Mastodawn

Working on CIHR grant reviews. So many talented people proposing terrific research and yet it is crushingly depressing that only a tiny proportion will be funded. We are dead last in the G7 for govt funding as a proportion of GDP and there is no end to that in sight.
#Canada #Research #CIHR #NSERC #Science

aeshnid Mar 31

3/8
The study, supported through an #NSERC Discovery Grant, is examining a set of five wetlands - four of which connect to the river, and another isolated (perched) basin. We measure flux of aquatic insects from these wetlands using pyramidal emergence traps, which collect emerging insects which provide a key food supply for aerial insectivores.
#MarshMadness #Wetlands #Science #Ecology #EcosystemServices #Conservation #AerialInsectivores #Bats #Swallows #Entomology #CrossEcosystemFlux

SciPost Physics Mar 2

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Chirality, magic, and quantum correlations in multipartite quantum states

Shreya Vardhan, Bowen Shi, Isaac H. Kim, Yijian Zou
SciPost Phys. 20, 066 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.3.066

#SU #UIUC #UCD #UCSD #PI
#NSERC #MCU

SciPost Physics Feb 18

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Les Houches lecture notes on topological recursion

Vincent Bouchard
SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 115 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysLectNotes.115

#UAlberta
#NSERC

Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦Dec 10

Dr. David Wishart is one of Canada’s most acclaimed scientists, a pioneer in the field of metabolomics. Debby Waldman is an award-winning children’s author. When a Métis trapper’s son met a New York rabbi’s daughter? Let’s just say there was chemistry. Meet this delightful couple in this latest Alberta Unbound. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/alberta-unbound/id1511810939?i=1000740687005 #AlbertaUnbound #ualberta #yeg #Edmonton #Alberta #abpoli #cdnpoli #metabolomics #NSERC #TMIC

Their Chemical Romance: Dr. David Wishart and Debby Waldman

Podcast Episode · Alberta Unbound · S5 E5 · 35m

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Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦Nov 5, 2025

Today, Dr. David Wishart, a professor of biology AND computer science at University of Alberta won Canada’s highest honour for science & engineering, the Herzberg Gold Medal, for his pioneering work in metabolomics. Years ago, I worked with Dr. Wishart’s equally brilliant wife, Debby Waldman, when she wrote a humour column and book reviews for the Edmonton Journal. So it was a double thrill to be at the big NSERC reception, hosted by House of Commons Speaker Francis Scarpaleggia, to cheer on one of Edmonton’s scientific giants. Mazel tov to David and to the University of Alberta.. #yeg #UAlberta #Edmonton #NSERC #metabolomics #ComputationalMetabolomics #cdnpoli

Louis A. M. 🇨🇦Nov 3, 2025

#AntiScience #AntiDEI #NSERC #SSHRC #CIHR
-- Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data --

"The recent motion by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is incredibly damaging, unscientific in its approach, unethical, and puts equity deserving researchers and graduate students at risk."

"the CSCR just passed a motion to force the Tri-Councils to release [...] funded and non-funded scholarship and project applications, including confidential data about funding applicant's EDI questionnaires and information about their institutions, peer reviewer comments and more."

🔗https://x.com/OCUFA/status/1985391484254711843

SRSR Committee Meeting; Minutes
🔗https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/SRSR/meeting-6/minutes

M. Grégoire Aug 3, 2025

Someone at #UBC, #Waterloo, #UofT or #McGill with #NSERC backing must make a serious offer to #TerrenceTao and his entire research group. This is an opportunity for Canada.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114956840959338146

#mathematics #CanPol #cdnpoli

Terence Tao (@[email protected])

The current administration in the US has, through various funding agencies such as the NSF and NIH, has recently suspended virtually all federal grants to my home university, UCLA (including my own personal grant, although that is far from the most serious impact of this decision), on the grounds that UCLA was “failing to promote a research environment free of antisemitism and bias”. One can certainly debate whether these grounds were justified, or whether they merit the extremely draconian damage to the very research environment that this decision is claiming to protect, but if nothing else this unprecedented decision does not appear to have followed the usual standards of due process for actions of this nature; for instance, there appears to have been no good faith effort by the administration to receive a response from UCLA to its allegations before implementing its decision. The suspension of my personal grant has a non-trivial impact on myself (in particular, my summer salary, which I had already deferred in order to allow the previously released NSF funds to support several of my graduate students over this period, is now in limbo), and now gives me almost no resources to support my graduate students going forward; but this is only a fraction of a percent of the entire amount being suspended. A far greater concern is the impact on the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/, which despite receiving preliminary approval earlier this year for a new five-year round of funding (albeit at significantly reduced levels) from the NSF, now only has enough emergency funding for a few months of further operation at best if the suspension is not lifted. (1/4)

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