Dr. Liisa Galea
@LiisaGalea
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Mom, Neuroscientist, Scientific Truth Advocate. CAMH, Treliving Family Chair, U Toronto, Pres OSSD, Ed FIN, Women's Health Cluster She/her #BlackLivesMatter
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It’s not getting girls/women into science. It’s KEEPING them in science. That’s always been the issue.
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A beautiful piece about a beautiful person.
@DrNadiaChaudhri
is the best of us. Her legacy I hope will inspire other universities/societies to offer awards to international students. We desperately need to hear their voices & give life to their science. Diversity breeds discovery
you know
@DrNadiaChaudhri
as a mother, partner, friend, and courageous
#tealsister
@vestevie
from
@CBCMontreal
paints a perfect portrait of the
@Concordia
professor, scientist, mentor, and teacher I've had had the pleasure of knowing and loving
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In an effort to save trees: I have moved from printing off a million articles that sit in piles on my desk unread, to a system where I leave a million tabs open in my browser until my computer can't take it anymore, snaps, & restarts wiping clean the papers I was to read
#winwin
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For the 100th time. Women choose science as much as men. They don't STAY in science. Retention is the key.
The Canadian Government launches new campaign encouraging women to
#ChooseScience
#womeninSTEM
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I have reached a new pandemic low. I just screamed at/ accused my spouse “ WHERE ARE MY GOOD SWEATPANTS???” There is a lot to unpack in that one scream.
#RelationshipWoesInAPandemic
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I'm super excited to share that I am joining the
@CAMHnews
team in the fall! I'm thrilled to be the inaugural Treliving Chair for Women's Mental Health. Women's mental health research has been a passion and a priority of mine for my entire research career.
We’re proud to welcome
@LiisaGalea
to CAMH where she will provide visionary leadership to
#womenmind
, shape research discoveries for better mental health outcomes for women, and support the outstanding work of current and future women scientists.
@camhfoundation
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Devastated to report that my mentor & friend Bruce McEwen has passed away. He was the best of us: a fantastic scientist, super collaborator with encyclopedia-like knowledge of hormones & the brain
Special issue in FIN (2018) as an ode to Bruce & his work: .
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I am a staunch advocate for women's health research. Our work and others indicate that very few neuroscience papers are published either using females or analysing for possible differences (~3%-4%)
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Does anyone else have to constantly look up their OWN papers to remember what they found? Asking for a friend.
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It’s a new dawn, a new day, a new job, a new motto that I believe in deeply (& newly purpled hair). I’m ready.
#MentalHealthISHealth
#WomensMentalHeath
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Last night my son told me I had a Wikipedia page. 🤯 Hats off to the amazing
@jesswade
who has created many Wikipedia pages to advance diversity representation in science.
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CIHR: Not only do women ask for less $ but they disproportionally receive less $ /grant - ie there is a 10% reduction in women but only a 1% reduction in the ratio between request: receive meaning 10X greater reduction in budgets from women then men. what does this mean? 1/
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KEEPING women in astronomy/engineering/science is THE issue. Not getting girls interested. We are interested. We leave. THAT’S THE PROBLEM.
Women are quitting careers in astronomy at a rate that is 3-4 times higher than for men. THIS NEEDS TO BE SHOUTED. THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED.
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My lab knows how to celebrate! Honestly they mean the world to me. They are able to bring a very big smile on my face pretty much every day. And yes I did wear the tiara all day (& Wonder Woman has purple hair streaks ❤️)
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Your yearly reminder: Gender is not synonymous with sex
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UBC will offer a BSc in Neuroscience soon! Thanks to the efforts of so many–from UBC student-led survey (👀
@AlirezaKamyabi
,
@ubcprez
help & a group of dedicated faculty & staff across many depts in
@UBC_Arts
@UBCmedicine
@ubcscience
! It takes a village!
