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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/06/2025

Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/06/2025

People are being arrested for wearing a medical mask in Savannah, Georgia #NoKings

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This is bunker logic. Let the floods come—as long as the wealthy are sealed in. Naomi Klein calls it End Times Fascism: Governance by abandonment. Collapse as strategy. Relief dismantled, suffering privatized. #EndTimesFascism #DisasterCapitalism #NaomiKlein

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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living. On average, $10kCAD below cost of living. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Courtney Dawn @cdrobich.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

An excellent reflection on our societal response to climate change mirroring our response to COVID. "We can “follow the science” even when it scares us, instead of insisting that “we have to live our lives” until those lives go up in flames.” yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...

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A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles

BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

When someone dies of a disease like Covid or measles, the first question is often “did they have any pre-existing conditions?” People want to blame the victim. They want to believe they were vulnerable & therefore expendable. No one is expendable. Demand better from governments & public health.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/05/2025

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

1. Absolutely outstanding article on the increasing prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) diagnoses amongst patients with Long Covid. This possibility is the primary reason I avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2. www.wsj.com/health/welln...

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Is Covid Rewriting the Rules of Aging? Brain Decline Alarms Doctors

Millions of long-Covid patients continue to struggle with cognitive difficulties.

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 29/03/2025

All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing. Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases. No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.

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Courtney Dawn @cdrobich.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com was everything I’d hoped for. Brimming with love, it felt like a story that’d been passed down for generations before landing in my lap. And the acknowledgments - “…I am here to tell you they made a difference to me” - that call us to act with that love

A grey cat looks back at the camera, one paw on the dust jacket of The River Has Roots.

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Good Squiddance @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

a blessing adriennemareebrown.net/2025/02/12/a...

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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

American Eco-Evo types! Looking for a conference where Equality Diversity and Inclusion are celebrated, not hidden? Interested in opportunities for collaborations, grad studies, postdocs, faculty jobs in Canada, a functioning democracy? THIS IS IT: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pages

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2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

Fourwaves - 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/02/2025

Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Incandescent with tariff rage all weekend, I’ve decided that I’m slashing the price of Year’s Best Canadian F&SF books IN CANADA for the duration. Let’s read more of our own stories. I recommend getting the ebook via Kobo (a Canadian-founded company now owned by Rakuten in Japan). Pls share widely!

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Rakuten Kobo

Search results for "Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction" at Rakuten Kobo. Read free previews and reviews from booklovers. Shop eBooks and audiobooks at Rakuten Kobo.

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Courtney Dawn @cdrobich.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Hey Ottawa, if you haven't you should head over to the 2SLGBTQIA+ Valentine's Day Market happening today. It's life affirming to be in a queer, trans, covid-safe community space 💫

Poster for a 2SLGBTQIA+ Valentine's Day Market held from 12:00-4:00 pm Sunday Feb 2

Picture of a busy market, all the people are masked

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 29/01/2025

Make them tell you, specifically, what you're not allowed to do. Don't make changes you guess that they want. Don't offer them a menu of things that you infer they might be telling you not to do. Do the work you proposed, and received funding to do, unless instructed otherwise in specific detail.

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

During 2012-14, at least 16 science libraries in Canada were gutted. We were not prepared. Scientific books, records, reports, theses, journals, etc dating back decades were thrown out — literally in dumpsters. We still don’t know what was destroyed.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

We need to learn to live and thrive without all these sugar daddy billionaire fantasies. It is a way of ignoring our own power.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/11/2024

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I’m a pragmatist not an optimist but even so, the point is: Don’t say what we can’t do. Figure out what we can do.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Thanks to @supportourscience.bsky.social , Canadian grad students and postdocs just got their first raise in 20 years. I interviewed the leaders of this impressive organization. 🧪 www.southernfriedscience.com/canadian-gra...

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Canadian grad students won their first raise in 20 years. Here’s how Support Our Science made it happen. – Southern Fried Science

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Courtney Dawn @cdrobich.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Over the last two years, I've witnessed a lot of vile behaviour. There is absolutely no reason to be punching down, or letting your anxiety get the better of you and deciding it's "grants vs scholarships/fellowships". We can acknowledge yesterday's step was crucial AND that there's much more to fix.

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Courtney Dawn @cdrobich.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

If you have power in this system (PIs, I mean you) please DO NOT send hateful, patronizing, or generally rude messages to SOS. Especially not to the grad students and postdocs (who do this work for free). We unequivocally support increased funding for grants. We're on the same side.

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Courtney Dawn @cdrobich.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

SOS has taken up a significant portion of my life over the last 2 years. Today feels surreal. I'm so goddamn happy to know everyone who comes after me will be paid more & I hope it inspires others to fight for change - there was nothing special about us, besides how hard-headed and focused we were.

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Support Our Science @supportourscience.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Today, #Budget2024 will shape Canada's research & innovation future. We hope for in Tri-agency scholarships, fellowships, & grants. New investments could empower grad students & postdocs, boosting diversity & excellence. Stay tuned! #SupportOurScience

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Courtney Dawn @cdrobich.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Over 500 emails sent in less than 24 hours -- let's keep this going!! #SupportOurScience

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Support Our Science @supportourscience.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Budget 2024 is currently being finalized - and after 20 years of stagnant funding, it's about time graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are included! Use the link to call, email, and tweet at decision-makers before March 8th #phdsky #academicsky 🧪 www.supportourscience.ca/action-budge...

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Courtney Dawn @cdrobich.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

"Black Canadian scientists, researchers and environmental advocates discuss the importance of mentors, protégés and friends in their fields" Great read as usual from @thenarwhalca.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/black-enviro...

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Tyler Hampton-Davis, PhD @tylerbhampton.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

This year, share your amazing #wetland science! Submit by Jan 12 to Session #6 “Advances in Wetland Science: Connecting the Land, Water, and People” at #IAGLR24 in Windsor. Co-Chairs: @kirkwoodlab.bsky.social @girls-can.bsky.social @cdrobich.bsky.social @tylerbhampton.bsky.social bit.ly/3RnM2HT

Please submit to Session #6: "Advances in Wetland Science: Connecting the Land, Water, and People". The IAGLR Conference 2024 will be in Windsor, Ontario May 20-24, 2024. Abstract submission deadline is Jan 12, 2024.

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Courtney Dawn @cdrobich.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Dr. Zoe Todd's keynote for the UBC's Centre for Climate Justice (CCJ): Freshwater fish and Indigenous legal orders and sovereignty in Canada A beautiful keynote, I hope you take an hour to listen and engage. It is relevant to everyone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofcn...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/12/2023

If you want to know how the #COP28 UN Climate Change Conference is going, this post says it all...

Oliver Milman
@olliemilman
At a talk entitled ‘responsible yachting’ at #COP28

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

this beautiful, nuanced, deeply clarifying essay by @polgreen.bsky.social on gender, selfhood, regret, choices, what makes a life and what gives it meaning made me weep this morning. I can’t recommend enough you stop what you’re doing and read the whole thing. gift link here:

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Opinion | There Is No Way to Live a Life Without Regret

The panic over transgender children is driven by the fear that they’ll regret transitioning. But freedom to make mistakes is core to being human.

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