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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦
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Back off man, I'm a scientist. Genome size, junk DNA, applied evolution, sci comm, SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Also political stuff. And jokes. Onions have 5x more DNA than you do. He/him.
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"What exactly do you expect Carney to do / not do?"

A thread of 50 specific items (with links, and not in any particular order), a large fraction of which are in line with warning signs we pointed out early on and were told to be quiet, wait and see, or trust his 4D chess acumen.

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Yeah. Specifically, the "woke is ruining science", "there is only one way of knowing: western science", "genitals, genitals, gametes, gametes" racist, sexist, fragile transphobes -- several of whom are also sex pests.
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
Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known
Latest batch of documents show researchers consulting the financier and sex offender on publications, visas and more.
go.nature.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:14 PM
👉 Maple Doge
His decree that every department make 15% across the board can only be described as Maple Doge
February 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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People outside of Canada need to realize Mark Carney has cut thousands of public service jobs and fast tracking neoliberal business and energy sales over Indigenous land and LGBTQ+ rights in the country.

He's paving the way for fascism but getting credit as some brave leader calling out Trump
“Canada needs to stand against the kind of intolerance that's sweeping the world.”

Fascism scholar Jason Stanley tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social why Canadian PM Mark Carney should have more explicitly decried rising global intolerance in his Davos address.

Watch: open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
February 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Omg omg, look who's here!
I wonder if dung beetles refer to us as pizza mammals.
February 9, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Welcome friends from Xitter! As you will have seen from my post there, I'm no longer using that site. My account is still up because people may want to access some older posts, but it's no longer active.
February 9, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Why would the Superbowl organizers invite someone from a shithole country with a corrupt, criminal president to perform at half time?
February 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Seafarers were visiting remote Arctic islands over 4000 years ago www.newscientist.com/article/2514...
Seafarers were visiting remote Arctic islands over 4000 years ago
The first people to reach the Kitsissut Islands off the north-west coast of Greenland were Indigenous peoples, who crossed over 50 kilometres of treacherous water
www.newscientist.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:23 PM
See also Carney as a supposed climate champion (within the context of being a banker and make-the-rich-richer-er).
1. People struggle to reconcile Keir Starmer’s ruthless ambition, Machiavellian manoeuvres, breaking of promises, collaboration in genocide, bans on protest, aid cuts, benefit cuts and war on nature with his history as a human rights lawyer. But perhaps there is no contradiction.
Read on.🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Digital asbestos.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 12:15 PM
They're angry that a performer from Puerto Rico was the main halftime show performer. After all, Puerto Ricans are *checks notes* American citizens.
February 9, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...
Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology
Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R
academic.oup.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Found the deadest audience in history. A few tried to bop along (badly out of rhythm), but this is hilarious and cringe.
guys. the kid rock performance is uh. well it’s exactly what you’d expect
February 8, 2026 at 2:39 PM
K.
Polling Canada Federal Model Update:

🔴 LPC: 204 (+35)
🔵 CPC: 107 (-37)
⚜️ BQ: 26 (+4)
🟠 NDP: 4 (-3)
🟢 GPC: 2 (+1)

(Seat Changes With 2025 Federal Election)

- February 7, 2026 -

Full model article here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
Liberals Surge On The Model Amid Massive Polling Spike
Poilievre trails by twenty-nine points on preferred Prime Minister as the seat gap expands
open.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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PEDO Bowl. Where billionaires cheer, victims are ignored & the files stay sealed

Sickening the PEDO Bowl gets wall-to-wall coverage, but accountability for child predators gets buried

Sponsored by silence, settlements, and sealed records

#ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles
#SheShed
#DefendersOfDemocracy
February 7, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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February 8, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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I am so tired of rich people refusing to build anything new and just burning everything that exists as a public good to the ground instead. They have decimated journalism this way. Remember when they used to be scared enough to build public libraries and parks?
February 8, 2026 at 4:22 AM
The NY Times again, everybody.
From the same newspaper that published “did feminism fuck up the work place?”, we now have “did feminism fuck up sex?”

The NYT really is desperate to cater to conservative audiences and it’s just getting more obvious and embarrassing.
February 8, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Ok, I'm game. I'm not very plucky but I'll give it a try if I get an invite. 🇨🇦
📌Update: Feb 4📌

- 1,500 invites sent this week + 3,000 next. Landing Tues-Thurs weekly.
- Our first release thanks thanks to all those plucky beta testers.
- Part I of a snazzy new UI, news links show bias/credibility reliably, Gander Feed is live.

Full details: gandersocial.ca/blog/release...
Release v1.0.0.104 – February 3, 2026 - Gander Social Blog
TL;DR Try on our fresh new look with redesigned navigation and icons Home screen now includes your feeds + quicker access to search and support New post composer makes it easier to share your posts Fl...
gandersocial.ca
February 7, 2026 at 10:43 PM