Dad - husband - movement neuroscientist - formerly athletic
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Hey @PeteHegseth - go to hell.
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Hegseth on Afghanistan:
I was a captain in Afghanistan, and we would go to the headquarters in Kabul, and there would be 50 flags at the headquarters.
It was a beautiful thing to see 50 different countries contributing to the NATO alliance and the ISAF mission there.
Except there were like maybe five that contributed. It was actually closer to one or two that, by the end, were actually involved in kinetic operations.
In fact, the ISAF patch, we would joke that it meant "I Saw Americans Fighting."
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Over 1100 non-American soldiers from 31 US-allied countries were killed fighting in Afghanistan, approximately 1/3 of the total combat deaths.
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The most important briefings of the day.
Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shares the news of his Nobel Prize with his kids.
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The government won’t allow advertisements for cigarettes and you can barely promote alcohol. Why the hell can I not watch five minutes of a sports event without being inundated with gambling ads. This is killing our society. Destroying young men. Time to reframe this.
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Ads featuring fake CBC articles have inundated the social media platform X in recent weeks. The ads are designed to lure Canadians into a sophisticated scam that uses Russian internet infrastructure, CBC News has found. cbc.ca/news/canada/cbc-ads-f…
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Today, we announced a “game-changing” investment of $65.75 million by @WSIB to Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph’s. With this investment, St. Joseph’s is proud to launch the Occupational Injury Prevention and Treatment Research Network.
Read more: bit.ly/4gd0Lja
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Better lifestyle = better odds to prevent dementia. Innovators at our Lawson Research Institute reveal the top four changes you can make today. CBC London’s story: bit.ly/3BHGWCN @WesternU
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I’m saying this in a non partisan way but we need an election now. We are facing a potentially catastrophic trade war with our greatest ally and the finance minister and deputy prime minister summarily said she has no confidence in this government and its financial approach. The day before parliament rises there is no one to provide a fiscal update to the country. This is bonkers. @theJagmeetSingh time to step up and do the right thing for the country.
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When the general is losing his most loyal soldiers on the eve of a (tariff) war, the country desperately needs a new general.
@JustinTrudeau—#itstime, long past time to go.
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St. Joseph’s is proud to launch the Fall 2024 issue of My St. Joseph’s - the special research edition!
Read about the cutting-edge innovation happening at St. Joseph’s, and the role it plays in improving patient health and health systems: bit.ly/3Aqou0Q
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This week St. Joseph’s welcomed President and CEO of @OntarioHealthOH, Matthew Anderson, to Parkwood Institute to see some of the important work happening in mental health and rehabilitation, as well as attend a leadership session. Thank you for joining us, Matthew!
Jeff Weiler retweeted
The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever
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Canceling a newspaper subscription helps politicians who don’t want oversight, does nothing to hurt the billionaires who own the newspapers and make decisions with which you may disagree, and will result in fewer journalists trying to hold the powerful to account.
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The Float Gait System, which lets health-care practitioners assess movement and recovery, is just one example of health care research being done at London’s two major hospitals. @NormatLFPress reports: tinyurl.com/4fhf32cx #ldnont
Jeff Weiler retweeted
Worse off than what?
Not worse off fiscally: the PBO is clear that most households and all below the top quintile get back more in rebates than they pay in tax. Which is all that was ever promised.
So unlike most taxes, this tax is fully rebated, and then some. But, like all taxes, it still has an economic impact, and in that sense makes people “worse off.”
So: worse off than what? Worse off than if we did nothing on climate change? That option isn’t on the table — but in any case you’d have to look at the costs of climate change, at least so far as our failure to do anything affects it.
Worse off than other ways of cutting emissions? But that is demonstrably not true. Other methods are much costlier, and don’t come with a rebate. It’s just that the PBO didn’t bother to include those, which makes this study fairly pointless.
Corrected PBO report finds carbon tax leaves most Canadians worse off even as they get more back in rebates nationalpost.com/news/canada…
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At the World Relays in the spring, a reporter asked USA’s Noah Lyles if he saw Canada as a threat in the 4x100m in Paris.
“Who? Who?”
He laughed it off.
With Lyles sidelined, the USA were disqualified today and Canada won gold.
Jeff Weiler retweeted
For people up for tenure in next few years, I want to recommend introducing yourself at next conference to senior people in your field. They generally want to help you get tenure. Knowing you in person allows letters to be far more personal and useful.
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There are two open faculty positions in @UWaterlooKHS (neural control of mobility, human cardiovascular physiology), one in @UWRecandLeisure focused on aging research, and a Tier 1 CRC in Indigenous Health. Postings here: uwaterloo.ca/health/employme…
