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Pierre A Fournier

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CEO @ Hexoskin, optimist, always learning, keeping an open mind. Medical research, human spaceflight, health economics, data, math & AI. Phoenix ✈️ Montréal

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Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hexoskin is going to the Moon! (literally) 🚀 🌖
hexoskin.com/blogs/news/h... #space

Hexoskin wins contract to bring Astroskin sensors to the Moon

Montréal, November 26th, 2024 The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has announced that it has awarded a contract to Hexoskin (Carré Technologies Inc.), a company based in Montreal, to develop and adapt the ...

hexoskin.com

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Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · 6d

"Does anyone really believe the stock market is what drives spending for the 90% who only own 13% of equities?"

OTOH the 10% that owns 87% of the stock market makes up 50% of consumer spending, so I wouldn't expect the wealth effect to be completely nil either.

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Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · 22d

There will be ~150km2 of land covered with data centers in the US in 2030, about 3x the size of Manhattan.

These data centers will use in 2030 as much electricity as ALL 130M homes in the US (~150GW avg).

(very rough estimates to see the scale of ongoing physical AI investment).

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · 25d

Fact checking the ACA health insurance premiums increase proposal.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Fact check: Will health insurance premiums spike by 75% if Republicans don't extend ACA subsidies?

"Republicans are spiking health insurance premiums by 75% for everyday Americans" if they don't extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, said House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark.

www.yahoo.com

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · 29d

Recent Yale study in JAMA: "Approximately 5 million adults are at risk of Medicaid disenrollment due to HR 1’s work requirements (...) prior research has shown that Medicaid beneficiaries who do not meet work requirements have poorer health status than those who do."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Clinical Characteristics of Adults at Risk of Medicaid Disenrollment Due to HR 1 Work Requirements

This study uses the NHANES database to describe clinical characteristics of Medicaid beneficiaries at risk of disenrollment due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s (HR 1) work requirements, stratified...

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Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Sep 24

800,000 is a nice round number, we don't get these often.

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Sep 11

I'm at the event to present early results of digital biomarkers for Rett Syndrome developed with Hexoskin data, work that we've done thanks to the support of the Rett Syndrome Research Trust. Hopefully we'll be able to share a paper on this soon!

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Sep 11

Amazing to hear CRISPR co-inventor and 2020 Nobel prize winner Jennifer Doudna telling us about the latest techniques for gene therapy at the Rett Genetic Medicines Summit in Boston today!

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Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · May 22

I’m back on bsky after a few months off. What’s new?

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Mar 16

Not sure how cutting research on pediatric cancer and women’s health is efficient, can someone explain it to me like I’m five?

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Mar 16

Oh look Elon musk cutting pediatric cancer research

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Mar 15

Andrew Noymer de UC Irvine résume les faits qui soutiennent l'hypothèse du labo ici: www.ocregister.com/2025/03/12/c...

COVID likely came from a lab, and it matters enormously to prevent another pandemic

Public health dodges this question at its own peril.

www.ocregister.com

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Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Mar 15

Très bon article de vulgarisation, merci!

Désolé de revenir avec ça, mais pour l'origine zoonotique du virus, l'article de Cell manque cruellement d'observations directes (toujours pas de réservoir animal identifié), et les agences allemandes et américaines croient davantage à l'accident de labo...

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Mar 4

James Harrison, a blood donor famed for having saved the lives of more than 2 MILLION babies, has died.

Harrison’s plasma contained a rare antibody known as Anti-D which was used to manufacture a medication given to expectant mothers.

Harrison donated plasma every two weeks from age 18-81

James Harrison, blood donor whose rare plasma saved millions of babies, dead at 88 | CNN

James Harrison, a prolific Australian blood donor famed for having saved the lives of more than two million babies, has died at age 88.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Feb 27

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Feb 17

In the category “Things we didn’t want to read this year.”
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Jan. 6 Rioters Argue Pardons Apply to Charges Including Murder Plot, Child Porn

Defendants are arguing that President Trump’s pardon for offenses related to the storming of the Capitol should also absolve them of other alleged crimes, some discovered during Jan. 6 investigations.

www.wsj.com

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Feb 13

All day back-to-back meetings makes me feel like Ron Swanson on March 31st.

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Feb 13

Cutting funding in the middle of studies has real consequences for patients.
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Abandoning research participants is an unconscionable betrayal

In 1964, the Declaration of Helsinki created a set of universal ethical principles to protect human participants in health research.1 Described as “the cornerstone of research ethics,”2 these principl...

www.bmj.com

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Feb 12

Over 100,000 scientists and research staff could lose their funding and their job in the US this year if the announced cuts at the NIH, NSF, CDC, and other agencies move forward.
www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/t...

Trump policies spark fears of brain drain, threatening to undermine U.S. dominance in biomedicine

A torrent of Trump administration policies is alarming scientists who fear the current climate is weakening researchers’ resolve to stick with careers in academic science.

www.statnews.com

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Feb 9

So lower GDP?

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Feb 9

Moon and clouds.

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Jonathan Kagan @jkagan1.bsky.social · Feb 8

This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research?
All of them.

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Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Feb 7

NYT: "The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care."
#bioethics #clinicaltrials
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order

The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

www.nytimes.com

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Feb 6

Reality check.

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Feb 3

Narcan (naxolone) and GLP-1s will have an amazingly positive effect on US life expectancy, starting in 2023.

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Feb 3

An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Feb 2

US drug overdose deaths peaked in 2023 and have been falling fast in 2024.
Hopefully the CDC keeps updating the data on this page: www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vs...

Pierre A Fournier @pafournier.bsky.social · Feb 2

As of today, the CDC censors the word "gender" from all scientific publications.

"CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed."
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...