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Weird intersection of math & centrifuge balancing: Visual proof that it's possible to balance a 24-position centrifuge rotor for any number of equally-filled tubes EXCEPT 1 and 23. Some of these are anxiety-inducing, though. (🧑‍🎨: aliyoh, labrats subreddit)

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That time in 1988 Sesame Street ripped on Donald Trump

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L’accès public à l’eau est réduit à une peau de chagrin, selon le travail de cartographie de deux chercheurs.

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I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve had serious issues dismissed because I’m either “too young” or because I’m a woman. Bias & misogyny in medicine kill. Young women die or become disabled every day because of it. We must do better. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

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Save public healthcare before it’s too late canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/26/s... by @codeblackamerica.bsky.social 𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

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«L’arrivée de Trump crée de l’incertitude dans la société, mais elle ne change ni la science ni les chiffres. Les ravages humains, sanitaires, économiques et environnementaux de la crise climatique ne disparaîtront pas, ils vont plutôt s’intensifier.» www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...

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This is what a rigged economy looks like: In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker. In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker. This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker. That has got to change.

submitted 16 days ago • 749 comments

Future of research in Canada

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The St. Lawrence Seaway is one of the most significant construction projects in Canadian history. But it came at a cost. Several communities were lost forever beneath the waters during construction. This is the story of The Lost Villages. 🧵1/20

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

Après les USA, c'est le Canada qui subit une épidémie en parallèle. l'Ontario avec 900 cas semble être la province la plus touchée. Il est fort probable que la période d'incubation de 14 jours après le weekend de Pâques, fasse encore grimper ce chiffre. Pour les hospitalisations, 9 cas/10 étaient

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The majority of people —56% in the US!—are worried about climate change, but not activated. Why not? Most feel helpless, hopeless, and don't know what to do. So more fear won't activate them. Rather, knowing what to do—and being invited to do it—will. Where to start? With a conversation today. 🧵

submitted 21 days ago • 87 comments

A huge, new resource for plasmid research - PlasmidScope is a database of 852,000 #plasmid sequences with a rich set of annotations, automated online analysis and interactive visualisation academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

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So many health care topics being ignored in this election: - growing measles outbreak - spread of health disinfo - Poilievre's history of attacking vaccine mandates - national medical licensure - US doctors fleeing north - growing health care privatization - pharmacare - virtual care

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Excited to share our preprint on the molecular architecture of heterochromatin in human cells 🧬🔬w/ @jpkreysing.bsky.social, @johannesbetz.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social 🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv

submitted 32 days ago • 12 comments

Dear Canadian researchers, faculty, RAs, PDFs and grad students, this letter is for the federal party leaders asking them to defend and expand Canadian research sovereignty with a historic investment in science, please sign and share docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

Your yearly reminder to acknowledge the core facilities you use and their staff scientists in your papers. These scientists are a crucial part of the scientific ecosystem and to continue to exist they need tangible credit for their work. Plus their associated expertise adds credibility to your work.

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

1. Yesterday I wrote a thread about the dire warnings from food professionals on the state of supply chains. Comfortable folk might find it impossible to imagine an end to the current abundance. But we'd better start imagining it fast. THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.

submitted 33 days ago • 67 comments

Was planning on buying a Leica super-resolution microscope. Have just been informed that the 20% Trump tariffs need to be added which likely kills the deal. This is just one lab. One business. The wider chaos this is creating can be stopped right now if the GOP were to assert Congress's power.

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

On a beaucoup parlé des îles inhabitées qui ont été frappées par des droits de douane, mais on a passé un peu trop sous silence que Trump s'en est pris aux pays les plus pauvres du monde, comme le Soudan du Sud.

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

2008, Bill C-484 2010, Bill C-510 2012, M-312 2016, Bill C-225 2023, Bill C-311 5 times PP has voted against women's right to choose! A 2024 Conservative MP's petition demanding restrictions on abortion access. #womenagainstpoiLIErve #NeverPoiLIEvre

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

Polypropylene. Autoclavable. Reusable. Fairly clear. One more polystyrene lab consumable eliminated? Let's find out! a.co/d/667XVjL

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Margaret Atwood is keeping her Elbows Up! 💪 She sends her best and reminds Canadians that when we're in a tough spot, standing together matters. Join us on March 22 Toronto Nathan Phillips Square 2 PM. Wear red 🔴. Bring a sign. Stand together. #toronto #ElbowsUp #HandmaidsTale #margaretatwood

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

On this day in 1879, Maud Menten was born in Port Lambton, Ontario. In her work as a medical researcher, she became a leading expert in histochemistry and enzyme kinetics while fighting against sexism in her field. Let's learn more about her life! 🧵1/10

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%. While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired. Let's learn more. 🧵1/10

submitted 69 days ago • 42 comments

For those of us around the world with looming deadlines & unable to access #Pubmed for many hours, remember there are alternatives. Try searching for papers on #ResearchGate or #GoogleScholar for eg. Hoping this is a temporary situation. Reminded of this just now by my science partner - bless him. 🧪

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First they came for the humanities, but we scientists didn't stand up because it didn't affect us. Then they came for the students protesting genocide, but we didn't stand up because it didn't affect us. Then they came for our funding, and there was no one left to stand up for us.

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

Crazy idea What if we just decided to help everybody And not be worried about “freeloaders” Like we just agreed that our North Star would be that everyone thrived Man that would be awesome

submitted 82 days ago • 16 comments

Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.

submitted 168 days ago • 14 comments

813 US billionaires held a record $6.72 trillion in wealth at the end of 2024. The bottom 50% of Americans held roughly $3.9 trillion in wealth. When 813 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

submitted 84 days ago • 169 comments

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

submitted 87 days ago • 53 comments

1/ Trump is peddling #misinformation about Canada - when have we needed protection? WWII: 🇨🇦protected Europe (1.1M troops) over 2 years before 🇺🇸joined. 9/11: 🇨🇦 protected 🇺🇸 (40k troops) Since 1954, 🇨🇦 protected countries around the world (125k troops) Canada protects others. #CanadaStrong

submitted 88 days ago • 23 comments

My annual Valentine’s post of this image that happens to land on #FluorescenceFriday this year! An axon approaching a kidney glomerulus doing its best to look like a rose.

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Making intrabodies from antibodies just got easier! Learn how we made 𝟭𝟵 intrabodies to bind and light up peptides and histone modifications in live cells. And thanks to Academia, all sequences are freely available. (video credit: Yuko Sato @YukoSatoT2) (1/15) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

submitted 90 days ago • 255 comments

February 25th, 11AM EST. Join us for a panel discussion on "Perspectives from Black Professionals in the Plant Sciences" featuring Dr. Margaret Young, Dr. Stephon Fitzpatrick, & Dr. Jason B. Thomas. rootandshoot.org/root-shoot-w... Open to all, come be a part of it! #BlackHistoryMonth

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