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Goretti Espana-Irla

@gorettiei.bsky.social
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Neuroscience Postdoctoral Researcher at Northeastern University | PhD in Medicine, Master in Neurorehabilitation, PT ____ Women's Brain Health 🧠 🚺 Neuroimaging 🖥️ Open Science 🍃

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OHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🚨Two weeks away!🚨 Reminder that our first workshop of the year will happen in two weeks featuring @russpoldrack.org. 🧠 Better Code, Better Science 📅22 April 2026 🔗Register: forms.gle/WRUdGQEpd5is... #OHBM #OpenScience
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Preprinting means sharing an early version of your research, generally before journal-organised review. Many organisations are starting to offer and recognise peer-reviewed preprints. But how can preprinting benefit you? Check out our 5 Fs of preprinting. buff.ly/evtXrv2
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Open Science: Why you should preprint your next paper
What are preprints and how do they benefit you and your research community? Plus find tools that help you keep up with the preprint literature.
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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 💪👩‍🔬🧬🧠 #WomenInScience #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience #WomenAndGirlsInScience
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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
📣🚨 New preprint out! 📄✨ We examined TBI & white matter integrity in females using @ukbiobank.bsky.social data - menopause timing at time of injury shapes brain integrity & HRT effects vary by duration 🚺🧠 Check it out ⬇️: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Menopause #WomensBrainHealth #StudyWomen
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Traumatic Brain Injury Associated with Altered Corpus Callosum Microstructure in Females: Exploring the Roles of Menopause Timing and Hormone Therapy in UK Biobank www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Such a great experience presenting at the 2025 NeuroBoston Symposium at Tufts University! 🙌 So grateful for the opportunity and for all the great questions and conversations afterward 🙂🧠🚺 #Tufts #NeuroBoston #StudyWomen #WomensBrainHealth #Menopause @sfn.org
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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Honored to be selected for a lightning talk at the NeuroBoston Symposium at Tufts University today! I’ll be presenting on traumatic brain injury, white-matter integrity, and the roles of #Menopause timing and hormone therapy 🧠 🚺 Excited to share these findings!! 🙌 #WomensBrainHealth #StudyWomen
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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Thrilled to be at #SfN25 this week! Sharing my research on TBI, white matter integrity, menopause, and hormone therapy 🧠🚺 Also very thankful to have been selected for the 2025 Trainee Professional Development Award supported by the @abfbrain.bsky.social! 🙂🎉
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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
📣🚨 Excited to announce our new paper is out in Human Brain Mapping! 🧠📝 We used a data-driven MVPA approach to reveal whole-brain functional connectivity differences after mTBI and linked them to cognitive outcomes up to 12 months post-injury. Check it out ⬇️: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Functional Connectivity Patterns Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and the Association With Longitudinal Cognitive Function
High-resolution fMRI using multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) reveals distinct alterations in functional connectivity across multiple brain networks in acute mTBI patients. These connectivity change...
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 30/04/2025
Preregistration—creating a time-stamped, read-only research plan before a study begins—is an open science practice that can strengthen research transparency & integrity. Our new whitepaper offers a practical guide to preregistration essentials. Download & share widely! 💡: osf.io/8eczw/files/o...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I believe that it is important that my students learn about the dynamic, complex process by which sexual differentiation occurs because it is the truth, writes @nmbaran.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/sex/what-bir...
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What birds can teach us about the ‘biological truth’ of sex
Part of our job as educators is to give students a deeper understanding of the true diversity of sex and gender in the natural world.
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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Really enjoyed the Pink Concussion: Sex, Parenting, and Life After Acquired Brain Injury symposium at the 15th World Congress on Brain Injury. Amazing speakers and insightful discussions on the impact of brain injury in women! #IBIA2025 @pinkconcussions.bsky.social
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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Attended Women’s Health Research and Funding: Gaps and Opportunities at @broadinstitute.org. We must push grant agencies, stakeholders, and pharma to prioritize women’s inclusion in research. Equitable studies benefit everyone—let’s keep advocating, sharing, and driving change! #WomensHealthResearch
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PINK Concussions @pinkconcussions.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Please take two minutes to watch this excellent video that explains WHY SEX DIFFERENCES are critical to study... This is why PINK Concussions has spent the last 12 years advocating for women to be included in Brain Injury research and why we will not give up advocating! youtu.be/iyMmkoKEoLI?...
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A New Vision for Women's Health Research
YouTube video by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If you want to read about why SABV is so important, I've written quite a bit on the topic. Here are two of my favorites (pdf links): www.shanskylab.com/s/Shansky-20... www.shanskylab.com/s/Shansky-Mu...
