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Dan Dutton
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I am an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University in the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology. Based in Saint John, NB. Care about government spending, policy, measurement, and mitigating bad hands of the #SDoH.
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CLSAFindings💡: Comprehensiveness vs efficiency: A cross-sectional analysis of the association between allostatic load and the frailty index using the CLSA

Cc: @danduttonysj.bsky.social, @dalhousieu.bsky.social

🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40882950/
October 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Very impressed by the NB Heart and Stroke conference today. Great mix of topics.
October 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Post-truth politics
September 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Sep 29
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
September 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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This program is one of the most interesting programs I have ever attended, interdisciplinary presentations done right across the board.
GROWW share.google/kMu9eBTBNO9h...
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Changing the way women’s and girls' health research is conducted in Canada.
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September 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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A former student now medical student, Luke Duignan, published his Research In Medicine project (rare) on the potential substitution between frailty index and allostatic load. AL is a nice variable for considering the burden of SDoH in popns.

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Comprehensiveness vs Efficiency: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Association Between Allostatic Load and the Frailty Index Using the CLSA
The goal of this study was to investigate the associations between the frailty index (FI) and allostatic load (AL) to determine if allostatic load con…
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September 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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While this is a great initiative we know that downstream food provision does not address food insecurity in the population.

Fredericton's food rescue centre to be important piece of food insecurity puzzle | CBC News share.google/ygFULhMnU7W2...
Fredericton's food rescue centre to be important piece of food insecurity puzzle | CBC News
A perishable food rescue centre is under construction in Fredericton that could be a blueprint for others around the country to follow.
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September 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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There are scented candles everywhere for those with the eyes to see
August 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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New article spearheaded by James LaChaud at Ohio State on the At Home/Chez Soi data. Estimated lower mortality in the HF group but not stat sig. My read on it is that in Canada we do a good job keeping people alive in the long run, but details here:

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Housing and Support Intervention and Mortality Among Homeless Adults With Mental Illnesses
This secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial assesses the association of a housing and support intervention with mortality among homeless adults with mental illnesses.
jamanetwork.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Maximum bureaucracy:

"Typically, it's the last four digits of your employee number. If you don’t remember it, please provide those last four digits, and I’ll reset it for you."
July 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
July 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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The academic pages of Reddit are full of stories of PhD students whose offers have been rescinded due to pulled NIH funding.

Western is stepping up and offering expedited admissions and excellent funding to these deserving students:

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
A Leading Canadian University Makes A Pitch For Top U.S. PhD Students
Western University, one of Canada’s leading public research universities, is launching an initiative aimed at luring away PhD students from premier U.S. institutions.
www.forbes.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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The fact that a study can have REB clearance and still be dragged makes me bitter about having to get REB clearance, especially if the allegation about ignoring one patient's request to not be included is true.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Patient advocate calls for retraction of mystery brain disease report from U.S. medical journal | CBC News
An advocate for New Brunswick patients suffering from unusual neurological symptoms is calling for the retraction of a recent scientific report that found no evidence of a mystery brain disease in the...
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June 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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“Ending a $5 million research study when it is 80% complete does not save $1 million,” it says, “it wastes $4 million.” 🧪
June 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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An authoritarian regime in action
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jun 8
Terry Moran has deleted the post below and now the White House is going after him.
Karoline Leavitt & @PressSec Last night, in a since deleted post, so-called "journalist" @TerryMoran went on a rampage against Stephen Miller and called President Trump "a world class hater." This is unhinged and unacceptable. We have reached out to @ABC to inquire about how they plan to hold Terry accountable.
June 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Manitoba nursing regulator warns patient safety at risk under labour mobility rules, by @kellygrant1.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com @mbcollegerns.bsky.social #nursing
Manitoba nursing regulator warns patient safety at risk under labour mobility rules
College of registered nurses raises alarm over competence of some internationally educated nurses first licensed in other provinces
www.theglobeandmail.com
June 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Gov't of NS is doing a survey of 1500 people for $300,000.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Wait until they find out about this study where we surveyed 2000 people for maybe 1/8th the price
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34923690/

NS, I can run you a survey for $200,000 and get 2000 people, whaddaya say?
May 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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The Dutton name's popularity in some media recently has been distracting. This is great news, The Council of Duttons welcome closure on this issue.
6newsau.bsky.social 6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · May 3
#BREAKING 🚨 Peter Dutton has lost his seat of Dickson to Labor’s Ali France, 6 News projects
May 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."

Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.

Ethical violation as POLICY.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
www.reuters.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy. Hard to see this as anything other than clearing the way for shoddy research on things like vaccines. Regardless of the rationale, it's bad news for public health.

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NOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD
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March 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Bullshit takes a lot of effort to identify but is costless to produce. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bull.... This "priority" does not mean bullshit will not be called out, it means that there will be fewer organized efforts against it. @caulfieldtim.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I have been a massive beneficiary of the hard work of my staff and students, several of whom are not from Canada originally. I think it has been a real strength of our system that we've been able to welcome these people.
March 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Between an Australian politician and the Yellowstone series (?!) of TV shows, the Dutton name sure is carrying a lot of baggage these days.
drstephaniedowrick.bsky.social Dr Stephanie Dowrick @drstephaniedowrick.bsky.social · Mar 25
Dutton would cut 41 000 public service jobs… radically reduce essential services…and hire private consultants for twice the cost and half the commitment.
#LNPneveragain
#auspol
We need PUBLIC servants, not an untrustworthy government’s yes-boys.
March 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM