Samar Saneinejad
@samsanei.bsky.social
🇨🇦Research Strategy & Commercialization @ Unity Health Toronto.🇨🇦
Join us virtually at our next Health, Equity, & Research Talks (HEaRT) webinar tomorrow Dec 12th at noon; "Sex & Gender in Organ Injury and Repair: Proper Care or Propaganda?" with Dr. Sofia Ahmed. Open to all with registration. @unityhealthto.bsky.social @utoronto.ca #academicsky shorturl.at/UJTVc
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Health, Equity and Research Talks (HEaRT): Sex & Gender in Organ Injury and Repair - Proper Care or Propaganda?. After registering, you will receive a confi...
Understanding how sex and gender influence health is essential to advancing equitable care and research. Yet, discussions in this area can spark debate and misunderstanding. This HEaRT lecture invites...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Join us virtually at our next Health, Equity, & Research Talks (HEaRT) webinar tomorrow Dec 12th at noon; "Sex & Gender in Organ Injury and Repair: Proper Care or Propaganda?" with Dr. Sofia Ahmed. Open to all with registration. @unityhealthto.bsky.social @utoronto.ca #academicsky shorturl.at/UJTVc
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December 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The best $$ I've spent this year. Local journalism matters and The Local continuously delivers exceptional and timely (and very well written!) articles.
Researchers, consider this series as part of your professional development activity - it's a great series and 100% of those who took it last year, said they'd recommend it to research colleagues.
Register for the Driving Change in Healthcare: Equitable Research in Action workshop series. This series is designed to empower researchers with the knowledge and tools to incorporate equity, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism principles into their work. centreforfacdev.ca/workshop-cat...
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Researchers, consider this series as part of your professional development activity - it's a great series and 100% of those who took it last year, said they'd recommend it to research colleagues.
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"A new study of Canada’s science, technology and innovation (STI) landscape warns that the country’s future is under threat as it falls further behind its international counterparts in the world of research and development."
universityaffairs.ca/news/canada-...
universityaffairs.ca/news/canada-...
Canada falling behind in R&D, report warns - University Affairs
Universities provide one of the few bright spots, according to the Council of Canadian Academies.
universityaffairs.ca
December 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"A new study of Canada’s science, technology and innovation (STI) landscape warns that the country’s future is under threat as it falls further behind its international counterparts in the world of research and development."
universityaffairs.ca/news/canada-...
universityaffairs.ca/news/canada-...
Surely the Tricouncils have a data governance policy that would prohibit the release of confidential and private applicant information, would they not?
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
November 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Surely the Tricouncils have a data governance policy that would prohibit the release of confidential and private applicant information, would they not?
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Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
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This is what happens when governments attack science and academia... we lose the next generation of scholars
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This is what happens when governments attack science and academia... we lose the next generation of scholars
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
This in-person symposium on #ResearchIntegrity is open to all @utoronto.ca and @tahsnetwork.bsky.social members. Registration (free) is required. #AcademicSky
Register now for the Research Integrity Symposium — Wednesday, October 1, 2025, (8:30am-1:00pm) at Allan Waters Auditorium, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute.
September 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This in-person symposium on #ResearchIntegrity is open to all @utoronto.ca and @tahsnetwork.bsky.social members. Registration (free) is required. #AcademicSky
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WE'RE HIRING an experienced Project Manager II to lead the coordination, implementation, and operational oversight of the PREPARED initiative (Pandemic Preparedness Engaging Primary Care and Emergency Departments). Apply by Aug. 5: gen-ezjf9k52wb5ac52e-prd.tam.ca1.inforcloudsuite.com/hcm/xmlhttp/...
July 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
WE'RE HIRING an experienced Project Manager II to lead the coordination, implementation, and operational oversight of the PREPARED initiative (Pandemic Preparedness Engaging Primary Care and Emergency Departments). Apply by Aug. 5: gen-ezjf9k52wb5ac52e-prd.tam.ca1.inforcloudsuite.com/hcm/xmlhttp/...
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Equality Diversity Inclusivity: good for science. Via @chrischirp.bsky.social
#academicsky 🧪
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#academicsky 🧪
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Why and how academic medicine must champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility
US President Donald Trump has launched a series of Executive Actions1 to dismantle
diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts; defund scientific research;
and freeze federal funds and pro...
