Kristin Connor

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

Woo hoo!🎉
Awesome to see this cool work being shared with the public.
So glad people will see the other epigenetic research coming out of your lab! 🐻‍❄️🐻‍❄️

Sweaty Investors should the new label for Venture Capitalists

And LOL to what Google AI thinks when I google: sweaty venture

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[FREE EVENT] Exploring Careers in Implementation: Paths Beyond Academia — The Center for Implementation Join this virtual event featuring 5 panelists in diverse implementation roles to learn about careers in implementation support, strategy, and applied research beyond traditional academic tracks.

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

The community health workers protecting pregnant women from dangerous heat in Delhi In one of the world's hottest capital cities, a specialist team is working to help pregnant women survive the scorching temperatures.

“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
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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

The next study!! 😉
Thanks — will dig into the full paper very soon.
Good luck with the rest of your research!

Super fascinating! On my list to do a deep dive read.

Did you find any differences in this “decision making” based on pup sex (eg diff in litters with more 🚹or 🚺)? We know pup sex influences maternal care/bonding—wonder if it also affects the tradeoffs you investigated?
Congrats on your work! 👏🏻🎉

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

Congrats!! 🙌🏽

Congrats! 🎉

Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in women of reproductive age: Sex- and gender-based risk factors and inequities Iron deficiency (ID) is a serious public health problem that affects 20–25 % of the population and 52 % of pregnant people worldwide. Biologically fem…

Some work also published — led by an MSc and PDF in our group — they did a pretty comprehensive review

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”

Ontario plans to sell parts of Wasaga Beach. Environmentalists decry 'awful precedent' | CBC News The Ontario government’s plan to hand parts of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park over to the local town for tourism development could set an “awful precedent” for other provincially owned parks, environmen...

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

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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🙌🏽

So sorry for your loss.
He was good to so many people—even those he didn’t really know.
💔

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.

The only thing worse is when this happens to one’s grant resubmission!

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!

Woo hoo congrats Kelsey & team! 👏🏻🥳
Great to see such critical clinical trial research for women’s & pregnancy health funded!

Ottawa-based organization's pre-budget submission takes aim at women's health funding Women's health research remains underfunded despite mandates for integrated sex and gender-based analyses in Canada.

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:
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Through @biomednews.bsky.social, I started curating a list of papers in placenta cell biology and related fields! #PlacentaCellBio

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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!

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

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.
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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!

The Political Mind by George Lakoff | Penguin Random House Canada A groundbreaking scientific examination of the way our brains understand politics from a New York Times bestselling author

This is somewhat related and with a politics lens - a bit old now and quite US-centric with its evidence, but a good read.

And discusses why people vote against their own self interests

Getting off US tech: a guide I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

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!

Also please don’t say: ‘this is terrible bc we won’t be able to recruit 🇺🇸 talent now’

We never could make up for the trump cuts

We barely have a sustainable research ecosystem 4 ✨Canadian✨ research & researchers (including grad students & PDFs)!

Truly a Hunger Games time for federal Ministries