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

It’s almost time for US x Canada DOHaD Trainee Tuesday! Mark your calendars for September 16th at 12pm CDT for “Developmental Origins of Graduate School,” a workshop presented by Dr. John Krzeczkowski, learn more and find the meeting link here:

1/ I don’t know how to say this without sounding harsh, but I need you to hear it. COVID — or SARS-2 — is not “just another cold.” It doesn’t leave you the same. Every reinfection stacks damage: brain, heart, immune system.

Hot off the press! implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Excited to summarize our most recent paper, "Explicit Scale Simulation for analysis of RNA-sequencing count data with ALDEx2" on controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) when analyzing high throughput sequencing (HTS) data. This has been an open problem since the dawn of HTS.

Calling all health research community members! CIHR-IHDCYH is looking to understand where our work is making a difference & where we can do more. Take our short survey & help shape the future of health research. 🕔 It only takes 5 minutes. 🔗 forms.office.com/r/0Bw7D6CTcW

In our next meet the member of our series, here’s the talented Thaina, who is soon finishing her PhD with us & a proud #teamplacenta member! Thaina hails from 🇧🇷 & has been an amazing mentor to many junior students in our lab over the years! 🙌🏼

Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨ Huge team effort! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

They asked me about spark notes. I proceed to go off on learning theory and cognition.

🌐SRI Global Spotlight🌐 From Valencia, Spain, meet Dr. Sonia Herraiz, who leads cutting-edge research in ovarian rejuvenation & follicle rescue at IVI Foundation. Throughout her career, she authored over 40 scientific papers & presented over 100 lectures in international congresses.

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It’s another Meet the Member Monday. Pleased to introduce you to two recent additions to our team! First up, superstar Adel, whose interest is in translational research as he aims to be a clinician-scientist! He is working on a few projects with us from 🐭 to 🤰🏻metabolomics to a clinical trial.

I can save Carney heaps—start with NFRF, CERC & the global innovation clusters. DON’T touch tricouncil funding. This would be the worst ROI & catastrophic for 🇨🇦’s research, innovation, training & economic development & growth. @liberalca.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social

MBOKO!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🔥🙌🏿🥹🎾

This is a good thread, and widely applicable across academic disciplines. 👇

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[FREE EVENT] Exploring Careers in Implementation: Paths Beyond Academia — The Center for Implementation thecenterforimplementation.com/exploring-ca...

“Increased heat exposure during pregnancy has been linked to a higher risk of several serious health conditions, including hypertension, preeclampsia, cardiac events and gestational diabetes…increased rates of miscarriage, stillbirth and reduced birth weight.” #Pregnancy www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Love seeing the next generation of impact-makers in early life development & lifestyle health! Have a great annual meeting, from me & @dohadcanada.bsky.social ! #DOHaD

This is an incredible cross-disciplinary 🇨🇦 collaboration & invention for improving surgical intervention for spina bifida repair!! 🙌🏻

We're thrilled to announce the Opening Conference of the 13th DOHaD World Congress! Join us in Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷 from September 7–10, 2025 for a powerful session led by Dr. Matthew Gillman (NIH - ECHO) on: “DOHaD Across Disciplines, Generations, and Environments”

Ford is pillaging Ontario's public assets. Next target: our Provincial Parks, starting with 645 acres of Wasaga Beach. This is just another example of the Ford government stepping over Ontarians and handing out public land to private developers. #ONpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Next up in our Meet the Member series… Sadra, who has been with the lab over multiple award-winning research internships & 4th year thesis! He graduated last month, & we wish him well on his journey towards becoming a dentist (& clinician-scientist!) He will soon submit his work for publication🙌🏽

Black Maternal Mental Health Week brings awareness to the mental health challenges Black women face during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. As a community, we must improve screening, address systemic barriers, and advocate for culturally responsive mental health support.

New pics from our lab lunch & social this afternoon. Lucky to work with this amazing crew & have this incredible bit of nature at our doorstep! 🙏🏻to all the newcomers for taking a chance on the lab (& me)! 🍀to all those leaving for new adventures & 🔮to a great next year with those still here!

The SOGC’s recent participation in the 2025 pre-budget submission was featured in the @ottawacitizen.com. It reported on all 5 of the SOGC’s recommendations, including a National Women’s Health Data Dashboard to close the gap in women’s health. Read more: ottawacitizen.com/news/federal... 1/2

Through @biomednews.bsky.social, I started curating a list of papers in placenta cell biology and related fields! #PlacentaCellBio biomed.news/bims-placeb/... I found Myriam Hemberger's latest article to be the highlight of the week: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40660370/ Enjoy!

Breastfeeding a preterm baby is not only possible—it’s powerful. In honour of World Breastfeeding Week, join us for a special Preemie Chat focused on the incredible role of human milk in preterm baby care. Save the date, bring your questions, and join us live on YouTube, X and Facebook!

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

Next, meet Alissa, who is a talented analyst in our Health: Science, Technology & Policy MSc programme, learning about trials in women’s & reproductive health!

Working on some new ways to showcase the awesome people in the lab! Here’s our Meet the Member series! 1st up, the talented Ada, who received a health sci research award to join us this summer & will be back in Sept for her 4th yr thesis to look at diet & intersectional factors in iron deficiency!

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

🧵 to read from the top This destruction of health, research/scientific enterprise, Indigenous services, & more…all to pay for massive *military* investments… is NOT what 🇨🇦s voted for. #CarneysCuts are crap

Thanks to CIHR for supporting our work on iron deficiency in women in Benin 🇧🇯 through priority announcement funding on sex & gender equity in priority populations. Thanks also to reviewers for their feedback & recognition of this multi-year collaboration across sectors. See you again soon 🫡😉

Congrats to Dr. Rae Yeung, who has been appointed Scientific Director of CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health & Arthritis! 👶🏽Amazing to see another early life health researcher in a key leadership role in 🇨🇦!! www.canada.ca/en/institute...

👂🏼Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH) needs to hear from its research community! Please fill out this short survey to help IHDCYH plan the next few years!

It was wonderful to see the NEJM paper today about healthy babies born free of mtDNA disease following mitochondrial donation. Built on decades of work led by Doug Turnbull and his team in Newcastle. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....