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Ana Pogoutse

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Research development officer @utm-research.bsky.social | @uoftmississauga.bsky.social

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 10/09/2026
The family of a teenager injured by a car outside his Toronto school is suing, alleging the removal of a nearby speed camera contributed to the crash. According to the statement of claim, the 15-year-old suffered a traumatic brain injury, skull fractures and ongoing cognitive effects.
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Unofficial CP24 Mirror @cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#BREAKING: Ontario Science Centre laying off entire science department
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Ontario Science Centre laying off entire science department
The Ontario Science Centre has laid off 30 workers including the entire science department, The Canadian Press has learned.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 22/06/2026
Exhibit #45726 in why private funding cannot and will not replace government-scale investment in basic science across systems, problems, and project scales
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Michael Greshko @michaelgreshko.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is a serious problem and something that, as it happens, magic tricks have been used to study. The issue stems from a visual illusion—the "illusion of absence"—that's especially strong within a moving vehicle. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The illusion of absence: how a common feature of magic shows can explain a class of road accidents - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
The purpose of the present note is to draw attention to the potential role of a recently discovered visual illusion in creating traffic accidents. The illusion consists in a compelling and immediate e...
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Rafael Mentges @mentges.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"Our estimate is that about 200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died if vehicles had remained approximately the same size over the past quarter-century. That represents about 10 percent of the recent increase in pedestrian deaths."
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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
📣 We're recruiting for an Associate Editor with data integrity expertise! 📊 join us in improving the clarity, transparency, & accessibility of ecological research. 🌿 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here 👉️ buff.ly/R8z4TLe
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Never know what you'll come across in Hamilton, Ontario.
a duck in a clear and ventilated backpack
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Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"Menacing has never been so captivating" Not everyone who drives an F-150 is a jerk, but if you want to terrorize other drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians, boy does Ford have a car for for you! share.google/IrvIIHki823o...
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
There was a rather interesting faculty panel on AI for our Provost's meeting with academic deans, and the discussion was quite fascinating. Faculty came from all corners of campus, and were nominated by deans (I represented social sciences). Some observations: 🧵
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 05/06/2026
IMHO the winning argument isn’t “_you_ are the congestion, drive less”, it’s something like “if people want to cut through your neighbourhood, wouldn’t you rather they do it by bike instead of by car?”
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Can't recommend this talk by Dr Aaron Thierry highly enough "Climate scientists hold consolidated knowledge of catastrophic risk while operating within institutions that have repeatedly failed to generate commensurate political response. What does it mean to live and work within that contradiction"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/06/2026
A bird has better protection than an Afghan woman. Welcoming the Taliban to Europe is a slap in the face | Fawzia Koofi
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A bird has better protection than an Afghan woman. Welcoming the Taliban to Europe is a slap in the face | Fawzia Koofi
The EU must enact laws to stop gender apartheid and end impunity – not invite the perpetrators to Brussels. For Afghan women and girls it is a matter of survival
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Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Thousandfold Expansion Microscopy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... wild stuff!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Bondi Beach attack now designated a terrorist incident.
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Bondi beach shooting live updates: Australia's PM condemns act of ‘evil antisemitism’ as death toll from attack at Jewish festival rises to 12; event declared terror incident
Further 29 people are in hospital in Australia, with paramedics treating more at the scene near where a Hanukah event was taking place in Sydney
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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Tomorrow is the 13th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. My heart aches for the Brown University community.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/12/2025
I wholeheartedly agree—though after laying out a good initial argument this paper takes a strange turn with the final two sentences that seems to undercut most of its own force.

Perhaps we should be moving toward a view of scholarship that is more collaborative and diffuse by default, involving complex assemblages of humans and machines. Perhaps what should be rewarded is not individual effort based on claims of originality, but the dynamic co-production of new knowledge, useful ideas, and social benefit.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20/11/2025
Search and rescue operations are still ongoing in Ternopil, Ukraine at the site of the Russian strike that destroyed an apartment building. 26 people killed, including 3 children. 93 people were injured, among them 18 children. 22 others remain missing.
