🇨🇦 Rob Beiko
@rob-beiko.bsky.social
Professor (Bioinformatics of Small and/or Fishy Things) in Computer Science at Dalhousie University; environmental 🧬 enthusiast. Trying and failing to not post about politics. he/him
Scroll down to "A dispatch from the Poilievre campaign"
"But the extreme message control makes it all but impossible to bring the same level of accountability to the Poilievre campaign that other campaigns are subject to."
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
"But the extreme message control makes it all but impossible to bring the same level of accountability to the Poilievre campaign that other campaigns are subject to."
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
April 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Scroll down to "A dispatch from the Poilievre campaign"
"But the extreme message control makes it all but impossible to bring the same level of accountability to the Poilievre campaign that other campaigns are subject to."
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
"But the extreme message control makes it all but impossible to bring the same level of accountability to the Poilievre campaign that other campaigns are subject to."
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
"After many years of covering election campaigns in Canada, USA and Europe, the Conservative Party of Canada is the most outwardly aggressive and uncivilized that I’ve witnessed."
canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-ca...
canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-ca...
Poilievre Stop in Fish Plant Smells | Canadian Journalist
Conservative Party of Canada election campaign stop in a fishing village in Newfoundland turns into a spectacle of party animosity towards media coverage.
canadianjournalist.ca
April 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"After many years of covering election campaigns in Canada, USA and Europe, the Conservative Party of Canada is the most outwardly aggressive and uncivilized that I’ve witnessed."
canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-ca...
canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-ca...
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CBC is public media—owned by Canadians, not the government.
If it were propaganda, Poilievre wouldn’t want to kill it—he’d want to use it.
CBC holds power to account. That’s why they fear it.
#SaveTheCBC #MediaFreedom #CdnPoli #OurVoiceOurCBC
If it were propaganda, Poilievre wouldn’t want to kill it—he’d want to use it.
CBC holds power to account. That’s why they fear it.
#SaveTheCBC #MediaFreedom #CdnPoli #OurVoiceOurCBC
April 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
CBC is public media—owned by Canadians, not the government.
If it were propaganda, Poilievre wouldn’t want to kill it—he’d want to use it.
CBC holds power to account. That’s why they fear it.
#SaveTheCBC #MediaFreedom #CdnPoli #OurVoiceOurCBC
If it were propaganda, Poilievre wouldn’t want to kill it—he’d want to use it.
CBC holds power to account. That’s why they fear it.
#SaveTheCBC #MediaFreedom #CdnPoli #OurVoiceOurCBC
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❤️ We don’t care if your gender identity is more free than a fart in a fan factory. Be you, be happy, be free. #colonythatcares
“Heh, do you want to go out somewhere or just nestchicks and krill?”
April 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
❤️ We don’t care if your gender identity is more free than a fart in a fan factory. Be you, be happy, be free. #colonythatcares
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Inspired by @mark-carney.bsky.social and Canadians everywhere. We’re all fighting back on our home ice!
April 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Inspired by @mark-carney.bsky.social and Canadians everywhere. We’re all fighting back on our home ice!
Profound question for 12:20 AM: Why, when I ask Midjourney to create an image of Bert from Sesame Street as a visual pun for deep learning, do I get a set of characters that range from "Ernie-ish" to "WTF", but no Bert?
April 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Profound question for 12:20 AM: Why, when I ask Midjourney to create an image of Bert from Sesame Street as a visual pun for deep learning, do I get a set of characters that range from "Ernie-ish" to "WTF", but no Bert?
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A dangerous precedent. This is a cowardly folding by CTV. The right instigated an online troll attack campaign, offering no evidence of their claims, and the network folded.
Viewers and Rachel deserve better.
Viewers and Rachel deserve better.
NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
pressprogress.ca
April 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
A dangerous precedent. This is a cowardly folding by CTV. The right instigated an online troll attack campaign, offering no evidence of their claims, and the network folded.
Viewers and Rachel deserve better.
Viewers and Rachel deserve better.
I would tell a 21-hour long academic shaggy dog joke.
"I can't tell you, you're not a professor"
"I can't tell you, you're not a professor"
April 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I would tell a 21-hour long academic shaggy dog joke.
"I can't tell you, you're not a professor"
"I can't tell you, you're not a professor"
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The latest discovery from the lab and great colleagues at McMaster and U Illinois, Chicago. Lariocidin, a new lasso peptide antibiotic that inhibits the ribosome. rdcu.be/efdha
A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome
Nature - A new lasso peptide antibiotic exhibits broad-spectrum activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria by interfering with bacterial protein synthesis, is unaffected by common...
rdcu.be
March 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The latest discovery from the lab and great colleagues at McMaster and U Illinois, Chicago. Lariocidin, a new lasso peptide antibiotic that inhibits the ribosome. rdcu.be/efdha
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I am I'm this picture and I don't like it
March 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I am I'm this picture and I don't like it
Political ad, but a good one.
March 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Political ad, but a good one.
