This is an amazing rescue story. After spending a year in Australia with my family it was clear how much emphasis was put in teaching all kids to swim and how important it is. What a brave boy. Hero. www.cbc.ca/news/world/a...

Australian boy, 13, swims for 4 hours to save family swept out to sea | CBC News

A 13-year-old boy is credited with saving the lives of his mother and two younger siblings with an hourslong swim after the family was swept out to sea off the Australian coast.

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Happiness is a kid waking up to find out its a snow day.

UBC and BC Cancer are recruiting a cancer stem cell faculty member at the Associate Professor or Professor rank for the new Connie Eaves Chair in Cancer Stem Cell Research. A great position recognizing a giant in the field. Please share. #Vancouver ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

Associate Professor (tenure) or Professor (tenure) Dr. Connie Eaves Chair in Cancer Stem Cell Research

Academic Job Category Faculty Bargaining Job Title Associate Professor (tenure) or Professor (tenure) Dr. Connie Eaves Chair in Cancer Stem Cell Research Department School of Biomedical Engineering | ...

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⚠️New study: we mapped DNA-binding of topoisomerase TOP2B in cancer, uncovering surprising hotspots of DNA damage. TOP2B, normally essential for DNA stress relief, can act as a double-edged sword. co-led by @LiisUuskula @ChristianLee, out now @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... [1/7]

Topoisomerase IIb binding delineates localized mutational processes and driver mutations in cancer genomes - Nature Communications

Topoisomerases resolve topological DNA stress via double-strand breaks and are established targets of cancer chemotherapies. Here, the authors link genomic binding of TOP2B with localized mutational p...

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♨️Live @ #BGEconnects: Finished “EBP – How genomics is transforming understanding of biodiversity through reference genome production” by Harris Lewin, chair of @ebpgenome.bsky.social. “Reference-quality genomes can now be produced at scale”, he says. “We need to work together to scale up.” #BGE

Canada is ranked 1 in education, 3 in safety, 4 in justice, 4 in overall best country. We are not a broken country. We have not suffered a lost decade. Our existence is in the balance. Vote.

PatchWorkPlot: simultaneous visualization of local alignments across multiple sequences arxiv.org/abs/2503.20766 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/yana-safonov...

4) Their definition of epigenetics is also somewhat awkward (see e.g. www.nature.com/articles/nrm...). This is a very cool paper, but the science would shine brighter without the somewhat forced attempt to dress established knowledge as a new concept via awkward terminology.

Canada has existential choices to make in the Trump era. It had become complacent about its many virtues, and has had a sharp awakening, writes Michael Ignatieff. www.prospectmagazine...

As America retreats, Europe must step up

An unstable world order, divided between competing superpowers, will force all other nations to make tough choices

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This is incredible

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · last yr.

Canadian artist Howie Tsui redesigned an old pinball machine into a simulation of a musket-ball rattling around a soldier's guts for an exhibition on the War of 1812. It's meant to demonstrate the way that repetition and concentration can inure a person to the horrors of war.

the united states no longer condemns russia’s invasion of ukraine. aligning the us with belarus, sudan, north korea and other failed states. a reflection of changing policy and a wake up call for us allies.

MW: Highlighting the importance of collaborative research to his own work - pointed out that a very fruitful project in his lab was spearheaded as a collaboration by a student who rotated in both labs and brought them together, the PIs now work together successfully on join projects #LorneGenome25

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

"What I Believe" by Bertrand Russell is 100 yrs old and still relevant (www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73782). "The good life, as we conceive it, demands a multitude of social conditions, and cannot be realized without them. The good life, we said, is a life inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

You heard it here first folks, borders aren’t real, they’re just an artificial line someone drew. This quote will 100% start one of my book chapters.

Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)@bestonetx.bsky.social · last yr.

The Canadian border is just a line somebody once drew on a map, but the Mexican border is a divine demarcation penned in golden light by the hands of angels.

You are making a big difference in standing up to tyranny. Your decision to cancel the family trip to the United States is freaking them out. As Donald insults our nation, businesses are watching our tourism dollars dry up. Boycott all trips to the United States. www.thetravel.com/us-travel-as...

U.S. Travel Association Warns of Economic Tourism Disaster After Thousands of Canadian Tourists Cancel Trips in Protest

While Proposed Tariffs Against Canada Are Now Paused, Canadian Travel Agencies Already Witnessing Retaliation in Form of Canceled Trips

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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

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There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”

PubMed launched in 1996, but took time to take off as an Internet-enabled replacement. Now it's easy to forget how miserable the alternative was. Thank you, National Library of Medicine, for keeping grad students where they belong: listening to true crime podcasts while pipetting.

We found that copies of the LINE1 transposon are key “architects” of the nucleolar genome in human embryonic stem cells. This work brings together two facets of Barbara McClintock’s pioneering research: nucleolar organizer regions and transposable elements. www.genesdev.org/cgi/doi/10.1...

My Tidyverse local synteny visualizer is up on GitHub: github.com/cxli233/Tidy... GitHub page contains 2 example datasets, as well as step-by-step instruction & explanations on how it works. Details on required input data are discussed in the GitHub page. Let me know if you run into issues.

Excited to share our preprint describing a new naked mole rat reference genome! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/9

An updated reference genome sequence and annotation reveals gene losses and gains underlying naked mole-rat biology

The naked mole-rat (NMR; Heterocephalus glaber ) is a eusocial subterranean rodent with a highly unusual set of physiological traits that has attracted great interest amongst the scientific community....

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BIOMORA24 is go!!! Going to be an amazing few days of science, meeting old friends & meeting people in the flesh who I’ve only seen online/read papers of/emailed!