Daniel A. Walker

Daniel A. Walker

@danwalker9999.bsky.social

Retired geoscientist. Cyclist. 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱

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elia ayoub
@ayoub.bsky.social

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Prem Thakker ツ
@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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Brent Toderian
@brenttoderian.bsky.social

Congratulations to Toronto @mayoroliviachow.ca on her re-election tonight. Given Doug Ford’s constant interference & distractions, Toronto is arguably the hardest city in Canada to be the mayor of. I’m hopeful that in her first FULL term, Mayor Chow will lean in on more bold, creative city-building.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social

Toronto, don’t forget that polls don’t win elections. Turnout wins elections. Please go out today and #VOTE for @mayoroliviachow.ca.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP
@soumya-goblue.bsky.social

• Ahmed Zewail (Egypt / US): Won 1999 Nobel Prize in #Chemistry • Nader Masmoudi (Tunisia): Won Fermat Prize in #mathematics • Abbas Bahri (Tunisia): also received the Fermat Prize • Sir Michael Atiyah (Lebanese descent / British): #mathematician who won both Fields Medal and Abel Prize.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Jonathan Howard
@joho.bsky.social
sciencebasedmedicine.orgThanks to Efforts of the “Biosafety Now” Bros, Richard Ebright and Bryce Nickels, We Are All More Vulnerable to Dangerous Viruses, Both Old & New, From Labs & From Nature, Exactly as I Predicted.Professors Richard Ebright and Byrce Nickels used their voice to enable the "charlatans and quacks", the people responsible for the devastation of our biosafety response.
ProPublica@propublica.org

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

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Lora Kolodny
@lorak.bsky.social

Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/u...

cnbc.comAfter SpaceX restores high-speed service, Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink agreementUkraine says restrictions on Starlink and Starshield have been lifted, restoring connectivity to fast-moving military systems after disruptions.

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Nashville Scene
@nashvillescene.com

Peter Thiel took a detour through political, economic, social and religious history that commanded some six hours over four consecutive Monday evening lectures in downtown Nashville.

nashvillescene.comThiel’s 'Antichrist' Never Turns UpThe Silicon Valley tech principal, who's worth more than $30 billion, never actually delivered his goods despite a detour through political, economic, social and religious history that commanded some ...

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AGU Hydrology H3S
@agu-h3s.bsky.social

Round 4 of #RiverCup2026 Matchup 1: Murray-Darling vs. East River! See below for recent articles about these river systems! VOTE now until 10/26!! www.agu-h3s.org/rivercup #RiverCup2026

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

propublica.orgBird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.Federal officials brushed off the issue as Utah prioritized the fur industry’s interests. Little has been done to stop the spread of the virus and ensure it can’t spread to humans, a failure that expe...

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Annie Waldman
@anniewaldman.bsky.social

This is terrifying. A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a mink farm for months. Experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. And officials are refusing to act. What a story from @natlash.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

propublica.orgBird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.Federal officials brushed off the issue as Utah prioritized the fur industry’s interests. Little has been done to stop the spread of the virus and ensure it can’t spread to humans, a failure that expe...

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Mike Coston
@fla-medic.bsky.social

AFluDiary Blog `Virological (Referral): Preliminary report on 3H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Utah mink, August 2026' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/10/viro...

afludiary.blogspot.comVirological (Referral): Preliminary report on H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Utah mink, August 2026#19,384 Two months ago, in  That Touch of Mink Flu (H5N1 in Utah Edition) , we looked at a cryptic announcement of an outbreak of HPAI H5N1...

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Carl T. Bergstrom
@carlbergstrom.com

If you thought Ben Lamm was a shithead, you underestimated him. He's worse. Genetically engineering any creatures, but dogs especially, to be weapons of war — it's unspeakable. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦
@tryangregory.bsky.social

Colossal Hype Company in the news again.

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

theguardian.com‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentreCompany ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone. After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with the trail marks of machinery, puddles and mounds of earth, roots and branches. Residents say that brown water flowing off the site is going into a stream that feeds the Oulujoki River. Continue reading...

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Stand Up for Science!
@standupforscience.net

Replying to @danwalker9999.bsky.social

We will continue to support efforts to see every newborn in Guinea-Bissau vaccinated at birth against Hep-B, as soon as possible. Further, Stand Up for Science International, our Switzerland-based NGO, will continue its role as a watchdog.

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The War on Cars
@thewaroncars.bsky.social

"In 2025, 1.185 million people on the island of Montreal cycled, including 941,000 adults and 244,000 children. The report shows 58 percent of the adult population cycled – 68 percent in the central area of Montreal."

montreal.citynews.caReport: More than half of Montreal adults' cycleOver a million Montrealers are choosing to cycle, according to the 2025 “State of Cycling” report by cycling advocacy group Vélo Québec. In 2025, 1.185 million people on the island of Montreal cycled,...

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Sholto David
@sholtodavid.bsky.social

Today I am sharing a new preprint and accompanying blog post. Hundreds of published papers include impossible western blots showing protein expression in cell lines that have deleted or mutated genes. These clumsy mistakes are widespread and repeated by LLMs.

