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Ashlyn Swift-Gallant

@swiftneurolab.bsky.social
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Associate Professor | Behavioural Neuroscientist @ Memorial University of Newfoundland & Labrador studying #Sexdifferences #Neuroendocrinology #Socialbehavior #Neurodevelopment | she/her

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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Add males. Yup yet again because no study is good enough without adding in males??? I am so discouraged. And yes I got discussed - but I don’t believe I’ll fall on the funding side. But none of us can afford to go 365 d before we can defend the grant (or do something simple like “add males”.
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Herrje! Mann macht Facepalm
ALT: Herrje! Mann macht Facepalm
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
'We primarily do comparative analysis using human stem cells/organoids and genetically modified mouse models, with some minor use of frog models. We use this approach because, for developmental anomalies, it is impossible to assess true function without in vivo models' @karenjliu.bsky.social
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Why in vivo models of disease remain indispensable
Summary: The call to arms for alternatives to model organisms of disease will fail without ongoing integration with – and validation against – complex animal models and support from the animal modelli...
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MUN Faculty Association @munfaculty.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Provinces across Canada are investing in post-secondary education. Ontario. Saskatchewan. Meanwhile, Newfoundland and Labrador’s only university faces cuts, fewer courses, and larger classes. The NL budget is coming. This government has a clear choice to make. #WeAreMUN bit.ly/4sbzKD2 bit.ly/4tkgbsX
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Sevtap Savas, PhD🫐 🇨🇦🍁 @savaslab.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
way to go MUN!! why would anyone not invest in you? Not fund you? Despite the cuts since 2016, the MUN community has been delivering ❤️ #MemorialMatters #WeAreMUN @govnl.bsky.social
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BehavEcolPapers @behavecolpapers.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Fetal developmental trajectories following maternal immune activation are shaped by sex chromosome–gonadal interactions @PNAS.org
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Fetal developmental trajectories following maternal immune activation are shaped by sex chromosome–gonadal interactions
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 12, March 2026. SignificanceMaternal immune activation (MIA) during pregnancy increases the risk of pregnancy complications and neurodevelopmental disorders, which disproportionately affect males. How fetal sex, determined by both sex chromosomes and gonadal hormones, ...
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Women's Health Research Cluster @whrcluster.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Does #Tylenol use during pregnancy cause autism? Short answer: current evidence does not support a causal link. Our latest Behind the Science blog breaks down what studies actually show, and why nuance matters. 🔗 Read more on the Women’s Health Blog: ow.ly/Tip550XIoPg
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Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D. @mnrajah.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
On this National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, let us all remember the 14 women who were brutally murdered for simply being women in 1989 at Polytechnique Montréal. Say there names & #NeverForget Our society still has a long way to go to #EndViolenceAgainstWomen 🤍
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Women's Health Research Cluster @whrcluster.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Every country needs a national strategy for women's health. In our new episode, Dr. @liisagalea.bsky.social talks with Jennifer Gillivan about bias in research, and why it’s time to mobilize to equalize. 🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/tsrw50Xy8q9
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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
SBN is extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Nancy Forger, Professor at the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University, is the recipient of the Larry Young Mentorship Award. 🥳
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Women's Health Research Cluster @whrcluster.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
1 week to go! 🗓️ Join us Nov 14 at 1PM EST for Trainee Research Presentations: Hormonal Contraceptives — Insights from Across the Field. Fresh insights from emerging contraception researchers 👉 ow.ly/PCq850XgSq2
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Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D. @mnrajah.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It’s insulting to tell 🇨🇦 scientists we need international scientists to run to our rescue & ensure innovation. 🇨🇦 scientists have exceeded expectations with paltry funding. If the gov funded Tricouncil > & sustainably; imagine how innovative we’d already be!! /End
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I would love to know what university leaders say to politicians behind closed doors, because "asbestos is falling on our students' heads and we can't afford to change lightbulbs" doesn't seem to be what they are hearing.
