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Dr Kate Womersley

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Psychiatry Dr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Research fellow @georgeinstitute @ImperialCollege | MESSAGE Co-PI www.messageproject.co.uk | www.katewomersley.com | #medsky #psychsky

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Dec 11

Ok, the MESSAGE webinar sub-5 min summary video is now on Youtube. Please have a listen, even if you think sex and gender has nothing to do with your clinical work or research. You may be surprised.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJv...

MESSAGE Webinar (excerpt) - Sex and Gender Equity in Medical Research

YouTube video by The George Institute

www.youtube.com

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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 15d

“Many women … will now be burdened with unsubstantiated concerns about how their choices might endanger their pregnancy. Whatever they choose, there is a pathway for them to be blamed.”

I’m thankful the ever insightful @katewomersley.com has weighed in on this.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame | Kate Womersley

There is no credible evidence linking autism with maternal paracetamol use. But the US president’s ‘tough it out’ message could harm mothers and babies, says doctor Kate Womersley

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 15d

Thank you @visualplague.bsky.social 🙏

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 15d

As always @katewomersley.com provides the best antidote to the far-right anti-science nonsense poisoning the public sphere: "Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame | Kate Womersley

There is no credible evidence linking autism with maternal paracetamol use. But the US president’s ‘tough it out’ message could harm mothers and babies, says doctor Kate Womersley

www.theguardian.com

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 15d

Yes 📣 @katewomersley.com 📣

"This political theatre highlights a longstanding and harmful problem: pregnant women, and their babies, are routinely let down by partial, poor-quality and missing medical evidence."

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame | Kate Womersley

There is no credible evidence linking autism with maternal paracetamol use. But the US president’s ‘tough it out’ message could harm mothers and babies, says doctor Kate Womersley

www.theguardian.com

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 15d

Fiona Godlee on why she protested, knowing she would be arrested.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

I was arrested for peacefully protesting against genocide—why our medical leaders need to speak up

I have never been arrested before, but I went to London’s Parliament Square on 6 September with that as my sole objective. I am now one of over 1400 people, including at least 25 current and former UK...

www.bmj.com

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Sep 9

Very exciting new project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social - Medicine without doctors, co-led by an incredible team at Edinburgh’s Usher, @engelmal.bsky.social

www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Sep 6

The solution to having a new kitten and a child starting Gaelic medium education

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Sep 3

Delighted to be reviewing this for @thelancet.com and that there is an appreciation for how feminist economics has a profound influence on health and medicine

Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Sep 3

Even worse: I don’t think they did ethics

Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Sep 3

Someone looking for data to drive their menopause business in the UK

Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Sep 2

This is not the way you ask a question in a research study.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Sep 2

More women in cardiovascular trials still needed (and CVD trials are pretty good compared to other medical specialties...)

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Participation of Women in Cardiovascular Trials, 2017 to 2023

This systematic review describes the representation of women across a broad range of cardiovascular trials registered from 2017 to 2023.

jamanetwork.com

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Sep 1

Happy ginger cat appreciation day! 🐈

Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Aug 29

Important and overdue. Most parents I know who can afford to have been opting in to Chicken pox vaccination for their kids. This will remove significant socioeconomic inequality.

Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · Aug 29

Big news in parent world www.bbc.com/news/article...

Children offered chickenpox vaccine on NHS

All young children in England and Wales will be offered a free chickenpox vaccine by the NHS from January 2026.

www.bbc.com

Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Aug 27

Maternity scandals, physical and psychological birth trauma, limited and costly childcare, inflexible workplaces, rising costs in every domain. The UK isn’t making parenthood exactly appealing.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Fertility rate hits record low in England, Scotland and Wales

Last year’s total fertility rate of 1.41 for England and Wales was lowest since comparable data was first collected in 1938, ONS says

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Aug 23

Physicians assistants upset that their work opportunities/over-reaching have been curtailed by the Leng review; but PA union was all too dismissive of these same impacts when they affected doctors due to PAs being rolled out across the NHS.

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · Aug 23

All
Folks
Had
To
Do
Was
Vote
For
The
Super
Qualified
Black
Lady…
With
A
Degree
In
Economics

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Allen Gathman @agathman.bsky.social · Aug 20

“When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.”

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 19

Here is a press release/ summary blog post about our new paper.

Key conclusion: For every single professional use that scientists used to use Twitter for, Twitter is much worse now than it used to be, and Bluesky is better that Twitter currently is.

www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · Aug 19

This ought to be entirely uncontentious

Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hot take: AI therapy chatbots are medical devices and should be regulated by the FDA.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Aug 19

You are, in the next few months, going to see a few pro-AI people who start trying to morph into "thoughtful cynics" on the issue, and I can't wait, because I've been taking such detailed notes

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Aug 19

“Sophie left a note for her father and me, but her last words didn’t sound like her. Now we know why: She had asked Harry to improve her note, to help her find something that could minimize our pain and let her disappear with the smallest possible ripple”

Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Aug 19

“I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)”

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Aug 19

What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life

Link: web.archive.org/web/20250819...

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Aug 14

Stationery is covered 💕🖊️📝

Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Aug 13

First day ever. Moderation, please, this is Germany!

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Aug 13

In Germany kids are given a schultüte on their first day at school - essentially a Christmas stocking of goodies. My Scotland-born daughter was counting her lucky stars for those Köln roots this morning.

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