Dead account. Retired from Twitter. You can find me at bsky.app/profile/vickyyyf.bs…
Joined August 2009
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1 Dec 2024
15 years later, 50,000 tweets have been deleted and I am off. This profile will stay up only to send people to my BlueSky account. Thanks folks, it's been a blast and I am grateful for all of the excellent connections I made here with great people. See you on BlueSky!
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Absolutely wonderful 💛
29 Mar 2023
So proud to say that an 8 week trial of feeding the parent that stays overnight has started in the following hospitals....Alder Hey, Birmingham, Bristol, GOSH, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and Southampton. All under Sophie's Legacy initiative.
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29 Mar 2023
My postdoc salary when I left in May last year was just above the Toronto minimum living wage. Colleagues of mine who were less senior postdocs were receiving less than the Toronto minimum living wage. We are all in our thirties with 2-3 degrees and 10 years of experience.
29 Mar 2023
Without a renewed effort from government to support fundamental, discovery-oriented research, Canada risks falling behind on rapidly evolving science and innovation which is essential to Canadian prosperity. #Budget2023 ⬇️
univcan.ca/media-room/media-…
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29 Mar 2023
I should point out that it was just above minimum living wage *based on 8 hours a day 5 days a week* which is not reality by a long shot.
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29 Mar 2023
How bad are postdoc salaries in Canada? Well, a couple of friends of mine who left academia in the past year or so doubled their salary in one move. That's not a reflection of inflated industry salaries (at their level anyway) - that's just fair pay for their skills.
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29 Mar 2023
The Canadian football teams are really in need of a proper chant. May I suggest a @NUFC style "Plaid, plaid red and white army!"
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28 Mar 2023
Today I very briefly returned to the lab at lunchtime to help a former colleague of mine with an experiment.
Can confirm that after 10 months, pipetting organoid domes is like riding a bike 🥹
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28 Mar 2023
Researchers working with patients/people with lived experience (PWLE) in Canada. Has the T4 reporting threshold of $500 been a barrier to your patient partnership efforts? Please get in touch...cooking an idea with colleagues...
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28 Mar 2023
Equally - if you are an advocate/patient/person with lived experience, have you ever turned down an engagement opportunity and/or $ because it would have made your tax situation difficult/impossible? My DMs are open if you want to share, but not publicly (i'll keep confidential)
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28 Mar 2023
Thanks everyone for your responses. I'm noting down all of your names and will put you in the loop after an initial meeting with a colleague later this week to decide exactly what we want to do!
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27 Mar 2023
I'm a Leafs fan, but this jersey 😍
27 Mar 2023
We're proud to reveal our 2023 Pride Night jersey, designed by local artist Megan Parker!
We'll be wearing these amazing jerseys during warm-ups ahead of our Mar. 28 game vs. LA 🌈
They will be signed and auctioned off in support of the CSEC Inclusion Program!
ALT Flames Pride Night jersey graphic
ALT A close-up shot of the logo with the following description: The logos and pattern inside the numbers were designed by a local artist from the LGBTQ2 community, Megan Parker.The pattern has incorporated flora and fauna from the Alberta prairies and foothills and arranged them all in a soft and inviting pattern, loosely based on the same colour pattern as the pride flag
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27 Mar 2023
Yesterday, I got really quite excited about a recipe for "carrot cake" overnight oats.
I made it and it is good 🥲
Middle-aged Monday is going well so far.
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Dr. Vicky Forster retweeted
27 Mar 2023
For the first time in franchise history, the Toronto Six are Isobel Cup champions! 🍁🏆
📸: Lori Bolliger/@TheTorontoSix | @PHF
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Dr. Vicky Forster retweeted
27 Mar 2023
at long last, a hockey championship in Toronto
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27 Mar 2023
Whether you like them or not, or agree with their politics:
Chrystia Freeland was a Rhodes Scholar and went to Harvard and Oxford.
Anita Anand has four degrees, is a lawyer and was a prof at UofT.
Imagine posting this and thinking its a good idea.
26 Mar 2023
Imagine being a woman in Trudeau’s cabinet and not knowing if it was merit or gender that got you there.
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27 Mar 2023
Also irrespective of partisanship, always deeply, deeply disappointing to see women lean into misogyny for any reason.
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27 Mar 2023
This flavour of Canadian politics is bitter and low and only appeals to misogynists. If that's a political recruitment tactic, then that's a damn shame. People need to be better than this.
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