iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The contrast between the public engagement required to build a bike lane and the public engagement required to build a datacenter 🤯

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Toronto bike lane removal. When your infrastructure project has huge police protection and the contractors hide the logos on their trucks and gear, you are in the wrong.

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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We found that the most gendered experience wasn’t work-life balance, the focus of most retention efforts. It was feeling devalued, in formal evaluations, but particularly in everyday interactions. Unlike every other topic, the gender gap in devaluation was larger among more senior faculty.

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I have not actually got into amigurumi! I keep meaning to, but it’s been a long time since I did crochet, and there never seems to be enough time for all the projects. THIS, however, may be that impetus… 😄

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Jodie Burton @jodiemburton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Behold! I, a Canadian researcher, have just submitted a study with the acronym “MAPLE-TREE”.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

GOOD NEWS! Phase I clinical trial results show a first-of-its-kind personalized vaccine designed to treat glioblastoma, a deadly and aggressive form of brain cancer, is safe AND elicits robust and broad immune responses that appears to INCREASE recurrence-free survival in patients after surgery.

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hedgehogs who have orchestrated disastrous military campaigns in the Dardanelles: 0

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I did! Haven’t had one in decades, lol.

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Kyle Swanson, MD, FAANS, FCNS @kiswanson.medsky.network · 10/10/2026

Deep brain stimulation is one of my favorite surgeries. It’s still amazing to me to see tremor turned off and on with a push of a button. One of our patients was featured in a local news story. He’s really been a tremendous advocate for other Parkinson’s patients 🩺

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Deep brain stimulation helps Hartland musician with Parkinson's | FOX6 News Milwaukee

YouTube video by FOX6 News Milwaukee

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Scaryanne W @uptownone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The good doctor would approve of this bench in this place with this sentiment.

Memorial bench in a park with a bike parked behind it

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Sing Boo Silver @dartmouthdogs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Remember:

Pick your battles. Pick fewer than that. Put some battles back. That’s still too many battles.

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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My son told me about this years ago - he and his colleagues have been waiting for the Nobel to be awarded for optogenetics because it changed neuroscience research. #Nobel 🧪 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 was awarded jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Film strip version of A Wrinkle In Time, shown to my grade 3 class during library time. Camezotz and IT were terrifying. 😱

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026

So that has been happening. Doctors and nurses are burning out and leaving emerg work in droves. And I'm assuming this account is in the city? Rural emergency depts have been understaffed for decades. The bosses don't tend to hire new people though. They just close the emerg.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll believe that fuel is too expensive when I don't routinely see people parked up in their cars with the engine running.

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 01/10/2026

”...provinces [that] have been aggressively promoting for-profit delivery of surgeries and diagnostic imaging are also (seeing) lengthening wait times and...struggling with getting patients into services quickly.” @alonghurst.bsky.social #onpoli www.insidehalton.com/news/ontario...

insidehalton.com

Ontario spent $280M on private health clinics but wait times got worse says new study

Ontario MRI, cancer surgery, and cataract wait times all rose from 2017–2025, despite $280M spent licensing private health clinics, a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives study found.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 28/09/2026

This weekend, I asked my newsletter readers what would be the hardest thing for folks from #Australia and #NewZealand to handle about Canada if we were to merge our countries. ✅ Get in on the next poll at join.farandwide.news

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Ghoul Friday 👻 @girlfriday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If your almost 84 yr old dad texts you and says “I’m not feeling well, I’ve got indigestion - can you bring me tums” Don’t bring tums. Bring an ambulance because your dad is 100% having a heart attack. Thankfully I understood what he didn’t - and he’s now in the cath lab getting stented.

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The Blogging Goth @theblogginggoth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Released on this day in 1987, the sixth studio album by #DepecheMode was "Music for the Masses". It featured such recognizable tracks as "Strangelove" and "Never Let Me Down Again".

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have a colleague who uses AI a lot for grant writing and data analysis, especially Claude. I have raised this concern but they say, “oh, I always tell it in the prompt that it isn’t allowed to use it for training.” I…don’t trust that to be sufficient. 😬

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Aww! Now I have two adorable #Pickle rescue cats in my feed! 😻 @drdeanburnett.bsky.social

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You could find your way along the Nova Scotia coast blind, just by timing the blinks. Every lighthouse flashes on its own rhythm, a set interval and colour no neighbour repeats. Sambro Island off Halifax has burned since 1758, the oldest working lighthouse in North America. #lighthouse #NovaScotia

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Making it impossible for anyone outside Canada to know what time it is here is an important part of reinforcing Canadian sovereignty. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Kyle Swanson, MD, FAANS, FCNS @kiswanson.medsky.network · 22/09/2026

Staged and simultaneous bilateral DBS yield similar clinical outcomes; however, staged procedures require significantly greater resource utilization and subject patients to a more prolonged treatment course.

