Jim Woodgett
@jwoodgett.bsky.social
Spread too thinly. Toronto. Originally from UK. Cancer biology researcher at Sinai Health. Also Prez of the Terry Fox Research Institute.
Another way to look at things.
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Another way to look at things.
When your ruling “party” has been bought by oligarchs, is run by oligarchs and focuses on enhancing the wealth of oligarchs, you are, de facto, an oligarchy.
The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
When your ruling “party” has been bought by oligarchs, is run by oligarchs and focuses on enhancing the wealth of oligarchs, you are, de facto, an oligarchy.
If it’s free you are the product.
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
If it’s free you are the product.
TFW your provincial MP (an MD) uses his weekly update to urge vaccination and provides information on access. It almost feels like it was when I was a kid and vaccines were seen as live savers, not political tools.
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
TFW your provincial MP (an MD) uses his weekly update to urge vaccination and provides information on access. It almost feels like it was when I was a kid and vaccines were seen as live savers, not political tools.
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Learn more about the life-changing research made possible through Terry Fox funding: impact.terryfox.org
@terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social
@terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social
Terry Fox Foundation 2024 / 2025 Year in Review Impact Report
Forty-five years ago, Terry Fox started a marathon against cancer. Since then, the name Terry Fox has been associated with team science, bold research, and life-changing discoveries.
impact.terryfox.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Learn more about the life-changing research made possible through Terry Fox funding: impact.terryfox.org
@terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social
@terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social
Just received a scam text from "Ontario Trillium Benefits". The giveaway from the link: "https://OTBCRABenefits.com" is the .com The rest looks like a CRA site (even has a prove your human check) and is better done than most scams. Don't be fooled.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Just received a scam text from "Ontario Trillium Benefits". The giveaway from the link: "https://OTBCRABenefits.com" is the .com The rest looks like a CRA site (even has a prove your human check) and is better done than most scams. Don't be fooled.
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ICYMI: With a $14.5 million investment, the Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grants are advancing groundbreaking science through world-class Canadian research teams.
Learn more in thread below! 🧵
Get to know this year's funded teams and projects: tinyurl.com/47zwsdkd
Learn more in thread below! 🧵
Get to know this year's funded teams and projects: tinyurl.com/47zwsdkd
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
ICYMI: With a $14.5 million investment, the Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grants are advancing groundbreaking science through world-class Canadian research teams.
Learn more in thread below! 🧵
Get to know this year's funded teams and projects: tinyurl.com/47zwsdkd
Learn more in thread below! 🧵
Get to know this year's funded teams and projects: tinyurl.com/47zwsdkd
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Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
1/4
Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health
This cross-sectional study summarizes the number of trials with terminated grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and calculates the proportion of affected trials among those with previou...
jamanetwork.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
1/4
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
1/4
More likely when a future employer asks about the gap in their resume was between 2024-2027 they’ll say that was when they were incarcerated.
Future employers will just assume when they see ‘Trump admin staffer’ on a resume that the person is an unqualified dipshit who was temporarily elevated beyond their natural station in life.
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
More likely when a future employer asks about the gap in their resume was between 2024-2027 they’ll say that was when they were incarcerated.
Watched the first three episodes of Pluribus. Excusing the silly plot set up holes, it’s superb writing. The scene on AF1 with the other 5 English speakers obliterated the usual Anglocentricity in entertainment and questions responsibility of freedom of action. #MetalFreeBorg
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Watched the first three episodes of Pluribus. Excusing the silly plot set up holes, it’s superb writing. The scene on AF1 with the other 5 English speakers obliterated the usual Anglocentricity in entertainment and questions responsibility of freedom of action. #MetalFreeBorg
Would be delicious irony if, after decades of clear scientific evidence, the needed funds to mitigate environmental disaster fell under Trump’s demand that countries raise their defense spending to 5% of GDP.
“What we do know is that the current #climate might change so drastically that it could become impossible for us to adapt... In short, this is not just a scientific concern -it’s a matter of national survival & security" Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson, Iceland’s Minister for Environment, Energy & Climate 🇮🇸
A crucial system of ocean currents may be on course to collapse. This country just declared it a national security threat | CNN
Without warm currents from the South Atlantic, Iceland would be much icier and stormier. Now, those currents are at risk of collapse and the country is preparing for this “existential threat.”
edition.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Would be delicious irony if, after decades of clear scientific evidence, the needed funds to mitigate environmental disaster fell under Trump’s demand that countries raise their defense spending to 5% of GDP.
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To my Canadian, AB, or Calgary peeps: Does anyone have extra COVID-19 tests they could give me? A family member has been diagnosed with COVID, and I can't risk my cancer treatments. I also have another child that I need to protect. I am down to my last few tests and need more. PM if you can help!
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
To my Canadian, AB, or Calgary peeps: Does anyone have extra COVID-19 tests they could give me? A family member has been diagnosed with COVID, and I can't risk my cancer treatments. I also have another child that I need to protect. I am down to my last few tests and need more. PM if you can help!
New strategy to attract enormous scientific talent to Canada: simply offer asylum from this madness.
Defunding scientists for the nationality of who they co-author with or who they train.
One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.
One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
New strategy to attract enormous scientific talent to Canada: simply offer asylum from this madness.
Had a very humbling week. Received a lovely honour from the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and experienced the remarkable Run Terry Run documentary with a live sound track by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Also received another Jury Duty summons (3rd in four years). Democracy!
