Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦
@michaelhendricks.bsky.social
Biologist, McGill University
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I doubt this will lead to Weiss' ouster (though who knows?)
but...like, there's value in showing that MAGA is unpopular. it weakens the movement and makes them look ridiculous and out of touch. all good things.
but...like, there's value in showing that MAGA is unpopular. it weakens the movement and makes them look ridiculous and out of touch. all good things.
February 10, 2026 at 4:44 PM
I doubt this will lead to Weiss' ouster (though who knows?)
but...like, there's value in showing that MAGA is unpopular. it weakens the movement and makes them look ridiculous and out of touch. all good things.
but...like, there's value in showing that MAGA is unpopular. it weakens the movement and makes them look ridiculous and out of touch. all good things.
What the f is the point of having a system status page if it says everything is fine when no trains are running on the Orange line for the last 20 minutes? @stm-nouvelles.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 4:22 PM
What the f is the point of having a system status page if it says everything is fine when no trains are running on the Orange line for the last 20 minutes? @stm-nouvelles.bsky.social
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Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
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After "this out of touch liberal multiculturalism will fail" didn't pan out - BB's show set ratings records and is the most talked-about part of the super bowl - they are desperately pivoting to a blatant lie that "it was successful because it wasn't political"
Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:28 PM
After "this out of touch liberal multiculturalism will fail" didn't pan out - BB's show set ratings records and is the most talked-about part of the super bowl - they are desperately pivoting to a blatant lie that "it was successful because it wasn't political"
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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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you read about the German, Austrian, and Polish social democratic parties being like "we can just wait these fascists out" and you shake your head, wondering how anyone could possibly be so obtuse. then you take a sip of coffee and read about what Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are up to in 2026
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
you read about the German, Austrian, and Polish social democratic parties being like "we can just wait these fascists out" and you shake your head, wondering how anyone could possibly be so obtuse. then you take a sip of coffee and read about what Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are up to in 2026
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This is what firing 30% of your staff does.
Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:52 PM
This is what firing 30% of your staff does.
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people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.
February 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.
It's long past time to stop indulging people who think you can meaningfully defend science without also defending democracy and academic freedom and opposing authoritarianism. It's the same fight, otherwise all you're defending is your own status.
February 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
It's long past time to stop indulging people who think you can meaningfully defend science without also defending democracy and academic freedom and opposing authoritarianism. It's the same fight, otherwise all you're defending is your own status.
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It’s not a troubled newspaper, it’s owed by the second richest man on earth who could fund it forever and not notice the cost. This is an intentional self-inflicted wound.
Washington Post publisher Will Lewis said Saturday that he’s stepping down, three days after the troubled newspaper said that it was laying off one-third of its staff.
Washington Post publisher Will Lewis says he’s stepping down, days after big layoffs at the paper
Washington Post publisher Will Lewis said Saturday that he’s stepping down, three days after the troubled newspaper said that it was laying off one-third of its staff.
trib.al
February 8, 2026 at 12:20 AM
It’s not a troubled newspaper, it’s owed by the second richest man on earth who could fund it forever and not notice the cost. This is an intentional self-inflicted wound.
You've got to put the fact you're an Olympic athlete in the first sentence. No prof is getting that far into an email.
February 7, 2026 at 11:03 PM
You've got to put the fact you're an Olympic athlete in the first sentence. No prof is getting that far into an email.
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I've seen some discourse about how it seems like everyone in the elite circles knew about Epstein. I'm reminded of the piece of information about the Tuskegee Syphillis Study that I end classes with: Congress had hearings about the study and re-confirmed funding Every. Year. For. Forty. Years.
February 7, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I've seen some discourse about how it seems like everyone in the elite circles knew about Epstein. I'm reminded of the piece of information about the Tuskegee Syphillis Study that I end classes with: Congress had hearings about the study and re-confirmed funding Every. Year. For. Forty. Years.
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They looked for “Don T” in the Epstein files and redacted all instances, which means they also redacted a lot of “don’t”
February 7, 2026 at 7:56 PM
They looked for “Don T” in the Epstein files and redacted all instances, which means they also redacted a lot of “don’t”
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Went to dinner in Highland Park with kids1&2. Good vibes.
February 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Went to dinner in Highland Park with kids1&2. Good vibes.
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The government is giving a loan to a Crown corporation that should just be a public service that we pay for because it provides an essential task that Canadians depend on.
We don’t provide loans to the health care system or schools; we just pay for them.
