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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 23d

BREAKING: Royal Society to reconsider expelling Elon Musk

Violent rhetoric in address to anti-immigration rally pushes science academy to reassess billionaire’s fellowship

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Royal Society to reconsider expelling Elon Musk - Research Professional News

Violent rhetoric in address to anti-immigration rally pushes science academy to reassess billionaire’s fellowship

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Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · 28d

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Doug Ford Is Trying to Control How Universities Operate | The Local

Ontario’s Bill 33 mandates merit-based admissions and gives the province unprecedented power over university and college operations. Is it part of a broader right-wing crackdown on campuses?

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Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute @canssi-incass.bsky.social · 29d

CALL FOR FACULTY PROPOSALS

Do you have a project that could offer a comprehensive #research & #training experience to a postdoc in #statisticalsciences?

Submit your proposal to the CANSSI Distinguished #Postdoctoral #Fellowships program by October 1:

https://loom.ly/GvcQVII

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Canadian Journal of Zoology @canjzoology.bsky.social · 29d

Ready to grow as a reviewer? Sign up for the @scas-scsa.bsky.social Early-Career Reviewer Program and start shaping the research that drives Canada’s aquatic science community ▶️ buff.ly/4jkk8qr

#PeerReview #AquaticScience #EarlyCareerResearchers #ECR #ECP

Underwater view of a colorful brook trout swimming over rocky riverbed with sunlight filtering through water.

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Aug 15

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · Aug 7

Carney is planing 15% budget cuts across most of government. @supportourscience.bsky.social and @u15ca.bsky.social worry what that would do to a research system that is already lagging behind other countries. My story for @science.org 🧪

www.science.org/content/arti...

Canada plans a 15% budget cut. Scientists are alarmed

Cuts could erase promised boost, researchers fear

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · Jul 7

I’d missed this last week but Indiana passed a new law that is leading to the forced elimination of hundreds of majors across their state universities. Apropos of recent events, the eliminated majors include atmospheric science. Sabotage is a word that comes to mind.

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Among the dozens of undergraduate degree programs at IU Bloomington that are being eliminated or suspended with plans either to eliminate or merge them were Art History, American Studies, Atmospheric Science, Cognitive Science, Comparative Literature, Dance, Earth Science, French, Geography, East Asian Studies, Gender Studies, German Studies, Italian, Music/Ballet, Religious Studies, Spanish, and Statistics.

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · Jun 28

Ontario parents, pay attention to this: underfunding our universities means there may not be a spot for your kid when it’s time for them to go. We have the *lowest* per capita support of any province!!

archive.ph/4qD1H

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · Jun 26

The Federal Court has approved a class-action settlement for people who suffered abuse at federally run ‘Indian hospitals’ following out-of-court negotiations with Ottawa and Indigenous survivors.

Federal Court approves Indian Hospitals class-action settlement

The settlement is for those who suffered abuse at federally run 'Indian hospitals'. The federal government ran 33 such hospitals.

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Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · Jun 11

We just can't have nice things, can we

www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...

How Metrolinx’s plan to deliver European-style train service went off the rails

GO Expansion will still transform Greater Golden Horseshoe transit — but likely won’t be as ambitious as what was planned just three years ago

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.

This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · Jun 3

They're literally doing the meme

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Lucas Waltzer @lucaswaltzer.bsky.social · Jun 3

#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate!

www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Drosophila Genetic Database

The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

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Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · May 30

The scientific community is potentially not ready for a flood of challenges to interpretations of existing data (supercharged by AI analysis tools).

Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · May 30

Interesting read: "...open data policies, regardless of motive, could promote adversarial reanalysis and produce potentially paralyzing challenges to existing scientific and regulatory infrastructures."

(This isn't to say that open data policies are bad, just that they have certain implications.)

Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · May 29

You can read more here about this history and my take (along with my excellent students @bennettmcintosh.com and Kelsey Ichikawa) on why adjudicating between competing analyses is likely to be difficult, time consuming work: osf.io/preprints/me...

OSF

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Canadian Science Policy Centre @sciencepolicy.ca · May 22

Do you know someone making exceptional contributions to science and innovation policy in Canada? Nominate them for a Trailblazer Award in Science and Innovation Policy!

Deadline June 14, 2025: sciencepolicy.ca/programs/awa...

#CdnSci #CdnInnovation

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · May 13

Congratulations to the winners of Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition. The overall winner is a photo of biologist Audun Rikardsen, taken by his PhD student Emma Vogel, scanning the waters for whales near fishing trawlers in the fjords of northern Norway. 🧵 #SciArt #Academicsky 🧪

The overall winner is a photo of biologist Audun Rikardsen, taken by his PhD student Emma Vogel, scanning the waters for whales near fishing trawlers in the fjords of northern Norway.

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Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · May 10

Using forensic accounting to detect greenwashing #climatesky

Institute for Management & Innovation (IMI) @imiuoft.bsky.social · May 1

From numbers to narratives - read about Priyanka Sambhi's journey in #forensicaccounting and how this MFAcc alum's passion for investigation led to transformative experiences in our #IMIAlumni series: uoft.me/mfacc-priyanka

#uoft @uoft.bsky.social @uoftmississauga.bsky.social

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U of T Mississauga (UTM) @utm.utoronto.ca · May 9

#UofT's Sarah Hazell, Alicia Hawkins of #UTM along with partners from Sagamok Anishnawbek and Ojibwe Cultural Foundation have received an Ontario Heritage Award for their collaborative work ➡️ uoft.me/bzn

Sarah Hazell, Alicia Hawkins and partners from Sagamok Anishnawbek, Ojibwe Cultural Foundation receive Ontario Heritage Award

Sarah Hazell (supplied image) Sarah Hazell, a PhD student in the department of anthropology in the Fa

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · May 10

🧪 Re-upping this story for scientists. The man in the photo and interviewed in the story—is physiological ecologist Nathan Phillips at Boston U. Among other topics, he studies urban gas leaks. He’s also my friend.

Dr Phillips’ own research findings inform his activism.

www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

Boston-area climate activists report visits from the FBI

Local climate activists are on edge after people claiming to be FBI agents visited at least six at their homes on the same day in Greater Boston in March. Weeks later, the motivations behind these vis...

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Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · May 9

Someone I know saw one of the UTM goslings get hit and killed by a car. Please drive carefully ☹️

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · May 5

4. Tell others–friends, family members, etc–about the importance of NSF and ask that they contact their congressional Representatives and Senators.
5. Notify your representatives (& Governor) of grant terminations directly impacting you, your department, your state; they may not know!

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Unofficial TorontoStar (All News) @torontostar-rss.bsky.social · May 5

Health Canada warns against using infant self-feeders sold on Amazon.ca over choking hazard

All infant self-feeding devices are banned in Canada, the advisory says.

www.thestar.com

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Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social · Apr 23

UPDATE:

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Conservatives update platform to include omitted 'anti-woke' promise | CBC News

The Conservative Party has republished the English-language version of its platform after what it says was a "publishing oversight" resulted in the omission of a previous commitment to crack down on "...

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Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · Apr 21

Climate may not be getting much attention but #elxn2025 will have huge implications for Canadian climate policy. @simondonner.bsky.social and I compare climate-related commitments of the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP. 🧵 w bonus summary table! #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/21/o...

This is a climate election

With the frontrunners pitching wildly contrasted policies in some ways and similar ones in another, it's vital for Canadians to keep abreast of their climate ambitions — and to hold them to account wh...

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