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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I meet a lot of pregnant women at work.
A grand total of 0 (ZERO!) have been advised to get a COVID vaccine in pregnancy.
I would say the majority have bought into the misinformation that the vaccine is dangerous in pregnancy, which is the opposite of the truth.
A grand total of 0 (ZERO!) have been advised to get a COVID vaccine in pregnancy.
I would say the majority have bought into the misinformation that the vaccine is dangerous in pregnancy, which is the opposite of the truth.
Extremely important study, with very concerning implications for the future.
The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure
In historical viral epidemics, such as the H1N1 influenza and Zika viruses, prenatal exposures were correlated with risk for neuropsychiatric conditio…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:37 PM
I meet a lot of pregnant women at work.
A grand total of 0 (ZERO!) have been advised to get a COVID vaccine in pregnancy.
I would say the majority have bought into the misinformation that the vaccine is dangerous in pregnancy, which is the opposite of the truth.
A grand total of 0 (ZERO!) have been advised to get a COVID vaccine in pregnancy.
I would say the majority have bought into the misinformation that the vaccine is dangerous in pregnancy, which is the opposite of the truth.
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Some of your cells are not genetically yours — what can they tell us about life and death? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Thank you Lise Barneoud for this beautiful piece, and @Nature for highlighting microchimerism to the broader community. Happy 2026 everyone with hidden cellular guest!
Some of your cells are not genetically yours — what can they tell us about life and death?
A tiny population of cells that are passed across the placenta between mother and baby challenge basic tenets of human immunology.
www.nature.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Some of your cells are not genetically yours — what can they tell us about life and death? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Thank you Lise Barneoud for this beautiful piece, and @Nature for highlighting microchimerism to the broader community. Happy 2026 everyone with hidden cellular guest!
Critically important to have this strategy!
Hope you discuss why you think Carney initially removed the Minister for Women and Gender Equality, only to reinstate after backlash, and what this means re: prioritising women (or children) for health & policy decisions.
Hope you discuss why you think Carney initially removed the Minister for Women and Gender Equality, only to reinstate after backlash, and what this means re: prioritising women (or children) for health & policy decisions.
Why does Canada need a national women's health strategy?
I'll be discussing this tomorrow on The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn at 7:20 am PST/10:20 am EST.
Tune in & listen 👇🏼
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
#HerHealthMatters #WomensHealth #Research
I'll be discussing this tomorrow on The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn at 7:20 am PST/10:20 am EST.
Tune in & listen 👇🏼
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
#HerHealthMatters #WomensHealth #Research
The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn | Live Radio | CBC Listen
The Early Edition is Vancouver's connection to the latest breaking local news, interviews that cut through the spin, and community stories and personalities that surprise and delight.
www.cbc.ca
December 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Critically important to have this strategy!
Hope you discuss why you think Carney initially removed the Minister for Women and Gender Equality, only to reinstate after backlash, and what this means re: prioritising women (or children) for health & policy decisions.
Hope you discuss why you think Carney initially removed the Minister for Women and Gender Equality, only to reinstate after backlash, and what this means re: prioritising women (or children) for health & policy decisions.
Undernourishment - the root of
🩸Type 5 #Diabetes 🩸
Now officially recognised by the International Diabetes Federation
& what we in the developmental origins of health & disease #DOHaD & early life nutrition fields have known for decades
www.sciencealert.com/a-distinct-n...
🩸Type 5 #Diabetes 🩸
Now officially recognised by the International Diabetes Federation
& what we in the developmental origins of health & disease #DOHaD & early life nutrition fields have known for decades
www.sciencealert.com/a-distinct-n...
December 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Undernourishment - the root of
🩸Type 5 #Diabetes 🩸
Now officially recognised by the International Diabetes Federation
& what we in the developmental origins of health & disease #DOHaD & early life nutrition fields have known for decades
www.sciencealert.com/a-distinct-n...
🩸Type 5 #Diabetes 🩸
Now officially recognised by the International Diabetes Federation
& what we in the developmental origins of health & disease #DOHaD & early life nutrition fields have known for decades
www.sciencealert.com/a-distinct-n...
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When women critical of gAI in academia/industry speak out about it, the response from people who want us to use the tech and AI pushers is quite clearly shaped by misogyny, even if they will deny it.
We are "emotional" "irrational" Luddites, etc.
Our ladybrains just can't handle/understand it.
We are "emotional" "irrational" Luddites, etc.
Our ladybrains just can't handle/understand it.
