Agree. We need to protect those who are vulnerable. .Timothy Caulfield: In an era of misinformation, alternative medicine needs to be regulated theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… Dan Sharp Britt Marie Hermes

During the 1920s, Joseph Erlanger, born #onthisday in 1874, and his student Herbert Gasser studied the properties and distribution of nerve fibres. They showed that thicker fibres convey nerve impulses faster and were awarded the Medicine Prize in 1944 for their work.

Co-Directors of UBC Applied Science Digital Learning Factory initiative announced: apsc.ubc.ca/news/2019/01/c… #UBC #UBCO UBC SOE Okanagan

"Two-Thirds of Montreal Pharmacies Sell This [Homeopathic] Quack Flu Buster" mcgill.ca/oss/article/he… Great work by @crackedscience McGill Office for Science and Society! cc Joe Schwarcz Scott Gavura 🇺🇦 (join me on Bluesky) David Gorski, MD, PhD #homeopathy Profession and regulators need to step up!

Key point: in a system like Ontario, where fees make up over 50% of total operating income, a 10% cut in tuition hurts institutions more than a 10% cut in operating grants.

Significant number of lefties giving me thumbs up for pointing out Ford govt. tuition cut wouldn't help poor because of interactions with student aid. I rarely get that reaction from them when I make similar points re: NDP tuition reduction plans, even though effects the same.

Our School is happy to announce we have just posted two tenure-track instructor positions. Interested in joining our School as an Instructor in Clinical Exercise Physiology? Check out: hes.ok.ubc.ca/tenuretrackins…

TFW you are stuck in a book that is mostly tedious but contains just enough gems of insight/stuff you never knew so you can;t stop but oh god wish it were over quicker and in many fewer pages.

Up Early: Exercise snacking can help make you fit. Professor of Kinesiology Dr. Jonathan Little joins us to talk about new research on exercise - that shows that a little can go a long way

New food guide: food-guide.canada.ca/en/?utm_source… My initial response, pretty solid! Like this image. And like that they are keeping message simple. Health Canada and PHAC #Canadasfoodguide.

We had a fantastic day in Ottawa meeting with parliamentarians and government officials about @TYDE_CIC, UBC’s Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC), University of British Columbia and UBC Okanagan!

My paper with @paulgribble & Andrew Pruszynski is now officially published in Nature Neuroscience! (go.nature.com/2TIYlzJ) In it we show that spinal stretch reflexes can help maintain the hand’s position in the external world. Why is this a big deal and how did we show this? I'll tell you(1/16)

Dear rest of Canada: There is more to B.C. than Vancouver and, yes, we know what snow is cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

UBC ‘sports related fields’ (that’s Kinesiology/Human Kinetics) ranked 3rd in the world. Not bad for a little Okanagan startup (and our Vancouver cousins). topuniversities.com/university-ran…

@AnanyaReed Deborah Buszard Phil Barker Gord Binsted fabulous to see UBC School Of Health & Exercise Sciences ranked 3rd in the world in the latest QS rankings. topuniversities.com/university-ran…

A great faculty member a great colleague at UBC.

The CHLVH is welcoming an extraordinary lineup of keynote speakers for its 2020 symposium at SilverStar Mountain Resort. To register and learn more visit: okcrs.org

Well done UBC Exercise Science (Okanagan) and Kinesiology (Vancouver) tanked #2 QS World University Rankings for Sports-Related Subjects 2020 | topuniversities.com/university-ran…

More great work from UBC’s Faculty of Health and Social Development. castanet.net/news/Kelowna/2…

Canada is falling behind on investing in scientific research, but this pandemic has reminded us how important scientific research is to our health. This #ScienceLiteracyWeek, we are calling for increased funding for #basicscience research. policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/cana… #CANFundScience