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The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 18h

Between 1980 and 1984, Ibis won none of their 55 matches. Their goal difference over that period was minus 206. Ibis say this was the longest winless run in football history.

They have attracted global fame as a result.

@jacklang.bsky.social went to Brazil to meet them.

Meet the worst football team in the world… and their superstar hairdresser

Ibis Sport Club once went almost four years without winning a game - the Brazilians' attitude to their status has brought them global fame

www.nytimes.com

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, it's not exactly an earth shattering surprise, but FIFA are an utterly corrupt, morally bankrupt, organization, who don't give a flying f**k about the health of the game or the actual day-to-day real fans who are the actual lifeblood

Fans bought the ‘right to buy’ 2026 World Cup tickets. Now they feel ‘ripped off’

Fans were left disgruntled as details of the connection between FIFA collectibles and World Cup game tickets emerged

www.nytimes.com

Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 1d

It's OK to not be OK.

There's no shame. The brain is an organ. Just like the pancreas or the lungs. You wouldn't be ashamed to ask for help with lung disease or diabetes. Mental health is no different. Any organ can get out of whack occasionally. The brain is no different.

Springer Nature @springernature.com · 1d

For #WorldMentalHealthDay, we are sharing a selection of journal articles, collections, books, clinical study registrations and blog posts chosen by our publishers #MentalHealth #SDG3

Read more here: communities.springernature.com/posts/world-...

World Mental Health Day 2025

To mark World Mental Health Day 2025, we are sharing a selection of Springer Nature journal articles, collections, clinical study registrations and blog posts chosen by our publishers.

communities.springernature.com

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 1d

Mr. Wakefield, we have some husky sounding geezer called RFK on the phone for you. Something about falsifying studies and fabricating data to meet pre-determined conclusions for personal financial gain

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

That’s not how you science.

Tweet from Republicans Against Trump says: “RFK Jr: There’s no proof that Tylenol causes autism. We’re doing the studies to make the proof.” Below is a photo of a White House meeting showing RFK Jr., Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump at a long conference table.

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 1d

But,but immigrants are bad

Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 2d

Less than 70% of science Nobel prize winners awarded this century hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize.
“Mobility benefits everyone. Each newcomer brings fresh ideas, new techniques & different ways of looking at old problems”
🧪 #academicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 1d

Between this and the Nobel peace prize, the dictator-in-waiting to the South of me is going to be assembling an invasion strike team isn't he.

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 1d

On Friday night, Oslo will stage a vital World Cup qualifier.

But it is also a political powder keg after Norway called for opponents Israel to be thrown out of the competition due to their government’s actions in Gaza.

This is how a football game took on geopolitical significance.

How Norway vs Israel became football’s most controversial fixture

Explaining why the conflict in Gaza is providing an unsettling backdrop to a crucial World Cup qualifier

www.nytimes.com

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 2d

Loved those Wales shirts though

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 2d

And now this gem: fetuses grow in the placenta.

The USA is absolutely f**ked.

We would genuinely have to have two separate courses to cover all the food and drug misinformation just in the last 3 months from these idiots

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 2d

Circumcision. Can honestly say that was not on the bingo sheet of American anti-science idiocy to address in our first year course next semester

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 2d

This is absolutely disgraceful behaviour by the named Universities

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 4d

Long may it continue

Global News | Breaking, Latest News and Video for Canada @globalnews.ca.web.brid.gy · 4d

Canada is buying 85% less U.S. booze than last year amid trade war: report

'This shift may reflect a broader sentiment that U.S.-imposed tariffs are unfair,' the report noted in its assessment of falling exports around the globe.

globalnews.ca

Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 5d

As much as I hate to say it. I do quite enjoy listening to Neville more often than not.

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 5d

And I thought it was because we use a VPN

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 5d

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.” This Collection celebrates the award and recognizes the winners’ achievements. #medsky 🧪

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries ...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5d

PubMed Update (no pun intended)

Publications with Pub Date

8/1//24 62209
9/1/24 64765
10/1/24 68211

8/1/25 61610
9/1/25 63719

10/1/25 35936 (as of 10/2/25)
10/1/25 38673 (as of 10/6/25, 8:00 AM)

It appears that ~40% of the expected number of publications are missing for 10/1/25

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a man in a black vest says no bueno in front of mountains

ALT: a man in a black vest says no bueno in front of mountains

media.tenor.com

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 5d

Hate to say this, but I'll be stunned if there isn't a major incident at one or more World Cup games

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 5d

I'll be surprised if there isn't a Kent State moment within the year

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 6d

Sweet Jesus. It's almost as though Newfoundland & Labrador doesn't exist. Media standards really are quite pathetic these days (and The Athletic is generally one of the better ones). Halifax is NOT the most easterly city in Canada.

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 6d

Saturday in Toronto, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. finally had his postseason moment.

http://dlvr.it/TNTq0G

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 6d

FFS @theathletic.com At least take a basic Geography course. Halifax is NOT the most Eastern part of Canada. There's an entire other province further east.

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 7d

8 points should be our base aim from those 5. I'd say we are maybe 1 point down right now on where we could have ideally hoped to have been after the first 7

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 7d

Other than Arsenal, this is the most problems any team has caused us, but we are generally matching them and giving as good as we get

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 7d

Competed well. Could, and perhaps should, be 3-3. Okafor causing problems when he gets on ball. Simons looks dangerous for them. We need to be careful with their counters. Get the feeling there's a red and/or a dodgy penalty in this ref

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Mark D. Berry 🇨🇦 @markdberry.bsky.social · 7d

The World Cup is going to be an absolute mess isn't it

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 8d

Kristi Noem tells Bad Bunny that ICE will be at the Super Bowl and the event should only be for Americans who “love this country”

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British Pharmacological Society @britpharmsoc.bsky.social · 8d

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