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🦊UdeS Scientific Mom🤱🏻👩🏻‍🔬PhD Microbiology/Immunology - Astronomy 🔭, Mycology 🍄‍🟫 and Ornithology 🦉 addict - Reason and Science advocate - Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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We're hiring! My dept. is looking for a candidate with a research program focusing on plant systems. All areas of molecular and cellular biology research will be considered. Not sure if you'd fit? Reach out to me. Please share! #microsky
November 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Quand on fait des choses extraordinaires, d'autres s'en inspirent :)

(Pensée pour Pauline Marois qui a créé les CPE à la fin des années 1990)
Zohran Mamdani draws inspiration from Québec — a reminder that ideas travel, and borders can’t contain hope. 🕊️🕯️

Proud that our little corner of the world can spark big dreams. 💙🤍⚜️

#PolQc ⚜️
#Québec ⚜️
#Canada 🇨🇦
#ZohranMamdani 🇺🇸
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Un jour, la science devra se pencher sur ce phénomène où des femmes, une après l'autre, payent des fortunes en avocat et perdent des années de leur vie juste pour aller mentir en cour.

Est-ce pour le kick de vivre sept jours de contre-interrogatoire où on te traite subtilement de traînée?

Mystère.
July 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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MAGA ambassador Pete Hoosktra lashed out at Canadians for being "mean and nasty." He is pissed off we won't kiss the ring and buy their products. American media has realized the huge impact of the Canadian boycott.
Please read my latest.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/maga-is-fr...
Canada’s Boycott Is Freaking MAGA Out
A Canadian journalist contacted me the other day looking to get a sense of the current state of the Canadian boycott.
charlieangus.substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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This afternoon, 10 senators issued a statement on the extreme humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Israel's disregard for international law, and the legal risk that Canada faces in failing to act in the face of crimes against humanity. To read: senatoryuenpauwoo.ca/en/media/pre...
youtu.be/C7Ik9-x6UO0?...
Statement on the Situation in Gaza and Call for the Government of Canada to Uphold International Law
YouTube video by Yuen Pau Woo
youtu.be
June 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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This man is hazardous to our health. This is a disastrous move. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/r...
RFK Jr. removes all members of CDC panel advising U.S. on vaccines
It's the latest move by Kennedy – a prominent vaccine skeptic – to change and potentially undermine vaccinations in the U.S. since he took the helm at HHS.
www.cnbc.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Narrator: they were not considering the offer
May 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
Antibiotic research at Harvard lab threatened by federal funding cuts
Microbiologist Michael Baym studies antibiotic resistance at Harvard Medical School. He lost millions in federal funding this week.
www.wbur.org
May 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Un symbole de l’amitié canado-américaine est ainsi «compromis», réagissent le maire et la présidente du CA.
Les autorités américaines restreignent l’accès à la bibliothèque de Stanstead
www.ledevoir.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Pendant que l'heure avance, les droits des femmes reculent.
March 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Au fait, vive la liberté d'expression, aussi. 👇
March 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Marie-Jean Meurs, professeure en IA à l'UQAM, réfute l'idée que les robots conversationnels comme ChatGPT puissent fournir des informations véridiques. Selon elle, ces outils génèrent des phrases sans validité, risquant la désinformation. #IA @uqam.ca

ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...
Entre IA et gouvernement, l’empreinte de Musk inquiète
Entre l'intelligence artificielle et les hautes sphères du gouvernement, le double rôle d'Elon Musk suscite des inquiétudes quant au contrôle de l'information.
ici.radio-canada.ca
March 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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It would be great if the Canadian government would shut down their X (Twitter) accounts and move to Bluesky.
March 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Le gouvernement est en train de compliquer inutilement la vie des universités.

Une lettre de (presque) tous les recteurs du Québec.
February 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."

Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.

www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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The Trump admin has cancelled the panels that approve NIH grants, & is also banning scientists from communicating with the public, attending conferences, and hiring.

NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.
January 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM