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I enthusiastically nominate my wife to be speaker of the house. As an elementary school teacher, she knows how to handle a group of whiny children.

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I'm delighted to have contributed to a second story on the transcription factor IRF4. The first one shall be available online soon. Stay tuned. @WyWyWa twitter.com/biorxivpreprint/st

Wishing a great year ahead to all. Happy 2023! It is strange to be here first, but glad I can let everyone know it is safe to proceed.

RT @jburnmurdoch
NEW: conservatives have a Millennials problem.

In both UK & US, it’s not just that Millennials aren’t voting conservative because they’re young.

Every previous generation grew more conservative with age, but Millennials are not playing ball.

My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/rede

RT @NickIwanyshyn
Video showing a row of houses along Lake Erie completely covered in ice following the winter storm that swept through much of Ontario last week

RT @bradwouters
The $2.5B NIH increase is 2.8X the entire CIHR budget. Total NIH ($47.5B) is 54X the entire CIHR budget - 6X per capita. Canada needs to double tri-council budgets now and build a long term strategy for systematic investments.
science.org/content/article/re

There’s something joyful in the feeling when someone you used to follow on that other place crosses your timeline, and you can follow them again and a little bit that was lost is found.

RT @lazerdoov
I accidentally used my mom’s fabric scissors to cut wrapping paper and now the cops are here

Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).

One country sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher spending and below-average life expectancy.

More info: oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016
Fourth in a🧵of #2022TopToots

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See our Top 22 Visualizations of 2022:
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1. World's Population at 8B

No better way to celebrate a challenging yet rewarding year and upcoming holidays than some custom chocolate ☺️

The fjords of Aotearoa are as breathtaking as their Norwegian brethren.

RT @joannachiu
A senior journalist at CTV told the Star that Melling’s move to VP of Shared Services should not be seen as a demotion.

“Shared Services in the Bell empire is a huge division, way bigger than the news department,” the journalist said.

thestar.com/news/canada/2022/1

RT @Coffee17663726
He should be fired not re-assigned.

After independent review in wake of Lisa LaFlamme’s ouster, CTV’s Michael Melling is out of news operations thestar.com/news/canada/2022/1 via @TorontoStar

RT @mike_bechthold
It’s a slap on the wrist for Melling, does nothing for the reputation of ⁦@CTVNews, and it does not provide justice for Lisa LaFlamme. ⁩
Michael Melling out as head of CTV News following Lisa LaFlamme furor but will continue on as a Bell executive. cbc.ca/news/entertainment/mich

The Argentines were out in force tonight in Queenstown. Messi may have heard them.

Things just seem so crazy today.
I mean, can you imagine say in the 1930s if the richest automobile executive in America was also a media owner who used his platform to encourage anti-Semitism and allied himself with a foreign dictator waging a territory-expansion war in Europe?

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