Too true.

Good 🧵and new paper worth reading.

It’s a good day to talk about women scientists. Let’s also remember Margaret W. Rossiter, who died in August of this year. She coined the “Matilda Effect” (named after suffragist Matilda Gage), which describes bias against acknowledging women’s achievements.

When DNA’s structure was in doubt & suspecting his competitor Rosalind Franklin knew more, James Watson goaded her, and Watson’s own memoir describes this in unbelievable condescension (he called her “Rosy” “Medusa” “Loathely Lady” “Wicked Witch of the West”, criticized her clothes as unattractive)

Support the @womenshealthmcgill.bsky.social students😊. Share with your networks. Join in Monday November 10, 09:00-10:30 to see their posts. Then come back for the YouTube link to view the event. #WomenLead #Equity.

This is still surely to be an issue—even with aggregated/de-identified data. Instead of the easy & reasonable solution of having say, CIHR analyse the data for the committee based on the Qs they want answered, ensuring privacy and accuracy, some unknown/unskilled person or tool will go fishing! 🚨

The 🇨🇦 Standing Committee on Science and Research passed a modified resolution this afternoon that the requested ricouncil applicant and reviewer data can be aggregated and anonymized. Thanks to the many researchers who signed letters pointing out legitimate data privacy concerns. 👏👏

The Canadian government has seemingly never read a single one of its own commissioned reports on what Canadian science needs. (It's not more people.)

Firstly, those MPs need some time for deep reflection. Secondly, Dr. Hébert is correct, the challenge in Canada is lack of research funding not lack of great researchers. Fund the people we have, reap the rewards.

What a game, series! 💙Thank you Blue Jays! 💙

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. shows up to Game 7 in a Marie-Phillip Poulin jersey, the captain of the Canada women’s national ice hockey team

Forcing funders to betray reviewers and applicants by disclosing disaggregated personal and confidential information serves no legitimate purpose. This is an abuse of parliamentary authority that will deeply undermine Canadian science.

🚨Critical BREACH OF PRIVACY🚨 and trust for any 🇨🇦 researcher (trainees to PIs) who have been involved with ANY grant or scholarship submission (or their review!!!) to ANY of the TriCouncils (CIHR NSERC SSHRC) in the last 20 years! Also see this petition & thread 👇🏻 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

BLUE JAYS WIN!! 🥳🥳🥳

Interestingly, #drugs for the nervous system (antidepressants/antipsychotics) stand out: #SSRI/ #SNRI/ #TCA push the gut #microbiome into alternate states, lowering functional redundancy(lower capacity to respond) and ramping up antimicrobial-resistance proteins. @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

PAN Members! It's not too late to register for this informative webinar. Not a PAN member yet? It's FREE! Connect to the link below and join us today! Members check your email or connect to the webinar page on our website! patientadvisors.ca

Saw this art posted on FB & wanted to share it. Indigenous Blue Jays logo (made by Kory Parkin/@paintsbyparkin) #LetsGoBlueJays !

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⭐SRI 2026 Mini-Symposia Spotlight⭐ Join these speakers at #SRI2026 for an exciting session exploring precision medicine in OBGYN, IVF prediction via microbiome, endometrial resistance, single-cell insights into cervical function & much more! Learn more➡️ www.sri-online.org/events/2026

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Today is Persons Day. This day honours The Persons Case, which ended in a victory for The Famous Five on Oct. 18, 1929. The ruling declared women to be persons under the law and qualified to sit in the Senate. This is the story of that case. 🧵 1/12

“We are not protecting people from research, but we are working on ways to protect people ✨through✨ research.” Increased global efforts to include—not exclude—pregnant people, the paediatric population, & equity-denied groups in clinical trials means better health & human capital for everyone. 🙌🏾

Excited to see this international FIGO event coming to us! Oh Canada :) #FIGO2027 #ObGynSky #WomensHealth #CanadaSky

Super excited to announce the launch of the PhD subspecialization program in genetic & genomic counseling at @ubcmedicine.bsky.social - it's open to applications! All details including contact information for any questions is available here: medgen.med.ubc.ca/graduate-pro... Please share widely!

📣Tomorrow is International #DayoftheGirl & 30 years since the Beijing Declaration on advancing equity, development & peace for all women & girls 📈We must scale investment in girls — including through research, health, education & empowerment- -a commitment we make in our lab #GenerationEquality

Event happening tonight! How do we rebuild trust in science when it feels hardest to earn? Join RCIScience & @gairdnerawards.bsky.social for Trust Issues: Science, Skepticism & Showing Up ⏰ 7–8:30 PM 📍 SEARS Atrium, Toronto 🔗Free tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/trust-issu...

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! 🏆💪🏾

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

🐜The ant holobiont as a key ingredient to your yogurt? ✨Fermentation is Fascinating✨ Check out this new paper!

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."

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

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

🩸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

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!

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 🌿

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.

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

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-...

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!

Data bias is not new so why would we expect different from AI? Just another place for #healthgaps & #inequities to grow and do harm

"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...

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...

DOHaD Canada hosted a fruitful and engaging mini symposium at the 13th World Congress of DOHaD, entitled “Translation and Advocacy: Putting DOHaD Research into Action,” featuring special guests, Drs. Jacquie Bay (University of Auckland) and Kent Thornburg (OHSU). Thank you to all who attended.

 Congratulations to Lucas Cardoso for his oral presentation at DOHaD 2025–one of our DOHaD Canada travel award winners! #DOHAD2025

 Strong showing from the Connor Lab at DOHaD 2025 - great work on adverse dietary exposures on maternal gut function, and knowledge graphs to uncover new DOHaD evidence! Good job Lucas and Miguel!

⏰ Just a few days left! The CIHR IHDCYH survey closes Sept 15. As Scientific Director, I want to hear from you. Your input will shape our priorities to improve the health of children, youth & families. #BetterBeginnings #VibrantChildhoods #EmpoweredYouth #Research #IHDCYH

Thanking past me for purposely setting my grant margins too wide so that when I have all sections done, but I’m way over page limit, I actually don’t have to cut much when I set the proper margins! Hallelujah! With a click of a button it magically all fits! 😅

Do we really need to do research specifically on women's health? The REBOOT trial finds beta-blockers - a standard therapy for heart attacks - causes harm in women, but not men. Yes. The answer is yes. academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ar...

Pls share - our Seminar Series is back! Join us on Sept 11, 12:00-1:00pm EST. Aunima Bhuiya will present "Quality is in the eye of the beholder: Exploring the quality of #KnowledgeTranslation and #ImplementationScience practice tools". Register here! bit.ly/4oSAbBE #ImpSci