#ThriveLab
Today is the International Day of Women & Girls in Science!

I am fortunate to work with many great women in our #THRiVElab (past & present) + my collaborative research teams - including the CHILD Study, the IMiC Consortium, the MILC Club & more.

More info: www.thrivediscovery.ca

#WomenInSTEM 🧪👩🏻‍💻👩🏾‍🔬
February 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
🚨 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...
October 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
🚨🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨🚨

I’m happy to share new #THRiVElab CHILD Study research - led by my MSc student Spencer Ames & published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition - investigating #breastfeeding practices and infant immunity.

#Skytorial (??) 🧵

Full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.aj...
December 6, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Someone from our data team made us the cutest lil "holiday R M̶a̶r̶k̶Cardown" in Claude. 🎄☃️

nerdosapiens.github....

#ThriveLab #datascience #rstats
December 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Come work on our awesome team with:

👩🏻‍🔬 Brilliant, kind scientists

🧑🏾‍💻 who are truly inclusive ✊🏾🧑🏾‍🦽🏳️‍⚧️

🤱🏽 are doing meaningful work

💕 support each other

📊 make gorgeous power points!

🧪 and use the best pipettes! 💅

Click on → #THRiVELab for about our work!

#BlueSci #microbiology #DataSky 🧪🛟
Join the MILC team + @meghanazad.bsky.social as a Biorepository Lab Manager! This position is responsible for the efficient management of the MILC Biorepository and will work closely with the PI on strategic planning of the biorepository.

Learn more🔽

www.thrivediscovery.ca/staff-positi...
July 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Me in every lab meeting at #ThriveLab
This energy right here.
March 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
#THRiVElab is an interdisciplinary #DOHaD lab with:

👩🏻‍🔬Brilliant, kind scientists

🧑🏾‍💻who are truly inclusive✊🏾🧑🏾‍🦽🏳️‍⚧️

🤱🏽are doing meaningful work

💕support each other

📊…and make gorgeous power points!

I’ve been in this lab for 5 years, AMA!
✨ Job Alert: Senior Data Analyst & Manager✨

Support our research on milk, microbiomes and maternal & infant health!

📍 Remote (within 🍁) or In-person
💼 $74K–$107K + benefits
🕜 Full or Part Time
🎓 MSc & 4+ yrs experience req'd

Apply at: umanitoba.ca/careers/ (#37020)

Pls share! 🙏🏻🧪
January 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
📢 New #THRiVElab Research!

After 6 years (!) of work led by Dr. Sarah Turner, the paper is out in Frontiers in Public Health

Early life predictors of child development at kindergarten
📖 doi.org/10.3389/fpub...

What did we find? What was the impact?
How did we go from this to THIS?

#SkyTorial 🧵🧪
May 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
📢 We’re hiring a Lab Manager for the MILC Biorepository!

Join our #THRiVElab team to advance science on #breastfeeding and #humanmilk.

📍 In person, full-time in Winnipeg
💵 $51K–$74K + benefits
🧪 5+ yrs experience
🔗 Apply: viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca – #39591

Pls share! 💫
#JobAlert #ScienceJobs
July 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

We're hiring a Research Project Manager to join our #THRiVElab team at U. Manitoba.

📍 Winnipeg or Remote (in Canada)
💰 Up to $85k
🔗 Apply: www.umanitoba.ca/careers (#38881)
🌐 About us: www.thrivediscovery.ca/staff-positi...

Know someone perfect for this? Please boost or share! 🙏
June 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
🚨 New #THRiVElab Publication! 🚨

Our commentary in @MicroResRep summarizes a recent study from Sara Shama and the MaxiMOM Study team at
@sickkidsto.bsky.social

#Tweetorial #Skytorial 🧵

Read here: oaepublish.com/articles/mrr...
March 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
#THRiVElab is hiring!

We are an interdisciplinary #DOHaD lab with brilliant, kind humans doing meaningful work--as a team.

And we looove #dataviz!
📊

I’ve been in this lab for 5 years, so AMA :)

🧪🛟🩺 #BlueSci #MedSky #rstats #DataScience #DataSky #databsky #databs #microbiome
✨ Job Alert: Bioinformatician & Data Manager ✨

Support our research on milk, microbiomes and maternal & infant health!

