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Mathieu Ferron

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Mathieu Ferron Lab @ircm.bsky.social. Prof @umontreal.ca, Montreal, Québec. Vitamin K, bone, beta cell, ER stress and diabetes. Conseiller scientifique du CRCQ.🔬Québécois. https://www.ircm.qc.ca/en/researchers/mathieu-ferron

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 11d

The crowd's mood when a Drosophila biologist presents at a C. elegans conference.

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 16d

Our preprint is now on Research Square!

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Vitamin K-dependent carboxylation in osteoblasts regulates bone resorption through GAS6

Studies in humans suggest that vitamin K is involved in the regulation of bone remodeling, but the precise mechanism at play remains unknown. In cells, vitamin K functions as a co-factor for the g-glu...

www.researchsquare.com

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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 19d

Very very strongly reminded of this @theonion.com piece today:

theonion.com/rogue-scient...

Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method

TALLAHASSEE, FL—Only months after abandoning a tenured position at Lehigh University, maverick chemist Theodore Hapner managed to disprove two of the three laws of thermodynamics and show that gold is...

theonion.com

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 19d

Of course, they don't give a shit. And we already know it.

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 19d

A big study in JAMA last year in which 185 909 children were exposed to acetaminophen during pregnancy. Conclusion: Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children's risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38592388/

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children's Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability - PubMed

Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children's risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests that associations observed in other mo...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 20d

This is great. Iggy is god.

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 20d

Listening to Dead Kennedys right now.

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 21d

I was on a H1B visa while I was finishing my postdoc training in Columbia University in NYC in 2012! If that will be today, I will have to pay 100K$! 🤯

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 22d

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.

One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 23d

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 23d

🎶Je suis anti-Fa, Sol, La, Si, Do... nald! 🎶

Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 23d

Offer Canadian citizenship to Jimmy Kimmel. And get his show back on air on CBC/RC.

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 27d

Félicitations!

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 27d

Also! 😂

Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 28d

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 28d

Quoi? Thèse déposée?

Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 28d

CIHR grant deadline.

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CIRTN-R2FIC @cirtn.bsky.social · 29d

Hello! Welcome to the CIRTN-R2FIC BlueSky account! Our group focuses on researching pancreatic islet biology and pathology related to islets such as type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Here you will find bi-weekly updates from the scientists from across Canada that make up CIRTN-R2FIC.

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · 29d

A milestone has been reached today!

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · Sep 11

🔥New preprint from our lab online!🔥 We describe a new function of the vitamin K-dependent protein GAS6 in osteoclast formation. I will be back soon with more details!

bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · Sep 9

Vitamin K-dependent carboxylation in osteoblasts regulates bone resorption through GAS6 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.673085v1

Reposted by Mathieu Ferron

Vincent Poitout 🇨🇦 @vpoitout.bsky.social · Aug 18

Of mice and men... 🧪
Work by postdoc Laura Reininger in collaboration with @huisinglab.bsky.social and Michelle Kimple. Differences in the regulation of insulin secretion by FFAR4 between mouse and human islets.
@crchum.bsky.social @umontreal-en.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Free fatty acid receptor 4 agonists stimulate insulin secretion via different mechanisms in mouse versus human islets

The free fatty acid receptor FFAR4 is expressed in pancreatic islets, and its activation potentiates insulin and inhibits somatostatin (SST) secretion. We investigated the mechanisms of action of FFAR...

www.biorxiv.org

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · Sep 10

The exact reason why I never read it after submission.

Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · Sep 10

Mood after the CIHR grant marathon.

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · Sep 9

Every September of a researcher life in Canada.

Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · Sep 6

First week of term ✅

CIHR grant ✅

Exhausted ✅

Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · Sep 9

Very insightful review by Dr Patricia Ducy from Columbia University on the endocrine crosstalk between bone and energy metabolism.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two decades into the crosstalk between bone and energy metabolism - Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Aside from a few days around Halloween, the skeleton tends not to have a positive image. However, at least in the biomedical field, this view is changing as bone is now identified as an endocrine orga...

www.nature.com

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Mathieu Ferron @mathieuferron.bsky.social · Sep 8

Un exemple concret de pourquoi la recherche fondamentale est ESSENTIELLE! Des recherches menées pendant des décennies visant à comprendre comment fonctionnent les cellules souches du sang, on permit de developper un traitement pour la leucémie!

www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/09/05/c...

Un miracle québécois: ce jeune homme de 25 ans survit à la leucémie grâce à un médicament révolutionnaire découvert à Montréal

Un jeune patient atteint de leucémie à qui on ne donnait que deux ans à vivre est en rémission grâce à un traitement mis au point à Montréal.

www.journaldemontreal.com

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