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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
After 26 years of elimination, Canada is set to lose its international status as a measles-free country. How did the measles get to Canada and how do we move forward? @jeyantvo.bsky.social asks Nathan VanderKlippe (@theglobeandmail.com) & @msmacrophage.bsky.social (@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social)
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How Did Measles Make a Comeback in Canada? | The Rundown
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
What do baseball and religion have in common? Plenty, says Hanna Tervanotko, an associate professor of religious studies - from ritual and community to the power of collective belief. 🔗 news.mcmaster.ca/fastballs-an... #BlueJays #McMasterExperts #SportsFandom
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Fastballs and faith: What religion and baseball have in common
When the Toronto Blue Jays clinched their spot in the World Series this week, the celebrations weren’t just about baseball. They were about belonging. Hanna Tervanotko, associate professor of Religiou...
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 23/09/2025
Bill C-4 privacy enhancements are modest and fail to regulate politicians’ use of social bots
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Bill C-4 privacy enhancements are modest and fail to regulate politicians’ use of social bots
Political parties are required to create privacy policies for handling voters’ data, but enforcement is up to them, raising concerns about oversight.
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 16/09/2025
Canada’s tariff wall on Chinese electric vehicles is deepening dependence on the U.S.
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Canada’s tariff wall on Chinese electric vehicles is deepening dependence on the U.S.
Lower, targeted tariffs on Chinese imports would ease financial pressures for Canadian consumers and mitigate Canada’s excessive reliance on the United States.
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Dr. Emily S Choy (she/her), FRCGS @emilyschoy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Here’s a video of @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social grad students Abby & Flynn removing an adult rhinoceros auklet for a body mass measurement after a respirometry trial. All birds were handled with proper training and permits. Listen to their amazing experience here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Dr. Emily S Choy (she/her), FRCGS @emilyschoy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
What’s it like to work from cliffs on an Arctic island with foxes, belugas, & polar bears (OH MY)! Read Jolie Nguyen’s experience studying thick-billed murres on Coats Island, Nunavut as part of her MSc. project @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social ! science.mcmaster.ca/two-summers-...
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Two summers worth of unforgettable moments for grad student doing field work on an uninhabited Arctic island - Faculty of Science - McMaster University
Jolie Nguyen entered into a pact with the other six researchers who’d spent their summer on an uninhabited island in northern Hudson Bay. Anyone who was up late at the Coats Island field station and c...
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 18/08/2025
Air Canada flight attendant ‘unlawful’ strike exposes major fault lines in Canadian labour law
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Air Canada flight attendant ‘unlawful’ strike exposes major fault lines in Canadian labour law
The dispute exposes several fault lines in Canada around work, how we value it and how the law impacts workers.
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Canada is in a moment of peril and promise. Moving forward will take collaboration and "communities coming together to solve problems that matter," writes Brian Baetz, director of the W. Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology. Read his op-ed: 🔗 www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
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Building Canada’s future — together
We face a moment of both peril and promise.
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Hamilton Spectator @thespec1846.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
A multi-volume marvel: McMaster University archive celebrates acquisition of rare 18th-century encyclopedia set
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A multi-volume marvel: McMaster University archive celebrates acquisition of rare 18th-century encyclopedia set
“Encyclopédie” was written by a group of intellectuals that included Rousseau, Voltaire and Montesquieu in the 1700s.
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Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Workers defying back-to-work orders shows growing mistrust of a system stacked against them. Govt bias fuels militancy and pushes unions beyond legal labour action. My comments in @thestar.com #canlab #aircanadastrike #aircanadaflightattendants @cupescfp.bsky.social www.thestar.com/business/air...
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Air Canada strike: Union defies back-to-work order. ‘If it means jail, so be it’
CUPE union president Mark Hancock is refusing to obey Ottawa's orders.
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 18/08/2025
Size matters, but so does beauty and vigour — at least when it comes to peacocks
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Size matters, but so does beauty and vigour — at least when it comes to peacocks
Charles Darwin used peacock trains to support his theory of sexual selection, but new research indicates that it’s a bit more complex.
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Dr. Dawn Bowdish @msmacrophage.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I was very happy to work with Maclean's on this one - there are many reasons why Canada is having one of the biggest measles outbreaks in the world (and the biggest in the global North), and our lack of a national vaccine registry is one of them.
