Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦
@michaelhendricks.bsky.social
Biologist, McGill University
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A student admitted to grad school at UNB is stranded in Gaza because the Canadian government won't issue a study permit without biometrics that in turn cannot be produced without a travel visa to leave Gaza.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
![Student accepted into UNB grad program stranded in Gaza awaiting Canadian study permit [video]
Advocates say Ottawa lacks the political will to evacuate more than 130 Palestinian students admitted to universities across the country
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November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A student admitted to grad school at UNB is stranded in Gaza because the Canadian government won't issue a study permit without biometrics that in turn cannot be produced without a travel visa to leave Gaza.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
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"ppl are really sick to the back teeth of concentrated corporate power. & I think that while they havent put their finger on it, there is a sense that a lot of our problems—genocide, climate inaction, xenophobia, authoritarianism, worsening labor conditions—are all downstream of concentrated power"
Cory Doctorow Explains Why Everything is Getting Shittier
The author and tech activist sits down with Current Affairs to discuss his new book, “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It”
www.currentaffairs.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"ppl are really sick to the back teeth of concentrated corporate power. & I think that while they havent put their finger on it, there is a sense that a lot of our problems—genocide, climate inaction, xenophobia, authoritarianism, worsening labor conditions—are all downstream of concentrated power"
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I'm ICE, boys. I love crashing cars, getting divorced, crashing cars, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, crashing cars, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—crashing cars
ICE agents involved in another vehicle collision, this time in Mesa azmirror.com/briefs/ice-a...
ICE agents involved in another vehicle collision, this time in Mesa | Arizona Mirror
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents collided with a car driven by a person they were attempting to apprehend in a Mesa neighborhood.
azmirror.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm ICE, boys. I love crashing cars, getting divorced, crashing cars, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, crashing cars, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—crashing cars
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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'Is My Refrigerator Woke?' the most controversial op-ed of all time, comments closed after 16,323 pages of heated debate
No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
'Is My Refrigerator Woke?' the most controversial op-ed of all time, comments closed after 16,323 pages of heated debate
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The CDC website has been lobotomized. Where it once presented the decades of evidence debunking the false claims of a link between vaccines and autism, that has now been replaced with junk science.
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The CDC website has been lobotomized. Where it once presented the decades of evidence debunking the false claims of a link between vaccines and autism, that has now been replaced with junk science.
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Environment groups are technicians trying to help maintain the life support systems on our spaceship. Their interests are definitely everyone's interests
Sally Sara #RNbreakfast on the #environment Bill:
"industry and environment groups continue to lobby for their interests".
No. Industry groups lobby for their interests/profits.
Environment groups lobby for the national interest, and future generations.
More 'both sides' media crap. #auspol
"industry and environment groups continue to lobby for their interests".
No. Industry groups lobby for their interests/profits.
Environment groups lobby for the national interest, and future generations.
More 'both sides' media crap. #auspol
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Environment groups are technicians trying to help maintain the life support systems on our spaceship. Their interests are definitely everyone's interests
LOL it's Chalmers.
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
LOL it's Chalmers.
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this is hilarious and miserable. just so tech bros can have their dystopia moment, students have to lose all accessibility provided by remote technology and we the professors lose the flexibility and convenience. but progress, amirite?!
For the moment, there is no alternative.
AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
economist.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
this is hilarious and miserable. just so tech bros can have their dystopia moment, students have to lose all accessibility provided by remote technology and we the professors lose the flexibility and convenience. but progress, amirite?!
I am seriously considering setting aside a large percentage of lab class time for report writing, because the choices are making data analysis and writing an in-class activity or just cutting them because they're meaningless assignments.
this is hilarious and miserable. just so tech bros can have their dystopia moment, students have to lose all accessibility provided by remote technology and we the professors lose the flexibility and convenience. but progress, amirite?!
For the moment, there is no alternative.
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I am seriously considering setting aside a large percentage of lab class time for report writing, because the choices are making data analysis and writing an in-class activity or just cutting them because they're meaningless assignments.
We're like 3 months away from a CDC announcement that covid infection saves lives.
Translation from Swedish to English
Director Bhattacharya: As a scientist, when you see negative excess deaths starting during a serious disease outbreak, does that cause you to question the assumptions of your model?
Director Bhattacharya: As a scientist, when you see negative excess deaths starting during a serious disease outbreak, does that cause you to question the assumptions of your model?
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
We're like 3 months away from a CDC announcement that covid infection saves lives.
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RIP to the legend Jimmy Cliff, who has sadly left us age 81.
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Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff
YouTube video by TheSunAnge
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November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
RIP to the legend Jimmy Cliff, who has sadly left us age 81.
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C'mon, BSDNeuro is doing 6-8 years in minimum security upstate, don't kick him while he's down.
My favorite from an @hhmi.org scientist: “the great thing about optogenetics is it keeps the riff raff out of the field.”
Heard an established successful neuroscientist dismissing junior scientists as "people at the bottom" 🤦♀️
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
November 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
C'mon, BSDNeuro is doing 6-8 years in minimum security upstate, don't kick him while he's down.
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*the highest anyone's ever been*
if you say don't break the law, but nobody's breaking the law, the only thing you could be saying is break the law
if you say don't break the law, but nobody's breaking the law, the only thing you could be saying is break the law
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
*the highest anyone's ever been*
if you say don't break the law, but nobody's breaking the law, the only thing you could be saying is break the law
if you say don't break the law, but nobody's breaking the law, the only thing you could be saying is break the law
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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"These findings highlight the divergence between what the candidate emphasized and what the media reported" hmmmmm
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"These findings highlight the divergence between what the candidate emphasized and what the media reported" hmmmmm
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Hang onto these pictures because Hegseth will have the offending sign removed as soon as he sobers up today.
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hang onto these pictures because Hegseth will have the offending sign removed as soon as he sobers up today.
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Anyone who has been involved in elder care will relate to this book... the drawer of just lids, duplicates of expired stuff, hoards of receipts... Chast humanizes her parents in their later years but keeps her sense of humour about the challenges of dealing with less 'with it' versions of them
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Anyone who has been involved in elder care will relate to this book... the drawer of just lids, duplicates of expired stuff, hoards of receipts... Chast humanizes her parents in their later years but keeps her sense of humour about the challenges of dealing with less 'with it' versions of them
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*Graphic novel of the week! 'Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?', by Roz Chast, long-time staff cartoonist at The New Yorker, covers new ground for graphic novels: her parents' decline and final years. It's pure Roz Chast: touching, hilarious, and relatable. @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
*Graphic novel of the week! 'Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?', by Roz Chast, long-time staff cartoonist at The New Yorker, covers new ground for graphic novels: her parents' decline and final years. It's pure Roz Chast: touching, hilarious, and relatable. @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
"Hmm it wasn't Efficient after all" is the dumbest take in the world and also the extent of every major newspaper's analysis.
All this to say that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer and DOGE was not a failure. It functioned as designed. I wish people would cover this accurately. It's not difficult.
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"Hmm it wasn't Efficient after all" is the dumbest take in the world and also the extent of every major newspaper's analysis.
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All this to say that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer and DOGE was not a failure. It functioned as designed. I wish people would cover this accurately. It's not difficult.
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
All this to say that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer and DOGE was not a failure. It functioned as designed. I wish people would cover this accurately. It's not difficult.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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'i hate socialism and that's why i refuse to socialize'
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
'i hate socialism and that's why i refuse to socialize'
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Gosh with any luck you might be able to avoid doing science altogether
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October 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Gosh with any luck you might be able to avoid doing science altogether