Reposted by Michelle OyenDaphne Jackson Trust @daphnejacksontr.bsky.social · 07/05/2025🌸 Today is World Maternal Mental Health Day 🌸 💡 Let's continue to create supportive environments that help mothers thrive. To all the incredible mothers balancing it all: We see you. We support you. And we're here for you. 💜 144
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Every engineering student should watch this video. Ethics, mechanics, mistakes, and so many lessons! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q56P...youtube.comThe Most Dangerous Building in ManhattanYouTube video by Veritasium 030
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Yes, this is all horrible. But I really wish people in the US would stop and think "Maybe we can build something better, not just recreate a system that had a lot of problems." Sincerely, someone who spent 12 years overseas where things were organized very differently... 010
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025New podcast interview on the placenta! open.spotify.com/episode/0rnA...open.spotify.comThe placenta: A disposable organ we can’t live withoutTiny Matters · Episode 042
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Could be interesting to put the various male- and female-leaning diseases into this a la the Mirin 2021 paper to see how little NIH has been spending on women's health... (8% according to the recent NASEM report...) 010
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025So important for maternal health in much of the US right now... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comThe Scramble to Save Rural Health Care From DOGECan an Alabama health clinic survive Musk’s “chainsaw for bureaucracy”? 000
Reposted by Michelle OyenHelen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025A generation of scientists could be lost through the axing of various programs designed to help young people find a path into basic and applied research. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgNSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduatesMany participants are from groups underrepresented in science 28758206
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Cutting out STEM clubs for girls is NOT what the world needs right now... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...nytimes.comDefense Dept. Schools Pause Pride Clubs and Remove BooksClubs for Hispanic and Asian students were also among the student groups put on hold as officials raced to interpret Trump administration orders. 000
Reposted by Michelle OyenJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 23/02/2025At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc: 19688348
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025"CARD has been at the cutting edge of advances not just for Alzheimer’s but Parkinson’s disease as well." 000
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Reminder, 42% of births in the US are covered by Medicaid. So like so many other things lately, this is a direct attack on women's health. 000
Reposted by Michelle OyenEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Firings at FDA over the weekend taking out A.I. staff www.statnews.com/2025/02/16/f... Note the subtitle.statnews.comFDA cuts hit AI division, even as Trump invests in the technologyLayoffs at the FDA appear to have hit the AI and digital health staff particularly hard. It also has a strained relationship with Musk’s company Neuralink. 1028492
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025We are seeking an Asst. Prof. in biomedical imaging at my fantastic new location (Wayne State University) in rejuvenating urban Detroit: waynetalent.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...waynetalent.csod.comAssistant Professor- Biomedical EngineeringWayne State University's Department of Biomedical Engineering has an opportunity for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position for a candidate with ... 021
Reposted by Michelle OyenWHO @who.int · 21/01/2025WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw bit.ly/4hrbeJ7 24948241950
Reposted by Michelle OyenThe Society for Reproductive Investigation @sriwomenshealth.bsky.social · 08/01/2025The SRI Late Breaking Abstract Submission is OPEN! Share your groundbreaking research in women’s reproductive health with the global scientific community. #SRI2025 Submit your Late Breaking Abstract today! www.sri-online.org/events/2025/... 032
Reposted by Michelle OyenPathology at Cambridge @campathology.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Our very own Professor Ashley Moffett of Reproductive Immunology was awarded the prestigious CMP for Women’s Reproductive Health. The foremost international authority on the immunology of human reproduction, her work has helped explain high rates of pre-eclampsia and maternal mortality in Africa. 0124
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Featuring comments from me about the HUGE potential for digital twins in pregnancy research! 000
Reposted by Michelle OyenKarina Vazirova @karinavazirova.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Bioengineers are working on a virtual model for a pregnancy. This could predict how a pregnancy would play out from a simple ultrasound scan. Tune in to my interview with @michelleoyen.bsky.social to learn more: open.spotify.com/episode/4hhs...open.spotify.comMichelle Oyen, PhD - Digital Twins for Pregnancy and Engineering The Female ExperienceMOTHER-podcast with Karina Vazirova · Episode 011
Reposted by Michelle OyenKeaton Smith @smithk63.bsky.social · 14/11/2024For my colleagues in placental research, the November installment of the North American Placenta Lab Meeting is happening this Tuesday (Nov 19) at 9:00 am PST/12:00 pm EST over Zoom (mcmaster.zoom.us/j/96005378701). See details on our scheduled speakers below! 055
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 19/01/2024I know I should be so excited and happy about this but... how can reproduction-related issues only represent 5% of women's health issues? I am getting worried that NONE of the new attention will be on endo, fibroids, CV disease post-pre-eclampsia, etc. www.mckinsey.com/mhi/our-insi... 000
Reposted by Michelle OyenLaura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 04/01/2024I hadn't noticed until I read this article, but a lot of astronomy language is violent and misleading, even misogynistic, when it could be elegant and inclusive 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...scientificamerican.comThe Language of Astronomy Is Needlessly Violent and InaccurateAstronomy is beautiful and elegant. The language we use to describe its processes is anything but 77023
Reposted by Michelle OyenBasia @basia87.bsky.social · 04/01/2024Because so many don’t believe the scientists anymore (if it doesn’t agree with their opinion), this is the possible impact of snake oil in the 21st century:🧪 www.politico.eu/article/hydr...politico.euHydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during COVID, study findsFormer US President Donald Trump said: ‘What do you have to lose? Take it.’ 2248
Reposted by Michelle OyenLaura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 04/01/2024This one goes out to everyone with loved ones in Florida, where the state's surgeon general, yes the state's SURGEON GENERAL, claimed that mRNA vaccines contaminate people's DNA. You have a better chance of becoming Spider-Man than having your DNA harmed by mRNA vaccines 🧪scientificamerican.comNo, COVID mRNA Vaccines Won't Damage Your DNAYou have a “better chance of becoming Spider-Man” than being harmed by DNA from COVID vaccines 819781
Reposted by Michelle OyenLaura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 04/01/2024One underappreciated danger of electing anti-science conspiracy theorists is that they appoint anti-science conspiracy theorists to important positions. Covid vaccines don't contaminate your DNA & it endangers public health for a surgeon general to say they do 🧪 by @tanyalewis.bsky.socialscientificamerican.comNo, COVID mRNA Vaccines Won't Damage Your DNAYou have a “better chance of becoming Spider-Man” than being harmed by DNA from COVID vaccines 26120
Reposted by Michelle OyenAnne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 02/01/2024A little more on Evelynn Fox Keller. "Mathematical biologist, philosopher and historian of science who challenged the vision of science as a masculine activity" #philbio #philsci #hpbiol #science #feministsky 👩🔬|👩🏻🔬|👩🏼🔬|👩🏽🔬|👩🏾🔬|👩🏿🔬 #sts www.nature.com/articles/d41... and www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...nature.comEvelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023), philosopher who questioned gender roles in scienceMathematical biologist, philosopher and historian of science who challenged the vision of science as a masculine activity. Mathematical biologist, philosopher and historian of science who challenged t... 16628
Reposted by Michelle OyenThe Jackson Laboratory @jax.org · 02/01/2024🎗️January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Her contributions saved countless lives, but do you know Elizabeth Stern? We rely on her discoveries during cervical cancer screenings, and in safer use of hormonal birth control #reprosky #CanSky #OncoSky 🧪🖥️ 🧬 #WomenInSTEM: www.jax.org/news-and-ins...jax.orgElizabeth Stern’s cancer research has had a lasting impact on women’s healthElizabeth Stern’s work has had a lasting impact on women’s healthcare, improving cervical cancer diagnosis and promoting the inclusion and protection of all women against disease. 085
Reposted by Michelle Oyen1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · 02/01/20241️⃣4️⃣ Katherine Johnson (1918-2020) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM American space scientist & mathematician, a leading figure in American space history. Without Margot Shetterly's book & movie adaptation 'Hidden Figures', K. Johnson's essential contribution would have remained unknown. www.nasa.gov/general/kath... 0197
Reposted by Michelle OyenAthene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social · 16/12/2023It's not too late to order my book Not Just for the Boys: Why we need more women in science, for the (aspiring) scientist or teacher in your life, male, female or non-binary. From OUP or Amazon #WomenInSTEM 12111
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 03/01/2024Day 3/26 in my Women's Health Engineering alphabet, "I is for Invasion". Trophoblast invasion, AKA the early stages of placenta formation. Completed with a shout-out to the best placenta book I've ever read, Charlie Loke's "Life's Vital Link". 🧪🤰 michelleoyen.substack.com/p/i-is-for-i...michelleoyen.substack.comI is for InvasionThroughout January I am going to do an out-of-order alphabet of posts on Women's Health Engineering, mostly but not exclusively focused on my research topic of preterm birth. 020
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 02/01/2024Day 2 in my trip through the Women's Health Engineering alphabet; the not so cheery but important topic of maternal mortality. michelleoyen.substack.com/p/d-is-for-d... 000
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 01/01/2024I am trying a new writing task for January, starting with this: michelleoyen.substack.com/p/r-is-for-r... #engineering #womenshealth #pregnancy #pprom #fetalmembranes #rupture 000
Reposted by Michelle OyenBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 29/12/2023This is why retention, promotion, and tenure is so critically important to pay attention to. It’s inexpensive to retain good faculty and damned expensive to recruit new faculty. 061
Reposted by Michelle OyenBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 29/12/2023And for every department that does everything right and builds a strong program, they can expect to last 10 years. If you don’t constantly maintain your faculty, people move, retire, die, and your department and department culture changes. It needs CONSTANT attention. 1153
Reposted by Michelle OyenBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 29/12/2023I’m just gonna say hospitals should always and forever have a policy of masking. It’s where people go who are sick. And immunocompromised for a whole lotta reasons. 451608437
Reposted by Michelle OyenRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 27/12/2023A team led by physicist Chien-Shiung Wu obtained the first experimental confirmation of parity violation, in the decay of Cobalt-60, OTD in 1956. Her theory colleagues received a Nobel for the prediction, but Wu – who actually observed the effect – was left off the prize. 🧪 👩🔬 Image: Smithsonian 08730
Michelle Oyen @michelleoyen.bsky.social · 28/12/2023Newly in press publication, containing crucial background information for #digitaltwin models of pregnancy: Material Properties of Nonpregnant and Pregnant Human Uterine Layers (in press JMBBM and at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) 040
Reposted by Michelle OyenLarry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 12/12/2023As we have just seen play out in Texas, exceptions to abortion bans do not in practice guarantee that a pregnant woman's health will be protected. www.kff.org/womens-healt... 031