Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialStephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Holy hell. Anthropic's AI model submitted a false tip about a HOMICIDE to the Philadelphia Police Department's online public tip form. The release today from the PPD: 20405170
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialDavid S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Shot chaser etc 14330100
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialRob Pegoraro @robpegoraro.com · 09/10/2026The competition for passkeys increasingly is not username + password (where a password manager makes that UX about as seamless as a passkey login) but username + password + inconveniently-delivered two-factor authentication code (where the passkey UX is soooo much better). (gift link)wapo.stAnalysis | We don’t have to live with the nightmare of passwords. There is a better way.Passkeys really do work. They’re silent and swift, and they eliminate the need for remembering and typing passwords. 95711
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialNome @nome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Wild for this to come out on the day Hegseth makes the firing squad a perfectly normal part of American political discourse. 210723
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want." 304969702756
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialDavid Elfstrom 🍁 @davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yeah, that coughing and "something going around" discussions is COVID. That nice low summer is over. Toronto's wastewater viral load is showing a consistent upward trend in COVID-19 and nearly zero levels of influenza A & B and RSV. wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro... 14206107
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialAidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It appears that the US government pressured the Canadian and Lithuanian governments (as well as the EEAS) to pull their support and representives from the @disinfo.eu conference in Vilnius. This decision happened at the absolute last minute. 4181103
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialCasey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Our new tool corpus makes biodiversity literature searchable by AI agents via MCP, with provenance to source text and figures. With @shchurch.bsky.social , Felipe Zapata, and Maciej Mańko. In @currentbiology.bsky.social - www.cell.com/current-biol... Code: github.com/caseywdunn/c...cell.comExtracting AI agent-accessible data from biodiversity literature with corpusChurch et al. present corpus, a tool that converts a library of biodiversity literature PDFs into a searchable knowledge base of text, figures, and references. It connects to an AI agent through a Mod... 2198
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just Elon Musk endorsing this 4Chan case on why high status males [& the neurodivergent!] should have a say in democracy. (Women are not free to think; should not have voice/vote). 2621866
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Canoe Portage Cornelius Krieghoff 1861 19125
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.social🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is called an oil and gas subsidy. It should not be happening. Public money for public things. not private companies 09957
microbiocarly.bsky.social @microbiocarly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026www.europesays.com/canada/233779/ "Both have identified the United States’s sway over the current generation of payment systems as a risk,"europesays.comCanada, EU plan to link next-generation payment systems, draft joint statement says - CanadaOpen this photo in gallery: 000
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialPolling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Huge news "Canada and the European Union plan to link next-generation payment systems to enable faster cross-border transactions" "This will help remove obstacles to business and investment between the two jurisdictions" www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...theglobeandmail.comCanada, EU plan to link next-gen payment systems, easing transactionsMove would allow faster cross-border transfers and lessen reliance on U.S. infrastructure 415939
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialDataCite @datacite.org · 05/10/2026Free online registration for #PIDfest is open! Whether you’re new to persistent identifiers or helping shape national & global research infrastructure, this is a great opportunity to connect with the PID community from wherever you are. Register for free & share: www.pidfest.org/registerpidfest.orgRegisterWe're happy to announce that registrations are now open. Register now via the button below! Please note: If you are registering from outside the Netherlands, please do not use the iDEAL or Wero paymen... 001
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialMax Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Behold, a column by the @theglobeandmail.com's Tony Keller that cries out for a debunking. Allow me. 🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...theglobeandmail.comOpinion: This was the week Canada stopped shooting its oil patch in the footWe’re finally witnessing our country act with some sense of its own self-interest 19252120
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Trump administration was too stupid to realize that cutting food safety programs and firing thousands of public servants would have shitty consequences. Watch. 1142506965
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.social🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026today's essential read for all Canadians. "the government’s huge subsidization of this project – up to 90 % of a $40B pipeline with ownership split evenly between Ottawa and Edmonton – lays bare a reality unfolding across the world economy: FFs aren’t just losing to clean energy. They’ve lost."theglobeandmail.comIs it really a good idea for the government to subsidize a pipeline?Designating the West Coast pipeline as a project of national interest exposes a global reality: Fossil fuels haven’t just lost to clean energy – they’ve already lost 24227
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialCCPA — 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.comOntario spent $280M on private health clinics but wait times got worse says new studyOntario 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. 25548
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialMike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Put another way, Ford wants to spend more on removing bike lanes in Toronto ($48M) than he's spent protecting all of Ontario's businesses from an international trade war. Ontario deserves serious leadership, that follows through on promises, and actually puts people before profits. 4284137
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialKatherine Pratt, PhD (she/her) @gattakat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sir this is a Wendy’s 1338
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialRichard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Noise/useless science rather than AI slop is a current challenge: "If medical schools and universities don't want the literature to be overwhelmed with garbage, they should stop giving every applicant ... an incentive to publish a lot of crap." www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...medpagetoday.comIs AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says 49026
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMYbuff.lyAnnouncing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh... 19832273
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 199113342171
