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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I think it’s a good time to rewatch The Front.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Cullion [KUL-ee-un] (n.) - A base, despicable, or vile fellow; a rascal. A rude, mean-spirited person. Used in a sentence: “That slubberdegullion is a smelly old cullion, strutting through gilded halls; if you mention the list, he’ll clench up his fist and say that the news is false.”

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

A polarizing sentence for a summery offence. Surely it’s all about the optics.

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Vanessa Sung, PhD | 宋宜臻，生化博士 🇹🇼🇨🇦 @vanessasung.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The world’s first case of personalized CRISPR therapy! This is an amazing achievement with a Canadian connection - the CRISPR therapy was delivered using lipid nanoparticles developed by Acuitas Therapeutics, a company based in BC 🧪 🇨🇦

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Dr. Mona Nemer / Dre Mona Nemer @chiefscican.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Was honoured to be a keynote at the #ScienceDiplomacySummit at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington earlier this week. We need science diplomacy now more than ever, to promote global cooperation and address shared challenges. 🌍🔬 🔗Read my remarks: science.gc.ca/site/science...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/03/2025

Report: Anti-Science Attitude Strongest Among Those Who Believe Turtle Has Little Apartment Inside Shell theonion.com/report-...

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

*Whom.* Who’s zooming WHOM.

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Thinking fondly of a time when, of all the world’s chaotic events, it was the the rock ‘n roller cola wars that finally sent Billy Joel over the edge.

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The Health Canada website is always an option for accurate and reliable info. www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

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Vanessa Sung, PhD | 宋宜臻，生化博士 🇹🇼🇨🇦 @vanessasung.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

In dark uncertain times, it’s ever more important to have hope. Not passive hope. We need to work, resist, fight w/ hope. Pls read this excellent speech by 🇨🇦 Vice-Chief Science Advisor & remember that the human scientific spirit will not be dimmed #science 🧪 www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-s...

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When Science Stand Strong

Ceci est le texte que j'ai livré à la réception offerte par le Consulat Canadien à Boston le 13 février 2025 This is the text I delivered at the reception offered by the Canadian Consulate in Boston o...

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

❤️ NYC for its walkability and great public transit, and fewer cars makes it way better. Congestion pricing is working. 1/2

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Isaac Bogoch @isaacbogoch.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy new year to you. May your 2025 predictions be evidence-based, and your resolutions measurable.

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Doesn’t seem right to be charging extra for some guy’s effort to focus on the topic at hand…

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

This is fascinating. “… although individual ants cannot grasp the global nature of the puzzle, their collective motion translates into emergent cognitive skills.” Full paper is here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... www.threads.net/@itsthemind/...

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All Around Science (Official) (@itsthemind) on Threads

Ants Solving A Puzzle Credit: "Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans" (scientific paper, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2414274121, Tabea Dreyer, Amir Haluts Amos Korma...

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

A couple more for my photo collection of Marty Short sporting his Order of 🇨🇦 pin on latenight television… These are from his hosting of @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social last night and induction into the 5-Timers club.

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The holidays are a time for extending your reach and widening the embrace of your fellow human beings…

Photo of the author with two colleagues at a holiday party. One colleague has his arm around the other two people. An optical illusion makes it look as though his arm is about eight feet long.

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Guerilla copyeditor pulling back the curtain on big publishing.

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Taking this occasion of Sagan’s 90th birthday to reflect on the awesome and somewhat comforting reality that “the earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.” There’s a lot of stuff out there in the universe… Maybe some of it is intelligent?

A photo of the grave of Carl Sagan, taken by the author many years ago. It depicts a black stone slab flush against the grass that reads “Carl Edward Sagan, November 9, 1934 to December 20, 1996.” Surrounding the gravestone are scores of blue marbles, representing the earth, or “pale blue dot, which were left by people paying their respects over the years. Also in the frame is a copy of Isaac Asimov’s _Foundations Edge_.

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Marty Short sans Order of Canada insignia, but with unmistakeable Hamilton accent.

Steve Martin and Martin Short performing live comedy to a full house at the Temple Theater in Saginaw, Michigan.

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

It’s nice when your work makes headlines. Well, the good headlines anyway.

Screen capture of a London Free Press article whose headline reads “Canada’s top scientist to Western University graduates: Science can unite us”. The article describes a convocation speech given by Mona Nemer, Canada’s chief science advisor, on how science can be a cornerstone for peace and diplomacy. The address was given on June 12 to the University of Western Ontario Science Faculty graduating class of 2024 and was very well received. A video of the speech can be found on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/event/4271781

Mona Nemer’s remarks begin at about one hour and twenty minutes in to the video.

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

August 21, 2017, @mitchmaloney.bsky.social and I camped out in a cornfield in Sublimity, Oregon, with 4 cameras, 2 telescopes, a gallon of coffee, and several other friendly stargazers to view the total solar eclipse. youtu.be/KvllUCURzsY?... (1/2)

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Interesting set design with raked seating onstage lets the actors sit audience-style and watch *us* while riffing on life imitating art. Line, please!

Photo of a theatrical stage whose set includes a set of bleachers on which the actors sit as if *they* were an audience watching a play.

Cover of the program for the play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” starring Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd, performed at CAA Theatre in Toronto.

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Roger Pielke Jr. @thehonestbroker.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

The Politicization of Science Diplomacy The governance of global public health requires stronger institutions for science advice rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-politi...

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Pretty good, eh? Well I guess this one’s going to the top of my reading list.

Image of a page from a 1943 international thriller novel, entitled “Coffin For One.” The page includes excerpts of reviews of the book. One review simply says, “Pretty good.” There is no further detail and no compelling description to entice someone to read the book. It is just described as being “pretty good.”

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Good morning to everyone except people who get to the top of the escalator and stop.

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Gotta love Marty Short’s commitment to sporting his Order of Canada pin on late-night tv over the years.

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

What is this… The Garden of Forking Paths?!!!

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Er… Here again is the article on the historical context of Public Health v. Science in the case of covid’s airborne transmissibility. (Previous link was broken.) Really demonstrates the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration. Tear down these silos! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the ...

The question of whether SARS-CoV-2 is mainly transmitted by droplets or aerosols has been highly controversial. We sought to explain this controversy through a historical analysis of transmission res....

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Current view from my office: • Ottawa City Hall • Snow-dusted public lawn • Beaver Moon. kRAzY Beaver Moon.

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Too bad the word “miasma” carries so much historical baggage… It could be reconstrued as a useful synonym for “bioaerosol”. Plus it has that cool plural inflection that could make for some catchy rhymes in public health messaging. (Piñata?) Great article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Never forget you good buddy. Sam October 26, 2001 — November 20, 2016

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Cara Marshall @carajmarshall.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Finishing a speech just in time for the weekend…

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