Nadia Aubin-Horth
@naubinhorth.bsky.social
Professor #SOTL #bioRxiv affiliate. Citizen volunteer to make Québec city a happy city. Elected on Conseil de Quartier St-Louis & Vice-president of Table de Concertation Vélo de Québec ("Québec bike coalition"). Elle/she/her/ella
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1/5. Today the current members of our lab group disestablished our world-first longitudinal research program investigating the long-term impacts of multigenerational pharmaceutical exposure on guppy behaviour, ecology and evolution.
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
1/5. Today the current members of our lab group disestablished our world-first longitudinal research program investigating the long-term impacts of multigenerational pharmaceutical exposure on guppy behaviour, ecology and evolution.
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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« Le faux dilemme, appelé aussi exclusion du tiers, fausse dichotomie ou énumération incomplète, est un raisonnement fallacieux qui consiste à présenter deux solutions à un problème donné comme si elles étaient les deux seules possibles, alors qu'en réalité, il en existe d'autres. » (Wikipedia)
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
« Le faux dilemme, appelé aussi exclusion du tiers, fausse dichotomie ou énumération incomplète, est un raisonnement fallacieux qui consiste à présenter deux solutions à un problème donné comme si elles étaient les deux seules possibles, alors qu'en réalité, il en existe d'autres. » (Wikipedia)
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University students in Canada are offered discounted/free versions of chatbots because something something AI revolution something something and I would like every university administrator and academic pushing it on us to account for its adverse effects on mental health.
Aside from everything else.
Aside from everything else.
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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You can also get a sore throat with the flu which is expected to be very bad this year.
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
You can also get a sore throat with the flu which is expected to be very bad this year.
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Maybe I'm missing an important point, but the Ford gov's claim that "Landlords will lower rents if they can rent out more of their properties now that we've given them more power over tenants" feels like something you'd say if you'd never literally never heard of capitalism before in your life.
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Maybe I'm missing an important point, but the Ford gov's claim that "Landlords will lower rents if they can rent out more of their properties now that we've given them more power over tenants" feels like something you'd say if you'd never literally never heard of capitalism before in your life.
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Québec exhorté à garder le cap sur l’ambition climatique. L’État québécois doit baser ses décisions sur les constats de «la science», dit le comité consultatif du gouvernement. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...
Québec exhorté à garder le cap sur l’ambition climatique
L’État québécois doit baser ses décisions sur les constats de «la science», dit le comité consultatif du gouvernement.
www.ledevoir.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Québec exhorté à garder le cap sur l’ambition climatique. L’État québécois doit baser ses décisions sur les constats de «la science», dit le comité consultatif du gouvernement. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...
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London is becoming a cycling city.
As we continue to expand London’s cycle network, the number of daily bike trips is soaring. Cycling has risen by more than 40% since 2019 to 1,500,000 trips every day.
As we continue to expand London’s cycle network, the number of daily bike trips is soaring. Cycling has risen by more than 40% since 2019 to 1,500,000 trips every day.
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
London is becoming a cycling city.
As we continue to expand London’s cycle network, the number of daily bike trips is soaring. Cycling has risen by more than 40% since 2019 to 1,500,000 trips every day.
As we continue to expand London’s cycle network, the number of daily bike trips is soaring. Cycling has risen by more than 40% since 2019 to 1,500,000 trips every day.
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The Ford government has gone from replacing an effective system (automated speed cameras) to an ineffective system (big signs) to an ineffective and wasteful system (signs that can’t be installed).
I want my taxes back.
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
I want my taxes back.
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
New school-zone signs to replace photo radar cameras won’t fit Ottawa’s poles
The temporary 12-foot-tall school-zone signs intended to replace photo radar cameras on Ottawa streets will not fit on municipal street poles, according to a councillor.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The Ford government has gone from replacing an effective system (automated speed cameras) to an ineffective system (big signs) to an ineffective and wasteful system (signs that can’t be installed).
I want my taxes back.
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
I want my taxes back.
