We are offering an MA program in Psychedelics & Consciousness Studies at the University of Ottawa! The program can be taken online and international applicants are welcome. We are excited to now offer the program in English and French! @uottawa.ca

Link here: catalogue.uottawa.ca/en/graduate/...

Awful!!!!

How Airline Pilots Are Incentivized to Hide Their Mental Illness Is the F.A.A. really ensuring safety by disqualifying pilots who receive a diagnosis or treatment?

Why Airline Pilots Feel Pushed to Hide Their Mental Illness. Is the F.A.A. really ensuring safety by disqualifying pilots who receive a diagnosis or treatment? by @helenouyang.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/m... via @nytimes.com #MentalHealth

The biggest machine in science: inside the fight to build the next giant particle collider The European physics laboratory CERN is planning to build a mega collider by 2070. Critics say the plan could lead to its ruin.

A must read: @castelvecchi.bsky.social's great deep dive on CERN's battle to build the next mega-collider. Many physicists are critical of plans "because it will take so long to come to fruition and because sinking resources into it could close off alternative ideas"⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Opinion | RFK Jr. is spewing childish libertarian nonsense Vaccines are not a “personal choice.” We give up some personal freedoms so we all stay alive.

RFK Jr. is spewing childish libertarian nonsense. Vaccines are not a “personal choice.” We give up some personal freedoms so we all stay alive, by Donald G. McNeil www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... via @postopinions.bsky.social #vaccination

Invading Canada Is Not Advisable We’ve tried before. It didn’t work out.

“There are, as Donald Trump and Don Corleone might put it, two ways of doing this: the easy way and the hard way,” writes @eliotacohen.bsky.social.

When it comes to making Canada the 51st state, neither is advisable: theatln.tc/6oAICykE

Interested in graduate studies in science? Was your admission to a US program just rescinded? Well, Canada is now offering doctoral scholarships to qualified foreign students

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

These frustrated scientists want to leave the United States – do you? Take Nature’s poll Nature - In the wake of the Trump administration’s funding freezes and job cuts, some researchers are planning their next move.

Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are considering leaving the country in the wake of widespread disruption to research brought in by the Trump administration

Are you thinking about leaving?

https://go.nature.com/4bMGd0J

The majority of rural hospitals are teetering on the brink of closing. This cut to their reimbursements will finish most of them off leaving small towns having to drive to regional medical centers for routine care.

After an Alzheimer's diagnosis, a new job gave a father 'dignity' and 'purpose' When Paul Cotter's father began to show signs of early-onset Alzheimer's disease, he lost job after job. Then, a small local company offered him a role that helped rebuild his sense of purpose.

When Paul Cotter's father began to show signs of early-onset Alzheimer's disease, he lost job after job. Then, a small local company offered him a role that helped rebuild his sense of purpose.

Of one thing, teenage writer Danica Popovic is certain: as powerful as AI may be, it cannot give voice to the complexity of human life. Only human-made art can. After all, pain and uncertainty aren’t problems technology can solve. thewalrus.ca/at-3-a-m-i-turne...

"4.5 million Canadians tuned in to CBC News Network from February 1 through 3, making it the most-watched English-language Canadian news network.

When the country was reeling from the threats from US President Trump, who did we turn to? We turned to the CBC - our trusted national broadcaster.

Research Assistant (CCP-RCT team) at King's College London Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Assistant (CCP-RCT team) on jobs.ac.uk!

Really cool RA position at @kingsioppn.bsky.social in a unique cannabis/psychosis clinical service:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ023/r...

GOP Gambles on Budget Plan That Helps the Rich and Cuts Aid to the Poor The House Republican budget plan would pair tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich with cuts to programs that help the poor.

News Analysis: The GOP won the last election in no small part because of its new appeal with working-class voters. But the economic agenda Republicans are now putting together would by and large help rich Americans, all while teeing up cuts to programs that provide health care and food to the poor.

Ugh

Harm reduction at its finest… 🤦‍♀️

NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

Oof sorry but no… I lived in the Netherlands for a year and healthcare was horrible. Got a broken hand misdiagnosed at the ER, was told to take paracetamol for an 8” hematoma on my leg… plus we paid for it. It’s part funded by every person, beyond taxes. The Scandinavian countries do it well however

Each day represents a chance for us to hold hope through the chaos… see the light in the dark… stand in integrity… and to be kind, love fiercely, and forgive. This does not mean that we should back down from standing up for humanity or the planet. It starts at home and spreads

Here,work on this instead

A coup going on right now
Tonight
While trump is in Florida golfing
Our FBI is crippled
The military has a drink in charge
Musk has a direct line to Putin
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

She’s right. Poilievre killing the CBC would be a disaster for authors, booksellers, local theatre, musicians, many businesses, and much more. #CBC #NeverPoilievre

One piece of good news. #LAstrong

It feels so strange to be a dual citizen right now.

Canada needs CBC!!!

I’m in Canada for a week. I wish Americans could only watch the CBC as their news source for the next year. So far, I’ve heard Trump referenced as racist, ignorant, blustering, & lying. I’ve been watching for an hour.

The Poilievre Conservatives are following Trump’s playbook. We must defend the #CBC.

Damien Kurek, the Conservative critic for Canadian Heritage, said in a statement Wednesday that Poilievre has been having a "national conversation" with Canadians about defunding the CBC for years. "Common sense Conservatives will defund the CBC while preserving funding to ensure francophone Canadians continue to receive news services," Kurek said.

A slogan is not a national conversation, and you can't de-fund English CBC and leave Radio-Canada intact and able to function. The infrastructure is integrated, and they're lying to claim that they can do just that.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/cbc...

I was a #refugee. English was my 2nd language. I am an #NIH funded #physician-researcher who believes in science & human compassion. I am a #childlesscatlady. I am well aware that I am everything this administration hates, and I have no intention of going quietly into the night. #medsky

CDC Data Are Disappearing The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

CDC data’s “explicit purpose” is to guide researchers toward the places and people who most need attention, Patrick Sullivan, a former CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, said. “It’s hard to understand how this benefits health.”
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...