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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been reading more and more issues about Wiley and their forced AI.

(See below and here: bsky.app/profile/andy...)

All reasons to avoid the publisher, though I suspect others will follow suit soon.

What do we do?!

Mohammad Hosseini @mhmdhsini.bsky.social · 14d

I submitted a paper to a Wiley journal recently (accepted with minor revisions). When resubmitting, the platform forces me to accept a new term before proceeding, to allow the publisher to use my paper to train their #AI. This is NOT real #consent nor a fair contractual term. #publication_ethics

Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Wait till you tell them about ditto machines!
The amount of alcohol/fumes we were exposed to on the regular at school using these was 👀😆
But oh to be chosen to turn the crank and make copies 🙌🏻

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Next, we have Madeline, who is undertaking an MSc to co-create Libraries of Lived Experience, as part of a Mitacs-partnered project with BCCHRI in Vancouver!

Mady has also been awarded a Patient Oriented Research (POR) fellowship with PASSERELLE, the national training entity for POR! 🎉

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 2d

It’s Monday! Which means it’s time for another
Meet the Member series!

First, Miguel, who hails from 🇨🇴&🇦🇷
I have the pleasure of co-supervising Miguel for his PhD on lifecycle health promotion & prediction tools.

He’s been recognised by the 🇨🇦 gov’t as an emerging leader in the Americas! 🏆💪🏾

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 2d

Exercising fathers, enhanced endurance and metabolic heath in offspring, through sperm microRNAs (as demonstrated in mice)
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

Paternal exercise confers endurance capacity to offspring through sperm microRNAs

Yin et al. show that paternal exercise improves offspring endurance capacity and metabolic health via sperm microRNAs that reprogram gene expression in early embryos, revealing how exercise benefits c...

www.cell.com

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 5d

🐜The ant holobiont as a key ingredient to your yogurt?

✨Fermentation is Fascinating✨

Check out this new paper!

Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 5d

Making #yogurt with ants from a nearly forgotten Bulgarian recipe. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

@cp-iscience.bsky.social
Veronica M. Sinotte, Leonie J. Jahn & colleagues

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats to you both! Major milestone! (And you both look so happy!)
🎉👏🍾

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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DOHaD Canada @dohadcanada.bsky.social · 9d

On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, September 30th, DOHaD Canada honours Survivors, their families and the children who never returned home. We reaffirm our commitment to reflection, education, and meaningful action toward reconciliation. Read our statement: www.dohad.ca
#NDTR2025

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 11d

Key read (from the top!) on the insidious infiltration of genAI into education/higher ed & the enshittification in the sector that follows

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 12d

OpenAI's rapid rush into education has been achieved by habituating users through training programs, institutional lock-ins, strategic marketing partnerships, and third party integrations that together are helping it become infrastructural to teaching and learning. It's going to be hard to get out.

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 11d

👀👀

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 11d

This is Brad Pitt!

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 12d

🩸The work continues w
Alliance Against Iron Deficiency & experts-by-experience
to co-design improved, gender-specific implementation strategies for prevention & treatment of ID for women & girls in Benin🇧🇯

🙌🏾 Tech & shared purpose bring us together to solve great challenges

tinyurl.com/2dmr7npw

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CHRIManitoba @chrimanitoba.bsky.social · 13d

We are pleased to share that CHRIM is seeking our next CEO/Scientific Director! If you want to join a unique environment where collaboration sparks innovation, see the full job posting here: tinyurl.com/3dkcsdmh

Please feel free to share this job posting with your networks!

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thesouloftheearth.bsky.social @thesouloftheearth.bsky.social · 13d

Women grow 70% of food worldwide, mostly on small farms . But they don’t have the same access to resources and rights as men do. With that access (@projectdrawdown.bsky.social solution #62) their yield would rise by up to 30%, limiting deforestation for more land.

shorturl.at/QunEs
#climate 🌿

Permaculture promises peace, food, increased equality in Kenyan county

BARINGO, Kenya — Salina Chepsat and a neighbor are loading tomatoes into a vehicle in the scorching midday heat. Chepsat picked the produce earlier that morning from her farm in the remote village of ...

shorturl.at

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats again!!
And great shoes!!

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 16d

Congrats!!!!! 🎉🎉

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AEProbio @aeprobio.bsky.social · 16d

In case you missed it! Author of the Probiotic Guide, Dragana Skokovic-Sunjic, contributed to Health Insight’s “Exploring the Gut & Microbiome” series. The article “Gut Check: AEProbio’s Guide to Probiotics” defines probiotics, clears up popular myths, & explains the importance of evidence.

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ACOG @acog.org · 16d

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 19d

Vaccines don't cause birth defects and that includes COVID vaccines.

And thanks to Carol Hayes of American College of Nurse Midwives for speaking up at the ACIP meeting

vikilovesfacs.bsky.social feel free to add more - #IDSky + #MedSky.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/no-...

No increase in birth defects found following COVID vaccination in pregnancy

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 19d

Indeed great article.
Missing out on folic acid (FA) is dangerous—there’s a reason why prenatal supplementation w FA & wide-scale fortification of flours have been public health wins—they reduce NTDs!
Don’t get your prenatal/preg health info from a tradwife or company selling untested alternatives!

Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 19d

Great article in The Cut on designer prenatal vitamins and how companies are making bank by influencers peddling unproven folate www.thecut.com/article/fola...

Your Prenatal Vitamin Might Be Missing an Essential Ingredient

Trendy brands are selling supplements that are missing the one ingredient shown to prevent major birth defects.

www.thecut.com

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 19d

Data bias is not new so why would we expect different from AI?

Just another place for #healthgaps & #inequities to grow and do harm

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 20d

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities - on.ft.com/3IuZ5qz via @FT

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities

Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients

on.ft.com

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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 20d

"The NICHD, which receives 4% of the total NIH budget, spent approximately 11% of its budget over the last decade on women’s health research unrelated to maternal-child health."

That's <0.5% of the budget for women's health outside of reproduction.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

To Improve Health in the United States, Focus on Women

This Viewpoint discusses the dearth of women’s health research at the National Institutes of Health and proposes investment in a national chronic disease research agenda that promotes the science of g...

jamanetwork.com

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Claire Richards @clairerich.bsky.social · 24d

I made the world’s first bioprinted placenta organoids (mini placentas) and they’ve just been published in @natureportfolio.nature.com

We found that the matrix environment chosen for these organoids was critical to how they grew and developed 🤰

idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

Matrix directs trophoblast differentiation in a bioprinted organoid model of early placental development - Nature Communications

The placenta plays vital roles in supporting fetal development. Here, Richards et al. develop a high-throughput bioprinted trophoblast organoid model to recapitulate the microenvironment of the e...

idp.nature.com

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 24d

Congrats!! 🎉🎉
Can’t wait to tuck into this later this week.

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