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PLOS Medicine @plosmedicine.org · 20/11/2025
We are thrilled to now be on BlueSky! We prioritize studies addressing critical health challenges—from major diseases to health equity—that bridge scientific rigor with real-world impact, connecting researchers, clinicians, and policymakers to advance global health 🧬🧪 #OpenScience #MedSky
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I wrote about the under-appreciated hazard of landslide-triggered tsunamis, which need serious consideration in discussions of new pipelines from Alberta 🧪⚒️ @theglobeandmail.com @davidebybc.bsky.social @natural-resources.canada.ca @mark-carney.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social
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New northwest pipeline risks hazard of landslide tsunamis
Major Projects Office needs to be wary in its planning for pipeline projects to tidewater
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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 06/11/2025
An update on this story - grad students are now exempt from the cap in student visas. 🧪
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Yes! Contact them and sign this petition here —it’s not just about EDI data! So much personally identifying information for applicants and reviewers will not be protected! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data
Why do we need urgent action to protect our data? The mandate of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is to review and report on topics relating to science and research in ...
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Just remember, the Liberals supported this too. If they think this will attract more researchers to Canada, they are smoking the dope they legalized. And once again, just like animal research, why is it @picardonhealth.bsky.social who needs to raise this publicly and not @u15ca.bsky.social
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
BREAKING: Royal Society to reconsider expelling Elon Musk Violent rhetoric in address to anti-immigration rally pushes science academy to reassess billionaire’s fellowship (Free to read) www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
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Royal Society to reconsider expelling Elon Musk - Research Professional News
Violent rhetoric in address to anti-immigration rally pushes science academy to reassess billionaire’s fellowship
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Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Doug Ford Is Trying to Control How Universities Operate | The Local
Ontario’s Bill 33 mandates merit-based admissions and gives the province unprecedented power over university and college operations. Is it part of a broader right-wing crackdown on campuses?
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Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute @canssi-incass.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
CALL FOR FACULTY PROPOSALS Do you have a project that could offer a comprehensive #research & #training experience to a postdoc in #statisticalsciences? Submit your proposal to the CANSSI Distinguished #Postdoctoral #Fellowships program by October 1: loom.ly/GvcQVII
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Canadian Journal of Zoology @canjzoology.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Ready to grow as a reviewer? Sign up for the @scas-scsa.bsky.social Early-Career Reviewer Program and start shaping the research that drives Canada’s aquatic science community ▶️ buff.ly/4jkk8qr #PeerReview #AquaticScience #EarlyCareerResearchers #ECR #ECP
Underwater view of a colorful brook trout swimming over rocky riverbed with sunlight filtering through water.
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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
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FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 07/08/2025
Carney is planing 15% budget cuts across most of government. @supportourscience.bsky.social and @u15ca.bsky.social worry what that would do to a research system that is already lagging behind other countries. My story for @science.org 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Canada plans a 15% budget cut. Scientists are alarmed
Cuts could erase promised boost, researchers fear
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I’d missed this last week but Indiana passed a new law that is leading to the forced elimination of hundreds of majors across their state universities. Apropos of recent events, the eliminated majors include atmospheric science. Sabotage is a word that comes to mind. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Among the dozens of undergraduate degree programs at IU Bloomington that are being eliminated or suspended with plans either to eliminate or merge them were Art History, American Studies, Atmospheric Science, Cognitive Science, Comparative Literature, Dance, Earth Science, French, Geography, East Asian Studies, Gender Studies, German Studies, Italian, Music/Ballet, Religious Studies, Spanish, and Statistics.
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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Ontario parents, pay attention to this: underfunding our universities means there may not be a spot for your kid when it’s time for them to go. We have the *lowest* per capita support of any province!! archive.ph/4qD1H
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The Federal Court has approved a class-action settlement for people who suffered abuse at federally run ‘Indian hospitals’ following out-of-court negotiations with Ottawa and Indigenous survivors.
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Federal Court approves Indian Hospitals class-action settlement
The settlement is for those who suffered abuse at federally run 'Indian hospitals'. The federal government ran 33 such hospitals.
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Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We just can't have nice things, can we www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...