December 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
When women critical of gAI in academia/industry speak out about it, the response from people who want us to use the tech and AI pushers is quite clearly shaped by misogyny, even if they will deny it.
We are "emotional" "irrational" Luddites, etc.
Our ladybrains just can't handle/understand it.
We are "emotional" "irrational" Luddites, etc.
Our ladybrains just can't handle/understand it.
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OK this is ridiculous. The draft new Canadian public health guidance-development mechanism doubles down on excluding subject matter experts from voting roles, restricts membership to people from inside the EBM pseudoscience bubble, and sets up to funnel public money to McMaster-GRADE courses etc.
Draft Implementation Plan for the Renewed Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care - Canada.ca
Feedback will help ensure effective implementation of the recommendations from the External Expert Review and inform a renewed Task Force.
www.canada.ca
November 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
OK this is ridiculous. The draft new Canadian public health guidance-development mechanism doubles down on excluding subject matter experts from voting roles, restricts membership to people from inside the EBM pseudoscience bubble, and sets up to funnel public money to McMaster-GRADE courses etc.
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A lot of discussion these days with graduate students about AI and thesis writing. This lesson will help them a lot
#AI #Writing #Science #Scicomm
thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-10-th...
#AI #Writing #Science #Scicomm
thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-10-th...
Lesson 10: The Human Art of Writing
In this chapter we explore how writing differs from arithmetic with respect to automation, and what is lost when we hand off the work of writing to a machine.
thebullshitmachines.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A lot of discussion these days with graduate students about AI and thesis writing. This lesson will help them a lot
#AI #Writing #Science #Scicomm
thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-10-th...
#AI #Writing #Science #Scicomm
thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-10-th...
👏🏻Congrats to the newly minted Dr. Thaina Ferraz on a successful PhD viva yesterday! 🎉
What a journey it has been
from 🇧🇷➡️🇨🇦
starting a PhD in a pandemic 🦠 (being stuck outside the country for 1 yr!)
running a big 🐭🤰🏼study
doing it all in a second language
whilst being an amazing mentor to our UGs!
What a journey it has been
from 🇧🇷➡️🇨🇦
starting a PhD in a pandemic 🦠 (being stuck outside the country for 1 yr!)
running a big 🐭🤰🏼study
doing it all in a second language
whilst being an amazing mentor to our UGs!
December 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
👏🏻Congrats to the newly minted Dr. Thaina Ferraz on a successful PhD viva yesterday! 🎉
What a journey it has been
from 🇧🇷➡️🇨🇦
starting a PhD in a pandemic 🦠 (being stuck outside the country for 1 yr!)
running a big 🐭🤰🏼study
doing it all in a second language
whilst being an amazing mentor to our UGs!
What a journey it has been
from 🇧🇷➡️🇨🇦
starting a PhD in a pandemic 🦠 (being stuck outside the country for 1 yr!)
running a big 🐭🤰🏼study
doing it all in a second language
whilst being an amazing mentor to our UGs!
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This Nonprofit’s Free Desktop Apps Are Surprisingly Good
#LibreOffice #FOSS
www.vice.com/en/article/l...
#LibreOffice #FOSS
www.vice.com/en/article/l...
This Nonprofit’s Free Desktop Apps Are Surprisingly Good
LibreOffice is a free, nonprofit-run suite of desktop apps for spreadsheets, presentations, writing, and more.
www.vice.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This Nonprofit’s Free Desktop Apps Are Surprisingly Good
#LibreOffice #FOSS
www.vice.com/en/article/l...
#LibreOffice #FOSS
www.vice.com/en/article/l...
All of this—💯
What we should require: students to become “literate“ in AI technology, in terms of its economics, it’s ownership structure, its internal logic, how it interacts w our psychology, & how it has taken over our stock market & infiltrates every industry so that our culture feels pressured to prop it up
December 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
All of this—💯
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Every six years they do a major science policy consultation, ignore 80% of it and do the opposite of the other 20%.
I really want to know who the Libs are consulting to come up with these ideas.
Because no person who knows anything about the current research and funding ecosystem in 🇨🇦 (or who has historical insight on similar past schemes) would come up w this as a priority policy, let alone a good use of funds.
Because no person who knows anything about the current research and funding ecosystem in 🇨🇦 (or who has historical insight on similar past schemes) would come up w this as a priority policy, let alone a good use of funds.
Canada’s new government is investing big to attract world-class talent in science and technology — and become an innovation powerhouse.
December 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Every six years they do a major science policy consultation, ignore 80% of it and do the opposite of the other 20%.
I really want to know who the Libs are consulting to come up with these ideas.
