Heather
@heatherdawnl.bsky.social
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This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.
A top scientist at Harvard who has spent years unraveling the mysteries of tuberculosis woke up Tuesday morning and discovered an order from the federal government telling her to halt her research.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
Leading Harvard scientist ordered to halt research in funding freeze - The Boston Globe
Researchers may have to kill macaques, a kind of primate used in a vaccine study, due to the order.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.
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the ease and speed with which Americans settled in to, and accepted, autocracy is astounding
February 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
the ease and speed with which Americans settled in to, and accepted, autocracy is astounding
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🔥 Awesome public health messaging from Matt McGorry & @nychealthy.bsky.social
Direct simple facts that everyone should know
🌟FACT 1: There is a risk of #longcovid with every COVID infection... 📺🧵
Direct simple facts that everyone should know
🌟FACT 1: There is a risk of #longcovid with every COVID infection... 📺🧵
February 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🔥 Awesome public health messaging from Matt McGorry & @nychealthy.bsky.social
Direct simple facts that everyone should know
🌟FACT 1: There is a risk of #longcovid with every COVID infection... 📺🧵
Direct simple facts that everyone should know
🌟FACT 1: There is a risk of #longcovid with every COVID infection... 📺🧵
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I can’t help but feel engaged again as a Liberal Party supporter/member at the prospect of a Mark Carney campaign. He is going to scare the shit out the Conservatives. They are going to go into overdrive to tarnish this man.
Mark Carney - Canada Not Interested in Trump’s Offer & Liberal Leadership Prospects | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
youtu.be
January 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I can’t help but feel engaged again as a Liberal Party supporter/member at the prospect of a Mark Carney campaign. He is going to scare the shit out the Conservatives. They are going to go into overdrive to tarnish this man.
This is beyond despicable. Danielle Smith is a traitor to Alberta and Canada. Did she miss Trump’s recent comments that the US doesn’t need our oil? Why is she WASTING $1M+ on this?
Please share this photo.
People need to understand deeply what is happening
Canadian leader cavorts with foreign leader with expressed intentions of annexing our country. and the main Canadian traitor aiming to accomplish this.
People need to understand deeply what is happening
Canadian leader cavorts with foreign leader with expressed intentions of annexing our country. and the main Canadian traitor aiming to accomplish this.
January 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is beyond despicable. Danielle Smith is a traitor to Alberta and Canada. Did she miss Trump’s recent comments that the US doesn’t need our oil? Why is she WASTING $1M+ on this?
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Dear Donald,
Thanks for including us in your deranged Christmas message.
Being Canadian means free health care and limiting access to assault weapons.
In your 51st state our kids would get shot at in school and CEOs would be shot for denying health care.
So no.
Now piss off.
Your northern neighbour
Thanks for including us in your deranged Christmas message.
Being Canadian means free health care and limiting access to assault weapons.
In your 51st state our kids would get shot at in school and CEOs would be shot for denying health care.
So no.
Now piss off.
Your northern neighbour
December 25, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Dear Donald,
Thanks for including us in your deranged Christmas message.
Being Canadian means free health care and limiting access to assault weapons.
In your 51st state our kids would get shot at in school and CEOs would be shot for denying health care.
So no.
Now piss off.
Your northern neighbour
Thanks for including us in your deranged Christmas message.
Being Canadian means free health care and limiting access to assault weapons.
In your 51st state our kids would get shot at in school and CEOs would be shot for denying health care.
So no.
Now piss off.
Your northern neighbour
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Ideology dressed up as policy.
Imagine if so much attention was paid to addressing the impacts of the oilsands - habitat destruction, water contamination, air pollution, massive GHGs, Indigenous rights. The government won't even require an environmental assessment of $16.5-billion CCS project!
Imagine if so much attention was paid to addressing the impacts of the oilsands - habitat destruction, water contamination, air pollution, massive GHGs, Indigenous rights. The government won't even require an environmental assessment of $16.5-billion CCS project!
Alberta releases new rules and no-go zones on wind and solar projects nationalnewswatch.com/2024/12/06/a...
Alberta releases new rules and no-go zones on wind and solar projects
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
December 7, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Ideology dressed up as policy.
Imagine if so much attention was paid to addressing the impacts of the oilsands - habitat destruction, water contamination, air pollution, massive GHGs, Indigenous rights. The government won't even require an environmental assessment of $16.5-billion CCS project!
