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Dr B Harrison 🇨🇦
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Consulting scientist (retired). Mum of two accomplished kids. Grandmother. Metastatic breast cancer (over 6 yrs). Supported by a wonderful husband. Raised East Coaster but West Coaster for 50 yrs. Proud Canadian.
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#Crustmas
ianbeavis.bsky.social Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · Dec 12
The giant deep sea ostracod Gigantocypris in that last repost is beautifully illustrated by Alister Hardy in his 'The Open Sea - the world of plankton' in the New Naturalist series (1956)
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Thoughts are with the people in Sumas, the Hope Princeton highway area, and the Fraser Valley tonight.

The flood sirens are going off and the alerts and orders are there in certain areas.

Be safe everyone.
Atmospheric river radar image.
December 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Peace By Chocolate family’s story turning into animated film #NovaScotia #PeaceByChocolate

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Animated movie showcasing Peace By Chocolate family's story
An iconic Nova Scotia family and business’ story will become an animated feature film. Peace By Chocolate owner, Tareq Hadhad said in a social media post that the project will be telling the family’s ...
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December 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology
An art and a science: Scripps Oceanography showcases 5,000 seaweed pressings
UC San Diego’s Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab is digitizing its collection of more than 5,000 pressings and making it accessible to the public
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December 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Thousands of food, gift, and toy donations collected by local elementary students #Windsor #Ontario

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Thousands of food, gift, and toy donations collected by local elementary students
Local elementary students collected thousands of food, gift, and toy donations, all supporting those in need this holiday season.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Dr. Roberta Bondar--astronaut, neurologist, and photographer--was born #OTD in 1945.

She became #Canada's first female astronaut in 1992. The world's first neurologist in space, she is globally recognized for her contributions to space medicine. #WomenInSTEM #AstronautEnvy 🚀

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Official NASA portrait of Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut. She smiles confidently in an orange NASA space suit, holding her helmet, with the US and Canadian flags behind her (left and right, respectively). A mission patch on her suit reads “STS-42 Discovery – International Microgravity Laboratory.” Dr. Roberta Bondar in the field (at the edge of Lake Elementaita, Kenya, watching for lesser flamingoes.) as a wildlife and nature photographer. Seated inside an open safari vehicle, she peers intently through a large telephoto camera pointed toward a sunlit African savanna landscape with water and distant trees under a clear blue sky. She wears a light hoodie and glasses on a cord.
December 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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*Laughs in Chronic Illness*
I guess I'll just die here, outside the hospital.
Stop Please do not enter our hospital if you're feeling unwell Thank you for helping us to keep all our people safe
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Voyager was launched in 1977

over 15 billion miles from Earth, it's controlled using 50-year-old blueprints and takes 22 hours to receive a single command

It keeps going and going and going 🚀😁

#Voyager #NASA #space
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
Screenshot of a CNBC headline that reads: “How device hoarding by Americans is costing economy.” The subtext says Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever, which may be smart for consumers but can reduce productivity.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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The beloved book Goodnight Moon gets a life-sized and realistic creation of its iconic great green room #Newfoundland #Labrador #Canada

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The beloved book Goodnight Moon gets a life-sized and realistic creation of its iconic great green room
The installation by artist Matthew-Robin Nye recreates the details and colours of the bedroom of Goodnight Moon. The CBC’s Laura Howells and Mark Cumby got to see it in all its vivid details at The Ro...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Like a stubborn bloom
Living in cracks of concrete
You cannot kill hope.

#poetry #Haiku

Photo by Stockcake
A purple flower stretches upward, growing from a crack in the sidewalk concrete
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
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November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Leonard Cohen - Democracy (Official Video)
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November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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My newsletter on Sunday is called, “Blessed are you who hunger, for you will be satisfied.”

In it, I invite us to reflect on how the poor and hungry are being treated by the current status quo and how Jesus’ words in Luke 6:20-31 call us to respond.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer
I have spent the majority of my life in Evangelical Christian spaces. I have experienced a lot of church hurt. I now write to explore topics that often are at the intersection of politics and Christia...
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October 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Every damn time I hear O Canada, it brings tears to my eyes.

#StandingOnGuardForThee
bluejaysbot.bsky.social Toronto Blue Jays (Bot) @bluejaysbot.bsky.social · Oct 26
The big flag made it to the #WorldSeries

@alessiacara sings O Canada 🇨🇦
October 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs
Canada was caught, red handed, putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan’s Speech on Tariffs. The Reagan Foundation said that they, “created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address,” and “did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter.” The sole purpose of this FRAUD was Canada’s hope that the United States Supreme Court will come to their “rescue” on Tariffs that they have used for years to hurt the United States. Now the United States is able to defend itself against high and overbearing Canadian Tariffs (and those from the rest of the World as well!). Ronald Reagan LOVED Tariffs for purposes of National Security and the Economy, but Canada said he didn’t! Their Advertisement was to be taken down, IMMEDIATELY, but they let it run last night during the World Series, knowing that it was a FRAUD. Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
October 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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It’s more than just bad priorities. It’s about lack of basic decency.
A tweet from BrooklynDad_Defiant! says: “No words. If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research... I have nothing left to say to you.” The image shows an illustration of a bald child in a hospital gown, holding an IV pole and looking into an opulent golden ballroom filled with formally dressed adults.
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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PM Mark Carney 🇨🇦 responding to Trump’s termination of trade talks with Canada. No hint of panic or frustration, just a steady “it’s unfortunate, but we move on.” Impressive poise. #cdnpoli
October 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Hope is not a sentimental optimism that things will somehow work out; hope is the subversive conviction that injustice and death will not have the final word and acting on that belief. Hope is not passive waiting it’s active persistence. Hope prays, peacefully protests, weeps, and keeps showing up.
October 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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"... treatments, such as checkpnt blockade & CAR T-cell therapies. Preservng lymph nodes cld strengthn immune responses & increase the effectiveness of immunotherapy." 2/2 #CanSky #IDSky 🤔

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Are cancer surgeries removing the body’s secret weapon against cancer?
Scientists have found that preserving lymph nodes during cancer surgery could dramatically improve how patients respond to immunotherapy. The research shows that lymph nodes are essential for training...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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New post: All The Things I Was Never Trained To Do. Which turns out to be a sneakily disguised meditation on what university education is for, and thus what university is, and what it isn't - despite the persistence of idiots who don't understand that!
All the things I was never trained to do
I’m reminded just about every day that the disconnect between my education, and the career I built from it, is enormous. Or at least, it seems so. I had a pretty unremarkable educational sequence f…
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October 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM