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Dr Kate Womersley

@katewomersley.com
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Psychiatry Dr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Research fellow @georgeinstitute @ImperialCollege | MESSAGE Co-PI www.messageproject.co.uk | www.katewomersley.com | #medsky #psychsky

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Women's Health Research Cluster @whrcluster.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
New episode 🎙️ Psychiatrist and researcher Dr. @katewomersley.com joins Dr. @liisagalea.bsky.social to talk policy change, pregnancy, and why sex- and gender-informed science benefits everyone. Listen now: ow.ly/fFIb50XJAO1 #WomensHealth #Pregnancy #SexAndGenderResearch #HealthEquity
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
“Many women … will now be burdened with unsubstantiated concerns about how their choices might endanger their pregnancy. Whatever they choose, there is a pathway for them to be blamed.” I’m thankful the ever insightful @katewomersley.com has weighed in on this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame | Kate Womersley
There is no credible evidence linking autism with maternal paracetamol use. But the US president’s ‘tough it out’ message could harm mothers and babies, says doctor Kate Womersley
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
As always @katewomersley.com provides the best antidote to the far-right anti-science nonsense poisoning the public sphere: "Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame | Kate Womersley
There is no credible evidence linking autism with maternal paracetamol use. But the US president’s ‘tough it out’ message could harm mothers and babies, says doctor Kate Womersley
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Yes 📣 @katewomersley.com 📣 "This political theatre highlights a longstanding and harmful problem: pregnant women, and their babies, are routinely let down by partial, poor-quality and missing medical evidence." 👇👇👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame | Kate Womersley
There is no credible evidence linking autism with maternal paracetamol use. But the US president’s ‘tough it out’ message could harm mothers and babies, says doctor Kate Womersley
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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Fiona Godlee on why she protested, knowing she would be arrested. www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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I was arrested for peacefully protesting against genocide—why our medical leaders need to speak up
I have never been arrested before, but I went to London’s Parliament Square on 6 September with that as my sole objective. I am now one of over 1400 people, including at least 25 current and former UK...
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 09/09/2025
Very exciting new project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social - Medicine without doctors, co-led by an incredible team at Edinburgh’s Usher, @engelmal.bsky.social www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 06/09/2025
The solution to having a new kitten and a child starting Gaelic medium education
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 03/09/2025
Delighted to be reviewing this for @thelancet.com and that there is an appreciation for how feminist economics has a profound influence on health and medicine
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 02/09/2025
This is not the way you ask a question in a research study.
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 02/09/2025
More women in cardiovascular trials still needed (and CVD trials are pretty good compared to other medical specialties...) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Participation of Women in Cardiovascular Trials, 2017 to 2023
This systematic review describes the representation of women across a broad range of cardiovascular trials registered from 2017 to 2023.
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 01/09/2025
Happy ginger cat appreciation day! 🐈
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 29/08/2025
Important and overdue. Most parents I know who can afford to have been opting in to Chicken pox vaccination for their kids. This will remove significant socioeconomic inequality.
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 27/08/2025
Maternity scandals, physical and psychological birth trauma, limited and costly childcare, inflexible workplaces, rising costs in every domain. The UK isn’t making parenthood exactly appealing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Fertility rate hits record low in England, Scotland and Wales
Last year’s total fertility rate of 1.41 for England and Wales was lowest since comparable data was first collected in 1938, ONS says
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 23/08/2025
Physicians assistants upset that their work opportunities/over-reaching have been curtailed by the Leng review; but PA union was all too dismissive of these same impacts when they affected doctors due to PAs being rolled out across the NHS.
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
All Folks Had To Do Was Vote For The Super Qualified Black Lady… With A Degree In Economics
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Allen Gathman @agathman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
“When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.”
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/08/2025
You are, in the next few months, going to see a few pro-AI people who start trying to morph into "thoughtful cynics" on the issue, and I can't wait, because I've been taking such detailed notes
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 19/08/2025
“I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)”
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 13/08/2025
In Germany kids are given a schultüte on their first day at school - essentially a Christmas stocking of goodies. My Scotland-born daughter was counting her lucky stars for those Köln roots this morning.
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 12/08/2025
Excellent to see this commitment to include older adults in research. Cries of ‘wokery’ will be fewer & quieter for the protected characteristic of age, yet the principles of equity and inclusion are the same as with sex, gender, ethnicity & pregnancy status. All matter www.ukri.org/news/committ...
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Committing to better inclusion of older adults in health research
A joint statement has been signed by over 40 UK health funders and charities, to improve understanding of disease and develop better health interventions.
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 12/08/2025
It’s a Tuesday mood
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 11/08/2025
The occupational hazard of being a woman and the greater risk of needing a restraining order to stay safe from a stalker is a risk to heart health 💔
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 11/08/2025
AI replicates, magnifies and perpetuates the biases already active in our health system and society www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds
Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes
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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
HUGE wife. Absolutely MASSIVE Scottish wife.