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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If this is the case, it would be heartbreaking—erasing progress and widening the gender data gap yet again. It would mark a huge step backward for science and women's health. #GenderDataGap #HealthResearch #HealthEquity #NIH www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
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Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.
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NeuroNarratives @neuronarratives.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝! The deadline to apply for the NeuroNarratives residency is extended to the 𝟐𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲! 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝? Apply as artist or neuroscientist via the link in bio! #artandscience #art #science #artscience #artscienceresidency #neuroscience
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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 💪👩‍🔬🧬🧠 #WomenInScience #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience #WomenAndGirlsInScience
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OHBM Brain Art @ohbmbrainart.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Visit our website for more information about the exhibition theme and important dates ohbm-brainart.github.io/exhibit.html Re-posts are very much appreciated 🤗 #brainart #sciart #neuroart #ohbm
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OHBM Brain Art SIG - Exhibit
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Cognitive Neuroendocrinology Lab @cogneuroend.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Excited to share our #systematicreview on #estrogens & brain networks, in Frontiers in #Neuroendocrinology, conducted at @mpicbs.bsky.social, featuring @liviaruehr.bsky.social, @kimhoffmann.bsky.social and @emilybmay.bsky.social 🧠🎉
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
**screams in early career scientist**
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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Advancing policy advocacy for women’s health requires data collection, disparity analysis, and trackable, actionable metrics. This is crucial to closing the women’s health gap, unlocking financing, and driving innovation 💡🚺 🔗Explore the data here: womens-health-impact-tracking-platform.weforum.org
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Women’s Health Impact Tracking Platform
The Women's Health Impact Tracking (WHIT) platform is a first-of-its-kind global tool to measure progress toward closing the women’s health gap.
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harvardwipsych.bsky.social @harvardwipsych.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!!! Harvard's graduate student organization, Women in Psychology, is super excited to host the 2025 Trends in Psychology Summit (TiPS) conference in May! Abstract submissions for poster presentations, blitz talks, and sketchpads closes Friday, February 14th at 12:00PM EST.
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 30/01/2025
📣 Big news: Lifecycle Journal is now open for submissions! 📣 Lifecycle Journal is a new, innovative, community-driven approach to scholarly publishing, initiated by COS. Learn more and submit: lifecyclejournal.org/
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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
#EverydaySexismProject is a platform that has been amplifying voices and experiences of sexism, from street harassment to workplace discrimination, since 2012. By speaking out, we shine a light on injustices and create a collective voice that can't be ignored 📣✊💜 everydaysexism.com
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Everyday Sexism Project
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Disappointing new study showing - once again - that women are leaving research careers at far higher levels than men If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️ #WomeninSTEM 👩‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Among nearly 35,000 biological scientists who authored their first paper in 2000, women were more likely than men to have stopped publishing after 5, 10 or 20 years. The size of this gender gap varies between disciplines.
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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Hey 2025 👇🏼
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Emma Tinney @emmatinney.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The choroid plexus (ChP), a small subcortical structure, is a neuroprotective barrier. Preclinical TBI models show increased inflammatory markers in the ChP. Our recent work shows ChP swelling in CT+ TBI patients, emphasizing the different pathologies of TBI. www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
ChP volume at 2 weeks and 6 months in the left and right ChP from TRACK-TBI in mild TBI CT+, mild TBI CT−, and orthopedic controls. Box plots demonstrating post hoc comparisons with higher ChP volume in the right and left hemisphere at 2 weeks in CT+ compared with CT− and orthopedic controls. This relationship exists at 6 months for the left and right hemisphere for CT+ compared with CT− but only for the right hemisphere when comparing CT+ to orthopedic controls. ChP, choroid plexus; CT, computed tomography; TBI, traumatic brain injury; TRACK-TBI, Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury.ChP from GMM in blue; ChP from original FreeSurfer mask in yellow. ChP, choroid plexus; GMM, Gaussian mixture modeling.
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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Excellent blog post. I particularly appreciate this take-home figure.
Take-home figure of academic publishing options arranged on an ethical continuum
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Although studying sex differences in the brain is complex, it is essential. Armin Raznahan @bogglerapture.bsky.social explains why ignoring different patterns of risk for brain-based conditions among males and females does us all a disservice. www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
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Males and females show different patterns of risk for brain-based conditions. Ignoring these differences does us all a disservice.
Although studying sex differences in the brain is complex, technically awkward and socioculturally loaded, it is absolutely essential.
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 08/09/2023
An interactive, clickable fMRI atlas (n = 40k, ukbiobank data) for associations with hundreds of traits and diseases. fmriatlas.org/index.html #neuroskyence #psyscisky
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