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patricklejtenyi
@patricklejtenyi
Advisor, Media Relations and Public Affairs at . Recovering journalist. I know interesting people. Tweets are my own.
MontrealJoined April 2009
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News: NPR becomes first major news org to stop using Twitter, saying that the Elon Musk-owned platform “is taking actions that undermine our credibility.”
“We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility…”
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New #research! Elementary students can learn as much #history from fiction as they can from a textbook, and experience socioemotional growth, according to a study by and Meredyth Dwyer from concordialiteracylab.com
Une étude et Diane Poulin-Dubois montre que les enfants d’âge préscolaire préfèrent apprendre d’un robot compétent que d’un humain incompétent. #robots
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The relationship between #anxiety sensitivity and #drinking is complicated: motivation for heavy drinking influences expectations, and vice versa, according to a new paper by and Roisin O'Connor tinyurl.com/y5rnho4c
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A solid look inside the wild west short-term rental ecosystem that led to last week's horrific Airbnb fire in the Old Port - worth reading to see how dire and lightly regulated it all is, and the consequences of allowing garbage people own valuable property
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SCOOP: Ricochet has identified the man operating illegal short term rentals in the old port building that burned down last week. His name is Tariq Hasan.
Former tenants say landlord Emile-Haim Benamor was converting the building into a pseudo-hotel.
ricochet.media/en/3940/montre #mtl
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This here 👇is how you do an apology when you screw up a pie chart
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Pioneering correction format from @timmcdonnell in our Net Zero newsletter semafor.com/newsletters#ne
Researchers at use #microfluidics to develop a new method of extracting fungal enzymes that can protect crops and humans from bacteria, micro-organisms and other fungus t.ly/BRY26
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Une équipe conçoit des outils pour faciliter la recherche de micro-organismes décomposant les agents pathogènes afin de protéger les #cultures et les humains des bactéries, des micro-organismes et d’autres champignons dangereux #Recherche t.ly/cRPf
So you can lead a bunch of far right goons to bust into an office full of journalists, trash it, threaten them AND get off with no record! Cool, way to protect the free press guys
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L’ex-leader du groupe d’extrême droite Atalante, Raphaël Lévesque, s’en tire sans dossier judiciaire. Il a obtenu l’absolution ce matin en lien avec l’entrée par effraction en 2018 dans les locaux de VICE Québec.
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A better, faster way to build 3D landscape models that can help mitigate natural disasters is coming thanks to @Chararambos and his team of researchers. The technology outlined in the journal t.ly/_JcP #3D #research #technology
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Want to hear more about our #Meat -based #sensor? and Steve are going to discuss it this Sunday on Les Années lumière, part of , between noon and 1 PM (Montréal time). ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere
#cellfree #synbio #diagnostics #genetics
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Rat-human hybrids and #Riopelle prints at the : a new exhibit featuring works by PT instructor Bonnie Baxter and her former collaborator opens this week
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New #research from and the team: body #phenotypes tell us a lot, but not everything, about a person's overall #health t.ly/R3n-
#cardiometabolism #BMI #muscle #adiposity
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Remember #Montreal's Big Flush of 2015? prof argues that for all the poo jokes and outrage, the event holds important lessons about #infrastructure management and affective maintenance
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Cletus Cleter Cletest
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A judge on Thursday handed down the longest prison terms so far in the plot to kidnap Michigan's governor, sentencing three men of providing material support for a terrorist act, which carries a maximum term of 20 years, and two other crimes. ca.news.yahoo.com/3-prison-time-
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New #research from : distributed energy resources - small facilities that generate, store and redistribute energy such as EV chargers or home solar panels - are dangerously vulnerable to #cyberattacks. But we can defend against them. t.ly/6ms0 #CIISE
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New research: Is Canada's criminal court system ready for #AI risk assessments? PhD student Neha Chugh argues not yet, due to biases baked into algorithms that assess a defendant's likelihood to reoffend
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Nouvelle #recherche : le nombre croissant de conteneurs maritimes perdus en mer représente une menace émergente méconnue pour les #écosystèmes marins.
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New #research from 's : the increasing number of #shipping containers lost at sea present an emerging but little studied threat to #marine #ecosystems
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Recent #research from of : histories and novels about the Black Death can teach us a lot about how humans react to #pandemics (spoiler: not great!)
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Well well well: None other than Stephen Colbert referenced a recent study by and about sex robots and the (mostly male) people who like them. See the release here: t.ly/QT_Y
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"Who would use a sex robot?" Big thanks for covering our work on your show again, @StephenAtHome! Always a hoot!
@SciDub11 @ConcordiaVision
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New #research from : Parnian Pourtaherian and Jochen Jaeger study 60 European #cities to investigate whether #greenbelts help mitigate urban sprawl. t.ly/xaln
Our conversation here:
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I'm not much of a photographer but holy hannah did #Angrignon Park ever have some Tolkien vibes this weekend #autumn #nofilter
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New #research from Carmela Cucuzzella of 's Next-Generation Cities Institute: how light rail networks like the can act as anchors for development for polycentric cities
New paper from says the fear of losing control requires a lot more study - a better understanding can have profound effects on treatment strategies #research
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Brutal. What a dingus. Not enough room to describe what a pathetic loser this fan is. Very impressed by staying professional.
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There’s something grimly poetic about being sexually harassed by a man in a hockey jersey while talking about alleged sexual misconduct by hockey players.
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