@DMCBrainHealth
🧠
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My friends...I am getting tired of defining sex and gender.
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“Implicit Biases are like armpits. Everyone has them, you aren’t a bad person because you have one. But if your armpits are offensive to someone you should clean them up” Sherry Marts teaching us Ally Skills.
#OSSD2019
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First day on site in the new office.. a rainy Vancouver day to make me feel at home. With chocolate gifts, new plants, a welcoming cat sticker, a purple lanyard & amazing people ❤️
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Thank you for the funding
@CIHR_IRSC
! Excited to work on maternal brain aging w
@gesbarreto
@bonniee_leee
@p_duartegu
@YvonneLamers
@arianneyka
@MenopauseChicks
@MarkCembrowski
Thank you for listening to our voices & rescinding your decision to cancel the Spring competition.
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I have a sex differences joke, but it's supplemental.
I have a hippocampus joke, but I forgot it.
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Pleased to share our newest paper with first author Shunya Yagi (twitterless) on Sex Differences in Adult Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus & let me just say this was one of those papers that took a while...but I believe packs a punch
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What can get me out of my sick bed to change my CV? Manuscript
#150
accepted!
#MiddleAgedPI
Still excited by acceptances, data and funding.
OK back to nursing my very bad cold with sleep and some tea.
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Accepted! After 159 publications it still excites me - details on cool* findings from two papers with gifs coming soon
*cool according to Liisa's definition
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As read in a paper today " no previous work has shown detectable sex differences in adult hippocampal neurogenesis..." Could the authors please see a non-exhaustive list: PMID: 10199627, 12763590, 18353559, 28580124, 23219473, 10407020, 25304865, 24846617, review 30214058 +++
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Grateful to
@CIHR_IRSC
for funding our Project grant! Excited to continue our work with
@TravisEHodges
on negative cognitive bias
@anamchuk
is already hard at work but we’ll need others!+ I have an excuse to keep working with
@AVogelCiernia
@dr_stan
@cawinstanley
@MarkCembrowski
CAMH is proud to announce that we have achieved a record value of award funding as part of the CIHR (
@CIHR_IRSC
) Project Grant Fall 2022 competition, for a total of $6,683,377!
Congratulations to our 11 grant awardees.
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And now in front of a live audience…. Everyone was so lovely even the audience. Spreading the message that
#MentalHealthIsHealth
join the
#NoOneLeftBehind
campaign
@camhfoundation
Health Equity is a major pillar. I’m proud to be a part of this community that values research
@LiisaGalea
on
@TheSocialCTV
talking about the critical need for more research on women’s mental health and the
#nooneleftbehind
campaign with
@camhfoundation
#womenmind
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I don’t mean to brag* but I’d say my colour coordination today is pretty good.
*yes I do
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On
#InternationalWomensDay
take a moment to celebrate the scientific achievements of women+ & all those studying women's health. It's a difficult field for a number of reasons including funding opportunities (& constantly being told to add a certain comparator group😏) I 🥳 you!
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Women's health, female health is much more than how we differ from males or men! It's how experiences change our physiology, perceptions, epigenetics & many female experiences are female specific ( i.e. contraceptives (IUD, OCs +, pregnancy, postpartum, menopause) 2/
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So true. Getting girls interested in science is not the problem. It's keeping women in science.
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Hormonal contraceptives' are one of the most widely prescribed drugs but yet little is know about how these affect the brain...how can this be after 70 years??? 🤔 For too long women+ health has been ignored....it's way over time to change that narrative!
It was an absolute honour to work alongside
@TronsonLab
and
@ismail_nafissa
as guest editors on this very important Special Issue on Hormonal Contraceptives (HC) and the Brain 🧠 published in Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 🧵
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Excited to share news of my (first ever) CFI funding - that will go to much needed equipment for my lab! I am beyond appreciative & can’t wait to dive into the studies we are planning. Many thanks to the reviewers (I plan to pull out those comments on those dark days).
