Misty Pratt, Author

Did you know that 1 in 4 deaths in pregnancy (or within 1yr of pregnancy) involved opioids?

Today is International Overdose Awareness Day. Learn more about how ICES data is being used to study pregnancy-associated opioid toxicity and deaths in Ontario: cpoproject.ca/resour...

Goodbye science, my old friend Hello to the dark ages and welcome to The Resistance

What a Trump presidency might mean for women’s health and health research in general. Canadians have past experience that we can leverage to prepare for our next government.

mistypratt.substack.com/p/goodbye-sc...

This is where collective action is needed if we all include diversity and its relevance to are research in grants& biosketches will they defend all of us?
Complying in advance is harmful. Some people can delete diversity from biosketches and grants I can't delete that I'm a black woman scientist.

Devastated to learn from my colleague Don Romesburg that the Sonoma State University Women’s and Gender Studies Department is being eliminated, and all its tenured faculty are being fired, as part of “budget reductions”. wgs.sonoma.edu

Mark Zuckerberg: I built this platform to give the people a voice
Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were

hello and welcome to the 1M people that have joined Bluesky in the last week!!!

Too many social platforms and not enough time!!

Yes, they did such an amazing job!! (Sorry, 3 weeks late replying to this, lol)

Headline: "COVID-19 pandemic impacts rich people less"

Epidemiologists everywhere: yes, this is true of ALL HUMAN DISEASE. WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU FOR YEARS

Teal book cover overlayed with a cut-out sketched image of a woman bending backwards at the waist. Her arms are tucked in close to her chest and her fists are clenched. She has a look of pain on her face. In hot pink, the words “All In Her Head.” Smaller text below in white: “How Gender Bias Harms Women’s Mental Health”

My book cover! I loooove it!!! 😍

A patterned reddish square with the words “I am very tired and I would like the world to be different” in block letters.

This is about where I am this week, on the Inspirational Quote front.

Nice to find you here ☺️ I’m still trying to figure this platform out!

Never thought I cared so much about hair until I started losing it all.

My book is done, done, done. No more edits! Is this when I celebrate? Or when I get the book in my hands? 🎉 🥂

A fawn pug chews on a dog bone

Winnie says good morning!

Thank you, and same to you!!

Phew, thank god the weather network app is back. I was in severe withdrawal

Writing an 80,000 word book was tough but doable. Writing a 300 word bio about myself is torture 🤪

And the best headline writer today goes to: “What a blow! Kleenex pulling out of Canadian consumer market”🥇 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6947410

the secret to male loneliness is for men who are lonely to become more pleasant to be around. i hope this helps anyone who is still searching for the answer.

I haven’t totally figured out how to use this platform yet! Is there a handy guide?

I can’t get enough 🐶

Looking to follow folks writing/talking about/working in the #mentalhealth field. Where my people at?

Wow, they look amazing 🤤

Cute fawn pug stares adoringly into the camera

Warning: I’ll post a lot about my upcoming book, but I’ll also post too many pics of this cutie:

Oil painting by the French artist Pierre-André Brouillet, and one of the most known in the history of medicine. It represents Jean-Martin Charcot demonstrating a woman “in hysteria” in a clinical lecture to his colleagues at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière.

We tend to think of hysteria as kooky medical history (like blood letting🩸) But hysteria is very much alive today in our cultural and medical conversations about women’s #mentalhealth. Where once it was our uterus, ovaries, or “nerves,” now it is our imbalanced brains and hormones 🧠

Hi! 👋🏼 I finally got the invite code!