J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc
@jorgeandr3s.bsky.social
Social epidemiologist and public health researcher. "Here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it." Find me philosophizing at https://substack.com/@andresdelgadoron
First Substack in a while…. I’ve been busy with my recently-completed second PhD thesis, on Near-Death Experiences in Classical Antiquity, which gave life to this piece. gregoryshushan.substack.com/p/the-odysse...
The Odyssey and Near-Death Experiences
Did Odysseus have an NDE? Was Homer's conception of Hades inspired by the phenomenon?
gregoryshushan.substack.com
Little Mountain is one of the most enraging developer sagas in Vancouver history: 700 social housing residents evicted in 2007, developer received $299 million in interest-free loans to redevelop, then left site empty for years. crazy to see mayor and council spinning this as a success story.
The Tyee@thetyee.ca · 13h agoControversial developer Holborn Group promised new social housing buildings when it bought the Little Mountain land from BC Housing in 2008 and tore down existing social housing. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
Hundreds of scientists are collaborating on a quest to count every species of insect in one expanse of the Amazon go.nature.com/4pRzMjG
Tiny patch of Amazon likely holds 40,000 insect species — many new to science
Megaproject involving hundreds of sites is cataloguing rainforest insects from the ground to the canopy.
go.nature.com
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
“‘[I] think it is important to distinguish between a business that just wants to make money from a luxury good and a business that is knowingly passing such charges through to the government,’ she said in an interview.“ retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/f...
Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges
iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…
retractionwatch.com
More people died from heat between April 1, 2026 thru July 19, 2026 than in the ten entire preceding years combined
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 5d agojesus. www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
As someone who works in (public health) emergency preparedness, I am very aware that public trust in emergency response is crucial to it working. When government help isn't there when you need it, people lose trust in it.
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
I'm interested in finding and potentially supporting people who are interested in doing long-form writing on the big efforts in global health: Gavi, Global Fund, PEPFAR, etc. If this is you or someone you know, please make yourself known!
new #preprint @pigozzife.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2607.28250 Once you get replicators, Darwinian evolution can happen. What's happening *before* replicators arise? "Causal Architecture Dynamics Prior to Arrival of Self-replicators in a Model of Catalytic Networks Relevant to Origin-of-Life"
Causal Architecture Dynamics Prior to Arrival of Self-replicators in a Model of Catalytic Networks Relevant to Origin-of-Life
Agents that exert causal power in the world are thought to be the product of selection among diverse replicators; what is the causal structure of a medium before replicators appear, and evolution take...
arxiv.org
The within-person associations aren’t necessarily causal because of time-varying confounding, which is something we discuss here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10..... However, we didn’t discuss the scenario of interpreting the between-person associations causally, because that’s…an interesting move
These Are Not the Effects You Are Looking for: Causality and the Within-/Between-Persons Distinction in Longitudinal Data Analysis - Julia M. Rohrer, Kou Murayama, 2023
In psychological science, researchers often pay particular attention to the distinction between within- and between-persons relationships in longitudinal data a...
journals.sagepub.com
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
New trade deals with Ecuador and the UAE raise hard questions about the government’s international priorities www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Diversification against democracy in Canada’s latest global agreements | CCPA
New trade deals with Ecuador and the UAE raise hard questions about the government’s international priorities
policyalternatives.ca
JOB: Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Ottawa 2 year-appointment English-French bilingualism an asset
Sadly it's not just #JodrellBank losing funding, with deep cuts across the board for UK astronomy. One example is the HiPERCAM project whose funding has been entirely cut to save £50K/yr - peanut-levels of £s. Spectacular fast transient science lost, for what? 🔭😡 www.zmescience.com/science/astr...
One of Astronomy’s Fastest Cameras May Stop Operating Over a $67,000 Funding Gap
The camera that checked JWST’s clock is losing its funding.
zmescience.com
Alberta's Bill 11 + Bill 29 have set up a staged, toxic mix of private-pay healthcare. Analysis from @alonghurst.bsky.social: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Alberta ends equal access to medical testing and treatment | CCPA
New legislative changes are formalizing Alberta's private-pay testing scheme that allows the wealthy to jump the line
policyalternatives.ca
Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
I say this with nothing but love in my heart for the fatherland but can you imagine any other country looking at wildfires and thinking "quick, get a philosopher on the line"
New preprint! Memory in Xenobots. @paivaibhav.bsky.social , James A. Traer, Megan M. Sperry, Yuxin Zehg www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Two different experiences produced distinct, long-term, stimulus-specific memories, detectable through both transcriptional and physiological signatures.
biorxiv.org
Planned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer could slash more than $50B from public health care over a decade, David J. Climenhaga reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth
Feeling Connected at School: Findings from the 2024 Youth Development Instrument Survey (YDI) ojs.acadiau.ca/index.php/ph...
he’s gutting the public sector, he’s holding back on pharmacare deals, he tried to pull money out of daycare, he’s letting two-tier healthcare gain a foothold in alberta, and now he’s coming for public healthcare funding too
Canada Healthwatch 🍁@canadahealthwatch.ca · 2w agoPlanned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer could slash more than $50B from public health care over a decade, David J. Climenhaga reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth
Thanks for the link, I cannot reply to your post, so I have to quote it. I wanted to ask about a specific topic in particular, as it relates to colonialism and science, not learning about the topic in general. I already have a general understanding.
Emma Wilson@emmawilson.eurosky.social · 2w agoBatool Almarzouq has some good work on this topic magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol27-2-poli...
Pick a country whose culture you like or are curious about--Denmark, Japan, the Netherlands, heck, Canada!--start learning the language, look up who is doing cool research in your field there, inquire about scholarship eligibility, and see this as a way to do good science AND become more cultured.
I will echo @caulfieldtim.bsky.social's line that the United States has entered a Dark Age and, like a black hole, they are drawing the world in with them. If you're a student and want to be a scientist, leave the United States and find a grad program elsewhere.
11. I don't think I have to help anyone read between the lines here. AI: good. Universities: bad. Trades: good. Academics: bad. It's a straightforward continuation of the Vought/Vance "the universities are the enemy" program.
1. It is concerning that, in an editorial of a leading psychiatric journal, there is a discussion of treatment effect heterogeneity, w/o distinguishing appropriate studies from those which simply looked at associations of variables with reponse/nonresponse without a placebo control group.
Editorial: Toward More Individualized Treatment of Pediatric Depression
For decades, antidepressant trials in children and adolescents have been designed to answer the question: does the medication work better than placebo? As clinicians, however, we confront a different ...
jaacap.org
"mice: the only method here that carries imputation uncertainty into the model. Use it whenever the output is an estimate, a confidence interval, or a p-value, the typical medical or epidemiological analysis. Ten years on, it is still the right default for inference."
DataScience+@datascienceplus.bsky.social · 2w agoImputing Missing Data in R: mice, missRanger, and VIM Compared #rstats
