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Liisa Galea

@liisagalea.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist, Treliving Family Chair in Women’s Mental Health, Prof U Toronto (formerly UBC), Mom, Senior Scientist CAMH

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 8h
Confirmed cases in Congo’s Ebola outbreak have surpassed 9,000, with more than 4,300 deaths, as health authorities struggle to contain an outbreak spreading across seven provinces apnews.com/article/cong...
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Congo's confirmed Ebola cases exceed 9,000 as containment efforts falter
Congo's Ebola outbreak has surpassed 9,000 confirmed cases, with over 4,300 deaths, according to government figures.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 8h
Three people have received an innovative treatment to rejuvenate vision cells. The treatment appears safe, and two of the recipients show early signs of improved vision. The novel strategy reprograms cells to restore their normal function—essentially rejuvenating them. time.com/article/2026...
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Eye Cells May Have Been Rejuvenated for the First Time in People
An experimental therapy addresses aging cells in the eye that can lead to vision loss.
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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Protamines sound super cool, because they are, they evolve, superfast, and are of the first examples of positive selection at the gene level!
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some thoughts on the CIHR Project survey. I am very concerned about panicked “do something” changes in the face of declining success rates and rising app pressure. The same thing that lead to several years of stepping on rakes during the “Reforms.”
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
More CIHR musings, because I think we don't actually know what's going on in important ways that might influence how we think about prospective solutions. These are questions CIHR could answer if it wanted to.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the new @science.org special issue on women's health, a 5★ review of menopause hormone therapy to promote healthy aging science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Reframing menopause and menopause hormone therapy as opportunities for healthy aging
Menopause is an important biological transition with up to 72 symptoms that shapes aging trajectories across organs and encompasses ~40% of the female lifespan. Although menopause awareness is increas...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Review: Sex-specific mechanisms of chronic pain www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Sex-specific mechanisms of chronic pain
For decades, we have known that women, especially younger women, are disproportionately affected by pain disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome, endometriosis, menstrual migraines, fibromyalgia...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Review: X and Y chromosomes as determinants of aging and disease @denadubal.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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X and Y chromosomes as determinants of aging and disease
Sex differences have traditionally been attributed to gonadal hormones, but accumulating evidence shows that sex chromosomes exert distinct, cell-autonomous effects on health, aging, and disease. XX a...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Review: Shaping maternal physiology: Immune control of reproductive adaptation @belkaidlab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Does the postmenopausal ovary still matter? Ovaries may influence health long after their reproductive function ends www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Does the postmenopausal ovary still matter?
Ovaries may influence health long after their reproductive function ends
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Women make up more than half the population, but most of what we know about women’s biology comes from extrapolation of studies in men @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A Lifelong Focus on Women’s Health
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Democracy Dies in Cowardice @savedemocracy25.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great source of independent news now free thru the mid-terms….
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Review: Reframing menopause and menopause hormone therapy as opportunities for healthy aging www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @liisagalea.bsky.social
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Reframing menopause and menopause hormone therapy as opportunities for healthy aging
Menopause is an important biological transition with up to 72 symptoms that shapes aging trajectories across organs and encompasses ~40% of the female lifespan. Although menopause awareness is increas...
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Cezar Khursigara @cmkhursigara.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Molecular & Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Molecular & Cellular Biotechnology through the Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders program. Please share widely! careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
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Assistant Professor (Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader)
Assistant Professor (Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader)
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bbrfoundation @bbrfoundation.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to the BBRF Goldman-Rakic Prize Recipient, Dr. Sheena Josselyn, for their Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience! . Memory and Engrams . Register & Learn more: ow.ly/z0jz50X0gwk . University of Toronto
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here’s the especially depressing bit: “peer review reports and funding recommendations have “suddenly become much longer, more detailed and complex”. Colleagues, what are you doing?
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Snoop-and-scoop poses a real threat to science in the AI age
Establishing attribution in research has become harder in the age of AI-assisted breakthroughs
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s one of the worst things about peer review. This is why I love the concept of consolidated reviews (eNeuro) but in practice a lot of editors didn’t do it. It also required associate editors to READ all the manuscripts assigned to them. Which was also super helpful or should be in theory
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The editor really should have identified the conflicting comments and triaged them for you. (& I’m sorry that completely sucks)
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is an excellent idea (and Montreal is a great host city).
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Schwantz 👊🔥🇨🇦 @schwantz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Albertans need to crush this idiotic separation nonsense. Don't you dare let any of your friends and neighbours stay home! youtube.com/shorts/o3dyd...
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Alberta soldier fighting in Ukraine heartbroken over separation debate
YouTube video by CBC News Alberta
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Women in Neuroscience UK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why does breast cancer risk increase so sharply after 50? In our blog, Renata Tulakina explores how menopause may reshape breast tissue and alter immune defences and cell interactions, offering new insight into age-related breast cancer risk.
Illustrated cover titled “Why Breast Cancer Risk Takes Off After 50” by Renata Tulakina, showing an older woman alongside a pink breast cancer awareness ribbon and an upward arrow.
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Politico @politico.com · 28/09/2026
Trump administration finalizes repeal of Biden-era Title IX rule
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Trump administration finalizes repeal of Biden-era Title IX rule
The rule stops short of defining "sex" in the federal education law barring sex discrimination as biological sex.
