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David Matthew Doyle @dsquared.bsky.social · 15d

An amazing opportunity to work with a rising star in the field!

Dr. Claudia Barth @nifti12.bsky.social · 15d

🚀 Job Opportunity!

Are you passionate about neuroscience, women’s health, and large-scale neuroimaging studies?

I am hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join the @erc.europa.eu project #MappingPerimenopause!

karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan...

Postdoctoral Researcher (d/f/m) in Women’s Brain Health (Neuroimaging)

full-time, part-time | 14.10.2025 | Campus Charité Mitte

karriere.charite.de

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David Matthew Doyle @dsquared.bsky.social · Aug 3

Well in short it seems that it does not, even when accounting for relationship quality. Results for future expectations offer a potentially brighter picture. What buffers loneliness for asexuals? We’re speculating, but maybe platonic queer friendships. Check out the preprint! osf.io/preprints/os...

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David Matthew Doyle @dsquared.bsky.social · Aug 3

Was a pleasure to see @zoppolat.bsky.social once again present our work testing whether romantic relationship involvement buffers loneliness for asexuals as it has been shown to do for heterosexuals and other sexual minorities at the IARR mini conference in London. Curious about the results?…

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Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (new name!) @bsamjournal.bsky.social · Jul 7

🚨Calling all health psychologists!

Submit to the Special Issue of BSAM on Protocols & Data Notes in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology + share this call widely to support a more open & transparent culture aimed at improving the rigor & reproducibility of our research!

Call for submissions:

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dr. Margot Morssinkhof @hormonogo.bsky.social · Jun 3

Exciting news: the TIDE study, my study about premenstrual exacerbation (PME) of depression, has started!
In the coming year, we aim to include 60 participants with depression and a regular menstrual cycle to examine the prevalence and trajectories of PME in depression. 📈👩🏼‍🏫

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Giulia Zoppolat @zoppolat.bsky.social · May 26

With everything going on in the world, it's good to do things you love. Catching up on some of the latest in the science of close relationships, from friendship to romance, to why the love languages aren't real. #relationshipscience #https://www.zoppolat.com/post/relationship-science-roundup-vol-10

Relationship Science Roundup - Vol. 10

The latest in the science of close relationships.

www.zoppolat.com

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Apr 29

Folks, universities here are have decided to cut international psychology programs, which will be devastating to psychological science in the Netherlands.

Please consider signing this open letter on behalf of my colleagues and me; anybody can sign.

openletter.earth/against-lang...

Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia

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AFFIRM Relationships project @affirmrelation.bsky.social · Apr 22

Exciting news: We translated one of our recent papers into an infographic post! Scroll though the images to see the paper explained in our infographic:

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David Matthew Doyle @dsquared.bsky.social · Apr 5

@nessamillet.bsky.social relevant to discussions we have been having in the group.

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Giulia Zoppolat @zoppolat.bsky.social · Mar 27

🎉 Now out in Scientific Reports! 🎉 This project started two years ago during a research visit to beautiful Auckland, New Zealand. Forever grateful for the opportunity, and very proud of this piece of work that came out of that. 1/5
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Accuracy and bias in the perceptions of partner’s negative emotions: the role of trait mindfulness - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Accuracy and bias in the perceptions of partner’s negative emotions: the role of trait mindfulness

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EUPHA Sexual & Gender Minority Health Section @eupha-sgmh.bsky.social · Mar 23

Reminder - Call for Abstracts with a March 31st deadline

EUPHA Sexual & Gender Minority Health Section @eupha-sgmh.bsky.social · Mar 1

Earlier today, we sent out our annual Call for Abstracts. Would you like to contribute to one of the section-sponsored research symposia on LGBTQIA+ health at @ephconference.bsky.social in Helsinki this year? Get in touch. We would love to see if we can include your work. @eupha.bsky.social #EPH2025

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · Mar 3

New: Trump-controlled NIH begins targeted purge of LGBTQ+ research.

Citing "agency priorities," some grants were terminated on Friday, leaving researchers with uncertain futures.

Two researchers share their stories:
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

New: Trump-controlled NIH begins targeted purge of LGBTQ+ research.

Citing "agency priorities," some grants were terminated on Friday, leaving researchers with uncertain futures.

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Arjan van der Star, PhD MSc @arjanvanderstar.bsky.social · Mar 1

Please get in touch if you would like to join one of our @eupha-sgmh.bsky.social sponsored symposia!

