🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 05/04/2025"It also protects the campaign from having to answer tough questions and is a marked departure from previous Conservative campaigns I have covered." 000
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Scroll down to "A dispatch from the Poilievre campaign" "But the extreme message control makes it all but impossible to bring the same level of accountability to the Poilievre campaign that other campaigns are subject to." www.cbc.ca/news/politic... 100
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 05/04/2025"After many years of covering election campaigns in Canada, USA and Europe, the Conservative Party of Canada is the most outwardly aggressive and uncivilized that I’ve witnessed." canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-ca...canadianjournalist.caPoilievre Stop in Fish Plant Smells | Canadian JournalistConservative Party of Canada election campaign stop in a fishing village in Newfoundland turns into a spectacle of party animosity towards media coverage. 010
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoSave the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025CBC is public media—owned by Canadians, not the government. If it were propaganda, Poilievre wouldn’t want to kill it—he’d want to use it. CBC holds power to account. That’s why they fear it. #SaveTheCBC #MediaFreedom #CdnPoli #OurVoiceOurCBC 817259
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoHeard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 04/04/2025❤️ We don’t care if your gender identity is more free than a fart in a fan factory. Be you, be happy, be free. #colonythatcares 9773109
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoHeard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Inspired by @mark-carney.bsky.social and Canadians everywhere. We’re all fighting back on our home ice! 9440231310
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Last weekend I cleared a bunch of thorn bushes from the side of the house using loppers and a lawn mower. I think people would pay $90 or more for that experience. 000
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 03/04/2025We're retaliating by putting an export tax on all the Canadian locations in "I've Been Everywhere" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ve_... 000
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Profound question for 12:20 AM: Why, when I ask Midjourney to create an image of Bert from Sesame Street as a visual pun for deep learning, do I get a set of characters that range from "Ernie-ish" to "WTF", but no Bert? 110
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoDavid Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 01/04/2025A dangerous precedent. This is a cowardly folding by CTV. The right instigated an online troll attack campaign, offering no evidence of their claims, and the network folded. Viewers and Rachel deserve better. 29800304
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I would tell a 21-hour long academic shaggy dog joke. "I can't tell you, you're not a professor" 010
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoGerry Wright @gdwantibiotics.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The latest discovery from the lab and great colleagues at McMaster and U Illinois, Chicago. Lariocidin, a new lasso peptide antibiotic that inhibits the ribosome. rdcu.be/efdhardcu.beA broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosomeNature - A new lasso peptide antibiotic exhibits broad-spectrum activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria by interfering with bacterial protein synthesis, is unaffected by common... 37544
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoProf. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I am I'm this picture and I don't like it 213325
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoPaul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated 592104635229
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoFiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · 10/03/2025🚨 The Whelan lab is currently recruiting for a 6-week summer undergraduate student as part of the Lister Institute's Summer Studentship scheme. 🚨 The student will work along side a Postdoc to study interactions between pathogens from the cystic fibrosis microbiome. More info & to apply please see:jobs.manchester.ac.ukLister Summer Studentship on Pathogen Interactions in Cystic Fibrosis:Oxford Road 02931
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoFrançoise Baylis @francoisebaylis.bsky.social · 19/03/2025www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...caut.caTrump administration threatening Canadian researchers(Ottawa – March 17, 2025) The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is warning that the 113
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 19/03/2025From the Royal Society preprint ferver: "Part of a letter to Dr Sloane, wherein is an account of a Double Pear" "THe Errors of Nature defervedly claim a place in her Hiftory, being of great ufe to illuftrate her Ordinary and more Regular Motions". royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.... 100
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoMark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025This is sad but true. I need to work to develop a network of friends in real life as my own life starts to change. PS: I am beyond grateful for my electronic friends. 151
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 17/03/2025I hope you're all having as a good a day as Asymptomatic Guy. (adapted from www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...) 010
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 17/03/2025And oh yeah, author is identified as a "US-based columnist" without disclosure of extensive business connections in the US. 010
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Absolute garbage article (not gonna link) in G&Mthis morning about "waaahh leave Musk and Tesla alone". - Intentionally conflates violent anti-Tesla protestors (who should be condemned) with all Tesla opponents - About DOGE: "The worthiness of the quest...should be applauded by all taxpayers" 120
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoAndrew Singer @oxonandrew.bsky.social · 17/03/2025‘Horizontal ARG transfers deducible from current genome sequence repositories have predominately happened in the human and wastewater microbiomes…and are strongly limited by genetic incompatibility between the hosts’ genomes, the acquired gene & the recipient’s genome’ www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comGenetic compatibility and ecological connectivity drive the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes - Nature CommunicationsThe dynamics of antimicrobial resistance gene transfer remain unclear. Here, by integrating bacterial genome and metagenome data with machine learning the authors show that genetic incompatibility is ... 031
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoDr. Tanya Samman @t-s-sci.bsky.social · 16/03/2025So much this!! I feel for our US colleagues, but there are plenty of underemployed or even unemployed scientists, not to mention active researchers experiencing lack of funding in Canada and Europe. 0124
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 16/03/2025How many other "Take normal security precautions" countries are putting Canadians in illegal detention at the border? 130
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoAndrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...httdoi.orgA robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry - NatureThe root of the eukaryote Tree of Life is estimated from a new, larger dataset of mitochondrial proteins including all known eukaryotic supergroups, showing it lies between two multi-supergroup assemb... 315264
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 14/03/2025www.isthemajorityofcanadianmediastillamericanowned.com YES Guess I'll check again tomorrow.isthemajorityofcanadianmediaamericanowned.com 100
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I update the GenBank slide every time I teach my course... 131
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 04/03/2025"I've done everything the Bible says! Even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!" 000
🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 04/03/2025What a time to be alive for now. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/...telegraph.co.ukBritish nuclear weapons can protect Canada against Trump, says Trudeau party candidateChrystia Freeland says Canada should build closer security partnerships with Nato allies as US president is ‘threatening sovereignty’ 000
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/03/2025JD Vance going at Zelensky over never saying thank you had a major abusive partner in a dysfunctional relationship vibe. I bet he's had practice. 3295640823
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 28/02/2025The world has witnessed the most disgraceful political tantrum of all time. Trump is not the leader of the "free world." He is convicted felon who doesn't deserve to be in the same room as President Zelenskyy. There is no going along to get along with this thug. Canada needs to stand with Ukraine. 55279592006
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoAndy Bowers @evilpez4.bsky.social · 28/02/2025HINTERLAND WHO’S WHO The HRM Pothole Goose in its natural habitat. 3406
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob Beikosgravel.bsky.social @sgravel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Faculty position opening in bioinformatics at the University of Montreal! There is a great bioinfo and comp bio community in Montreal. www.umontreal.ca/carrieres/pr...umontreal.caProfesseurs 016389
Reposted by 🇨🇦 Rob BeikoFiona Brinkman @fionabrinkman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025I appreciate how scary it can be for young parents to give their baby vaccines - they hear so much about reactions. But as vaccination rates go down its becoming more and more important to vaccinate to protect your child. 032