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Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) @biogeneurope.bsky.social · 8d

♨️Live @ #BGEconnects:

Finished “EBP – How genomics is transforming understanding of biodiversity through reference genome production” by Harris Lewin, chair of @ebpgenome.bsky.social.

“Reference-quality genomes can now be produced at scale”, he says. “We need to work together to scale up.”

#BGE

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Brian Wilde @bwildemtl.bsky.social · Apr 21

Canada is ranked 1 in education, 3 in safety, 4 in justice, 4 in overall best country.

We are not a broken country. We have not suffered a lost decade.

Our existence is in the balance.

Vote.

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Michael D. Wilson @wilson-md.bsky.social · Apr 16

Keep on Rockin in the free world!

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Michael D. Wilson @wilson-md.bsky.social · Apr 4

Michael got me over here too :)

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Mar 27

PatchWorkPlot: simultaneous visualization of local alignments across multiple sequences arxiv.org/abs/2503.20766 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/yana-safonov...

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Michael D. Wilson @wilson-md.bsky.social · Mar 24

I couldn't agree more!

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Michael D. Wilson @wilson-md.bsky.social · Mar 23

This quote comes at 7:48 (not in article). Smith does a good job explaining the Cdn perspective of tariffs and the diffs between Cdn and US political systems. Noting common ground gives me more confidence that Smith's articulate opinion on Poliviere is accurate.

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Premiere Danielle Smith (Alberta, CA) - March 8, 2025

Play Premiere Danielle Smith (Alberta, CA) - March 8, 2025 by Breitbart on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel.bsky.social · Mar 19

4) Their definition of epigenetics is also somewhat awkward (see e.g. www.nature.com/articles/nrm...).

This is a very cool paper, but the science would shine brighter without the somewhat forced attempt to dress established knowledge as a new concept via awkward terminology.

A user's guide to the ambiguous word 'epigenetics' - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

The term 'epigenetics' has multiple interpretations, so we need to be clear which definition we are using, argues John Greally.

www.nature.com

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · Mar 16

Canada has existential choices to make in the Trump era. It had become complacent about its many virtues, and has had a sharp awakening, writes Michael Ignatieff.
www.prospectmagazine...

As America retreats, Europe must step up

An unstable world order, divided between competing superpowers, will force all other nations to make tough choices

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Michael D. Wilson @wilson-md.bsky.social · Mar 1

Thank you for sharing this! Many of the best meetings are in the US but it seems irresponsible to go. Sending an international student to the US at this time could even be dangerous. I have told my lab that I am not eager to support US travel, but also realize for career reasons it may be necessary.

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Michael D. Wilson @wilson-md.bsky.social · Feb 28

Congratulations Federico!

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · Feb 26

This is incredible

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Feb 26

Canadian artist Howie Tsui redesigned an old pinball machine into a simulation of a musket-ball rattling around a soldier's guts for an exhibition on the War of 1812. It's meant to demonstrate the way that repetition and concentration can inure a person to the horrors of war.

A pinball machine designed to look like the internal organs of a human being.

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · Feb 25

the united states no longer condemns russia’s invasion of ukraine. aligning the us with belarus, sudan, north korea and other failed states.

a reflection of changing policy and a wake up call for us allies.

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Michael D. Wilson @wilson-md.bsky.social · Feb 18

I like tweet. It pays tribute to the happy premuskian days sci-twitter. Also avoids adding another silly verb to the vocabulary:)

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Liz Worthey @lizworthey.bsky.social · Feb 17

MW: Highlighting the importance of collaborative research to his own work - pointed out that a very fruitful project in his lab was spearheaded as a collaboration by a student who rotated in both labs and brought them together, the PIs now work together successfully on join projects #LorneGenome25

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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · Feb 14

CDC source:

“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.

They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

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Michael D. Wilson @wilson-md.bsky.social · Feb 13

And gives a clear example that turned out to be quite true: "For example: the spread of cancer is alarming—what are we to do about it? At the moment, no one can answer the question for lack of knowledge; and the knowledge is not likely to emerge except through endowed research."

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Michael D. Wilson @wilson-md.bsky.social · Feb 13

He clearly links the good life to funding research: "The knowledge required can only exist where governments or millionaires devote themselves to its discovery and diffusion."

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Michael D. Wilson @wilson-md.bsky.social · Feb 13

"What I Believe" by Bertrand Russell is 100 yrs old and still relevant (www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73782).

"The good life, as we conceive it, demands a multitude of social conditions, and cannot be realized without them. The good life, we said, is a life inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

www.gutenberg.org

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Feb 10

You heard it here first folks, borders aren’t real, they’re just an artificial line someone drew.

This quote will 100% start one of my book chapters.

Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · Feb 10

The Canadian border is just a line somebody once drew on a map, but the Mexican border is a divine demarcation penned in golden light by the hands of angels.

X post from @Acyn. Trump: Now, I love the people of Canada. We have a great relationship. But if they became our 51st state, it would be the greatest thing they could ever do. And think of how beautiful that country would be without that artificial line running right through it. Somebody just drew it many years ago with a ruler -- just a line.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Feb 9

You are making a big difference in standing up to tyranny. Your decision to cancel the family trip to the United States is freaking them out.
As Donald insults our nation, businesses are watching our tourism dollars dry up.
Boycott all trips to the United States.
www.thetravel.com/us-travel-as...

U.S. Travel Association Warns of Economic Tourism Disaster After Thousands of Canadian Tourists Cancel Trips in Protest

While Proposed Tariffs Against Canada Are Now Paused, Canadian Travel Agencies Already Witnessing Retaliation in Form of Canceled Trips

www.thetravel.com

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Feb 9

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

globalnews.ca

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Michael D. Wilson @wilson-md.bsky.social · Feb 4

Sound advice!

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Feb 2

There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Jan 27

PubMed launched in 1996, but took time to take off as an Internet-enabled replacement. Now it's easy to forget how miserable the alternative was.

Thank you, National Library of Medicine, for keeping grad students where they belong: listening to true crime podcasts while pipetting.

A grad student at a bench, pipette in hand, and headset on listening to something. It's a cartoon-type of illustration I stole from a site called "The Pathologist" used as the icon for the podcast list they recommend.

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