CommunauDT1: un espace d'échange pour mieux vivre avec le #diabète de type 1 Holly Witteman

Attn: Canadian researchers/ If you are looking for text/arguments to mix-n-match in a letter to your MP, the committee, Ministers, etc.. here is some. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

How to Communicate Medical Numbers-a @jama.com Insight from @angiefagerlin.bsky.social @athorpe8.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social, @bzikmund.bsky.social @umich.edu Read and listen to the podcast for useful tips and tools that could improve patient health+lives. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science. Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024. Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

This is a nice study showing that out-of-pocket costs for diabetes technologies are associated with worse HbA1c levels. I wish there were more granular data on actual costs and affordability instead of just bucketing 'reimbursed' vs 'not reimbursed.' jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Are you living in Canada with #type1diabetes (yourself or a loved one)? You are not alone … find your #T1D community at communiT1D.ca! Vivez-vous au Canada avec un #diabètedetype1 (vous-même ou un(e) proche)? Vous n'êtes pas seul(e) ... trouvez votre communauté du #DT1 au communauDT1.ca!

Women are disproportionately affected by #irondeficiency & #anaemia We undertook a comprehensive review of 🔑 role of iron in women's health across the lifespan ✅ factors affecting iron bioavailability, ID/IDA 🚫 limitations of interventions 🙋🏽‍♀️need 4 better diagnosis & acceptable treatments 4 women

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

Happy World Bicycle Day.

Downside of working in diabetes research as a person with diabetes, a running list: 1. I now have to attend conferences whose taglines might as well be, “67 reasons your life sucks & 12 ways you could die soon.” 2. I cannot seem to bring myself to refuse requests to review from diabetes charities.

great work by @ellenpeters.bsky.social et al. Best practices include communicating with numbers; decreasing cognitive effort; providing meaning of numeric risk data; acknowledging uncertainty; testing communication through teach-back. #medsky pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40301218/

Latest WMO decadal update is available: - 80% chance that at least one of the next five years will exceed 2024 as the warmest on record - 70% chance that 5-year average warming for 2025-2029 will be more than 1.5 °C wmo.int/publication-...

New Forbes story about the economic consequences of science cuts. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... Thoughtful and thorough analysis. 1/n

Lunchtime at the ULaval botanical gardens. (Roger van den Hende gardens.)

Congratulations to our co-president, Dr. Kristin Connor (@kconnor.bsky.social), for being awarded the Nick Hales Award by the International DOHaD Society. #DOHaD2025

"When we buy something, we don't pay for it with money, we pay for it with the time we had to spend to get that money. Remember that everything can be bought, except time/life." Pepe Mujica (1935-2025)

Loved the chat with @tarakiran.bsky.social about what we can learn from public schools to deal with the #familydoctorshortage & managed to squeeze in a reference to the idea of thick v. thin relationships that I learned from reading @deanspade.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Fact: Years after a measles outbreak, some people may develop a rare brain infection called SSPE. It is almost always fatal. If you go looking, you can find many new stories about it. But for the most part, it's a quiet harm most people never even hear about.

The US has cut the equivalent of 3X the total annual CIHR budget so far this year, revealing both how low the CIHR budget is and how utterly draconian the White House has treated one of the most precious and successful institutions the US has ever built.

I really hate the trend of academics planning studies in which they interview other academics about their area of expertise and keep interviews confidential & anonymous without letting the interviewees have a say in that. 🧵

1/My faith in humanity was boosted this week.

Packing for a work trip: I am grateful to have diabetes tech, but oh my goodness so many things now have their own proprietary charging cord and/or battery type, so a person who packs alllll the backups (hi) travels with a lot of medical supplies.

+1000. A small clarification: please ask for the specific paper you’re seeking. I had a viral tweet about this years ago and, to this day, I occasionally get people emailing me to ask for my “papers” without specifying which one(s).

It's difficult to overstate the impact that US science funding and institutions have on science globally. This is devastating no matter where you are.

