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ggloor.bsky.social
biochemist, computational biologist, synbio and my dogs. I care about stuff at the margins. It’s likely we’re all doing it wrong!
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Ford wants to spend $120billion on a tunnel under the 401. There are ~6million households in Ontario. This is a plan to spend $20k per household on a hole in the ground that will achieve nothing. Barrie, Hamilton, Sudbury, London - why are these people voting for this? What do they gain?

this is cool. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Normalizing is complicity. The overlap between folks who did this with the pandemic and are now doing it with talk of annexation is striking.

Dear Ontario voters, if you want to become an American state, then go ahead and re-elect that bloated sack of shit Doug Ford.

Estimation of diet from the metagenomics data is now possible! Curious to see how this can be applied for reanalyzing existing datasets to link the diet information with the data

Guess he's right. Imitation is the highest form of flattery. 🥴 vm.tiktok.com/ZMk7dtkMo/

Don't sleepwalk to the polls as @reggcohn.bsky.social's columb suggests Doug Ford's #PCPO is counting on. Instead, inform yourselves about Ford's failures within his jurisdiction over the past 7 years and #VoteFordOut in 9 days! #ONpoli #ONElxn44 #ONDP #OLP #GPO www.thestar.com/news/ontario...

Colleagues, please stop this kind of reporting. It’s as offensive as “Who would be the local governor in Russian-ruled Ukraine?”

#CanadianMedia 🇨🇦

Happy National #FlagDay! From medical breakthroughs to space exploration, Canadian science drives innovation and shapes the future. So much to be proud of—let’s celebrate the ingenuity and impact of our researchers! #ScienceInCanada

Repeat after me: Canada is a sovereign country, not the 51st state.

The Biochemistry Department at Université de Montréal is looking for a new Assistant or Associate Professor in Cryo-Electron Microscopy! The job ad can be found here: www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/trouver-un-e...

The department of biochemistry and molecular medicine at the Université de Montréal has a job opening for an assistant/ associate professor in the field of cryo-EM and its use to study fundamental questions in biology. Please email me for details or contact the department chair, Dr. Pascale Legault.

We (The Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie) is currently seeking applications for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in AI and Healthy Aging (www.dal.ca/faculty/comp...). This is a great opportunity to join a growing community of researchers and practitioners in the Atlantic Canada region.

I’ve been making bread with flour from here for more than 10 years. Simply the best flower you can buy.

#SignalBoost

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

Excellent editorial in the #BMJ "We will not retract published articles on request by an author on the basis that they contain so-called banned words" Trump must never be allowed to censor science. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Don’t be fooled about DoFo despite his Team Canada stance He will still •privatise healthcare •destroy public ed •Have u pay millions 4 a luxury spa, indefinitely •Profit off the greenbelt & destroy the environ •Rip out bike lanes & prevent lawsuits for those who get injured •Fill Weston’s pockets

Media carrying water for Trump The reality: Canada’s border plan that allowed Trump to save face was put into place December 17, 2024. It wasn’t an 11th hour concession www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...

Canada’s ambassador to the UN Bob Rae 🇨🇦 - 🔥🔥🔥 “And by the way, we’re not the 51st state. We’re a sovereign, independent country. Our leader deserves to be treated with respect and we deserve to be treated with respect. And that’s the way we want to proceed." #cdnpoli #peipoli

Delighted to share our latest paper describing a method to read the levels of hundreds of metabolites or drugs in parallel using DNA sequencing. This method, which we call ‘smol-seq’ (Small MOLecule sequencing), harnesses the power of DNA sequencing for metabolite detection: rdcu.be/d8xLv (1/6)

super cool

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

I think that Ontario starlink contract ought to stay ripped up

I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans. And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump. It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other. Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

By now all Canadians have surely noticed how well our government functions, united and strong, when Pierre Poilievre is prorogued OUT of government. #cdnpoli #onpoli #peipoli

Well, on the positive side, I think we’ve reclaimed the flag 🇨🇦 from the damn convoy.

it’s a complete kleptocracy atm.

MFer I grew up before NAFTA. I didn't have an avocado until I was 15 years old. I ate lunch in a Zellers cafeteria. I thought Robin Hood was just a guy who made flour. I was made for this moment.

If your first instinct is to blame Canada, sit down and shut the fuck up. You’re either on Team Canada or on Team Trump - and if that’s the case, walk your traitorous asses down south. There is not fence sitting, or being bothsiding this.

Reminder that @europepmc.org is a mirror of Pubmed with better search and that it indexes *all* bioRxiv preprints (as well as ResearchSquare), not just the ones funded by NIH like chauvinist Pubmed

Yep. It started in full swing here in 🇨🇦 with Stephen Harper creep who remains an international RW christofascist danger.

Need a coping strategy in the face of *waves arms around*? After seeing more misinformation accounts here, I've been doing a dive on #scicomm best practices. We scientists should triple down on this and dial up our prebunking and debunking efforts. Here's a 🧵 of strategies and resources: 🧪 1/

Happy to share my new paper with @ggloor.bsky.social is out in Animal Microbiome 🥳 🧪🪶 We show that songbird preen gland bacterial community composition changes between spring & fall migration and between short & long distance migrants, sampling >500 birds of 18 species. #microbiome

If a Democrat fired 100 FAA employees and put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers 8 days before an airport plane crash, there would be a right-wing and media frenzy for weeks.

Yay us!