Jay Gamma

Biomedical PhD - cancer, cell signaling & metabolism. Powerlifting & bad at coding

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

Guess how AB separation sentiments will shift when 13, 9, and 10% demand 1% sacrifice their own economy to give Ottawa leverage.

Maybe instead of endlessly yelling at AB to diversify they should've been diversifying their own trading partners.

[Trevor Tombe @trevortombe]

There's a lot of variation across #cdnecon in exposure to the new 50% U.S. tariffs (on August 19). Here's a preliminary estimate of the share of exports affected (based on HS6, so a slight over-estimate). BC/ON/QC most exposed. Others far less so.

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@cbcwatcher Except his claimed strategy is to cut off energy and potash exports.

He wants the prairie economies to self-immolate to give him leverage to keep LARPing as Captain Canada and antagonizing the US.

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

Thanks communism!

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Drying of the Aral Sea has released more than 200 teragrams of carbon from exposed lake-bed sediments, transforming the region from a carbon sink into a carbon source, according to a new study in Science.

The findings reveal the importance of recognizing carbon fluxes from drying lakes in global carbon inventories and suggest that restoring shrinking lakes could become an important tool to limit future greenhouse gas emissions. https://t.co/tHGW4v317C

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@MickeyDjuric What exactly is Janice Charette doing in her role if Canada has no one at tariff hearings in the US and we constantly get blindsided by these announcements?

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@MPelletierCIO Erin got ~200,000 more votes than Trudeau did.

There's a reason Trudeau sewered his electoral reform promise. If he had delivered he would've been a 1-term PM.

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@PoliMaritimer Jivani spent months offering to help. They ignored him then called him a traitor when he tried to mend some bridges of his own accord.

It's absurd to be making excuses for the government by blaming the opposition for not helping, but it's not even TRUE.

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

Artificial gravity looking more and more required for a space faring species that isn't simply decaying slowly in their ships.

[Martin Picard @MitoPsychoBio]

Cool new findings showing that mitochondrial biology is influenced by gravity.

Of the few things that change when cells and bodies leave Earth's surface, gravity seems sufficient to decrease mitochondrial gene expression. If mitochondrial gene expression decreases, it becomes harder for electrons to flow through the electron transport chain. And energy transformation capacity decreases, possibly increasing energy resistance: how difficult it is for food-derived electrons to reach oxygen in mitochondria.

This study follows earlier work in 2020 showing that mitochondrial changes are among the most robust changes that occur with spaceflight.

Paper here: https://t.co/fx1Zu5n1G2

Accessible commentary: https://t.co/vkuW6WMEKg

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@elie_mcn Too late for that. The strategy of publicly antagonizing with backroom concessions has shown to be weak and feckless. Any deal at this point would be better described as capitulation. Better to freeze them out and pray for salvation from the midterms.

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@gwgmtweets @alanfryermedia Why does he need a poll bump? He has a majority and three years until the next mandated election. Polls right now are a pundit football, not a meaningful metric.

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@DimitrisSoudas To say nothing of algorithms driving and reinforcing media bubbles. It's a major misread to equate the media environments & puffery to elevate yourself for overcoming that lesser hurdle.

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@DimitrisSoudas You can't see how, in an environment driven by headlines and ragebait, that media bias can have a more significant impact in winning that confidence?

Do you think a misleading headline with caveats buried in the third paragraph lands the same today as it did pre-social media?

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

This is functionally the same message on the issue as @EricDLombardi - open to the concept but no faith in Ford's plan.

Curious to see if this gets the same frosty response from the Ontario pundits.

[Navdeep Bains @NavdeepSBains]

I've been listening to people about Billy Bishop and the message is clear - residents have real concerns about noise and the environment.

Doug Ford’s "plan" was slapped together without the community’s input. It's unacceptable and I won't support it.

With the consultations wrapping up this week, I want to be direct: any path to modernizing the airport needs to involve its surrounding communities.

This Conservative government’s plan is a failure. Shaping the future of Toronto's waterfront must be done collaboratively - but once again, this government just put its own interests first.

Ontario deserves better. Let's get to work.

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@CarsonJerema Equating agreement with or sympathy for their greivances with support for their solution is a mistake the separatists seem to make frequently.

You can be right about the problem and wrong about the solution. Many such cases.

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@MadAboutPaper That sound you heard was the collective groan of the chambers of commerce in those cities.

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@Prominent_Bryan The Calgary Flames of football.

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@cadwaveanalysis It'll be months of nothing until whatever the black swan that penetrates politically-disengaged spaces and then a sharp drop.

NAFTA withdrawal maybe? Feels like an inflection point on corporations pulling up stake & moving south.

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@davidportier Imagine paying more than 10 grand to watch this 💀

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@Citizen004 The idea that a wall st trader, central banker, and economist PhD wouldn't know the difference between net profit and revenue therefore it's the comms team fault is so absurd.

He knows the difference, and what it means in the context of this deal.

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

Classic mote-and-bailey.

Gender pay gap has always been presented as unequal pay for equal work - which is exactly why the policies meant to address it specifically say "equal pay for equal work".

When explained by hours worked or career, it's not a GENDER gap is it.

[Andrea Dekeseredy @AndieWinnipeg]

A few weeks ago a Canadian report showed the gender pay gap per province.

A lot of people were angry that Alberta had the highest percentage because they said the data was a "lie", since men and women doing the same job get paid similar wages.

This isn't the gender pay gap!

[Jay Gamma @JayMGamma]

@iamrobinskies The CPC overestimates the durability of their gains in the young demographic. The kids aren't partisan they're just desperate for hope. Marginal tax cuts as central policy planks doesn't deliver that. The socialists deliver bold ideas and hope, even if we know it's unrealistic.