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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🚨 The Whelan lab is currently recruiting for a 6-week summer undergraduate student as part of the Lister Institute's Summer Studentship scheme. 🚨 The student will work along side a Postdoc to study interactions between pathogens from the cystic fibrosis microbiome. More info & to apply please see:
Lister Summer Studentship on Pathogen Interactions in Cystic Fibrosis:Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
March 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🚨 The Whelan lab is currently recruiting for a 6-week summer undergraduate student as part of the Lister Institute's Summer Studentship scheme. 🚨 The student will work along side a Postdoc to study interactions between pathogens from the cystic fibrosis microbiome. More info & to apply please see:
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From the Royal Society preprint ferver: "Part of a letter to Dr Sloane, wherein is an account of a Double Pear"
"THe Errors of Nature defervedly claim a place in her Hiftory, being of great ufe to illuftrate her Ordinary and more Regular Motions".
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
"THe Errors of Nature defervedly claim a place in her Hiftory, being of great ufe to illuftrate her Ordinary and more Regular Motions".
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
March 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
From the Royal Society preprint ferver: "Part of a letter to Dr Sloane, wherein is an account of a Double Pear"
"THe Errors of Nature defervedly claim a place in her Hiftory, being of great ufe to illuftrate her Ordinary and more Regular Motions".
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
"THe Errors of Nature defervedly claim a place in her Hiftory, being of great ufe to illuftrate her Ordinary and more Regular Motions".
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
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This is sad but true. I need to work to develop a network of friends in real life as my own life starts to change. PS: I am beyond grateful for my electronic friends.
March 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is sad but true. I need to work to develop a network of friends in real life as my own life starts to change. PS: I am beyond grateful for my electronic friends.
source .aishrc
March 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
source .aishrc
I hope you're all having as a good a day as Asymptomatic Guy. (adapted from www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...)
March 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I hope you're all having as a good a day as Asymptomatic Guy. (adapted from www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...)
Absolute garbage article (not gonna link) in G&Mthis morning about "waaahh leave Musk and Tesla alone".
- Intentionally conflates violent anti-Tesla protestors (who should be condemned) with all Tesla opponents
- About DOGE: "The worthiness of the quest...should be applauded by all taxpayers"
- Intentionally conflates violent anti-Tesla protestors (who should be condemned) with all Tesla opponents
- About DOGE: "The worthiness of the quest...should be applauded by all taxpayers"
March 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Absolute garbage article (not gonna link) in G&Mthis morning about "waaahh leave Musk and Tesla alone".
- Intentionally conflates violent anti-Tesla protestors (who should be condemned) with all Tesla opponents
- About DOGE: "The worthiness of the quest...should be applauded by all taxpayers"
- Intentionally conflates violent anti-Tesla protestors (who should be condemned) with all Tesla opponents
- About DOGE: "The worthiness of the quest...should be applauded by all taxpayers"
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‘Horizontal ARG transfers deducible from current genome sequence repositories have predominately happened in the human and wastewater microbiomes…and are strongly limited by genetic incompatibility between the hosts’ genomes, the acquired gene & the recipient’s genome’
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genetic compatibility and ecological connectivity drive the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes - Nature Communications
The dynamics of antimicrobial resistance gene transfer remain unclear. Here, by integrating bacterial genome and metagenome data with machine learning the authors show that genetic incompatibility is ...
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
‘Horizontal ARG transfers deducible from current genome sequence repositories have predominately happened in the human and wastewater microbiomes…and are strongly limited by genetic incompatibility between the hosts’ genomes, the acquired gene & the recipient’s genome’
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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So much this!! I feel for our US colleagues, but there are plenty of underemployed or even unemployed scientists, not to mention active researchers experiencing lack of funding in Canada and Europe.
I would also add, if Europe and Canada were to vastly increase science spending there are plenty of European and Canadian scientists who would be happy to absorb that windfall. We are not your escape hatch.
Pet peeve: I hate how often ppl claim “all the researchers will just move to Europe/Canada!” You vastly under-estimate how little money there is there vs the USA- and unless that changes ASAP this loss is just going to decimate global science, full stop. 🧪🔭
March 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
So much this!! I feel for our US colleagues, but there are plenty of underemployed or even unemployed scientists, not to mention active researchers experiencing lack of funding in Canada and Europe.
tracing one worn lie
Putting the Arctic Ocean closer to the center, this brings the Greenland Canada gambit into focus. It is a grab for power, money, water, and resources, also giving the US complete control over the Northwest Passage. Fentanyl and the border are a smokescreen for a much bigger project: theft.
March 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
tracing one worn lie
How many other "Take normal security precautions" countries are putting Canadians in illegal detention at the border?
March 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
How many other "Take normal security precautions" countries are putting Canadians in illegal detention at the border?
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I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...htt
A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry - Nature
The root of the eukaryote Tree of Life is estimated from a new, larger dataset of mitochondrial proteins including all known eukaryotic supergroups, showing it lies between two multi-supergroup assemb...
doi.org
March 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...htt