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 10/08/2025
Scottish Water warned of the driest start to the year in Edinburgh since 1964. Arthur's Seat tonight.
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 08/08/2025
Back to work present to myself
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 08/08/2025
The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere. But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.
A banner advert for the University of Warwick, which says "Beyond ignores curiousity". This is a spelling error.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
A Senate investigation has so far found 510 human rights abuses in ICE detention centers since Jan 20, including deaths, physical & sexual abuse, inadequate medical care, overcrowding & unsanitary conditions, inadequate food & water, extreme temperatures, denial of legal access, & child separation
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‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities
Report from senator Jon Ossoff’s office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since Trump’s inauguration
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services. www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...
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Illinois is the first state to ban AI therapists
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill banning AI therapists into law, the first in the nation.
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 07/08/2025
I already had a pretty high opinion of the human placenta, but I’ve just found out it’s used in a cream to help severe burns to heal. 🙏
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 06/08/2025
Working with a colleague to start a Balint-style group for obstetrics & gynae trainees to discuss the significant challenges and emotions in their line of work. Anyone part of such a group who could share reflections on what works well? How to make space in busy surgical rotas? Opening up the room?
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
One reason to have friends of different ages and interests and backgrounds is so you can assemble a killer trivia team
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 06/08/2025
Working with a colleague to start a Balint-style group for obstetrics & gynae trainees to discuss the significant challenges and emotions in their line of work. Anyone part of such a group who could share reflections on what works well? How to make space in busy surgical rotas? Opening up the room?
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 06/08/2025
Henry Marsh lays out what he thinks are the paths for the NHS to survive, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social: A) A dedicated health tax B) A hybrid insurance system C) Making wealthier people pay to use the NHS observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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‘I worked in the NHS for decades – here’s how to fix it’
Britain’s demoralised doctors and nurses must be rallied with better job satisfaction and fair pay
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The cowardice of this Congress knows no bounds. Funding is already set for the vaccine research. The “stop the steal” goons are presently stealing the future of American health.
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 05/08/2025
Good news from Gates. Would have been even better if there were recognition of the conditions that affect women differently and disproportionately when compared to men (from autoimmunity to mental illness) as well as distinct women's health areas.
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 05/08/2025
Good news from Gates. Would have been even better if there were recognition of the conditions that affect women differently and disproportionately when compared to men (from autoimmunity to mental illness) as well as distinct women's health areas.
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 05/08/2025
On the train in Spain. Not a single pre-packaged sandwich or sad plastic-boxed salad in sight. People breaking baguettes, passing round jars of marinated olives, unwrapping sliced cured meats. Glorious.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 05/08/2025
something I find interesting is that I get pushback specifically from the left whenever I post this piece, when I would argue that "being so in favour of people choosing to do whatever they want that you entirely disregard material conditions" is, to me, quite inherently (right) libertarian coded
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 04/08/2025
Our group is delighted to have 2 pieces addressing women's healthcare and women's health research in @bmj.com Editor's choice this week @jocalynclark.bsky.social. Globally, we may be going backwards, but many of us are determinedly working against the current. www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Upending women’s health
This year is unleashing a series of devastating blows to women’s health worldwide. Cuts to foreign aid.1 Denial of abortion access and reproductive autonomy (doi:10.1136/bmj.r459).2 Targeted attacks o...
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 01/08/2025
"Even more concerning is that the purported benefits of estrogen for the heart are used to dissuade women from taking statins." HRT is oversold as primary prevention for CVD - the data do not support this @drjengunter.bsky.social vajenda.substack.com/p/estrogen-t...
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Estrogen, the Heart, and the Hype
What the Studies Really Show About MHT and Protecting the Heart
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 31/07/2025
When you read as a break from work and research, and then the novel you’re reading includes a graph like this:
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 31/07/2025
When you read as a break from work and research, and then the novel you’re reading includes a graph like this:
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 31/07/2025
Calling it: the best sparkling water of all time
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 29/07/2025
This is why billionaires love AI
"AI doesn't go on strike. It doesn't ask for a pay raise," he added, parroting cliched talking points, much like a certain over-hyped technology. "These things that you don't have to deal with as a CEO."
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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 27/07/2025
Hannah Hampton: - was born with a squint, needed 3 surgeries before the age of 3 - At age 12 was diagnosed with a depth-perception issue (still can't pour a drink without holding the cup) - has 1 long-sighted eye and 1 short-sighted, wears contact lenses www.thetimes.com/article/09c1...
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Hannah Hampton was told to give up football and didn’t — to England’s joy
England and Chelsea women’s goalkeeper was told she could never pursue a career in football due to a eye condition that means she lacks depth perception
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 25/07/2025
Meirion Thomas is a media favourite because he’s unashamedly misogynistic and makes his point as if “it’s what everyone is thinking.” Can we retire him from public opinion pls.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/07/2025
more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis
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