Scientists unexpectedly witness wolf puppies play fetch. The remarkable ability to interpret human cues that enables a dog to fetch a ball & bring it back also exists in wolves. This behavior could have had a selective advantage in early dog domestication. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Coronaviruses are more about looks than genetics. #nCoV2019 sciencenews.org/article/how-ne…

Dear @realdonaldtrump, When you blame a virus on an entire race of people, you turn people against them. When you make these unscientific political statements, some of your followers begin to act violently and in exclusionary, xenophobic ways against these people. Do better.

Researchers University of Waterloo have partnered with an artificial intelligence (AI) startup on a project that aims to use #AI to improve #COVID_19 screening. Read more: bit.ly/2UiqwIu #UWaterlooNews #UWaterloo Waterloo Engineering @darwinai

I can't speak for House, obviously - no one's written clever words for me to say - but I'm pretty sure he'd tell you it's not a matter of 'solving' Covid. This is an epidemic, not a diagnostic problem. We solve it together by staying apart.

#BEATTHEVIRUS

Happy #MoleDay everyone! How are you celebrating this morning? For our non-scientist friends, Mole day celebrates Avogadro's number, 6.02 x 10^23, so we celebrate at 6:02 on the 23rd day of the 10th month! open.science.uwaterloo.ca/7/30/assignmen…

This is precisely how McMaster University has built its reputation as a leading research university. Grad students are forced to apply knowing that if they win, most or all of the prize will simply be taken by the university. They brag about all that prestigious funding, and we starve.

This thread! “Grad students are the heart and soul of the university” - a quote of Doug Welch, dean of graduate studies. But McMaster exploits our love for learning and undermines our efforts to be fairly compensated for our work.

Amazing 3MT from Victoria Lee a MSc candidate from AG lab, Alisha Kang, a PhD student from the Xing lab, Sarah Ettehadieh, an undergrad from the Ashkar Lab! #Perey2023

Jon Stokes Victoria Lee of the Gillgrass Lab is this year’s recipient of the Michael Kamin Hart MSc Award. Victoria is being recognized for research into the role of Interleukin 17 in host defense against HIV, tuberculosis, and HIV/tuberculosis co-infection. Congratulations, Victoria!

Excited to share our recent University of Waterloo #ENVERG work on #antiviral discovery in toxic #cyanobacteria, made possible by our students' excellent efforts and funding from NSERC / CRSNG & the Phyc. Soc. America Norma J. Lang Early Career Fellowship onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jp…

Enjoying the slopes before some science! See you at #CSI2024 Canadian Society for Immunology

Very proud of this short communication paper by our ex BSc student Victoria Lee University of Waterloo that experimentally shows for the first time that #virus infection of a #HAB-forming #cyanobacterium significantly contributes to the release of toxins upon lysis mdpi.com/3194222