Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

Get your Covid booster. SARS Cov-2 is relying on ignorance and misinformation to continue to infect and injure and kill. Don’t let it.

Spend over 90 mins waiting to connect to a live Rogers telecom agent as we have no TV (but internet is fine and I went through all of the troubleshooting). The chat when connected didn’t go well. Enshittification personified. Transcript:

Is IKEA having a pilots sale?

Precision oncology can help identify specific genetic mutations driving tumour growth and show where targeted therapies can have the most success. "This will not only make treatments more effective, it will also limit the side-effects...” www.marathonofhopecancercentres.ca/our-research...

Noticed I was still paying for AOL email on a credit card (~$3 a year). Took an hour of help to verify my identity to get past the (landline) verification info and once in found 14,231 emails since 1997 (last time I logged in was ~2004). Can report that spammy emails have not improved with age.

Tickets are 95% sold out to for Run Terry Run - a behind-the-scenes look at Terry's Marathon Of Hope from 96 reels of never-before-seen footage. Be part of this unforgettable night. Monday, November 10 Roy Thomson Hall Get your tickets now: terryfox.org/RunTerryRun

An update on this story - grad students are now exempt from the cap in student visas. 🧪

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. 👏👏

This is such good writing. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A momentous day for the @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social @marathonofhope.bsky.social Cancer Centres Network being supported in the 🇨🇦 Federal government budget. 1/3 www.marathonofhopecancercentres.ca/impact/news-...

Heard directly about some of the great work being done by Jens at HIRI this week. RNA phages are one element of the powerful biology that has taught us so much about gene regulation, translation and defense mechanisms.

“The leap between interception and prevention is very small. If we can eliminate young cancers before they transform, we may be able to stop them from forming in the first place.” - Dr. Tabori Learn more about this life-changing, Terry Fox funded research: tinyurl.com/mrynt73j

If you are a Canadian scientist interested in the protection of identifying information about applicants and reviewers of tricouncil grants please read and sign this letter. Thank you. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

There's a year-old problem with looping movies in Powerpoint on Mac. Movie plays once, jitters and then shows blocky artefacts. Same pptx works fine on Windows. Problem seems to be Mac-side (QT?) but 15.7.1 and 26.0.1 both show this behaviour. A solution, in case it helps anyone: 1/2

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...

We're hiring! Maybe you know our next Cloud Engineer, Data Product Owner or National Director? Full details and links to application: www.dhdp.ca/about/careers Please share #CdnSci #precisionmedicine #AI

Congratulations to Dr. Mei Zhen, Senior Investigator at LTRI, on being named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by @WXN in the STEM category! 👏 Her neuroscience research is uncovering how brain circuits form, function & fail in disease: bit.ly/3X4f2aU

Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

We’re thrilled to announce $14.5 million in new funding through the 2025 Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grants (PPGs), supporting cutting-edge research in sarcomas, bladder cancer, high-risk brain cancer and immunotherapies. Learn more: tinyurl.com/47zwsdkd

Flew from Toronto to Frankfurt in less time than game 3. 🤯

Stay current on the most cutting edge precision oncology research funded by the @marathonofhope.bsky.social @terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social

Latest episode covers Scarborough, Doss’s neighborhood, and if you’re in the GTA check it out on CBC Gem. He just gets to show the tip of the variety. More please. 😛https://www.cbc.ca/television/food-critic-suresh-doss-celebrates-local-restaurants-that-bring-the-flavours-of-home-to-canada-1.7652299

Plain explanation of why science is under direct attack in the US. Popper’s words ring as true now as when he said them. Uncorrupted science seeks truth by evidence hence is the enemy of humanity’s many weaknesses, biases, delusions and subversions.

Thanks to a generous donor, my kids have surpassed the halfway point in their fundraising for cancer research. With 43% of us being diagnosed and 25% losing their lives to cancer, let’s honor Terry Fox’s dream of a cancer-free world. Together, we can #FinishIt. Join us and donate now! 🔗👇

Don't assume Canadian science is immune to attacks on EDI - the Standing Committee on Science and Research heard the same Republican talking points being used against US universities. www.ourcommons.ca/committees/e...

Release the Euastacus (preferably in the Oval Office).

The Dodgers are one wall of a team this year but the Jays came back from 2 down and tore up the history books. Go Jays!

High dose flu and 🇨🇦 made, latest variant COVID vaccines today. 💪 by the super nurses @sinaihealthtoronto.bsky.social #WinterIsComing

If asked, Canada would have happily popped down and repeated the job that was started on June 18, 1812. For free.

🍁 TODAY IS THE DAY! Network Seminar Series: Presented by the Prairie Cancer Consortium 🍁 📆 Oct. 15 🕰️ Local times in poster! Join this virtual event to learn more about our the Network's impact on research and care in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. 🔗 Learn more and register: bit.ly/470yied

Just one example of (repeated) media distortion of data, especially when related to any green energy topic (solar, windmills, etc).

Two Blue Jays on our feeder. Go Jays!

Tech billionaires would be wise to ride their paper cranes to learn their place in the world.

Understanding and helping people living with autism will rely on science not balderdash. (Gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/46242ee...

Shout out to the cardinal that patiently waited for the squirrels to fill their large bellies, fight amongst themselves, fall asleep and then chip away at a few leftovers at dusk.

Preeeeety sure he’s not getting it next year or the year after, either.

Launch your independent research career in beautiful Toronto! Princess Margaret Cancer Centre is recruiting an ECR in cancer biology with appointment to University of Toronto and a generous startup package. Vibrant research community. Apply now! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

At our weekly Terry Fox Research Institute Zoom team meeting (the staff are spread across the country from coast to cost) we have one person present for 10 minutes on something they’re interested in. It’s a remarkable dive into art, interests, hobbies, history. Every time it teaches us something.

Ottawa airport had radar issues today so many flights were delayed or cancelled. The guy I saw in the New York Yankee’s cap’s day just ended even more badly.

Early morning flight to Ottawa on Air Canada. Must be the Raptors plane.

This year's Crick @crick.ac.uk PhD programme is open for applications - £27,715 tax-free student stipend per year for 4 years - Tuition fees paid - Student visa fee & health surcharges covered Deadline 5 Nov We have a project available. For all the details visit: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Not a fan of what the Nobel Prizes have become (massive oversimplification of the contributions to modern scientific progress) but if there’s a prize for GLP1 agonists that excludes Dan Drucker then science will have lost to politics.

Replace your Google bookmark with this. It strips awaythe AI crust and feels like the Google of a decade ago, but faster. udm14.org

Could add further switches turned off: Common sense Decency International relations Unity Respect …

Broken. An utterly broken system.

A wonderful actor who would proudly say in her inimitable way, she had regretfully kicked the bouquet.

Updating my laptop to MacOS Tahoe (which is reassuring catching up to me in age) and the estimate of time remaining is randomly jumping between 7 mins and 23 hours and everything in between. Looking good!

The enshittification agenda at Amazon proceeds apace. Of course, the cancellation process has a series of traps. And, of course, the price steadily rises.