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Had a very humbling week. Received a lovely honour from the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and experienced the remarkable Run Terry Run documentary with a live sound track by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Also received another Jury Duty summons (3rd in four years). Democracy!
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📝 Register Now!📝
Our next Network Seminar Series event will feature an inside look at groundbreaking research being done by Network-funded researchers across Atlantic Canada!
👇 More information below👇
Our next Network Seminar Series event will feature an inside look at groundbreaking research being done by Network-funded researchers across Atlantic Canada!
👇 More information below👇
🔬🍁Join us for our next Network Seminar Series event, an inside look at MOHCCN funded research, presented by the Atlantic Cancer Consortium🔬🍁
This virtual event will feature updates and scientific talks by Network-funded researchers from across Atlantic Canada.
Register now: tinyurl.com/4xx2r9k3
This virtual event will feature updates and scientific talks by Network-funded researchers from across Atlantic Canada.
Register now: tinyurl.com/4xx2r9k3
November 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
📝 Register Now!📝
Our next Network Seminar Series event will feature an inside look at groundbreaking research being done by Network-funded researchers across Atlantic Canada!
👇 More information below👇
Our next Network Seminar Series event will feature an inside look at groundbreaking research being done by Network-funded researchers across Atlantic Canada!
👇 More information below👇
Science is neither democratic nor a popularity contest. No one gets to pick the result they want, including the worlds leading experts in any given area. Science just doesn't care what anyone thinks, it is a veiled truth that humanity aspires/perspires to reveal.
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Science is neither democratic nor a popularity contest. No one gets to pick the result they want, including the worlds leading experts in any given area. Science just doesn't care what anyone thinks, it is a veiled truth that humanity aspires/perspires to reveal.
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Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
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November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
Get your Covid booster. SARS Cov-2 is relying on ignorance and misinformation to continue to infect and injure and kill. Don’t let it.
Want to make a tiny anti-vaxxer head explode and then madly say "big pharma"'or "fake news"? Just the facts. #cdnpoli
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Get your Covid booster. SARS Cov-2 is relying on ignorance and misinformation to continue to infect and injure and kill. Don’t let it.
Spend over 90 mins waiting to connect to a live Rogers telecom agent as we have no TV (but internet is fine and I went through all of the troubleshooting). The chat when connected didn’t go well. Enshittification personified. Transcript:
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Spend over 90 mins waiting to connect to a live Rogers telecom agent as we have no TV (but internet is fine and I went through all of the troubleshooting). The chat when connected didn’t go well. Enshittification personified. Transcript:
Is IKEA having a pilots sale?
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Is IKEA having a pilots sale?
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Precision oncology can help identify specific genetic mutations driving tumour growth and show where targeted therapies can have the most success.
"This will not only make treatments more effective, it will also limit the side-effects...” www.marathonofhopecancercentres.ca/our-research...
"This will not only make treatments more effective, it will also limit the side-effects...” www.marathonofhopecancercentres.ca/our-research...
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Precision oncology can help identify specific genetic mutations driving tumour growth and show where targeted therapies can have the most success.
"This will not only make treatments more effective, it will also limit the side-effects...” www.marathonofhopecancercentres.ca/our-research...
"This will not only make treatments more effective, it will also limit the side-effects...” www.marathonofhopecancercentres.ca/our-research...
Noticed I was still paying for AOL email on a credit card (~$3 a year). Took an hour of help to verify my identity to get past the (landline) verification info and once in found 14,231 emails since 1997 (last time I logged in was ~2004). Can report that spammy emails have not improved with age.
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Noticed I was still paying for AOL email on a credit card (~$3 a year). Took an hour of help to verify my identity to get past the (landline) verification info and once in found 14,231 emails since 1997 (last time I logged in was ~2004). Can report that spammy emails have not improved with age.
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Tickets are 95% sold out to for Run Terry Run - a behind-the-scenes look at Terry's Marathon Of Hope from 96 reels of never-before-seen footage. Be part of this unforgettable night.
Monday, November 10
Roy Thomson Hall Get your tickets now: terryfox.org/RunTerryRun
Monday, November 10
Roy Thomson Hall Get your tickets now: terryfox.org/RunTerryRun
Run Terry Run - Terry Fox Foundation
A one-night-only special screening with a live score performed by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra The extraordinary story of Canadian icon Terry Fox will be told like never before in Run Terry Run, a n...
terryfox.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Tickets are 95% sold out to for Run Terry Run - a behind-the-scenes look at Terry's Marathon Of Hope from 96 reels of never-before-seen footage. Be part of this unforgettable night.
Monday, November 10
Roy Thomson Hall Get your tickets now: terryfox.org/RunTerryRun
Monday, November 10
Roy Thomson Hall Get your tickets now: terryfox.org/RunTerryRun
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An update on this story - grad students are now exempt from the cap in student visas. 🧪
Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Canada’s new budget aims to lure U.S. researchers to relocate
Spending plan also calls for smaller research spending cut than feared
www.science.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
An update on this story - grad students are now exempt from the cap in student visas. 🧪
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I would also say thanks to @picardonhealth.bsky.social who elevated this on a national and public stage. MP’s noticed that. He is a gem!
The 🇨🇦 Standing Committee on Science and Research passed a modified resolution this afternoon that the requested ricouncil applicant and reviewer data can be aggregated and anonymized. Thanks to the many researchers who signed letters pointing out legitimate data privacy concerns. 👏👏
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I would also say thanks to @picardonhealth.bsky.social who elevated this on a national and public stage. MP’s noticed that. He is a gem!