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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 · 1d
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.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 1d
Early morning flight to Ottawa on Air Canada. Must be the Raptors plane.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 1d
They are stickier than skunk jiuce and just as obnoxious.
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 2d
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
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 2d
Ditto GSK3 (rat) and Zeste White 3 (Drosophila), on a delayed commuter train just north of St Pancras station. Also 1990.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 3d
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.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 3d
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.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 3d
Modern heat pumps are very efficient and can extract “heat” from cold air. They’re marketed in the Maritimes of Canada, hardly the most tropical of places. www.efficiencyns.ca/tools-and-re...
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 3d
Back to the future!
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 3d
What level of self-ignorance must he have to think this? Herd immunity is still not achieved and likely won’t be. And no mention of who bankrolled this ghastly attempt at an inane policy.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 3d
Yes, everyone in my class had the album. It was so different and appealed to people no matter their taste (WHO, Led Zeppelin, T.Rex, Carly Simon, the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac).
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 3d
Replace your Google bookmark with this. It strips awaythe AI crust and feels like the Google of a decade ago, but faster. udm14.org
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 3d
The album, which was published by Virgin Records and was their first big hit.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 3d
Also launched Richard Branson’s path to meglomania, though he’s been somewhat less Dick Dastardly than Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos and Ellison.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 3d
Could add further switches turned off:
Common sense
Decency
International relations
Unity
Respect
…
de Adder cartoon in the Globe and Mail showing a row of switches that are turned off, including foreign aid, EPA, federal grants. A man on a ladder is switchingg off US Government. Voight is saying to Trump as they walk by, “It was pretty much shutdown already”.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 3d
You’re going to be dunked with a tub of Gatorade containing plastic zebrafish.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 4d
Broken. An utterly broken system.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d
Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each.

Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.

Read @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social's award-winning investigation:
The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 4d
Too much lithium in the mix!
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 4d
A wonderful actor who would proudly say in her inimitable way, she had regretfully kicked the bouquet.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d
Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96
Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96
The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Patricia Routledge, the stage and screen actor best known for starring as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and Henrietta “Hetty” Wainthropp in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has died at the age of 96. Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1929 and attended the University of Liverpool and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She began her career in theatre and musical theatre in 1952, later making her Broadway debut in 1966 in How’s the World Treating You. Routledge would go on to win a Tony award and an Olivier for her stage work, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years, appearing in productions including Richard III, alongside Antony Sher. Continue reading...
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 4d
I don’t think that runs MacOS 26.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 4d
Updating my laptop to MacOS Tahoe (which is reassuring catching up to me in age) and the estimate of time remaining is randomly jumping between 7 mins and 23 hours and everything in between. Looking good!
Progress bar for a Mac OS update jumping between 7 mins and many hours.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 4d
Rereading the notice, they, generously, are not taking away a customers ability to cancel a subscription. Woot! True Bezos.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 4d
Isn't this just a proxy war over NIH funding as one federal funding stream to States, presumably building up to why are we sending tax dollars to DC when they are being used in every which way against us? CA is drawing a line knowing it has to at some point.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 4d
I'm thinking more of the cheaper bullets.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 4d
The enshittification agenda at Amazon proceeds apace. Of course, the cancellation process has a series of traps. And, of course, the price steadily rises.
Amazon changes their cancellation policy for Ring subscriptions. Changes to Subscription Cancellation Policy While you always have the ability to stop renewing your subscriptions, we no longer offer refunds for cancellations in the middle of your monthly or annual billing periods, unless required by applicable law. Please review our updated cancellation policy here.
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