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Brittany Moyce Gruber, PhD
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Mom and postdoctoral Researcher in pharmacology, diabetes and metabolism
Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦
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🧵(1/7)We are now out of September🍁! From the last two weeks we have had publications from the CIRTN labs of Drs Jenny Bruin, Mourad Ferdaoussi, Peter Light, Patrick MacDonald, James Shapiro and Bruce Verchere!
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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📢 We’re hiring a Lab Manager for the MILC Biorepository!

Join our #THRiVElab team to advance science on #breastfeeding and #humanmilk.

📍 In person, full-time in Winnipeg
💵 $51K–$74K + benefits
🧪 5+ yrs experience
🔗 Apply: viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca – #39591

Pls share! 💫
#JobAlert #ScienceJobs
July 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Come work with us and make great science happen with awesome people! 🧫🥼👩🏾‍💻🤜🏻🤛🏽
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

We're hiring a Research Project Manager to join our #THRiVElab team at U. Manitoba.

📍 Winnipeg or Remote (in Canada)
💰 Up to $85k
🔗 Apply: www.umanitoba.ca/careers (#38881)
🌐 About us: www.thrivediscovery.ca/staff-positi...

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June 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Maternal obesity rewires fetal Kupffer cells (KCs) via HIF1α, triggering fatty liver disease in adult mice. Replacing KCs with naive monocytes rescues the liver. Great @nature.com paper from the great @masslab.bsky.social. 🤗
doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧪
Kupffer cell programming by maternal obesity triggers fatty liver disease
Nature - In a mouse model, maternal obesity during pregnancy can lead to fatty liver disease in the offspring, driven by aberrant developmental programming of Kuppfer cells.
doi.org
June 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious.

"The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]."

Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.
June 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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The intriguing case for GIPR antagonism, supported by genetics, pharmacology and Maritide is presented by Rosenkilde, George, Veniant and Holst #weightloss ##obesity diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/art...
June 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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As we head to the 2025 @amdiabetesassn.bsky.social GIP biology will be part of the conversation. Here Samms and Sloop summarize the compelling scientific story of Tirzepatide and the case for GIPR co-agonism #Diabetes #Weightloss #obesity diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/art...
June 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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June 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
My family in Flin Flon have safely evacuated, but thousands are trapped in pukatawagan.
Govt will match red cross donations, as heroic efforts in apocalyptic conditions continue.
Please consider a donation
#manitobawildfire
www.redcross.ca/how-we-help/...
Manitoba Wildfires Response 2025
www.redcross.ca
June 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.
May 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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This also includes resident and fellow physicians
“Harvard is prohibited from having any aliens on F- or J-nonimmigrant status”

To be clear, this includes international postdocs as well as international students. (I was at Harvard on a J-1 visa for two years.)

Thinking of all my fabulous colleagues over in Cambridge, Mass.
May 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Pedants: actually, AI doesn't use that much water compared to farming

Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many
May 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
My cousin's husband was diagnosed with stage 4, metastatic colorectal cancer.
They have 2 young children and a beautiful life together.

Please consider a donation AND get screened regularly
gofund.me/62c647cb
Donate to Standing with Travis Stewart, organized by Meghan Adams
A Husband, Father, and Hero Facing Stage 4 Cancer On April 17, 2025 the stable, predict… Meghan Adams needs your support for Standing with Travis Stewart
www.gofundme.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Gusting winds worsen wildfire near The Pas, creating 'really big beast' and forcing more evacuations

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Gusting winds worsen wildfire near The Pas, creating 'really big beast' and forcing more evacuations | CBC News
A Manitoba wildfire threatening various communities over the past week was intensified by strong winds overnight, forcing hundreds more people to evacuate.
www.cbc.ca
May 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates ratcheted up his feud with Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of “killing the world’s poorest children” through what he said were misguided cuts to US development assistance

www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cuts
Billionaire reopens feud with Tesla chief as he unveils plan to spend $200bn on philanthropy and close foundation in 2045
www.ft.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Measles in Alberta for 2025-05-06:
• 287 cases (+22)
• +1 north zone
• +4 central zone
• +17 south zone

We are now nearly double what the total national number of Canadian cases was in 2024, just in Alberta.
May 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.

"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."

nsidc.org/data/user-re...
May 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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More firings at the National Cancer Institute, including the Cancer Information Service, “which provides answers to doctors and patients about cancer, and updates to databases summarizing cancer information for healthcare providers”.

I mean who needs it, right?

www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...
National Institutes of Health lays off hundreds more staff, including at cancer research institute
The cuts at the National Institutes of Health blindsided staff, after reassurances that no further layoffs were planned.
www.cbsnews.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Which FDA-approved vaccines had randomized, placebo-controlled trials?

ALL OF THEM.

Polio?
Measles, mumps, rubella?
Haemophilus influenzae B?
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis?
Meningococcus?
Varicella?
Pneumococcus?
Rotavirus?
RSV?
Hepatitis B?
Influenza?
HPV?
COVID-19?
Shingles?

YEP.

A thread🧵
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May 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Cole Perfetti (59:57) scores the latest game-tying goal in a Game 7 in NHL history!
May 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature.

https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
go.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM