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DPA Weston PhD @drdpaweston.bsky.social · 4h

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The Conservative Leader used to be shrewd and careful about his image. Now he’s ranting about the RCMP covering up for Justin Trudeau

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DPA Weston PhD @drdpaweston.bsky.social · 4h

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Indigenous artifacts at Vatican Museums heading back to Canada after repatriation campaign

The collection includes an extremely rare Western Arctic kayak and a two-metre-long wampum belt

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DPA Weston PhD @drdpaweston.bsky.social · 4h

More than 2,600 rallies were planned across the U.S. — including in Atlanta, pictured above. (Alyssa Pointer/Reuters)

DPA Weston PhD @drdpaweston.bsky.social · 4h

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Guidance to feed babies peanuts early in life helped 60,000 kids avoid allergies, study finds | CBC News

U.S. researchers found that peanut allergies in children ages zero to three declined by more than 27 per cent after guidance for high-risk kids was first issued in 2015. Before then, doctors had recom...

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DPA Weston PhD @drdpaweston.bsky.social · 4h

About 8 years ago, I was almost hit in my school’s parking lot by a parent driving fast to get his kid to school

Complained to the principal, who did nothing,

Speed cameras are now in place!

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‘A real dark day’: Toronto City Hall reacts to Doug Ford’s move to ban speed cameras

The Ford government tabled legislation Monday to ban automated speed cameras in Ontario.

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DPA Weston PhD @drdpaweston.bsky.social · 4h

Just needs a bit of orange cover up

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Conservatives urged to soften stance after Poilievre’s comments on ‘despicable’ RCMP face backlash

The Opposition leader’s office instructed Conservative MPs on Monday to reinforce a more positive message about the nation’s police force.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 4h

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F♯A♯∞, fka ☕️ @coopercooperco.bsky.social · 4h

The most upsetting part of No Country for Old Men to me is when Tommy Lee Jones monologues and his eyes are looking somewhere else and quickly move back and forth. Looks exactly like how my grandad used to look when telling a story and searching for a memory he couldn’t find. What a film.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 19h

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Mel MCXIV ♿️🏴‍☠️🇺🇸😈✊️🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺 @melmcxiv.bsky.social · 4h

I urge anyone who participated in No Kings 2.0 to do this.

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DPA Weston PhD @drdpaweston.bsky.social · 4h

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Video: White House Demolishes Facade of East Wing to Build Trump’s Ballroom

The planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom now under construction off the back of the East Wing is nearly double the square footage of the White House residence. Its renovation is one of the largest at t...

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 1d

The latest data shows that there have 89,182 home battery applications since the rebate started on 1 July, for a total of 1.7 gigawatt hours. #auspol #solar #renewables

Rooftop solar takes its biggest bite yet out of coal generators’ lunch, as home battery rebates hit 89,000

Rooftop solar on homes and businesses took its biggest bite yet out of the traditional “baseload” midday lunch on Wednesday, as the combined output hit a record of 15,597 megawatts (MW) at noon AEST.

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DPA Weston PhD @drdpaweston.bsky.social · 1d

And arbitration will come next

Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 1d

Why (and how) Smith May Override Alberta Teachers’ Constitutional Rights

Crowded classrooms. Insufficient resources. Overflowing facilities.

And perhaps the threat of back-to-work legislation backed up by the Notwithstanding Clause.

It's getting ugly.
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Why (and how) Smith May Override Alberta Teachers’ Constitutional Rights

YouTube video by Energi Media

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 1d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 1d

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was published OTD in 1953.

“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”

#booksky 🐡

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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of love that humans have loved heists throughout history. Some of the oldest stories are heist stories, and here we are down for another one.

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Mike Johnson, let’s see who showed up for what you called the “Hate America” rally.

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Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch intel services cutting back sharing with NSA & CIA

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Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S

The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Don...

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 1d

This is called HARKing

🧪Hypothesizing After Results are Known is a tactic to "fit" a narrative to data.

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DPA Weston PhD @drdpaweston.bsky.social · 1d

Repairing the gaps in the family tree

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How police solved the century-old mystery of ‘the woman in the well’

REGINA - Cindy Camp's great-grandmother was only a name on the family tree until police called.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 1d

Treatments for acne offer only partial and temporary reductions in symptoms – but two vaccine candidates could offer new hope. This article is part of our Nature Outlook on Skin. 🧪

Acne vaccines could offer robust defence

Researchers are hoping to trick the immune system into fighting back against the bane of adolescents everywhere.

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Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 1d

James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST

Resolving the Dynamic ISM with IR Echoes around Cas A

TARG: #ECHOW1-NIRCAM
2024-08-19 2024-09-16 2024-09-30 2024-10-16
PI: Jencson, Jacob
NIRCAM 4x f444w f360m f335m f300m

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NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

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Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation @laskerfdn.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday to #LaskerLaureate Axel Ullrich! He is one of the inventors of Herceptin, the first monoclonal antibody used to treat breast cancer. 🧪 #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth

Herceptin—a targeted antibody therapy for breast cancer

The 2019 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award honors Michael Shepard, Dennis Slamon, and Axel Ullrich for the invention of Herceptin, the first monoclonal antibody that blocks a cancer-causing protein, and for its development as a life-saving therapy for women with breast cancer.

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tom t @bankphysics.bsky.social · 1d

Boosting this to the science feed🧪

tom t @bankphysics.bsky.social · Sep 9

very much enjoyed a great article by @maxcavitch.bsky.social in @tamarindlit.co.uk just now, in which he talks about his collection of rocks, and how they all .....taste different?!
You can read it online...but in print, its a very beautiful thing:

a book cover, featuring a pretty and colourful display of fruits and leaves

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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 1d

ICE Barbie puppy killer Kristi Noem ripped for splurging $172 Million on luxury private jets while Republicans cut healthcare for Americans
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ICE Barbie Ripped For Splurging $172 Million on Luxury DHS Jets

The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly shelled on two high-end Gulfstream jets for Kristi Noem and other top members of the department.

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