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The Mumademic 👩‍🔬👶🏼📚

@themumademic.bsky.social
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I’m a mum in academia, trying to navigate this new hectic life. Posting experiences, papers and all things about these two worlds that can, and also just don’t, mix.

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The Mumademic 👩‍🔬👶🏼📚 @themumademic.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Feeling the academia vs parenting struggle at the minute. I’m finding it increasingly tough to find the balance between pushing to progress my research and also having the energy to be a present parent to an emotional toddler (exercising/self care is a whole other ball game). #mumsky
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The Mumademic 👩‍🔬👶🏼📚 @themumademic.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I’d also be interested to see the extent that this also influences the PARENTS’ microbiota and subsequent immunity - since my toddler coughs/sneezes directly in my face at least once a week 🤷‍♀️👩‍🔬
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The Mumademic 👩‍🔬👶🏼📚 @themumademic.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We have now progressed onto baby shark and crazy frog 🫠 solidarity sister ✊
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The Mumademic 👩‍🔬👶🏼📚 @themumademic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Conference friends: “I haven’t seen you in ages!” Me: “Oh yeah I had a baby” 🫠 #mumsky #acmum #academicparent
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The Mumademic 👩‍🔬👶🏼📚 @themumademic.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Wasn’t ready for parenting to become singing Humpty Dumpty 50 times to lull my toddler to sleep #academicparent #toddlerhood #scimom
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The Mumademic 👩‍🔬👶🏼📚 @themumademic.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
They did a fantastic job of illustrating the intense biological changes occurring throughout the brain during and after pregnancy (something that really should be talked about more): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy - Nature Neuroscience
Neural changes in pregnancy are not well understood. Here Pritschet et al. present an open-access precision brain imaging resource, mapping neuroanatomical change in an individual from preconception t...
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The Mumademic 👩‍🔬👶🏼📚 @themumademic.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Kicking things off with a teeny tiny pregnancy-related paper review! Pritschet et al conducted a longitudinal MRI study on a woman from pre-conceiving to 2 years postpartum. They showed some huge changes in brain volume, white matter integrity and ventricle size. While only n=1…
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The Mumademic 👩‍🔬👶🏼📚 @themumademic.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
My intentions are pure - I hope to use this as an outlet to rediscover my love of science. But, I also want to be able to support other sci-mums, Dr Mum’s and mumademics out there and just show you that we’re all probably thinking the same things… ✌️
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The Mumademic 👩‍🔬👶🏼📚 @themumademic.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
A little introduction: I’m a postdoc neuroscientist, living in the UK, and mother to a toddler. I’m still trying to get my science mojo back while battling being pulled in all dimensions by the war that is science vs. motherhood. So, obviously, the thing to do was start a social media account 👍
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