Allowing myself some time on my holiday to reflect on wtf I’m doing with my life. This pretty much summed it up 😫

Join our team! We’re looking for an experienced lab assistant to generate DNA methylation data from thousands of menstrual fluid samples collected in Children of the 90s and Born in Bradford. £33,951, full time, in person in Exeter (EX2). Closes 18th January 2026. lnkd.in/ebQFYxd5

This is the best work I’ve seen all year. And I can confidently state that by the late 80s/early 90s in Somerset, Uncle Billy had been in a very unfortunate accident on the M5

Wait, what? And… why? If we’re just going to AI generate participants, we may as well give up now. What’s the point? Like… why are you even here?

I’m recruiting a postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology to join the MenstruLife project - using longitudinal data from multiple cohort studies to understand the prevalence, risk factors, and mental health impacts of heavy menstrual bleeding and dysmenorrhea across the life course. lnkd.in/ebQFYxd5

I have become mightily interested in the causal effect of “forever chemicals” and plastics on gynecological health. I want to make sure our new menstruation data in ALSPAC and Born in Bradford can be used to research this. Anyone know who’s big in (causal) epidemiology of this sort of exposure?

Unpopular maybe, but we should firmly resist this kind of banal medicalization of cultural and aesthetic experience. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

One of the greatest two minutes of television ever broadcast.

I’m off sick. In related news, I’ve made a Shiny app that displays random pictures of my cat. I’ve also styled it (accidentally) on how the internet looked in 2001. Thanks for your time. gcsharp.shinyapps.io/is-it-beans/

This is going to be SO useful… I love this sort of academic work. Repositories that make data accessible all in one place are 👌 And there’s even a bloody R package too! 🙏

Are your periods too heavy, long, unpredictable, frequent/infrequent, or involve bleeding in between? Or do you care for someone with this issue? Please consider filling out our survey: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... to find the most important research questions on Problematic Menstrual Bleeding

Do you have heavy or painful menstrual periods? If so, please consider filling in our short survey so that we can better understand how these symptoms interact with mental health and wellbeing. exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Epidemiology Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Hybrid/On-site Exeter, United Kingdom #Epijobs jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Quite proud of this actually. Since I deleted my Twitter account, I haven’t had a place where I can be told off for colluding with other academics to erase women. It looks like this article in the Conversation about periods and GCSEs has now filled that gap. 👏

Researchers from the #GW4Alliance unis of @exeter.ac.uk and @bristoluni.bsky.social have been awarded $4.5million to drive new research into heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) and its causes: Read the latest: gw4.ac.uk/news/groundb...

We’re looking for people aged 30-55 who experience heavy menstrual bleeding or dysmenorrhea (menstrual pain) to help us design a new research study around menstrual health

Our study is in the news: Heavy and painful periods are linked to missing school and lower GCSE results - something that anyone who menstruates could probably already tell you, but that is largely not discussed or ignored. Well done to Gemma Sawyer @uob-ieu.bsky.social who did all the hard work

🚨Job Alert!🚨 We're launching a funded study on how period pain impacts adolescent girls’ lives & school engagement. Join our team. 🔹 Research Associate 👉 (www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...) 🔹 Research Assistant 👉 (www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...) Please share! #PeriodPain #PainResearch

Do you experience problematic menstrual bleeding? Or do you treat or care for someone who does? 4M members Jackie Maybin, Gemma Sharp, and Lucky Saraswat are leading a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership to identify the most important questions for future research to address.