Because no person who knows anything about the current research and funding ecosystem in 🇨🇦 (or who has historical insight on similar past schemes) would come up w this as a priority policy, let alone a good use of funds.
Because no person who knows anything about the current research and funding ecosystem in 🇨🇦 (or who has historical insight on similar past schemes) would come up w this as a priority policy, let alone a good use of funds.
Canada’s new government is investing big to attract world-class talent in science and technology — and become an innovation powerhouse.
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I really want to know who the Libs are consulting to come up with these ideas.
Because no person who knows anything about the current research and funding ecosystem in 🇨🇦 (or who has historical insight on similar past schemes) would come up w this as a priority policy, let alone a good use of funds.
Because no person who knows anything about the current research and funding ecosystem in 🇨🇦 (or who has historical insight on similar past schemes) would come up w this as a priority policy, let alone a good use of funds.
Today is UN’s #HumanRightsDay
Women’s health rights are human rights. Today is a reminder of #OurEverydayRights, and how we must commit to ensuring human rights principles are embedded in everyday experiences, especially for women and girls!
Check out more from us and others 👇🏻
Women’s health rights are human rights. Today is a reminder of #OurEverydayRights, and how we must commit to ensuring human rights principles are embedded in everyday experiences, especially for women and girls!
Check out more from us and others 👇🏻
December 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Today is UN’s #HumanRightsDay
Women’s health rights are human rights. Today is a reminder of #OurEverydayRights, and how we must commit to ensuring human rights principles are embedded in everyday experiences, especially for women and girls!
Check out more from us and others 👇🏻
Women’s health rights are human rights. Today is a reminder of #OurEverydayRights, and how we must commit to ensuring human rights principles are embedded in everyday experiences, especially for women and girls!
Check out more from us and others 👇🏻
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They died because they were women.
December 6, 1989.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
December 6, 1989.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
December 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
They died because they were women.
December 6, 1989.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
December 6, 1989.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
This is a fantastic 🧵and needed perspective on AI in (higher)ed.
Must read.
Hope the admin at my institution, who have just put out their terrible just-accept-AI-cause-it-will-make-lives-easier framework for community feedback see this and take a beat.
Must read.
Hope the admin at my institution, who have just put out their terrible just-accept-AI-cause-it-will-make-lives-easier framework for community feedback see this and take a beat.
It is a waste of educators’ labor to worry about policing students’ work or jury rigging AI-proof assignments.There are desultory ways of going about responding to such papers. But that doesn’t mean acquiescence. That means working towards and demanding structural changes at our institutions.
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This is a fantastic 🧵and needed perspective on AI in (higher)ed.
Must read.
Hope the admin at my institution, who have just put out their terrible just-accept-AI-cause-it-will-make-lives-easier framework for community feedback see this and take a beat.
Must read.
Hope the admin at my institution, who have just put out their terrible just-accept-AI-cause-it-will-make-lives-easier framework for community feedback see this and take a beat.
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Every country needs a national strategy for women's health. In our new episode, Dr. @liisagalea.bsky.social talks with
Jennifer Gillivan about bias in research, and why it’s time to mobilize to equalize.
🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/tsrw50Xy8q9
Jennifer Gillivan about bias in research, and why it’s time to mobilize to equalize.
🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/tsrw50Xy8q9
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Every country needs a national strategy for women's health. In our new episode, Dr. @liisagalea.bsky.social talks with
Jennifer Gillivan about bias in research, and why it’s time to mobilize to equalize.
🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/tsrw50Xy8q9
Jennifer Gillivan about bias in research, and why it’s time to mobilize to equalize.
🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/tsrw50Xy8q9
Another reason why we need to teach about female biology, women’s/children’s health & sexual/ reproductive rights & justice…
AND fund research in these areas!
This IS unforgivable.
🇨🇦 used to be a leader in this space.
Our current fed gov’t has now shown in a few ways women don’t matter.
AND fund research in these areas!
This IS unforgivable.
🇨🇦 used to be a leader in this space.
Our current fed gov’t has now shown in a few ways women don’t matter.
Canada has already said it's cutting $675m from its aid budget. For those cuts to fall almost exclusively on women, sexual health and rights, and gender equality, is unforgivable
www.oxfam.ca/news/canadia...
www.oxfam.ca/news/canadia...
Canadian Civil Society Calls on Prime Minister Carney to Uphold Canada’s -
Ottawa, ON — More than 250 organizations and individuals from across Canada are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to take urgent and decisive action to safeguard Canada’s feminist foreign pol
www.oxfam.ca
December 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Another reason why we need to teach about female biology, women’s/children’s health & sexual/ reproductive rights & justice…
AND fund research in these areas!
