Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 2hYep, that's the timeframe I'm looking at. The last one I bought for Xmas in Aus was $40 or $50 We'll be gone before Monday! 010
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 3hLast full day in Quebec. Tomorrow we work our way back to Vancouver then off to Australia the next day (losing two days in that trip). 080
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 3hCanada pays $18 for a whole uncooked turkey?? 220
Reposted by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀🤖 SBS News bot (unofficial) @sbs-news-bot.bsky.social · 7hRussia's mysterious plague lab death may have exposed a global health blindspotsbs.com.auRussia's mysterious plague lab death may have exposed a global health blindspotGlobal health experts have warned of severe biosecurity challenges following the death of a lab worker in Russia. 022
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 7hThey have been very accommodating to non-French speakers, even in a tiny cafe on a quiet island yesterday. 110
Reposted by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 8hEU capitals are quietly preparing for how to respond to a major hybrid attack that leaves several citizens dead, according to five diplomats and officials. That outcome looks increasingly likely, they warn. 🔗 vist.ly/5mevwpolitico.euEU quietly braces for nightmare scenario of multiple-casualty hybrid attackDiplomats are discussing emergency teams, EU funding and crisis communications, while some capitals warn Brussels risks duplicating NATO. 11910
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 14hMontreal was our first francophone population. It's like crossing a line-band, French! 210
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 14hWe don't know if there even was a test tube. We don't know what she died of. Yersinia cases occur in the wild. Antibiotics work. And it's lying Russia. 110
Reposted by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀Chris Hickie mud fud @cphickie.bsky.social · 16hCDC October 2026 092
Reposted by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Excited to launch my new column "ID consult" in @statnews.com First up: Making sense of reports of possible plague in Russia. Amid the speculation, we must ask questions, demand transparency, and let evidence guide the response. tinyurl.com/RussiaPlaguetinyurl.comInfectious disease expert: The mysterious pneumonia in Russia deserves attention, not panicChill out about reports about plague in Siberia, writes infectious disease doctor Krutika Kuppalli. 0114
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There *is* nothing to see here. 010
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Is that a suppository version? 120
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As prepared as it is for measles? 77412
Reposted by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀NBC News @nbcnews.com · 06/10/2026With short-form video now dominant on social media, researchers are racing to understand how the highly engaging, algorithm-driven format may be reshaping the brain.nbcnews.toIs brain rot real? Researchers warn of emerging risks tied to short-form videoResearch on the long-term impacts of short-form video consumption is still lacking, but recent studies show concerning associations with cognition and mental health. 26144
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026*This* is what we should be seeing more concern about. Not a maybe case of Yersinia. 01910
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The next data I'd like to see is how many of this group *go on* to smoke cigarettes. 020
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I guess I can just easily imagine 24-hour delays being very possible for many, many reasons, all of them based on human response and protocol variability. And then layer locational aspects onto that. 000
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Depends on what those protocols are. If the scientist said it all happened within a safety cabinet, or didn't cooperate, them to wait for symptoms...impossible to guess what these processes are there. Also, they lie so there's extreme difficulty believing anything they say, either way. 120
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There has to be a response to these attacks. Russia continues escalating and Europe is *not* defending, let alone preventing. America is siding with Russia. Australia is growing closer to America. Ugh. 1111
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As an aside to the is it, isn't it a case of Yersinia story from Russia. Talking heads asking "why wasn't she given antibiotics within 24 hours?!" as if that same delay wouldn't happen anywhere in the world until the right lab results were ordered and interpreted. That could take 24h by itself! 3103
Reposted by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 06/10/2026⚡️ Drones strike merchant vessels in Black Sea off Bulgaria and Ukraine, killing at least one. A Russian drone struck a merchant vessel flying the Marshall Islands flag in the Black Sea. Separately, two merchant ships were hit by drones around 112 kilometers off Bulgaria's coast on Oct. 6.kyivindependent.comDrones strike merchant vessels in Black Sea off Bulgaria and Ukraine, killing at least oneA Russian drone struck a merchant vessel flying the Marshall Islands flag in the Black Sea. Separately, two merchant ships were hit by drones around 112 kilometers (70 miles) off Bulgaria's coast on O... 110939
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Must be true then. Maybe the WHO could send a fact-finding mission in a month or two. 091
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Both cults (corrected typo) and their goals can be true at once. 020
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm sure this is fine because I was told vaping was much safer than smoking.🤪 262
Reposted by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026AFluDiary Blog `Follow-up on The Russian `Lab Leak' Story' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/10/foll... #Plagueafludiary.blogspot.com 071
Reposted by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yes, the White House sometimes serves as a branch Kremlin press office, which would be humiliating for anyone who had the slightest hint of patriotism or for that matter personal dignity. 481403492
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Will those work under water? Asking for a country that keeps opening coal mines and that has jurisdictions who delay renewable power projects in favour of drilling for oil. 2166
Reposted by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 05/10/2026Americans are more likely to have placed a bet in the past year than to have read a book (via NPR) 3733548
Reposted by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀Voronoi @voronoiapp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Have you ever wondered how wealth stacks up among different generations in America? Get a close look at U.S. wealth by each generation in 2026 💰 Visual Capitalist breaks it down for you here: www.voronoiapp.com/category/Ranked-… 024
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Watching the #Quebec election coverage. Anthony Green calm and analysis is needed! 😂 040
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Sorry to disagree, and perhaps it's because we're from out of town, but it's definitely not limited to Newfoundland, unless we've been surrounded by them for 3 weeks now. 010
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Retracting those apologies.🙂 After 3 weeks I've detected this among many people. 000
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Is wastewater reporting instantaneous? 100
Reposted by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a friendly reminder that plague is prevalent, including in the western United States (see, prairie dogs), with multiple cases annually. It is also highly treatable and, yes, lab acquired infections (incl. fatal cases) have happened over the years, including e.g., UChicago. 1725089
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A pathogen peak in wasterwtaer is one thing. A pathology peak in hospitals is another. Please ensure both align and that a bigger-than-previous peak in wastewater is matched by the same in hospitals *before* your words spread fear among anxious others. 2144
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#56.3/1a 🍁 Canada is under constant construction or repair. 010
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He is Republican. As long as the party lets him enact his racist, dangerous, harmful, facist, mysogynist policies, they are a unit. They are dragging on themselves. It may be a cult, but it's one that won't denounce it's glorious leader, so to all appearances, it is unified. #VoteThemAllOut 1111
Reposted by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 05/10/2026It is just one more sign of a world reverting to Great Power politics, where millions of people are left hostage to a system that should have died with the last century. 211312
Reposted by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 05/10/2026“We’re staying” — European embassies in Kyiv reject Russia’s warning to leave, standing by Ukraine despite threats of further strikes. Moscow’s intimidation campaign has not driven foreign diplomats from the capital. www.kyivpost.com/post/86130kyivpost.comMoscow Threatens, Europe Stays: Embassies Refuse to Quit KyivEuropean missions are publicly reaffirming their presence in Kyiv after Moscow urged foreign diplomats to leave and warned of further strikes. 23012
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026www.goodreads.com/quotes/11133... theconversation.com/of-mice-and-... Sometimes I comment only to those who know what I mean. 🤷goodreads.comA quote from A Shot to Save the WorldMice lie, monkeys mislead, and ferrets are weasels. —a popular aphorism among scientists 120