Imagine if so much attention was paid to addressing the impacts of the oilsands - habitat destruction, water contamination, air pollution, massive GHGs, Indigenous rights. The government won't even require an environmental assessment of $16.5-billion CCS project!
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This is the best description of DJT that I’ve ever seen! 😏
December 7, 2024 at 6:06 AM
This is the best description of DJT that I’ve ever seen! 😏
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I already view it that way...
December 7, 2024 at 2:23 PM
I already view it that way...
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At last! A journalist challenging Poilievre's empty promises and simplistic proposals. Time for other journalists to start doing their jobs. You are not Poilievre's personal stenographers.
Poilievre's Free Ride to Power Has to Stop via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Poilievre's Free Ride to Power Has to Stop via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Poilievre’s Free Ride to Power Has to Stop | The Tyee
No more getting by with glib and shallow answers to these seven basic questions.
thetyee.ca
December 3, 2024 at 8:34 PM
At last! A journalist challenging Poilievre's empty promises and simplistic proposals. Time for other journalists to start doing their jobs. You are not Poilievre's personal stenographers.
Poilievre's Free Ride to Power Has to Stop via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Poilievre's Free Ride to Power Has to Stop via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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For all who’s up in a clutching their pearls over what President Biden did for his son after all 🍊💩 has done go pound sand.
December 3, 2024 at 2:02 PM
For all who’s up in a clutching their pearls over what President Biden did for his son after all 🍊💩 has done go pound sand.
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"Way to go, Joe!" Says Rep Jasmine Crockett about the pardon of Hunter Biden. "We have a 34 count convicted felon that's about to walk into the WH. So for anyone who wants to clutch their pearls now, I would say take a look in the mirror."
December 2, 2024 at 1:25 AM
"Way to go, Joe!" Says Rep Jasmine Crockett about the pardon of Hunter Biden. "We have a 34 count convicted felon that's about to walk into the WH. So for anyone who wants to clutch their pearls now, I would say take a look in the mirror."
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YOU NEED TO SEE THIS VIDEO 🧵 ON BLUE SKY- with @rose.bsky.team COO
You might understand the app behind the scenes better now. Mostly impressive, though a few things still give me pause.
YOU decide what to see in your feed, not an algorithm pushing what THEY want.
Sounds refreshing, doesn’t it?
You might understand the app behind the scenes better now. Mostly impressive, though a few things still give me pause.
YOU decide what to see in your feed, not an algorithm pushing what THEY want.
Sounds refreshing, doesn’t it?
November 30, 2024 at 10:55 PM
YOU NEED TO SEE THIS VIDEO 🧵 ON BLUE SKY- with @rose.bsky.team COO
You might understand the app behind the scenes better now. Mostly impressive, though a few things still give me pause.
YOU decide what to see in your feed, not an algorithm pushing what THEY want.
Sounds refreshing, doesn’t it?
You might understand the app behind the scenes better now. Mostly impressive, though a few things still give me pause.
YOU decide what to see in your feed, not an algorithm pushing what THEY want.
Sounds refreshing, doesn’t it?
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Our new study shows that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein accumulates & persists in the body for years after infection, especially in the skull-meninges-brain axis, potentially driving long COVID. mRNA vaccines help but cannot stop it🔬🧠🦠🧵Your weekend read👇
@cellpress.bsky.social
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@cellpress.bsky.social
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November 29, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Our new study shows that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein accumulates & persists in the body for years after infection, especially in the skull-meninges-brain axis, potentially driving long COVID. mRNA vaccines help but cannot stop it🔬🧠🦠🧵Your weekend read👇
@cellpress.bsky.social
cell.com/cell-host-mi...
@cellpress.bsky.social
cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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I bet Elon was big mad that he wasn’t allowed at the adult table…
Journalism is the only profession where you can consistently wrong and still manage to not lose your job.
November 30, 2024 at 2:16 PM
I bet Elon was big mad that he wasn’t allowed at the adult table…
Maybe this is the only way to get Novavax #SARSCoV2 vaccine in Canada - to double up on a vaccine for H5N1 also…perhaps the Canadian govt would then be able to order enough vaccines for a supply agreement…the H5N1 vaccine sounds promising…
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Single-dose avian influenza A(H5N1) Clade 2.3.4.4b hemagglutinin-Matrix-M nanoparticle vaccine induces neutralizing responses in nonhuman primates
With the recent rise in cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) clade 2.3.4.4b infection in humans and animals, there is an associated increase in the risk of human-to-human transmis...
