Pierre A Fournier
@pafournier.bsky.social
CEO @ Hexoskin, optimist, always learning, keeping an open mind.
Medical research, human spaceflight, health economics, data, math & AI.
Phoenix ✈️ Montréal
Medical research, human spaceflight, health economics, data, math & AI.
Phoenix ✈️ Montréal
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Pierre A Fournier
@pafournier.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Hexoskin wins contract to bring Astroskin sensors to the Moon
Montréal, November 26th, 2024 The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has announced that it has awarded a contract to Hexoskin (Carré Technologies Inc.), a company based in Montreal, to develop and adapt the ...
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There will be ~150km2 of land covered with data centers in the US in 2030, about 3x the size of Manhattan.
These data centers will use in 2030 as much electricity as ALL 130M homes in the US (~150GW avg).
(very rough estimates to see the scale of ongoing physical AI investment).
These data centers will use in 2030 as much electricity as ALL 130M homes in the US (~150GW avg).
(very rough estimates to see the scale of ongoing physical AI investment).
October 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
There will be ~150km2 of land covered with data centers in the US in 2030, about 3x the size of Manhattan.
These data centers will use in 2030 as much electricity as ALL 130M homes in the US (~150GW avg).
(very rough estimates to see the scale of ongoing physical AI investment).
These data centers will use in 2030 as much electricity as ALL 130M homes in the US (~150GW avg).
(very rough estimates to see the scale of ongoing physical AI investment).
Fact checking the ACA health insurance premiums increase proposal.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Fact check: Will health insurance premiums spike by 75% if Republicans don't extend ACA subsidies?
"Republicans are spiking health insurance premiums by 75% for everyday Americans" if they don't extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, said House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark.
www.yahoo.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Fact checking the ACA health insurance premiums increase proposal.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Recent Yale study in JAMA: "Approximately 5 million adults are at risk of Medicaid disenrollment due to HR 1’s work requirements (...) prior research has shown that Medicaid beneficiaries who do not meet work requirements have poorer health status than those who do."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Clinical Characteristics of Adults at Risk of Medicaid Disenrollment Due to HR 1 Work Requirements
This study uses the NHANES database to describe clinical characteristics of Medicaid beneficiaries at risk of disenrollment due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s (HR 1) work requirements, stratified...
jamanetwork.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Recent Yale study in JAMA: "Approximately 5 million adults are at risk of Medicaid disenrollment due to HR 1’s work requirements (...) prior research has shown that Medicaid beneficiaries who do not meet work requirements have poorer health status than those who do."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Amazing to hear CRISPR co-inventor and 2020 Nobel prize winner Jennifer Doudna telling us about the latest techniques for gene therapy at the Rett Genetic Medicines Summit in Boston today!
September 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Amazing to hear CRISPR co-inventor and 2020 Nobel prize winner Jennifer Doudna telling us about the latest techniques for gene therapy at the Rett Genetic Medicines Summit in Boston today!
I’m back on bsky after a few months off. What’s new?
May 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I’m back on bsky after a few months off. What’s new?
Not sure how cutting research on pediatric cancer and women’s health is efficient, can someone explain it to me like I’m five?
Oh look Elon musk cutting pediatric cancer research
March 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Not sure how cutting research on pediatric cancer and women’s health is efficient, can someone explain it to me like I’m five?
Reposted by Pierre A Fournier
James Harrison, a blood donor famed for having saved the lives of more than 2 MILLION babies, has died.
Harrison’s plasma contained a rare antibody known as Anti-D which was used to manufacture a medication given to expectant mothers.
Harrison donated plasma every two weeks from age 18-81
Harrison’s plasma contained a rare antibody known as Anti-D which was used to manufacture a medication given to expectant mothers.
Harrison donated plasma every two weeks from age 18-81
James Harrison, blood donor whose rare plasma saved millions of babies, dead at 88 | CNN
James Harrison, a prolific Australian blood donor famed for having saved the lives of more than two million babies, has died at age 88.
bit.ly
March 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
James Harrison, a blood donor famed for having saved the lives of more than 2 MILLION babies, has died.
Harrison’s plasma contained a rare antibody known as Anti-D which was used to manufacture a medication given to expectant mothers.
Harrison donated plasma every two weeks from age 18-81
Harrison’s plasma contained a rare antibody known as Anti-D which was used to manufacture a medication given to expectant mothers.
Harrison donated plasma every two weeks from age 18-81
Reposted by Pierre A Fournier
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
February 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
In the category “Things we didn’t want to read this year.”
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Jan. 6 Rioters Argue Pardons Apply to Charges Including Murder Plot, Child Porn
Defendants are arguing that President Trump’s pardon for offenses related to the storming of the Capitol should also absolve them of other alleged crimes, some discovered during Jan. 6 investigations.
www.wsj.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In the category “Things we didn’t want to read this year.”
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
All day back-to-back meetings makes me feel like Ron Swanson on March 31st.
February 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
All day back-to-back meetings makes me feel like Ron Swanson on March 31st.
Cutting funding in the middle of studies has real consequences for patients.
