Dylan MacKay

@dylanmackayphd.bsky.social

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Dad | Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Chronic Disease at The University of Manitoba| #T1D my phone is my pancreas | | Newfoundlander in Winnipeg | Deutscher | Clinical Trialist | he/him | views my own

Stalin in PJs riding a sled on a rainbow as a book cover for the book "Everything I don't like is a Communist. A child's guide to online political discussion"
A German shepherd/boxer/Huskie mix puppy with their face in a raspberry bush, rustling the leaves and eating the berries directly from the plant is asked what they are doing
The cutest boxer/Gshepherd/huskie mutt ever sitting on a side table, in the background there is a larger Gshepherd/lab mutt, both are looking at me longingly because I have food
Anakin Padme 4 Panel Top Anakin panel : University admins: We need to integrate AI in teaching to prepare students for the future of workplaces Top Padme panel: Critically right? Bottom Padme panel: Critically right?
The Cato institute getting 16 likes, 3 reposts, 299 quotes, 6 saves Just getting dunked
The won't someone think of the children Simpsons meme, but children is replaced with landlords
Just a stupid amount of guns, a stockpile or "collection" if you have a F*ck Trudeau sticker
A pile of empty juice boxes
The "always has been" meme, where the astronaut looking at the earth says "The Good Professor doesn't have Canada's best interests at heart?" And the astronaut behind him is pointing a gun at the back of his head
A medium size brown, black and white super mutt (husky, boxers, lab, your guess is as good as mine) rolled over on their back asleep in a puppy nap
Lockheed Martin sign in rainbow held up by people in yellow shirts at a pride event
Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says Tech sector says only carbon emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU's AI goals.
A pink sunset looking over toward Torbay and Middle cove from the north east corner of Torbay. Lush green grass in the foreground, the gut of water and then up the cliffs to the other side of Torbay. Beautiful big sky in light pinks and blue with just a few clouds on the horizon
A green pasture dotted with evergreen trees that tumbles towards the rocky edge of the north atlantic dark blue and foreboding with cliffs to the right under a grey cloudy sky
Large waves crashing on a rocky shore beneath a blue sky in Torbay Newfoundland
A slide with a picture of a bison showing a nutritional comparisons table of Bison versus beef, pork, chicken and sockeye salmon
Then-governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney (and now Prime Minister of Canada), second from left, attends the Wildness Festival with his wife Diana Fox, far right, and others including Ghislaine Maxwell (yes of the Epstein files), second from right, at Cornbury Park in Oxfordshire, England, on Aug. 10, 2013. Photo by Adrian Sherratt /Shutterstock
A map of tornado warning zones around north and west Winnipeg
A grey pilar of clouds surrounded by lightening
Everything I don't like is WOKE a book for basic dickheads "this engine is woke" an educational book cover with a boy in a red sweater pointing at the engine of a care
Goose chase meme top panel, "so it is not a recession, but an affordability crisis" Bottom panel "what has led to this affordability crisis?"
Sparky the Bear in front of a burning data center that says only you can prevent Data Centers
Odd Bunch delivery Box with small watermelon, broccoli, small red apples, mandarins, cilantro,red pepper, two large carrots and a head of celery
A twitter quote tweet and reply, where Hunter Biden tweeted "I fucking love Canada", which was quoted by Mike Hart M.D (I am not sure he is licensed anymore) said "And Crack", to which Hunter Biden replied "True. But these days I love Canada more." Mike's quote has 3 retweets and 56 likes, Biden's reply has 69 retweets (nice) and 2700 likes
A white Kia EV4
Always has been meme template with one astronaut pointing a gun at the back of the other who is looking at the earth with the text "So wait, policies from Conservative and Liberal governments in Canada all end up with increasing wealth inequality..."