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Staged Versus Simultaneous Bilateral Deep Brain... : Neurosurgery

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a widely used treatment for movement disorders. While bilateral implantation is common,...

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 22/09/2026

Here are the amazing Shuffle Demons and their jazz classic ‘Spadina Bus’ #77BontheTTC m.youtube.com/watch?v=GU6i...

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THE SHUFFLE DEMONS - SPADINA BUS [HQ] (1986)

YouTube video by Retrontario

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hahahaha argh please stop 😅😂🧠💀

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Packing for a trip to a conference abroad, and just realized I’ve packed a real green dress. #iykyk #ohthe80s 🇨🇦 🎶 😂 😬 👗

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Sal Sawler @salsawler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What is happening in society that allows us to use “it’s AI” as an excuse for things we told AI to make? I think there’s something really interesting (and disturbing) happening sociologically here. Posting an AI image of yourself wearing this shirt comes from the same intent as physically…

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Great question! (which I don’t know the answer to, lol, not my field, will have to go look it up!) Yes, I had also had WinRho for a prior early pregnancy loss. 😔

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This was me, 26 years ago, in Ontario! Turned out Elder Son was Rh negative like me, but we couldn’t know for sure so I got the WinRho injection in pregnancy. Great to learn that this test is now available! 😊

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 15/09/2026

Tell the world how you feel about AI. Support a human artist. #WIN artologica.etsy.com

four watercolor brain paintings with anti-ai slogans

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’ve just arrived on the internet for today and this is the first thing I’ve read…a sense of dread is setting in. 😅

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm darning a fave pair of jeans. My father taught me to do this- he had been taught by his mother (my gran) and also used the technique as a surgical trainee in the 60s for hernia repair, before the mesh era. See the similarity? (ref- Maingot, 1973 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...) #MedEd

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have a joke about myelin, but it just gets on people's nerves

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reading for pleasure is linked to better cognition, mental health, empathy, memory, and more gray matter. (There are probably confounding factors, but let's just choose to believe it's causal.)

newscientist.com

Reading for pleasure boosts memory, empathy and mental health | New Scientist

Fewer people are reading for pleasure, but getting lost in a good book has repeatedly been linked to substantial cognitive benefits

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Grub Squirmin' @gabelerman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Pour slop en français, appuyer sur le deux."

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Apparently the commander of the International Space Station brought her dancing pants to space with her

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This dog, who had never actually seen sheep - though both parents were working sheepdogs - would run PAST the ball, turn and corner it. 🤯 😂 Instinct is a powerful thing.

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Border collies are such super high energy dogs. My mom used to go out with a tennis ball and a racket, hit the ball as hard as she possibly could for the dog to chase and retrieve, for at least 20 min a couple of times a day. 😄 🎾

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My one dog growing up was 3/4 border collie, she absolutely had this much energy and joy in running/jumping/playing. 😍

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I made these!!!! For my late father, a professor of Old English.

A pair of knitted socks, with a light brown background and the text of Beowulf in Old English done in black colourwork. The sock pictured on the left starts off with “Hwaet!” and the poem continues down that sock and then on again down from the top of the one pictured on the right.

These were absolute insanity to knit, and incorporate many many hours of my life, some cursing, and all my love for my dad who used to read me The Silmarillion as a bedtime story.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think often about the first, serious covid lockdown, when people in my province were told to stay home. You could hear so many more birds.

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I like talking about brains, I should do it more 😄 🧠

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No, in intracranial hypertension, there’s raised intracranial pressure (ICP) & the ventricles aren’t enlarged (often they’re very small & compressed.) In NPH, ICP is normal despite build-up of cerebrospinal fluid & enlarged ventricles. Pathophysiology not fully understood (ie, why ICP is normal 🤔)

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Gwynedd Pickett @gpsforthebrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh gosh, same, and I hadn’t even thought of it yet. What/where was the brand you found?

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