This game will 💀me 🤣🤣 Go Jays 🇨🇦

The news in the world is awful, but it's almost Halloween, so let's talk about pumpkin enrichment for big cats. This is Jinx the black leopard (Big Cat Rescue, Florida) enjoying shredding a pumpkin.

Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025 SEVERE: NL, NS, SK VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC MODERATE: none About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

A run-in with some artefact-laden AI-generated analyses convinced Lei Zhu that machine learning wasn’t making his role irrelevant, but more important than ever go.nature.com/4hd7MCU

The place where the first report of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in a cohort of gay men revealed the disease that came to be called AIDS

The far-left "Kamala would be have been no better than Trump" crowd really needs to fuck off forever.

The shutdown is forcing the closure of a number of America's beloved cultural institutions starting Sunday. Twenty-one Smithsonian museums, its research centers and the National Zoo are all affected. n.pr/48scGty

Good lord. The MMWR is a hallmark of public health practice. Firing its editors will impact you and how your local health department functions.

If you’re protesting next weekend (🎉) this weekend you should: 1. Find a friend who isn’t planning to attend and make sure they know your protest plan 2. Drop a good Know Your Rights resource in the group chat 3. Spend a minute with your phone settings so you’re prepped for good digital safety

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Not gonna lie, I need to turn the game off

Me watching the Blue Jays game after they take Yesavage out

Federal agents charged and knocked down two 84-year-olds (84!) as they peacefully protested on Saturday in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland, just blocks from their home. Psychopaths.

The manosphere pushes regressive lies & does real harm. Check out our CBC documentary – Harder Better Faster Stronger – on @cbcgem.bsky.social gem.cbc.ca/harder-bette... 💪 - Urine drinking? ✅ - Stone lifting? ✅ - Raw testicle eating? ✅ - Flamethrower? ✅ - Thoughtful critique? ✅

1/ If COVID really was just like "any other respiratory illness", there wouldn't be nearly 470,000 published research papers on #COVID - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...

What you think your brain is supposed to do

Never wonder whether it's COVID or FLU again. ANNOUNCING THE FIRST combo rapid tests FOR HOME, approved by Health Canada. Detect COVID, FLU A, and FLU B with just one swab. This is a great tool to have ready the next time a family member isn't feeling well.

A new report from Forbes has revealed the Trump family has doubled its fortune—to a total of about $10 billion. Donald Trump’s White House comeback has been “the most lucrative year of his life,” with POTUS raking in $3 billion, two-thirds of which came from cryptocurrency. trib.al/lo2A8D0

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,514 #measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000.” #CDC

In Toronto, road violence takes more lives than gun violence.

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Our #CellLineOfTheWeek is Histone H2B! 🧬 Our stem cell lines and plasmids are available for just the cost of shipping to reduce the barriers to scientific discovery. 📦 Distributed by @coriellinstitute.bsky.social and @addgene.bsky.social

If anyone knows anything about this ICE agent, you can reach me on Signal at marisakabas.04

"Toronto's two sites at Ashbridges Bay and Humber both reported elevated levels of both COVID-19 and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) earlier this month. ...Ontario is also experiencing its highest levels of COVID-19 wastewater activity since March."

Cyril E. Power, "The Escalator," c. 1929 collections.mfa.org/objects/479542

⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr & Trump are wrong—the largest best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol/Tylenol). A crude analysis found only a tiny 5% risk, but once you adjust via sibling controls, the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0%📉

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

Tylenol Original sin 🤝 Women’s fault

2024 Swedish study on 2.5M people's data: "Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability... This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to confounding." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state” So nobody will want to be a police officer if they’re not allowed to commit crimes with impunity?

Move over, ChatGPT. Newer AI platforms are aimed at academics and doctors and they're not supposed to hallucinate citations. I tested many of them, but especially Consensus AI. My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

Canadian COVID Forecast Sep 13-26, 2025 CANADA VERY HIGH (no change) About 1 in every 81 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~12X higher -Long COVID ~8X higher -Hospitalizations ~15X higher -Deaths ~14X higher

RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel may delay hep B shot for newborns https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/16/nx-s1-5542405/rfk-jr-acip-vaccine-advisory-panel-vote-delay-hepatitis-b-shot-in-infants 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

"27 sickened by salmonella in outbreak linked to dog food and treats" ie WASH YOUR HANDS AFTER YOU FEED YOUR PET!

AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it. Commentary in @natnano.nature.com #nanotechnology

The 2024-25 flu season had the highest severity in over a decade, with hospitalization rates 1.8 to 2.8 times higher than the previous median and a record number of pediatric deaths: www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review. @nature.com Representatives of four medical research centres have told Nature they have waived normal ethical review because ‘synthetic’ data do not contain real or traceable patient information. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An example of AI slop: This fake photo of a child with a puppy went viral during Hurricane Helene. A lot of people believed it was a real photograph. Learn to spot AI slop: theconversation.com/what-is-ai-s...

Biology Department xkcd.com/3140/

Registration is required! Follow the link below👇 tr.ee/T70VzN The event is free. It will be recorded and made available for viewing afterward on our website & YouTube channel.

A new study finds dozens of heat waves would be "virtually impossible" without the activity of major fossil fuel producers, including oil companies. By @juliaradio.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone that has donated, shared and commented. We have made some progress. Just not enough. I’m hoping for a good couple days ❤️

In 2024, Marburg virus disease was detected in Rwanda. A large-scale public health response was able to control the outbreak. Ultimately, 66 laboratory-confirmed cases were identified, largely in two urban hospitals. Full study from the Rwanda MVD Outbreak Response Team: nej.md/3VIaMNA

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

Would you smoke just because all your friends do, even though you know it could kill you a couple of decades early? Then why expose yourself to covid? www.notesforfriends.com/p/covid-isnt...

Weapons, wealth, and health: the arms industry as a commercial determinant of health. #BMJ Open Access www.bmj.com/content/390/...