Francis Lynn 🇨🇦
@nictitate.bsky.social
dad, lab head, brewer, baker, beta cell maker https://lynnlab.com
Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
theconversation.com
If you want an example of why having political appointees deeply involved in grantmaking... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
nytimes.com
Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
science.org
Tragic and - according to scientists quoted in the article — avoidable.
Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
science.org
The VPD may decide to provide more information about why it costs $200,000 a week to police the Granville strip for seven weeks on top of their $497 million budget, or they might not. But if they do, I’ll be sure to prove an update.
The human brain, with 86 billion neurons and a million billion connections between them, runs on 20 watts, less than a lightbulb. Think we may be going down the wrong road believing data centres, needing megawatts or gigawatts of power, with all the environmental & climate costs, are the way to go.
US: become our 51st state Canada: heck no US: ok we are going to hit you with illegal tariffs to weaken you Canada: we don’t want your goods and booze US: you are discriminating against us
After getting out of jail, this person should ride a bike for his remaining days.
Bill Lindeke@blindeke.bsky.social · 2w ago"The driver, 31-year-old Charles Medina, sped past the couple from behind... Rapp’s boyfriend responded to the maneuver by raising his hands and yelling, at which point Medina slammed his brakes, skidded to a stop and accelerated in reverse." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
"It’s all just random impulses, fleeting grudges, synaptic burps, based on who spoke to him last, what he saw on TV or what he had for breakfast" www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: There is no appeasing Donald Trump, or deterring him
Trump’s latest tariffs have liberated Canada, in a strange sort of way
theglobeandmail.com
How do sarcomeric mutations disrupt the transition to adult cardiac metabolism? Our study in TNNT2-linked HCM hiPSC-CMs reveals an early energetic deficit, paradoxical mTORC1 suppression, and a pathway to therapeutic rescue. Congrats to Homa Hamledari and the team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Molecular Rewiring in TNNT2-Linked Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy hiPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes upon Metabolic Maturation
Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) are widely used to model cardiac development and inherited cardiomyopathies, yet their immature metabolic state limits interpreta...
biorxiv.org
This has been obvious to anyone paying close attention. Unfortunately most of Canada's political leaders (Smith, Moe, Kinew, Ford, Eby, Carney, Poilievre) were asleep during class. They've yet to learn the road to fossil fuels is a dead end #EnergyTransition #CleanTech www.bbc.com/news/science...
World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says
The world is shifting rapidly to clean energy but still investing too much in fossil fuels, the IEA says.
bbc.com
So...will the latest dumbass tariffs on Canuckistanian goods be applied to maple syrup? One wonders.
Now would be the time to put export taxes on potash and oil.
“So next time someone tells you Canada’s fires can be solved by raking the forests, you can point out that the thing filling their sky with smoke is a lightning-struck, drought-primed boreal forest doing what a warming climate is making it do more and more often.”
Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management
Higher fire season temperatures are strongly correlated with increased area burned
theclimatebrink.com
Meanwhile out west, poorly managed US forests are polluting Canada
If Odysseus had just given his sailors testosterone injections, it wouldn’t have taken him 10 years to get home.
A few unanswered questions about the events at the ADA Scientific Sessions this year from Limbaugh and Griffin zenodo.org/records/2130...
The American Diabetes Association appears not to have learned their lesson the first time around (below). Now they've blocked publication of an editorial about this event that was slated for publication in the same journal, Diabetes Care, this week. But here it is. You know what to do.
Community Voices: On the Events of the American Diabetes Association 86th Scientific Sessions
The editorial and the seven opinion articles posted here were scheduled for publication on July 13, 2026, in the journal, Diabetes Care. All articles were provided, in advance of the scheduled publica...
zenodo.org
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo agoFrom 500 views in the first two months to over 100,000 views in the last few days. The ADA opinion piece that was too scary to be distributed at the ADA meeting has gone full Streisand. Y'all are doing the Lord's work.
A Canadian helicopter pilot was killed fighting a wildfire in Colorado last weekend.
Global News@globalnews.ca · 3w ago"If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people,” said a group of U.S. lawmakers. globalnews.ca/news/1196860...
And mostly because “Canadian wildfire smoke” is due to the USA producing 25% of the world’s CO2 emissions.
Torontonians finally waking up to what B.C. has been experiencing for years. Doubt it will make any difference to how we act though
The role of GIP in splanchnic blood flow regulation is confirmed in people with type 2 diabetes, underpinning the importance of GIP in postprandial physiology despite its weak glucose-lowering effect #T2D #DiabetesResearch link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🔓
Heat got you down? Try some light climate reading! Here's a snippet from Very Serious Mark Carney's book Value(s). "Actions speak louder than words. Credible climate policies should cut emissions from day one to reduce the end point in carbon concentrations." (p.296).
Every time Canada makes a concession to be reasonable with the United States, Washington sees it as weakness. And they want more. This is Trump's message to the world after the deal on the Gordie Howe Bridge. Their threat to Canada remains serious.
Anyone that does this should lose all their funding
Kristin Connor@kconnor.bsky.social · 3w agoPretty sure one of my #CIHR reviews was written by AI
A year after the cyclospora tracking mandate was removed cases of this parasite are currently 20x higher than its yearly average, so when you hear that you need to wash your hands, remember: we’re in this mess because of those who washed their hands of responsibility.