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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · May 28

📣🚨 Excited to announce our new paper is out in Human Brain Mapping! 🧠📝

We used a data-driven MVPA approach to reveal whole-brain functional connectivity differences after mTBI and linked them to cognitive outcomes up to 12 months post-injury.

Check it out ⬇️: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Functional Connectivity Patterns Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and the Association With Longitudinal Cognitive Function

High-resolution fMRI using multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) reveals distinct alterations in functional connectivity across multiple brain networks in acute mTBI patients. These connectivity change...

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · Apr 30

Preregistration—creating a time-stamped, read-only research plan before a study begins—is an open science practice that can strengthen research transparency & integrity.

Our new whitepaper offers a practical guide to preregistration essentials. Download & share widely!

💡: osf.io/8eczw/files/o...

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Apr 22

I believe that it is important that my students learn about the dynamic, complex process by which sexual differentiation occurs because it is the truth, writes @nmbaran.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/sex/what-bir...

What birds can teach us about the ‘biological truth’ of sex

Part of our job as educators is to give students a deeper understanding of the true diversity of sex and gender in the natural world.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · Mar 22

Really enjoyed the Pink Concussion: Sex, Parenting, and Life After Acquired Brain Injury symposium at the 15th World Congress on Brain Injury. Amazing speakers and insightful discussions on the impact of brain injury in women! #IBIA2025 @pinkconcussions.bsky.social

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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · Mar 22

Excited to have presented my poster Sex and Age-Specific Factors in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery: The Role of Brain Network Modularity in Females at the 15th World Congress on Brain Injury in Montreal! Great discussions on women’s brain health following TBI #IBIA2025 #womensbrainhealth

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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · Mar 4

Attended Women’s Health Research and Funding: Gaps and Opportunities at @broadinstitute.org. We must push grant agencies, stakeholders, and pharma to prioritize women’s inclusion in research. Equitable studies benefit everyone—let’s keep advocating, sharing, and driving change! #WomensHealthResearch

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PINK Concussions @pinkconcussions.bsky.social · Feb 26

Please take two minutes to watch this excellent video that explains WHY SEX DIFFERENCES are critical to study...

This is why PINK Concussions has spent the last 12 years advocating for women to be included in Brain Injury research and why we will not give up advocating!

youtu.be/iyMmkoKEoLI?...

A New Vision for Women's Health Research

YouTube video by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · Feb 25

If you want to read about why SABV is so important, I've written quite a bit on the topic. Here are two of my favorites (pdf links):

www.shanskylab.com/s/Shansky-20...

www.shanskylab.com/s/Shansky-Mu...

www.shanskylab.com

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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · Feb 25

If this is the case, it would be heartbreaking—erasing progress and widening the gender data gap yet again. It would mark a huge step backward for science and women's health. #GenderDataGap #HealthResearch #HealthEquity #NIH

www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies

Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.

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NeuroNarratives @neuronarratives.bsky.social · Feb 14

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝!
The deadline to apply for the NeuroNarratives residency is extended to the 𝟐𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲!

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝?
Apply as artist or neuroscientist via the link in bio!

#artandscience #art #science #artscience #artscienceresidency #neuroscience

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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · Feb 11

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 💪👩‍🔬🧬🧠 #WomenInScience #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience #WomenAndGirlsInScience

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OHBM Brain Art @ohbmbrainart.bsky.social · Dec 16

Visit our website for more information about the exhibition theme and important dates ohbm-brainart.github.io/exhibit.html

Re-posts are very much appreciated 🤗

#brainart #sciart #neuroart #ohbm

OHBM Brain Art SIG - Exhibit

ohbm-brainart.github.io

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Cognitive Neuroendocrinology Lab @cogneuroend.bsky.social · Feb 4

Excited to share our #systematicreview on #estrogens & brain networks, in Frontiers in #Neuroendocrinology, conducted at @mpicbs.bsky.social, featuring @liviaruehr.bsky.social, @kimhoffmann.bsky.social and @emilybmay.bsky.social 🧠🎉

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · Jan 31

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...

orwh.od.nih.gov

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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · Jan 28

**screams in early career scientist**

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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · Jan 30

Advancing policy advocacy for women’s health requires data collection, disparity analysis, and trackable, actionable metrics. This is crucial to closing the women’s health gap, unlocking financing, and driving innovation 💡🚺

🔗Explore the data here: womens-health-impact-tracking-platform.weforum.org

Women’s Health Impact Tracking Platform

The Women's Health Impact Tracking (WHIT) platform is a first-of-its-kind global tool to measure progress toward closing the women’s health gap.

womens-health-impact-tracking-platform.weforum.org

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harvardwipsych.bsky.social @harvardwipsych.bsky.social · Jan 27

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!!!
Harvard's graduate student organization, Women in Psychology, is super excited to host the 2025 Trends in Psychology Summit (TiPS) conference in May! Abstract submissions for poster presentations, blitz talks, and sketchpads closes Friday, February 14th at 12:00PM EST.

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · Jan 30

📣 Big news: Lifecycle Journal is now open for submissions! 📣

Lifecycle Journal is a new, innovative, community-driven approach to scholarly publishing, initiated by COS.

Learn more and submit: lifecyclejournal.org/

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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · Jan 30

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Goretti Espana-Irla @gorettiei.bsky.social · Jan 30

#EverydaySexismProject is a platform that has been amplifying voices and experiences of sexism, from street harassment to workplace discrimination, since 2012. By speaking out, we shine a light on injustices and create a collective voice that can't be ignored 📣✊💜

everydaysexism.com

Everyday Sexism Project

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · Jan 28

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Jan 10

Disappointing new study showing - once again - that women are leaving research careers at far higher levels than men

If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️

#WomeninSTEM 👩‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Among nearly 35,000 biological scientists who authored their first paper in 2000, women were more likely than men to have stopped publishing after 5, 10 or 20 years. The size of this gender gap varies between disciplines.

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Jan 1

Hey 2025 👇🏼

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Emma Tinney @emmatinney.bsky.social · Dec 18

The choroid plexus (ChP), a small subcortical structure, is a neuroprotective barrier. Preclinical TBI models show increased inflammatory markers in the ChP. Our recent work shows ChP swelling in CT+ TBI patients, emphasizing the different pathologies of TBI. www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

ChP volume at 2 weeks and 6 months in the left and right ChP from TRACK-TBI in mild TBI CT+, mild TBI CT−, and orthopedic controls. Box plots demonstrating post hoc comparisons with higher ChP volume in the right and left hemisphere at 2 weeks in CT+ compared with CT− and orthopedic controls. This relationship exists at 6 months for the left and right hemisphere for CT+ compared with CT− but only for the right hemisphere when comparing CT+ to orthopedic controls. ChP, choroid plexus; CT, computed tomography; TBI, traumatic brain injury; TRACK-TBI, Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury.

ChP from GMM in blue; ChP from original FreeSurfer mask in yellow. ChP, choroid plexus; GMM, Gaussian mixture modeling.

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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · Oct 4

Excellent blog post. I particularly appreciate this take-home figure.

Take-home figure of academic publishing options arranged on an ethical continuum

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