Kristin Connor
@kconnor.bsky.social
🤰🏽My lab conducts research on developmental origins of health & disease
👶🏻Believe a healthy start to life is a right we all share
👩🏼🔬Value fundamental science!
📍Toronto & Ottawa
connorlab.ca
👶🏻Believe a healthy start to life is a right we all share
👩🏼🔬Value fundamental science!
📍Toronto & Ottawa
connorlab.ca
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It’s a good day to talk about women scientists. Let’s also remember Margaret W. Rossiter, who died in August of this year.
She coined the “Matilda Effect” (named after suffragist Matilda Gage), which describes bias against acknowledging women’s achievements.
She coined the “Matilda Effect” (named after suffragist Matilda Gage), which describes bias against acknowledging women’s achievements.
Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It's Margaret Rossiter's Lifelong Mission to Fix That
The historian has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It’s a good day to talk about women scientists. Let’s also remember Margaret W. Rossiter, who died in August of this year.
She coined the “Matilda Effect” (named after suffragist Matilda Gage), which describes bias against acknowledging women’s achievements.
She coined the “Matilda Effect” (named after suffragist Matilda Gage), which describes bias against acknowledging women’s achievements.
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When DNA’s structure was in doubt & suspecting his competitor Rosalind Franklin knew more, James Watson goaded her, and Watson’s own memoir describes this in unbelievable condescension (he called her “Rosy” “Medusa” “Loathely Lady” “Wicked Witch of the West”, criticized her clothes as unattractive)
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
When DNA’s structure was in doubt & suspecting his competitor Rosalind Franklin knew more, James Watson goaded her, and Watson’s own memoir describes this in unbelievable condescension (he called her “Rosy” “Medusa” “Loathely Lady” “Wicked Witch of the West”, criticized her clothes as unattractive)
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Support the @womenshealthmcgill.bsky.social students😊. Share with your networks.
Join in Monday November 10, 09:00-10:30 to see their posts. Then come back for the YouTube link to view the event.
#WomenLead #Equity.
Join in Monday November 10, 09:00-10:30 to see their posts. Then come back for the YouTube link to view the event.
#WomenLead #Equity.
Monday is our big day!
Watch here at 09:00 for guest comment highlights.
These trailblazers will set the path for girl/youth/women engagement in politics, policy and leadership. Critically important in these turbulent geo-political times.
A @mcgill.ca student-led initiative.
#WomenLead #Equity
Watch here at 09:00 for guest comment highlights.
These trailblazers will set the path for girl/youth/women engagement in politics, policy and leadership. Critically important in these turbulent geo-political times.
A @mcgill.ca student-led initiative.
#WomenLead #Equity
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Support the @womenshealthmcgill.bsky.social students😊. Share with your networks.
Join in Monday November 10, 09:00-10:30 to see their posts. Then come back for the YouTube link to view the event.
#WomenLead #Equity.
Join in Monday November 10, 09:00-10:30 to see their posts. Then come back for the YouTube link to view the event.
#WomenLead #Equity.
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This is still surely to be an issue—even with aggregated/de-identified data.
Instead of the easy & reasonable solution of having say, CIHR analyse the data for the committee based on the Qs they want answered, ensuring privacy and accuracy, some unknown/unskilled person or tool will go fishing! 🚨
Instead of the easy & reasonable solution of having say, CIHR analyse the data for the committee based on the Qs they want answered, ensuring privacy and accuracy, some unknown/unskilled person or tool will go fishing! 🚨
November 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is still surely to be an issue—even with aggregated/de-identified data.
Instead of the easy & reasonable solution of having say, CIHR analyse the data for the committee based on the Qs they want answered, ensuring privacy and accuracy, some unknown/unskilled person or tool will go fishing! 🚨
Instead of the easy & reasonable solution of having say, CIHR analyse the data for the committee based on the Qs they want answered, ensuring privacy and accuracy, some unknown/unskilled person or tool will go fishing! 🚨
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The 🇨🇦 Standing Committee on Science and Research passed a modified resolution this afternoon that the requested ricouncil applicant and reviewer data can be aggregated and anonymized. Thanks to the many researchers who signed letters pointing out legitimate data privacy concerns. 👏👏
November 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The 🇨🇦 Standing Committee on Science and Research passed a modified resolution this afternoon that the requested ricouncil applicant and reviewer data can be aggregated and anonymized. Thanks to the many researchers who signed letters pointing out legitimate data privacy concerns. 👏👏
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The Canadian government has seemingly never read a single one of its own commissioned reports on what Canadian science needs. (It's not more people.)