📍Remote (within Canada) or In-person
💵 $74K–$107K + benefits
⏱️ Full Time
🎓 MSc & 4+ yrs experience req'd
Apply at: umanitoba.ca/careers/ (#38485)

Pls share! 🙏🏻🧪
May 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Appreciate this opportunity from the European Medical Journal to reflect on my career (so far!) in #microbiome research with colleagues in the #THRiVElab, @CHILDSTUDY, IMiC consortium & more! 🧪

www.emjreviews.com/flagship-jou...
Exploring the Infant Microbiome: Interview with Meghan Azad
I had done my PhD in cancer cell biology and was looking for a change. My original motivation to pursue a career in science was to...
www.emjreviews.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Shoutout to #THRiVElab analyst & MSc grad
Spencer Ames for leading this work!

Thanks to co-authors (incl @petterbrodin.bsky.social), funder CIHR, and @CHILD Study collaborators & participants for making this research possible 🙏🏼

@umanitoba.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 11:21 PM
We discussed AI in lab meeting today, so I told ChatGPT to replace Data's Combadge with the #THRiVELab logo 🖖

This is what happens when you let me be in charge of things.

🧪
September 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Every year, our lab director @meghanazad.bsky.social asks us “What 3 words would you use to describe our lab?”

Here’s this year’s #THRiVELab word cloud!

#DOHaD #TeamScience #breastfeeding #LactSci 🧪
January 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Cynthia Navarro Flores and I will be reviewing applications for the counseling psychology PhD program @ UTK Psych (2025-2026 academic year).

Lab: tiny.utk.edu/thrivelab
Application: tiny.utk.edu/psycapply

Apps are due on Dec 1. Please help spread the word! 🙏🏼
November 19, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Pretty good vibes to kick off 2025 🤓
- a testament to all the great people that make up our #THRiVElab!

Ps. We're hiring (due to new projects and new THRiVE babies) - keep an eye out!
Every year, our lab director @meghanazad.bsky.social asks us “What 3 words would you use to describe our lab?”

Here’s this year’s #THRiVELab word cloud!

#DOHaD #TeamScience #breastfeeding #LactSci 🧪
January 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Big congrats to #THRiVElab MSc student, Karinne Cardoso Muniz for receiving a studentship from @researchmb.bsky.social & @chrimanitoba.bsky.social! 👏🏻

Karinne is studying immune proteins in human colostrum together with our partners at the Aga Khan University in Pakistan. Stay tuned for results!
We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 Studentships & Fellowships.

Thanks to the support of our partners, $1.41 million has supported 64 awards, spanning a range of disciplines & career stages.

Please join us in congratulating these researchers! researchmanitoba.ca/research-man...
Research Manitoba Announces $1.4M in Funding to Support 64 Studentship and Fellowship Awards - Research Manitoba
researchmanitoba.ca
September 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Flipped 19 into 91! Nice job, fam! 🙌

#TeamScience
November 11, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Big News from the #THRiVElab - we reached 100 participants in our MILC study today!

Lots of exciting #breastmilk research to come!
March 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Our lab is hiring a Project Manager! #THRiVElab is an interdisciplinary #DOHaD lab with:

👩🏻‍🔬Brilliant, kind scientists

🧑🏾‍💻who are truly inclusive✊🏾🧑🏾‍🦽🏳️‍⚧️

🤱🏽are doing meaningful work

💕support each other

📊…and make gorgeous power points!

➡️Apply Here (Position #29175): viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/default

🧪
August 31, 2023 at 5:33 PM
No particular goal, just chatting with cool people! The collabs and jobs just seem to have flowed naturally from that. My two biggest “breaks” (March for Science and my current job at #THRiVELab) emerged from “screwing around on twitter.”
a man wearing a hat and glasses is holding a clipboard with the word heart on it
Alt: Adam Savage wearing a hat and glasses is holding a clipboard saying “remember kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down“
media.tenor.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Hey science fans! The Canadian Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (#IHDCYH) is holding a #ChildHealth #SciComm competition, and @meghanazad.bsky.social of #THRiVELab has TWO submissions!

Anyone can vote for the winner! Directions in my 2nd post. 👇🏼

#IHDCYHTalks #CHILDStudy 🧪
November 8, 2024 at 5:40 PM