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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Thrilled to be in Uppsala 🇸🇪 for #WOMHER2026 filled of talks on women’s mental health. proud of @bonniee-leee.bsky.social @rominagl4.bsky.social @matejaperovic.bsky.social Laura Gravelsins for their great presentations that went off without a hitch (despite some lost luggage)

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Argel Aguilar Valles @argelaguilarvalles.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

We've been quiet for a while, but the lab has been quite productive, publishing several articles. Today, in Molecular Psychiatry, we published a study on sex differences in placebo and antidepressant response to intranasal esketamine for treatment-resistant depression! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sex differences in placebo and antidepressant response to intranasal esketamine for treatment-resistant depression - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Sex differences in placebo and antidepressant response to intranasal esketamine for treatment-resistant depression

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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I am so proud to share @forrestdrogers.bsky.social’s postdoctoral magnum opus, now out in @nature.com! Forrest discovered a novel role for Agouti in the MPOA of the hypothalamus to integrate socio-environmental information to flexibly tune paternal behavior www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thread! 👇🏻

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Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate paternal behaviour - Nature

Expression of agouti signalling protein in neurons in the medial preoptic area is increased by group housing and negatively associated with care, and overexpression of Agouti reduces care and enhances...

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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Just dropped Episode 1 of our new Season (my first time hosting). Up first the incredible ⁦‪Dr ⁦Cat Bohannon author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 M years of Human Evolution. Let us know what you think. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

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How Medical Research Ignores Half the Population with Dr. Cat Bohannon

Podcast Episode · Women's Health Interrupted with Dr. Liisa Galea · 2025-10-15 · 51m

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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

We are live!!! Follow along for highlights!!

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Women's Health Research Cluster @whrcluster.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Did you know that APOEe4, a genetic risk factor late-onset sporadic #AlzheimersDisease (AD) affects brain aging differently in males and females? 🧠 👀 📲 Swipe to learn more about this new study led by @bonniee_leee and click here to read the full paper: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Women's Health Research Cluster @whrcluster.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Join us for a Multidisciplinary Look at Menopause! 🗓️ April 28 – 1:00 PM EST Hear insights from the next generation of menopause researchers! 🔗 Reserve your spot today for this hybrid event: ow.ly/T8g350VpOap #MenopauseResearch

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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Tuesday we got to see @bonniee-leee.bsky.social transform into Dr.Bonnie Lee!! Many thanks to her committee, external examiner Kristen Zuloaga & university examiners Jessica Rosin and Wendy Robinson!!the second last UBC graduate student from the Galea lab to finish!! Thanks to UBC for the memories

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SalmasoLab @salmasolab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Congratulations to Sara Siddiqi for her hard work and perseverance on getting this out....It took so long for this paper to be published that I worried it would no longer be relevant to the audience.....I was very wrong....unfortunately! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Race and ethnicity matter! Moving Parkinson’s risk research towards diversity and inclusiveness - npj Parkinson's Disease

npj Parkinson's Disease - Race and ethnicity matter! Moving Parkinson’s risk research towards diversity and inclusiveness

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

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Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing

Many Democrats and activists are rallying to defend diversity programs, but others say they distract from deeper efforts to address inequality.

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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students.

Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com · 01/01/2025

Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025: 1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it. www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...

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2025: Keep democracy alive. FrameLab New Year's resolutions

Advice for defeating the authoritarian threat

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Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Thrilled to share our latest work on the importance of considering social identities in brain imaging research, now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social. rdcu.be/d4XWM

Visual highlighting how sociodemographic identities influence brain, behavior, and brain-behavior relationships.
Figure caption: key goal of research in the brain sciences is to capture relationships between the brain and behavior. When studying these brain–behavior relationships, it is crucial to recognize that sociodemographic factors, such as sex, gender, race, ethnicity, education, religion, spirituality, health, language, environment, age and socioeconomic status (among others), can independently and interdependently influence these reciprocal associations.

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Jonathan VanRyzin @jwvanryzin.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Happy #FluorescenceFriday ! Sharing one of my favorite images I've taken of microglia phagocytosis featuring a neuron whose DAPI is all too happy to be eaten.

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Romina Garcia de leon @rominagl4.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

So happy our review is finally out!! 🔬 📝Had the best writing journey with Liisa Galea and Travis Hodges. Special thanks to Dr. Tamara Bodnar and Dr. Hilary Brown for sharing their expertise.

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