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Amy Johnston, PhD @amydjohn.bsky.social · 16h

I am looking to connect with a qualitative researcher to collaborate on a a study on women's health (Gynecology-related).

Canadian researcher preferred 🇨🇦

#Endometriosis #MedSky #EpiSky

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Alt: Looking Searching GIF

media.tenor.com

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

This is how I want to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 2d

Clearing out my bookmarks folder to prep readings I'll be using in my 300-level Gene Regulation class next semester! We cover a lot of primary "classic" literature in class, with recent accessible science journalism as assigned reading to see how gene regulation is relevant to today's issues. 🧵

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 7d

Dear Ezra Klein, bodily autonomy is not a bargaining chip. What rights are you willing to give up? Let’s see you walk the talk. The burger is on me. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

Dear Ezra Klein, Bodily Autonomy Isn’t a Bargaining Chip

Let's see if you're willing to walk the talk

open.substack.com

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Meaghan Jones @meaghanjones.bsky.social · 14d

CHRIM @chrimanitoba.bsky.social is looking for a new Scientific Director/CEO! Come be part of a growing, vibrant health research institute that is forward looking, deeply interested in community and patient partnerships, and full of great people.

Career Portal

jobs.peoplefirsthr.com

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Meaghan Jones @meaghanjones.bsky.social · 14d

A new article in @knowablemag.bsky.social that highlights some of @levinewediuk.bsky.social's PD work with me and @colingarroway.bsky.social, along with many other efforts to bring epigenetic clocks into conservation efforts.

knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

The clock is ticking: How epigenetics could help save wildlife from collapse

In polar bears, dolphins, baboons and more, molecular signatures of aging are changing how conservationists assess population health, resilience and risk

knowablemagazine.org

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 15d

in retrospect, it was a mistake to teach algebra and geometry but not "statistics for everyone" in high school

we are drowning in lies, partly because we never learned to swim

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 15d

As scientists and educators, we can help our students and their families wrestle with complex issues. I just send this message to my Genetics class, and the relevant link to the study
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

BIOL 220 Autism has known causes and tylenol use is not one of them

Dear Students

One thing we as biologists can do is help our friends and families navigate complex biomedical issues. As we'll discuss later this term, autism is a complex set of different disorders lumped under a single label. 30 years ago its causes were unknown, but as we'll see, remarkable advances in human genetics have given us key insights. We also know, based on experiment, what does NOT cause autism. Large epidemiological studies have been done to test proposed causes. Here is an gold standard example: "Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406

Links to an external site.

We're now at the point where people with very responsible jobs are spreading lies about disease causation. It's our job to counter with facts.

Mark Peifer

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Francis Lynn 🇨🇦 @nictitate.bsky.social · 19d

"Moderna liked Canada because it is a country where 'science is at the forefront.'"

I hope this remains the case @mark-carney.bsky.social

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2109fef...

Moderna to roll out first made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccines this fall

Facilities in Laval, Que., and Cambridge, Ont. producing U.S. drugmaker’s mRNA vaccines

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Canadian Epigenetics @ceehrc.bsky.social · 26d

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Early-bird registration, abstract submission for talk consideration, and travel award application deadline has been extended to FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19!

Abstracts submitted after Sep 19 will be included in poster sessions.

event.fourwaves.com/...
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University of Manitoba Faculty Association @umfa-faum.bsky.social · 22d

Congratulations @dalfaculty.bsky.social! #solidarity

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Dalhousie, faculty association come to tentative agreement | CBC News

The date that classes will resume is expected to be announced later Tuesday.

www.cbc.ca

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 22d

It’s interesting to see a writer list “the worst things” a man has done, and it’s truly a list of horrors, and then blithely say that still, we must get along. You can only do that when you aren’t in anyone’s political crosshairs. Must be nice.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 22d

One of the weirdest arguments out there is that education should be constantly reinvented to chase the immediate, presumed needs of a (monolithic) "job market."

theconversation.com/to-close-its...

To close its productivity gap, Canada needs to rethink its higher education system

Is Canada’s current approach to building human capital fit for the challenges ahead? A new report finds this isn’t the case.

theconversation.com

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CHILD Cohort Study @childcohortstudy.bsky.social · 22d

Using CHILD breastmilk samples, research led by Kate Donald published in PNAS uncovers a new link between maternal IgA, infant gut microbiota composition, and immune development: childstudy.ca/antibodies-i...

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Michael Shaw @shawmp.bsky.social · 26d

Great rally in support of @dalfaculty.bsky.social as they demand a fair deal. @cautdefencefund.bsky.social

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 27d

A Canadian Invention that makes life less stinky

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siddhartha jena @epijenatics.bsky.social · 27d

Excited to share my postdoc work, out on bioRxiv today! Histones package DNA into nucleosomes to form the building blocks of chromatin, but how modular and programmable is this system? 1/9

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29d

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes

Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease

www.science.org

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John Greally @greally.bsky.social · 29d

Superb piece of reporting. We should pay attention to the remedies in particular.

You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

Opinion | You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories

www.nytimes.com

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University of Manitoba @umanitoba.bsky.social · 29d

Today, the Mastercard Foundation announced a $5M gift to UM to sustain and accelerate post-secondary education for Indigenous young people, their families, their communities and beyond. This gift comes as Indigenous student enrolment has grown by 10.7% in one year: news.umanitoba.ca/um-gifted-5-...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29d

Faculty in red states are being punished for failing to signal in their course descriptions that their classes will include content on "gender ideology."

Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"?

www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

www.kbtx.com

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · Sep 5

Faculty and admins should play Freaky Friday at least once in their careers. It’s not easy either way

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · Sep 5

Say a prayer to those poor Europeans, stuck taking fast, reliable transit through their dense and well laid-out cities instead of paying an oligarch $35 for the privilege of sitting in traffic on a 24-lane highway to get to the Chili's out by the interstate

The Economist @economist.com · Sep 5

Will the absence of robotaxis in Europe mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?

Robotaxis will be the Sputnik Moment for a declining Europe

A slow-motion car crash on Europe’s roads

econ.st

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Meaghan Jones @meaghanjones.bsky.social · Sep 4

In this case it was a difference in fields - this person had no background in our area but kept insisting that we were doing it wrong, not that they didn't know the field.

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Meaghan Jones @meaghanjones.bsky.social · Sep 4

Seconded.

Signed, the person who just got a review back repeating a demand that we get "a competent statistician" to review our work.

Never mind that we are experts in the area and did consult with one of the foremost experts in the field on the work, which was clearly laid out in the response.

Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · Sep 4

Apropos of nothing....
Peer-review should be rigorous, not rude.

Critique the work, not the author team.
Explain, don’t sneer.
Build science up, don’t beat the authors down.

Respect in peer-reviews isn’t optional — it’s how good research gets better.

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