Profile avatar
deanshamess.ca
deanshamess.ca Ph.D. Candidate at JSGS USask // Science Policy, Science of Science, Science and Power and Populism // econ, policy, polisci… whatever works
27 posts 1,244 followers 459 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 14 Comments 27

Anyone have anything good to read on the legislative history of the Small Business Innovation Research Development Act of 1982 that gives us the SBIR program across government? Especially interested in Rep. LaFalce.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

What’s the point of knowing all these doctors and nurses when none of them will give you a lobotomy when you really need it.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

In the US, they’ve scrapped the rule to consult the public before repealing regulations. Up here, our government is gearing up to fast-track big projects. Speed’s great, but skipping the people most affected? That comes with a cost. I put my two cents into the debate at @policyoptions.irpp.org.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Ok. Let’s make this more than a hasty “framework to agree on future discussions”. Defence procurement, student & maybe labour mobility, boosting FDI, build on intel collab., DST, ++ Also, selfishly, please include phytosanitary coordination. I’d like to buy from UK nurseries & seed sellers.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Ya, I’ll eat my hat (and move countries) if I’m wrong… But there’s absolutely zero chance The Economist has the right scoop on any potential Canada-USA deal. Carney only comes to power on nationalist sovereignty - he sells actual sovereignty for status quo? Lol

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Much heat on this piece. Not unexpected. But the misreading of literal quotes in it is a bit much. On my part, no I did not blame Trump admin's actions on anyone but Trump admin. No I am not defending certainty in science. Wtf?? My complaint against such certainty is literally quoted in the piece.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Science’s reform movement should have seen Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ coming, critics say.

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

Carney unlocking formerly unimaginable levels of acronymization here.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a dump of misc @comind.stream content. - Graph database addition (comind.stream/blog/2025-05... - Core perspective reinforcement (comind.stream/blog/2025-05...)

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

The below, plus the image that's been sitting in my photos, in the next post, is why I came back to this place. This "new" American idea, spreading from Big Tech to the State Dept., that only America can regulate, tax, punish or otherwise govern is just unbelievably absurd/terrifying....

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Last week / this week

submitted 30 days ago • 13 comments

I am a complete doomer about cooptation, ftr. I more or less just think you should say and advocate for what you think is true, and can defend on good grounds, and never bother trying to hedge against people coopting your ideas. Ideas can always be coopted, there is no defence against that.

submitted 32 days ago • 18 comments

Don't worry everyone (I know you were) - I'm back, and I'm gonna post something so good soon. That one post will body all the wrong people so hard that it'll all be fixed.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments