C Anderson 🇨🇦
@genegeek.bsky.social
Scientist who also loves fibre arts, travel and photography
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“Children will acquire hepatitis B and die as a result of these recommendations,” said Aaron Milstone, MD. My colleagues or I, not a committee member, will be the ones supporting the parents of a dying child.” #CDC #ACIP
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CIDRAP (@cidrap.bsky.social)
The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota
#InfectiousDiseases #PublicHealth #ScienceCommunications
cidrap.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“Children will acquire hepatitis B and die as a result of these recommendations,” said Aaron Milstone, MD. My colleagues or I, not a committee member, will be the ones supporting the parents of a dying child.” #CDC #ACIP
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War is peace.
The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
December 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
War is peace.
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There goes the lucrative industry of international tourism, already fairly wrecked. The US was "the world’s most powerful Travel & Tourism market, contributing a record-breaking $2.36 TN to the nation’s economy last year" said the World Travel & Tourism Council in 2024.
Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan
The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.
www.nbcnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
There goes the lucrative industry of international tourism, already fairly wrecked. The US was "the world’s most powerful Travel & Tourism market, contributing a record-breaking $2.36 TN to the nation’s economy last year" said the World Travel & Tourism Council in 2024.
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Acting CDER Director Tracy Beth Høeg is not wasting any time ensuring that babies are as vulnerable as possible to preventable diseases that kill them.
Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: US FDA launches fresh safety scrutiny of approved RSV therapies for infants
U.S. health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca last week that their approved protective RSV treatments for infants would face fresh safety scrutiny following concer...
www.reuters.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Acting CDER Director Tracy Beth Høeg is not wasting any time ensuring that babies are as vulnerable as possible to preventable diseases that kill them.
Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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#UBCM - UBCM asks province to amend legislation to ban hybrid wolf-dogs pqbnews.com/2025/12/08/u...
UBCM asks province to amend legislation to ban hybrid wolf-dogs - Parksville Qualicum News
Resolution seeks end to breeding and keeping of animals
pqbnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
#UBCM - UBCM asks province to amend legislation to ban hybrid wolf-dogs pqbnews.com/2025/12/08/u...
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Trump and his crowd played on the emotions of many women when they promised free universal IVF. Of course it was a lie. Of course they betrayed them. www.ms.now/news/mike-jo...
Mike Johnson works in secret to strip IVF health coverage from defense bill
The speaker is working behind closed doors to remove a provision from the National Defense Authorization Act that would mandate health coverage for in vitro fertilization for all active duty military.
www.ms.now
December 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Trump and his crowd played on the emotions of many women when they promised free universal IVF. Of course it was a lie. Of course they betrayed them. www.ms.now/news/mike-jo...
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“You’re the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. A terrible reporter.”
Trump again attacks a Black female reporter, ABC’s Rachel Scott, for asking about releasing the full boat strike video - which he said he would do 5 days ago
And the other journalists stay silent🐔
Trump again attacks a Black female reporter, ABC’s Rachel Scott, for asking about releasing the full boat strike video - which he said he would do 5 days ago
And the other journalists stay silent🐔
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“You’re the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. A terrible reporter.”
Trump again attacks a Black female reporter, ABC’s Rachel Scott, for asking about releasing the full boat strike video - which he said he would do 5 days ago
And the other journalists stay silent🐔
Trump again attacks a Black female reporter, ABC’s Rachel Scott, for asking about releasing the full boat strike video - which he said he would do 5 days ago
And the other journalists stay silent🐔
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Tariffs did make the farm bailout possible. Because without the tariffs, there would be no need for a farm bailout.
Trump on his farm bailout: "This money would not be possible without tariffs ... because of tariffs, this is possible."
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Tariffs did make the farm bailout possible. Because without the tariffs, there would be no need for a farm bailout.
