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News in English from Université de Montréal. Also, in 2015, @ @umontreal-en.bsky.social. Français : @uMontreal #uMontreal
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“Climate-driven disturbances such as #wildfire ... may negatively alter or even trigger the loss of important ecosystem services such as subsistence, weather and climate regulation," says our expert Oliver Sonnentag. @NOAAClimate #ArcticReportCard
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#Chess players, take note: one of our doctoral students in #mathematics has calculated that, on average, a knight reaches its destination 1.85 times as fast as a king. @agadmator #Fibonacci
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"Develop a healthy dose of scepticism. Don’t become paranoid but do look that holiday gift horse in the mouth," advises our criminologist Benoit Dupont. #Xmas #scams #fraud #cybersecurity
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Ecosystem alert from our geographers: “Restoration takes years, even decades, to repair what exploitation destroys in a short space of time.” @Decade2Restore #Quebec #NewBrunswick @ESAApplications
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"#Cryostimulation could be especially beneficial for people with #sleep problems ... for elite athletes .. and people with chronic inflammation or mild #dementia."
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Inaugurated today: new digs downtown for our 1st- and 2nd-year medical students! @med_umontreal
Pour nous aider à former plus de médecins, l’@UMontreal inaugurait ce matin ses nouveaux locaux au centre-ville de Montréal. 🩺 Des installations à la fine pointe et un programme de formation actualisé pour nos étudiants de 1ère et 2e année en médecine. Très heureuse de soutenir ce projet et je félicite tous ceux qui ont participé à sa réalisation. Bravo! @cdube_sante @CarmantLionel
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Fun fact: the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii can revert to its “baby” form over and over again, allowing it to live forever. And yes, our #veterinarians @UMontreal study this and other examples of eternal youth.
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“Our (mice) model seeks to ... understand the effects of a situation in which a woman, about a week pregnant ... consumes a large quantity of #alcohol rapidly,” says @McGraw_Lab. #pregnancy #drinking
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"Since (the #LGBTQ+) have more issues to advocate for, they feel a greater need to engage in politics to claim their rights," says @r_dassonneville. #cdnpoli
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"These data bring us a step closer to finding a treatment that will improve the outcome for children" affected by a severe form of #epilepsy, says our neuroscientist Elsa Rossignol. @CR_CHUSJ @InstitutCochin
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When you have this disorder, "simple actions such as opening a bottle of water can become difficult, as can playing a musical instrument," says our neurobiologist @Fred_Charron. @ircm_mtl @PennMedicine
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This is Fée, an abandoned #cat with chronic #osteoarthritis. She was one of 11 who wore specially knitted caps for tests at our #veterinary school. #Neuroscience doesn't get much cuter.
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“We can’t tell whether a star is 5,000 or 5,020 degrees Celsius, but we can determine if it has increased or decreased by ... a fraction of a degree ��� no-one’s ever done this before,” says @iExoplanets' Étienne Artigau. #astronomy
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The fascinating story of how #Japan was invaded close to 750 years ago, newly explored by an @UMontreal religious studies scholar:
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Is God punishing you by making you sick? Six @UMontreal students travel to #Switzerland to find out how to deal with that question – and a lot more.
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#EDUCATION | 🐾🎓 A Q&A with dean David Francoz about our new delocalized #veterinary medicine program in #Rimouski, whose first cohort of 24 students started this week. Find out more ⬇️
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#HONOUR | 🎓🏅 Université de Montréal will award honorary doctorates to Stephen Toope, Joël Bockaert and Sharon E. Straus for their outstanding achievements. #law #brain #geriatrics @CIFAR_News @UnivMontpellier @CIHR_IRSC
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Her research helped @gymcan1's Sophiane Méthot win bronze in trampoline at the #Paris2024 #Olympics. Now UdeM's Eve Charbonneau has turned that success into a doctoral thesis. @OwnThePodium @MitacsCanada
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