It cites a KPMG–University of Melbourne global trust study which found Canada ranked very low among 47 countries on AI training and literacy as well as trust in AI systems
An over the shoulder picture of my son adding the muscles and lips and eyes being added to the white 3D printed skull, packages of air dry clay in the background on
A long slender Dinonischis skull model, with yellow eyes, brown green textures skin, with some blue and purple underneath, mouth closed in this pose
Screenshot of Corpora.ai More Relevant Knowledge. Earlier Signals. Better Outcomes. Corpora.ai continuously refreshes and synthesizes vastly more relevant knowledge than standalone AI or conventional deep research platforms. Emerging signals, hidden relationships, and critical patterns surface the moment they appear, delivering earlier awareness, deeper insight, and faster, more confident decisions across every high-value domain. Our research applications combine with accelerator programs and strategic capital to transform breakthrough research into frontier solutions, helping universities, scientific institutions, and DeepTech ventures accelerate commercialization, reduce development costs, and bring viable innovations to market faster. Real-time intelligence applications continuously correlate global data, events, and emerging developments to provide critical decision support precisely when timing matters most.
A screenshot of Platypus Economics website with the first video called "A Gas Tax Holiday is Performative Nonsense, but big oil loves it"
A white Kia EV4 electric vehicle (plugged in) pictured from the right front side, half in the shade of a house, cherry trees in bloom in the background and a deck
Norman Rockwell Save Freedom of Speech poster, man with zipped up blue plaid shirt and open bomber jackets standing in a crowd
Lauren @NotABIgJerk I'm not falling for that hot take. That's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion
Dobeš getting interview with a cigarette after the game with the white text ça va?
A scene from The Simpsons where Nelson smacks a dad in a road trip and he thinks it is one of his kids and he yells "That's it, back to Winnipeg"
CNS-SCN 2027 Winnipeg Manitoba Join us in Winnipeg Manitoba for the 2027 CNS Annual conference. Save the date! April 29-May 1 2027 Above a picture of the beautiful nighttime skyline of downtown Winnipeg, the Chicago of the North
And infographic from @helenwong.bsky.social outlining the concept of household foodwork, that is the physical and mental tasks required for eating at home. It has 4 parts, the planning, getting, preparing and cleaning up. It is a form of labour that we only seem to count outside of a household. Unless you have enough wealth then you pay someone to do it. The graphic is based on the Cahill et Al paper on the development of the FIA-Q a questionnaire to measure household foodwork. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39609806/
Bezos Post Opinion The Editorial Board You can earn a billion dollars Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a low opinion of human potential.
A bunch of rats doing rat stuff in an open lot with a fence
A bubble graph showing the top largest 50 banks in the world, Canada has 5 in the top 50 with trillions in assets
A Dell latitude laptop with a busted battery that has stickers from @Iamhungryghosttattooer, Two Tides Tattoo, Plant Native Plants, a cute shark, and a dead pancreas, as well as some calm down colour wheel stickers
Wab Kinew on stage immediately after Avi Lewis was named federal NDP leader, he has what seems to be a grimace on his face
Trump snoozing at his desk with all his cronies standing behind him looking like absolute sacs of shame, self loathing, and greed (okay probably not enough shame and self loathing, I am just being hopeful with those, but definitely greed )
A screenshot of the CBC new app articles, "Ottawa approves Enbridge's $4B Sunrise natural gas pipeline expansion project" followed by article "Canada joins first summit focused on moving away from fossil fuels" and the "How 4 different expansions are planned for Canada's largest oil export pipeline system" something doesn't add up here, it is like a climate reverse shit sandwich of articles
AOC death staring RFK jr.
A thread of posts, one with the non-nude "Art of Seduction" picture of George Costanza, which is not been flagged or hidden as adult content, followed by the non-nude Burt Reynolds Cosmopolitan centerfold photo which has been labeled adult content and hidden
But the fact that so many people are already on GLP-1s for such a broad variety of reasons, with potentially millions more rapidly joining the fold, suggests that “we cannot clinical trial our way out,” Dr. Seeley said, referring to carefully testing every potential indication before it is enthusiastically taken up.
