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The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social · 2d

Turn up the heat with us. We have ONE week to ask @cagovernor Newsom to sign California’s AB-432 Menopause Care Equity Act. Live in California, have 30 seconds, and want to support the bill? Go to tinyurl.com/AB432-suppor... to let @cagovernor Newsom know that women’s health is not an elective.

Photo of a thermometer showing high temperatures (over 80 degrees farenheit and 28 degrees celsius) against a backdrop of blooming white flowers and a blue sky. Overlaid orange text reads: ‘Turn Up The Heat. Pass AB-432: The Menopause Care Equity Act.’ The image connects rising temperature imagery to advocacy for menopause care legislation.

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 4d

These datasets live on OpenNeuro. Shout out to @russpoldrack.org team's vision to build a data-sharing platform that accelerates discovering + maximizes the ROI of painstakingly collected data.

Access these datasets and more at: wbhi.ucsb.edu/researchers/...

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 4d

🌊 Carina Heller & co explored brain volume changes across typical and atypical menstrual cycles. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 4d

This week two new #28andMe babies joined the extended family:

⏳ @lapate.bsky.social’s lab uncovered a resting-state connectivity signature that reflects the passage of time. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (2/x)

The intrinsic time tracker: temporal context is embedded in entorhinal and hippocampal functional connectivity patterns - Nature Communications

This study shows that hippocampal and entorhinal connectivity patterns drift over time in humans, providing a spontaneous neural signature of elapsed time that follows functional gradients and reveals network-specific contributions to temporal coding.

www.nature.com

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 4d

When @laurapritschet.bsky.social & Pavel Shapturenka set out to build the 28&Me + 28&He datasets, I don't think any of us could've predicted the spectacularly creative ways the datasets would be used years later. That's the power of open science. 👇🏼

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 12d

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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 12d

Make your voice impossible to ignore. If you support the Menopause Care Equity Act let @gavinnewsom.bsky.social know in the link below 👇🏼 #AB432

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The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social · 12d

With the power of the people behind it, the California legislature just passed the Menopause Care Equity Act. This is history in the making—finally addressing a health gap that touches millions of women. Now, it’s down to one signature. @governor.ca.gov, the pen is in your hand. 🖊️

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 12d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 16d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor

jobs.colorado.edu

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 15d

🔥🔥🔥 Yessss!!!

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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · 29d

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 5

One to watch! 👇🏼🔥 Be sure to tune in Monday for the live event or check out the recording on youtube, along with all our WBHI lectures. Register for the full series at wbhi.ucsb.edu/about/events We’ve got an amazing 25-26 lineup.

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 5

One to watch! 👇🏼🔥 Be sure to tune in Monday for the live event or check out the recording on youtube, along with all our WBHI lectures. Register for the full series at wbhi.ucsb.edu/about/events We’ve got an amazing 25-26 lineup.

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The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social · Sep 5

Join us this Monday, September 8, 2025 at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT as Winnie Orchard, PhD and Scientific Program Director at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, dives into “Developing the Gold STANDARD: a Standardized Tool for Acquiring Reproductive Health Data” #BowersWBHI #Neuroendocrinology

This is a poster that shows a woman in a blue dress with shoulder-length brown hair speaking at a podium.

Her name is Winnie Orchard, PhD and she's the Scientific Program Director at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative.

The poster advertises a virtual seminar she's speaking for on Monday September 8th at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT: “Developing the Gold STANDARD: a Standardized Tool for Acquiring Reproductive Health Data.”

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 3

America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

www.nytimes.com

Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 3

Help us turn up the heat! 🔥🔥🔥California has a bill heading to @governor.ca.gov that will improve menopause care for millions. Check out the Substack and sign here! turnuptheheatab432.substack.com

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Emily May @emilybmay.bsky.social · Aug 19

We want to hear *your voice* on taboos in women's and gender diverse health! Your perspective will directly inform priorities in research and a women's health resource platform.
participant.groupwisdom.tech/invite/proje...

Group Wisdom Participants

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Aug 21

Great write up of our @nature.com study by @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Aug 20

When powering fMRI studies, sample size is king, but scan duration can also be a powerful tool, improving phenotypic prediction and cost-efficiency, a new analysis shows

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/fmri/longer-...

Longer fMRI brain scans boost reliability—but only to a point

Around 30 minutes of imaging per person seems to be the “sweet spot” for linking functional connectivity differences to traits in an accurate and cost-effective way.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 19

📣 We’re recruiting 1-2 postdocs to the incredible WBHI team to lead projects mapping brain & behav’l changes across major endocrine transitions—from adolesc to pregnancy to menopause. Expertise in MRI & human subjects necc. Please reach out to [email protected] and learn more at wbhi.ucsb.edu 🌊

Home | Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative

wbhi.ucsb.edu

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Nico Dosenbach @ndosenbach.bsky.social · Aug 12

Precision Functional Mapping (PFM). 8 yrs ago some told us it wasn't interesting. Now it's helping cure depression as part of PACE (Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation), ... commercialized by @turingmedical.bsky.social.

osf.io/preprints/ps...
www.cell.com/neuron/comme...

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 10

goosebumps every time.

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