steeltownworms.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Love worms, molecular genetics, and big questions? We’re hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans. Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

How fun would it be if the Liberals flipped the remaining 2 seats, leaving them at 171 - they could form a coalition with the Green party. 🤞

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Now official - it's a minority government 🇨🇦

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We should all be alarmed byPoilievre’s threats to pull back federal funding from universities if elected. Federal research grants are needed to fund cancer research, mental health, cybersecurity & many others. Pierre plans to end life-saving & cutting-edge science. www.ctvnews.ca/federal-elec...

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 7 days ago • 859 comments

Job alert ⚠️ - we are looking for a research tech with experience in mouse-related 🐭 and molecular bench 🧪 work! A great position for recent graduates looking for additional research experience, but we also welcome applications from more experienced scientists. Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/wprtj822

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Hey Canadian scientists who haven't voted yet, here's a comparison of the costed platforms as they pertain to science prepared by the Canadian Society of Molecular Biosciences: csmb-scbm.ca/wp-content/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Personal beliefs do not supersede the public good - and #vaccination is a public good. Why do we have 'religious and philosophical' exemptions for vaccines, a policy that harms children? by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @theglobeandmail.com #measles #bioethics

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Recruiting U.S. scientists is a fine idea – except we’re barely supporting Canadian scientists as it is, by Lewis Kay www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

NBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 13 days ago • 147 comments

Who could have ever guessed?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Let’s be clear - they’re not just deleting DEI policies and code words, they’re deleting actual people of color and women. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 13 days ago • 45 comments

Issue 7 is complete! On the cover: Live images of mature Platynereis dumerilii. Upon maturity, males look white and red, while females glow yellow with yolky eggs. Their reproduction occurs in a fascinating ‘nuptial dance’. See Ribeiro et al. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Surprising no one at all......

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary. Read more: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

"Belittling is not a leadership strategy—it reflects a lack of self-control. Demeaning doesn't get results—it thwarts productivity." It's not surprising that some well-known bullies in academia end up with fabrications in papers involving multiple authors. Academia tolerates bullies far too much.1/2

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Good morning #university students in Canada! 📢 Spread the word; you can #VoteOnCampus April 13-16. #VoteScience🇨🇦 #VoterRecherche #VotonsRecherche #ResearchersVote #Elxn45 🎁 www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c231c7b...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 Exciting opportunity for a Cryo-EM Senior Research Associate at the University of Toronto! Join a cutting-edge facility supporting groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary research. 🧬🦠🔬 📍 Toronto 🔗 jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... #CryoEM #ElectronMicroscopy #Hiring #UofT #AcademicJobs

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

🔊Share widely! Were looking for a Tier 2 CRC in Human Metabolic Disease! Just posted but hurry as app deadline is May 15! Got expertise in #obesity or #diabetes and are an emerging expert in your field? Apply now!!!! carleton.ca/deputyprovos...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent Op-Ed by Peter Zandstra on improving 🇨🇦 science at a time when 🇺🇸 is throttling their golden goose. Instead of bespoke, targeted & ultimately short term solutions limited to a few people, build a deep, more attractive ecosysyem. The best will thrive. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/46242ee...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL

submitted 28 days ago • 33 comments

I hope everyone is enjoying spring. 🇨🇦

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

This piece should have explained that Canada’s tricouncil research structure—which funds the bulk of our discovery and medical research—is underfunded, making it challenging to absorb an influx of US scientists. No political leader has proposed to increase CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC research budgets. 🧪

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai...

submitted 29 days ago • 21 comments

Hi all, I'm hiring a junior specialist/research technician for my lab at UCSC. An ideal applicant would be an undergraduate who would like more research experience before applying for grad school but all are welcome to apply 🧪 recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01882

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

submitted 29 days ago • 334 comments

Canadian👏science👏is👏not👏held👏back👏by👏a👏lack👏of👏people👏.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

That can't be good.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph is at it again! Continuing our cluster hires with tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Immunology and Virology (1 position each)! careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A... careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Here is Today’s “tone deaf” article of the day from the CBC - absolutley no mention of how cash strapped the current Canadian research funding ecosystem is nor the hiring freezes at most Universities apple.news/APltB9y1WR3K...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

We are seeking to hire a lab tech, this is an HHMI funded position, please share the job posting: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

As the Texas measles outbreak continues, doctors there are treating some children given so much vitamin A that they have signs of liver damage. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...

submitted 36 days ago • 335 comments