"Ooh, herpes, please" - me responding to an email giving me a choice of two different CIHR proposals to work on this week. I do love virology.

I'll be away on the day of the upcoming federal byelection, so I requested a postal ballot. I applied on Wednesday, got the approval notification email on Saturday, and had someone from Elections Canada hand-deliver the ballot on Sunday.

Man you know you’re crazy when even CONCACAF calls you out Been told Canada Soccer will have their own statement soon btw www.concacaf.com/competitions...

Concacaf Statement Regarding the Proposed FIFA Forward Enterprise | Concacaf

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I need an option that lets me report my entire feed rather than doing each post individually www.cnet.com/tech/service...

LinkedIn Added a New Way to Report AI Slop - CNET

The "Seems like AI slop" button will help LinkedIn train its AI-detection tools.

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This statement by UEFA on FIFA attempting to sell off the World Cup gave me goosebumps, what a statement - the beautiful game deserves no less “As so long as Europe has a voice, it will never be for sale.”

Back in 2020, as a pediatric hematologist married to a physician, we signed up to volunteer in a field hospital for patients with COVID. We wrote our wills and worried about getting our kids sick. I posted about terrifying outcomes in kids and received death threats. Fauci is a goddamn hero.

2026 summer: Welcome to Oops.

I need a new sitcom or something else light to watch just before bed. Any recommendations for something with a similar tone and quality to 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, etc.?

I think my expectations for The Odyssey might have been too high. Based on the reviews I thought I'd be blown away by it, but at the end we were both like "that was... pretty good, overall"

Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/

I sometimes miss working in lab buildings with 4 C rooms I could go and cool down in, especially after cycling to work. I even occasionally used the -20 C room, on very hot days www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The human fridge: is this really the best way to cool down in a ‘cruelly hot’ climate?

A ‘personal cooling booth’ that promises to chill you out in 10 minutes has launched in Japan, with its makers claiming it beats air-conditioning or a fan

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Trump Admin demands to know why Ottawa not paying for American smoke crossing into Canada

Trump Admin demands to know why Ottawa not paying for American smoke crossing into Canada

WASHINGTON D.C. - As President Trump threatens to tariffs due to smoke from Canadian wildfires, he is also lambasting Prime Minister Carney over failure to pay for American smoke crossing over into Br...

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Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it

For anyone who needs a laugh today… This may be the most Canadian response to cross-border wildfire complaints I’ve ever read Apparently all we need to do is 🍁 Rake the forest 🍁 Vacuum the wilderness 🍁 Tell the smoke to stay in Canada Problem solved 😂🇨🇦 #Canada #Humour #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

How very dare they?! Are they not raking their forests?! Why can't they keep their smoke on their own side of the border?! We should definitely tariff them!!

Now officially jonesing for the PWHL season to start! There's no official schedule yet, but apparently it'll be late November, after the World Championship. I guess I'll have to make do with the NHL until then. Only 70 days until the men's season begins!

this shot is so bleak lmao

With all the yapping about how Canada should rake ~270M hectares of forest to stop the fires and smoke, I thought I'd run the numbers. If every single American who can hold a rake came to help out, they'd each have about two soccer fields to clean up. And maintain. Of dense forest. Forever. 🤨

Listen I will just say to any American politicians who are just watchimg their colleagues issue veiled threats at Canada for having wildfires in one of the largest boreal forests in the world you better not issue any "please buy or wine and visit our casino" notices

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

This weekend, I plan to immerse myself in the stories of traumatized men who just want to go home. No, not the Odyssey, the England-France third-place play-off game.

This is like when I had a breakup in early 2020 and vowed to get out more and meet new people

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I’m finally going to listen to my doctor and eat more vegetables and get more fresh air

I spent more time on Zoom/Teams yesterday than I have since the pandemic. I don't know how I used to do that regularly. Even though the meeting/course content was interesting, being on camera for that long was almost as painful as watching the England game

Even as Cyclospora outbreaks have become more frequent, CDC's parasite surveillance team was slashed from 11 people to 3 last year. Joel Barratt, who ran the team, tells me he worries the agency doesn't have the staffing to stop the current outbreak quickly. My story in @nature.com:

‘Explosive diarrhoea’ outbreak grips US: how researchers are hunting its source

Cases have hit record levels, and scientists are racing to pinpoint where the Cyclospora parasite entered the food supply.

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I've never been happier to have already switched to 100% Canadian greenhouse-grown salad veggies

The juxtaposition of the story about Mick Jagger being 80 and posts about elder care homes playing songs from WWII because that’s the common assumption about how old the patients living there are is breaking my brain today.

I love cats, and especially my cats I also love live music I do not love it when my cat treats me to a live singing performance right next to the bed at 1 am

Interesting to see my spam emails gradually morph from "your website content is awesome but your SEO sucks, I can fix it" to "your website's traditional SEO is awesome but your AI-focused SEO sucks, I can fix it"

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface