Thanks but no thanks. Indeed, looking forward to our science council discussion today in how best to protect applicants and reviewers from abuse of AI in applications and reviews. Scientific integrity is essential for peer review.

There’s too much bad news these days To uplift you, check out this @ourworldindata.org story on how cervical cancer rates have declined greatly among younger generations with vaccination! ourworldindata.org/hpv-vaccinat...

These emails have the same level of precision targeting of so-called smart bombs. At lest they don’t cause awful collateral damage.

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The fastest and most effective way to undermine science is to deprecate the quality of peer review. If this is not scientifically driven/overseen, it results in loss of confidence. Researchers are used to suffering limited funding aned low success rates. They can’t handle random influences.

By 2048 the time to acceptance will exceed the average lifespan of every model genetic organism.

With thanks to: The current Director of NIH (and acting Director of CDC) The current Head of Health & Human Services And all who enable them. Oh, and wasn't everyone who received a Covid vaccine meant to be dead by now?

AI generated images harm my eyesight and brain.

Some tumours hide from the immune system, while many treatments act like wrecking balls. With $525,000 in TFRI funding, Dr. Bowen Li is designing a “smart” therapy that targets cancer while sparing healthy tissue. Learn more: tinyurl.com/3uakb5eu

Good start to the week. Wordle 1,745 2/6 ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Evidence that we’ve always been blighted by the Donald’s.

These are not scientists, they are largely people in fortuitous positions at a particular time. They have as much grasp of how science is actually done as a collection of Powerball winners.

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@picardonhealth.bsky.social Of interest: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/mem…

Seen in a preprint’s acknowledgement section. 🫡

Terry Fox New Investigator Dr. Miffy Hok Yan Cheng is tackling barriers that keep treatments from reaching tumours. With $525K, her team is using mRNA nanoparticles to help therapies reach and destroy cancer cells more effectively. Learn more about Dr. Cheng's bold research: tinyurl.com/2ma893av

Join us in congratulating Dr. David Andrews, our final recipient of the 2026 CSMB Distinctions, recognized as a CSMB Fellow. Follow along as we highlight each of this year’s awardees in our 2026 CSMB Awards series. #CSMB #Biosciences #CanadianScience

He thinks the Strait of Hormuz is straight? There’s a jacket for that kind of thinking.

I have a fantastic AI joke but if I told it you’d think I was hallucinating.

March 1977 At 18 years old Terry has surgery to amputate his leg after being diagnosed with osteosarcoma. 707 days later Terry began training for what would become the Marithon of Hope. Terry started a Marathon against cancer, together you can help us Finish it. Donate today at terryfox.org

This is such a good article - from its web design (the watch at the beginning is live!), through to the quiet pace and logic of the story. The wakening of (some of) our possessions. www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet…

So was the prize of that baseball game the return of Maduro or kidnapping of the losing team’s President? Neither very appealing tbh.

It’s amazing that scientists found nucleotides in samples from the Ryugu asteroid but those experts should explain how the vanishing small amounts (once asteroid contents are diluted by the oceans) could significantly contribute to the prebiotic chemical inventory. www.nature.com/articles/s4155…

Aerial photograph of Fujairah.

With the absolute greatest respect to the brave and ingenious Ukrainians who in no possible way resemble the repressive and brutal Iranian regime, what level of strategic stupidity does it take to watch Russia’s overwhelming military advantage evaporate and think Iran will be an “excursion”?

Anyone taking bets on when the UK presses the Cutty Sark into service?

We are watching, in real time, involution of a country that is starving the very same ingredients it has used to become dominant to feed the very worst, inept, tiny people in the world.

My master password has been compromised dammit.

Someone should perhaps tell him the meaning of decimation and how that is precisely the root effectiveness of cheap drone warfare.

One for @laurencepearl.bsky.social Wordle 1,725 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Hoping as many American professors, researchers, trainees & technicians as possible attend the #StandUpForScience rallies across the US tomorrow. It’s an important message to send to Washington, but the rest of the world is also watching & supporting you in taking a stand on attacks on science. 🫡

Smarter prostate cancer prevention may begin in the gut. With $1M in TFRI funding, matched by CCS, a research team led by Dr. Vincent Fradet will study the gut microbiome of 450 at-risk men to predict aggressive disease and reduce overdiagnosis. Learn more: tinyurl.com/yenve9kp

Ubiquitin is not your friend. Depending on how it gloms onto you, you can get whisked somewhere else, your personality changes forever or you are sent to the garbage dump. It’s the protein version of ICE.

You’d never know that half of these teams (those of Drs. Tai and Ogilvie) are actually being funded by the Terry Fox Research Institute, not CIHR. 🤔

Sneak peek of the Eglington CrossTown vehicle control system?

When being bottom of the list is the best place to be. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Only the crumbliest flakiest…. Tastes like Chocolaty Candy Bar never tasted before? WTAF Cadbury?

If you have any examples of generative A.I. in academic journals, let me know by filling out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can see the academic shop collection: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Why can’t people (especially scientists) see that AI generated figures and diagrams shout out that they were AI generated and look awful? You’ve spend many months designing and performing experiments only to cover the resulting masterpiece in clear plastic like a cheap sofa.

The MOHCCN Health Informatics & Data Science Awards provide outstanding early-career researchers with funding to support high-quality research in precision oncology. Applications for our 2026 awards are open now: www.marathonofhopecancercentres.ca/funding-oppo...

Imagine preventing stomach cancer before it starts, while dramatically reducing the amount of invasive monitoring patients undergo. With $2M from TFRI, Dr. Isabella Tai's team will pinpoint and map high-risk stomach lesions to stop cancer before it starts. Learn more: tinyurl.com/47d8k9s3

New insights from @mrsantos.bsky.social on similarities between ES cells and cancer cells through the finding that ES cells have a perinucleolar compartment that is exploited to drive rapid growth in tumour cells.

Choose one or the other (nationally). The problem is the change.

Two provinces down! Bring it on.

The squirrels have been decimating my feeder despite counter measures (elastic bands). Here is Olga Korbnut showing off her dexterity. Hubby is ground feeding her spills.

This particular condition is rare but so are many serious diseases and, collectively, they add up to a large number of patients. Amazing genetic correction that has potential for so many more diseases.

For those who missed it, a reenactment of the State of the Union address.

Kevin Smith (CEO of @UHN) walking the talk. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob-m…

Indeed, striving to have influence via social media inevitably means being distorted/diluted/polluted by that medium, falling into the trap of being agreeable, popular and sound byte-y, so that you become just another voice. Usually someone elses.