Kristin Connor

Excellent 🧵relevant to 🇨🇦 PSE

Congrats to her and you!!!

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PSA to academics posting threads about your paper here: you can (and should) post the link to the paper in the first post. Your X/Twitter brain rot have have you thinking otherwise, but please free yourself of that. (Also you can call them 'blue-prints' if you want).

Lots of good quotes here, and I think if anything good comes out of this awfulness it will perhaps be academics rethinking our reflexive obeisance to prestige and wealth.

"...the notion of the meritocracy is completely revealed to be gendered bullshit.” - @dannagal.bsky.social

Multiple bar charts comparing milks across a number of environmental metrics: land use, greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and eutrophication (the pollution of ecosystems with excess nutrients). These are compared per liter of milk. Cow’s milk has significantly higher impacts than the plant-based alternatives across all metrics. It causes around three times as much greenhouse gas emissions; uses around ten times as much land; two to twenty times as much freshwater; and creates much higher levels of eutrophication. The data source is based on a meta-analysis (by Joseph Poore and Thomas Nemecek, 2018) of food system impact studies across the supply chain, which includes land use change, on-farm production, processing, transport, and packaging. The chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data

A growing number of people are interested in switching to plant-based alternatives to dairy. But are they better for the environment, and which is best?

Omg I am SO sorry to hear this. I don’t even have suggestions to help. Hope you can figure out a workaround or solution. 💪🏻🍀

A Growing Burden: Obesity’s Impact on Cardiometabolic Disease Risk in Children and Adolescents - Current Cardiology Reports Purpose of Review As the obesity epidemic expands, the alarming acceleration of youth obesity represents a critical global health concern. This timely analysis explores the underlying biological and s...

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Despite the gold medal loss, Connor McDavid is the MVP of the #MilanoCortina2026 Olympic men’s hockey 🙌

Timeline cleanse back to when I was hiking in the Dolomites 2 summers ago (here ~3100m elevation) - was neat to see the Olympic venues being built in preparation for the 2026 Winter Games!

🍹🍊And nothing beats a spritz with a view!

Great game, Canada!

It was an honor/honour to
play against such fantastic neighbors/ neighbours.

Proud to be Canadian!🙌🏻

🔥What a team—truly outplayed the US🔥

What an accomplishment for all!

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He’s now got something for his future dental work!

Proud of Team Canada and proud to be Canadian 🇨🇦

Totally.
So fast things change with these Olympic overtime rules.

Omg

You’re going to be WIRED for the rest of the day!!

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My stress is already elevated with grant writing* I don’t know how much more I can push my heart!

*(which is clearly not happening at the moment)

So, is the Canadian 4-minute high sticking vs. the US 2-minute high sticking a result of tariffs?

I can’t handle this!

💯to both

Now let’s pause the fighting so we don’t lose any players too soon! 😅

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I am stressed!!!
(I feel the fate of the world is being decided with this game 😆😅😳)

And so it begins!

🇨🇦Go Canada Go!🇨🇦
#WinterOlympics
#MilanoCortina2026

I can't read this because it's behind a paywall, but if ChatGPT is trained on prior knowledge (which it is), then of course it would advise women to ask for lower salaries. Misogyny is baked into the historical data.

Holy fuck! 🧪

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This propaganda from the Tory government of Ontario is being used to sell off our public healthcare system to private interests. Yet this privatized for-profit care actually costs MORE with LOWER quality. The published evidence demonstrates this quite clearly.
Who pays the tab? WE all do!

Excellent post reflecting on what is happening in Ontario now, and what different strategies to support #highered access actually achieve.
#onpoli

The case for global health aid:

…every $ invested in neglected disease R&D generates ~$405 in social & health returns.
When the global population is healthy…it improves labor productivity, supply-chain resilience, & creates economic partnerships…

Great piece by @gavinyamey.bsky.social & colleagues

It’s like trying to figure out who is pushing the pointer thing on the Ouiji board.