Remember when you could just run an errand, without a phone call two days in advance asking you to confirm, a text message the day before asking you to confirm, and and endless escalating series of messages afterward demanding your participation in a customer satisfaction survey?

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.

Sad to hear that Dr. Henry Friesen, who had a transformative influence on health research in Canada, has died at age 90. He discovered the hormone prolactin and founded the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, among his many accomplishments. www.cdnmedhall.ca/laureates/he...

With all sincerity, Elections Canada is a national treasure. - Voting typically takes less than 15 minutes - We make it easy for citizens to vote, without cumbersome registration hurdles - We have every reason to trust that ballots will be counted fairly, and results reported swiftly

Note to self: they need to put something to fill time on the election coverage tv show. It does not necessarily mean they are statistically illiterate when they report that so-and-so is “leading” based on a single-digit vote difference with 1/200ish polls reporting. 🧘

Voted! 🇨🇦 It took longer than usual this year (35 minutes door to door, on foot, versus the usual 15.) I went with the opening hours crowd because I have meetings today and won’t have time later, so maybe it’s just the morning rush, but I’m hoping it’s a sign of high turnout.

What an absolutely gorgeous goal by Abdu. #RosesFC

Reminder to Canadian scientists who'd like to sign this open letter to party leaders to increase tricouncil funding. It has over 1800 signatures and you can still add to it (link is in the PDF). acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

Hey Canadian scientists who haven't voted yet, here's a comparison of the costed platforms as they pertain to science prepared by the Canadian Society of Molecular Biosciences: csmb-scbm.ca/wp-content/u...

📣 Join the CanScreen #T1D Community Engagement Network! Help shape Canada’s 1st screening program for Type 1 Diabetes risk in kids. We’re seeking diverse voices—parents, caregivers, lived experience, and more. 💬🧬 Learn more: canscreent1d.ca/community-en... #Type1Diabetes #CommunityEngagement

Commercial or DIY artificial pancreas: what’s the best choice for T1D? A new study compared the effectiveness, safety, and user experience of two types of systems: commercials vs. DIY. 💡 Check out our latest blog to learn more about the study findings! #wearenotwaiting #DIYAID #type1diabetes #T1D

Our newest collab with @whrcluster.bsky.social : funding levels for 🇨🇦 women’s health research at CIHR is still ~7% with ~60% going to breast & gyne cancers or pregnancy research. Women’s health is more than 👙 medicine. Top GBD for women has low funding across 13 y. More after it finds a home

In the nearly 13 years I’ve lived in Québec City (capital of Québec, the province that nearly separated from Canada thirty years ago) I had never, ever received a flyer from a local business advertising their Canadian-ness … until today. It’s weird times in Québec.

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...

Terrible development and I sympathize with the researchers’ efforts to adjust to save the program. But I don’t think their proposed changes are compatible with Canada’s Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. 1/ www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Too many politicians in Canada seem to believe that scientific success is 100% about recruiting smart, capable people. That’s important, but it’s only part of it. Just because tomato plants flourish in the sun next door doesn’t mean you can grow transplanted tomatoes in depleted soil & full shade.

🔊Share widely! Were looking for a Tier 2 CRC in Human Metabolic Disease! Just posted but hurry as app deadline is May 15! Got expertise in #obesity or #diabetes and are an emerging expert in your field? Apply now!!!! carleton.ca/deputyprovos...

Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great

A good thing I did for my mental health last year was signing up for a weekly newsletter from fixthenews.com I try to read it on Friday afternoons alongside a bunch of papers. Offering it as a recommendation for anyone else who could use a breather once in a while from [waves hand around] all this.

« Le calcul est imparable : chaque dollar investi en R-D rapporte 5 $ à l’économie. … Le rapport Bouchard avait prescrit une augmentation d’au moins 10 % par an pendant cinq ans pour commencer. Mais il recommandait bien davantage à terme pour que le pays joue dans la cour des grands. »

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

Peter Marks’s resignation letter. Everyone should read this.