Just your average Friday Night fun... making boob emojis with @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social
31.01.2026 19:59
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Just your average Friday Night fun... making boob emojis with @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social
It's a lovely article @meghanazad.bsky.social 😊
Publishing data did lead to positive change in Manitoba!
Here's the cited article in #IntBreastfeedJ
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Research + Advocacy teaming up for real impact!
Next, we are advocating for:
- Free breast pump loan program
- Milk Mentors program expansion
- Insurance coverage for lactation care and pumps
- Lactation spaces on campus
... and we need help in many forms.
DM me if you'd like to contribute!
New research integrates longitudinal multiomic data to show
🤱🏾 how mom shape baby's microbiome
👶🏾 how baby shapes mom's milk
⏩It's a 2-way street!⏪
Proud to be a coauthor on this exciting work, led by @trenton.phd & his amazing student @lishideng.bsky.social - w/ milk data from our #IMiC consortium
We're inviting teachers in grades 1-3 to test drive lessons about baby mammals and their mothers’ milk!
These lessons use stories and simple activities to help students learn about growth, nutrition, and introduce the concepts of taxonomy and adaptation.
#EduSky #iTeachBio #EduSci #EvoEd 🧪 🛟
A great conversation - thank you for the opportunity!
#breastfeeding #humanmilk #breastmilk #microbiome
🧪 🤱🏻
Media bias against women doesn’t just hurt female scientists’ careers; it also biases the information that gets the the public.
For example, my field, lactation science, is likely a thing you just now learned exists.
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪 🛟 🩺 #BlueSci #MedSky #WomenInSci #SciMoms
Highlight of my visit!
What a Trailblazer, indeed.
I had the honour of meeting Ruth Lawrence during a visit to the @urochester.bsky.social in 2019. We met 🌟in her office🌟. She was 95!
RIP Ruth.
www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/r...
Intriguing New Research on Milk Stem Cells:
In mice, stem cells from maternal milk can migrate to pups’ brains, where they appear to integrate and differentiate after an ischemic (stroke-like) injury.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
I see it 😃
... so I reached out and Ali responded immediately, excited to collaborate.
I proposed a few microbe-themed ideas and she came up with this.
It was perfect on the first try. I had no suggestions (which, if you ask my students - is a miracle 😆)
Find Ali's fabulous work at lightandpapershop.com
In love with my first commissioned art piece! 😍🦠🧪
I've had the breast for a while. My new office configuration was begging for a 'companion' so I checked out the artist's other pieces - all gorgeous, but none quite right (though if you study the brain, heart, gut, spine... you are in luck!)
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Breastmilk components associated with a child’s early neurodevelopment: new CHILD research in @FrontNutrition from Sarah Turner & @meghanazad.bsky.social @umanitoba @CHRIManitoba #NationalBreastfeedingWeek
childstudy.ca/breastmilk-a...
Fun fact: Sarah has cameo in this video, discussing an early version of Fig. 3!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQvG...
Big thanks to our amazing team, spanning many institutions!
@umanitoba.bsky.social
@ualberta.bsky.social
@sickkidsvs.bsky.social
@chrimanitoba.bsky.social
@um-mchp.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social @humanmilkinstitute.bsky.social
+ funders CIHR & @researchmb.bsky.social
#TeamScience!
Take-home messages:
⚙️ Milk is a complex system with many components that help shape infant development - sometimes with competing or counterintuitive effects (#MoreResearchNeeded)
🧬 Genetics play a role in milk composition & function
🧠 We’re still learning how milk fuels growing brains!
Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are complex sugars shaped by maternal genetics (secretor status)
We found:
🤔 Higher DSLNT → linked to lower motor scores at 1 yr
🧬 Secretor status ✨changed✨ some HMO associations with language & motor development
Fatty acids (FAs) are the building blocks of milk fat, important for brain development 🧠
We found:
🥑 Saturated FAs → positive link with motor skills at 1 year
🐟 Polyunsaturated n-3 & n-6 FAs → surprising negative link with cognition & motor skills
We studied
🤱🏻 240 parent–infant pairs from the CHILD cohort
🥑 20 fatty acids
🧪 19 human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs)
🧠 Cognitive, language & motor development until 2 years
🚨 New #THRiVElab paper!🚨
(Just in time for #NationalBreastfeedingWeek 🍁🤱🏽 )
Led by PhD student Sarah Turner, we explored how human milk fatty acids & oligosaccharides relate to infant neurodevelopment in the @childcohortstudy.bsky.social.
🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut...
It's #NationalBreastfeedingWeek!
Our MILC team is hosting info booths at public libraries this week in Winnipeg to celebrate.
More about MILC: www.milcresearch.com
A Genetic Atlas of the Mammary Gland 🧬🤱🐭
New research from @geula.bsky.social & team shows shifts in gene activity across pregnancy → lactation → weaning.
This new 'atlas' provides new avenues for studying lactation disorders and breast cancer.
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
We are reopening this search - apply now!
viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...
If you missed it live - the #GloMiNe2025 talk recordings are now available!
Kudos to the organizers for the fancy editing (cited papers and website links are embedded for easy clicking🪄)
Here's mine: cassyni.com/events/TkwUV...
Today at #MILCclub we are learning from Dr. Daniel Robinson about his team's new sensor technology for measuring milk volume during #breastfeeding
🧪🤱🏾
Check out their research here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
You are a posting machine! Thank you for sharing so much from here at #ADBTPH25.
#AGBTPH25 MA: up to 20% of baby deaths caused by suboptimal breastfeeding. lower risk of SIDS, respiratory infections, other issues. Human milk is a superfood, baby's first vaccine. Milk changes based on signals from baby
@kozetamiliku.bsky.social
@dylanmackayphd.bsky.social
WOW. Learning about the #Nutrition for Precision Health initiative at #AGBTPH25.
This massive study involves 8000 people tracked w/ wearables, CGM, blood & stool multi-omics, controlled feeding trials, and novel methods (apps & eye cameras!) for tracking diet. 🤯
nutritionforprecisionhealth.org