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I was just about to tweet this yesterday.
@CIHR_IRSC
you can’t possibly review <2000 project grants that PIs spent months preparing but you can review 2000+ COVID19 grants that PIs have spent 1 week preparing??? 🤨😡
How about changing your mind about sending those project grants submitted in March for review???
#Pscream2
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Happy to report I will be a representative for PIs at the CIHR Strategic Plan Consensus Workshop in September. Let's hope we can make a difference and make CIHR great again ;)
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Women’s health research is undervalued, understudied & underfunded. As a result there are delays in diagnosis, greater side effects + I am all for having allies in getting the message out that women’s health matters. But… these seems..off
Monday, the House of Commons Health committee will launch a study on "Women's health".
I admittedly couldn't help but notice the composition of the committee.
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Honoured & humbled to serve as President-elect for
@OSSDtweets
looking forward to working with you all!
Our next meeting is on May 4-7 in Marina Del Ray. Come join us! travel awards from OSSD,
@NIH_ORWH
&
@CIHRIGH
(due Feb 3)
#SABV
#SGBA
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Heading to Ottawa to stand before the House of Commons Standing Committee for Health as a witness for Women’s Mental Health. I’m excited to get a chance to talk about the need for more research. Please wish me good travel luck so I make it on time✈️🚕 😬
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Our beloved Bella Luna passed over the 🌈 bridge this morning. We are all 💔 Now who will help me write grants, edit papers, & watch TV? She loved to crawl into your lap at the end of the work day (or during it). She purred & slept like a champion.
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Sigh. Not again!!
#NominateHer
Encouraging future research leaders: Trainee Awards | VCH Research Institute
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So much happening for me today personally - Kid1's 24th birthday, an interview for an internal job & CIHR Notice of Decision with my grant sitting at 11.11th percentile...I *think* I can celebrate but 2020 you are so unpredictable I will wait until the NOD.
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As of the end of
#OSSD2022
I am taking over the reigns as President of
@OSSDtweets
Looking forward to working with this talented group spreading the
#SABV
#SGBA
message. My statement thanking
@rrvoskuhl
is up (although I forgot to apologise for being 🇨🇦)
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After almost 2 years the inevitable happened. 4 d after probable exposure with throat swab. It’s still important to mask up & get vaccinated no matter what the regulations. At home we are thankful to all be triple vaxxed. Let’s get the rest of the 🌏🌍🌎 3x vaxxed too.
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My mom (Hiie Galea 1938-2014) would have been 81 today. Instead a cocktail of endometrial cancer & a neurodegenerative disorder took her far too early. I miss her everyday. Cherish your loved ones & make time for them (sometimes work has to be ignored)
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How am I supposed to get anything done when my coworker is lying on my to do list?
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Does it matter who played with Barbie’s & who didn’t? If you have children or not? If you are a stay at home mom or not? If you use pink to represent females on your graph?
What matters is access to human rights, removing glass barriers, & improving women’s health research.
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Autocorrect just changed menstrual to men’s trail. Tell me again how algorithms aren’t biased?
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But let's keep in mind that for women's health you don't need to compare to men. Female health is not just how we are different from males! How female unique experience shape female health is important to study &
#TimesUp
for more research on females /12 PMID 29287628
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WOW
@NSERC_CRSNG
! this is really amazing news and will be a significant stress relief for all of us grant holders.
@CIHR_IRSC
@SSHRC_CRSH
the ball is in your court
⚠️📣
To support our researchers and highly qualified personnel on their teams through the
#COVID19
crisis, all active
#Discovery
#Grants
can elect to receive a one-year extension with funds at their current funding level.
#NSERCsupport
More details ▶️
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2019 was filled with highs & lows. Unfortunately, it started on a high & is ending on a low. Hoping for better news in 2020 (incl funding for the lab) but mostly I wish for good health news for my family (& yours).
