear transportation officials. “Roads” and “streets” are NOT the same things in cities. “Roads” suggest rural or suburban contexts, and a big focus on vehicle movement (“traffic sewers”). Streets suggest urban contexts, multi-modal movement, and a LOT MORE than just movement. Language matters.

My daughter, her boyfriend’s mom, and I went to a workshop called “cake therapy for slightly unhinged women” and we decorated cakes. This is mine, which got a bit squished on the drive home.

Congrats Paris, which just elected another socialist party mayor over the right wing candidate. This means continuity with Anne Hildago’s world leading interventions that have transformed Paris from a car-clogged, noisy, polluted city into a rapidly greening pedestrian/bike utopia.

In three months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by fast food and delivery companies -Cracked down on bad landlords -Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program -Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets This is what leadership looks like.

Promise made, promise kept. Recognizing a historic milestone for our country, today our government has been recognized by NATO for achieving our 2% defence spending target. Huge thanks to all Canadians in uniform.

This tactic should be recognizable to a LOT of us. But we don’t have to fall for it.

Coffee drop-in tomorrow, 27 March, 10 am to noon, Cafe Du Port, 1597 Barrington. Chat with me for 10-15 mins. See you soon.

Keep up the good work.

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Wow, turns out vaccines during pregnancy are... safe and effective, even protecting babies! Incredible! Truly shocking! It's almost like science works?!💉🛡️👶 This admin keeps peddling COVID-19 antivax nonsense, but science prevails.💪 Science: 2,978,547 🧠🪱: -785

A high-affinity split-HaloTag for live-cell protein labeling. And much more. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One person in this photo deserves a 20% WNBA revenue share and it’s not me. Congratulations to the WNBPA on their historic labor agreement.

hey canadians! i've added a handful of new prints and stickers to my shop! in case you are interested! if not! go to hell! sorry that was a bit intense! the bit is getting away from me a smidge! aplante.com/shop

That’s beautiful

WOW They're selling prints of it, if you want to have some gorgeous star-forming nebular astronomy on your wall.

People who are more law-smart than me: can the public put forward a judicial review of the NS PC government‘s handling of this budgetary process and the conflicts of interest related to government spending over the last couple of years?