Back when my mentor was the dean of the graduate school of biomedical sciences at Mount Sinai in NY, they made a welcome video for the new PhD students and this will never get old. #Academicsky #PhDchat #PhDlife

Adopting Health Canada’s indoor air quality guidelines would significantly improve public health while strengthening accessibility and climate resilience across Toronto. I encourage residents to join @CleanIndoorAirTO and tell the City you support a healthier, future-ready Toronto. bit.ly/ciatodec25

@jamellebouie.net Here's a great article for you. Thanks for caring so much about yourself and others. s/ www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all...

Remember this as public health authorities keep coming out with more excuses to discard responsibility for their mismanagement of COVID, end vaccination, etc. They *love* the idea of COVID becoming endemic and #longCOVID being unpreventable, because 👉they can pretend there's nothing they could do.👈

I always wondered what it was like for scientists trying to pull the curtain down to expose AIDS or that tobacco causes cancer. This is it. We’re living in truly wild times.

Honestly… it is scary how quickly “you don’t have to wear a mask” turned into “you don’t need to wear a mask” and now to “you aren’t allowed to wear a mask…” in so many places.

2 yrs ago I was still trying to engage w/ friends, family & colleagues regarding Cvd. My attempts to educate & raise awareness led to losing friendships & (safe) work opportunities. I was so naive & hopeful. 😩

🔥MUST-WATCH: @profgalloway.com takes Elon apart “Somehow in 🇺🇸 we decided💰excuses depravity… his behavior his abhorrent. He’s not a role model. His legacy won’t be an EV or rockets— it’ll be unnecessary death, disease, disability of 🌎’s most vulnerable.” piers: “Wow.”

Violet Affleck is literally the only good Hollywood celebrity. She even attacks the vile past tense "during Covid" language.

Pierre Poilievre in a nutshell. If ever there was a case to drain the swamp...

No one I know cares. And yet, it would be so easy. healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi...

Her: Talk dirty to me Me: *whispers* let's explore an independent bookstore on a rainswept cobblestone side street.

"When an authoritarian tells you he’s going to do something, believe him. Each outlandish statement is a trial balloon, one step closer to action. And when people don’t push back...the boundaries...permanently shift." Vital piece:

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"[...] Governments also seemed content to promote measures that only require personal responsibility, such as handwashing, and were much more reluctant to explain airborne transmission clearly as it would require [...] to improve ventilation and filtration in public buildings.[...]" 1/n #airborne

Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!

When I talk about the importance of air quality, ppl look at me as if I were discussing the urgency of having fur-covered toilet seats installed everywhere. Yes, that's how impt IAQ is to them. Their eyes glaze over. I see this all the time. THEY JUST DON'T CARE.

Julia's essays are always impactful. This one made me cry, because it's my life too. (Different specific symptoms, same overall terrible + neglected illness.)

"Evidence Based Medicine" as currently practiced puts far too much trust in non-expert opinion, oversells its own objectivity, overestimates its ability to find errors and bias, and overvalues its own past products. The only thing more dangerous than EBM's GIGO problem is EBM's coprophagy problem.

Happy Easter from those of us holding society together with respirators, filtered air, caffeine, and emotional duct tape. 🐰🩷🐰🩷

I had a letter published in the Toronto Star today, rebutting journalist Rosie DiManno's assertion that Cvd is over. They even highlighted a quote from the letter at the top of the Letters to the Editor page! Yes, I'm chuffed.

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

If you think the pandemic you can’t remember was traumatic, try being one of the few who knows we’re still in one while everyone else pretends it’s over. #COVID #WearAnN95

Friends don’t let friends trust NPR, the Atlantic, or the New York Times when it comes to COVID news. (No wonder everyone thinks it’s just a cold & it’s okay to get it once a year or more.) Instead, sign up for @dupuisj.bsky.social’s succinct, informative newsletter to easily keep up on the latest.

“Couldn’t have said it better myself “! 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

S.o. I've known for years--a hard-working musician who has managed w/ great difficulty to stay afloat & raise a family on her own--supports PeePee. She posted a video of Liz Truss (!!!) explaining how Mark Carney tanked the British economy in 2022. My head is exploding.

BREAKING: Women may no longer be able to vote if their birth certificates don't match married names. You know in The Handmaid's Tale when Gilead suddenly eliminates women's bank accounts in one fell swoop? That's what Republicans in Congress are doing to women's voting rights.

77 million Americans thought they were voting to lower the price of eggs, or to create a Christian nation, or to prevent a trans girl from bouncing a basketball. Instead they may have voted for a global depression, or world domination by the Chinese, or both.

In the meantime, many of us will play Canadians' favourite electoral game, strategic voting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT_n...

Canadian NDP MP Charlie Angus 🇨🇦 - "I think there’s something deeper that Canadians are really focusing on right now—watching our nearest neighbor slip into totalitarianism." #cdnpoli

1. Last Friday, I told you about a Trump voter who watched as ICE agents perp-walked his Peruvian wife after their return flight from a honeymoon in Puerto Rico. Even so, the man didn’t regret his vote. www.editorialboard.com/nows-the-tim...

Incompetent official, and extraordinarily incompetent *staff*. And I say that knowing how competent political staffers are prepared before committee meetings because I'm married to one.

To crib from the late Christopher Hitchens: "If you gave Donald Trump an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox."

Brilliant. guinesspig.ghost.io/for-the-covi...

Gift article www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

From losing 2-6 IQ points per infection to activating autoimmune conditions to long-term organ damage, none of this is good. It’s time to #CleanTheAir in all indoor workplaces, daycares, schools, etc. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Found out a friend (M, early 60s), just had a stroke. He says he's OK now, thank goodness. Mysterious ...

I keep thinking back on this, and the more I reflect, I think he’s a terrible negotiator but a great abuser. So the outcome is dependent on whether he gets away with the abuse. Framing it as “transactional” helps him get away with his abuse.

Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long term organ damage www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

The attached pdf is for Canadians preparing to resist US invasion. I'm retired RCMP and Canadian Army Reservist. French copy to be posted too. drive.google.com/file/d/179uU...

Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

FTA: "Vance’s message? We must understand our own addictions as an attack from outside. It is important to understand the psychology....This has now become our foreign policy. We are blaming someone else for our problems, and flailing for ever more nonsensical stories: like that Canada is to blame."

Amazing the CBC allowed a serious scientist to speak about Covid at length. A must-listen. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

A relative just posted a pic on FB of himself wearing a surgical mask in March 2020. He called it "the COVID days." He got 3 emojis, 1 heart & 2 laughing faces. I'm SPITTING mad, but I'm not going to respond. 1/