🌸 Today is World Maternal Mental Health Day 🌸 💡 Let's continue to create supportive environments that help mothers thrive. To all the incredible mothers balancing it all: We see you. We support you. And we're here for you. 💜

Every engineering student should watch this video. Ethics, mechanics, mistakes, and so many lessons! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q56P...

Yes, this is all horrible. But I really wish people in the US would stop and think "Maybe we can build something better, not just recreate a system that had a lot of problems." Sincerely, someone who spent 12 years overseas where things were organized very differently...

New podcast interview on the placenta! open.spotify.com/episode/0rnA...

Could be interesting to put the various male- and female-leaning diseases into this a la the Mirin 2021 paper to see how little NIH has been spending on women's health... (8% according to the recent NASEM report...)

So important for maternal health in much of the US right now... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A generation of scientists could be lost through the axing of various programs designed to help young people find a path into basic and applied research. www.science.org/content/arti...

Cutting out STEM clubs for girls is NOT what the world needs right now... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...

At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:

"CARD has been at the cutting edge of advances not just for Alzheimer’s but Parkinson’s disease as well."

Reminder, 42% of births in the US are covered by Medicaid. So like so many other things lately, this is a direct attack on women's health.

Firings at FDA over the weekend taking out A.I. staff www.statnews.com/2025/02/16/f... Note the subtitle.

We are seeking an Asst. Prof. in biomedical imaging at my fantastic new location (Wayne State University) in rejuvenating urban Detroit: waynetalent.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw bit.ly/4hrbeJ7

The SRI Late Breaking Abstract Submission is OPEN! Share your groundbreaking research in women’s reproductive health with the global scientific community. #SRI2025 Submit your Late Breaking Abstract today! www.sri-online.org/events/2025/...

Our very own Professor Ashley Moffett of Reproductive Immunology was awarded the prestigious CMP for Women’s Reproductive Health. The foremost international authority on the immunology of human reproduction, her work has helped explain high rates of pre-eclampsia and maternal mortality in Africa.

Featuring comments from me about the HUGE potential for digital twins in pregnancy research!

Bioengineers are working on a virtual model for a pregnancy. This could predict how a pregnancy would play out from a simple ultrasound scan. Tune in to my interview with @michelleoyen.bsky.social to learn more: open.spotify.com/episode/4hhs...

For my colleagues in placental research, the November installment of the North American Placenta Lab Meeting is happening this Tuesday (Nov 19) at 9:00 am PST/12:00 pm EST over Zoom (mcmaster.zoom.us/j/96005378701). See details on our scheduled speakers below!

I know I should be so excited and happy about this but... how can reproduction-related issues only represent 5% of women's health issues? I am getting worried that NONE of the new attention will be on endo, fibroids, CV disease post-pre-eclampsia, etc. www.mckinsey.com/mhi/our-insi...

I hadn't noticed until I read this article, but a lot of astronomy language is violent and misleading, even misogynistic, when it could be elegant and inclusive 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Because so many don’t believe the scientists anymore (if it doesn’t agree with their opinion), this is the possible impact of snake oil in the 21st century:🧪 www.politico.eu/article/hydr...

This one goes out to everyone with loved ones in Florida, where the state's surgeon general, yes the state's SURGEON GENERAL, claimed that mRNA vaccines contaminate people's DNA. You have a better chance of becoming Spider-Man than having your DNA harmed by mRNA vaccines 🧪

One underappreciated danger of electing anti-science conspiracy theorists is that they appoint anti-science conspiracy theorists to important positions. Covid vaccines don't contaminate your DNA & it endangers public health for a surgeon general to say they do 🧪 by @tanyalewis.bsky.social

A little more on Evelynn Fox Keller. "Mathematical biologist, philosopher and historian of science who challenged the vision of science as a masculine activity" #philbio #philsci #hpbiol #science #feministsky 👩‍🔬|👩🏻‍🔬|👩🏼‍🔬|👩🏽‍🔬|👩🏾‍🔬|👩🏿‍🔬 #sts www.nature.com/articles/d41... and www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🎗️January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Her contributions saved countless lives, but do you know Elizabeth Stern? We rely on her discoveries during cervical cancer screenings, and in safer use of hormonal birth control #reprosky #CanSky #OncoSky 🧪🖥️ 🧬 #WomenInSTEM: www.jax.org/news-and-ins...

1️⃣4️⃣ Katherine Johnson (1918-2020) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM American space scientist & mathematician, a leading figure in American space history. Without Margot Shetterly's book & movie adaptation 'Hidden Figures', K. Johnson's essential contribution would have remained unknown. www.nasa.gov/general/kath...

It's not too late to order my book Not Just for the Boys: Why we need more women in science, for the (aspiring) scientist or teacher in your life, male, female or non-binary. From OUP or Amazon #WomenInSTEM

Day 3/26 in my Women's Health Engineering alphabet, "I is for Invasion". Trophoblast invasion, AKA the early stages of placenta formation. Completed with a shout-out to the best placenta book I've ever read, Charlie Loke's "Life's Vital Link". 🧪🤰 michelleoyen.substack.com/p/i-is-for-i...

Day 2 in my trip through the Women's Health Engineering alphabet; the not so cheery but important topic of maternal mortality. michelleoyen.substack.com/p/d-is-for-d...

Happy New Year!

I am trying a new writing task for January, starting with this: michelleoyen.substack.com/p/r-is-for-r... #engineering #womenshealth #pregnancy #pprom #fetalmembranes #rupture

This is why retention, promotion, and tenure is so critically important to pay attention to. It’s inexpensive to retain good faculty and damned expensive to recruit new faculty.

And for every department that does everything right and builds a strong program, they can expect to last 10 years. If you don’t constantly maintain your faculty, people move, retire, die, and your department and department culture changes. It needs CONSTANT attention.

I’m just gonna say hospitals should always and forever have a policy of masking. It’s where people go who are sick. And immunocompromised for a whole lotta reasons.

A team led by physicist Chien-Shiung Wu obtained the first experimental confirmation of parity violation, in the decay of Cobalt-60, OTD in 1956. Her theory colleagues received a Nobel for the prediction, but Wu – who actually observed the effect – was left off the prize. 🧪 👩‍🔬 Image: Smithsonian

Newly in press publication, containing crucial background information for #digitaltwin models of pregnancy: Material Properties of Nonpregnant and Pregnant Human Uterine Layers (in press JMBBM and at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)

As we have just seen play out in Texas, exceptions to abortion bans do not in practice guarantee that a pregnant woman's health will be protected. www.kff.org/womens-healt...