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Sean Carey has been studying the land, water and climate of the Yukon for decades. His ties to the region and the people who live there make him one of Canada’s leading voices on northern hydrology and climate change. #McMasterExperts #ClimateScience brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/res...
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Research in the land of the midnight sun
"There’s nowhere else I’d rather be.” Professor Sean Carey has made the Yukon his lab since he was a grad student.
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
A research team, led by Prof. Gerry Wright, has discovered a new drug class that could someday lead to breakthrough treatments for dangerous fungal infections. brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/res... #McMasterExperts
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Researchers discover all-new antifungal drug candidate in McMaster’s greenhouse
A research team at McMaster University has discovered a new drug class that could lead to breakthrough treatments for fungal infections.
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
‘New blood needed’ as Canada welcomes raft of female leaders #highered #EduSky
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‘New blood needed’ as Canada welcomes raft of female leaders
Incoming McMaster head Susan Tighe says record number of women at the top represents ‘important change’
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Hamilton Spectator @thespec1846.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Wait, what, wheat? What’s with the popularity of a gluten intolerance?
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Wait, what, wheat? What’s with the popularity of a gluten intolerance?
The group of people who follow a gluten-free diet without any medical investigation is now 10 times larger than those with medically proven celiac disease.
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 30/07/2025
Canada could use thermal infrastructure to turn wasted heat emissions into energy
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Canada could use thermal infrastructure to turn wasted heat emissions into energy
In Canada, heat produced by data centres, grocery stores, laundromats, restaurants, sewage systems and hockey arenas could be captured and turned into energy.
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The Costco food court has never been a profit centre, it’s designed to get people in the store, says assistant prof. William Huggins. But with rising food costs and economic stress, more people are going for the cheap eats and skipping the shopping. #McMasterExperts 🔗 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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As a B.C. Costco cracks down on its food court, is there anywhere truly cheap left to eat? | CBC News
When Vancouver's downtown Costco recently posted signs announcing people will need an active membership card to purchase food from the food court, it sparked a fierce debate online about whether non-m...
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 23/07/2025
How public development banks could narrow inequality gaps between the Global North and South
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How public development banks could narrow inequality gaps between the Global North and South
Public Development Banks provide affordable financing, direct resources where urgently needed and align funding with long-term development strategies.
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Hamilton Spectator @thespec1846.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
McMaster student balances school with pro soccer
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McMaster student balances school with pro soccer
Mollie Eriksson is a starting goaltender in the country's first women's pro soccer league. She's also working on her PhD.
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
PFAS are making headlines again, from the Great Lakes to your closet. Assistant professor Joseph Okeme breaks down what PFAS are, where they’re found, and why they matter for our health and environment. #McMasterExperts brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/jos...
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Understanding PFAS: Forever chemicals to be added to Canada’s toxic substances list
The federal government is taking steps to add PFAS to the list of toxic substances, a move that would empower the government to create regulations . . .
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"Perhaps someday, we will look at lying on a beach slathered with oil in the same way we look at smoking cigarettes," writes associate professor Elaine McWhirter. #McMasterExperts
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
“Is this walk going to do anything? Yes! The answer is yes. It’ll do way more than you think.” Kinesiology professor Jennifer Heisz speaks to The New York Times about the body-mind connection. #McMasterExperts
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
New research shows how storytelling helped older adults navigate the emotional toll of the pandemic, offering connection and resilience in a stressful time. #McMasterExperts #McMasterResearch 🔗 brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/how...
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How storytelling helped seniors navigate the emotional toll of the pandemic
Researchers at McMaster University used stories to understand how older adults coped with the isolation and uncertainty of the pandemic.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 14/07/2025
Obesity rates in Canada increased faster in recent years — including a jump among women and younger adults — compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study has found.
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Canada’s obesity rate grew faster after COVID-19 pandemic with women and young adults impacted more, study finds
The annual increase in Canada’s obesity rate doubled to an average of just over one per cent coming out of the pandemic, with women and younger adults particularly impacted.
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Short on time but want to boost your health and longevity? In this episode of Just One Thing, Michael Mosley explores the science of HIIT with kinesiology professor Martin Gibala. #McMasterExperts 🎧 Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley, Get Fit with HIIT
How a quick HIIT workout can burn calories, boost brainpower and help you live longer.