We don’t provide loans to the health care system or schools; we just pay for them.
Ottawa gives Canada Post a $1.01-billion loan
The federal government says it is making more than $1 billion available to Canada Post in the form of a repayable loan to help the Crown corporation.
vancouver.citynews.ca
February 7, 2026 at 8:18 PM
The government is giving a loan to a Crown corporation that should just be a public service that we pay for because it provides an essential task that Canadians depend on.
We don’t provide loans to the health care system or schools; we just pay for them.
We don’t provide loans to the health care system or schools; we just pay for them.
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As a freshly minted (immigrant) Canadian, I sent this flowchart to a non-Canadian immigrant friend who also lives in Canada.
I have arrived 🍁
I have arrived 🍁
February 7, 2026 at 7:58 PM
As a freshly minted (immigrant) Canadian, I sent this flowchart to a non-Canadian immigrant friend who also lives in Canada.
I have arrived 🍁
I have arrived 🍁
Yeah I've often thought it is weird that peak career progression in academic science is using grant funds to hire other people to do the "being a professor" part and going on permanent tours of speaking / consulting / thought-leading / extramural employment. Like, just leave.
There’s a “superstar” layer at every R1 institution I’ve been at that isn’t composed of academics in any sense I recognize. They’re there so the institution can claim them, but they use the university as a launchpad to contracts and speaking engagements. They’re not teaching the intro classes.
February 7, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Yeah I've often thought it is weird that peak career progression in academic science is using grant funds to hire other people to do the "being a professor" part and going on permanent tours of speaking / consulting / thought-leading / extramural employment. Like, just leave.
They want everyone sicker, poorer, stupider, and easier to rule...a complete inversion of the academic mission and the scientific enterprise. There is no needle to thread for "non-partisan" science advocacy. If you are not opposing it with all means at your disposal you are abetting it.
This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants.
It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.
It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.
February 7, 2026 at 7:18 PM
They want everyone sicker, poorer, stupider, and easier to rule...a complete inversion of the academic mission and the scientific enterprise. There is no needle to thread for "non-partisan" science advocacy. If you are not opposing it with all means at your disposal you are abetting it.
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Like, I think a lot of this is what constitutes "good at fundraising," which is the most sought after quality in a university president.
February 7, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Like, I think a lot of this is what constitutes "good at fundraising," which is the most sought after quality in a university president.
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I think it's hard to understand the extent to which so much of the behavior in the Epstein files is not hidden, but actually encouraged, praised, and seen as a sign of success at the upper echelons of academia.
There’s a “superstar” layer at every R1 institution I’ve been at that isn’t composed of academics in any sense I recognize. They’re there so the institution can claim them, but they use the university as a launchpad to contracts and speaking engagements. They’re not teaching the intro classes.
February 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM
I think it's hard to understand the extent to which so much of the behavior in the Epstein files is not hidden, but actually encouraged, praised, and seen as a sign of success at the upper echelons of academia.
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Please take the time to read this superb @jamellebouie.net column. It establishes a baseline of truth for anyone who wants to think, talk, and write honestly about Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
February 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Please take the time to read this superb @jamellebouie.net column. It establishes a baseline of truth for anyone who wants to think, talk, and write honestly about Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
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They don’t regret their association. They regret that everyone knows they are child-tape apologists
Amazing that people who "now regret their association" with him eagerly sought associations with him in the years following 2008, when he was a convicted sex offender who had raped 14-year olds. IT WASN'T A SECRET, IT WAS IN THE NEWS.
Newly released files from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reveal that his ties to the scientific community were deeper than previously known.
go.nature.com/3Oq4Po2
go.nature.com/3Oq4Po2
February 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM
They don’t regret their association. They regret that everyone knows they are child-tape apologists
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There are hundreds of stories of the scientists trapped overseas, being investigated in this country because of ethnicity and locked out of funding to do important, unique work. Democracy is an essential component of the scientific enterprise and some of us are unwilling to fight for it.
February 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
There are hundreds of stories of the scientists trapped overseas, being investigated in this country because of ethnicity and locked out of funding to do important, unique work. Democracy is an essential component of the scientific enterprise and some of us are unwilling to fight for it.
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We are watching in real time who some scientists are willing to sacrifice in favor of access to funding: early career researchers, trainees, scientists from historically excluded groups and immigrants.
February 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
We are watching in real time who some scientists are willing to sacrifice in favor of access to funding: early career researchers, trainees, scientists from historically excluded groups and immigrants.