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Jeremy Grimshaw (he/him) @jgrimshaw.bsky.social · Aug 27

All academics should look to see if they are in this database!

Jeremy Grimshaw (he/him) @jgrimshaw.bsky.social · Aug 27

Amazing opportunity to work with one of Canada's leading primary care implementation researcher! www.womensacademics.ca/postdoctoral...

Postdoctoral Fellow – WIHV – OSS

Location: Office of Spread and Scale (OSS) Duration: 2 years Annual Stipend: $80,000/year The Office of Spread and Scale (OSS) at the Women’s College Hospital’s Institute for Health System Solutions…

www.womensacademics.ca

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D&I at WashU @washu-dandi.bsky.social · Jul 28

Wow! Check out this short history of #implementationscience in @pnas.org, with quotes by #impsci pioneers at WashU and beyond (including our leader Byron Powell and friends @rsbeidas.bsky.social, @jgrimshaw.bsky.social, and more!): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Implementation science aims to improve healthcare by validating effective interventions | PNAS

Implementation science aims to improve healthcare by validating effective interventions

www.pnas.org

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Jeremy Grimshaw (he/him) @jgrimshaw.bsky.social · Jun 17

Proud to be a signatory on this open letter on the economic benefits of Canada's public health system. You can still add your signature. centreforfuturework.ca/2025/06/17/t...

The Economic Benefits of Canada’s Public Health Care System - Centre for Future Work

Open letter from economists, health policy experts, and experts in related disciplines

centreforfuturework.ca

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NAFOCathy #Release EpsteinFiles; #Release RvzzianFiles 🌻🍁🐕💉👩🏻‍⚕️😷💙💛 @cathy007.bsky.social · Jun 17

www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/06...

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Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) @envevidence.bsky.social · Jun 4

3/3 Learn more about the roadmap and this call for input evidencesynthesis.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/...

ESIC Roadmap - Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative - Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative

evidencesynthesis.atlassian.net

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Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) @envevidence.bsky.social · Jun 4

2/3 What evidence do you have of
🔹 Existing demand for evidence synthesis – where, why, and how much;
🔹 Examples of successfully generating new demand;
🔹 Why people choose (or don’t choose) high-quality synthesis;
🔹 What alternatives they rely on.
Please send ideas to: [email protected]

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Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) @envevidence.bsky.social · Jun 4

1/3 Help shape the #ESIC Roadmap! The call for input on users, demand, competition, and alternatives is open. We encourage contributions from the CEE community – including those working in agriculture, forestry, water, climate change, renewable energy, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and land use👇

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Guillaume Fontaine @gfontaine.bsky.social · May 28

How do you decide which theory, model, or framework (TMF) should guide your next implementation project? Our team has just published SELECT-IT in @implementsci.bsky.social — a four-step meta-framework that turns that question into a replicable process: doi.org/10.1186/s130... @jgrimshaw.bsky.social

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Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · May 14

This is so exciting! The German National Library of Medicine @zbmed.bsky.social just had its first open meeting on the plan for an open & independent PubMed safety net. Here's my write-up @plos.org on the meeting & how institutions & others can help absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/g...
#MedLibs

Germany's Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net - Absolutely Maybe

A few months ago, I wrote about reasons to be concerned about the reliability of PubMed under the new regime at the…

absolutelymaybe.plos.org

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Brenda Wilson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 💪 @bjwilson059.bsky.social · May 3

Spending a wonderful day with @jgrimshaw.bsky.social at the opening of Pitmen, an exhibition of his late father’s work. At Silvershack Gallery in Toronto

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Lisa E 🇨🇦 @lisa1111can.bsky.social · Apr 27

Vote Canada!!

Prairiesunshine @scottishox2.bsky.social · Apr 27

The polls for Carlton are unlikely to be accurate this time. Polling only captures part of the picture.

Turnout will play a HUGE role in this battle. If Liberal & NDP voters unite behind Fanjoy then get out and vote on Monday, Poilievre will get to retire.

nationalpost.com/news/politic...

