I wrote about one of the worst aspects of the Epstein files www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

Introducing The Structural History of Eukarya (SHE): The first proteome-scale phylogeny constructed entirely from 3D structure. We computed 300 trillion alignments across 1,542 species to map the tree of life. 🧵👇 (1/5)

Pussyfooting around pedophiles should be illegal.

Host factors dictate gut microbiome alterations in chronic kidney disease more strongly than kidney function www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is fucking criminal. I can't believe Ontario keeps electing these malicious clowns who are openly and gleefully destroying health care in front of our eyes.

Your turn, @mark-carney.bsky.social.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'As we watch in horror the assault on knowledge and science in the United States—the assault on truth—cuts at Statistics Canada send precisely the wrong message. We urge you to reverse course.' @policyalternatives.ca

Watching people today saying “wait, are you suggesting that the Toronto Police have ties to the MOB?” is real teeth-gritting for any of us who’ve paid attention to this city for the last three decades 😡

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Claudia Kleinman, PhD, as the Scientific Director of the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health. We look forward to this new direction for the Ludmer Centre. www.mcgill.ca/ludmercentre...

If you’re interested in Canada remaining strong and free (and sovereign….to the extent that it is), these 2 malignant destructive con artists, represent the opposite of that. #cdnpoli #DanielleSmithIsATraitor #NeverPoilievre #ableg #abpoli

The plural of anecdote is misinformation. Problems with anecdotal medical evidence: - Regression to mean - Self-limiting illnesses - Multiple treatments - Reporting bias - Confirmation bias - Vague outcome measures - Placebo - Memory fallibility www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/writ...

that and also that some academics are just dicks

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Carney's dangerous austerity plan means fewer food inspectors & less capacity to track food borne illness. As the US is gutting its food safety regulations & Canada imports over half our food from the US, how does cutting food inspection here make us safer? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

As I wrote for @policyoptions.irpp.org, as the US guts its regulatory agencies, Canada must step up & expand-not cut-regulatory capacity. AI cannot replace experienced experts in food safety & disease surveillance. We're going to see more illnesses & deaths. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/12/trum...

This applies tenfold for academia.

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

I feel like I spend 10% of work time logging into devices and work websites and doing 2FA over and over. Guys, it’s me, nobody else would be using up their one precious lifetime going to your SharePoint site

i’m still waiting for the Canadian liberals to be something other than “not Harper or polievre “or not “Trump light” they’re getting a pretty easy ride at the moment

Exactly as expected. Five companies control 3/4 of the grocery share in Canada. Making them pay their fair share of taxes and capping their massive profits would be better than tax credits to consumers. Also, this is just a bone being tossed to the proles. Buckle up for more austerity.

Canada has relied on U.S. science for decades - for health info, drug review, food safety, weather monitoring, and more. As the US dismantles its science ecosystem @ntusikov.bsky.social argues Canada’s civil service cuts will put public heath at greater risk. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/12/trum...

"If swarms flood the web with duplicative, crawler-targeted content, they can execute “LLM grooming,” poisoning the training data that future AI models (and citizens) rely on." garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-bot-swa...

“A diverse diet, high in fibre is a sensible place to start." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kind of makes you wonder why we are running all these very expensive boutique programs to bring in outside talent when we have such great scientists here 🤔

Everyone doing business with Ontario is doing business with a province run by a guy who uses burner phones, Doug.

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

When review panels are forced to make distinctions between a large bolus of grants that are clearly good enough to be funded (but can't be because of gov't underfunding) then strange/arbitrary/stochastic things happen. The solution is more funding for science in Canada. cc @mark-carney.bsky.social

What's larger, a protein or its templating mRNA ? > The mRNA is much larger. ⬛ 𝐀 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 -- 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 -- 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡. The figure shows myoglobin protein drawn to scale next to its mRNA template. The coding sequence of an mRNA ...

Wonderful. If the same shit happens again, we have no legal levers to use. Yes. The police could have acted. They chose not to. Yes. The provinces could have acted. They chose not to. The feds acted. And got slapped down for it. This is stupidity as legal hair splitting and has real consequences.

It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

Closely related microbes tend to live in similar communities across Earth’s environments. We call this pattern community conservatism - extending established ecological patterns to the microbial world. 🧬🌍 #MicrobialEcology #Evolution Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

@evansolomon.bsky.social is being praised by Elon Musk for allowing his nonconsensual Ai porn and child sex abuse material to proliferate in Canada. Not a good look for 🇨🇦 government. @mark-carney.bsky.social, please replace him with someone who will protect Canadians and reflect our Canadian values.

#chemjobscanada #facultychemjobs

Western University is looking for a Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 1 in Metabolomics. We are intent on building capacity in this system and the ideal candidate will help build infrastructure and mentor junior faculty. Please see the job ad at: uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

IMO, for the aggrieved, spite can start to feel like power & control. If you can’t win, at least you can make someone else lose. Sadly, as history shows, a society built on that idea ultimately consumes itself, as everyone ends up poorer, not just materially, but morally & emotionally as well.

Defending PhD student, looking over their thesis: “If I knew then what I know now, I could’ve done all of this in like 9 months.” A thread about my favorite pioneering cave explorers and why I don’t think AI will ever “solve” biology.

“If tenured faculty can be dismissed without a hearing at which the administration has to make the case before an elected body of peers, then that’s effectively the end of tenure in South Dakota." — Mark Criley, AAUP Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Governance

I don’t know if there’s a clearer way to see the diseased greed of many billionaires than that some will leave California to live in Texas to avoid paying a minor increase in tax that none of them will notice in any measurable way. Absolutely deranged people with a warped sense of values.

You forgot to post one for The American regime too

Elon Musk achieves dream of automating child sex abuse

Fifteen years ago, when we first established the Social Media Lab, many of the stories we were asked to speak on as experts were the fluffy, feel-good stories that often filled the last 5 minutes of a 30-minute news cast. socialmedialab.ca/media-covera...

Social media is the problem

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

As this ramps up and we are asked to cheerlead for it, I remain genuinely shocked that Canada, once again, under the banner of a **nation-building**, has created a funding program that excludes Canadian students and researchers based on presence in Canada. /1 universityaffairs.ca/news/feds-la...

A reminder to be honest with yourself and aware of your biases. Those who spread misinformation and disinformation exploit our emotions and reinforce what we already believe. Before hitting share, pause ⏸️, check your sources, and make sure you’re not unintentionally adding to the chaos.