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My baby is 21! She (& her brother) are the ❤️of my life. Yes I love 🧠 science & hormones but family is truly the best. she keeps me (or tries to) current with the younger generation 🙄. + she’s inherited my love of cookie dough, binge watching TV, Jane Austen, travel, & shopping
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It’s happening….first international flight to a conference in 2 years…. Off to LA 🌴to attend
#OSSD2022
. Follow the hashtag to learn all about sex differences over the next 4 days. Now hopefully the rest of the trip goes smoother as I parked in the domestic terminal 🙄
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Studying one sex, particularly females, I would argue is exactly what will drive forward knowledge on women's health & reduce disparities in our knowledge of what matters to women's health. Why do I think that? let me tell you.../5
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Males shed more virus and for longer than females
@sabraklein1998
data from
@VirusesImmunity
#OSSD2021
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After 20y of being a PI I am STILL excited when I analyse data (like stupidly so)...I guess I'm in the right line of work...
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Very pleased to share our newest bundle of joy (😜) hot off the press, where the wonderful
@tanvipuri_
Jennifer Richard, & I write about the need to consider factors such as pregnancy experience to gain a fulsome understanding of brain health
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One of the best days is when you get to congratulate your kid on stage when they graduate from
@Ubc
@BruceVerchere
and I had that distinct honour today
#TuumEst
congrats to Wyatt and Jared!
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My daughter is the cutest. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
20 y ago and today. The cutest.
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Conditions that affect women more than men garner less funding. But boosting investment could reap big rewards.
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Taylor Swift’s song 22 is playing on repeat in our house. Why? Tallinn is 22! She’s one of the smartest people I know, always knows how to put me in my place, schools me on many subjects & gave me the courage & the inspiration for my purple hair + an excuse to prolong my vacay ❤️
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Unpopular opinion(?): I dislike virtual conferences. Certainly events that go on all day are not (IMO) conducive within the WFH environment. Or Maybe I just get more distracted then my fellow academics.
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It's happening! For the first time I -myself -used a reference manager to submit our latest to a journal! I have entered the 20th Century😉
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Frankly for women's health: menopause matters, OC use matters, parity matters & for these issues we need to study females only. We need funders, policy makers, & reviewers to understand & support more funding for women's health specific questions so we can close that gap /14
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I don't know who needs to hear this today but I am beyond pleased to report that after having a string of papers (3) that weren't even getting reviewed - finally I can report that all three are now officially in press (or published)!
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Presenting the Galea lab (Nov 21 pre Omicron)
Subtitle: Will you be able to see my shoes in the photo? No no don't worry about it.
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Had a special day today. And got two amazing messages ❤️
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Ignoring sex and gender in health research/outcomes has not just health costs but economic ones as well.
Many brain diseases affect more women but despite this, they are largely “missing” from brain research. Why is this, and what needs to be done to improve outcomes for women? Find out here
Commissioned by
@womensbrainpro
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I’m struggling right now. I struggle to find the right words, to make others see white privilege is real. I know my struggle is nothing compared to others.
The simple message is
#BlackLivesMatter
Resources on how to be an ally:
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Sex is not a synonym for Gender, Gender is not a synonym for Sex...even the crosswords get it wrong.
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Written with a heavy heart (with Liz Gould, R Brinton, C Woolley, C Conrad, H Cameron
@ShanskyLab
@LupienSonia
)
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Not to brag or anything but I put on makeup & a fancy shirt for 3 days in a row!
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I’m excited to announce I’m joining the
@CIHRIGH
Advisory Board! I *love* giving advice and I have LOTS of ideas. 😉
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Grateful to join the community of amazing neuroscientists across the Six!
Welcome Dr.
@LiisaGalea
(Full Prof.
@UofTIMS
,
@UofT
) as a new faculty member to the CPIN community.
