Spent my evening at a Trainee session on OCs & Brain health; inspiring talks and conversations with likeminded ppl. So exciting to see this field developing so quickly, still so much to do! Also won 2nd prize for my first online conference poster. #WHRC2022

"43.6% of participants reported experiencing mood changes as a side effect of HC" "[83% of] providers made no mention of ... psychological or sexual side effects" …ntraceptionmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

As well as a PhD student, I’m currently looking for a postdoc to join the lab to work on this project examining interoception and mental health across the menstrual cycle. Details below… jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…

Calling all behavioural neuroscience grads:🌟WE ARE HIRING A F/T POST-DOC!🌟Join my team to work on two ARC funded projects to discover how pregnancy and sex hormones change the neural mechanisms of fear regulation. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5173…

Ready to start the conversation about sex&gender in your coffee room? ZonMw and us aim to help you out soon!

Day 2 of #ISPNE2023; brain's already full of ideas from talks on maternal health🤰/love & stress💛/puberty🤸‍♀️. Come visit me at my poster later today, let's talk #hormonalcontraceptives & #emotionregulation

'Hormonal' - a short movie by Pien van Grinsven, about the different perspectives on and experiences with hormonal contraceptives, out to watch now. So honored to have 'scientifically consulted'! #hormonalcontraceptives #thepill npostart.nl/POMS_S_BV_2007…

Great new article out from Salzburg & Copenhagen - confirming increased mental health problems during the pill pause pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37755829/

Great weather 🌞and amazing women's health researchers at #ECNP Would love to chat at my NC/OC/IUD & emotion regulation poster P.0882 in an hour!

This year’s economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin showed that female participation in the labour market did not have an upward trend over a 200 year period, but instead forms a U-shaped curve. The participation of married women decreased with the transition from an agrarian

Thank you nature for spreading the good word on the University of California Ann S. Bowers Womens Brain Health Initiative. Change starts now. cc: Julian Anna Nowogrodzki Only 0.5% of neuroscience studies look at women’s health. Here’s how to change that nature.com/articles/d4158…

This week's workshop aims to set up a broad research initiative that will foster research on well-being and mental health across the female lifespan. bit.ly/3UNTU93 Anne Marieke Doornweerd Lotte Gerritsen

This article is a must read for anyone interested in hormones and mental health! Multidimensionality for the win. Just in time to change this ref from 'preprint' to 'published' in my dissertation discussion for my studies in the general pop- coming soon-ish!

My debut as a Science Writer for a company I'm a big fan of: Clue. 🩸 We wrote about the importance of considering the menstrual cycle when talking and studying mental health, and offer some basics on the amazing science that's out there! 🧘🏼‍♀️ helloclue.com/articles/menst…