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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“Our mid-term goal should be the complete phase-out of Microsoft products, including the Windows operating system. It’s easier than it sounds.”
A cross-party group of lawmakers are pushing for the European Parliament to get off US tech, starting with Microsoft.
A cross-party group of lawmakers are pushing for the European Parliament to get off US tech, starting with Microsoft.
Get us off Microsoft! Lawmakers press EU Parliament to change in-house IT.
“We cannot afford this level of dependence on foreign tech,” lawmakers say in letter obtained by POLITICO.
www.politico.eu
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“Our mid-term goal should be the complete phase-out of Microsoft products, including the Windows operating system. It’s easier than it sounds.”
A cross-party group of lawmakers are pushing for the European Parliament to get off US tech, starting with Microsoft.
A cross-party group of lawmakers are pushing for the European Parliament to get off US tech, starting with Microsoft.
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A sad day for cyclists. Bill 60 - which prohibits the conversion of motor vehicle lanes to bike lanes (or any other prescribed purpose) - has passed Third Reading this morning which will kill various cycling projects in Toronto & across Ontario. #shame #BikeTO #BikeSky #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I very much appreciate the $9.35 a day daycare in Quebec!
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I very much appreciate the $9.35 a day daycare in Quebec!
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“By focusing on mostly arterial streets and closing key network connection gaps” when building new bike lanes, Boston was able to increase both “the number of people biking, and the percentage of all traffic they make up.” The number of bikes counted on the network went up by 55%.
The latest evaluation of bike lane projects in Boston continues to show that if you build bike infrastructure, people will use it.
Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“By focusing on mostly arterial streets and closing key network connection gaps” when building new bike lanes, Boston was able to increase both “the number of people biking, and the percentage of all traffic they make up.” The number of bikes counted on the network went up by 55%.
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I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
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After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
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Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Is this the moment Canada gets serious about science and the economy?
The federal budget includes $1.7-billion to attract international researchers and support Canadian R&D and IP protections
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Just imploring you to mask up. Flew home from an insanely wonderful mo of research in Paris last Sunday. Double masked but surrounded by coughing unmask travelers. By Thurs I was in the hospital. Out now but recovery is going to take a while from this random NON COVID virus. #WearAMask
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Just imploring you to mask up. Flew home from an insanely wonderful mo of research in Paris last Sunday. Double masked but surrounded by coughing unmask travelers. By Thurs I was in the hospital. Out now but recovery is going to take a while from this random NON COVID virus. #WearAMask
I think the snow pattern on asphalt shows that this street in my neighborhood could be more narrow
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I think the snow pattern on asphalt shows that this street in my neighborhood could be more narrow
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Provide more transit and people will come!
Induced demand also works for trains!
New journeys, trips and adventures are created when new weekend trains are introduced.
More of this please!
Induced demand also works for trains!
New journeys, trips and adventures are created when new weekend trains are introduced.
More of this please!
Wow, big crowd out here in Guelph for the first weekend train. Lots of happy commuters and families going to Toronto for the day.
Thanks to everyone who pushed to convince Metrolinx that there is demand for weekend service.
Thanks to everyone who pushed to convince Metrolinx that there is demand for weekend service.
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Provide more transit and people will come!
Induced demand also works for trains!
New journeys, trips and adventures are created when new weekend trains are introduced.
More of this please!
Induced demand also works for trains!
New journeys, trips and adventures are created when new weekend trains are introduced.
More of this please!
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Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
November 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
Very late to the party but Kpop demon hunters is excellent
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Very late to the party but Kpop demon hunters is excellent
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
Eat your heart out Vancouver’s Christmas market
EN PHOTOS | Le Vieux-Québec s’illumine pour le Marché de Noël allemand
EN PHOTOS | Le Vieux-Québec s’illumine pour le Marché de Noël allemand
Le Vieux-Québec a retrouvé ses airs de village de Noël. Encouragés par une météo idéale, de nombreux curieux se sont empressés de plonger dans l’esprit des fêtes, samedi.
www.lesoleil.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Eat your heart out Vancouver’s Christmas market
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BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.