Dr. Galea is the Treliving Chair in Women’s Mental Health
@CAMHnews
and a Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology and Toxicology
@UofT
.
Read more at:
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Please read this thread & remember the symptoms of ovarian cancer that are often overlooked. Awareness is key. As ever, we need more awareness, funding & research in women's health. Thank you again to
@DrNadiaChaudhri
for sharing your story and shining a light on this disease.
Now that I have 100K followers, I want to talk about
#OvarianCancer
. Specifically my gritty story. The goal is awareness. I hope you find this narrative informative.
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I am realising I used to get a lot of work done on plane rides.
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Dear Potential Reviewers, it is becoming an increasingly impossible task to get you to agree to review. We get it. It’s super crazy times but please suggest an alternative. any new neuroendocrinologists wanting to review? I have a couple of ms still waiting after asking > 20
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Friends: I was carded on the weekend in this outfit. Apparently masks do a good job at preventing spread of viral infections and aging. PS I am well above the legal drinking age
#WearAMask
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And just like that I have reached a milestone in journal article publications!🎉 (which also means I have in the business a long time..)
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Female brains aren’t male brains
Tell me why you went into your field in 5 words or less.
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In a whirlwind trip I dropped K1 off at McGill. And now I have regret settling for non-waterproof mascara while waiting for my flight to YVR. Be kind to all those new students Montreal.
Oh & vaccine verification worked seamlessly in the restaurants BTW.
#VaccinesWork
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Definition of true love?: willing to change your flight & sit in middle seat just to meet your spouse at airport to drive home together. After 27 years together I say yes.
#itsthelittlethings
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Finally our special issue celebrating Bruce McEwen’s first 50 y of stress research is complete & Bruce’s opus is freely accessible to all.
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I’m ready for my close up! Thrilled to be on the “Her Health” segment with two great women
@Keri_Adams
&
@GenesaGreening
on CTV news tomorrow morning talking about importance of investing in
#WomensHealthResearch
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“We must give scientists the opportunity through funding and time to pursue curiousity-based, long-term, basic science research. Work that does not have direct ramification... is also worthy.There’s no telling what can come from supporting a curious mind.. “ Dr. Donna Strickland
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So excited to continue the work on promoting
#WomensHealthResearch
- join us at
@ResearchonWH
- and look for more
#scicomm
opportunities ++ soon! We want more people studying women's health &
#SGBA
so let us help!
UBC announced funding for new Research Excellence Clusters, and four of them are being led by DMCBH members
@LiisaGalea
@DrRaymondLam
@vangreenmouse
and Dr. Janet Werker! Congrats to all!
@ResearchonWH
@BrainUbc
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Yesterday a huge leap to advance women’s mental health research: an alliance between
@ResearchonWH
#womenmind
@CAMHnews
with funding from
@Manulife
Together-with our >570 members across 29 countries - we can & will make a difference to advance women’s health research!
We’re also honoured to share that we are receiving a $1M-donation from
@Manulife
to fund our operations for the next 3 years! We are deeply grateful to Manulife for this opportunity and are excited to work with them 🙏🏻 ➡️
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🧵 Male allies please watch
#PictureAScientist
it’s not lost on me that much headway was made when one particular ally believed in the women at MIT. We need you to dismiss the stories of “difficult” women & act when you see injustice (can be as simple as amplifying that voice)
🧵I finally watched
#PictureAScientist
. I was reluctant because I knew it would surface all of my own stuff. And it (painfully) did
But as an academic I have a responsibility to do watch it -to bear witness, to be consciously aware to fuel the anger for the change that necessary
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Dropped my daughter off in a distant town & with that all kids have left the nest. I know it's a right of passage, but I am sad that my constant (albeit nagging) companion has gone. After all, who else will watch British mysteries, bad reality TV, & procrastibake with me?
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Look what arrived in the mail yesterday …chapters from amazing researchers on sex & gender & the curious case of the Naked Mole Rat +++
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