There’s no better way of letting people get lower costs on no matter if it’s cars or homes or groceries, than competition,” he said. “That is what we believe in. That’s a capitalist society, a market. The other one is socialism. Socialism does not work. You go around and dictating and overseeing every single price, no. If there’s collusion on pricing, I’ll go after them and tear them to shreds, but nothing beats a free market.”
Always has been meme of an astronaut pointing a gun at the back of the head of another astronaut
The visualisation, from Piketty and Saez (2007) shows estimated average tax rates in France, the US and the UK, at two points in time: 1970 and 2005. Notice that these are average rates (i.e. total tax contributions as a share of pre-tax income), which are different to marginal tax rates. Displayed are rates for the bottom 90% of the income distribution, as well as higher percentiles. Again, we can see in these estimates that the systems in question are progressive – increasingly higher percentiles in the income distribution pay increasingly higher effective rates of taxation. However, the lines are much flatter in 2005, which shows that the systems have become less progressive at the top: the average share of income paid by those at the very top of the income distribution has dropped substantially since 1970. This is important because, as the authors of the figure point out, over the same period pre-tax income inequality grew significantly: a few very rich individuals at the very top are accumulating an increasingly large share of national incomes. An important point that should be kept in mind is that these estimates are not directly comparable to those from the Congressional Budget Office discussed above, because they do not take into account government transfers, and rely on different methodological assumptions – for example, they do not consider excise taxes (but they do consider estate taxes). For more details see Piketty and Saez (2007).
A back yard with a deck and a raised bed and a garage all covered in snow , and it is snowing
George Costanza in socks and white boxer shorts staring at the camera in the "The Timeless Art of Seduction" photo from The Package" episode 139 of Seinfeld. My photo will look a lot like this but with more body hair and a pump and CGM
National soccer t-shirts on a table for sale before the World Cup at Costco, Italy is on the table...
One astronaut with another astronaut pointing a gun at the back of his head with the text always has been
Our systems automatically scale, based on how many people you need to call, and call them immediately," Soares said in an interview from London. "So, say if somebody is going to pick up within the first three minutes of being interested, we keep calling them up to eight or 10 different times." Soares said the AI service tailors questions to customers based on the ads those customers clicked on. If the person on the line ends up interested in buying insurance, they get transferred to a live agent, Soares said.
Groceries as interventions for chronic disease "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term” – US president Donald J. Trump. Providing people with groceries is increasingly being seen as the basis for many viable interventions that can be used to prevent or treat chronic diseases. Sometimes referred to as ”Food Is Medicine” these food-based interventions are ideally integrated into health care and tailored for people’s specific health conditions and/or social needs. These specific food prescriptions can involve food delivery, pick-up, or voucher provision, and often include varying levels of nutrition and culinary education. Unfortunately, few high quality randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been conducted in this area, because “just giving people groceries” within an RCT can be very challenging. In this session presenters will discuss the how to, results from, and lessons learned along the way of conducting grocery intervention RCTs. Speakers for this session are: Dr. Dana Lee Olstad, PhD, RD and Dr. Bohdan Luhovyy, PhD. Together they will help attendees develop an understanding the challenges related to grocery intervention research and strategies to help address them.
Manitoba Chiropractors Association Board Member: Greg Dunn, Winnipeg^ ^ Government appointment Mandate: The Manitoba Chiropractors Association (MCA) is established under The Chiropractic Act. The MCA is the professional regulatory body for the doctors of chiropractic in Manitoba. The practice of chiropractic in Manitoba is governed by The Chiropractic Act and regulations. The Regulatory Board is responsible for protecting the public interest, establishing and enforcing standards of practice and ensuring licensed Manitoba chiropractors provide high quality health care. It develops and set standards of practice to assist chiropractors in delivering safe and effective health care.
@Foodprofessor tweet "Avi Lewis is the new leader of the federal NDP. Congrats to him. As much as I think Mr. Lewis makes Karl Marx look like a capitalist ( he wants Ottawa to get into the grocery business). Part of me is genuinely looking forward to seeing him debate." This 🤡 is not actually a food professor he is an MBA and DBA and is a professor of management