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Jim Woodgett

@jwoodgett.bsky.social

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Spread too thinly. Toronto. Originally from UK. Cancer biology researcher at Sinai Health. Also Prez of the Terry Fox Research Institute.

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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 3m

Leicester.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 4m

Even better, buy direct from the vendor. Often the same price (as mandated by Amazon regulations) but Amazon receives nothing.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 10m

At our weekly Terry Fox Research Institute Zoom team meeting (the staff are spread across the country from coast to cost) we have one person present for 10 minutes on something they’re interested in. It’s a remarkable dive into art, interests, hobbies, history. Every time it teaches us something.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 3h

Including girls...

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 12h

Alpha ketoglutarate dehydrogenase farts in your general direction.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 14h

Are you saying we plebians have a chance?

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 14h

Pure coincidence. bsky.app/profile/cyri...

Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 17h

WTF happened circa 1985??

"The fraction of published articles classified as reviews per year in PubMed from 1900 to 2024, covering approximately 40 million publication records, stratified by publication type"
A Hauser in @emboreports.org

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 14h

Makes a great question on Jeopardy though.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 14h

Blue Jays make more of a sound that is reminiscent of a loud jeer. Also makes clear whistled notes and gurgling sounds when drinking beer and trouncing the Yellow Bellied Yankee.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 14h

Luxury, before that we had to hand carve individual characters out of ivory, punch them into the arse of an elephant and coax it to sit on a leather sheet. Ben Lewin still rejected it.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 23h

Right out of the park…

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 23h

Vax computing made the jump to Windows or Mac like being smothered in the finest angora wool.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 23h

Ottawa airport had radar issues today so many flights were delayed or cancelled. The guy I saw in the New York Yankee’s cap’s day just ended even more badly.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 23h

Then Bart Sefton bought a Macintosh Plus And let me play with it. Never looked back.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 23h

Once wrote a review (with Kathy Gould) on PKC using a Vax terminal in 1987 or so. We had something like 500 references. We printed them it on that green and white wide paper with serrated edges, spread it on the library floor at the Salk Institute and checked each one within the text. #goodtimes

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 23h

Why does anyone listen to him for anything? Professor Imogen Coe (not on BlueSky, I think) also testified in person at the Science and Research committee. Why are we relying so much on TMU researchers stepping forward? Thank you to them, but where are the other universities?

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 1d

Please can someone create an up to date Google street view of Portland? Show the blatant lies visually In a manner anyone can understand. Heck, just drive around with a streaming dashcam.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 2d

100% A test of leadership is making the best decisions in the most difficult circumstances. Doing nothing, keeping heads down, hoping not to be noticed, is cowardice. It is noticed and authority is lost. Diversity in science is being questioned in Canada. I hope there isn’t silence.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 2d

Early morning flight to Ottawa on Air Canada. Must be the Raptors plane.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 3d

They are stickier than skunk jiuce and just as obnoxious.

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 3d

This year's Crick @crick.ac.uk PhD programme is open for applications

- £27,715 tax-free student stipend per year for 4 years
- Tuition fees paid
- Student visa fee & health surcharges covered

Deadline 5 Nov

We have a project available. For all the details visit:

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Briscoe Lab | Cellular Dynamics and Pattern Formation in Vertebrate Development

www.crick.ac.uk

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 4d

Ditto GSK3 (rat) and Zeste White 3 (Drosophila), on a delayed commuter train just north of St Pancras station. Also 1990.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 4d

Not a fan of what the Nobel Prizes have become (massive oversimplification of the contributions to modern scientific progress) but if there’s a prize for GLP1 agonists that excludes Dan Drucker then science will have lost to politics.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 4d

I cancelled Prime twice… Thought I’d done it when a new screen came up with all the benefits of Prime but I had missed the little button labeled ”continue to cancel”. And try cancelling Shopify payment (even though it’s 🇨🇦)! You need a double PhD.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 4d

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