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Cloudflare is just one guy holding two cables together. The entire internet runs through them. He is being electrocuted 24/7 but holds on because he knows people need the world wide web. When he passes out from pain & exhaustion we get 404 errors
December 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Cloudflare is just one guy holding two cables together. The entire internet runs through them. He is being electrocuted 24/7 but holds on because he knows people need the world wide web. When he passes out from pain & exhaustion we get 404 errors
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I love this story from a very special place on the Central Coast of British Columbia: pairing modern computational techniques with Indigenous knowledge to help protect bears in the long term www.biographic.com/charting-a-c... 🌍 🧪
Charting a Course Through Bears' Eyes - bioGraphic
In British Columbia, First Nation stewards are using computational models and Indigenous knowledge to protect bears’ access to salmon.
www.biographic.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I love this story from a very special place on the Central Coast of British Columbia: pairing modern computational techniques with Indigenous knowledge to help protect bears in the long term www.biographic.com/charting-a-c... 🌍 🧪
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Chronique de fin d année : lactualite.com/politique/12...
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12 mois renversants
Bien que rien ne laisse présager un retour aux urnes en 2026, le Parti conservateur du Canada et le NPD seront bientôt à l'heure des choix. Une analyse de Chantal Hébert.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Chronique de fin d année : lactualite.com/politique/12...
Chronique de fin d année : lactualite.com/politique/12...
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WHY DO NEWBORNS NEED A HEPATITIS B VACCINE?
This @healthjournalism.org backgrounder has every link you need to understand this important issue that the #CDC #vaccine committee will discuss this week. For PARENTS, HCWs, JOURNALISTS, ADVOCATES & PUBLIC. #hepB
healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/12...
This @healthjournalism.org backgrounder has every link you need to understand this important issue that the #CDC #vaccine committee will discuss this week. For PARENTS, HCWs, JOURNALISTS, ADVOCATES & PUBLIC. #hepB
healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/12...
Why reporters should cover this week's CDC meeting on hepatitis B vaccine and more
The CDC will discuss its current policy of hepatitis B vaccination at birth and other recommendations from Dec. 4-5. Here's what to know.
healthjournalism.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
WHY DO NEWBORNS NEED A HEPATITIS B VACCINE?
This @healthjournalism.org backgrounder has every link you need to understand this important issue that the #CDC #vaccine committee will discuss this week. For PARENTS, HCWs, JOURNALISTS, ADVOCATES & PUBLIC. #hepB
healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/12...
This @healthjournalism.org backgrounder has every link you need to understand this important issue that the #CDC #vaccine committee will discuss this week. For PARENTS, HCWs, JOURNALISTS, ADVOCATES & PUBLIC. #hepB
healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/12...
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Very sorry to hear that Tiny Showcase is closing. It was a wonderful shop full of limited edition and affordable art. But for their last month, they are offering 30% off everything.
I have purchased some prints.
I have purchased some prints.
Prints — Tiny Showcase
www.tinyshowcase.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Very sorry to hear that Tiny Showcase is closing. It was a wonderful shop full of limited edition and affordable art. But for their last month, they are offering 30% off everything.
I have purchased some prints.
I have purchased some prints.
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i think any ideology that frames asexuality and celibacy as inherently bad things is dangerous
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and the rise of Donald Trump
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
i think any ideology that frames asexuality and celibacy as inherently bad things is dangerous
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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Drugs are not weapons.
Drug traffickers are not terrorists.
The US wasn't attacked.
Boats on open water far from US coasts aren't a security threat.
There is absolutely no argument for self-defense in Caribbean boat strikes, nor in possible war with Venezuela.
This campaign is lies upon lies.
Drug traffickers are not terrorists.
The US wasn't attacked.
Boats on open water far from US coasts aren't a security threat.
There is absolutely no argument for self-defense in Caribbean boat strikes, nor in possible war with Venezuela.
This campaign is lies upon lies.
This is fundamentally the wrong way to deal with drug problems.
The campaign is built on lies.
