A shout-out to the only tricouncil to have a presence on BlueSky: SSHRC 👏👏 Please do your thang and convince your less progressive sublings to join you! @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Supported by funding from @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social and CIHR (still not on BlueSky)?

This is true of anything that acts in a preventative manner, be it preparation for pandemics, vaccines, safe water, food testing, avoiding too much sun, homing the homeless.

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Basal-like breast cancer has poor outcomes because we did not know which genes drove it. LTRI-led study out now in @nature.com reveals 81 new genes driving the disease in a major first step towards targeted therapy. 🧬 Read the story➡️ bit.ly/4vohaZY #BLBC

There is no try, there is only do (I'm always funny, I don't know what the Oxford Maths admin is trying to say here 🤔🥲)

The Strait of Karmuz is wide open.

Sept. 20 Marathon of Hope Pls save/make some $ to donate Show up/support participants Everyone benefits www.youtube.com/shorts/vsAb8...

Hey FIFA, found your backbone.

🚨 We are recruiting at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, in the Regenerative Medicine Program ! If your are passionate about basic science, and dream to develop your own research program, please apply! #Ottawa #Canada #Recruitment #Scientist #Research Full description at the link below:

Waving our public health flags (please don't try this at home)

Don't ever, for one picosecond, suggest or demand that scientists should avoid political debate.

Early Jony Ive design work.

This Fall, in theatres, Terry Fox‘s Marathon of Hope as seen by Canadians, from CBC archives, bringing the country together through his optimism, hope and belief in the power of collective action. #FinishIt

Reminder that new residents and fellows have completed exhaustive training and are refining their skills under the mentorship of the best of physicians in teaching hospitals.

All ERC funding applications (Starter, Consolidator, Advanced, etc) have to have an acronym-like title. I vote this one the best. Extra points if the follow-on is GRIFT.

from 2020 #startrek

The Summer break only started last Friday - these kids are already bored and apparently have nothing to do at 1:15 am.

Well, first we bought up all the memory chips by building humongous warehouses that suck up so much power and water the local authorities who gave us sweetheart land deals had to charge their own constituents more (but not us!), then we made PCs way more expensive. For some reason people hate us 🤔

Do better, antibody companies. And scientists shouldn't trust the advertising, do the proper experiments and controls. Great work by David Sholto on uncovering some of the most agregious behaviour. Antibodies per se aren't the problem - their misprepresentation is.

Thanks to @theglobeandmail.com for giving me a little space to talk about a moment in my life. I hope maybe it'll be useful to (possibly give a laugh to?)others with metastatic cancer? share.google/8dRbC0go2heN...

We are literally being gas lighted.

Reminder that regardless of many claims to the contrary from Washington, nothing has changed. Data from hormuztracking.com

Our academic institutions salivate over proxies that purport to predict the future. Academic impact *can only* be accurately achieved post facto - at least 5-10 years. What implementation of prediction tools does do, is switch incentives to short term/low risk work. The antithesis of real impact.

Think I might have chosen the experts at one of the worlds most admired zoos *that has been doing this for 50 years*.

We can and will do better. Both in terms of the remarkable advances in pediatric cancer treatment and in adult cancers. Research did this.

Specifically, the ability to entirely sequence a genome in a matter of days for a few $100 to use as a patient's unique template for a variety of molecular agents (CRISPR gRNAs, RNA vaccines, immunotherapies, Car-T cells, antibodies...). COVID accelerated some of these but they were primed.

Upon reflection The Pool doesn’t Upon reflection The Supreme Court won’t Upon reflection the Department of Health and Human Services hasn’t Upon reflection The United States isn’t

CUSMA negotiations, here we come. 🇲🇽🇨🇦🏳️

See also the older but continuously developing Sudbury neutrino observatory: www.snolab.ca

Good article that’s appropriately focussed on mainly US contributions to science and the importance of blue sky thinking. I seriously doubt AI will ever achieve such spontaneous insights, or that the dogged stoicism of individual conviction to pursue them can be trained.

Ahead of National Indigenous Peoples Day on Sunday, may we suggest this Health Data Research Network panel discussion: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #NIPD26

🚨News Update🚨 After the 🇨🇦 vs 🇶🇦 game Vancouver has depleted FIFAs entire allocation of goals and demanded Toronto share its unused cache prior to next week.

June is Cancer Survivors Month: What do cancer survivors wish researchers knew? Kirsten Efremov, three-time cancer survivor and MOHCCN Patient Working Group member, shared with us why meaningful engagement goes beyond asking for patient input—it means listening and acting on what patients tell you.

Not to critique the remarkable drop in solar panel pricing but the human genome cost well over $1 billion to sequence in 2002 and is now far less than $1000.

Over-delivered by 11.7%. Under-budget by 12.4%. We get important things done 🇨🇦. Bring on Phase 2. #TerryFox #FinishIt.

Coincidentally had my booster today. Considering everyone who was vaccinated was supposed to croak in 2021, I must say the after-life isn't too bad, aside from the Southerly neighbours.

Live shot from the Straits of HorGoose.

Attending #Ehealth26 in Halifax next week? So are we! The DHDP team from TFRI will be there connecting with the health tech community and sharing how AI is shaping the future of #precisionmedicine research. If you'd like to set up a time to meet and learn more, please contact @crosbie.bsky.social

Scott Pelley is 68. Now there is a truly accredited journalist whom I highly doubt the NIH Director will platform. And Kevin Hall has more integrity in his pinky than the people trying to rewrite nutritional science.

I’m heading to Halifax for #eHealth26! Looking forward to sharing and learning about medical innovation, digital health, and data-driven research. If you’d like to connect or set up time to meet, feel free to DM me or schedule an introduction at bit.ly/4vCJdFw

Exciting news: gnomAD-Canada v1.0 is live! 🧬 Sinai Health is proud to support this Canadian-led genomic database with 10,487 whole genomes representing Canada’s diverse population, advancing rare disease diagnosis & precision health nationwide. Learn more 👉 datacommons.ca Download 👉 gnomad.ca

🧫 What if doctors could test cancer drugs on a patient's tumour before choosing a treatment? 🧫 Read the full Q&A with Dr. Robert Grant to learn how organoid-based drug testing could help improve treatment options for pancreatic cancer patients: www.marathonofhopecancercentres.ca/impact/news-...

Another clear sign baby boomers are no longer at the helm.

It’s so 1980’s that the 1990‘s quit after a year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCd...

Everything is awesome in the scientific publication industry.

@laurencepearl.bsky.social They’ve found a use for their AI subscriptions!

One thing missing from this strong argument for vaccine independence is that modern RNA and NLP technologies that underly not only preventative vaccines but also extremely promising personalised cancer vaccines do not require established big pharma. They can be produced nationally (and are).

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. This is the article senior members of the American Diabetes Association were handing our to other diabetes researchers when they were banned from the ADA meeting in New Orleans. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

This is beyond the pale. Antibodies are often the weakest link in analysis and cost a fortune. Thermo-Fisher needs to clean up shop by working with initiatives like @ycharos.bsky.social to regain any credibility - and take down this page! www.thermofisher.com/ca/en/home/l...