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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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Women's Health Research Cluster @whrcluster.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🎙️ Meet the new host of Women’s Health Interrupted: Dr. Liisa Galea A neuroscientist + women’s mental health expert, she’s leading Season 3 with bold convos on women’s health research. Launches Oct 15 on Spotify + Apple Podcasts! #WomensHealth #SexAndGenderResearch #WHInterrupted
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
12 episodes coming out! how lucky am I? I got to interview 🤩 experts in psychiatry, gynecology, global health, nephrology, neuroscience, microbiome, FemTech, charitiable giving, & policy...join us for sometimes intense, but always informative conversations, sprinkled with some laughs along the way!
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Job alert: We're looking for someone to help us produce a female-specific risk calculator for Alzheimer’s disease! 🧠 Key qualifications are experience w/ large databases, project management, and women's health research. See posting for more info: shorturl.at/zkO8V
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Research Analyst - Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology-camh
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Ciaran Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org · 11/07/2025
🚨New lab publication is out!! 🚨 In this work we reveal that astrocytes, the most abundant glial cell type, are responsible for the effects of stress and that targeting these cells completely rescued the effects of stress on neuronal activity and behaviour! Huge congrats to Lewis!! See his 🧵below
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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
For every 1 animal used in research, there are hundreds to thousands used for food. Research animals globally: Estimated 50–100 million/year (most are mice, rats, and fish). Animals killed for food globally: Over 70–80 billion land animals per year, plus trillions of fish.
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Ciaran Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org · 13/06/2025
Call for an Assistant / Associate Prof. just opened at the @crchum.bsky.social in the Neuroscience Axis ! www.chumontreal.qc.ca/en/emplois/a...
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Assistant or associate professor-researcher in Neuroscience related to neurological disorders and/or neural regeneration and precision health
Description  The Neuroscience Research Axis of the CRCHUM and the Department of Neuroscience of the UdeM are inviting applications for a position of assistant or associate professor-researcher in neur...
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Sevtap Savas, PhD🫐 🇨🇦🍁 @savaslab.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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New Christian school in central N.L. teaching alternate curriculum based on Bible | CBC News
Students there learn the Earth is 6,000 years old, and people lived with dinosaurs.
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Robert-Paul Juster @rpjuster.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Upcoming @ossdcomm.bsky.social talk on some research from our @labcesar.bsky.social's SEXCOG study supported by @nserc-resnet.bsky.social
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Marija Kundakovic @kundakoviclab.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Looking forward to the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences @ossdcomm.bsky.social meeting on Sunday. I'll be giving the keynote lecture at Women's Health Research Premeeting: "Leveraging mouse and human (epi)genomics to improve women’s mental health" See you there! w @liisagalea.bsky.social
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I’ll be at @ossdcomm.bsky.social giving a keynote 😱. Honoured to give the Arnold talk “Unlocking Precision Medicine: How Sex and Female -specific Factors are 🗝️ to Effective Translation”. This will be my first time giving this talk & it’s not quite finished yet! 😬😱😜 needed something for ✈️
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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
*record-scratch* The deadline has been EXTENDED! 😅 You've got ONE WEEK to submit! Get those abstracts in by June 7
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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Announcing the SBN Emergency Hardship Fund! Please see below for details and let anyone potentially interested in joining us this summer in Vancouver know that there are funds available for assitance.
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Michael L. Barnett @mlbarnett.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Women's Health Initiative defunded after 30 years and 5,000 publications www.whi.org/md/news/whi-...
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Paul Marcogliese, PhD (he/him) @marcogliese.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Over 1300 signatures and climbing. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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National Letter
Open Letter from Canadian Researchers to the Federal party leaders Click here to sign this letter See who has signed - version française se trouve à page 3 - Dear Party Leaders We, the undersigne...
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John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 10/04/2025
If elected, Poilievre’s government will “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and federal funds for university research.” The phrase is almost identical to wording used by the Trump administration. Catharine Winstanley and @liisagalea.bsky.social write.
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By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump’s Playbook | The Tyee
Professors find this chilling and warn of the costs.
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Alfie Abizaid @abizaidalfie.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Assistant or Associate Professor and CRC, Tier 2, Biology or Health Sciences or Neuroscience - Ottawa (City), Ontario job with Carleton University | 37816029
The Faculty of Science invites applications for a CIHR Tier 2 CRC appointment in Biology.