The campaign is built on lies.
The White House's lies about the illegal Caribbean boat strikes are so obvious and about such serious matters that they're floundering.
As @gregsargent.bsky.social and @jenrubin.bsky.social explain, specific strikes are criminal, but even more so, the entire campaign is blatantly illegal and wrong.
As @gregsargent.bsky.social and @jenrubin.bsky.social explain, specific strikes are criminal, but even more so, the entire campaign is blatantly illegal and wrong.
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Drugs are not weapons.
Drug traffickers are not terrorists.
The US wasn't attacked.
Boats on open water far from US coasts aren't a security threat.
There is absolutely no argument for self-defense in Caribbean boat strikes, nor in possible war with Venezuela.
This campaign is lies upon lies.
Drug traffickers are not terrorists.
The US wasn't attacked.
Boats on open water far from US coasts aren't a security threat.
There is absolutely no argument for self-defense in Caribbean boat strikes, nor in possible war with Venezuela.
This campaign is lies upon lies.
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As was I, mainly by my physician colleagues. In fact, I was told that deconstructing quack claims in general was a poor use of my time. And guess what? One of the physicians who criticized my activities in this sphere is currently in charge of FDA CBER.
I was told for many years that criticizing the antivaccine movement was a waste of time and “a liability” for science communication in general
my hot take based on nothing is: GOOP is part of why we landed here.
December 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
As was I, mainly by my physician colleagues. In fact, I was told that deconstructing quack claims in general was a poor use of my time. And guess what? One of the physicians who criticized my activities in this sphere is currently in charge of FDA CBER.
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You can find a signing location here.
Operation Total Recall — Organize Local Recall Campaigns
Grassroots hub to organize riding-by-riding recall efforts for the 44 Alberta MLAs who supported using the Notwithstanding Clause against not just teachers, but all Alberta workers. Find your MLA, join your local team, and take action.
operationtotalrecall.ca
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
You can find a signing location here.
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"We are more than stories. We are land. We are family. We are community. And we deserve a future where our identities are not commodities, where our truths are not distorted for profit or prestige and where accountability is measured not by words but by actions that build trust and repair harm."
all of this, and especially the last paragraph:
theconversation.com/thomas-king-...
theconversation.com/thomas-king-...
Thomas King: As we learn another ‘hero’ is non-Indigenous, let’s not ignore a broader cultural problem
Indigenous people are more than stories. We deserve a future where our identities are not commodities, and accountability is measured by actions that build trust and repair harm.
theconversation.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"We are more than stories. We are land. We are family. We are community. And we deserve a future where our identities are not commodities, where our truths are not distorted for profit or prestige and where accountability is measured not by words but by actions that build trust and repair harm."
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These people voted to restrict abortion in Alberta
UCP members pass resolutions on auto insurance, abortion, clean coal calgaryherald.com/news/politic...
November 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
These people voted to restrict abortion in Alberta
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This in and of itself is astonishing and it's buried in Prasad's memo. (Taken from an EXTREMELY long thread - full memo from Dr Vinay Prasad, director of FDA's CBER, the division that regulates vaccines and other biological producs)
We will revise the annual flu vaccine framework, which is an evidence-based catastrophe of low quality evidence, poor surrogate assays, and uncertain vaccine effectiveness measured in case-control studies with poor methods.
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This in and of itself is astonishing and it's buried in Prasad's memo. (Taken from an EXTREMELY long thread - full memo from Dr Vinay Prasad, director of FDA's CBER, the division that regulates vaccines and other biological producs)
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This whole thread, with a loud amen from me.
Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This whole thread, with a loud amen from me.
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This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
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I’m so glad that mine live only on old floppy discs that no one can read
In helping my students polish their personal statements, I decided to pull mine up from when I applied to grad school and 🫣🫣🫣 criiinnnnnnnnggggggeeeeeee
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I’m so glad that mine live only on old floppy discs that no one can read