Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social
Medical Officer of Health & CEO @phlakelands.bsky.social researcher @hei_mcmaster | dad, doctor, dreamer
People sometimes think I’m a martyr or crazy riding my bike year long (except ski commute days), but it’s actually because I’m too lazy to scrape off a windshield and my winter bike commute is sometimes like a fun cyclocross race!
January 28, 2026 at 12:20 PM
People sometimes think I’m a martyr or crazy riding my bike year long (except ski commute days), but it’s actually because I’m too lazy to scrape off a windshield and my winter bike commute is sometimes like a fun cyclocross race!
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To see how Kirsty Duncan advocated for science, watch her TED talk or read her book, "The Exclusion Effect: How the sciences discourage women & girls and what to do about it"
Scientists must be free to learn, to speak, and to challenge, she said -- an even more vital argument now than then.
Scientists must be free to learn, to speak, and to challenge, she said -- an even more vital argument now than then.
Scientists must be free to learn, to speak and to challenge
"You do not mess with something so fundamental, so precious, as science," says Kirsty Duncan, Canada's first Minister of Science. In a heartfelt, inspiring talk about pushing boundaries, she makes the...
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January 27, 2026 at 2:00 AM
To see how Kirsty Duncan advocated for science, watch her TED talk or read her book, "The Exclusion Effect: How the sciences discourage women & girls and what to do about it"
Scientists must be free to learn, to speak, and to challenge, she said -- an even more vital argument now than then.
Scientists must be free to learn, to speak, and to challenge, she said -- an even more vital argument now than then.
If you haven’t read her work highly recommend:
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Hunting the 1918 Flu
In 1918, medical science was at a loss to explain the Spanish flu epidemic, which swept the world in three great waves and killed an estimated 20 to 40 million people in just one year, more than the n...
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If you haven’t read her work highly recommend:
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