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Susan G Walling 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦 @wallingneurosci.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Freshly minted op-ed by my brilliant colleague, Dr. Ashlyn Swift-Gallant. "Three myths about sex and gender research that are costing you money and your health." Read, read, read! @swiftneurolab.bsky.social @munpsych.bsky.social @canacn.bsky.social @memorialuscience.bsky.social
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Op-ed: Dr. Ashlyn Swift-Gallant
The fourth in a series authored by Memorial University faculty members on the value and importance of diversity, equity and inclusion policies to build a more just society. Check back next Thursday fo...
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Marija Kundakovic @kundakoviclab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT! kundakoviclab.com More info 👇
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Travis D Fridgen @travisfridgen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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meaganhinks.bsky.social @meaganhinks.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Through the rain, we stood up for science! #standupforscience2025 @memorialu.bsky.social
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Lucas F. Fowler (he/they) @lucasffowler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Took a break from working on my research poster to create #standupforscience2025 posters for Friday’s rally. Advocating for inclusivity in science is just as important as the research itself!
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meaganhinks.bsky.social @meaganhinks.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Prepping for the #standupforscience2025 rally this Friday! 🦠🧠 🧬
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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Canadian Association for Neuroscience @canacn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
New job ad posted: Tenure track position in comparative physiology – Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa buff.ly/40RUCn4 #neurojobs
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Tenure track position in comparative physiology – University of Ottawa – Canadian Association for Neuroscience
The Department of Biology at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. The successful candidate will demonstrate the potential to…
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Women's Health Research Cluster @whrcluster.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Check out the full statement by Dr. Liisa Galea on our website: womenshealthresearchcluster.com/learn/womens...
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Laura Dearden @lauradearden.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"Now more than ever, we need to band together in a united front to combat disinformation and support each other in our endeavours to promote women’s health research. This is not “woke” science – this is science. We ignore it at our own peril"
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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
womenshealthresearchcluster.com/learn/womens... @liisagalea.bsky.social 👏🏻
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Statement from Liisa Galea, Scientific Lead of the Women's Health Research Cluster - Women's Health Research Cluster
We are so proud to have over 800 members across 32 countries in the Women’s Health Research Cluster. Our Vision is to achieve sex and gender health equity, and we strive for a future where women...
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Denise Belsham @denisebelsham.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Canada 🇨🇦 is hiring - we welcome all neuroscientists! @infneuroendo.bsky.social @paneuroendo.bsky.social @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @endocrinesociety.bsky.social
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Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) @ossdcomm.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
UPDATE!! More time to shine! Deadline extended for #OSSD2025 poster abstracts and travel award applications, including the #SWHR sponsored Emerging Scholar in Women's Health Research Award. New deadline: March 3, 2025 11:59 ET. Visit OSSDweb.org for more information. Hope to #seeyouinalbuquerque!
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
BREAKING: Moments ago Justin Trudeau announced devastating tariffs against the United States—a 25% tariff on over $150 billion worth of American goods.
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Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D. @mnrajah.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Watching the hubs & other family members in the business sector having long weekend meetings to figure out how to deal w these crazy tariffs. All predicting a sig recession for 🇨🇦 😔 #tariffs
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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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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Sex-related factors are important in two ways; they are more precise variables than sex, and they are gender-independent, writes @kundakoviclab.bsky.social in the latest essay in our “Sex differences in the brain” series. www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen... #neuroskyence
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Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) @ossdcomm.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Don't miss your opportunity to apply for our highly sought-after travel awards! This year could be your chance to shine bright in beautiful #Albuquerque! Head over to OSSDweb.org and log into your member portal to kickstart your travel award application today! #OSSD2025 #travelaward
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"Health disparities research" is a field of study where researchers look at how things like race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status can influence health outcomes. Now any gov't website about this says "page not found". This is a dystopia that I did not imagine that we'd be living through.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Hits to SABV can’t be far behind. I’m sure some of my colleagues will be thrilled.
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