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Kaylee Byers, PhD
@kayleebyers.bsky.social
🐀Rat detective
🦠 Assistant Prof: One Health, Wildlife, Comms
🎤Podcaster: Nice Genes!
🏺Potter
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Lead of the OH-HI Science CoLab where we appreciate the connected health of animals, people, and the planet.
And Dr. Mary Sco describes how the food we eat is connected to our microbiome and our mood.

This is a fun one! Well… as fun as food sickness can be I guess, but the takeaway? Fibre is friend! And when in doubt - don’t you put it in your mouth.

@genomebc.bsky.social
@ubcpublichealth.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I was told recently in a class that I was teaching that the youth don’t get the pizza rat reference anymore and this filled me with an intense sadness 🍕🐀♾️
October 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This is only possible because of the generosity and advocacy of the community artists who shared their stories. We hear you and thank you! A big thanks also to exhibition funders @healthresearchbc.bsky.social @pacpublichealth.bsky.social + the Post-Covid Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network
October 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This exhibition has been such an incredible collaboration - guided by a community advisory board, including a team of patients, advocates, museum curators, academics, and health systems folks we worked to showcase the stories from 46 long haulers and over 200 photos from across Canada
October 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Thanks cous ❤️
March 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Of course!! I was just talking about the old kayak club. I miss those days! And even checking the rat traps :)
March 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
We make a number of recommendations including research outside of the gender binary (all studies spoke only to the experiences of men or women), representation of women in decision making positions throughout the vaccine value chain, and investments to enhance access to resources
January 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Women also had less time to access vaccines due to other responsibilities like caregiving or chores and in some cases cultural norms reduced their autonomy to care for livestock
January 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Women also had less access to vaccines for reasons such as lacking decision-making power, less mobility (eg relying on public transport) and caring for smaller numbers of animals where vaccines are purchased in larger package sizes (eg caring for 50 animals but package size is 100)
January 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Our review found that both men and women livestock farmers have similar positive perceptions of vaccines but women have less information which points towards the need for improved education programs tailored to women
January 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
From islands to cities, these spaces can promote the evolution of some traits more quickly than we might see elsewhere.

Episode inspired by this study on rapid evolution of bats in the Solomon Islands 🦇🏝️

@genomebc.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
Parallel evolution in an island archipelago revealed by genomic sequencing of Hipposideros leaf-nosed bats
Abstract. Body size is a key morphological attribute, often used to delimit species boundaries among closely related taxa. But body size can evolve in para
academic.oup.com
December 18, 2024 at 2:13 AM
A+ thread @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social

Although the first one up in the series was already 😳😳😳😳
December 18, 2024 at 1:58 AM