Researchers at the University of Toronto have found a possible blood test to determine who is at risk of preterm births.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/02/20/u-of-t-blood-test-detect-risk-for-preterm-birth/
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Des chercheurs de l’Université de Toronto ont trouvé un possible test sanguin pour déterminer qui est à risk de naissances prématurées.
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Finally published! My first solo academic publication.
It's a reflection on the difficult 2 months of the #Palestine solidarity student encampment at #uToronto, edited by Esmat elHalaby and Maya Wind.
Open access full text here: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-11623540
In the article, I try to place the failures of the student movement to reach a deal with the university admin in the wider context where the visions for #Palestine futures have all but disappeared since the Oslo Accords in the 90s.
started a #wikipedia article about US archaeologist Cornelia Gaskins Harcum (1878-1927), earned her PhD a #JohnsHopkinsU in 1914, curator at Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, taught at @vassar @wellesleyalums #UToronto @gouchercollege https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Gaskins_Harcum @wikiwomeninred #Archaeology #Classics #RomanArt
#Pyrite compositions on all scales, down to the atomic, presented today in a talk by Daniel Gregory (#UToronto). He also presented new results on the formation of vanadium-enriched black shales. A figure of some framboidal pyrites (named for their raspberry resemblance) with differing concentrations of trace elements (Cu, Ni, Ar) inside and on the rim of the smallest crystals. #Minerals #McGillUniversity #BlackShale
First was a fantastic talk by Shion Guha on human-centered data science to mitigate algorithmic biases at the #UToronto iSchool. Guha explores a number of critical issues - data scientists don't necessarily have to predict anything, biased #algorithms can be just as much of a problem as biased data, and much more. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0GznoxFLw4 (2/6) #AIEthics
Next was a wide-ranging talk by Lynne Howarth on how information science is changing over time at #UToronto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rF0lWrlkj4 (4/9)
It's wonderful to see such a supportive colleague recognized with this formal position of leadership. Congrats, @TracyKivell ! 🇨🇦 #UToronto @UofT_Anthro
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New director for @MPI_EVA_Leipzig! 🥳 We are happy to welcome palaeoanthropologist @TracyKivell whose new department will study the emergence & evolution of our earliest fossil human relatives & our closest living cousins, the African apes. @maxplanckpress ht…
https://twitter.com/MPI_EVA_Leipzig/status/1621082844583063554
If you need an index (or will need, over the next year) on your philosophy or bioethics or other medical topics manuscript, that's me!
#philosophy #philosophers #bioethics #medical #medicine
#canadian #canada #UBC #UAlberta #UCalgary #USask #UTP #UToronto #McGill #Queens #UTorontoPress
Enjoying life in downtown Kingston (#ygk), #Ontario, #Canada with my husband and our two tabby #cats. Grew up in #Toronto, graduate of #CarletonU and #UToronto, working at #QueensU. Spend my free time following the #BlueJays, watching #movies, reading about #history and #science. Interested in #urbanism, #highereducation, #modernart, and #photography. Joined Mastodon as part of the Twexodus.
@vmousseau my last experience at #utoronto has been our TA strike in 2014. It has soured my whole memory of that place. And we got nothing at the end.
