@swiftneurolab.bsky.social
Associate Professor | Behavioural Neuroscientist @ Memorial University of Newfoundland & Labrador studying #Sexdifferences #Neuroendocrinology #Socialbehavior #Neurodevelopment | she/her
Does #Tylenol use during pregnancy cause autism?
Short answer: current evidence does not support a causal link.
Our latest Behind the Science blog breaks down what studies actually show, and why nuance matters.
🔗 Read more on the Women’s Health Blog: ow.ly/Tip550XIoPg
On this National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, let us all remember the 14 women who were brutally murdered for simply being women in 1989 at Polytechnique Montréal.
Say there names & #NeverForget
Our society still has a long way to go to
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen
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Every country needs a national strategy for women's health. In our new episode, Dr. @liisagalea.bsky.social talks with
Jennifer Gillivan about bias in research, and why it’s time to mobilize to equalize.
🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/tsrw50Xy8q9
SBN is extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Nancy Forger, Professor at the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University, is the recipient of the Larry Young Mentorship Award. 🥳
18.11.2025 22:04 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
1 week to go! 🗓️
Join us Nov 14 at 1PM EST for Trainee Research Presentations: Hormonal Contraceptives — Insights from Across the Field.
Fresh insights from emerging contraception researchers 👉 ow.ly/PCq850XgSq2
It’s insulting to tell 🇨🇦 scientists we need international scientists to run to our rescue & ensure innovation.
🇨🇦 scientists have exceeded expectations with paltry funding. If the gov funded Tricouncil > & sustainably; imagine how innovative we’d already be!! /End
I would love to know what university leaders say to politicians behind closed doors, because "asbestos is falling on our students' heads and we can't afford to change lightbulbs" doesn't seem to be what they are hearing.
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Just dropped Episode 1 of our new Season (my first time hosting). Up first the incredible Dr Cat Bohannon author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 M years of Human Evolution. Let us know what you think.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
🎙️ Meet the new host of Women’s Health Interrupted: Dr. Liisa Galea
A neuroscientist + women’s mental health expert, she’s leading Season 3 with bold convos on women’s health research.
Launches Oct 15 on Spotify + Apple Podcasts!
#WomensHealth #SexAndGenderResearch #WHInterrupted
12 episodes coming out! how lucky am I? I got to interview 🤩 experts in psychiatry, gynecology, global health, nephrology, neuroscience, microbiome, FemTech, charitiable giving, & policy...join us for sometimes intense, but always informative conversations, sprinkled with some laughs along the way!
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Job alert: We're looking for someone to help us produce a female-specific risk calculator for Alzheimer’s disease! 🧠 Key qualifications are experience w/ large databases, project management, and women's health research. See posting for more info: shorturl.at/zkO8V
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🚨New lab publication is out!! 🚨
In this work we reveal that astrocytes, the most abundant glial cell type, are responsible for the effects of stress and that targeting these cells completely rescued the effects of stress on neuronal activity and behaviour!
Huge congrats to Lewis!!
See his 🧵below
For every 1 animal used in research, there are hundreds to thousands used for food.
Research animals globally: Estimated 50–100 million/year (most are mice, rats, and fish).
Animals killed for food globally: Over 70–80 billion land animals per year, plus trillions of fish.
Call for an Assistant / Associate Prof. just opened at the @crchum.bsky.social in the Neuroscience Axis !
www.chumontreal.qc.ca/en/emplois/a...
Upcoming @ossdcomm.bsky.social talk on some research from our @labcesar.bsky.social's SEXCOG study supported by @nserc-resnet.bsky.social
27.05.2025 00:13 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences @ossdcomm.bsky.social meeting on Sunday. I'll be giving the keynote lecture at Women's Health Research Premeeting:
"Leveraging mouse and human (epi)genomics to improve women’s mental health"
See you there! w @liisagalea.bsky.social
I’ll be at @ossdcomm.bsky.social giving a keynote 😱. Honoured to give the Arnold talk “Unlocking Precision Medicine: How Sex and Female -specific Factors are 🗝️ to Effective Translation”. This will be my first time giving this talk & it’s not quite finished yet! 😬😱😜 needed something for ✈️
30.05.2025 18:16 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
*record-scratch* The deadline has been EXTENDED! 😅
You've got ONE WEEK to submit! Get those abstracts in by June 7
Announcing the SBN Emergency Hardship Fund! Please see below for details and let anyone potentially interested in joining us this summer in Vancouver know that there are funds available for assitance.
28.05.2025 14:00 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Women's Health Initiative defunded after 30 years and 5,000 publications
www.whi.org/md/news/whi-...
Over 1300 signatures and climbing.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books
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If elected, Poilievre’s government will “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and federal funds for university research.”
The phrase is almost identical to wording used by the Trump administration.
Catharine Winstanley and @liisagalea.bsky.social write.
Freshly minted op-ed by my brilliant colleague, Dr. Ashlyn Swift-Gallant. "Three myths about sex and gender research that are costing you money and your health." Read, read, read! @swiftneurolab.bsky.social @munpsych.bsky.social @canacn.bsky.social @memorialuscience.bsky.social
03.04.2025 13:15 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT!
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇
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Through the rain, we stood up for science! #standupforscience2025 @memorialu.bsky.social
07.03.2025 19:20 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0Took a break from working on my research poster to create #standupforscience2025 posters for Friday’s rally. Advocating for inclusivity in science is just as important as the research itself!
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