Globe & Mail reports “the budget is expected to include up to $1-billion to attract high-quality talent and researchers from the United States and elsewhere”
So far hospitals and universities have been going it alone….
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social
So far hospitals and universities have been going it alone….
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The Canadian government has seemingly never read a single one of its own commissioned reports on what Canadian science needs. (It's not more people.)
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Firstly, those MPs need some time for deep reflection. Secondly, Dr. Hébert is correct, the challenge in Canada is lack of research funding not lack of great researchers. Fund the people we have, reap the rewards.
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Firstly, those MPs need some time for deep reflection. Secondly, Dr. Hébert is correct, the challenge in Canada is lack of research funding not lack of great researchers. Fund the people we have, reap the rewards.
What a game, series!
💙Thank you Blue Jays! 💙
💙Thank you Blue Jays! 💙
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November 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
What a game, series!
💙Thank you Blue Jays! 💙
💙Thank you Blue Jays! 💙
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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. shows up to Game 7 in a Marie-Phillip Poulin jersey, the captain of the Canada women’s national ice hockey team
November 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. shows up to Game 7 in a Marie-Phillip Poulin jersey, the captain of the Canada women’s national ice hockey team
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Forcing funders to betray reviewers and applicants by disclosing disaggregated personal and confidential information serves no legitimate purpose. This is an abuse of parliamentary authority that will deeply undermine Canadian science.
I encourage you to contact your MP, the Minister of Health, and your institution. This has already been bulldozed through with a 15 day requirement to meet the request. Watching politicians vandalize scientific institutions is distressing enough next door, let's not start here.
October 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Forcing funders to betray reviewers and applicants by disclosing disaggregated personal and confidential information serves no legitimate purpose. This is an abuse of parliamentary authority that will deeply undermine Canadian science.
🚨Critical BREACH OF PRIVACY🚨 and trust for any 🇨🇦 researcher (trainees to PIs) who have been involved with ANY grant or scholarship submission (or their review!!!) to ANY of the TriCouncils (CIHR NSERC SSHRC) in the last 20 years!
Also see this petition & thread 👇🏻
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Also see this petition & thread 👇🏻
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
🚨Critical BREACH OF PRIVACY🚨 and trust for any 🇨🇦 researcher (trainees to PIs) who have been involved with ANY grant or scholarship submission (or their review!!!) to ANY of the TriCouncils (CIHR NSERC SSHRC) in the last 20 years!
Also see this petition & thread 👇🏻
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Also see this petition & thread 👇🏻
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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BLUE
JAYS
WIN!! 🥳🥳🥳
JAYS
WIN!! 🥳🥳🥳
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October 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
BLUE
JAYS
WIN!! 🥳🥳🥳
JAYS
WIN!! 🥳🥳🥳
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Interestingly, #drugs for the nervous system (antidepressants/antipsychotics) stand out: #SSRI/ #SNRI/ #TCA push the gut #microbiome into alternate states, lowering functional redundancy(lower capacity to respond) and ramping up antimicrobial-resistance proteins.
@quadraminstitute.bsky.social
@quadraminstitute.bsky.social
From #drug cabinet → gut #microbiome: screening 312 therapeutic compounds, we mapped 4.6 million microbial protein-level responses to reveal how our drugs don’t just target us, they hit our gut microbes too.
rdcu.be/eMmcT
rdcu.be/eMmcT
October 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Interestingly, #drugs for the nervous system (antidepressants/antipsychotics) stand out: #SSRI/ #SNRI/ #TCA push the gut #microbiome into alternate states, lowering functional redundancy(lower capacity to respond) and ramping up antimicrobial-resistance proteins.
