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For Canadians being inundated by riding-level polls right now: The data is crap if it has no dates, small samples (<800), high margins of error. The people showing them to you are trying to persuade you to vote for their own preferred party. It's sales pitch, not an evidence-based argument.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Corporate leaders are obsessing over GDP per capita. But, if you look at just about any number that would meaningfully tell you how well our economy is doing, Canada does better than the U.S. @mendelmatt.bsky.social @jimstanford.bsky.social #alwayscanada #never51 #gdp #cdnpoli #cdnecon

submitted 27 days ago • 11 comments

A hallmark of fascism is to attack the judiciary.

submitted 26 days ago • 257 comments

“The impact is staggering,” he said. #SummerOfScarcity @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/log...

submitted 26 days ago • 214 comments

I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.

submitted 47 days ago • 34 comments

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments

Alberta READ THIS👇 Our Pediatrics Colleagues are the absolute last group of physicians to raise an alarm. "We are trained to make split-second, life-and-death decisions.... It takes a lot to surprise or frighten us. But right now, we are very scared."

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

The sheer volume of time and energy being spent by thousands of university-based researchers in every field right now to figure out if their funding will exist next month or next year, if their careers can even continue… just citing dollar values doesn’t do it justice, it is full-scale upheaval.

submitted 51 days ago • 65 comments

Look at this map. The Government of Alberta is planning to let US-based logging company Weyerhaeuser absolutely GUT remaining winter habitat for two southern mountain caribou herds. Coloured blobs represent planned logging areas. Any further loss of habitat risks extinction. #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

submitted 56 days ago • 8 comments

Restoration and regeneration, not deforestation or extraction. #EnoughIsEnough Caribou are Species at Risk, meaning a risk to human life if we let them die off. NO MORE CLEARCUT LOGGING IN ALBERTA NOW.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Warnock: Mr. Musk had unmitigated audacity to call Social Security a Ponzi scheme. I guess that’s easy for a billionaire who has been living on the government dole to say.

submitted 60 days ago • 66 comments

Lawson: Social Security works… And you know why? Because Wall Street doesn't get a piece of it. Because we don't let the billionaires reach their greedy little into it and that's why they hate it

submitted 60 days ago • 54 comments

Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

submitted 60 days ago • 95 comments

On Friday, lawyers for Griffin laid out their case for retroactively disqualifying 65,000 ballots, disenfranchising tens of thousands of registered voters and overturning the election results and Riggs’s victory. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 61 days ago • 788 comments

Martin O'Malley, former Social Security commissioner, says he believes the Trump administration has already taken 90% of the actions necessary to crater Social Security.

submitted 61 days ago • 243 comments

Tuberculosis once affected almost everyone, but now it “travels the paths of injustice that we blazed for it,” says author @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social. He joins us to discuss his new book.

submitted 61 days ago • 7 comments

Sleep can support #memory, but can memory hyperfunction cause #sleep deficits? They find that the short-sleep #Drosophila mutant "#insomniac" has enhanced memory and that PKA signaling balances sleep & memory in these flies 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4ihHNtL

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

We have a president who brags about sending people to prisons that will treat them inhumanely. Such depravity.

submitted 61 days ago • 1079 comments

Alberta Cons are also getting away with corruption & fiscal mismanagement. Dani gave $39M to build arena for a billionaire, $100M gift to oil companies, $80M for Turkish Tylenol, $30+M to Dynalab ... while she kills off healthcare & education! What a bargain, Alberta! thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

submitted 64 days ago • 529 comments

"Trump's FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups" newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

This is not rocket science, Dems. Identify the victims of Trumpism, give them a voice, and get their stories told.

submitted 65 days ago • 71 comments

The detention and threatened deportation of lawful permanent U.S. resident Mahmoud Khalil represents a disturbing escalation in Trump's anti-constitutional crusade.

submitted 65 days ago • 79 comments

If you’re wondering where the grift is for Trump et al in a permanent border disaster, I highly rec this Texas Observer piece on how Abbott’s Lone Star Operation turned TX into a pay-to-play state that enriches a small coterie of shady-to-criminal contractors. www.texasobserver.org/abbott-opera...

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington."

submitted 66 days ago • 16 comments

so much about this is about control: control over families and children’s lives, control over women and their choices, control over who is considered an expert and what is considered expertise, control over what kind of jobs we get access to…

submitted 66 days ago • 4 comments

Calling Alberta

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Finally someone else is saying this. You are either serious about AI or you are serious about nuclear ...and now natural gas given that turbines are backlogged until 2029.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

The silence from Americans and in particular the people we expect to have checks and balances is the most damning part of this

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

In case you doubted that he’s a russian asset, know that VOA was instrumental in keeping the hope of freedoms alive in the Soviet Union and is hated with a passion by putin for exactly that. This is no accident.

submitted 67 days ago • 14 comments

If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

submitted 67 days ago • 2093 comments

Happy International Women’s Day! As always I am thankful for the many women who have enriched my scientific life. This includes mentors and my amazing current and past lab members. I also thank all those who support us.❤️#womeninstem

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

New shot from JWST… WOW!

submitted 74 days ago • 25 comments

One of the most powerful moments of the day came from Emily Whitehead who told the story of how she was the first pediatric patient to receive CAR T-cell therapy for her leukemia at age 5: “I stand up for science because science saved my life. And that’s a fact.” @standupforscience.bsky.social

submitted 75 days ago • 8 comments

🚨New Preprint Alert: Are bearded fireworms🪱 acting as vectors for Corallicolids? Here we show evidence that H. carunculata is acting as a reservoir for these coral-infecting Apicomplexans, but corallicolid functional roles in the holobiont are still unknown! 🪸🦠. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Somebody with inside information is making a lot of money from these tariff yo-yo, and it ain't the ordinary folks. #uspoli #cdnpoli #Tariffs

submitted 76 days ago • 39 comments

Multiple group leader positions in developmental biology in @ibdm.bsky.social Marseille, at an institute that produces some great work.

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.

submitted 79 days ago • 214 comments

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

submitted 79 days ago • 1188 comments

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

submitted 78 days ago • 2083 comments

No. Now is not the time to play dead. The Democrats have already played dead for too many years. 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. Millions of seniors are going hungry. Now is the time to stand up for the working class of this country.

submitted 79 days ago • 337 comments

Tom Maniatis coming in hot in @CellCellPress to spell out in no uncertain terms what cutting indirect cost rates to 15% will cost science. And a call to action: "A united front...is essential to preventing this devastating policy from taking effect." 💯 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

submitted 81 days ago • 6 comments

One day, we'll look back on this as just Step 1 of removing women from any position of public authority. No one is making a fuss, because it's just women, so Step 2 will be easier. The broligarchs have already stated repeatedly that they regard women's right to vote in America as a "mistake."

submitted 81 days ago • 33 comments

#MountainsNotMines No Coal! Protect Alberta’s Rockies and Headwaters Protest Rally 🗓️ Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025 — 11:15am to 1:30pm Outside the Alberta Energy Regulator, 250 - 5 Street SW, Calgary

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

The cowardice of the GOP has been astounding 👇 #TraitorTrump

submitted 82 days ago • 1532 comments

“An expert in civil service law tells me that the issue in this case is likely…that the [Admin] is dressing up layoffs…as simple terminations & falsely claiming that terminations were made on the basis of poor performance when actual personnel files show nothing of the sort.” lying on paper is bad

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments