Mathieu Ferron
@mathieuferron.bsky.social
Mathieu Ferron Lab @ircm.bsky.social. Prof @umontreal.ca, Montreal, Québec. Vitamin K, bone, beta cell, ER stress and diabetes. Conseiller scientifique du CRCQ.🔬Québécois.
https://www.ircm.qc.ca/en/researchers/mathieu-ferron
https://www.ircm.qc.ca/en/researchers/mathieu-ferron
Il n'y a aucune raison valable pour faire un "audit" des pistes cyclables à Montréal. Une fois construites, elles sont utilisées et c'est parce qu'elles sont sécuritaires! Est-ce qu'on va faire un audit des voies automobiles, pour savoir lesquelles sont dangereuses?
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Un graphique qui dit tout | Le REV Saint-Denis, une piste cyclable qui atteint des sommets
Le vélo a été un sujet polarisant dans la dernière campagne municipale à Montréal. Pourtant, les pistes cyclables montréalaises n’ont jamais été aussi utilisées.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Il n'y a aucune raison valable pour faire un "audit" des pistes cyclables à Montréal. Une fois construites, elles sont utilisées et c'est parce qu'elles sont sécuritaires! Est-ce qu'on va faire un audit des voies automobiles, pour savoir lesquelles sont dangereuses?
www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...
www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...
How 5pm in Montreal looks like after going back to standard time. 😭
November 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
How 5pm in Montreal looks like after going back to standard time. 😭
Will the Blue Jays finally bring back the Stanley Cup to Canada?!
October 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Will the Blue Jays finally bring back the Stanley Cup to Canada?!
Congratulations to Dr Shayesteh Kiani for successfully defending her PhD thesis today! 🎉 @ircm.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Congratulations to Dr Shayesteh Kiani for successfully defending her PhD thesis today! 🎉 @ircm.bsky.social
Depuis 10 jours, je suis le nouveau président du CRCQ, une organisation qui fait la promotion de la recherche et de la relève biomédicale au Québec. J'annonce donc que le 67e congrès du CRCQ aura lieu du 7 au 9 octobre 2026, au Manoir St-Sauveur. À mettre à vos agendas! #CRCQ
October 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Depuis 10 jours, je suis le nouveau président du CRCQ, une organisation qui fait la promotion de la recherche et de la relève biomédicale au Québec. J'annonce donc que le 67e congrès du CRCQ aura lieu du 7 au 9 octobre 2026, au Manoir St-Sauveur. À mettre à vos agendas! #CRCQ
The crowd's mood when a Drosophila biologist presents at a C. elegans conference.
September 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The crowd's mood when a Drosophila biologist presents at a C. elegans conference.
Reposted by Mathieu Ferron
A big study in JAMA last year in which 185 909 children were exposed to acetaminophen during pregnancy. Conclusion: Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children's risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38592388/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38592388/
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children's Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability - PubMed
Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children's risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests that associations observed in other mo...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A big study in JAMA last year in which 185 909 children were exposed to acetaminophen during pregnancy. Conclusion: Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children's risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38592388/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38592388/
Reposted by Mathieu Ferron
This is great. Iggy is god.
September 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is great. Iggy is god.
I was on a H1B visa while I was finishing my postdoc training in Columbia University in NYC in 2012! If that will be today, I will have to pay 100K$! 🤯
Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.
One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.
One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.
September 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I was on a H1B visa while I was finishing my postdoc training in Columbia University in NYC in 2012! If that will be today, I will have to pay 100K$! 🤯
🎶Je suis anti-Fa, Sol, La, Si, Do... nald! 🎶
September 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🎶Je suis anti-Fa, Sol, La, Si, Do... nald! 🎶
Offer Canadian citizenship to Jimmy Kimmel. And get his show back on air on CBC/RC.
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Offer Canadian citizenship to Jimmy Kimmel. And get his show back on air on CBC/RC.
CIHR grant deadline.
September 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
CIHR grant deadline.
Reposted by Mathieu Ferron
Hello! Welcome to the CIRTN-R2FIC BlueSky account! Our group focuses on researching pancreatic islet biology and pathology related to islets such as type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Here you will find bi-weekly updates from the scientists from across Canada that make up CIRTN-R2FIC.
Here you will find bi-weekly updates from the scientists from across Canada that make up CIRTN-R2FIC.
September 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Hello! Welcome to the CIRTN-R2FIC BlueSky account! Our group focuses on researching pancreatic islet biology and pathology related to islets such as type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Here you will find bi-weekly updates from the scientists from across Canada that make up CIRTN-R2FIC.
Here you will find bi-weekly updates from the scientists from across Canada that make up CIRTN-R2FIC.
A milestone has been reached today!
September 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A milestone has been reached today!
🔥New preprint from our lab online!🔥 We describe a new function of the vitamin K-dependent protein GAS6 in osteoclast formation. I will be back soon with more details!
Vitamin K-dependent carboxylation in osteoblasts regulates bone resorption through GAS6 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.673085v1
September 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🔥New preprint from our lab online!🔥 We describe a new function of the vitamin K-dependent protein GAS6 in osteoclast formation. I will be back soon with more details!
Reposted by Mathieu Ferron
Of mice and men... 🧪
Work by postdoc Laura Reininger in collaboration with @huisinglab.bsky.social and Michelle Kimple. Differences in the regulation of insulin secretion by FFAR4 between mouse and human islets.
@crchum.bsky.social @umontreal-en.bsky.social
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Work by postdoc Laura Reininger in collaboration with @huisinglab.bsky.social and Michelle Kimple. Differences in the regulation of insulin secretion by FFAR4 between mouse and human islets.
@crchum.bsky.social @umontreal-en.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Free fatty acid receptor 4 agonists stimulate insulin secretion via different mechanisms in mouse versus human islets
The free fatty acid receptor FFAR4 is expressed in pancreatic islets, and its activation potentiates insulin and inhibits somatostatin (SST) secretion. We investigated the mechanisms of action of FFAR...
www.biorxiv.org
August 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Of mice and men... 🧪
Work by postdoc Laura Reininger in collaboration with @huisinglab.bsky.social and Michelle Kimple. Differences in the regulation of insulin secretion by FFAR4 between mouse and human islets.
@crchum.bsky.social @umontreal-en.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Work by postdoc Laura Reininger in collaboration with @huisinglab.bsky.social and Michelle Kimple. Differences in the regulation of insulin secretion by FFAR4 between mouse and human islets.
@crchum.bsky.social @umontreal-en.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mood after the CIHR grant marathon.
September 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Mood after the CIHR grant marathon.
Every September of a researcher life in Canada.
First week of term ✅
CIHR grant ✅
Exhausted ✅
CIHR grant ✅
Exhausted ✅
September 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Every September of a researcher life in Canada.
Very insightful review by Dr Patricia Ducy from Columbia University on the endocrine crosstalk between bone and energy metabolism.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two decades into the crosstalk between bone and energy metabolism - Nature Reviews Endocrinology
Aside from a few days around Halloween, the skeleton tends not to have a positive image. However, at least in the biomedical field, this view is changing as bone is now identified as an endocrine orga...
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September 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Very insightful review by Dr Patricia Ducy from Columbia University on the endocrine crosstalk between bone and energy metabolism.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Un exemple concret de pourquoi la recherche fondamentale est ESSENTIELLE! Des recherches menées pendant des décennies visant à comprendre comment fonctionnent les cellules souches du sang, on permit de developper un traitement pour la leucémie!
www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/09/05/c...
www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/09/05/c...
Un miracle québécois: ce jeune homme de 25 ans survit à la leucémie grâce à un médicament révolutionnaire découvert à Montréal
Un jeune patient atteint de leucémie à qui on ne donnait que deux ans à vivre est en rémission grâce à un traitement mis au point à Montréal.
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September 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Un exemple concret de pourquoi la recherche fondamentale est ESSENTIELLE! Des recherches menées pendant des décennies visant à comprendre comment fonctionnent les cellules souches du sang, on permit de developper un traitement pour la leucémie!
www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/09/05/c...
www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/09/05/c...
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A giant in molecular biology and virology has passed. RIP David Baltimore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...
David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A giant in molecular biology and virology has passed. RIP David Baltimore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...