www.biorxiv.org
November 23, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Maybe this is the only way to get Novavax #SARSCoV2 vaccine in Canada - to double up on a vaccine for H5N1 also…perhaps the Canadian govt would then be able to order enough vaccines for a supply agreement…the H5N1 vaccine sounds promising…
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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"If you’re a health-care worker who sees a patient in a mask, put one on for them. Don’t make them ask. Don’t psychologize them. Don’t betray the trust they’ve shown you. They’ve put their lives in your hands. Don’t take that for granted, it’s not an easy thing for many of us to do"
A plea to maskless health-care workers from vulnerable patients - Healthy Debate
Health-care workers have a responsibility to protect their vulnerable patients. Our lives are in your hands.
healthydebate.ca
November 18, 2024 at 4:35 AM
"If you’re a health-care worker who sees a patient in a mask, put one on for them. Don’t make them ask. Don’t psychologize them. Don’t betray the trust they’ve shown you. They’ve put their lives in your hands. Don’t take that for granted, it’s not an easy thing for many of us to do"
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People really need to learn to not engage with the trolls - simply block and move on. Their oxygen is us engaging them so don’t. I don’t know how much simpler it can get. And it prevents them turning Bluesky into Xitter (although, that said, the algorithm-less-ness of Bluesky works in our favour…)…
November 18, 2024 at 3:55 AM
People really need to learn to not engage with the trolls - simply block and move on. Their oxygen is us engaging them so don’t. I don’t know how much simpler it can get. And it prevents them turning Bluesky into Xitter (although, that said, the algorithm-less-ness of Bluesky works in our favour…)…
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We have to move beyond tired notions of politics and grasp that unchecked capitalism has led to oligarchs co-opting our government in order to cement their control, line their pockets, demolish democracy, and crater our standard of living.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
The Oligarchical Order: A Bonus Audio From A Collapsing State
The United States has been co-opted by oligarchs hellbent on destroying democracy, lowering our standard of living, and delivering a new world order
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:03 PM
We have to move beyond tired notions of politics and grasp that unchecked capitalism has led to oligarchs co-opting our government in order to cement their control, line their pockets, demolish democracy, and crater our standard of living.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
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"immunofluorescence revealed direct infection of both exocrine and endocrine pancreatic cells by the virus in non-human primates and humans."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 15, 2024 at 5:10 AM
"immunofluorescence revealed direct infection of both exocrine and endocrine pancreatic cells by the virus in non-human primates and humans."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pierre Poilievre is not fit to run for the next election as a MP, let alone be the leader of the CPC, and he definitely is not fit to be the PM of Canada. #canadianpolitics
December 30, 2023 at 2:32 PM
Pierre Poilievre is not fit to run for the next election as a MP, let alone be the leader of the CPC, and he definitely is not fit to be the PM of Canada. #canadianpolitics
Important read regarding the responsibilities of the different levels of govt in 🇨🇦
Before you direct your hatred toward the Prime Minister, check yourself & open your mind to where the blame actually lies. Many of our country’s issues are provincial 👇🏻
www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/edit...
Before you direct your hatred toward the Prime Minister, check yourself & open your mind to where the blame actually lies. Many of our country’s issues are provincial 👇🏻
www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/edit...
November 13, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Important read regarding the responsibilities of the different levels of govt in 🇨🇦
Before you direct your hatred toward the Prime Minister, check yourself & open your mind to where the blame actually lies. Many of our country’s issues are provincial 👇🏻
www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/edit...
Before you direct your hatred toward the Prime Minister, check yourself & open your mind to where the blame actually lies. Many of our country’s issues are provincial 👇🏻
www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/edit...
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"It feels almost like we're slipping back into a dark age. There are things that are lies; there are things that evidence tells us are likely to be true and if we don't believe that anymore, we're lost."
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
calgary.ctvnews.ca/science-and-...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
calgary.ctvnews.ca/science-and-...
Science and health experts launch misinformation awareness campaign in Calgary
Several science and health experts are in Calgary to kick off a weeklong campaign aimed at educating Canadians about the prevalence of misinformation, how to identify it and the consequences it has on...
calgary.ctvnews.ca
November 12, 2024 at 10:51 PM
"It feels almost like we're slipping back into a dark age. There are things that are lies; there are things that evidence tells us are likely to be true and if we don't believe that anymore, we're lost."
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
calgary.ctvnews.ca/science-and-...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
calgary.ctvnews.ca/science-and-...