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Wildfires are burning in Canada and the smoke isn’t stopping at the border. Mike Waddington tells @nytimes.com that a warming climate is turning Canada's forested lands into a tinderbox. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/w... #Wildfires #McMasterExperts
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Republicans Blame Canada for Wildfire Smoke ‘Suffocating’ the U.S.
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The job market is shifting and so is the balance of power at work. “Companies can demand that employees come back into the office, and employees will comply,” Catherine Connelly tells @theglobeandmail.com #McMasterExperts 🔗 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Even as office hours ramp up, downtown foot traffic is slow to rebound
Recovery of activity in urban cities has flatlined despite stricter return-to-work mandates
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
McMaster researcher Lauren Colenso-Semple weighs in on the science behind this fitness trend. #McMasterExperts
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Prof. Chandrima Chakraborty is helping preserve the stories of the Air India bombing victims through a powerful archival project honouring the victims and their families. Read more via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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On the 40th anniversary of the Air India bombing, those in grief stand together
Families of victims rally around each other and call out government apathy toward the tragedy
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 22/06/2025
4 reasons to be concerned about Bill C-4’s threats to Canadian privacy and sovereignty
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4 reasons to be concerned about Bill C-4’s threats to Canadian privacy and sovereignty
If privacy is important anywhere, it is in the context of politics. If it is important at any time, that time is now.
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Mayor Andrea Horwath @mayorandreahorwath.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🎉 Big day at McMaster University! The Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy’s (CCEM) launched the world’s first Thermo Fisher Spectra Ultra. 🔬🌍 A huge leap for innovation in clean energy, health & materials - right here in #HamOnt! 👏 #SpectraUltra #Innovation #McMaster #ElectronMicroscopy
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 19/06/2025
Indigenous engagement is essential for small modular nuclear reactor projects
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Indigenous engagement is essential for small modular nuclear reactor projects
When it comes to the energy transition, focus tends to be on solar, wind or hydroelectricity. But small modular nuclear reactors are showing promise globally.
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Feeling overwhelmed by the news cycle? You're not alone. Marisa Young, associate professor of sociology, looks at how our modern news habits are affecting mental health and what we can do about it. #McMasterExperts #MentalHealth 📖: brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/nav...
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Doomscrolling in a time of tariffs: Expert insights on the news cycle and mental health
Ways to stay informed without getting overwhelmed, when constant access to news and real-time information is taking a toll on mental health.
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 17/06/2025
Decolonizing history and social studies curricula has a long way to go in Canada
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Decolonizing history and social studies curricula has a long way to go in Canada
Research from a project about thinking historically for Canada’s future finds curricula must do far more to challenge dominant narratives and value Indigenous worldviews.
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Canada's housing crisis: Industry professor Steve Pomeroy looks back on how we got here and what the federal government needs to do to address it. burlingtongazette.ca/500000-homes... #McMasterExperts #CanadaHousing
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500,000 homes per year by 2035: just how does that happen – can it happen?
By Staff June 16, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON Originally published by Logic,   Mark Carney wants to “build, baby, build” to fix Canada’s housing crisis—but supply alone can’t fix affordability. Decade…
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 16/06/2025
Air India crash in Ahmedabad sends reverberations to Canadian families of Air India Flight 182
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Air India crash in Ahmedabad sends reverberations to Canadian families of Air India Flight 182
As news of the Ahmedabad crash came in, families of the victims of Flight 182 from 1985 immediately expressed shock, concern, sympathy and memories.
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Joanna Frketich @jofrketich.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
How to stop measles spread? Follow the work of a Hamilton researcher. Dr. Mark Loeb is getting a lifetime achievement award for showing how to stop the spread of infections against the backdrop of a measles outbreak. www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...
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How to stop measles spread? Follow the work of a Hamilton researcher
Dr. Mark Loeb is getting a lifetime achievement award for showing how to stop the spread of infections against the backdrop of a measles outbreak
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
As wildfire smoke returns, should we be masking up again? Catherine Clase explains how poor air quality affects our health and when respirators like N95s make sense. #McMasterExperts #Wildfires Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
How does extreme wealth affect our brains? Sukhvinder Obhi, professor of social neuroscience, weighs in on how power and status may dull our neurological attunement to others. Read more on @rollingstone.com ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... #McMasterExperts
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What You've Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The Hudson and James Bay peatlands are among the most significant carbon storages in the world. With wildfires burning and a warming climate, @alemugonsamo.bsky.social explains why they matter and what’s at stake. #McMasterExperts Read more: brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/qa-...
