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Brazillian here We are doing this for the same reason america is doing it: total brainwash via social media by the far right. We still hope lula wins the second round

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10h

i think it's ridiculous that they couldn't find an actual lion-who-is-Jesus actor to play the role

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

Feeding the “they hate you for being a white man” content mill is extremely important to sustaining reactionary populism. They got people who never watch women’s sports building their entire identity around “protecting” women’s sports, which they also don’t think should exist

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.

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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'

J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 15h

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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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 10h

The Man in the High Castle adaptation was so-so overall but boy did it understand the USA.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 10h

I have never seen this film and had no idea it includes the idea that the US "got it wrong" about WMDs, rather than the obvious (even at the time) truth that WMDs were a lie and a pretext they made up.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 10h

"Zero Dark Thirty is CIA propaganda not because it whitewashes the CIA, but because it presents the griminess and lack of clarity as awesome in itself."

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 10h

Just saw this in Montreal. I might have been the only one at the Q&A who wanted to ask about shibire, and it was really special to see David Suzuki live. Equally so to learn more about Tara Cullis and her central role in their work together. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...

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There are two sides to David Suzuki. Both appear in this intimate stage play

Production offers audiences a chance to meet Suzuki as both the famous climate activist and the gentler family man

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11h

The problem with this entire “talking across difference” approach to politics is that it assumes a shared consensus about democracy that no longer exists b/w the 2 main 🇺🇸 political parties. You don’t need to have lunch with people who don’t believe in free elections, equal rights, & the rule of law.

Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 14h

Let's try "we tried to stop it but couldn't do anything, he would only listen to Elon's chatbot!" Post-Trump Trumpists are going to make Death of Stalin look like the West Wing.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 14h

This is Trump allies using the media to focus group excuses to see what might be viewed as exculpatory after he's dead.

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Holly Witteman @hwitteman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Love the concept, would also love to have fewer experiences of sitting in an FRQS or CRC review discussion where reviewer 2 is critiquing the (very collaborative!) candidate for having insufficient evidence of leadership.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Any suggestions for middle grade books with arab protagonists? My kid just said they dont like being arab because "we're always the bad guys."

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We might be selecting for the wrong qualities in university leaders.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Universities have been going for the “insiders strategy” of trying to lobby quietly without making public waves. Counterfactuals are hard, but I would say the strategy has been a complete failure.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Or, you could make more of the city walkable and bike friendly by making more of it dense. Montreal has high vacancy rates driven by towers people can't afford to live in. Operating towers is expensive. Condo fees are comparable to high rents even after you buy a shoebox in the sky.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And I think some of the proposals are generally painless. I think things like max 1 grant awarded per cycle, ineligible to apply the cycle after a successful grant, maybe even a hard cap of 2 Project Grants/PI. I am not covinced those address where the pressure is coming from though.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe there is an increase in AI-generated proposals? Seems unlikely to me. I think people generally apply when they need money.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I guess my point is changing the definition of success rate won't improve the health research funding landscape. The problem is unfunded capacity. Both rising app pressure and falling success rates are symptoms. Why hide them from policymakers?

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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

TL'dr The problem is induced supply (like adding another lane to a highway makes traffic worse). What is the amount of research that can be reasonably supported and how can that be matched with applications? Simply increasing funded grants without application limits will only prolong the problem.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I would never claim to be good at every part of my job, but I am really Outstanding++ at whatever the verb form of sabbatical is.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh, was there conflict when people previously wanted civil rights extended to include them?

Screenshot of article which reads: As the electorate has grown
to include men of color, women, and the poor, it has become more plural-
istic. Contemporary America, for all its flaws, has grown to be a diverse
democracy that continually manages a vast array of opinions, identities,
and cultures. That pluralism is a central reason for the vibrancy and in-
novation of American cultural, intellectual, and political power.
But each of these steps was the result of political and cultural con-
flict. As every new group of Americans was enfranchised, a powerful
political movement opposed it. This opposition was often violent, com-
ing both from the state and from individual citizens who believed that
the ascendant group needed to be put back in its place. Much of this vio-
lence endures today. When marginalized groups have spoken out (often
in a nonviolent manner) against the violence perpetrated against them,
they have often incurred further anger and violence.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."

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licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However,
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You have to accurately assess the problem to create proper solutions

Screenshot of article which reads: Partisan polarization is not the greatest threat to American democracy.
It is a vivid and identifiable symptom of the real threat. And it is a popu-
lar frame because it blames no one. But because political polarization is
a symptom, and not the root of the problem that ails us, “fixing” polar-
ization will not restore American democratic health.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why would more density in what is already one of the densest neighborhoods in Canada be a priority compared to the abundant opportunities for dense low-rise development that people and families might be able to afford and want to live in? Griffintown and towers sit massively underoccupied.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyway, tldr, I don’t think CIHR should adopt changes that hide the state of the health research ecosystem from policymakers by manipulating programs to make success rates or other metrics look better.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The only lever that addresses idle capacity concerns is limiting grants held per PI—e.g. the cooling off period after an award or hard limits. But 1 grant per PI is already the norm at CIHR—not a ton of redistributive benefit there.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Canada has a really stupid amount of idle capacity in health research. The issue is policymakers, when they occasionally express a passing interest in research at all, point at metrics that treat idle capacity and productive capacity as the same then go back to sleep.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

None of it is a meaningful response to the only real structural problem with the program: it is grossly underfunded. That is a problem CIHR programs cannot solve.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am concerned that many of the proposed changes are attempts to maintain or inflate a "success rate" metric by changing the denominator: suppressing applications. That masks a problem without addressing it.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can’t fix translation problems by throwing more public money at commercialization grants when there is no demand from the private sector. Fix demand (which is not CIHR’s mandate or problem).

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can’t change criteria and formats without creating many cycles of confusion and frustration because applicants and panels develop a culture of expectations. And in any case, changes like that won’t meaningfully change evaluations of merit.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fastest way to make peer review worse would be to force people who don't want to do it to participate.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can’t eliminate across the board cuts when they are already priced in by applicants and reviewers without creating chaos.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is nothing wrong with peer review at CIHR except that it is online. There is nothing wrong with application formats/criteria. Category-specific programs increase work for applicants and reviewers, do not promote excellence, and especially do not create more funding.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I get they are under pressure and hear a lot of complaints about peer review, programs, etc. This is a function of declining success rates, not an indicator that those things are bad or decreasing in quality.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some thoughts on the CIHR Project survey. I am very concerned about panicked “do something” changes in the face of declining success rates and rising app pressure. The same thing that lead to several years of stepping on rakes during the “Reforms.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's not even funny what kind of loss I will absorb if I have to create an account to do business with you. I will walk away from a winning lottery ticket, I promise you.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

wow, the replies to and QTs of this are... really something. [not laudatory] The brigades for whom "anti-Zionism should not be equated to anti-Semitism" just immediately becomes "because Zionism is bad, anti-Semitism is good" are out in force on this one.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 30/09/2026

I think a key issue here is that these guys have no idea what 'good' means

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too

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