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

Always fun to read about how universities, like @dalhousie.bsky.social, are willing to spend millions to <checks notes> cut spending. (Of course the parasitic consultancy class always recommends cuts that end up breaking things so badly that management then hires more consultants to “fix” it, &c.)

The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 3w ago

Canada’s universities are broke—and easy prey for consulting firms peddling austerity. @jameshasaface.bsky.social & Kyla Perry investigate the Nous Group, an Australian consulting firm that has earned a name for “restructuring” that cuts jobs, services, and faculties at Canadian schools.

🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

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The Sauve Lab is recruiting students! Please share! Interested in conservation, forensics, or evolutionary ecology? Email your research interests, CV, and info for two references to sauve.drew@ontariotechu.ca! While Fall 2027 is the primary intake, there may be some flexibility in start dates.

Poster for the Sauve Lab at Ontario Tech University recruiting graduate students for Fall 2027. The poster includes the Sauve Lab and Ontario Tech logos, photos of an eastern loggerhead shrike, a flock of black-legged kittiwakes, and human chromosomes, along with scientific illustrations.
Text: "The Sauve Lab is recruiting graduate students. We run a research program focused on using genetics, primarily quantitative genetics, and statistical modelling to answer questions and solve problems in evolutionary ecology, conservation, and forensic science. We're excited about family trees in their various forms, from zoo population registries to pedigrees in long-term wild populations and genealogical records. We collaborate broadly with government, non-profit, and industry partners.
We're looking for students from all backgrounds who want to be part of a welcoming, supportive research group. Our lab believes everyone belongs, and we work together to create projects that fit graduate requirements and individual strengths.
Interested? Email sauve.drew@ontariotechu.ca with your research interests, a CV, and contact information for two references. For a Fall 2027 start, please email by August 25. Learn more about the Applied Biosciences programs at Ontario Tech University.

Dobranowski et al. studied the response of 66 paediatric IBD microbiomes to nine resistant starches. The results were highly personalised, while multi-omics uncovered metabolites beyond butyrate and a shift from mucin degradation to starch utilisation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Individual variability shapes ex vivo responses to resistant starch in inflammatory bowel disease derived microbiomes - npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Individual variability shapes ex vivo responses to resistant starch in inflammatory bowel disease derived microbiomes

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(apart from the important point that if we let AI do all our thinking, we are doomed) generally speaking this is why I have come to view presentations and paper writing as *doing science*, just as much as lab work or running computer simulations or whatever. Communication and discussion are central

Cian O'Donnell@cianodonnell.bsky.social · last mo.

During my postdoc I was trying to move to a new area, my supervisor said: you have to go to a conference, it's the only way to learn what they are thinking and what the key questions are. He was completely right. Science is a collective and social human pursuit, not a bunch of pdfs online

Anthropic launches Claude science What could possibly go wrong? “As the pipeline runs, a reviewer agent inspects the outputs, flagging incorrect citations, untraceable numbers and figures that don’t match their underlying code, and self-correcting as it goes,”

Anthropic launches Claude Science app for researchers and scientists

Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude and Mythos, has unveiled its ‘Claude Science’ offering, which it described as “an AI workbench for scientists”.

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If you are encouraging AI use at your organization, be aware that women are judged more harshly than men for using AI. Make sure to evaluate quality of the AI work product instead of the qualities of the employee using AI. www.forbes.com/sites/michel...

Women Who Use AI Seen As Incompetent; Men Who Use AI Seen As Pragmatic

A 2026 study found that when women and men use AI tools to create identical resumes, evaluators view the women as less competent, while crediting the men with initiative.

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The Next Generation Study is exploring why type 2 #diabetes affects some First Nation families across generations. #DOHaD Exposure to diabetes during #pregnancy influence child development, long term #health. Aim is to improve prevention efforts and early treatment. Learn More: tinyurl.com/3zc2tydz

Next Gen - DREAM - Diabetes Research Envisioned & Accomplished in Manitoba

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