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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

KW is so close! Come to Hamilton for PWHL. The takeover tour game was electric! Went to a Tempo game and that was so much fun too. Women’s sport is better & I’m tired of spending $$ on leagues that give lip service at best to inclusion & push SA under the rug.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

So much. I’m not watching playoffs now. I can’t stomach it. Might be PWHL primarily (only?) moving forward. Especially now that I will have a home team and PWHL Hamilton has handled the expansion so very well.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

New paper out from Jack Salole’s MSc. Looking at ways to reduce vertebrate animal use in whole effluent testing. Open access paper! academic.oup.com/ieam/advance...

Shows the title page of a manuscript entitled “The 3 R’s in whole-effluent toxicity testing, a Canadian perspective”

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The Celebration of Life for Dr Juliet Daniel will be held May 30 at 1030 am in Mississauga at Heartland A Church. It will be live streamed for those too far away to attend in person (bit.ly/JulietDaniel)

A photo of Dr Juliet Daniel with yellow flowers, announcing the Celebration of Life.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Had very honest conversations about using ChatGPT for a class assignment. It was refreshing to have students really engage on what I’m teaching with my assignments and the issues with using AI.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Spouse away. Prepped 2 full meals on Sat & Sun and now have 2 dinners and lunch for the first half of the week. I’m so smart sometimes.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Organizing a conference is a lot.. I’m very tired

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Friday afternoon class on a very rainy day and the attendance is abysmal. But.. I had students asking questions way past class ending. The engagement has been great, even if the numbers are not.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Subject: test mail merge Subject: test 2 Subject: test I promise this is the last time

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Discovering how to mail merge and sending multiple test emails to my poor students. They are so patient with me.. How complicated it seems when you have never needed to send more than one email at a time or you use an EDL because the message is the same to all. I can personalize auto- email? 🤯

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a red angry bird is sitting in the snow and says how do you do it ? omg

Alt: a red angry bird is sitting in the snow and says how do you do it ? omg

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

And this will happen repeatedly for you entire career.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Mellissa successfully defended her MSc thesis & is closing in on last edits!! Great thesis, great presentation, great discussion. Her thesis developed a baits enriched transcriptomics for the zebrafish chemical defensome & used it to look at basal expression in liver, gill, gut & kidney!

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a man applauds with the words way to go super proud of you behind him

Alt: a man applauds with the words way to go super proud of you behind him

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Every day is a good day when you are playing hockey

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Canada lost at hockey this morning.. My team lost at hockey this afternoon. What a way to bookend my day. Shit.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Preparing for a MSc defense on Tuesday and boy am I excited reading this thesis. Such cool data & this will be so much fun! Mellissa probably does not share this view of her defense right now.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Kid#1 is at the rink as a referee today. Gold medal game goes into OT and everyone agrees to delay game. They pull a tv with extension cord out onto the ice. Both teams, coaches & refs watch the end. Wonder if the teams got instructions of what not to do, before their game started. Lessons kids.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

That sucked so epically. What a shitty end to our best game in this tournament

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

20 min OT is so good. I hate shoot outs. Just play to win.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Nope. That wasn’t it. Too many missed opportunities in this game.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Ok so Horvat’s face may save this? Please make something happen

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I can’t handle this. Multiple crazy opportunities that didn’t go in. Too many men not called and now we are on the PK with a double minor. (Yes this is a clear and reasonable call)

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Why yes it’s time for hockey. Got my coffee, a cat on my lap & breakfast. Totally normal for a hockey game? No but I’ve always set an alarm to get up for Olympic gold medal hockey. Go Canada Go 🇨🇦

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Graduate Research Day for the Biologists! What a great day with presentations by Max and Hunter and a poster by Molly. Congratulations to Max for winning a best presentation award!

The WilsonToxLab graduate students were all out for GRD. Matt, Max, Jack and Hunter are standing behind Molly & Mellissa. Max is proudly holding his award certificate!

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Emailed an apology with my late text for a grant after being sick with a cold last week. Found out I was the first co-I to send in any of the requested text. Hmm. Not really sure what that says about me.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Yes, I have a cold, don’t feel great but have a midterm scheduled for my class. Yes, I am going in with an N95 mask to give my midterm.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

One of the hard things of being a prof is not being able to just stop & rest when you are sick. I mean, if you are really sick, you can go on leave. But you are still typically connected to your lab. If you have milder illness & just want a day in bed? Too bad if you have due dates & teaching.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

It’s really exciting. The project is one I’ve really wanted to get going and so the $$ will make this possible. My whole lab was doing a happy dance. 💃🏼 🕺

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Hmm. Weird. I feel like I’ve been told that by soooo many people. What do I know? First time funded by CIHR. I’m old but still somehow a Newbie. I’ve got that new prof feeling all over again

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It’s official. I am funded by CIHR. First time in my career & so grateful. The budget cut is bigger than I was expecting, much deeper than the 10% ATB people always talk about. Does not matter. I look forward to sharing lots of data on reproductive toxicity of chemicals!