@quadraminstitute.bsky.social
@quadraminstitute.bsky.social
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PAN Members! It's not too late to register for this informative webinar. Not a PAN member yet? It's FREE! Connect to the link below and join us today! Members check your email or connect to the webinar page on our website!
patientadvisors.ca
patientadvisors.ca
October 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
PAN Members! It's not too late to register for this informative webinar. Not a PAN member yet? It's FREE! Connect to the link below and join us today! Members check your email or connect to the webinar page on our website!
patientadvisors.ca
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Saw this art posted on FB & wanted to share it.
Indigenous Blue Jays logo (made by Kory Parkin/@paintsbyparkin)
#LetsGoBlueJays !
Indigenous Blue Jays logo (made by Kory Parkin/@paintsbyparkin)
#LetsGoBlueJays !
October 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Saw this art posted on FB & wanted to share it.
Indigenous Blue Jays logo (made by Kory Parkin/@paintsbyparkin)
#LetsGoBlueJays !
Indigenous Blue Jays logo (made by Kory Parkin/@paintsbyparkin)
#LetsGoBlueJays !
🤯
"first successful detection of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone in bones, teeth and dental calculus, opening a way to identify pregnancy in the archaeological record." phys.org/news/2025-10... #histmed #WomensHealth #MedievalSky
Ancient skeletons yield the first hormonal evidence of reproductive life
University of Sheffield and University College London researchers have made the first successful detection of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone in bones, teeth and dental calculus, opening a wa...
phys.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
🤯
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⭐SRI 2026 Mini-Symposia Spotlight⭐
Join these speakers at #SRI2026 for an exciting session exploring precision medicine in OBGYN, IVF prediction via microbiome, endometrial resistance, single-cell insights into cervical function & much more!
Learn more➡️ www.sri-online.org/events/2026
Join these speakers at #SRI2026 for an exciting session exploring precision medicine in OBGYN, IVF prediction via microbiome, endometrial resistance, single-cell insights into cervical function & much more!
Learn more➡️ www.sri-online.org/events/2026
October 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
⭐SRI 2026 Mini-Symposia Spotlight⭐
Join these speakers at #SRI2026 for an exciting session exploring precision medicine in OBGYN, IVF prediction via microbiome, endometrial resistance, single-cell insights into cervical function & much more!
Learn more➡️ www.sri-online.org/events/2026
Join these speakers at #SRI2026 for an exciting session exploring precision medicine in OBGYN, IVF prediction via microbiome, endometrial resistance, single-cell insights into cervical function & much more!
Learn more➡️ www.sri-online.org/events/2026
🙌🏾🇨🇦💪🏽🍁
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October 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
🙌🏾🇨🇦💪🏽🍁
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Today is Persons Day.
This day honours The Persons Case, which ended in a victory for The Famous Five on Oct. 18, 1929. The ruling declared women to be persons under the law and qualified to sit in the Senate.
This is the story of that case.
🧵 1/12
This day honours The Persons Case, which ended in a victory for The Famous Five on Oct. 18, 1929. The ruling declared women to be persons under the law and qualified to sit in the Senate.
This is the story of that case.
🧵 1/12
October 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Today is Persons Day.
This day honours The Persons Case, which ended in a victory for The Famous Five on Oct. 18, 1929. The ruling declared women to be persons under the law and qualified to sit in the Senate.
This is the story of that case.
🧵 1/12
This day honours The Persons Case, which ended in a victory for The Famous Five on Oct. 18, 1929. The ruling declared women to be persons under the law and qualified to sit in the Senate.
This is the story of that case.
🧵 1/12
“We are not protecting people from research, but we are working on ways to protect people ✨through✨ research.”
Increased global efforts to include—not exclude—pregnant people, the paediatric population, & equity-denied groups in clinical trials means better health & human capital for everyone. 🙌🏾
Increased global efforts to include—not exclude—pregnant people, the paediatric population, & equity-denied groups in clinical trials means better health & human capital for everyone. 🙌🏾
Drive To Include Pregnant And Breastfeeding Women And Children In Clinical Trials - Health Policy Watch
The first pregnant woman with malaria was enrolled in a clinical trial in Mali to compare three different malaria treatment regimens earlier this month – a
healthpolicy-watch.news
October 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“We are not protecting people from research, but we are working on ways to protect people ✨through✨ research.”
