"The podium was there. The press wasn’t. Premier Doug Ford has increasingly been attending what appear to be government announcements without inviting reporters. A review by The Trillium has found at least 5 examples since mid-May, when this practice appeared to become more frequent." 👀 #OnPoli

TheTrillium.ca@thetrillium.bsky.social · 5h ago

Ford government staging official announcements without inviting reporters

A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body go.nature.com/4fDUY9w

COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you

Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.

go.nature.com

Lloyd Robertson has died. One of the absolute highlights of my professional life to date was during a live stream during pandemic where I got to say “Back to you, Lloyd” TO Lloyd. (picture from a book release around 2011)

Someone needs to draw up a graph of personal trust in a new commentator over time. - Discovery: oh wow, they're really good! - A few problematic takes: nobody's perfect! - One massive stupid take: OK, unsubscribing. This person's a moron.

Mark Carney has: -scrapped consumer carbon tax -scrapped oil/gas emissions cap -cut $1.3B from environment Canada -weakened industrial carbon pricing -axed 2 billion trees program -approved 1M barrels/day pipeline -weakened greenwashing laws While this is happening:

Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. bsky.app/profile/doct... 2/

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5d ago

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

“The biggest problem is that the conclusion doesn't match the data.” Allen said. “If you look strictly at the data, the conclusion is a small HEPA filter that's turned off doesn't work.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/can...

Can air purifiers prevent flu and COVID-19 in nursing homes? Only if they’re used properly

cidrap.umn.edu

Got a new laptop this week and first thing I did was uninstall Microsoft CoPilot, so... y'know, go fuck yourself.

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

🧵(1/n) An unfortunate example of confusion around the value of RCTs common to practitioners with limited research training. RCTs are a useful scientific method, but they are only a small part of the biomedical researcher's deep toolbox. bsky.app/profile/mark...

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 3y ago

"Unnecessary content" placeholder I will use in reposting old Twitter threads with broadly applicable content on bsky. Some were responses to positions taken by others, where the value today is in addressing the idea rather than naming & shaming any one particular individual.

Bring back fact-checking

Perfect for this age of explosive diarrhea

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 6d ago

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Senior colleague left the conference mid-session, found a book store, bought a copy of On the Origin of the Species, personally delivered it to another senior colleague, still in session, and told him he should probably read it before trying to publish another evolutionary biology paper.

Alberta Separation and COVID: open.substack.com/pub/duanebra...

Alberta Separation and COVID:

Same people, same ideas, different issue

open.substack.com

If they are concerned with COVID deaths at the start of the pandemic, how about organizing a hearing with the leader who was actually in charge at the time about what went wrong? Except they won’t because we all know that this isn’t remotely about concern for public health.

The usual scientifically illiterate gibberish from deeply conflicted aerosol transmission deniers.

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 3y ago

🧵(1/n) An unfortunate example of confusion around the value of RCTs common to practitioners with limited research training. RCTs are a useful scientific method, but they are only a small part of the biomedical researcher's deep toolbox. bsky.app/profile/mark...

I'm gonna finish my book and then I want y'all to do this with it

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

The fact that he grabs a glue gun himself and sticks this gilded kitch to the wall in the middle of the night, whenever he’s feeling bad, is genuinely hilarious.

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 7d ago

Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized

School yard bully. Dying govt.

Isaac Callan@isaaccallan.bsky.social · last wk.

The Ford government is escalating its infrastructure fight with Ottawa, threatening to rescind support for a federal high-speed rail line after the Carney government said it would block the expansion of Toronto’s island airport. #onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1200172...

Having put federal lands off limits to solar panels, the Trump administration is opening them up to...data centers www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/c...

Trump Administration Is Repurposing Federal Land for A.I. Data Centers

In the latest example, the Energy Department will convert a shuttered Cold War-era uranium enrichment facility into a data center campus and gas plants.

nytimes.com

In Canada it's Toronto weather that tends to get all the attention because, Toronto, but has anyone checked to make sure Edmonton is still there?? They're truly having a summer for the ages. www.instagram.com/reel/DbTKyEF...

The Weather Network on Instagram: "Dramatic footage captures the moment a powerful storm with intense wind and rain suddenly hits a fair in Edmonton, Alberta, sending people running for shelter. [ Se...

3,448 likes, 159 comments - weathernetwork on July 27, 2026: "Dramatic footage captures the moment a powerful storm with intense wind and rain suddenly hits a fair in Edmonton, Alberta, sending people...

instagram.com

BREAKING: The Liberals are preparing to eliminate all funding requirements for U.S. companies under the Online Streaming Act. www.thewirereport.ca/2026/07/28/b...

BREAKING: Ottawa to scrap all contribution requirements for U.S. streamers - The Wire Report

In a recent letter to the Federal Court of Appeal, the government outlined its intention to “eliminate the base contribution requirement on streaming services and to provide government funding to repl...

thewirereport.ca

The oligarchs need to be criminally charged. 🪶😡🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #BoycottShopify www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Shopify CEO appears to endorse giving more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News

The billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for seeming to endorse stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke...

cbc.ca

"Everybody deserves a say in the future of AI. We don’t have to resort to NIMBYism and questionable environmental arguments to get it. Even if one community succeeds in keeping the data centers out, another community will let them in." TRANSLATION: the datacenter backlash is working. Please stop.

Have you engaged with projects such as @zooniverse.bsky.social? One of my PG students is doing a user-centred study on how and why people engage on virtual/online/digital citizen science projects. Can you spare some time to help them? cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #pleasebekind

Trump Prepares to Scrap 50-Year-Old Radiation Safety Rule newrepublic.com/post/213570/...

Trump Prepares to Scrap 50-Year-Old Radiation Safety Rule

The Trump administration is ready to get rid of a key radiation safety standard.

newrepublic.com

Summer Bonus: More than 100 reasons why people of all ages should avoid getting Covid johndupuis.substack.com/p/summer-bon...

Summer Bonus: More than 100 reasons why people of all ages should avoid getting Covid

Bonus Articles on Covid you have to read!

johndupuis.substack.com

Want effective carbon capture? Work on preserving and expanding marshlands and especially bogs, which are the most effective carbon sinks on the planet.

John Dupuis@dupuisj.bsky.social · last wk.

Calling Carney’s Carbon Capture Bluff He pretends the technology is a serious response to the climate crisis. Here’s the reality. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Calling Carney’s Carbon Capture Bluff He pretends the technology is a serious response to the climate crisis. Here’s the reality. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Calling Carney’s Carbon Capture Bluff | The Tyee

He pretends the technology is a serious response to the climate crisis. Here’s the reality.

thetyee.ca

Good thing Carney’s put us on the hook for $20 billion #cdnpoli

🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦@jvipondmd.bsky.social · last wk.

« Growing evidence suggests CCS may play only a limited role in decarbonization, with critics arguing that greater investment should go toward permanent low-carbon alternatives. » oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...