Craig McCormick
@craigmccormick.bsky.social
Virologist and cinnamon bun baker.
must eat the forbidden lettuce. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited | CBC News
Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study.
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
must eat the forbidden lettuce. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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A new marine biodiversity centre is set to open at Dalhousie University next month, and professors say it will create opportunities for students to showcase their research and gain hands-on wildlife experience.
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The Beaty Centre for Marine Biodiversity opens doors for research showcase, hands-on experience
A new marine biodiversity centre is set to open at Dalhousie University next month, and professors say it will create opportunities for students to showcase their research and gain hands-on wildlife e...
dalgazette.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A new marine biodiversity centre is set to open at Dalhousie University next month, and professors say it will create opportunities for students to showcase their research and gain hands-on wildlife experience.
dalgazette.com/news/the-bea...
dalgazette.com/news/the-bea...
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It was a pleasure to host Dr. Jasmine Mah, MD, PhD, as a visiting scholar from Dalhousie University with McMaster’s Department of Medicine (Geriatrics) and the Geras Centre for Aging Research!
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It was a pleasure to host Dr. Jasmine Mah, MD, PhD, as a visiting scholar from Dalhousie University with McMaster’s Department of Medicine (Geriatrics) and the Geras Centre for Aging Research!
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Pretty clutch block by Ingram.
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Pretty clutch block by Ingram.
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Having a very extended Fall season in Halifax, but there's still beauty to be seen amidst the rain and cool weather.
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Having a very extended Fall season in Halifax, but there's still beauty to be seen amidst the rain and cool weather.
Windsor-Cunard-Chebucto quantum intersection is on my daily bike commute. Ever since someone mentioned “peanut-shaped roundabout” it’s all I can think about. I think a single-lane model could fit, but I’m no expert. What say you, @hfxplanning.bsky.social ?
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Windsor-Cunard-Chebucto quantum intersection is on my daily bike commute. Ever since someone mentioned “peanut-shaped roundabout” it’s all I can think about. I think a single-lane model could fit, but I’m no expert. What say you, @hfxplanning.bsky.social ?
oh look. the rule of law.
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro must begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting an attempted coup, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ruled. https://cnn.it/4p1dgDV
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
oh look. the rule of law.
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After the hard work and advocacy of the community, the Minister of Municipal Affairs has decided not to overturn the bylaw restricting infilling in Dartmouth Cove. We will look at their amendments closely, but at least for now, Dartmouth Cove won't be turned into a dump.
Minister Approves HRM’s Planning Changes for Dartmouth Cove With Amendments news.novascotia.ca/en/2025/11/2...
Minister Approves HRM’s Planning Changes for Dartmouth Cove With Amendments
news.novascotia.ca
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
After the hard work and advocacy of the community, the Minister of Municipal Affairs has decided not to overturn the bylaw restricting infilling in Dartmouth Cove. We will look at their amendments closely, but at least for now, Dartmouth Cove won't be turned into a dump.
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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Hey guys! I'm having a sale on all my silk #sciart scarves and ties 😊 🐡🧪🧠
Banish the Boring and Beige
This year, give gorgeous, geeky gifts
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November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Hey guys! I'm having a sale on all my silk #sciart scarves and ties 😊 🐡🧪🧠
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If you are tired of pie or want something to go WITH your pie may I offer this marvelous take on bread pudding, that I got to try while in Lafayette, LA earlier this month. www.latimes.com/recipe/zeas-...
Zea's sweet potato bread pudding with rum sauce
Dear SOS: My friends and I were in New Orleans in March and ate at this wonderful restaurant on St. Charles Avenue. For dessert we shared their sweet potato bread pudding. Any chance you can get that ...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If you are tired of pie or want something to go WITH your pie may I offer this marvelous take on bread pudding, that I got to try while in Lafayette, LA earlier this month. www.latimes.com/recipe/zeas-...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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What started as a fun joke has turned into a serious investigative exercise. If the charter says Halifax needs to be a safe and viable city, is our predictably fatal and fiscally/environmentally unsustainable road spending legal?
Please send thoughts and prayers in this difficult time.
Please send thoughts and prayers in this difficult time.
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
What started as a fun joke has turned into a serious investigative exercise. If the charter says Halifax needs to be a safe and viable city, is our predictably fatal and fiscally/environmentally unsustainable road spending legal?
Please send thoughts and prayers in this difficult time.
Please send thoughts and prayers in this difficult time.
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Solvent-induced partial cellular fixation decodes proteome-wide drug targets and downstream pathways in living cells #nature #MassSpecRSS
Solvent-induced partial cellular fixation decodes proteome-wide drug targets and downstream pathways in living cells - Nature Communications
Understanding drug targets and their effects in living cells is challenging. Here, the authors develop SICFA, a label-free proteomics method that sensitively detects drug-induced protein stability changes, thereby identifying targets and downstream pathways directly in living cells.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Solvent-induced partial cellular fixation decodes proteome-wide drug targets and downstream pathways in living cells #nature #MassSpecRSS
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We’d like to end today with a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt:
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
Just keep going. Goodnight, heroes.
