To the non-Manitoban NDPers who think Wab is the guy (I assume the Manitobans already know this) - this is not the droid you’re looking for.

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. 🧪🧬🧫

One of the best things that has happened on this platform for me so far is that on the day that Watson died I saw nothing positive about him but a wall of posts about Rosalind Franklin. This is the way. This also seems as good a time as any to announce that this summer I got my first tattoo!

“It suited the feminism of the 1960s & 1970s to portray her as a victim of male dominance, but she would have thought of herself simply as a scientist whose achievements should have been judged on their own terms, not as a ‘woman scientist’ striking a blow for the rights of women.”🧪

These changes would have made the difference in Rob Jenner living or dying in the summer of 2024. They might make the difference in keeping my family or yours alive, too. We have until December 12th to share how important these changes are to us. Let’s get it done.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Pssst … it’s actually all about building community. What was gained isn’t tied to an undesired outcome in the last game. Last night brought back all the memories of grad school friends and beer and nachos in Vancouver during the 2011 cup run. Same bad end result, but the memories last a lifetime.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

I love the list of global cities the MLB considers important enough to need to be informed about the start time of tonight's World Series Blue Jays game. Go Winnipeg!

Canada cool with one group of temporary foreign workers

A couple weeks ago, I had the incredible chance to visit Bolivia with a team from the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation, to learn about work they’re supporting that is led by — and bringing economic self-determination to — Bolivian women. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Announcement from PM Carney moments ago and this is good news. I've been working on this issue with @saulschwartz.bsky.social and @agenestgregoire.bsky.social for years. We've documented how many Canadians don't file and miss out on or loose benefits, .. 1/3

Fall prairie sky moment of zen.

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

Reposting and bookmarking to share with students in my sci comm class in the winter about why I believe that me telling them not to use genAI is in their best interest.

I had a not-so-little rant about how I practise journalism on *that other app* 🐦❎ earlier today. ICYMI… (I don’t plan to spam like this ever again – especially not on a Saturday – but I’m compelled to type because this is a timely opportunity to address misinformation and fake-news rhetoric.)

Public comms on vaccine availability in #Manitoba is definitely lacking this year, but appointments in various pharmacy online platforms are starting to pop up. Some out there for shoppers, too.

Ready for some good news? Earlier this year The Narwhal teamed up with journalists at the Investigative Journalism Foundation to break stories about how more than 1,000 potential oil and gas infractions were left unchecked by B.C.’s energy regulator.

This is fucking brutal. Paris is incredibly intelligent & among the best informed out there on digital sovereignty in Canada as well as the EU, Australia etc And if your goal is to make this a bigger public issue, why not get the guy with a sizeable online following on board?! I mean come on…

This made me curious, so I looked it up. MDPI publishes 482 journals. 482.

Wellington Cres would look like this right now if it weren’t for Janice Lukes

I'm super bummed to be missing #ESEB2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social due to a cancelled flight! Here's a quick overview of my talk "Gene- and genome-focused perspectives on microbial pangenomes" slated to be part of The Evolution of Microbial Pangenomes -- which I recommend you attend tomorrow (Fri) ! 1/n

In Winnipeg climate-driven migration is often imagined as a distant threat that affects others in the world. But summer evacuations foreshadow a future where internal displacement becomes a regular feature of Winnipeg life. theconversation.com/canadian-cit...

Health Canada has authorized the LP.8.1 variant adapted Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for individuals aged 6 months and older. The updated COMIRNATY® vaccine targets the Omicron LP.8.1 variant, one of the most recently circulating SARS-CoV-2 lineages. It will be made available this Fall across Canada.

I need to update my presentation on how to prepare fellowship applications for graduate students and postdocs. Any advice you think should be in there, beyond "read and follow the instructions"? I promise I'll cite my sources. Memes are welcome. Please share in your academic circles.

Do You Realize, Flaming Lips and then Beck covering it, in the same weekend, Sasquatch, 2006. Incredible weekend. Best song. www.concertarchives.org/concerts/sas...

Just want to share this wild revision history of the Wikipedia page on Linkage Disequilibrium where Felsenstein himself debated people on the correct use of notations & definitions. After 100 years of #popgen people does not seem to be totally agree on what LD is? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Li...

I am in London this week for the Royal Society Future of science publishing conference. I think publishing will get worse before it gets better, but the organizers have invited ppl with equally spicy opinions so should be fun royalsociety.org/science-even...

Dear #Winnipeg, The transition to the new #transit system isn't working for everyone. Yet this is an incredibly overdue re-alignment of routes, bringing us into the 21st century (25 years after it started). What's the problem? Transit underfunding, a political choice by our elected reps 1/

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

Wake up, losers - new giant rat testomcelles have just dissilced, and they have truly got their dck out. If you go to Africa, here are some localities you should avoid: GUTNED CLINE LSOGLE NAOZAWA V GROSGRIVER

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

We are joining @migrantrightsca.bsky.social and 200 organizations in calling on Prime Minister Carney to withdraw Bill C-2. If passed, it gives the cabinet the authority to ramp up deportations “en masse,” violate people’s rights to due process, and expand surveillance powers. It must be rejected.

Sometimes people ask if for me as an educator the most frustrating part of “AI” is students cheating and like yeah I don’t love that but I’m much more worried about their brains atrophying than whether they’re being honest in my class

If #BillC5 passes as-is it would be a HUGE gift to Big Oil 🚨 With climate-supercharged wildfires raging across Canada, that's the last thing we need. Tell your MP to take action now: win.newmode.net/350org/c5 #cdnpoli #climateaction

Rainy (halllujah) Sunday afternoon and the library is closed. I know this is just screaming to the choir but how did our funding priorities get so screwed up along the way?

Winnipeg cyclists build their own bike lane, because the city is taking too long, and declare @thewaroncars.bsky.social

My feed is a mix of politics that lead to the destruction of the level of scientific funding as we have known in our lifetime (and other terrible things), interspersed with announcements of new research papers and findings. My brain doesn't quite know how to process the disconnect. Anyone else?

Things that brought me great joy today: a trip to the very busy independent book store near my house and a bike ride to the first week of the very busy farmers market.

"In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes." Hyperion, Dan Simmons, 1989

Hi #botany folks, does anyone have the USDA PLANTS complete checklist textfile? It looks like something is corrupted on the USDA downloads page. Thanks in advance! #plants #plantscience @botsocamerica.bsky.social

#canpoli #cdnpoli

Lets talk about an infrastructure deficit that’s 150+ in the making & how it leaves FN communities without the financial or legislative resources they would need to respond to crises like this one: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/wildfire-evacuations-pimicikimak-cree-nation-manitoba-1.7546711

My province, which is known for winter and spring floods, has declared a state of emergency because of wild fire. In May. And politicians continue to manufacture bs to keep us so exhausted that we have no capacity to deal with the real problems. Late stage capitalism blows.

Register for the 5th Virtual CanFunNet Conference: From Local to Global. Join us August 6 - 8th for an amazing line of Plenary Speakers and awesome topics in fungal research. Submit your abstracts by Friday, May 30!