Cityscape image of cyclist at an intersection with the text "April 16 @ 7pm EST, Bystander intervention to end street harassment."

We don't have to treat sexual harassment in public spaces as an inevitability.

Bystanders *can* intervene and change the narrative.

Join me this Int'l Anti-Street Harassment Week for a FREE training!

Open to anyone, anywhere. Cameras/mics off, so very chill!

Register:

zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Humans Are Wonderfully Varied. Scholars Shouldn’t Let the Government Say Otherwise. - Science Politics Academics have a responsibility to speak up when misrepresented scientific work about race, sex, and gender shapes policy.

"But thinking about humans as a biological binary — belonging to only one category at a time — overlooks extensive and robust scholarship showing the complexity of bodies, lives, and the patterns of variation in the species on the whole." sciencepolitics.org/2026/03/25/h...

The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit

Whole thing here.

Panelists and organizer standing in front of the stage at a SCWIST Allies in Action workshop

Honoured to join the discussion on male allyship at the @scwist.ca Allies in Action workshop in Kitchener #womeninSTEM

Your Ignorance Doesn't Make You An Expert Let's go chasing waterfalls.

"Anyway, there are two main things Kennedy says he wants: 1) to make America healthy again and 2) to let disease ravage through our populations, killing off the sick and weak."

www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world"

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

In our system, here's an inevitable outcome of [what was] the best higher education system in the world...
There isn't a good reason for it, but there is a reason, and it's as sure as water flowing downhill.
(Remember the word 'inevitable')
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Women are credited less in science than men - Nature The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.

1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

• We Inherit the Fire, Kagiso Lesego Molope • Born at the End of the World, Donica Merhazion • A Dying Giant in the Palm of Your Hand, Adelehin ljasan • Wretched of the Earth, Fanon • White Possessive, Aileen Moreton- Robinson • Ghana Must Go, by Taiye Selasi • The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Aye Kwe Armah • Scale Boy: An African Childhood, Patrice Nganang • Layaway Child, Chanel Sutherland • The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Esi Edugyan

Black history month may be over but my reading list goes on, so hellooo Black History March! I learn as much from fiction as I do from non-fiction. Here’s what I’m looking forward to:

Beating cancer by eating cancer | Waterloo News A research team led by the University of Waterloo is developing a novel tool to treat cancer by engineering hungry bacteria to literally eat tumours from the inside out. “Bacteria spores enter the tum...

So proud of colleagues Dr. Sadr and Dr. Zargar for their achievements on this project uwaterloo.ca/news/media/b...

Fix Your Hearts or Die It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.

"Loneliness *is* a problem. I am inviting you to contemplate how frequently it is treated as a problem for men and only for men, to be solved by everyone else, by doing work on their behalf that can only ever be considered repair if they do it themselves."

www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

With headlines that the University of Alberta will "abandon race-based" admissions policies, remember that anti-EDI framing is designed to make it seem like the pre-EDI status quo is somehow 'neutral'. In reality, by abandoning sensible EDI policies, institutions are *doing* race-based admissions.

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 9: Education

Q: Why do Black kids not do well in school, or in subjects like Math and Science?

A: This is only true in extremely racist countries. A racist person cannot teach a Black child effectively. It's not race. It's racism.

Read the whole thread.

“I Felt Like I Completely Belonged in That Class”: Gender and the Development of Sense of Belonging in K-12 STEM Education - Educational Psychology Review Educational Psychology Review - Sense of belonging is an important motivational belief that represents individuals’ sense of fit within an environment. However, many women report feeling a...

🚨New paper alert!🚨 Super proud of the work that went into this one, which includes a systematic review and MEGA-ANALYSIS of the development of sense of belonging in STEM education across Grades K-12, with special attention to gender differences. (1/N)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

Symposium « Célébrer le succès des femmes dans les STIM » de 2026 : Briser les barrières, bâtir notre avenir (TRN4-E48)

Moins d’un mois avant le Symposium 2026 sur les femmes en STIM ! Joignez-vous en ligne pour célébrer l’équité, le leadership et l’innovation en STIM. Événement gratuit. #FemmesEtFillesDeScience
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2026 Celebrating the Success of Women in STEM Symposium: Breaking Barriers, Building our Future   (TRN4-E48)

Less than a month until the 2026 #WomenInSTEM Symposium! Join us online to celebrate equity, leadership and innovation in STEM. Free event. #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
👉Register now: catalogue.csps-efpc.gc.ca/product?cata...

Twitter is a litmus test for Canada With Twitter, the medium really is the message — one that should be clearly unacceptable for our elected officials and political leaders.

Canada has the opportunity to help create a global tech landscape that isn’t dominated by US oligarchs.

That won’t happen if our political leaders refuse to quit toxic platforms like Twitter. What are they waiting for? #cdnpoli

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/12/o...

Norway reaches 97% EV sales as EVs now outnumber diesels on its roads 97.6% of Norway's car sales were all-electric in Dec., and 95.9% for the full year. Also, there are now more EVs on Norway's roads than diesel

🇳🇴 Norway just capped off 2025 with about 97% of all new cars sold being electric. For the first time ever there are more #EVs than diesel cars on the road. It comes to show how fast the country’s shifted away from #FossilFuels 👀⚡️ Most cars still run on gas overall, so there’s more change coming 🚘.

Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

I am an evolutionary biologist (though publishing more in medicine these days). I think trans modality is an evolutionary spandrel. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandre...

Great episode! Thanks so much for sharing your conversation. I’m looking forward to digging into the refs you cited and sharing with colleagues. Grateful for the introduction into this important literature.

Here’s UWaterloo’s: uwaterloo.ca/indigenous/indigenous-verification

This really is a must read for anyone in academia.

We remember them always.

Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte

This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.

You can find my full statement below.

Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating g...

Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Falling for anti-migrant racism doesn't protect workers, it entrenches capitalism by making workers more vulnerable & exploitable! Our enemy arrives in limousine, not someone on a boat fleeing colonial devastation.

Being pro-migrant is central to our collective fight against fascism!

No plaques appearing on your bacterial lawn?
Problematic phage gap.

Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.