microbiocarly.bsky.social @microbiocarly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Nothing really new here but nicely pulled together. Content platforms pay desperate people who, without caring what the content is, posts what the platform rewards. All enabled through AI. youtu.be/zCvPPaIN5Ew?...youtu.beHow to rage bait AmericansYouTube video by Christophe 100
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The free market wouldn't object to a few oligarchs hoarding all the AI profits while everyone else is scraping by. Markets don't do morality. That's up to us. youtu.be/OAGV50CDgno 15383100
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialDryad @datadryad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The key to successful #datasharing? Preparation. “The main effort was not uploading the files themselves, but organizing and documenting the data so that someone outside our group could understand what each file represented,” said researcher Pradip K. Bera bit.ly/4z1arqX #openaccess #opendata 022
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialMike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Time and time again, Ford puts the profits of rich shareholders first, and the people of Ontario last. It's time to put people before profits and invest in publicly funded, publicly delivered healthcare.ctvnews.caWait times increasing for some medical procedures outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: reportOutsourcing surgeries and imaging to private for-profit clinics has not resulted in a drop in wait times for most procedures, according to a new study released Monday. 0208
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026September Snow on Mount Schaffer J.E.H. MacDonald 1929 013220
microbiocarly.bsky.social @microbiocarly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I see this fraud over and over again. I think something with decentralized identifiers coordinated with ORCID could start to equip the scientific community with tools to combat fraud. agrifooddatacanada.ca/orcid-and-de...agrifooddatacanada.caORCID and Decentralized Identifiers - Agri-food Data CanadaOn November 19th, Carly Huitema presented (YouTube link) at the Trust over IP 5-Year Symposium on emerging opportunities to use ORCID as a trust registry to help build secure, verifiable research data... 000
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialSurprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Each of these incidents is being framed as a success — a terrifying success that you must believe in and fear— rather than what it is as a criminal failure of ethics and institutional control. 814634
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialDerek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I note that the picture of the "European Academy of Engineering" that comes up in Google Maps is an altered version a 2022 picture of a main building of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. The facade has been digitally reworked to make it look like the engineering academy! 22514
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialAcid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Milo 😾 : Momma, Ah want a "Blabbermouth" button installed asap! 😾😼😂 (Cr @wordypaws) #dog #cat #wordsmith 243968603
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialAdam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.” 542082583
microbiocarly.bsky.social @microbiocarly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Argh! I constantly have trouble telling if the headline is satire or real! 000
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialClimate-Smart Data Collaboration Centre (CS-DCC) @cs-dcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Looking for a quick lunchtime learning opportunity? UBC Data Bites offers free, online 30‑minute workshops that introduce key research data management concepts through short, practical sessions. Learn more: ubc-library-rc.github.io/rdm/ Register: libcal.library.ubc.ca/calendar/?t=... 021
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's not flooding the zone, it's seizing a crisis in order to ram through a slew of rapid fire changes that are a gift to multinational corporations and are the opposite of what we ran on. What do you call that again? 21576154
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialMark Histed @markhisted.org · 22/09/2026The idea of AI curing all diseases is, IMO, silly. Biomedical research is mostly limited by data, not ideas. Imagine saying AI will build a world-champion basketball team by replacing basketball coaches with hyperintelligent AI. You see the problem. Someone still needs to dribble and make shots. 925539
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Autumn Arrives Nicki Ault 2022 115236
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialData Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 21/09/2026Our Communications team is at #iPRES2026 this week. So this #MemeMonday we're here to remind you that the real villain is inaccessible file formats. Even if you need specialty or proprietary file formats for your analysis, consider saving a final copy of your data in an open format. 1177
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.social🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Great job by friends @mark-ungrin.bsky.social and @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social getting the word out on the ongoing challenges getting the medical community to acknowledge and understand aerosol transmission of respiratory viruses.ctvnews.ca‘Outdated’ health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcherUniversity of Calgary professor Mark Ungrin has dedicated years of research highlighting what he believes is of significant concern to all Canadians’ health. 211446
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialWill Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed 5774671844
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens. 801509387
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialMax Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump. 2923703928
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialUrsula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 16/09/2026Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU. And create a common prosperity and economic security space. 39072951981
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026September Sumac Luther Pokrant 2020 09020
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Don Jr clearly has enough money to pay for his own wedding. But the family motto is to never pay for anything if you can avoid it, especially when there are bribe opportunities on the table. 411450327
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialAlbrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 14/09/2026No mention, of course, of the truncated nature of academic careers given the training requirements (PhD, one and usually more post-docs etc). Most profs don’t land their first properly paying gig until their mid-30s. 192
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 12/09/2026On this day 12th September 1940 four teenagers, following their dog, discovered the Lascaux cave paintings. Artist: John Kenney 927539
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialDerek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026More and more studies show that vaccination against various infectious diseases also leads to fewer cardiovascular deaths and lower rates of dementia. A rational public health system would be getting as many people vaccinated as possible. But. . .science.orgMore Impossible-to-Ignore Vaccine Effects 310651
Reposted by @microbiocarly.bsky.socialFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I keep on going back to this one that I find particularly disturbing. Trump is posting AI of him beating the shit out Carney repeatedly with an ice hockey stick. Quite apart from being deranged is there still anyone in America that does not understand how badly this degrades America? 1311436
