Wendy Robinson 🇨🇦

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

📢 #WCRI2026 update!

📅 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver

✨ Call for Abstracts – deadline Oct 15, 2025

🗓️Preliminary schedule is online, along with details on commissions, hosting opportunities, and sponsorship.

👉All links are in the replies below

#ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026

Western prof, grad share diverse medical illustrations - Western News A Western professor and Western graduate created a free, open-source database with diverse medical illustrations to better represent those using them.

A new set of #physiology illustrations that are diverse, easy to use, and free are now available thanks to the efforts of a @westernu.ca prof and grad:

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.

STEM isn’t a pipeline—it’s a braided river. Verónica Segarra offers a new model to support inclusion and rethink how we view scientific careers. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #ASCB #CellBiology

This is a great guide from @dorassessment.bsky.social on improving research assessment in your organization. I wish it had been around when we started DORA implementation a few years ago! zenodo.org/records/1500...

Four people of various races stand together raising their hands and looking happy

Career Advice Reminder | 5 Ways to Instill More Joy in Higher Ed Workplaces

Kristin McCann, Taylor Alexander, Lauren Isaacman Darga, Daniel Truesdale and Taylor Wallace suggest how to cultivate healthy environments where people thrive. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky #CareerAdvice bit.ly/3I83f7o

The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network - Nature The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network aims to create a reference catalogue of somatic mosaicism across different tissues and cells within individuals.

We are all somatic mutation mosaics.
"There are trillions of cells in a human body and so the total number of somatic mutations acquired in a single individual may well exceed quadrillions, millions of times the size of the human genome."
@nature.com
nature.com/articles/s41...

(me with the checkered flag (off balance from a bit of hypoxia😅)

Singela Area Marathon Organized by local communities, the marathon not only tests endurance but also promotes sustainable tourism and cultural exchange in one of Ladakh's most isolated regions. Join us to run through histo...

Any adventure runners out there looking for a high altitude challenge?? I had the pleasure of participating (as volunteer) in the 1st Singela Area "Marathon" last year in beautiful Ladakh. So amazing and fun!! I am now helping to support this growing trail race! www.singelaareamarathon.com

Congrats to Iciar and Ella on their newly minted degrees! And great to have previous grad @amy-inkster.bsky.social back for support! What a team!

📢 New #THRiVElab Research!

After 6 years (!) of work led by Dr. Sarah Turner, the paper is out in Frontiers in Public Health

Early life predictors of child development at kindergarten
📖 doi.org/10.3389/fpub...

What did we find? What was the impact?
How did we go from this to THIS?

#SkyTorial 🧵🧪

Siento mucho tu perdida!

I agree! Loved it!

This was a fun one! I learn so much from lab meeting discussions!

We’re excited to share a new review article from the Robinson lab: lessons learned from genomic and epigenomic studies of the placenta. Key highlights below! doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

Canada : on sort les coudes.

Rethinking Research Assessment: Debiasing Committee Composition and Deliberative Processes | DORA This is part of DORA’s toolkit of resources to support academic institutions that are improving their policies and practices. Find the other resources in the toolkit here. Debiasing Committee Composit...

On this International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we plug our “Debiasing Committee Composition and Deliberative Processes”, a 1-pager w/strategies for diversifying perspectives & reducing biases for hiring, promotion, tenure, and funding decisions.
sfdora.org/resource/ret...

Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) Academic Job Category Faculty Bargaining Job Title Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) Department Department of Medical Genetics | Faculty of Medicine | Provost and VP Academic (Jehannine Austin) Posti...

Come work with us in Vancouver! UBC’s Department of Medical Genetics, in collaboration with The Life Sciences Institute, seeks an Assistant Professor working in chromatin regulation or genetic regulatory mechanisms.

ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

🔬 Does your research explore placental ageing, senescence, prolonged pregnancy, or term complications like pre-eclampsia?

Join leading experts at our Annual Meeting! Registration open, don’t miss your chance to be part of the discussion.

www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc...

Congrats! Its never too late to start running---my favourite activity! You are only as old as you feel (and you can always age- and sex-grade times to normalize things a bit). Keep at it!

Sex Determination: It’s in the Genes—Sometimes Animals across the tree of life have developed a mind-boggling variety of ways to become male or female.

A great piece in The Scientist by @hannahthomasy.bsky.social
on the stunning diversity of sex determination across species. A fun read on why sex determination is anything but simple.
www.the-scientist.com/sex-determin...

Great to see this out! Congrats @amy-inkster.bsky.social on such thoughtful insightful work!

My alma mater, the University of British Columbia, Dept of Medical Genetics, is hiring for a tenure track junior faculty position specializing in chromatin regulation / gene regulatory mechanisms. Beautiful city and vibrant epigenetics research. Please share!

medgen.med.ubc.ca/assistant-pr...

You can freely access all PubMed records at Europepmc.org - I just checked and it's up and running.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Academic Job Category Faculty Non Bargaining Job Title Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department Wasserman Laboratory | Department of Medical Genetics | Faculty of Medicine (Wyeth Wasserman) Posting End...

Bioinformatics Post-Doc Opportunity
Vancouver Canada

Come grow your genome analysis and processing skills. The Silent Genomes Project has created an Indigenous Background Variation Library for improved rare disease diagnosis. Help us make it even better.

tinyurl.com/bdh7d6bu

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I have funding through at least 2031 for postdoctoral researchers with expertise in islet biology or cell-based therapies for, or modelling of, diabetes. Bring your expertise to a country that values it. 🇨🇦

Contact info on my website.

Hey Canada 🇨🇦 here are some products either Made in Canada or are Products of Canada 🇨🇦. Attached are the definition of each, pics of each group (labeled) and a pic of product imported from countries other than the US. Not bad at all. We can do this!
#buyCanadian

Trump launches trade war against Canada with a 25% tariff on most goods | CBC News President Donald Trump launched a trade war against Canada on Saturday by imposing a 25 per cent tariff on virtually all goods from the U.S.'s neighbour — an unprecedented strike against a longstandin...

An unprovoked economic attack, intent on crushing US’s historically closest ally. If you can, please buy 🇨🇦 and 🇲🇽 products. & keep up the calls to your senators and reprentatives in 🇺🇸! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It takes curiosity to learn. It takes courage to unlearn.

Learning requires the humility to admit what you don't know today. Unlearning requires the integrity to admit that you were wrong yesterday.

Learning is how you evolve. Unlearning is how you keep up as the world evolves.