Robyn Sussel
@rubydtuesday.bsky.social
Interests include health and science, sci-fi, technology, media and public affairs. Proud Canadian.
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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Knight is one of America’s most generous philanthropists, according to Forbes data, donating billions of dollars to educational institutions throughout his life.
Nike Co-Founder Phil Knight Gifts $2 Billion To Oregon Cancer Institute—The Largest University Donation Ever
Knight is one of America’s most generous philanthropists, according to Forbes data, donating billions of dollars to educational institutions throughout his life.
www.forbes.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Knight is one of America’s most generous philanthropists, according to Forbes data, donating billions of dollars to educational institutions throughout his life.
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Hey, American doctors! Have you ever wondered what it's like to work in the #Canadian healthcare system? Here are the opinions of two doctors, now working in beautiful British Columbia (you're fast-tracked for licensure & immigration)!🇨🇦
#UShealthcare #immigration #Canada
#UShealthcare #immigration #Canada
US vs Canada: A Doctor Compares working in Universal Healthcare, Pay & Lifestyle (Ft. Dr. P. Hertz)
YouTube video by InterestingMD
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July 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Hey, American doctors! Have you ever wondered what it's like to work in the #Canadian healthcare system? Here are the opinions of two doctors, now working in beautiful British Columbia (you're fast-tracked for licensure & immigration)!🇨🇦
#UShealthcare #immigration #Canada
#UShealthcare #immigration #Canada
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Pre-bunking, a method akin to vaccination, trains people to spot and resist #misinformation. A behavioral scientist explains why group-based approaches may be key to maintaining resistance over time: theconversation.com/misinformati... By @bayesbro.bsky.social @cofcharleston.bsky.social
Misinformation lends itself to social contagion – here’s how to recognize and combat it
Mass psychogenic illness has happened throughout history, but social media makes it more likely to spread.
theconversation.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Pre-bunking, a method akin to vaccination, trains people to spot and resist #misinformation. A behavioral scientist explains why group-based approaches may be key to maintaining resistance over time: theconversation.com/misinformati... By @bayesbro.bsky.social @cofcharleston.bsky.social
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Trump’s “science transparency” executive order is packed with positive sounding buzzwords, but it could gut the use of most health studies in policymaking. It revives tactics once used by Big Tobacco to bury studies that showed the dangers of smoking.
buff.ly/DY1ftlB
#news #science
buff.ly/DY1ftlB
#news #science
How Trump’s ‘gold standard’ politicizes federal science
The first Trump administration also used words like ‘transparency,’ ‘reproducibility’ and ‘uncertainty’ − to try to block regulators from using important health studies when writing pollution rules.
buff.ly
June 6, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Trump’s “science transparency” executive order is packed with positive sounding buzzwords, but it could gut the use of most health studies in policymaking. It revives tactics once used by Big Tobacco to bury studies that showed the dangers of smoking.
buff.ly/DY1ftlB
#news #science
buff.ly/DY1ftlB
#news #science
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Happy Pride, friends 🙂
June 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Happy Pride, friends 🙂
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Type “how did the Nazis consolidate their power” into any AI chatbot. Prompt for judiciary and universities. Boom.
May 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Type “how did the Nazis consolidate their power” into any AI chatbot. Prompt for judiciary and universities. Boom.
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“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.”
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
April 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.”
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Every time Poilievre says “for a change” Conservatives should drink. Or maybe Liberals. Not sure!?
April 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Every time Poilievre says “for a change” Conservatives should drink. Or maybe Liberals. Not sure!?
Shocker
Anti-LGBTQ+ extremist Corey DeAngelis admits to gay adult film past during Christian news interview
www.advocate.com/news/corey-d...
www.advocate.com/news/corey-d...
Anti-LGBTQ+ extremist Corey DeAngelis admits to gay adult film past during Christian news interview
The anti-public education crusader said he can’t be canceled despite criticism of hypocrisy.
www.advocate.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Shocker
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Pluto's moon, Charon, at highest resolution so far captured by NASA
March 31, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Pluto's moon, Charon, at highest resolution so far captured by NASA
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Herb Greene, whose evocative portraits of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and others helped define the rock scene that emerged in San Francisco in the mid-1960s, died on March 3. He was 82.
Herb Greene, Who Photographed the Grateful Dead and Other 1960s Rock Acts, Dies at 82
One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Herb Greene, whose evocative portraits of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and others helped define the rock scene that emerged in San Francisco in the mid-1960s, died on March 3. He was 82.
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Yes
Trump's government is struggling to track bird flu and contact its own nuclear weapons inspectors but is micromanaging college disciplinary committees?
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Yes
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March 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
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Please consider supporting Canadian-founded businesses that are also:
- small businesses
- rural businesses
- Black owned businesses
- Indigenous owned businesses
- Asian owned businesses
- 2SLGBTQ+ owned businesses
- woman owned businesses
- veteran owned businesses
- B-corps
from-here.ca
- small businesses
- rural businesses
- Black owned businesses
- Indigenous owned businesses
- Asian owned businesses
- 2SLGBTQ+ owned businesses
- woman owned businesses
- veteran owned businesses
- B-corps
from-here.ca
Home - From Here
Beautiful. Curated. From Here. A place for Canadians to discover new and diverse brands from across this land. From Coast to Coast to Coast From small town creators to underrepresented founders We lov...
from-here.ca
March 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Please consider supporting Canadian-founded businesses that are also:
- small businesses
- rural businesses
- Black owned businesses
- Indigenous owned businesses
- Asian owned businesses
- 2SLGBTQ+ owned businesses
- woman owned businesses
- veteran owned businesses
- B-corps
from-here.ca
- small businesses
- rural businesses
- Black owned businesses
- Indigenous owned businesses
- Asian owned businesses
- 2SLGBTQ+ owned businesses
- woman owned businesses
- veteran owned businesses
- B-corps
from-here.ca
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If you agree that Musk doesn’t deserve Canadian citizenship, sign the House of Commons petition today! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Sign this Petition - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
February 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
If you agree that Musk doesn’t deserve Canadian citizenship, sign the House of Commons petition today! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants.
#IDsky
#Medsky
#Episky
www.science.org/content/arti...
#IDsky
#Medsky
#Episky
www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
www.science.org
February 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants.
#IDsky
#Medsky
#Episky
www.science.org/content/arti...
#IDsky
#Medsky
#Episky
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Attention Health care workers! Want to come to Canada? We are hiring! 🇨🇦
There’s been so much interest in from US 🇺🇸health workers and jobs in Canada that I’m posting recruitment links for all 10 provinces and 3 territories: 🧵 #healthcarejobs🇨🇦
February 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Attention Health care workers! Want to come to Canada? We are hiring! 🇨🇦
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Holy sheesh...
Video of the crash in Toronto yesterday. Post from an ER doc whose hospital is very close to the airport.
I wasn't on duty yesterday when this happened, but watching our emergency response systems light up and coordinate minutes after this happened was amazing to see. Patients were taken across the city and seen and treated within minutes of arrival. No deaths, thankfully. Bravo!
February 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Holy sheesh...
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Breaking News: A federal judge temporarily blocked the National Institutes of Health from enacting President Trump’s cuts to research funding in 22 states.
Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Cuts to Medical Research Funding
A coalition of 22 attorneys general sued the federal government, claiming that the $4 billion in cuts would “grind to a halt” studies on cancer, heart disease and other conditions.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Breaking News: A federal judge temporarily blocked the National Institutes of Health from enacting President Trump’s cuts to research funding in 22 states.
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...