Genetic counselors at #eshg2025 representing Australia, Canada and Switzerland! 🧬 🌏 🥂 @tashawainstein.bsky.social @kennedyborle.bsky.social @j9austin.bsky.social #genechat

🚨I get to share another publication by an awesome mentees today! Mitch Hendry and Loryn Byres arent on here, but they led this fab content analysis study about perspectives of >300 Autistic people on genetic testing for autism www.nature.com/articles/s41... #GeneChat #AcademicSky 🧪 #ProudMentor

In this Comment, @kennedyborle.bsky.social & @j9austin.bsky.social discuss how genetic counsellors support patients in navigating their health-care journey, and the benefits of expanding these efforts into primary care settings.
https://www.nature.c...

Sharing good things too....
@kennedyborle.bsky.social and I just had a new paper published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers about integrating genetic counselors into primary care to improve patient outcomes: rdcu.be/eiUlw
#GeneChat #AcademicSky 🧪

Mixed methods can be very useful for genetic counselling research but there are considerations for rigour and validity. We wrote a methods paper about the opportunities and challenges for high quality MM genetic counselling research! @j9austin.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

“Collectively, the AI search engines provided incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries.” ~ @columjournreview.bsky.social

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New paper alert! 🚨

Up to 39% of Canadians have unmet need for genetic counselling and that its associated with some sociodemographic characteristics. Much of this unmet need is for multifactorial conditions and wouldn’t be met through the current system.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Late stage capitalism is getting Black Friday discount emails from academic publishing companies #MakeItMakeSense

Regular reminder to patient and public partners that if you see a scientific paper behind a paywall, email the 'corresponding author' who's named and whose email address is on the paper for a copy. You're not bothering them - they'll love that you reached out with an interest in their research!

Whyyyy (in the era of digital publishing) do academic journals have reference limits for research articles?

My team has some new exciting funding for genetic counseling research! We are gonna embed a genetic counselor in primary care and look at outcomes! www.genomebc.ca/blog/new-gen... super excited about what this could mean for access and equity etc 💜

On Genetic Counsellor Awareness Day I am thinking about the importance of people knowing, not only that GCs exist, but what we actually DO and how we help people make meaning of genetic information and use it in alignment with their values, wants, and needs.

Introducing myself on this new platform! I’m a genetic counsellor and PhD student at UBC. My work is interdisciplinary and focuses on access to and outcomes of genetic counselling and testing using a health equity lens. I like to share papers and puns and other general musings!