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How Metrolinx’s plan to deliver European-style train service went off the rails
GO Expansion will still transform Greater Golden Horseshoe transit — but likely won’t be as ambitious as what was planned just three years ago
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/06/2025
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)
Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
They're literally doing the meme
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Lucas Waltzer @lucaswaltzer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
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Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
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Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Interesting read: "...open data policies, regardless of motive, could promote adversarial reanalysis and produce potentially paralyzing challenges to existing scientific and regulatory infrastructures." (This isn't to say that open data policies are bad, just that they have certain implications.)
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Canadian Science Policy Centre @sciencepolicy.ca · 22/05/2025
Do you know someone making exceptional contributions to science and innovation policy in Canada? Nominate them for a Trailblazer Award in Science and Innovation Policy! Deadline June 14, 2025: sciencepolicy.ca/programs/awa... #CdnSci #CdnInnovation
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 13/05/2025
Congratulations to the winners of Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition. The overall winner is a photo of biologist Audun Rikardsen, taken by his PhD student Emma Vogel, scanning the waters for whales near fishing trawlers in the fjords of northern Norway. 🧵 #SciArt #Academicsky 🧪
The overall winner is a photo of biologist Audun Rikardsen, taken by his PhD student Emma Vogel, scanning the waters for whales near fishing trawlers in the fjords of northern Norway.
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Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Using forensic accounting to detect greenwashing #climatesky
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U of T Mississauga (UTM) @utm.utoronto.ca · 09/05/2025
#UofT's Sarah Hazell, Alicia Hawkins of #UTM along with partners from Sagamok Anishnawbek and Ojibwe Cultural Foundation have received an Ontario Heritage Award for their collaborative work ➡️ uoft.me/bzn
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Sarah Hazell, Alicia Hawkins and partners from Sagamok Anishnawbek, Ojibwe Cultural Foundation receive Ontario Heritage Award
Sarah Hazell (supplied image) Sarah Hazell, a PhD student in the department of anthropology in the Fa
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
🧪 Re-upping this story for scientists. The man in the photo and interviewed in the story—is physiological ecologist Nathan Phillips at Boston U. Among other topics, he studies urban gas leaks. He’s also my friend. Dr Phillips’ own research findings inform his activism. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
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Boston-area climate activists report visits from the FBI
Local climate activists are on edge after people claiming to be FBI agents visited at least six at their homes on the same day in Greater Boston in March. Weeks later, the motivations behind these vis...
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Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Someone I know saw one of the UTM goslings get hit and killed by a car. Please drive carefully ☹️
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
4. Tell others–friends, family members, etc–about the importance of NSF and ask that they contact their congressional Representatives and Senators. 5. Notify your representatives (& Governor) of grant terminations directly impacting you, your department, your state; they may not know!
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Unofficial TorontoStar (All News) @torontostar-rss.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Health Canada warns against using infant self-feeders sold on Amazon.ca over choking hazard
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Health Canada warns against using infant self-feeders sold on Amazon.ca over choking hazard
All infant self-feeding devices are banned in Canada, the advisory says.
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Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
UPDATE: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Conservatives update platform to include omitted 'anti-woke' promise | CBC News
The Conservative Party has republished the English-language version of its platform after what it says was a "publishing oversight" resulted in the omission of a previous commitment to crack down on "...
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Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Climate may not be getting much attention but #elxn2025 will have huge implications for Canadian climate policy. @simondonner.bsky.social and I compare climate-related commitments of the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP. 🧵 w bonus summary table! #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/21/o...
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This is a climate election
With the frontrunners pitching wildly contrasted policies in some ways and similar ones in another, it's vital for Canadians to keep abreast of their climate ambitions — and to hold them to account wh...
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Nature @nature.com · 14/04/2025
As I watch US researchers respond to threats against science, I’m reminded of when scientists in Brazil navigated a similar storm, says João Vieira go.nature.com/4jRn6FB
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Dear US researchers: break the outrage addiction. I survived the besieging of science. So can you.
As I watch US researchers respond to threats against science, I’m reminded of when scientists in Brazil navigated a similar storm.
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