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Proud 🇨🇦 Maritimer | Assistant Professor @ uCalgary Obs/Gyn & Community Health Science | She/her | Epidemiologist | 💃 #WomensHealth #Endometriosis #CardioObstetrics🫀🤰| Mom 👪 | #WomenInSTEM | #EDIA proponent & ally | Insta: aware_research | Views are mine
“When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval.”
- Marcus Aurelius
#Stoicism
#stoicquotes
#mindfulness
It's the first time in history that the Assembly of First Nations has declared they have no confidence in a government.
The UCP government.
Still, Danielle Smith refuses to come forward and clearly denounce separatism.
Why?
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I do not know how many times I have seen students and assistants with kids overwhelmed trying to balance their studies/work and child care, sad, late, ashamed, and what else.
#InternationalWomensDay2026 #NewfoundlandAndLabrador #GenderDisparity #IWD2026
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If a colleague who has been having a rough time lately knocks on your office door, and before you have a chance to answer, walks in and sits at your meeting table... stop what you're doing, shut your door, and listen.
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky #MedSky #EpiSky
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30 new or increased fees for services that most families already find it hard to afford.
We deserve better.
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Ethics applications... ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
#EpiSky #MedSky #AcademicSky
If you feel that you need to preface a question with "this isn't supposed to be a rude question" don't ask the question.
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky #MedSky #EpiSky
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Happy Sunday!
"How do you handle, in your job, being assertive without being perceived as agressive or bitchy?"
What. A. Question.
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky #MedSky
"Kennedy has continued to spread misinformation and push politicised agendas at the expense of the country’s most vulnerable"
"Calls for his resignation now number in the thousands."
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- @thelancet.com
Despite the fcukery going on in the world, let’s not forget to see the good
#nature
what a fcuked up species
I am waiting for the next astreoid
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Be unrelenting and unapologetic about your boundaries.
#AdviceForYoungAcademics #EpiSky #MedSky #ScienceSky
This validation means a lot.
Thanks man. I could use some.
Well guys, I was almost hit by a car twice, slipped on ice three times, and two patients got upset at me because I couldn't tell them where to find their clinic... all before 9am.
Wish me luck on this grant.
#FFS #TGIF #AcademicSky #EpiSky
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky
This never gets old. Or irrelevant.
This week's cover @thelancet.com
At a time when misinformation, deep-fakes and artificially-generated content designed to look like real news is flooding Facebook and Instagram, their parent company Meta continues to block original, trusted Canadian journalism.
It has only taken me a few decades to realize that the world has a difficult time understanding HSPs
Word to the wise: If someone is upset about something, acknowledging their feelings before telling them to look on the bright side is actually more helpful. There is usually more to the story than you think.
#IsItFridayYet #AcademicSky #ScienceSky
The desks of Harper Moyski and Fletcher Merkel - two students killed in the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School - sit empty in the Capitol this week as a reminder of the horror of gun violence.
The majority of Minnesotans agree, it’s time to ban assault weapons.
The men's hockey team seemed quite happy to party with at least one member of your laughable administration.
Congratulations to Team Canada 🇨🇦
They had an amazing Olympics. Canadians should be proud 👊🏻
#OlympicsHockey 🏒
🤣 Yep!!