Kristin Connor

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So many abstracts being written for research days and conferences in the lab! 😅

It’s awesome to see the hard work 💪🏻💪🏽 and progress of our team,

and the diverse work we do in translational women’s and perinatal health science!!

Happy #InternationalWomensDay
#IWD2026

Join us next Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM CST for the next seminar in our Trainee Tuesday seminar series, a collaboration between the US DOHaD Society and DOHaD Canada. The theme for the upcoming seminar will be “Maternal-placental environment and fetal programming,” we hope to see you there!

Infographic highlighting the contributions of twelve women in chemistry history. Full alt-text available at the link in the post.

On #InternationalWomensDay, here's another edition of Women in Chemistry History. This edition features women whose achievements in chemistry include the creation of synthetic emeralds, the impact of diet on intelligence and health, and more: www.compoundchem.com/2026/03/08/i...

#ChemSky 🧪

Are gender gaps due to evaluations of the applicant or the science? A natural experiment at a national funding agency Gender gaps in grant funding are attributable to less favourable assessments of women as principal investigators, not of the quality of their proposed research. We discuss reasons less favourable asse...

It's crucial to confront the systemic barriers women face in research. This study shows that gender gaps in grant funding persist not because of research quality, but because women receive less favourable assessments as PIs. We can and must change this.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IWD2026

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And telling that all the posts I see about #IWD2026 are from women or specifically women-/ equity-centred organisations.

Today is World Obesity Day

📈This year’s theme specifically highlights how health in 👦🏼 early life, including child obesity, sets a lifelong trajectory of risk for non-communicable diseases. #DOHaD
@dohadcanada.bsky.social

Learn more here www.worldobesityday.org
and our work 👇🏻

Good luck !!!!!

A gray shorthair cat at the moment of release upside down, with its tongue out looking derpy

A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image

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Same same.

That programme is separate and doesn’t have implications for tricouncil funding or success rates (yet).
But it will certainly make for a 2-tier system for a while, and likely cements the idea of no new funding for the tricouncils in the near future.

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Constructive not constrictive🤦🏼‍♀️
(Though given success rates, I suspect they will be both!)

Good luck! 🍀 Reading the reviews may not get easier but hopefully they will be more constrictive!

“There is no immediate clinical impact or health practice change from this [fundamental science] grant.”

“A policy uptake plan is required” (for a clinical/fundamental grant)

“There is no confidence that [2 co-PIs award-winning for their community engagement & KM] can do community engagement& KM

I don’t want to “like” any of these. But I see and hear you! 💔

Excellent 🧵relevant to 🇨🇦 PSE

Congrats to her and you!!!

Many chronic diseases begin before birth. The CHILD Cohort Study follows families since pregnancy to uncover early drivers of disease and ways to prevent them.

Explore what we've discovered:
🔗 childcohort.ca/portfolio/ke...

Are you a researcher? Check out our database:
🔗 childcohort.ca/childdb

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...

REVIEW: A Growing Burden: #Obesity Impact on Cardiometabolic Disease Risk in Children and Adolescents link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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.