This IS unforgivable.
🇨🇦 used to be a leader in this space.
Our current fed gov’t has now shown in a few ways women don’t matter.
AND fund research in these areas!
This IS unforgivable.
🇨🇦 used to be a leader in this space.
Our current fed gov’t has now shown in a few ways women don’t matter.
🧵 A reflection on the need to protect people *through* research & teaching, which means increasing —not reducing— efforts to educate others on, & study, women’s & children’s biology/health, & that of equity-denied populations….
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a woman sitting in a chair with the words stick with me behind her
ALT: a woman sitting in a chair with the words stick with me behind her
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
🧵 A reflection on the need to protect people *through* research & teaching, which means increasing —not reducing— efforts to educate others on, & study, women’s & children’s biology/health, & that of equity-denied populations….
1/n
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👏🏻 Amazing and critically important research from Jim Green, Adrian Chan & Rob Langlois @carleton.ca to help the tiniest 👶🏻 receive the best and most accurate care!
#SmallisMighty!
#SmallisMighty!
To help monitor newborn babies as effectively as possible in the NICU, @carleton.ca researchers are collaborating with CHEO and safeguarding newborns' health through innovative engineering solutions: ontariosuniversities.ca/stories/safe... #ONpse
Safeguarding Newborns’ Health Through Innovative Engineering - Ontario's Universities
To help ensure that newborn babies are monitored as effectively as possible in the neonatal...
ontariosuniversities.ca
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
👏🏻 Amazing and critically important research from Jim Green, Adrian Chan & Rob Langlois @carleton.ca to help the tiniest 👶🏻 receive the best and most accurate care!
#SmallisMighty!
#SmallisMighty!
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I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
Made it to Saskatoon (it looks like an ice palace!)
🫱🏼🫲🏾 for the joint #CIHR Institute of Human Development Child & Youth Health and Institute of Indigenous Peoples Health Board meetings
& discussing converging areas of priority 🎯 for our communities!
Grateful to learn from these discussions
🫱🏼🫲🏾 for the joint #CIHR Institute of Human Development Child & Youth Health and Institute of Indigenous Peoples Health Board meetings
& discussing converging areas of priority 🎯 for our communities!
Grateful to learn from these discussions
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Made it to Saskatoon (it looks like an ice palace!)
🫱🏼🫲🏾 for the joint #CIHR Institute of Human Development Child & Youth Health and Institute of Indigenous Peoples Health Board meetings
& discussing converging areas of priority 🎯 for our communities!
Grateful to learn from these discussions
🫱🏼🫲🏾 for the joint #CIHR Institute of Human Development Child & Youth Health and Institute of Indigenous Peoples Health Board meetings
& discussing converging areas of priority 🎯 for our communities!
Grateful to learn from these discussions
Reposted by Kristin Connor
The Canadian Bioinformatics Hub is accepting applications for their recognition awards. Three awards are available: CBH Research & Innovation Award, Francis Ouellette Community Award, and CBH Impact Trainee Award. Apply by Dec 8, 2025: www.iscb.org/cbhc2026/cal...
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The Canadian Bioinformatics Hub is accepting applications for their recognition awards. Three awards are available: CBH Research & Innovation Award, Francis Ouellette Community Award, and CBH Impact Trainee Award. Apply by Dec 8, 2025: www.iscb.org/cbhc2026/cal...
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#CervicalCancer could be the first cancer EVER in the world to be eliminated, if:
9️⃣0️⃣% of girls are vaccinated
7️⃣0️⃣% of women are screened
9️⃣0️⃣% of women with cervical cancer receive treatment
Learn more: bit.ly/47GIbzd #EndCervicalCancer
9️⃣0️⃣% of girls are vaccinated
7️⃣0️⃣% of women are screened
9️⃣0️⃣% of women with cervical cancer receive treatment
Learn more: bit.ly/47GIbzd #EndCervicalCancer
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#CervicalCancer could be the first cancer EVER in the world to be eliminated, if:
9️⃣0️⃣% of girls are vaccinated
7️⃣0️⃣% of women are screened
9️⃣0️⃣% of women with cervical cancer receive treatment
Learn more: bit.ly/47GIbzd #EndCervicalCancer
9️⃣0️⃣% of girls are vaccinated
7️⃣0️⃣% of women are screened
9️⃣0️⃣% of women with cervical cancer receive treatment
Learn more: bit.ly/47GIbzd #EndCervicalCancer