EUPHA Sexual & Gender Minority Health Section @eupha-sgmh.bsky.social · Mar 1

Earlier today, we sent out our annual Call for Abstracts. Would you like to contribute to one of the section-sponsored research symposia on LGBTQIA+ health at @ephconference.bsky.social in Helsinki this year? Get in touch. We would love to see if we can include your work. @eupha.bsky.social #EPH2025

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Nessa Millet @nessamillet.bsky.social · Feb 28

Can anyone recommend guidance / literature / resources to help with theoretical and practical design of longitudinal qual research studies (even more helpful if they also include temporal approaches😇) ? #qualconvos #qualitative #longitudinalresearchsdesign

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Yasin Koc @spyasin.bsky.social · Feb 26

5 days left to apply for our small group meeting on intersectionality. If you work on intersectional or multiple identity/categorisation or if you wanna learn more about it, apply to present or participate to hear about cutting edge research.

Yasin Koc @spyasin.bsky.social · Jan 30

We are excited to organise an EASP Small Group Meeting on

“Advancing Intersectional and Multiple Categorization Research in Social Psychology”

in Chemnitz, Germany on 26-28 June 2025.

Come join us in this unique meeting.

www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...

#SocialPsyc

Call for Submissions: EASP Small Group Meeting on “Advancing Intersectional and Multiple Categorization Research in Social Psychology”

Social Psychology News Articles

www.easp.eu

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Suzanne Segerstrom @segerstrom.bsky.social · Feb 19

The BSAM @psychosommed.bsky.social Early Career Editorial Board provides a pathway for outstanding early career researchers around the globe to gain experience in reviewing and editorial functions. Apply by April 15. Please share with colleagues and rebleat!
journals.lww.com/bsam/Documen...

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dr. Margot Morssinkhof @hormonogo.bsky.social · Feb 19

We (a group of Dutch researchers) wrote an opinion article calling to protect academic freedom and research on sex and gender. The article was co-signed by over 300 academics, healthcare professionals and stakeholders, and it was published in a national newspaper (de Volkskrant) today!

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David Matthew Doyle @dsquared.bsky.social · Feb 4

Also luckily we’re not doing this work in the States 🇺🇸 so we’re still allowed to ask questions about gender apparently.

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David Matthew Doyle @dsquared.bsky.social · Feb 4

Do women or men experience more loneliness? Is this even how we should think about #gender and #loneliness? In a new piece w/ Manuela Barreto & Marlies Maes we take stock of the field and point toward new ways of thinking about gender and loneliness. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

NYAS Publications

Loneliness research should go beyond simplistic approaches to gender that ignore social context and restrict gender to the male/female binary. Instead, the impact of gender on loneliness needs to con...

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Rémi Hatinguais @remicillin.bsky.social · Jan 30

I remember being sceptical reading some papers from the early 2000’s on rapid effects of androgens. And now several recent papers have now described membrane receptors for androgens (see also doi.org/10.1126/scis...)! And one already has an agonist!

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David Matthew Doyle @dsquared.bsky.social · Jan 15

Nessa is doing exciting community-engaged work for our project on gender-affirming hormone therapy. This type of research is especially important in trans healthcare where the community has historically (and currently) been marginalized. Check out the new preprint to read more about our approach.

Nessa Millet @nessamillet.bsky.social · Jan 15

NEW PREPRINT 📑 on #cocreation #transparency and #empowerent published by our team @dsquared.bsky.social and co-authored with Lived Experieced Experts titled “Integrating co-created and theory driven insights using an Equitable and Power-Sharing approach (EPSA)”: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Nessa Millet @nessamillet.bsky.social · Jan 13

Hello Bluesky- I am very excited for a new start on here! I am a postoc researcher the The Department of Medical Psychology at The Amsterdam UMC. Originally from Ireland, I completed my PhD in behavioural science at Loughborough University (UK).

Here is a brief snapshot of my journey so far:

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Rémi Hatinguais @remicillin.bsky.social · Dec 29

How your email finds me

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David Matthew Doyle @dsquared.bsky.social · Dec 27

Often studies included psych functioning, qual of life, and other measures related to GAMT but not necessarily direct targets of care. Even assessment of gender dysphoria/incongruence, a potentially obvious target, was inconsistent. There is need for community-involved work to help direct research.

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David Matthew Doyle @dsquared.bsky.social · Dec 27

Skye and Ezra did an admirable job summarizing and examining measures and outcomes in the adolescent chapter of WPATH standards of care. Qual analysis revealed themes related to implicit narratives of ‘improvement’ to justify GAMT for adolescents.

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