Dan Dutton

I've had life insurance for years. Haven't used it once.

2025-26: the first year Canadian universities employed more tenured/TT professors over the age of 70 than under the age of 35.

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

🚨 The pollution of knowledge base a MASSIVE problem. Paper mill cancer studies get double the number of citations as genuine papers www.nature.com/articles/d41... "...papers that were probably produced by paper mills frequently cite, or are cited by, other potentially fraudulent articles."

I like how every far right party has realizes all they need to do is weaponize the mid life crisis bsky.app/profile/core...

Committee recommends Ottawa not extend MAID to people whose sole condition is mental illness. But three Senators and the Bloc file dissenting reports urging referral to Supreme Court, by @stephanielevitz.bsky.social @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... @theglobeandmail.com

Courtesy of Colburn & Aldern ("Homelessness is a Housing Problem"), mental illness and drug use don't cause homelessness, they discriminate for who will be homeless when housing is expensive, limited, and unregulated.

The Illusion of Competence: Self-Perceived Digital Literacy and AI Readiness arxiv.org/abs/2605.26010 Study (preprint): There is an "'AI Paradox' wherein students significantly overestimate their critical awareness of deepfakes and algorithmic biases compared to their operational AI skills."

This headline has nothing to do with Alberta politics

If we as a society invested half the energy into creating inclusive communities for autistic people that we invest into “finding cures” or blaming someone, autism would not be a crisis in the first place. Funding exclusion is easier than creating tangible change. nypost.com/2026/05/13/h...

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later www.404media.co/nature-retra...

Children. Earning. Their way out. Of Inclusion. This is the populist soul.

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

Immigration enforcement is the number one priority of this administration — beyond everything else. And when the DOJ makes that its number one priority, it means that they have to drop a bunch of other cases, including ones with far more serious consequences.

Health misinformation does great harm. Decades of tolerating – explicitly or implicitly – pseudoscience (eg, alt med BS) played a big role in the rise of bunk. Medical schools, professional orgs, etc, must speak up! Wrote this in April 2020. Alas, MORE relevant now www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Some think that because universities are slow to react to changes in the labour market, governments should intervene and make them go faster in specific directions...never pausing to consider that govts in fact know jack shit about labour market change. I will die on this hill.

Ngl, the odds that an 80,000-word book about university management using Warhammer as a metaphor is any good are pretty slim, but am I going to read this book? Yes. Yes, I am.

Reality is now a political opinion.

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

The scale and speed of state censorship of campus really is amazing. More than half of America's college students attend institutions in states that have passed laws censoring higher education since 2021. From @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/report/ameri...

On The Beat with Ari Melber tonight

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A cross-national analysis finds that as governments become more populist, academic freedom declines doi.org/10.1017/S153...

If you could ride a horse (by looking at this still image of a horse that we made appear to be galloping around in a manner similar to but not quite exactly like a horse), would you?

CLSAFindings💡: Comprehensiveness vs efficiency: A cross-sectional analysis of the association between allostatic load and the frailty index using the CLSA Cc: @danduttonysj.bsky.social, @dalhousieu.bsky.social 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40882950/

Very impressed by the NB Heart and Stroke conference today. Great mix of topics.

You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.

This program is one of the most interesting programs I have ever attended, interdisciplinary presentations done right across the board. GROWW share.google/kMu9eBTBNO9h...

A former student now medical student, Luke Duignan, published his Research In Medicine project (rare) on the potential substitution between frailty index and allostatic load. AL is a nice variable for considering the burden of SDoH in popns. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

While this is a great initiative we know that downstream food provision does not address food insecurity in the population. Fredericton's food rescue centre to be important piece of food insecurity puzzle | CBC News share.google/ygFULhMnU7W2...

There are scented candles everywhere for those with the eyes to see

New article spearheaded by James LaChaud at Ohio State on the At Home/Chez Soi data. Estimated lower mortality in the HF group but not stat sig. My read on it is that in Canada we do a good job keeping people alive in the long run, but details here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Maximum bureaucracy: "Typically, it's the last four digits of your employee number. If you don’t remember it, please provide those last four digits, and I’ll reset it for you."

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The academic pages of Reddit are full of stories of PhD students whose offers have been rescinded due to pulled NIH funding. Western is stepping up and offering expedited admissions and excellent funding to these deserving students: www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

The fact that a study can have REB clearance and still be dragged makes me bitter about having to get REB clearance, especially if the allegation about ignoring one patient's request to not be included is true. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

An authoritarian regime in action

Manitoba nursing regulator warns patient safety at risk under labour mobility rules, by @kellygrant1.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com @mbcollegerns.bsky.social #nursing

Gov't of NS is doing a survey of 1500 people for $300,000. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Wait until they find out about this study where we surveyed 2000 people for maybe 1/8th the price pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34923690/ NS, I can run you a survey for $200,000 and get 2000 people, whaddaya say?

The Dutton name's popularity in some media recently has been distracting. This is great news, The Council of Duttons welcome closure on this issue.

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy. Hard to see this as anything other than clearing the way for shoddy research on things like vaccines. Regardless of the rationale, it's bad news for public health. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Bullshit takes a lot of effort to identify but is costless to produce. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bull.... This "priority" does not mean bullshit will not be called out, it means that there will be fewer organized efforts against it. @caulfieldtim.bsky.social

I have been a massive beneficiary of the hard work of my staff and students, several of whom are not from Canada originally. I think it has been a real strength of our system that we've been able to welcome these people.

Between an Australian politician and the Yellowstone series (?!) of TV shows, the Dutton name sure is carrying a lot of baggage these days.