Matt Marsh
marshmat.bsky.social
Matt Marsh
@marshmat.bsky.social
Engineer, cruising sailor, dad, photographer, musician, and a few other things. 🇨🇦
Is there a jetway anywhere in the world that *isn't* sponsored by HSBC?
April 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Sorry folks, #ONstorm is all my fault. I swapped the Mazda to summer tires last week.
March 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Mildly amused at how many @ntsbnewsroom.bsky.social reports have a section in the middle for "shit we warned the FAA about 17 years ago and they still haven't fixed so we're gonna shame them for it for a 5th time".
March 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It's time for a CAN, EU, + friends travel & trade pact. Call it a North Atlantic Free Trade Area, perhaps. 🇨🇦 able to buy, sell, travel with 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇲🇽 & more, reduce everyone's dependence on 🇺🇸.
February 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Just spent half the weekend catching up on back issues of admiralcloudberg.medium.com by @kyracloudy.bsky.social Hugely talented writer, turning long dry technical reports into incredibly compelling pieces from which this engineer learns something new every time. Highly recommended reading!
Admiral Cloudberg – Medium
Read writing from Admiral Cloudberg on Medium. Kyra Dempsey, analyzer of plane crashes. @Admiral_Cloudberg on Reddit, @KyraCloudy on Twitter and Bluesky. Email inquires -> [email protected].
admiralcloudberg.medium.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Proud to show off our new #CanBoat flags at the #YGKSantaParade last week!
December 14, 2024 at 1:32 AM
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Hello #YGK! We're your Power & Sail Squadron, now offering boating safety, navigation, emergency response, etc. training under the new #CanBoat #NautiSavoir brand.
Still 100% volunteer-run and with all the local history & lore you've come to expect from us!
December 14, 2024 at 1:23 AM
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#ICYMI: For the 13th consecutive year, KHSC and its research arm, the Kingston General Health Research Institute, have been named one of Canada’s Top 40 #ResearchHospitals by Research Infosource.

More on how KHSC maintains its ranking here: www.kingstonist.com/news/khscs-r...
KHSC's research institute continues to rank in top 40 for research hospitals in Canada – Kingston News
(Kingston, Ontario) For the 13th consecutive year, KHSC)and its research institute, the Kingston General Health Research Institute, have been named one of Canada’s Top 40 research hospitals by Researc...
www.kingstonist.com
December 12, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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5/5 Finally, I was honored to write an op-ed with my esteemed co-author on the Science piece, Wilmot James, former MP and Shadow Health Minister in South Africa, relating this new work to my previous work on AMR and COVID-19, and Dr James’ work towards global health equity. Link soon to follow.
December 12, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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4/5 Mirror bacteria are not right around the corner, so we have an opportunity to start a broad and inclusive effort to better understand these risks, and to find a responsible path forward. See mbdialogues.org for more about the first steps here.
Mirror Biology Dialogues Fund
mbdialogues.org
December 12, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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3/5 I’m in awe of my synthetic biology colleagues who previously sought to eventually build mirror bacteria but are now urging for this goal to be abandoned. Not an easy thing to do!
December 12, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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2/5 As an evolutionary microbiologist and ecologist, I was asked to evaluate the potential for mirror bacteria to invade diverse hosts and ecosystems. I was initially very skeptical (as all scientists should be!), but after collaborating on the report, I have been left profoundly concerned.
December 12, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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I’m proud to join more than 30 colleagues today in sharing our analysis of potential risks from “mirror life”. We summarize our findings in a @science.org article, and in greater detail in a 300pg technical report:

Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
December 12, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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Over 30 prominent scientists call for a ban on the creation of a "mirror cell"--a microbe made of molecules that are mirror images of their natural forms. It could cause a mind-boggling global disaster. Here's my story [gift link] 🧪https://nyti.ms/3OUCXp6
A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn (Gift Article)
Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said.
nyti.ms
December 12, 2024 at 8:04 PM