Scroll down to "A dispatch from the Poilievre campaign" "But the extreme message control makes it all but impossible to bring the same level of accountability to the Poilievre campaign that other campaigns are subject to." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

"After many years of covering election campaigns in Canada, USA and Europe, the Conservative Party of Canada is the most outwardly aggressive and uncivilized that I’ve witnessed." canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-ca...

CBC is public media—owned by Canadians, not the government. If it were propaganda, Poilievre wouldn’t want to kill it—he’d want to use it. CBC holds power to account. That’s why they fear it. #SaveTheCBC #MediaFreedom #CdnPoli #OurVoiceOurCBC

❤️ We don’t care if your gender identity is more free than a fart in a fan factory. Be you, be happy, be free. #colonythatcares

Inspired by @mark-carney.bsky.social and Canadians everywhere. We’re all fighting back on our home ice!

Profound question for 12:20 AM: Why, when I ask Midjourney to create an image of Bert from Sesame Street as a visual pun for deep learning, do I get a set of characters that range from "Ernie-ish" to "WTF", but no Bert?

A dangerous precedent. This is a cowardly folding by CTV. The right instigated an online troll attack campaign, offering no evidence of their claims, and the network folded. Viewers and Rachel deserve better.

I would tell a 21-hour long academic shaggy dog joke. "I can't tell you, you're not a professor"

The latest discovery from the lab and great colleagues at McMaster and U Illinois, Chicago. Lariocidin, a new lasso peptide antibiotic that inhibits the ribosome. rdcu.be/efdha

I am I'm this picture and I don't like it

Political ad, but a good one.

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

🚨 The Whelan lab is currently recruiting for a 6-week summer undergraduate student as part of the Lister Institute's Summer Studentship scheme. 🚨 The student will work along side a Postdoc to study interactions between pathogens from the cystic fibrosis microbiome. More info & to apply please see:

From the Royal Society preprint ferver: "Part of a letter to Dr Sloane, wherein is an account of a Double Pear" "THe Errors of Nature defervedly claim a place in her Hiftory, being of great ufe to illuftrate her Ordinary and more Regular Motions". royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

This is sad but true. I need to work to develop a network of friends in real life as my own life starts to change. PS: I am beyond grateful for my electronic friends.

source .aishrc

I hope you're all having as a good a day as Asymptomatic Guy. (adapted from www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...)

Absolute garbage article (not gonna link) in G&Mthis morning about "waaahh leave Musk and Tesla alone". - Intentionally conflates violent anti-Tesla protestors (who should be condemned) with all Tesla opponents - About DOGE: "The worthiness of the quest...should be applauded by all taxpayers"

‘Horizontal ARG transfers deducible from current genome sequence repositories have predominately happened in the human and wastewater microbiomes…and are strongly limited by genetic incompatibility between the hosts’ genomes, the acquired gene & the recipient’s genome’ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So much this!! I feel for our US colleagues, but there are plenty of underemployed or even unemployed scientists, not to mention active researchers experiencing lack of funding in Canada and Europe.

tracing one worn lie

How many other "Take normal security precautions" countries are putting Canadians in illegal detention at the border?

I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...htt

www.isthemajorityofcanadianmediastillamericanowned.com YES Guess I'll check again tomorrow.

Don't blame me - I voted for Chrétien.

"I've done everything the Bible says! Even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"

What a time to be alive for now. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/...

JD Vance going at Zelensky over never saying thank you had a major abusive partner in a dysfunctional relationship vibe. I bet he's had practice.

Is today the worst day so far?

The world has witnessed the most disgraceful political tantrum of all time. Trump is not the leader of the "free world." He is convicted felon who doesn't deserve to be in the same room as President Zelenskyy. There is no going along to get along with this thug. Canada needs to stand with Ukraine.

HINTERLAND WHO’S WHO The HRM Pothole Goose in its natural habitat.

Faculty position opening in bioinformatics at the University of Montreal! There is a great bioinfo and comp bio community in Montreal. www.umontreal.ca/carrieres/pr...

I appreciate how scary it can be for young parents to give their baby vaccines - they hear so much about reactions. But as vaccination rates go down its becoming more and more important to vaccinate to protect your child.

This is AMAZING work

New paper out that (we hope) will be useful to anyone with an interest in Antarctic soil microbial communities: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

Birds, aeroplanes: check Earthquakes, snakes: pending Lenny Bruce: Unavailable for comment (implicitly not afraid)

"Did someone say banana?"

Pierre Poilievre’s policy on journalism, in one meme:

New paper! doi.org/10.1098/rsos... Many of the world’s languages are endangered, but how we identify which are endangered is essentially by counting how many people speak that language. …but…

Meanwhile in Nova Scotia, a government launches multiple attacks on transparency and accountability: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/.... One can only wonder what is behind this level of pettiness and paranoia.

What a gem the CBC is! Telling our stories. All the time. Everywhere. Poilievre promises to kill the CBC within 100 days and (plausibly) sell-off the radio and TV assets to Musk / Murdoch-type oligarchs? Let's #SavetheCBC & Vote strategically to stop the Cons from winning the next election. #Canada

Man who has spent entire political career attacking everybody promises he’ll attack Trump and Elon any minute now

It's like Trofim Lysenko, but for public health! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

'Bob’s true test of a perfectly structured presentation was that the speaker should be able to ditch the PowerPoint slides and successfully deliver the same message using only the blackboard (...) most talks would indeed be better when boiled down to the bare basics: chalk board, presenter, ideas.'

Another wild and crazy mechanism of genetic exchange among bacteria! #MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🔬🧬

Snow makes everything new and different

I missed the publication of new bacterial kingdom names in IJSEM last year: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... Thus: Bacteria; Bacillati; Bacillota; Bacilli; Bacillales; Bacillaceae; Bacillus. All hail the humble rod/stick.

Newly discovered parasitic bacteria of methanogenic Archaea. Interesting stuff, another genome worth digging into. 🦠🧫 #archaeasky www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...