www.thelancet.com
June 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Equality Diversity Inclusivity: good for science. Via @chrischirp.bsky.social
#academicsky 🧪
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#academicsky 🧪
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Please join @unityhealthto.bsky.social at our next Health Equity & Research Talks (HEaRT) on June 10th, titled "Practical Ways of Advancing Equity in Research - From Design to Dissemination". The webinar is open to all (with registration). Link to register: ca01web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Please join @unityhealthto.bsky.social at our next Health Equity & Research Talks (HEaRT) on June 10th, titled "Practical Ways of Advancing Equity in Research - From Design to Dissemination". The webinar is open to all (with registration). Link to register: ca01web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Please join @unityhealthto.bsky.social at our next Health Equity & Research Talks (HEaRT) on June 10th, titled "Practical Ways of Advancing Equity in Research - From Design to Dissemination". The webinar is open to all (with registration). Link to register: ca01web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Please join @unityhealthto.bsky.social at our next Health Equity & Research Talks (HEaRT) on June 10th, titled "Practical Ways of Advancing Equity in Research - From Design to Dissemination". The webinar is open to all (with registration). Link to register: ca01web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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The Conversation Weekly podcast spoke with Sunghee Lee & @bradytwest.bsky.social about having their funding by the Trump administration, calling it confusing and opaque. myumi.ch/bVE57
Three scientists speak about what it’s like to have research funding cut by the Trump administration
Stories from the front line of the US government’s attack on federal science funding. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
myumi.ch
May 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The Conversation Weekly podcast spoke with Sunghee Lee & @bradytwest.bsky.social about having their funding by the Trump administration, calling it confusing and opaque. myumi.ch/bVE57
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It’s been so heartbreaking to see what’s happening to research in the US. Now it’s also going to be heartbreaking to see irreplaceable international studies get damaged.
International studies are often the biggest of the big deals in health research. They produce so much useful knowledge.
International studies are often the biggest of the big deals in health research. They produce so much useful knowledge.
NIH is ending billions of dollars in foreign subawards, jeopardizing thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.
Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.
Exclusive: NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants
Move by US biomedical agency jeopardizes thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
It’s been so heartbreaking to see what’s happening to research in the US. Now it’s also going to be heartbreaking to see irreplaceable international studies get damaged.
International studies are often the biggest of the big deals in health research. They produce so much useful knowledge.
International studies are often the biggest of the big deals in health research. They produce so much useful knowledge.
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VANCOUVER – The University of British Columbia has briefly reopened admissions for its graduate programs to take applications from U.S. citizens in what is a growing trend for Canadian institutions as the American president denigrates higher learning.
U.S. students look north as Trump freezes funding to American universities
VANCOUVER – The University of British Columbia has briefly reopened admissions for its graduate programs to take applications from U.S. citizens in what is a growing trend for Canadian institutions as the American president denigrates higher learning.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
VANCOUVER – The University of British Columbia has briefly reopened admissions for its graduate programs to take applications from U.S. citizens in what is a growing trend for Canadian institutions as the American president denigrates higher learning.
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It is so amazing to see that over 800 people so far have signed on to this open letter from Canadian researchers to the federal party leaders! So many incredible people who do such amazing research docs.google.com/document/d/1...
National Letter
Open Letter from Canadian Researchers to the Federal party leaders Click here to sign this letter See who has signed - version française se trouve à page 3 - Dear Party Leaders We, the undersigne...
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April 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
It is so amazing to see that over 800 people so far have signed on to this open letter from Canadian researchers to the federal party leaders! So many incredible people who do such amazing research docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
If this is being broadly circulated (unsure if it is), then it's important for Canadian researchers to be aware. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Trump administration asks Canadian researchers to detail work on DEI, climate, raising ‘not so subtle’ funding concerns
The questionnaire sent to Canadian researchers is fueling fears that U.S. funding could be tied to conforming to political policies and ideology.
www.thestar.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
If this is being broadly circulated (unsure if it is), then it's important for Canadian researchers to be aware. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are considering leaving the country in the wake of widespread disruption to research brought in by the Trump administration
Are you thinking about leaving?
https://go.nature.com/424ejK8
Are you thinking about leaving?
https://go.nature.com/424ejK8
These frustrated scientists want to leave the United States – do you? Take Nature’s poll
In the wake of the Trump administration’s funding freezes and job cuts, some researchers are planning their next move.
go.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are considering leaving the country in the wake of widespread disruption to research brought in by the Trump administration
Are you thinking about leaving?
https://go.nature.com/424ejK8
Are you thinking about leaving?
https://go.nature.com/424ejK8
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Not enough to cut funding. Now a list of over 20 health and life science topics that cannot be published by National Cancer Institute scientists without "oversight" (i.e. censorship).
NEW: Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism.
Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @lisalsong.bsky.social
Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @lisalsong.bsky.social
National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval
Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
propub.li
March 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Not enough to cut funding. Now a list of over 20 health and life science topics that cannot be published by National Cancer Institute scientists without "oversight" (i.e. censorship).
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Given the enormous proven advantages and still untapped potential of RNA based vaccines (and other RNA directed therapies) this hands over the next generation of breakthroughs to any country not led by a backward, recidivist leader.
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines. www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines
Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.science.org
March 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Given the enormous proven advantages and still untapped potential of RNA based vaccines (and other RNA directed therapies) this hands over the next generation of breakthroughs to any country not led by a backward, recidivist leader.
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Thrilled to see the momentum for RRA in Canada! 🎉 Register for "Responsible research assessment: Creating a Canadian community of practice", taking place on April 7th, 2025, from 12 - 1:30pm EST online: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ce249c... organized by Canadian Reproducibility Network (CaRN)
March 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Thrilled to see the momentum for RRA in Canada! 🎉 Register for "Responsible research assessment: Creating a Canadian community of practice", taking place on April 7th, 2025, from 12 - 1:30pm EST online: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ce249c... organized by Canadian Reproducibility Network (CaRN)
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“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
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March 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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