Increased global efforts to include—not exclude—pregnant people, the paediatric population, & equity-denied groups in clinical trials means better health & human capital for everyone. 🙌🏾
Increased global efforts to include—not exclude—pregnant people, the paediatric population, & equity-denied groups in clinical trials means better health & human capital for everyone. 🙌🏾
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Excited to see this international FIGO event coming to us! Oh Canada :) #FIGO2027
#ObGynSky
#WomensHealth
#CanadaSky
#ObGynSky
#WomensHealth
#CanadaSky
October 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Excited to see this international FIGO event coming to us! Oh Canada :) #FIGO2027
#ObGynSky
#WomensHealth
#CanadaSky
#ObGynSky
#WomensHealth
#CanadaSky
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Super excited to announce the launch of the PhD subspecialization program in genetic & genomic counseling at @ubcmedicine.bsky.social - it's open to applications!
All details including contact information for any questions is available here: medgen.med.ubc.ca/graduate-pro...
Please share widely!
All details including contact information for any questions is available here: medgen.med.ubc.ca/graduate-pro...
Please share widely!
PhD Sub-Specialization in Genetic and Genomic Counselling - Department of Medical Genetics
Overview The PhD sub-specialization in Genetic and Genomic Counselling will develop researchers who generate knowledge through empirical research that will advance and inform evidence-based practice i...
medgen.med.ubc.ca
October 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Super excited to announce the launch of the PhD subspecialization program in genetic & genomic counseling at @ubcmedicine.bsky.social - it's open to applications!
All details including contact information for any questions is available here: medgen.med.ubc.ca/graduate-pro...
Please share widely!
All details including contact information for any questions is available here: medgen.med.ubc.ca/graduate-pro...
Please share widely!
📣Tomorrow is International #DayoftheGirl
& 30 years since the Beijing Declaration on advancing equity, development & peace for all women & girls
📈We must scale investment in girls — including through research, health, education & empowerment-
-a commitment we make in our lab
#GenerationEquality
& 30 years since the Beijing Declaration on advancing equity, development & peace for all women & girls
📈We must scale investment in girls — including through research, health, education & empowerment-
-a commitment we make in our lab
#GenerationEquality
October 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
📣Tomorrow is International #DayoftheGirl
& 30 years since the Beijing Declaration on advancing equity, development & peace for all women & girls
📈We must scale investment in girls — including through research, health, education & empowerment-
-a commitment we make in our lab
#GenerationEquality
& 30 years since the Beijing Declaration on advancing equity, development & peace for all women & girls
📈We must scale investment in girls — including through research, health, education & empowerment-
-a commitment we make in our lab
#GenerationEquality
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Event happening tonight!
How do we rebuild trust in science when it feels hardest to earn? Join RCIScience & @gairdnerawards.bsky.social for Trust Issues: Science, Skepticism & Showing Up
⏰ 7–8:30 PM
📍 SEARS Atrium, Toronto
🔗Free tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/trust-issu...
How do we rebuild trust in science when it feels hardest to earn? Join RCIScience & @gairdnerawards.bsky.social for Trust Issues: Science, Skepticism & Showing Up
⏰ 7–8:30 PM
📍 SEARS Atrium, Toronto
🔗Free tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/trust-issu...
October 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Event happening tonight!
How do we rebuild trust in science when it feels hardest to earn? Join RCIScience & @gairdnerawards.bsky.social for Trust Issues: Science, Skepticism & Showing Up
⏰ 7–8:30 PM
📍 SEARS Atrium, Toronto
🔗Free tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/trust-issu...
How do we rebuild trust in science when it feels hardest to earn? Join RCIScience & @gairdnerawards.bsky.social for Trust Issues: Science, Skepticism & Showing Up
⏰ 7–8:30 PM
📍 SEARS Atrium, Toronto
🔗Free tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/trust-issu...