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830 wildfires burning across Canada right now. And you know what’s going to make it worse in the future? More oil pipelines. This is why our voice and our vote matters.

The fact that Carney is posting this today shows that he genuinely doesn't give a single solitary shit about the climate crisis that is BURNING SWATHS OF CANADA AS WE SPEAK

so the thing about luddites is they recognized that sometimes technical innovations are used to consolidate power and exercise additional control over labor here's your new mechanical loom! great huh - but too expensive for YOU to own ofc. it'll be owned by some rich dude. BUT you can rent it! wow

🚨 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."

The Ford government just deleted every long-term care inspection report from before 2023 from their website, obfuscating a vital public record, especially from the devastating pandemic era. But we have 10,000 of those reports, and we're making them publicly available. thelocal.to/long-term-ca...

"Springer Nature’s internal policing software removed the paper and posted the retraction notice unilaterally, without human supervision."

Health Risk Low Except For Those At Risk From Health Risk

We (irl in clinics) are now seeing rarer extra-pulmonary TB… which is significant in a low TB incidence country like Australia. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559...

The US slaughtered 120 schoolchildren on the war's first day. Is he gonna write each of their parents an enthusiastic letter telling them how much safer the world is because their children were blown up by bloodthirsty idiots? This is a genuine question for whoever runs @mark-carney.bsky.social

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

1. Remember that any attempt to paint Long Covid as psychogenic in nature deliberately and completely incorrectly biologically decouples SARS-CoV-2 infection from Long Covid. In essence, this rhetoric shifts the causative factor for LC from the virus to the patient's mind.

No one wants this except billionaires. It's incredibly destructive. Anyone defending this is complicit. Push back before it's too late.

“By forcing AI tools into schools, early-career training, public services, and health care, the government makes one thing clear: refusal is not an option.….informed consent is irrelevant, and lack of consent is but a minor inconvenience to be overridden.”

1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.

«We’re downplaying the stuff that should be banner headlines. We’ve been trapped into thinking of climate change as woke.» With good help from some people with science degrees, Dunning-Kruger, a dash of LLMs, and a huge interest and stakes in doubling down on our current path.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

This was Paul Farmer's last book before his untimely death. It paints the picture of how neglect, violence, and greed set the stage for the most devastating #Ebola outbreak in history. It deeply moved me and made more committed to making justice central to my work. Now is a great time to read it.

#MedSky 🩺 #Spoonies #ChronicIllness share widely!

Kansas legislature overrode the Gov veto on a nightmarish anti-trans law, so today's a great day to send some funds to the pipeline.

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More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.

I've been trying a new thing, making YouTube videos about my various academic papers. Here's my latest attempt: "Can AI Help Fight Medical Misinformation?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Xz...