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Stand Up for Science!
@standupforscience.net

Replying to @standupforscience.net

Our efforts to stop this study opened the way for vaccines to reach these children a year earlier than planned. We will continue to support efforts to see every newborn in Guinea-Bissau vaccinated at birth against Hep B, as soon as possible.

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Melody Schreiber
@melodyschreiber.com

BREAKING: The hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau "will not move forward," the lead researcher says. “The solution is clear here: Take the money and vaccinate as many kids as you can,” @pauloffit.bsky.social told me: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.comControversial US-backed vaccine trial in African newborns haltedHepatitis B study in Guinea-Bissau that was to be funded by CDC and that drew global backlash ‘will not move forward’

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Kit Yates
@kityates.bsky.social

The Covid Inquiry’s Module 6 report is devastating. Its central conclusion: adult social care was treated as “something of an afterthought”, while “protecting the NHS” sometimes came at the expense of people receiving and providing care. 1/10

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The Watchdog
@thewatchdog.ca

On eve of Alberta referendum vote, separatist leader alleges ‘cover up’ in deadly CFB Wainwright tragedy Alberta separatist leader Jeffrey Rath makes unsubstantiated claims that ‘DEI programs’ and ‘gender fluid’ soldiers may be to blame in CFB Wainwright tragedy

thewatchdog.caOn Eve of Alberta Referendum Vote, Separatist Leader Alleges ‘Cover Up’ in Deadly CFB Wainwright TragedyAlberta separatist leader Jeffrey Rath suggests ‘DEI programs’ and ‘gender fluid’ soldiers may be to blame in CFB Wainwright tragedy

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Rachel Gilmore
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social

After over two years living in Montreal, I can safely say the family doctor situation is absolutely fucked. I FINALLY got a letter that I got one. But after weeks of trying, I haven't been able to contact them. Phone? Hangs up, no voicemail. Email? No reply. In person while 'open'? Door locked.

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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉
@alonghurst.bsky.social

Conservatives propose additional health care privatization in full platform: patients to receive a voucher for a private surgery if waits exceed the benchmark Why not reduce surgical waits in the first place rather than pay 2-3x premium for privatized surgeries? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #bcpoli

cbc.caB.C. Conservatives promise to shrink deficit to $10.8B while adding $2.6B in revenue | CBC NewsThe B.C. Conservatives say their platform will create $2.6 billion in new revenue over three years, while shrinking the deficit to $10.8 billion by 2030.

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Aryn Toombs
@aryn.bsky.social

What does this remain/separatism polling look like if you display by electoral district (population) instead of by land mass? It shows significantly less visual support for separatism in Alberta than if the ED boundaries map is used.

Polling Canada@canadianpolling.bsky.social

Here's that Mainstreet independence referendum poll Remain: 68 Ridings Independence: 19 Ridings

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦
@jvipondmd.bsky.social

How many good things could you create with $45B? @canrac.bsky.social The Climate Action Network has come up with 110 of thems. We should do them all.

theenergymix.com110 Clean Energy Projects vs. Pipeline-Focused Nation-BuildingAs Ottawa and the provinces debate pipelines, Climate Action Network Canada is pointing to clean energy and transmission infrastructure projects representing billions of dollars in Canadian investment...

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Josh Sternberg
@joshsternberg.com

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

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Eos
@eos.org

Today is #WorldFoodDay, which was established in 1979 to raise awareness about hunger and food production globally. As of 2024, the #UN estimated that more than 2 billion people face food insecurity. Learn about intersections of food security and science here: eos.org/tag/food-sec...

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Molly White
@molly.wiki

This WSJ investigation exposes yet more Tether-related corruption at the White House, revealing that they paid Bo Hines' consulting firm millions as he was ensuring the Genius Act stablecoin law would benefit them. I needed a diagram.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com

Money from Tether flowed to Nxum while Bo Hines worked in the White House on landmark stablecoin legislation. Once the law passed, Tether hired him as its U.S. chief.

on.wsj.comHe Crafted a Crypto Law for Trump—as His Company Got Millions From a Crypto GiantMoney from Tether flowed to Nxum while Bo Hines worked in the White House on landmark stablecoin legislation. Once the law passed, Tether hired him as its U.S. chief.

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Molly White
@molly.wiki

Newsletter: A Trump crypto adviser’s firm took millions from Tether while he shaped stablecoin rules in their favor, a Senate probe targets Commerce Secretary Lutnick’s not-so-former firm, and crypto’s biggest super PAC plays it safe. www.citationneeded.news/issue-111/

citationneeded.newsIssue 111 – Back the winnersA Trump crypto adviser’s firm took millions from Tether while he shaped stablecoin rules in their favor, a Senate probe targets Lutnick’s not-so-former firm, and crypto’s biggest super PAC plays it sa...

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Katherine Eban
@katherineeban.bsky.social

SCOOP 🚨: Expiring grant $$ drove CDC officials and Danish researchers to push last month for a hasty vote from a U. of Southern Denmark ethics panel to approve a controversial Hep B vax clinical trial in Guinea-Bissau. New in @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

rollingstone.comHow a Controversial Hepatitis B Study Was Funded by the CDC Amid a Global Swirl of CriticismAs experts questioned the ethics of the study, documents show that expiring funds forced a rushed vote in Denmark, where the researchers’ institute is based