Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈
Canadian Prof & Interdisciplinary Researcher: public health & ecological risk assessment, community-engaged software design, pedagogy, digital divide. He/Him. #2SLGBTQIAPlusInSTEM
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- Not enough boos, to be honest.
- Gawd damn - Andrea Bocelli - stunning. #Olympics
- Reposted by Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
- My Morning Ritual Cheers to slow mornings.
- Go, Canada Go! #Olympics
- Democracy has left the building.
- I'm not a member, but I also support this.
- Gander If you're testing out Gander, say hi. I'm *honking* with the handle @DrDanielGillis.
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- Reposted by Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈Canadian COVID Forecast Jan 31 - Feb 13, 2026 CANADA VERY HIGH [no change] About 1 of every 122 people is infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections: 11.0 x higher -Long COVID: 6.3 x higher -Hospitalizations: 13.4 x higher -Deaths: 14.9 x higher
- Reposted by Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈This is a post about animal excrement and the English language. bull$#!% = nonsense/lies chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly horse$#!% = nonsense/lies dog$#!%= low quality ape$#!% = wild bat$#!%= crazy Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).
- The Push Up Challenge! Help me raise money for the Canadian Mental Health Association.
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- Reposted by Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈Let's all take a moment to stop and drink a toast to the wonderfulness and luminosity of Catherine O'Hara. Here's to her.
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- I’m not sure how much notice this has received but the Assembly of First Nations in Canada has issued a travel advisory for the United States after reports that Indigenous people are being increasingly questioned and detained by ICE. www.instagram.com/p/DT-_SacDEH...
- Reposted by Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈Reminder
- Worth a listen.
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- "Rather than heed...warning, Russia, China, the USA...have instead become increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic...the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science & Security Board today sets the Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to catastrophe"
- Sorry, not sorry. Nazis do not get any sympathy from me. #FAFO
- Would love to see this happen here as well.
- More please.
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- Executed. They executed someone.
- Rogue nation.
- Nope.
- When I think of my experience as an interdisciplinary researcher & supports available from Canada's Tri-Council funding agencies, it feels like this: Not quite NSERC, go to SSHRC or CIHR. Not quite SSHRC, go to CIHR or NSERC. Not quite CIHR, go to NSERC or SSHRC. It leaves me dizzy. #Research
- Rogue nation.
- I’m trying to come up with a more eloquent way to say this, but all I have is “fuck this narcissistic festering cesspool”.
- The stupidest timeline.
- This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- Four simple words.
- Sooooo, if someone walks all the way to campus (~25 minutes) in -17C weather, and only realizes once they get to campus that they left their computer bag (containing their laptop) at home, can that someone call it a day and just go home? Asking for a friend. ;)

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- Reposted by Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈“COVID-19 was associated with a 49% increased risk of new-onset autoimmune-related diseases” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41452424/
- Timeline update: the stupidest timeline and the bat shit craziest timeline are officially indistinguishable.
- Reposted by Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈For those of you looking to follow some more queer scholar-activists in 2026, check out this starter pack with many fabulous folks. ✊🏾🌈at://did:plc:2nsrap435xzcgzjh443bngcw/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3latgtj25j72h
- Reposted by Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
- Just look at this beauty! #TimelineCleanse
- A Partial Disaster Water, water, everywhere.
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- We are living in the stupidest timeline.
- This would also hold if Iranian and Iran were replaced with American and the United States of America, respectively.
- This.
- Yes.
- An Academic Year In Review Reflecting on what happened and what didn't happen last year.
- The Year That Could Be New year, new goals...
- *2025
- The Year That Was Reflecting on the goals of 2024 because it's that time of the year.
- The Recipes of 2025 Another year in the kitchen!
- The Movies Of 2025 It's movie time!
- My Favourite Books Of 2025 In case you're looking for something to read, these are my favourite reads of 2025.
- The Books Of 2025 So many books, so little time.
- Good grief. What could possibly go wrong? 🤦♂️