Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde
@albrechts-h.bsky.social
Outraged Evolutionary Ecologist, former Tier 2 Canada Research Chair, LaurentianU survivor, beer/tequila/pastis drinker, squash, soccer, cycling,
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
Running into a former MSc student with her child, hearing about her young family and burgeoning career. The best part of the job.
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Running into a former MSc student with her child, hearing about her young family and burgeoning career. The best part of the job.
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Online harassment is silencing Canada’s health experts — institutions need to do more to protect them
Online harassment is silencing Canada’s health experts — institutions need to do more to protect them
If Canada wants to get ahead of the next health crisis, it needs to shield its scientists and researchers from online abuse.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Online harassment is silencing Canada’s health experts — institutions need to do more to protect them
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Actually, the best information retrieval system in human history, which hasn’t crashed once in the past 500 years, is called A BOOK.
"Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea" -- @davelevitan.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Actually, the best information retrieval system in human history, which hasn’t crashed once in the past 500 years, is called A BOOK.
U of W president removed
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U of W president removed
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November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
U of W president removed
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Laurentian's faculty union is negotiating our new collective agreement. Seeing this is pretty rage-inducing given the financial cost we have borne the past 5 years (yes, I still have my job, for which I am grateful, but still....)
Canadian University salary data is out: Queen's has now passed Toronto in having the highest average professorial salary - $198,875.
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Laurentian's faculty union is negotiating our new collective agreement. Seeing this is pretty rage-inducing given the financial cost we have borne the past 5 years (yes, I still have my job, for which I am grateful, but still....)
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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these are not serious people, and this is not a serious country
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
these are not serious people, and this is not a serious country
Fantastic news!
Congrats to Grant McClelland for winning the President's Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social! Fantastic and well-deserved recognition for a great mentor, colleague, and research buddy!
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Faculty of Engineering & Faculty of Science
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November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Fantastic news!
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Congrats to Grant McClelland for winning the President's Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social! Fantastic and well-deserved recognition for a great mentor, colleague, and research buddy!
registrar.mcmaster.ca/convocation-...
registrar.mcmaster.ca/convocation-...
Faculty of Engineering & Faculty of Science
registrar.mcmaster.ca
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Congrats to Grant McClelland for winning the President's Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social! Fantastic and well-deserved recognition for a great mentor, colleague, and research buddy!
registrar.mcmaster.ca/convocation-...
registrar.mcmaster.ca/convocation-...
this is deeply distressing - we all assume that citation counts are correct!
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
this is deeply distressing - we all assume that citation counts are correct!
Again, these ostriches were raised for slaughter, and CFIA paid compensation for their cull.
Ostrich Convoy leader Jim Kerr (aka "Poppa Bubbles") delivers an emotional eulogy for the flock of dead ostriches at Queens Park in Toronto this afternoon
Kerr broke down in tears before denouncing the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for "spreading blood-soaked hay all over the neighbour's lawn"
Kerr broke down in tears before denouncing the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for "spreading blood-soaked hay all over the neighbour's lawn"
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Again, these ostriches were raised for slaughter, and CFIA paid compensation for their cull.
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Countries that invest in science thrive while those that do not falter. A+ article in G&M about challenges and opportunities Canada face in R&D with mentions of latest CCA Report, our #BouchardReport and #NaylorReport. Let's roll up our sleeves and get to work
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Is this the moment Canada gets serious about science and the economy?
The federal budget includes $1.7-billion to attract international researchers and support Canadian R&D and IP protections
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November 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Countries that invest in science thrive while those that do not falter. A+ article in G&M about challenges and opportunities Canada face in R&D with mentions of latest CCA Report, our #BouchardReport and #NaylorReport. Let's roll up our sleeves and get to work
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The ostriches were originally raised for slaughter, and the farmers were financially compensated by CFIA.
In case you’re wondering:
The key people behind tomorrow’s planned nationwide Ostrich Convoy include an aging Burning Man attendee who drives a psychedelic school bus called the “Church of Bubbles” and a Dutch-born Gen Z social media marketer who imports maple syrup to Utrecht, Netherlands
The key people behind tomorrow’s planned nationwide Ostrich Convoy include an aging Burning Man attendee who drives a psychedelic school bus called the “Church of Bubbles” and a Dutch-born Gen Z social media marketer who imports maple syrup to Utrecht, Netherlands
Leaders of Canada’s Newest Convoy Worry Police Are Trying to Sabotage a Nationwide Protest Avenging a Flock of Dead Ostriches
Convoy organizers say they are at ‘war’ with the federal government, but insist they will remain ‘peaceful’
pressprogress.ca
November 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The ostriches were originally raised for slaughter, and the farmers were financially compensated by CFIA.
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When one of the most respected organisations in the world directly spreads disinformation we have truly reached a dark place.
It's going to take years to rebuild trust in anything the CDC leadership says.
Meanwhile millions of people will suffer from misguided decisions about their health.
It's going to take years to rebuild trust in anything the CDC leadership says.
Meanwhile millions of people will suffer from misguided decisions about their health.
November 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
When one of the most respected organisations in the world directly spreads disinformation we have truly reached a dark place.
It's going to take years to rebuild trust in anything the CDC leadership says.
Meanwhile millions of people will suffer from misguided decisions about their health.
It's going to take years to rebuild trust in anything the CDC leadership says.
Meanwhile millions of people will suffer from misguided decisions about their health.
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Who are so many so-called fake "free speech" people such terrible people?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Who are so many so-called fake "free speech" people such terrible people?
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the United States has ceded its leadership of global science (Exhibit C)
New from me for @science.org: A major planetary science conference will require submitted abstracts to comply with Trump's anti-DEI executive orders.
This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭
This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭
‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order
NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
the United States has ceded its leadership of global science (Exhibit C)
the democratic world is shifting away from the US.
Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
the democratic world is shifting away from the US.
the United States has ceded its leadership of global science (Exxhibit B)
The administration is building a legal pathway for ad hoc grant terminations:
"if the agency determines that the award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities"
Converting multiyear grants to 'at whim' coin flips will undermine the stability & leadership of American science.
"if the agency determines that the award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities"
Converting multiyear grants to 'at whim' coin flips will undermine the stability & leadership of American science.
Update on a significant development NIH grant terms.
On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.
But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.
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On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.
But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
the United States has ceded its leadership of global science (Exxhibit B)
the United States has ceded its leadership of global science.
U.S. CDC C.D.C. Changes Website to Reflect Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism. A previous version denied a link between vaccines and autism. It now echoes the doubts about that conclusion voiced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h... via @nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
the United States has ceded its leadership of global science.
we're going backwards and people like RFK Jr are leading the way. So much confidence in someone who has never done science.
For years Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been pushing the notion that germ theory is overrated. Now other HHS officials are picking up that argument. Katherine J. Wu reports:
To Survive the Next Pandemic, Walk More, the NIH Says
The agency is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
we're going backwards and people like RFK Jr are leading the way. So much confidence in someone who has never done science.
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How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
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Canada’s research and scientific spending is declining relative to other nations, report says
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Canada’s research and scientific spending is declining relative to other nations, report says
Low rate of R&D investment plays key role in productivity crisis, according to Council of Canadian Academies
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November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Canada’s research and scientific spending is declining relative to other nations, report says
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