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
Just keep going. Goodnight, heroes.
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
We’d like to end today with a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt:
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
Just keep going. Goodnight, heroes.
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
Just keep going. Goodnight, heroes.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
This is great! I'm sure it will eventually discourage the rat-run drivers that illegally cross Oxford one block away.
With Chebucto and Quinpool both clogged with cars tonight, a steady stream of drivers are encountering the diverter for the first time.
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This is great! I'm sure it will eventually discourage the rat-run drivers that illegally cross Oxford one block away.
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Work I co-led with @jnoms.bsky.social is now online at
@cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social ! We revealed a previously unrealized diversity of viral immune-evasion proteins that selectively destroy different cyclic nucleotide signals used in bacterial immunity.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social ! We revealed a previously unrealized diversity of viral immune-evasion proteins that selectively destroy different cyclic nucleotide signals used in bacterial immunity.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Divergent viral phosphodiesterases for immune signaling evasion
Cyclic dinucleotides (CDNs) and other short oligonucleotides play fundamental roles in immune system activation in organisms ranging from bacteria to …
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November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Work I co-led with @jnoms.bsky.social is now online at
@cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social ! We revealed a previously unrealized diversity of viral immune-evasion proteins that selectively destroy different cyclic nucleotide signals used in bacterial immunity.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social ! We revealed a previously unrealized diversity of viral immune-evasion proteins that selectively destroy different cyclic nucleotide signals used in bacterial immunity.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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H3N2 preprint: there are concerns of a severe incoming influenza season due to the drifted H3N2 K clade. We at @psioxford.bsky.social analysed epi data and ran scenario models to see what we could discern about K clade transmission dynamics: zenodo.org/records/1770....
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(1/18)
Evaluation of the epidemiological outlook of the influenza A/H3N2 clade K in England during the 2025-26 season
Key findings England is currently experiencing a high growth rate of infections caused by the influenza A/H3N2 K clade. Antigenic change from the previously dominant clade, a rapid selective sweep evi...
zenodo.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
H3N2 preprint: there are concerns of a severe incoming influenza season due to the drifted H3N2 K clade. We at @psioxford.bsky.social analysed epi data and ran scenario models to see what we could discern about K clade transmission dynamics: zenodo.org/records/1770....
(1/18)
(1/18)
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N.S. libraries ask users to contact MLAs, municipalities about impending cuts #NovaScotia #HoustonFail
Libraries suffering after 'decades of underinvestment,' says president of provincial association
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Libraries suffering after 'decades of underinvestment,' says president of provincial association
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
N.S. libraries ask users to contact MLAs, municipalities about impending cuts | CBC News
The head of a regional library service in western Nova Scotia says that without increased funding from the province and municipalities, branches will have to reduce operating hours and services, and e...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
N.S. libraries ask users to contact MLAs, municipalities about impending cuts #NovaScotia #HoustonFail
Libraries suffering after 'decades of underinvestment,' says president of provincial association
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Libraries suffering after 'decades of underinvestment,' says president of provincial association
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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the thing of it is... russia's invasion of ukraine is already a decisive strategic defeat and has been for some time.
-did not achieve war aims
-minimal territorial gains, w/little economic significance
-major loss of russian life/materiel
-2 new nato members www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
-did not achieve war aims
-minimal territorial gains, w/little economic significance
-major loss of russian life/materiel
-2 new nato members www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Russia’s tiny advances in 2025 sold Putin on inevitable victory in Ukraine
Grinding progress for Russia on the battlefield this year has resulted in thousands of casualties but enough progress for Putin to refuse any compromises in diplomacy.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
the thing of it is... russia's invasion of ukraine is already a decisive strategic defeat and has been for some time.
-did not achieve war aims
-minimal territorial gains, w/little economic significance
-major loss of russian life/materiel
-2 new nato members www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
-did not achieve war aims
-minimal territorial gains, w/little economic significance
-major loss of russian life/materiel
-2 new nato members www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Underwater Forests Return to Life off the Coast of California, and That Might be Good News for the Entire Planet....
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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Underwater Forests Return to Life off the Coast of California, and That Might be Good News for the Entire Planet
Wondrous kelp beds harbor a complex ecosystem that’s teeming with life, cleaning the water and the atmosphere, and bringing new hope for the future
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November 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Underwater Forests Return to Life off the Coast of California, and That Might be Good News for the Entire Planet....
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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IWK Health Centre in Halifax is hiring a Clinical Leader, Intensive Services
Closing date: 2025/12/19
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Closing date: 2025/12/19
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November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
IWK Health Centre in Halifax is hiring a Clinical Leader, Intensive Services
Closing date: 2025/12/19
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Closing date: 2025/12/19
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