In honor of Mr. Rogers’ birthday, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that the quote of his you keep sharing, that in times of crisis we should look for the helpers, was for his audience of children.
We’re adults now. We’re supposed to *be* the helpers.
The world is far off track for “30×30,” but 2025 brought progress. Here are some wins from this year.
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
Oh my god. Having a team in an epic World Series is probably the worst thing that's ever happened to me
Hurricane Melissa which is en route to decimate Haiti and Jamaica rapidly intensified to category 4 storm. Rapid intensification is a hallmark of climate change, but that category is only a measure of its wind speed. It is also expected to bring up to 40 inches of rain
Big thanks to the folks at the CBC's Quirks and Quarks for having me on as a guest to talk about Rise of the Zombie Bugs! It was great fun chatting with host Bob McDonald about my favorite zombifiers and what we can learn from them about parasitism, neuroscience and evolution 🧪
Hi Sam! I'm a producer at Quirks. Not sure why we've never responded to your pitches but DM me, let's set up a time to chat.
Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
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This is a REALLY good video that gets into the *specifics* of how AI is degrading our information environment and putting truth further out of reach for the average person / the population as a whole
Covid vaccines protect children from severe disease. Here is the evidence www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/c... via @statnews.com
"Over & over again, Covid-19 has shown it can cause severe disease in children, disease that is preventable by a safe and effective vaccine."
#VaccinesWork
I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
Here’s a video of @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social grad students Abby & Flynn removing an adult rhinoceros auklet for a body mass measurement after a respirometry trial. All birds were handled with proper training and permits. Listen to their amazing experience here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
This is one of my favourite themed episodes that we do, where we get to really lean into the stories of scientists as explorers and adventurers. Season 50 of Quirks & Quarks kicks off today! www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
NEW: in recent weeks, right wing media and influencers have seized on new research suggesting a connection between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism
Ariana Cha, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and I broke down the science and what MAHA influencers are claiming
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You can hitch a ride on it for a cool $4300 (or just go see it for like 20 bucks at the Canadian Warplane Heritage museum in Hamilton)
"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
A line chart titled “Annual CO₂ emissions” shows the global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry from 1950 to 2023. The y-axis represents emissions in billions of tonnes (t), ranging from 0 to 40 billion t. The x-axis covers the years from 1950 to 2023. The chart presents a steady increase in emissions from approximately 5 billion tonnes in 1950 to over 36 billion tonnes in 2023. Key features include: A consistent upward trend from 1950 through the early 1970s. A brief plateau and dip around 1980–1983. A strong growth trend resuming in the late 1980s. A sharp increase during the 2000s. A slight drop around 2008–2009, likely due to the global financial crisis. A major dip in 2020, attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. A rapid rebound in emissions after 2020, continuing the upward trend to a new high in 2023. A blue line labeled “World” traces these changes over time. Below the chart, the data source is listed as the Global Carbon Budget (2024), and the graphic is credited to OurWorldInData.org with a Creative Commons license (CC BY). A footnote explains that the data includes emissions from coal, oil, gas, flaring, cement, and steel, but excludes land-use changes such as deforestation.
I get annoyed at the narrative that all the awareness and work on climate change hasn't done anything. Yes, global CO₂ emissions indeed continue to climb, but we don't know the counterfactual. When I was in grad school, we were on track for 5°C of warming. Now it's below 3°C. That's progress.
can ppl stop screaming about WW3 the thing about world wars is to start one you need countries to go to war that have friends who also want to go to war for their buddy, not 2 countries led by guys whose own wives refuse to talk to them
Good review of evidence.👇
The internet is full of misinformation. That's by design, experts say www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
Me: "Our information environment is completely manipulated, and often people don't realize the degree to which that is the case."
We're living through a knowledge crisis!
Woo hoo! I'm super chuffed to be nominated for our Overheated special, especially in a category stacked with some really heavy hitters. Congrats to everyone!
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A quote from jury chair and CJF Board Member Bob Ezrin on top of a multi-coloured background
CJF announces Climate Solutions Reporting Award finalists
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#CJFAwards #JournalismMatters #ClimateSolutions
A+++ work!!
Today is the International Transgender Day of Visibility! Watch our Heritage Minute about legendary trans soul singer Jackie Shane.
CBC science show Quirks and Quarks just had another great episode talking about the long term damage caused by each COVID infection.
If you're starting to wonder why so many hard-core scientists are so contemptuous of our public health institutions, listen to this.
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It is genuinely your moral duty, if you’re in the sciences, to violate the terms of your contact and take as much of the research home with you as you can. Today, tomorrow, every day your lab’s still open.
“I love what I do. That is what I want to pass on to my children. We must protect the ocean so that they can have the same healthy lives as us.”
The South African fishers fighting fossil fuels - by @barrychristianson.com on @dialogueearth.bsky.social
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Stop dismissing Trump and his team’s *repeatedly stated plan to annex Canada* by, at the very least, bringing us to our financial knees, as a “negotiating tactic.” Sending people their relative’s fingers in the mail is also a “negotiating tactic. One practiced by criminals, not good neighbours.
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Fun fact: five years later, we still have our show lineup on the whiteboard of our last show before COVID lockdowns hit. It never felt right to erase it, so we just left it.
If you want to know how concerned to be about climate change, talk to a climate scientist. Very.
If you want to know how concerned to be about the rise of fascism, talk to a historian. The ones I’ve spoken to are as concerned about our time as any other time in the last 100 years.
