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In case people are amazed/confuses/shocked/whatever by the devastating cuts proposed for US science, technology, and innovation, please remember that autocrats always go after three main targets: 1️⃣ Media 2️⃣ Courts 3️⃣ Academics It’s literally textbook and, yes, it’s happening in the US.

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The SOGC's recommendation for COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy & breastfeeding was featured on @globalnews.ca. It stressed that COVID-19 vaccines are safe & prevent complications during pregnancy, after the recent U.S. shift in advice. tinyurl.com/yn9j2878

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🧵Thank you to everyone standing up to antivax, prodisease, don’t-give-a-damn-about-the-sick-or-dead. A thread with only some of the amazing people who are standing up for science - I wish I could have posted all of your posts. The pendulum is shifting. #vaccinate

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“The combination of music and narrative is a powerful one-two punch that can bowl you over.” 🎶

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Donald Trump doubles steel tariffs to 50% in ‘major announcement’ He is mad about TACO, but really he is TOFU. Trump Only F?$&S Up. #Autocracy www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

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BC Won't Require Measles Vaccination for Schools | The Tyee thetyee.ca/News/2025/05... @michellegamage.bsky.social @thetyee.ca 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca

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Everyone deserves a safe, affordable place to call home. But under Danielle Smith and the UCP, that goal is slipping further out of reach: Alberta now has the worst housing affordability in the country. We can change that. 🔽 /1

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Canada Post counters union negotiations, asking workers to split the bill on billion dollar deficit

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In 1963, a group of Canadian Roman Catholic priests began to play hockey to raise money for charity. In 907 games, they lost only six times and raised $4 million. Did I mention the backup goaltender horses? This is the story of The Flying Fathers! 🧵1/10

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“French President Emmanuel Macron called Dr Baulieu "a beacon of courage" and "a progressive mind who enabled women to win their freedom".” #ReproSky www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Quebec passes bill requiring immigrants to not be different

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Out-and-out attack on science, discovery, learning

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Honestly just impressed that this figure was published in 2022, 38 years after the launch of the Mac 128k.

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Congrats to all newly minted scientists, physicians, public health workers, and healthcare workers who are graduating! You are entering professions that are tragically under heavy political attack, but please know that you are needed now more than ever. You got this!

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Are you no one until you're hated? Not according to Bruce Clark! On CBC’s The Debaters, he hilariously proves being hated is overrated. 🎧 link.mgln.ai/hjvrtm The louder the trolls, the clearer the truth: CBC matters. #SaveTheCBC #TheDebaters #CBCForever #PublicBroadcasting

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‘The Internet Sucks.’ Cory Doctorow Tells How to Fix It | The Tyee thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

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"No tumor is an island" and "oncology recapitulates embryology" - a fascinating conversation with the incredible @ashi-w.bsky.social at the CSHL symposium on aging. We talk about how cancer rates increase with age, the T(I!)ME, and the role of Wnt signaling www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Txf...

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ICYMI: my interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney from the day the King delivered the Speech from the Throne. open.spotify.com/episode/79kS...

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591 cases of #measles Alberta. 50 hospitalized and 9 in the ICU. x.com/nightshiftmd...

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Thank you to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for just telling the truth about #ElonMusk. The rest of the media should hang their heads in shame with the fawning, irrelevant pieces they ran yesterday. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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It’s far worse than that: MAHA is a pseudoscientific assault on public health.

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“the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) reaffirms that COVID-19 vaccination remains safe and strongly recommended during pregnancy and while breastfeeding.” #VaccinesWork #Covid19 #Pregnancy sogc.org/en/content/f...

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“Gold standard science” The top tier medical journals are “corrupt” Our report with many fabricated references had “formatting issues”

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This curious critter kept checking out the human in the kayak as it swam upstream in the South #Saskatchewan River in #Saskatoon. Finally, the creature stopped for a closer look. #beaver #kayaking #urbanwildlife #wildlifephotography #meewasin #river #curiouscritter

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As Manitoba and Saskatchewan declare wildfire emergencies, some experts are calling for a new relationship with fire, while others are getting out ahead of misinformation. Our latest newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-m...

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Chatted with the National Observer about this breaking story: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/29/n...

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Highly recommend the doc (gem link within). Hopefully it will make a lot of people think. #Scicomm #ReproSky 🧪 #Pride #Animals #Nature #Biodiversity www.cbc.ca/documentarie...

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"Dr. Ivan Oransky — who teaches medical journalism at New York University and is a co-founder of Retraction Watch, a website that tracks retractions of scientific research — said the errors in the report were characteristic of the use of generative artificial intelligence..."

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Alberta gets head start on life as a U.S. state by banning books (Podcast)

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Almost 70% of Canadians want child vaccines to be mandatory: poll. Angus Reid Institute survey comes as #measles outbreak touches several provinces, primarily infecting unvaccinated infants, kids and teens www.thestar.com/news/canada/... via @thestar.com @angusreidinstitute.bsky.social #vaccination

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With Covid vaccine decisions, RFK Jr. unleashes an unfettered assault on public health www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/r... by @matthewherper.bsky.social "...he has repeatedly made inaccurate statements about the measles vaccine, which is among the safest and most effective medicines ever developed."

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#Move! Effectiveness of exercise for improving cognition, memory and executive function: bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl... "...strong evidence that exercise, even light intensity, benefits general cognition, memory and executive function across all populations..."

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It’s a reason I wrote @nejm.org article, when asked what virus epidemic threat frightens me more than any other my ANS: Yellow Fever: historically YF decimated cities/towns in Texas (Galveston, Huntsville, La Grange) and Southern U.S. New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis and could return. We’re not ready

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When RMS Empress of Ireland suffered a severe collision with another ship near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River on May 28, 1914, she sank in only 14 minutes. Of the 1,477 onboard, 1,012 died. This is the story of Canada's Titanic. 🧵1/14

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First Nations plead for help as wildfires devastate northern Sask. #Wildfires #Saskatchewan #Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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There are out-of-control wildfires now burning in almost all ten provinces of Canada. 22,000 people are being evacuated in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan. It’s not even yet summer. Just reminder, just because your local air quality is not now affected, it doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

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Evasion of peer review is a hallmark of pseudoscience. But even more insidious is the obviation of scientific scrutiny by publishing in pseudoscientific journals that exist to provide an illusion of scientific legitimacy. There’s nothing new about MAHA’s propaganda tactics.

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“Having low visual acuity is fine for whales, since they don’t usually need sharp vision to catch prey.” But bad for fishing nets. 🧪 #Scicomm #Whales www.biographic.com/what-a-whale...

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Just a remarkable little book. Highly recommended …but be warned, your neck will be very sore as you keep nodding in recognition of what is going on around the world and especially North America these days. #Fascism #Canada #USA #BookSky

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Snake oil salesmen never went away. Now they're called "wellness coaches" "alternative/integrative medicine practitioners," "energy healers," etc. www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

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The UCP are mired in scandal from Tylenot to private surgery contracts to MLA family enrichment It's all corruption & their attempts to distract us from their scandals are scandals within themselves - Alberta separation, book banning, etc The UCP bring nothing but instability and chaos #ableg

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Good grief, it's hard to even count the ways that this is wrong. (The paper, I mean, not Dan).

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US administration openly intervened on behalf of the authoritarian populist candidate in the Polish presidential election

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Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Prime Minister Mark Carney signalled he hopes Canada will be able to sign on to a major European defence rearmament plan by July 1, a step toward reducing the country's dependency on the United States for weapons and munitions. #cdnpoli #uspoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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