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Fragile treasure: Q&A with expert Alemu Gonsamo on the Hudson and James Bay peatlands
Momentum is building to develop the Ring of Fire, which overlaps with one of the most important carbon storage systems in the world.
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 09/06/2025
Ultra-processed foods are everywhere — and they’re quietly raising health risks
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Ultra-processed foods are everywhere — and they’re quietly raising health risks
Research shows that the effects of ultra-processed foods can accumulate over time, adding to the risk of heart attack, stroke and other serious health issues, even for healthy people.
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🍄 Are mushrooms the future of sustainable materials? “It’s possible to use natural genetic variation that already exists in nature and to make combinations that will potentially fit into all kinds of materials,” says Prof. Jianping Xu. #McMasterExperts www.earth.com/news/how-mus...
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How mushrooms could replace materials like plastic and leather
Scientists at McMaster University have unlocked new possibilities in sustainable material design using mushrooms.
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"This is an opportunity to reinvent school food across Canada and to catch up to other G7 countries that have long-running traditions of school food programs," writes professor Tina Moffat, who is working with academics and community groups to develop a national school food program.
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“Once peat ignites and starts to burn, it’s really difficult to extinguish," PhD candidate Greg Verkaik tells @ctvnewsedmonton.bsky.social. Why? "Peat is a high organic content soil, so it likes to burn once it starts." #McMasterExperts #Wildfires 🔗 www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
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Month-old peat fire still smouldering in west Edmonton
If you’re cruising down Anthony Henday Drive near 111 Avenue, you might notice some extra haze as a peat fire continues to smoulder.
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Science Blog @scienceblog.com · 09/06/2025
Scientists Breed Custom Mushrooms for Green Materials McMaster University researchers have unlocked a new approach to creating sustainable materials by breeding mushrooms with specific genetic traits. Using the split gill mushroom—a species with extraordinary genetic diversity that includes over…
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Scientists Breed Custom Mushrooms for Green Materials
McMaster University researchers have unlocked a new approach to creating sustainable materials by breeding mushrooms with specific genetic traits. Using the split gill mushroom—a species with extraordinary genetic diversity that includes over 23,000 different mating types—scientists demonstrated how natural genetic variations can be harnessed to produce customized biodegradable materials with dramatically different properties. The team bred four mushroom strains from around the world to create 12 new genetic combinations, then processed their fungal networks into films that varied widely in strength, flexibility, and water resistance.
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
With fires threatening communities across Canada, Ramla Qureshi, assistant professor in civil engineering, argues it's time to treat wildfire like any other major hazard and build accordingly. #McMasterExperts #wildfires
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Amid rising vaccine distrust and a growing family doctor crisis, Ontario is now the measles epicentre of the western hemisphere. Prof. Dawn Bowdish in The Guardian: “It’s really hard to balance personal freedoms with public health." #McMasterExperts www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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A massive outbreak has made Ontario the measles epicentre of the western hemisphere
Three-quarters of cases are in unvaccinated children, and this week saw the first fatality: a premature baby
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McMaster Media Relations @mcmastermedia.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Canada’s wildfire smoke may carry more than carbon. Toxic metals like arsenic and lead are a rising concern, says Prof. Mike Waddington. “It’s a bad-news scenario. It’s quite scary.” Read more: grist.org/climate/cana... @peatofmind.bsky.social #McMasterExperts #Wildfires
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The smoke from Canada's wildfires may be even more toxic than usual
The country's legacy of mining means that toxic metals could be carried along plumes of smoke, endangering people in its path.
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Yersinia pestis, the cause of bubonic plague, is a killer—but it's also a survivor. ~100 years after the start of historic outbreaks, the pathogen adapted to be less lethal and to keep its hosts alive longer, so it could spread farther. Researchers recently pinpointed the gene behind the change 🧪
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One of the world’s most notorious pathogens has survived for centuries. Scientists say they now know why | CNN
A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.
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