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pfafard.bsky.social
Professor, Faculties of Social Sciences & Medicine, Chair in Science Diplomacy, University of Ottawa. Research Director, Global Strategy Lab. Lover of cycling, Nordic jazz & slow food. .
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glad some academic administration has courage of his convictions.

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Trump has introduced the "nano-tariff:" a hefty tax imposed for a few hours, then lifted after shattering business confidence.

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“When you see important societal actors — be it university presidents, media outlets, C.E.O.s, mayors, governors — changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

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Trumpism is the rearguard operation of domination based on gender and race rather than qualification.

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Reporter: "Your Foreign Affairs Minister [Melanie Joly] yesterday called all of this a psychodrama. How do you how do you characterize it?" Trudeau: "Thursday." #cdnpoli

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

Let's call this what it is: This is censorship of scientific research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

The Trump administration believes that the measles virus has legitimate security concerns that can only be met by a peace plan that includes ending anti-measles sanctions, conceding territory, and replacing the patients' doctors with new doctors acceptable to the virus.

submitted 7 hours ago • 40 comments

In a new peer-reviewed article in @nejm.org, @boghuma.bsky.social & I discuss the public health implications of Trump withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO & pausing the future transfer of U.S. funding to the organization www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Brilliant concise explanation of the malleability of the views of US Republicans.

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This is good. Real good eh www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lzh...

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It was for transgenic mice, used for research because you can get a certain human gene in them. There are no transgender mice.

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Join @ottawahealthlaw.ca March 24 at 11:30 am ET for "Beyond the Science-Politics Divide in Public Health" featuring @sbagen.bsky.social, @tivabaral.bsky.social, and ‪@pfafard.bsky.social‬. All welcome! www.ottawahealthlaw.ca/events/bagen...

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The outbreak strain of Shigella in Oregon is resistant to multiple antibiotics, making treatment more challenging. Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant Shigella strains are an increasing concern, limiting effective treatment options. #AMR www.ndtv.com/world-news/u...

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Why efforts by provincial governments in Canada to remove US-made wine from government-owned stores may make waves in the US. What is less clear is whether complaints by wine makers will be register in Washington.

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Trump claims, again, that US support to Ukraine is over $300B. Mark Cancian, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, “Trump’s citation of $350 billion is double what Congress has appropriated.” www.factcheck.org/2025/03/trum...

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Trump in his address to Congress claims rates of childhood cancer have gone up by 40%. In fact, "the overall incidence rate of pediatric cancer increased 0.5% per year on average between 2003 and 2019 .. " academic.oup.com/jnci/article...

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More fuel for the bullshit machine: combing through data they don’t understand, then mischaracterizing it with their “waste and fraud” frame, and using those mischaracterizations to justify the dismantling of government programs that people rely upon to survive.

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Hello Bluesky! The Global Strategy Lab (GSL) undertakes innovative research to advise governments and public health organizations on how to design laws, policies, and institutions that make the world a healthier place for everyone. Find out more at www.globalstrategylab.org

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Welcome to Bluesky @gstrategylab.bsky.social!

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Dear Europe: You are next on the hit list. Good arguments, preemptive concessions, appeals to friendship, and flattery will not protect you. Discard those fantasies and prepare to hit back hard.

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The #tradewar is on. Real-time electricity prices doubled few minutes after midnight EST in New England. 🔌💡

submitted 2 days ago • 125 comments

Great thread pointing to different analyses of the impact of a trade war and how they will be spun.

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⏪ Rewind to our first podcast episode to learn how #evidence is made and used in policy + practice 🎙️ With @oliver-kathryn.bsky.social @annetteboaz.bsky.social @paulcairney.bsky.social Huw Davies, Vivian Tseng, @kadumont.bsky.social @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social transforming-evidence.org/resources/tr...

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It’s a weird time for Canada to be changing Prime Ministers, but Trudeau turned it into a positive today. He said all the things we want to say to the Americans and antagonized Trump personally. ‘ Good cop’ can take over next week.

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I expect Trump’s speech tonight will be shocking, even after successive shocking days. I hope it will spur the majority of Americans who consider Canada a friend and Putin an adversary to stand up and say so clearly and loudly. Fear of antagonizing Trump is a path to perdition.

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How some on the American right see university programs that focus on future public servants” “Long overlooked, public administration is today a training ground for the malign imprint of the Deep State, with its overtones of inefficiency, mission creep, unaccountability, and ideological bias. “

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Been listening to a lot of 60s jazz because it reminds me of the rules based international order

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CfP: Conflict, Democratic Backsliding, and Diaspora Politics in Canada www.cips-cepi.ca/call-for-pap...

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📄 New research in Policy & Politics: "Why did the influence of experts erode during the COVID-19 pandemic?" by @antoinelemor.bsky.social, María Alejandra Costa, @lr-bg.bsky.social, and Éric Montpetit 🔗 doi.org/10.1332/0305... How expert influence faded as public fatigue grew.

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Trump is reportedly considering cutting off all help to Ukraine, while also promising 25% tariffs against Canada & Mexico tomorrow. Trump is appalling. But the passivity of so many Americans (including political and business leaders) in the face of Trump's destruction is the truly pathetic part.

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The challenges ahead are so monumental that we need nothing short of a new national policy, and a Royal Commission that helps to bring it to life. And we need all of this yesterday.⬇️

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One vision of the new world order … open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

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After Friday’s display of toxic masculinity from 2 old men, I was encouraged to attend the Queen’s University Women in International Security conference today. Organized by a great team of undergrad. women, we were reminded of the importance of gender equity in peace/diplomacy - not just for women.

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Every day I write something and then delete it, thinking "nah, I can't post that. I sound demented." And then the next day, it's like, "hmm, not cray-cray enough."

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🧵 In our 2020 book, Exit from Hegemony: the Unravelling of American Global Order , Alex Cooley and I identified three processes that were hollowing out the the American "international system." global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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As important as they are, the wrecking ball of Trump 2.0 is not only driven by the agendas & views of Trump, Musk, Vance, & their carefully selected advisors. We are witnessing the next state of a longstanding & profound disagreement on the role of the state. 1/2

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To make sense of Trump 2.0, we need to grapple with what the implications of a "criminal presidency" ". For an introduction written well before current events see the following review article. The authors write about "the unique risks to democracy that a president unbound by law can pose."

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A few years ago Britain was spending 0.7% of its GNP on international assistance. Now the plan is 0.3%. Meanwhile, USAID is being gutted. Beyond the suffering this will cause, the decline of western aid will help China and Russia expand their influence. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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The reshaping of alliances is happening fast. Canada is in a tough spot. Time for political leaders to acknowledge this and prepare Canadians for painful, wrenching change.

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