Aleeza Gerstein
@acgerstein.bsky.social
Associate professor in microbiology (human fungal pathogens) & statistics (really just evolutionary genetics) at UManitoba in Winnipeg 🇨🇦 Keeps two small humans alive. Served with a side of politics. Because it's 2026. (she/her) )'(
This deserves to be ratio’d and I’m very disappointed that hasn’t happened. What f-ing myth are you speaking of in the year 2026? This isn’t the 1990s (where this was also proved as utter BS). #LillithFair @rollingstone.com - Do better.
Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · 5d agoSuccessful festivals produced by Olivia Rodrigo and Brandi Carlile are debunking the myth that women can't headline or lead concert lineups.
Millennials don’t have houses because we’re eating genderfluid avocado toast 🧪
Jeff Groh@jeffgroh.bsky.social · last wk.Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Canadians are so good at forest management we have a national music video explaining how our woodsmen get the work done and still have time to dance and get laid… I’d like to see an American try to be that talented.
CANADA VIGNETTES: LOG DRIVER'S WALTZ | Full Animated Film | National Film Board of Canada
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Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
For the Carney climate doubters the new PMOs CEO was his right hand person GFANZ. Her role is to align capital and drive net zero governance and data tracking into every aspect of Canada and harmonize with global carbon reduction initiatives. davidmclaughlin2025.substack.com/p/coo-for-pm...
COO for PMO Announced
Now do this for PCO and the public service as a whole.
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For transparency around rejection, add me to the list of Canadians who never had a grant that wasn't streamlined (triaged) at CIHR during the ECR period. I only bought three tickets, but was stuck in the 50-75% bin. Will do a big rewrite and resubmit to a different panel in the fall. 1/2
This petition, demanding that the Feds regulate AI data centres to the degree they should be (and the way most big tech should have been over the past 20 years), is worth signing. The grifters, criminals & bandits behind AI will steal our energy, public money and more if they aren’t held to account
Ticky🏳️🌈@drac.at · last mo.Canadian residents & citizens; I would highly recommend signing this one
How insane it would be if Canada won on the 4th of July. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
It's not often that someone on a panel says something that makes my jaw drop, but that's what happened earlier this week when the moderator of a panel I was on in Toronto described jailbreaking an iPhone as "rampant theft of IP." 1/
The crisis continues. My partner had to administer nakoxone to someone unconscious & unresponsive on our front porch today. It was the 2nd person that had to be dosed this afternoon on our block. Yes, #wpgpoli, this is a community crisis. #winnipeg #manitoba #drugcrisis
Brian Pincott@bpincott.bsky.social · 2mo agoA neighbour had to administer naloxone last evening. 3rd time in less than 2 weeks. EMS response has become a daily thing on our block. My neighbours care, first responders care. We need government to care. We need more than silence or defensiveness from them. #wpgpoli #winnipeg #westbroadway
I’ve been rereading Persepolis. If you never read it, do it now. If you read it before, I highly recommend the reread. It was a powerful read in the early 2000s, in 2026 even more so.
The Nation Magazine@thenation.com · 2mo agoMarjane Satrapi, the Persepolis author who died last week, leaves behind a rebellious, radical artistic legacy. https://bit.ly/4v2eTUV
Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...
Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
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Apparently, I have discovered how to age in reverse, and undergrad me is giving a keynote at CanFunNet this year! I'm biased in many ways, but this is a wonderful, trainee-centred, online (inclusive) meeting. Not just for Canadians or those in Canada ;-) Register today!
CanFunNet@canfunnet.bsky.social · 3mo agoMeet Aleeza Gerstein, one of our plenary speakers! Dr. Gerstein's research applies evolutionary principles and statistical methods to understand the evolution of human fungal pathogens in the context of drug resistance and chronic infection. Register today for #CFN26 to hear more from Dr. Gerstein.
Today, the University of Maine's Vice Chancellor for Finance and Strategic AI Integration (who made $243,000 last year) sent UMaine campuses an announcement that we have partnered with OpenAI with a contract for ChatGPT Edu. I sent him the following questions:
Today I'm at Data Tech from MinneAnalytics, hosted by Best Buy. datatech2026.sched.com Starting the morning attending a panel about the data science and AI job market. #DataTech2026
Data Tech 2026 Schedule
Check out the schedule for Data Tech 2026
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One more #SCEECSEE20 grad memory, from Banff, 2011. We were staying in a much fancier hotel than most of us grad students were used to. We knew it was fancy because we were given robes. So one night we did the obvious thing and had a raucous robe party. A much delayed sorry to whoever was next door.
CSEE_SCEE@csee-scee.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20
I secretly snuck into the first #SCEECSEE20 meeting! I had just come back from six months of backpacking and landed in Toronto a couple of days beforehand. @ariannealbert.bsky.social I subsequently attended and paid for (well, @sarperotto.bsky.social grants paid for) many more in grad school. 1/2
CSEE_SCEE@csee-scee.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20
Bottom left is my desktop. It’s what I see when I waken my laptop. It still makes me gape in wonder every time.
Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 3mo agoi feel like society moved on from these too quickly
In the words of my grumpy first born during the walk to school: winter and spring are fighting and winter is winning.
It is depressing to live in a province purportedly governed by the NDP and a country by the Liberals and yet to be continually subjected to a near full slate of fiscal conservative policies at both jurisdictional levels. #mbpoli #canpoli
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe’re cutting taxes on fuel across Canada. Starting next Monday, you’ll save up to 10¢/L on gas at the pump.
everything I want to do on my computer seems to be getting harder and Microsoft autoupdate somehow got turned back on and I don’t want to use AI to summarize any goddamn thing in a PDF and is there a name for post moon joy depression that enshittification is real and it doesn’t have to be this way?
So, @mcnallyrobinson.com in Winnipeg are one of my true ‘home bookstores’ and they now offer free shipping anywhere in Canada for orders of $50 and up. I just placed another order and thought I’d alert others they can do this. They’re great. I sign there with every book release. Happy reading.
What a million wall posters look like when they're being born. flickr.com/photos/nasa2...
Earthset
art002e009288 (April 6, 2026) – Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright wh...
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The only good part of this is that I’m now following most of the other people who negatively quote posted it 😝
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸@rweingarten.bsky.social · 4mo agoNo matter how you feel about AI, its use is growing more widespread and it's important that educators understand how they could integrate it as a tool in their classrooms. Hear from three educators who have been experimenting with AI in this American Educator article ⬇️ aft.org/ae/spring202...
It's really worth watching the moment when Jeremy Hansen suggests that a crater on the moon - a "bright spot" we'll be able to see from earth - be named Carroll for Carroll Taylor Wiseman, the late wife of commander Reid Wiseman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Cw...
Crew of Artemis II share an emotional moment after naming new crater after a lost loved one
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