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🔈 Calling all applied health researchers: Are you looking to deepen your skills in qualitative data analysis? This 4-day, in-person intensive will support you in advancing your confidence and skillset. ⚠️ We are almost sold out, register today! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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We shouldn't have to chose between compassion or safety

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Canada could vote in a Trump-ish govt: 1/Conservatives are anti choice: bsky.app/profile/mary... 2/The last Conservative govt defunded science, muzzled scientists www.cbc.ca/news/health/... and threw science research in dumpsters. thetyee.ca/News/2013/12... #DoNotVoteConservative #MiniTrump

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Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

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Dr. Sally Thorne is a light in these dark times: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... "[Nurses] are a force for good in this world, and we have always understood that as our mission and our privilege."

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So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

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Your life should be more liveable. Affordable, workable, loveable, joyful, pleasureable, fulfilling, striving. That life is what we should be aiming for. Not criminalizing, punishing, hating, war-ing, taking, ruining.

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There’s a lot right in @picardonhealth.bsky.social piece today: and we know what the answer is: #HousingFirst is cheaper in the long run, better for quality of life and better for communities; so why don’t we do it? 1/ www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Foundations need to spend more, but many overestimate what they can do right now. NIH's budget is $47bn; USAID $22bn Gates' endowment is $44bn; Wellcome $49bn Spending down their entire endowments = 15 months of US spend. It's not nothing but it's far from enough. www.statnews.com/2025/03/18/c...

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❄️💕TODAYS WINTER BIKE DAY 💕❄️ Join Hamiltonians this morning from 7:30-9:30am on King William Street for some cycling fun in the snow ❄️ 🚲Ride in on one of our group rides (link in bio for routes, meet up location, and times).

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Mary Oliver - "Invitation"

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To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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"So much more than books" Thank you, Chief Librarian Takala, for highlighting the critical community services provided by Hamilton Public Library branches across #HamONT every day. www.chch.com/morning-live...

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Canada needs more anesthesiologists to keep up with demand. I heard from more than a dozen Canadian nurse anesthetists who work in the U.S., many of which say nurse anesthetists would be able to help out. But Canada doesn’t have nurse anesthetists. More here: www.cbc.ca/radio/whitec...

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This is so cool www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

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So pervasive. And core in the problem is it not being recognised as a mindset…

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Sharing our new publication, "Factors associated with anxiety & fear of falling in older adults: A rapid systematic review of reviews" doi.org/10.1371/jour... This review helped to inform @ccsmh.bsky.social clinical practice guidelines in anxiety treatment for older adults ccsmh.ca/areas-of-foc...

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The Learning Health Hub team is excited to share our latest publication: Evaluation methods, indicators, and outcomes in #LearningHealthSystems: Protocol for a jurisdictional scan. Read it here: www.researchprotocols.org/2024/1/e57929

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My new paper (commentary) Without values, complexity is reduced to mathematics 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Hamilton Police are only permitting public comment on their 2025 budget until December 9. The 2025 budget will be released on December 10. Here's HPS responding to people pointing out they cannot comment on a budget they cannot see. #yhmcc

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We work in socio-technical systems. Very often our improvement efforts over-focus on the technical (strategies, priorities, processes, methods, metrics) & under-focus on the socio (collaboration, agency, relationships, culture). See nateschloesser.medium.com/people-over-.... By Nate Schloesser.

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Last night we turned Bloor Street into an equivalent highway 401 for bicycles, because the government passed overreaching legislation to remove protected bicycle lanes in Toronto, and further restrict their installation everywhere in the province. #BikeTO #ONpoli

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Having three dogs has been challenging but we are slowly finding our footing. They are lucky they are so stinkin’ cute.

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Elegant analysis here showing that "evidence-based policymaking" means different things in different fields. #academicsky #healthpolicy #episky academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

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As we near the end of #DiabetesMonth, I am re-sharing our recent publication on engaging young adults with #T1D in the co-design of an #IntegratedCare program. Read about the power of lived experience in driving innovation: doi.org/10.1111/hex....

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Science/conservation/academia friends: I’m writing a step by step how to use Bluesky guide for an academic journal. Has anyone else mentioned Bluesky in something I should cite? Any case studies of using Bluesky for this stuff that I should mention? 🧪 DMs open, whysharksmatter at gmail

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Introducing the first active transportation counter display board in #HamOnt on the Hunter Street cycle track. This highlights our extensive AT count program and the use of our AT corridors. Hamilton.ca/atcounts

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Walking among these ancient sentinels who have stood witness to centuries was a humbling reminder to take only what I need, tread lightly. San Francisco, You were just what I needed.

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