Pierre Poilievre's Carleton riding tops early voting numbers in 2025 federal election

The tally comes amidst speculation that Poilievre, who has held the riding for two decades, may be in a tight race to be re-elected Monday.

nationalpost.com

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Tyler Watt @tylerwatt.bsky.social · Apr 26

Carleton! You have an amazing opportunity to elect this incredible man. Bruce Fanjoy is genuine, compassionate, and truly cares about his community. At the doors, I felt change is happening in this riding. Please get out and vote for @brucefanjoy.bsky.social on Monday. #cdnpoli #Elxn2025

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · Apr 23

Wow.
When @theglobeandmail.com headlines that piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre’s platform is an exercise in “magical thinking,” you know he’s in trouble.
🤷🏼🍁🤔💯🤷🏼

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Jeremy Grimshaw (he/him) @jgrimshaw.bsky.social · Apr 23

My father, Frank Grimshaw, was a photographer with the UK National Coal Board in the North West of England from the late 1950s to early 1970s. He shot a remarkable body of work. We have an exhibition in Toronto, Canada 3rd May - June 22nd. (We are trying to organize a UK exhibition next year).

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Patrick Fafard @pfafard.bsky.social · Apr 5

Almost certainly true.
🧵
But 1) the limits on individual rights were often quite local - quarantine one ship, close one restaurant, etc. They were often of short duration.

The COVID-19 pandemic meant the limits on rights were broad & lasted months

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Prof Mags Watson @magswatson1.bsky.social · Mar 31

@tonyavery.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social
@bopa.org.uk @pcpa-uk.bsky.social @rpharms.com @thelancetendo.bsky.social @diabetesuk.bsky.social @pocklington.bsky.social

Prof Mags Watson @magswatson1.bsky.social · Mar 31

Delighted to see this report published today. I undertook the research via my consultancy, Watson Research & Training, and much of the evidence was derived from the Dunhill Medical Trust & Chief Scientist Office studies that explored the medicine-related needs of older people with sensory impairment

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Mar 23

"We want to preserve public health data that are crucial for people's well-being," - social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger, on the value of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...

Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever

The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.

www.npr.org

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · Mar 15

It's not an exaggeration to say that the Trump/Musk regime has figured out a way to pull off a global holocaust without invading a single country or dropping a single bomb. When you see it as intentional and not as the unfortunate byproduct of cutting government waste it's very clarifying.

Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · Mar 15

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · Mar 15

Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.

He's a eugenicist.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Jeremy Grimshaw (he/him) @jgrimshaw.bsky.social · Mar 14

@thelancet.bsky.social editorial on Canadian healthcare. Given everything we have gone through in the last 5 years, it is easy to forgot what progress has been made (see 1st para). Implicit also is the worry that we could go backwards depending on the next election. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Health in Canada: a pivotal political moment

As Justin Trudeau steps down after a decade as leader of Canada's ruling Liberal Party, Canadians face a pivotal moment. Although attention is focused on trade tariffs and souring relations with the U...

www.thelancet.com

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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · Mar 12

Nine Trump false claims about Canada, Daniel Dale CNN
I can confirm Daniel Dale's summary. There are more he hasn't listed, including Fentanyl claims.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

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Sneakypony 🇨🇦🎵✌️ @sneakypony.bsky.social · Mar 6

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.

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www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Public Health Agency of Canada - Canada.ca

Public Health Agency of Canada

www.canada.ca

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · Mar 4

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.

That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Mar 1

I’m getting so many messages from colleagues who have lost their jobs, or grants and funding

It is really heartbreaking

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Jeremy Grimshaw (he/him) @jgrimshaw.bsky.social · Mar 1

Appears to be back up (thankfully). However any threat to Pubmed would undermine medical science globally.

Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · Mar 1

PubMed down .... Here's my post on what to do

Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · Feb 14

Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally:

absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...

#medlibs

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