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a woman is saying do n't mind me .

Alt: a woman is saying don't mind me as she wipes at her eyes with a smile on her face

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Dear people who live in snow regions 1) shoveling the sidewalk is often a city by law. People walking on the snow & trampling it down is NOT enough. 2) I know you are concerned about driving, the roads & yes, the traffic but you still have to look for pedestrians before you cross the sidewalk

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Snow day. ❄️❄️❄️ So much snow this January. It’s super weird to have 2 snow days in the same month.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Just in case we are open tomorrow, I’ve moved everything (lecture & tutorial) virtual. Loads of students commute. My class was very empty Friday with people heading home early. Hamilton will have about 35 cm of snow in all, but Toronto up to 60! No need for students to risk getting to campus. ❄️❄️❄️

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It’s a cold (possibly very snowy) winter weekend… Used my base layer & wool socks today to walk down for an appointment Hockey is canceled tomorrow in anticipation of a lot of snow Stay warm out there ❄️ 🥶

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Calling all aquatic toxicologists! Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms, PRIMO23, will be held June 2-5, 2026 @ McMaster University . Abstract submissions are open! Www.primo.org

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Introducing our new R package- toxdrc! This will help you assess dose-response curves & select a model for the data.its what you need when you are generating a lot of curves! Jack Salole built this in his MSc, while waiting for cells to ship.. now available at cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

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toxdrc: Pipeline for Dose-Response Curve Analysis

Provides a variety of tools for assessing dose response curves, with an emphasis on toxicity test data. The main feature of this package are modular functions which can be combined through the namesak...

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

CIHR notice of recommendation has me in the top 10%. I think I’m funded & Im in shock. I have finally convinced a panel that zebrafish are a good model system. This is a project I have been so excited to get going. After feeling like CoVID impacts would kill my research, this is such relief.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Kid#2’s friends loved Heated Rivalry & asked to go to the bar to watch a Leafs game. My maternal job is well done when my kids are explaining hockey to their friends. Welcome to Leafs Nation 💙

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

So much enthusiasm for my 3rd year pharmacology class. Love it when there’s a pile of students wanting to chat after every lecture. Questions are all over- stuff from the lecture, things coming up later, stuff they have wondered about, things from social media… so many ways to engage in class 🧪

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Well that was a fantastic ending JT perfect pass to Cowboy!

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The OT and shoot out makes the next game start late. I have an early day tomorrow so I now need to record the end ☹️. Can I avoid learning the outcome until after work? Doubtful. So unless they come roaring out, I will be trying to sleep worried.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

SF 1 was super exciting. Tied through OT, 1st round of shoot out, and finally goes to SWE. Finland’s goalie was fantastic in OT. He also has the best pads ever. Heartbreak for Finland as the are forced into the bronze medal game. Sweden advances to try for a gold medal WJC Fin v SWE

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Term starts tomorrow and I have my first class before noon. I’m not feeling ready to be back into work mode..

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Last year, every game was packed. Crowds were watching the other pool on monitors in the lobby between games at the CTC while they were waiting for the arena to reopen for the second game. It was awesome.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Played hockey (lost 1-0 ☹️), came home, showered & put on hockey WJC semi finals!!

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Just pause for a minute and consider the massive difference in games played to this milestone. It’s in more than 300 fewer games played. The pace of these goals is outstanding. AM34

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I LOVE Auston Matthews and I’m so happy to see him top the franchise goal record tonight. 421… keep it going 💙💙💙

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

QF win over Slovakia gets Canada back into the semi-finals at the WJC. Next up is Czechia. Let’s do this! Sweden vs Finland is the other SF. Should see some great hockey over the next few days.

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I mean the goals just keep coming. The change at the bench, limited cellular, is class. Score the goal, no need to make a big deal of it. 7-0 and there is still more game to play. 🤯

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Joanna Wilson @wilsontoxlab.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I’ve always said that teams that build and get better as the tournament goes on do really well. Canada is just getting better each game and is up 5-0 at the end of the first period. Such a high scoring period for 🇨🇦. Keep it going. QF at WJC is going well

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