dani contreras (ᜇᜈᜒ)

she/her | Hiligaynon | MSc Community Health Sciences @UCalgary | Arthritis research

[dani contreras (ᜇᜈᜒ) @danigcontreras]

@sea_needs morena filipinos seeing the “range”: 😟

[dani contreras (ᜇᜈᜒ) @danigcontreras]

This study is wild! On pre-print, not peer-reviewed yet.

Prenatal and Adult Exposure to Smoking and Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes in Children and Adults – A Nationwide Study with a Family-Based Design @SSRN https://t.co/ZEIN7Sdyo6

[Mangrove Matters PH @MangrovePh]

Infrastructure development is crucial for economic growth, but at what cost? Here’s why we should not allow the Panay-Guimaras-Negros Bridge project to move forward:

[Pam Roach @pamelamroach]

Just out: Prevalence & Characteristics of anti-Indigenous bias among Albertan physicians.

8.3% felt cold toward Indigenous people; 25% preferred white people to Indigenous people. 2/3 Albertan physicians demonstrate implicit anti-Indigenous bias
https://t.co/62Zk3KW8t2

1/3

[dani contreras (ᜇᜈᜒ) @danigcontreras]

@stepha1ina we exclusively use stata in my program and i love pointing and clicking everywhere i go instead of coding!!

[Stop TB Partnership @StopTB]

TB is a preventable, treatable, & curable disease, yet close to 600 children lose their lives to TB, every day. In a series of articles ‘What’s New in Childhood TB’, experts in childhood TB address aspects of the #epidemic in #children.
📌🔖https://t.co/hezH3bl05y #endTB

[Catherine Backman @cath_back]

After a pandemic hiatus, @Arthritis_ARC scientists and trainees welcome the opportunity to meet again at our annual research retreat, sharing up and coming studies on all things #ArthritisResearch 😷
(live tweeting thread 1/n)

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”

[dani contreras (ᜇᜈᜒ) @danigcontreras]

“‘Why aren’t we talking about it?’ The forgotten cause of missing Indigenous men and boys” by @TorontoStar
https://t.co/xIj0wvkekL

[dani contreras (ᜇᜈᜒ) @danigcontreras]

i attended a summer student symposium today and tried not to think about how i’m probably the dumbest of them all 🥲

[dani contreras (ᜇᜈᜒ) @danigcontreras]

a fellow filipina asked me for advice on how to navigate uni as an open studies student & was surprised to hear that i was pursuing grad school.

“you’re the first pinoy i know that’s going to take a master’s program”

it’s really hard for us im gonna sit down for a bit. 🥹😭

[Isaac Bogoch @BogochIsaac]

Why are we seeing outbreaks of infections like COVID, monkeypox, Zika, Ebola, Dengue, H1N1, MERS, etc?

1. Environmental encroachment & contact with animal reservoirs
2. Climate change expanding the range of insect-transmitted infections
3. Increasing human global mobility
4. Etc

[Megan McCurry @microbe_megan]

BREAKING: Local PhD Student Discovers that a Single Week of Vacation Does Not Cure Burnout

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Epstein-Barr virus is the leading cause of multiple sclerosis
https://t.co/Q7aEwL45Zw
Summary of one of the most important advances in life science this year @ScienceMagazine
https://t.co/2tUgZrfxye

[Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel]

Academics after writing one sentence

[Bukola Salami @BukolaKSalami]

Now officially a Full Professor at the University of Alberta after 8 years of receiving my PhD. Its been hard work. I am very grateful to everyone who supported me through the journey including my family, mentors, colleagues, friends and community.

[CAPYBARA MAN @CAPYBARA_MAN]

capybara bread

[dani contreras (ᜇᜈᜒ) @danigcontreras]

is being an academic just having regularly scheduled “IM A FRAUD” breakdowns every week?