This is the most important thing you will read today – and probably the whole year, honestly.
We cannot let the AMOC collapse. For one thing it will make Iceland uninhabitable, and I would really like my children and grandchildren not to become refugees. But the effects will be almost everywhere.
An authority Headline: Authorities Frustrated By Awareness Of Long Covid Outside Of Designated Long Covid Awareness Day Story by Sam Likewise and Clark Cubicle Photo from Unsplash
Authorities Frustrated By Awareness Of Long Covid Outside Of Designated Long Covid Awareness Day
Greta Thunberg meets Justin Trudeau amid climate strikes: 'He is not doing enough' Activist has private meeting with Canadian prime minister, who later says he 'agrees with her completely'
This moment would never have been possible if teenagers had been banned from engaging in democratic debate on social media
If the Liberals passed this into law in 2018, Ontario students would’ve been unable to organize protests against Doug Ford’s sex-ed curriculum change
15 yr old Greta Thunberg would have been banned from posting about climate change
Teenagers actually participate in our democracy, believe it or not
"AI in health care can mean shorter wait times and better service."
TELL ME HOW
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE PARTNERS WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD ON TOUR AMID ‘LIFE & DEATH’ FIGHT FOR ABORTION RIGHTS
Welch says that reproductive healthcare is being "relentlessly attacked."
Large impressionist painting of a swirling orange yellow and red nebula at the bottom and upper right , some white clouds above it on a blue black background with tiny little bastard stars all over.
Well. I think it's done.
Home of Giants
34x38
Oil on canvas
2026
It is available.
Get it while we're all still here.
Based on a JWST Nircam image of a stellar nursery & the home of the massive stars Pismis 24-1 & 2 which are 74 & 66 times the size of our sun #sciart #astronomy
The antibiotic trap
Easy access to desperately needed drugs has made India the global accelerant of our antimicrobial resistance crisis
Josseli Barnica, Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick, Amber Nicole Thurman, Candi Miller, Porsha Ngumezi, Taysha Wilkinson-Sobieski, Nevaeh Crain, Tierra Walker and Ciji Graham all died after doctors denied them life-saving care out of fear they would be criminally prosecuted under abortion bans.
“This will be the sixth closure this year”
Appalling behavior from Gilead
London ON: Critics warn of strain on care as LHSC moves to cut nursing positions
"LHSC says it plans to cut nearly 290 registered nursing positions across several units - a move the ONA warns will strain an already pressured hospital system and harm patient care"
London ON: Omega Fertility implements upgrades following IVF lab concerns
"In January 2026, a small number of IVF cycles yielded results inconsistent with typical laboratory outcomes, prompting the pause...there continues to be no indication that patients were exposed to any safety risk"
Women feel coerced during maternity care in England, charity says
Exclusive: Birthrights report says women are being told they are ‘not allowed’ and are being denied genuine choice
"I’m a doctor. Here are five overlooked ways the Ontario government is making our ERs more crowded, not less" by @drgorfinkel.bsky.social
1.Failing to provide affordable housing
2.Shutting down all supervised consumption sites
3.Underfunding nursing
4.Expanding for‑profit medicine
This comes on the heels of a bunch of terrible IRCC stories including the British midwife in BC who faces deportation for not submitting proof of English competency. The portal did not allow her to upload the test results and the checklist made it seem optional.
Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.” But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.
Today in AI:
Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials.
Everyone involved should be fired.
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Dr Ade is doing her Canadian funded post-doctoral fellowship in my lab. I can attest that she is an exceptional scientist who studies the immunology of age and teaches immunology and not someone who builds robots. Madness.
I often talk about the importance of getting vaccinated to protect the most vulnerable. Lately I've had Erin Nicholls and family in mind. She's an old friend who has a son (pictured) fighting cancer and recently he's had to fight influenza and 2nd infection too. Thanks to @jenleecbc.bsky.social
Long COVID is a #DOHaD issue, whether people want to admit it or not.
We are going to see generational effects from this that no one is going to be able to explain because young people, especially women, aren’t being screened prior to pregnancy.
My “hot take” is that most people with long COVID don’t even know that they *have* long COVID. I see so many patients, friends & colleagues who feel “sick all the time” or have a “really fast heart rate” & don’t put 2+2 together
Long COVID & risk of incident CVD: a prospective cohort study
“Long COVID is associated with increased risk of incident CVD, particularly cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure & CAD. These findings underscore the need for systematic follow-up & integration of long COVID into CV risk assessment”
Cardiovascular Disease in Singleton Offspring Born of Pregnancies Complicated by Placental Abruption
“Offspring born of pregnancies complicated by abruption suffer an increased burden of mortality and CVD. CVD risks associated with abruption…persist throughout the life course”
#DOHaD
The less they know about Greenland the better, honestly.
American “news” is so incredibly embarrassing, as are the whiny British people quoted in this piece. The “freezing Canadian island” is Newfoundland, & they were “stranded” in its capital city.
This is basically the plot of the musical Come From Away, based on real-life events after 9/11 🙄
“Higher BMI was associated with slower labor progress & longer labor duration in patients who underwent vaginal delivery. This difference was driven by longer times spent in latent labor, with no significant difference observed in active labor”
Characterizing labor progression & duration according to maternal BMI
Understanding the unique labour curves of women living with obesity is key to avoiding unnecessary caesarean sections!
Science journalists: it’s not actually your job to be uncritical cheerleaders and propagandists for science and science policy. It is your job to inform the public about what is happening. Everyone should know about the Trump space policy directives!!!! 🧪 #scicomm
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Black women have worse IVF outcomes. New science helps explain why
“Black participants responded slightly better than people of other racial or ethnic groups to ovarian stimulation drugs & their eggs produced high-quality embryos…Nevertheless, [Black women] had a lower rate of live birth”