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Abandoning research participants is an unconscionable betrayal
In 1964, the Declaration of Helsinki created a set of universal ethical principles to protect human participants in health research.1 Described as “the cornerstone of research ethics,”2 these principl...
www.bmj.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Cutting funding in the middle of studies has real consequences for patients.
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Over 100,000 scientists and research staff could lose their funding and their job in the US this year if the announced cuts at the NIH, NSF, CDC, and other agencies move forward.
www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/t...
www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/t...
Trump policies spark fears of brain drain, threatening to undermine U.S. dominance in biomedicine
A torrent of Trump administration policies is alarming scientists who fear the current climate is weakening researchers’ resolve to stick with careers in academic science.
www.statnews.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Over 100,000 scientists and research staff could lose their funding and their job in the US this year if the announced cuts at the NIH, NSF, CDC, and other agencies move forward.
www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/t...
www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/t...
Moon and clouds.
February 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Moon and clouds.
Reposted by Pierre A Fournier
This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research?
All of them.
All of them.
February 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research?
All of them.
All of them.
NYT: "The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care."
#bioethics #clinicaltrials
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
#bioethics #clinicaltrials
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
NYT: "The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care."
#bioethics #clinicaltrials
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
#bioethics #clinicaltrials
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Narcan (naxolone) and GLP-1s will have an amazingly positive effect on US life expectancy, starting in 2023.
An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.
February 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Narcan (naxolone) and GLP-1s will have an amazingly positive effect on US life expectancy, starting in 2023.
US drug overdose deaths peaked in 2023 and have been falling fast in 2024.
Hopefully the CDC keeps updating the data on this page: www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vs...
Hopefully the CDC keeps updating the data on this page: www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vs...
February 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
US drug overdose deaths peaked in 2023 and have been falling fast in 2024.
Hopefully the CDC keeps updating the data on this page: www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vs...
Hopefully the CDC keeps updating the data on this page: www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vs...
As of today, the CDC censors the word "gender" from all scientific publications.
"CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed."
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
"CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed."
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
February 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
As of today, the CDC censors the word "gender" from all scientific publications.
"CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed."
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
"CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed."
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
The USMCA is the “most balanced trade agreement in history”
- Donald Trump, January 29th, 2020
#Canada #tariffs
trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-st...
- Donald Trump, January 29th, 2020
#Canada #tariffs
trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-st...
President Donald J. Trump’s United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Delivers a Historic Win for American Workers – The White HouseOpen MenuWhiteHouse.govCopy URL to your clipboardOpen SearchShare on Fac...
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February 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The USMCA is the “most balanced trade agreement in history”
- Donald Trump, January 29th, 2020
#Canada #tariffs
trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-st...
- Donald Trump, January 29th, 2020
#Canada #tariffs
trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-st...
Do we really have to say it? Native Americans are not illegal immigrants.
8 Navajos reportedly lined up behind white vans and questioned for 2 hours in Scottsdale, Arizona.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/u...
8 Navajos reportedly lined up behind white vans and questioned for 2 hours in Scottsdale, Arizona.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/u...
Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps | CNN
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citiz...
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Do we really have to say it? Native Americans are not illegal immigrants.
8 Navajos reportedly lined up behind white vans and questioned for 2 hours in Scottsdale, Arizona.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/u...
8 Navajos reportedly lined up behind white vans and questioned for 2 hours in Scottsdale, Arizona.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/u...
Canada got rid of pennies in 2013.
January 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Canada got rid of pennies in 2013.
Diversity in clinical trials has nothing to do with DEI. It's about making sure drugs and devices are safe and effective for patients with different genetic profiles.
It's objectively necessary to understand the value and risks of medical products.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
It's objectively necessary to understand the value and risks of medical products.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban
Following the Trump administration's DEI ban, the FDA's move to scrub webpages has ensnared many pages focused on ensuring diversity in drug trials.
www.statnews.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Diversity in clinical trials has nothing to do with DEI. It's about making sure drugs and devices are safe and effective for patients with different genetic profiles.
It's objectively necessary to understand the value and risks of medical products.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
It's objectively necessary to understand the value and risks of medical products.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
HHS, CDC, and FDA are pausing communications as of today. For patients' safety and food safety we'd need clarity on when communications are going to start again.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/h...
Trump administration directs federal health agencies to pause communications | CNN
Amid a deluge of executive actions, the Trump administration has directed federal health agencies to pause external communications, such as regular scientific reports, updates to websites and health a...
www.cnn.com
January 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
HHS, CDC, and FDA are pausing communications as of today. For patients' safety and food safety we'd need clarity on when communications are going to start again.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/h...
NASA's R&D investments have lots of positive second-order impacts for society, and in many cases have created whole new industries.
www.wired.com/gallery/nasa...
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You Have NASA to Thank for Wireless Headphones and Vacuum Cleaners
The space agency’s Spinoff project displays the countless everyday technologies that were spurred by space-related research.
www.wired.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
NASA's R&D investments have lots of positive second-order impacts for society, and in many cases have created whole new industries.
www.wired.com/gallery/nasa...
www.wired.com/gallery/nasa...