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Big speaking event in 1.5 h. I’m not nervous I’m excited!!! That’s the lie I tell myself. With help from VEEP (Tanvi Puri gave me this gem)
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Jonah Ryan: YOU are Beyoncé!
ALT: Jonah Ryan: YOU are Beyoncé!
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jaclyn reach out via email and I will put you in touch with a bunch :). Better yet advertise with the @whrcluster.bsky.social for Greta network of women’s health afficiandos.
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I will and do!! Thanks for thinking of me
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unbelievable
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Another lab preprint from @matejaperovic.bsky.social - are estrogens neuroprotective? Here looking at older women 70* we found associations- using data from the NAcc - suggesting it depends on MHT formulation,cognitive domain tested & APOE genotype more when published www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Associations of menopause hormone therapy with late-life cognition and brain health vary by formulation and APOEε4 presence
Implications of menopause hormone therapy (MHT) for cognitive aging remain unclear despite decades of research. Potential reasons include insufficient consideration of MHT type, despite notable pharma...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026
Fully electric aviation has some major challenges (mostly: batteries are heavy and don't get lighter as they get used up) but I love the idea of decreasing aircraft emissions through a hybrid approach, perhaps as a step toward new, clever solutions for fully electric air transport in the future.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The attacks just keep coming. Planned executive order "aims to create a new external committee with the power to veto awards" We also learn that "Vought...refused to meet with Dr. Bhattacharya... accused the N.I.H. director of funding projects that were in conflict with administration priorities"
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Clinical Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Leeds to develop and evaluate physical health care for older people with complex mental health needs. Closing date: 19th October www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/clinical...
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Clinical Doctoral Fellowship - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
University of Leeds offers a Clinical Doctoral Fellowship to develop and evaluate physical health care for older people with complex mental health needs.
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Carol Emslie: The marketing machine for alcohol sales to women is 🤯. Pink and sparkling, as well as empowering women & wellness trends with “Skinny girl” etc.
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Almost 2x increased risk for LGB+ of alcohol related death. Also more binge drinking with trans individuals. Thinking about the context ( more minority stress) also the idea that there are stereotypes of how drinks are appropriate for whom (lesbians pints, gay men- cocktails)…
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Does what you drink reveal who you are? Qualitative studies show depends on what you are wearing or who you are with. People identify different booze with gender identity. Ie cocktails over beer for “girls”. pint glass are not “ladylike” drinking. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28833252/
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The role of alcohol in identity construction among LGBT people: a qualitative study - PubMed
Research suggests that alcohol use and misuse are higher among lesbian, gay and bisexual than heterosexual populations, yet the social context of drinking in sexual minority communities has rarely been examined. To explore lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people's relationship with alco …
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Countries differ by rate but the narrowing of the gender gap is seen across cultures. But how is drinking reflected in social norms and across countries? A WHO briefing on whether alcohol policies affect men & women’s differently written by Dr. Emslie. Very few studies examined alcohol by gender.
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Alcohol related deaths are increasing. 37% increase for women compared to 33% in men. There is an increase in women’s drinking in last 10 years. 86% increase in ED visits in women compared to 53% in men. Even though men die more frequently its on the rise in women
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How does alcohol advertising target identity and taking evidence into action (working with NGOs to influence policy). In the UK more men drink than women and have more alcohol related deaths
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Follow along for key points! How alcohol advertising is pitched to women and LGBTQ+
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Trump administration is fulfilling a right-wing campaign to destroy public health and reshape it for ideological purposes. It’s a hell of a thing to watch. The dishonesty and corruption—just so out in the open.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have listened to and read lots and lots of What AI will Mean for College and the one big thing that gets skips all the time is TEACHING. Information provided is not teaching. 8/
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reposting this ongoing search (any discipline of biology) for an Assistant to Associate level colleague in the Division of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutch. Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And more ameboid shaped microglia in males than females with e4 (showing again that shape doesn’t matter 😏 ) That’s all for now until it finds a home and thanks to @sandracorvi.bsky.social and @mcgovernaj.bsky.social for getting this off our desks.
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Our new preprint with @ciernialab.bsky.social we investigated transcriptional profiles of microglia (❤️the name) from hAPOEe4/3 female/male mice in HPC &CTX. We saw loads of sex x genotype interactions in both regions Cell cycling, ER stress, lipid metabolism ++ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Sex and APOE Genotype Differentially Shape Microglial Transcriptomic Profiles Across the Hippocampus and Cortex
Female sex and the APOEε4 allele are top risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Microglia play a role in the pathogenesis of AD, yet how sex and APOE genotype affect microglia remain poorly unders...
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Scientific Project Manager role at Imperial supporting dementia clinical trials, neuroimaging studies, grants and research delivery. Closing date: 4th October www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/scientif...
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Scientific Project Manager - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
Imperial seeks a Scientific Project Manager to support dementia clinical trials, neuroimaging studies, grants and research delivery.
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Limits on abortion care kill people.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As seen in Marseille. Exhibit a) Go little buddy go!! B) a Rock with an unreadable plaque also C) cake to coffee size ratio is off … or is it ON?!
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 08/09/2026
Changes in the female brain during menopause contrast sharply with those seen during pregnancy and puberty, according to research in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4qZRLoJ #Neuroskyence 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows monthly rates of gray matter volume change across three female hormonal transitions.
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