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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠

@neurolatina.bsky.social
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Cellular Neuroscientist, PhD, Neuronal RNA, Science Outreach, DEI advocate. 🇨🇦🇨🇱Immigrant, Feminist, Public Policy enthusiast. Wiki Editor. Opinionated opinions my own. Living in the unceded territories of Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal) She/Ella. Ally 🌈

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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I hope the Nobel Prize committee will be awarded for the discovery of the existence of women this year.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/08/2026
The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Today's cartoon by Dennis Goris:
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
When the National Science Policy is to defund research.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@deadder.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
No lithium batteries!
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🇨🇦 Petition to end the public funding of a private house -including chef and chauffeur- for the lieder of the opposition ( call my petty but I love this) www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Sign this Petition - Petitions
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I planted this Bergamot last year and it didn’t flower. It survived the Montreal winter ( I covered the pruned plant with leaves and little branches) and not it’s finally flowering!
Bright pink flower. There are 3 main structures: a bottom with around 7 stif petals perpendicular to the stem, then a round layer that looks like a cushion with tiny white hairs and on top a group of narrow petals like fingers coming out and bending a little.
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We have to redefine economic growth to include social and environmental justice
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Remember how CDC “Director” Jay Bhattacharya abused his power and blocked the CDC’s journal, MMWR, from publishing a paper showing the clear benefit of COVID19 vaccination among healthy adults? Well, it was just published by a very reputable journal. Hope you enjoy the humiliation, Jay.
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Interim Estimated Effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults
This case-control study estimates vaccine effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccines among adults with COVID-19–associated emergency department or urgent care encounters and COVID-19–associated hosp...
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Be careful when you extrapolate…
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The @nejm.org comes out swinging against OMB's new proposed rule putting all federal grant making including science under political control. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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The OMB and the Politicization of Science | NEJM
The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could be...
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This is the editorial calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure. A must read. 🧪 diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
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Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Our new collaboration is published in Neuron with open access
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Martinique
A beach with sand and some foam from the waves, with a sign in red and black showing the drawing of a dog inside a circle crossed by a line. The text in French reads “beach forbidden for dogs” 4 dogs are playing around behind the sign.
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🇨🇦Sylviegeo🍁 @sylviegeo.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
mad neuroscientists marching in Berkeley
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I am watching the #NoKings from Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 today. 🤗
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Kids playing baseball today in Montreal. March 23, 2026 #Montreal
A photograph of a snow covered fields behind some buildings. Four kids wearing hoodies are seen in the distance playing baseball. The sky is grey and the whole picture looks black and white.
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Meanwhile in Montreal
A photograph of a border collie wearing a dark green coat laying on the snow with a purple ball in front of his face. In the background a forest of tall trees with dark trunks and branches covered in snow. Although the picture is in color it almost looks black and white
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
For Science. Today March 7, 2026
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
March 17. For Science.
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
😣 and the effect is global 🌎
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
For those who need to hear that sometimes the impossible is possibly: Today I finished the Worcestershire sauce! It took about 10 years.
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/02/2026
This administration must not be allowed to continue their dismantling of the nation's scientific structure. Join us in fighting to protect science on March 7th in Washington D.C. or at your local rally! Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7 #March7 #rally #standupforscience #ImpeachRFKJr
TAKE BACK our SCIENCE RALLY!
MARCH 7th 2026
NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION

We believe in SCIENCE

standupforscience.net/march7
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
What a (halftime) show!!!! 🇨🇦🇨🇱
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Two-fifths of cancers could be prevented Nearly 40% of new cancer cases worldwide are potentially preventable. Smoking tobacco is the leading contributor to cancer cases, followed by infections and drinking alcohol. nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable, massive study finds
Many cancers are linked to two modifiable habits: tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption.
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Not Science.
Groundghog predictions map from the Weather channel. The Estern Canada groundhogs (including Quebec's own Fred la Marmotte) predict and Early spring and the rest, including the very famous Punxsutawney Phil, predict more winter.
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Morning walk in Montréal
A border collie crouched on the snow with a blue ball almost covered with snow in front of his face. In the background a log and trees with bare black branches.
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
USA: Science in free fall after one year. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"Disinformation and misinformation — some of which has been spread by US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr — have risen sharply and are having a significant impact, driving down vaccination rates for illnesses such as influenza and measles" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Client Challenge
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It was time to build this weekend (with LEGO).   Thanks to Ambassador Harris for the gift. Solidarity with Denmark. 🇨🇦🇩🇰
Prime Minister Carney assembles a LEGO set gifted by the Danish Ambassador.Prime Minister Carney assembles a LEGO set gifted by the Danish Ambassador.
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
When science is left outside of the room and companies in: this is what happens, an upside down pyramid is the new USA food guide. And it’s the opposite of the Canadian food guide were the food industry was banned from interfering.
The New Yorker cartoon shows a sign on a farm displaying the new USA upside down food pyramid with meat on top and an arrow “ you are here” pointing at it. Cows are looking at it and the text reads “This doesn’t look good” Canadian food guide ( the new version) shows a plate with food. One half is fruits and vegetables , one quarter is grain and cereal and one quarter is protein ( showing plant based proteins) it also shows a glass of water as the beverage of choice.
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Brian Ricketts @kiwigeolog.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Mary Somerville - the person for whom the word scientist was coined by William Whewell in his 1834. She was a polymath, an intellectual tour de force at a time when teaching women to read and write let alone think deeply was frowned upon or ignored ⚒️🧪🌊 www.geological-digressions.com/mary-somervi...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/01/2026
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The irony 🙄
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
"This study provides additional, solid evidence that there is value in being up-to-date with your COVID vaccines for pregnancy." COVID-19 vaccination lowers risks during pregnancy, UBC study finds www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #VaccinesWork
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COVID-19 vaccination lowers risks during pregnancy, UBC study finds
Report analyzing outcomes from COVID-impacted pregnancies shows a number of benefits, including a lower risk for premature births
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Again my home country Chile voted against their own interests. Ladies and gentlemen: Chile has a far right government. It hurts.
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Strange ice crystals this morning at the Summit Woods in Montreal.
Ice crystals on a dark tree branch. The crystals look like short bristles. Ice crystals on a brown tree leaf. The crystals look like short bristles. Ice crystals on a tree trunk. The crystals look like short bristles.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/11/2025
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Elecciones en Chile este Domingo. Me entrevistaron en español en Radio Canadá. Chilean elections this Sunday. I was interviewed as an expat. I worry about the misinformation by the traditional news media that may give a win to the far right. ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/es/notic...
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[Reportaje] Perspectivas desde Canadá sobre elecciones presidenciales en Chile | RCI
Para la comunidad chilena-canadiense la presidencial del 16 de noviembre es crucial en un futuro democrático
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
“We also found support for the connection of foreign disinformation with negative social media activity about vaccination”
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Data from DoorDash has replaced the Federal Bureau of Stats in the US 😬
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Montréal November 10, 2025
A border collie ready to go for a walk in the snow, wearing a snow jacket and a lightWestmount city hall under a snow fall at night An old brick mansion partially covered by a tree white with snow. The windows are illuminated. View from a leaded window showing thick snow on the ground and a tree.
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Terrible news. Keep safe and get the vaccine!
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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
What we stand to lose when foreign students are seen as a threat
International students enrich university communities and strengthen civic life. We must defend their place in global education.
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