In this week’s Science Without Anguish: ‘Short cuts to lost potential’. How confusing the simplifications we make to understand the world with the real thing can lead us astray. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/the-sho...

🌿 Sustainability & Reproduction: Individuals, Populations & Systems 🌿 🔗 Learn more and register at repro.cam.ac.uk/events/sustainability-reproduction-individuals-populations-systems #Sustainability #Reproduction #Interdisciplinary #CambridgeResearch

Looking to pursue cutting-edge research in early development, maternal-fetal interaction, or placental biology? See 👇 - Funded PhD www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students... - Next Generation Fellowship www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/next-generat... - MPhil www.mphil.bio.cam.ac.uk/mphil-pathwa...

Today is the start of Baby Loss Awareness Week (BLAW) which runs from October 9th to the 15th. You can donate to Sands at www.justgiving.com/page/obs-and...

📚 Cambridge Reading Group on Reproduction is back! Join us on 14 October, discussing 'Women's Health across the life course' with Dr Shobi Nagraj, (Department of Public Health) 👉 Registration is open www.repro.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

#endometriosisawareness #WomensHealth #EndometriosisDiagnosis 🎗️#Endometriosis is a gynaecological disease, characterised by the presence of tissue similar to the endometrium found outside the #uterus and with an unpredictable rate of disease progression

👋 Hey everyone, let's talk about PMDD! Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder is a severe, debilitating form of PMS, but getting a diagnosis for it is often an incredibly difficult and prolonged journey. Learn why the diagnostic process is so challenging, and join us in raising awareness! 💓

Loke CTR members Sung Gong, Gordon Smith and Steve Charnock-Jones, and collaborators have shown that raised Leptin and Pappalysin2 cell-free RNAs are hallmarks of pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia with fetal growth restriction. 📖 Read more:

Polygenic prediction of body mass index and obesity through the life course and across ancestries www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why is a woman 50% more likely than a man to get the wrong initial diagnosis for a heart attack? For centuries, women were excluded from health research – fluctuating #hormones believed to complicate results. @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social researchers are working to drive change 👉 bit.ly/44rtQ6J

Are you passionate about data and do you enjoy coding in Stata? Come and work with me at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology in Cambridge! Please share with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51739/

We are hiring a Data Scientist! Please share with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Read the details and apply at: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51739/

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Validated does not mean it works as intended. It means someone has evaluated it (and may have concluded it doesn’t work at all)

@appgblackhealth.bsky.social is calling for evidence on Reproductive Equity & the Fibroids Crisis! Complete our 10-minute survey to contribute to our official report. tinyurl.com/fibroidssurvey #BlackHealth #Fibroids #WHUM #ReproductiveEquity

Women are 50% more likely to get Alzheimer’s disease 🧠 and scientists still do not know why! 👩‍🔬 1/4

Check out youtube.com/@nihrcambrid... for our latest uploads from our Capacity Building team on their Spring talks on the importance of a healthy research culture. If you're a research trainee, early/mid-career researcher or just interested in research, these are MUST-SEE! @cambridgeuni.bsky.social

Registration is now open! Celebrate the importance of happiness and well-being in people’s lives with a series of events on Campus for staff, patients and the public on the International Day of Happiness - with free Zumba, a painting class, music and talks: cambridge-biomedical.com/event/intern...

👉 Book now for tomorrow's #IWD2025 talk on 'Demystifying the menopause' with Clare Spencer via: bit.ly/4gZ6o59 @cuhnhs.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social @cruk-ci.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social @royalpapworth.bsky.social #AccelerateAction

On Thur 3 Apr 6-7pm you're busy right? That's because you're at our live webinar with @mrcepid.bsky.social's Prof Wareham & Dr Amy Ahern finding out what health research has unlocked about maintaining a healthy weight! Book: bit.ly/RESmaHW @cambridgefestival.bsky.social @cuhnhs.bsky.social

Incomparable Timothy Snyder manages to find words to describe the disgrace we saw in the White House today. Watch and share - and donate to aid Ukraine if you can. We Europeans are looking to our governments tonight and expect them to stand up for Ukraine, for our values and for our freedom. 🇺🇦🇪🇺

1/4 Too many women suffer with debilitating period pain 😫 and heavy bleeding 🩸. A survey by the charity Wellbeing of Women found that untreated period symptoms negatively 📉impact women and girls’ ability to live life - hampering participation in work, education, social activities and sport.

I am EXTREMELY EXCITED to announce the launch of Wellbeing of Women's Period Symptom Checker, written and built by ME! Co-designed by GPs, researchers, other women with menstrual health conditions and the team at Wellbeing of Women. www.wellbeingofwomen.org.uk/what-we-do/c...

‼️Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of mortality in women worldwide🌎   🔬Salomon and colleagues showed that “tiny bubbles” 🫧 , named extracellular vesicles, might be a promising way to overcome these side effects!👏🏻   📚See more in the post and comments to find out how! 1/3

💔 In the U.S., homicide is the #1 cause of death during pregnancy—more common than medical complications like preeclampsia or hemorrhage. ❗ This isn’t just a maternal health crisis—it’s a preventable public health emergency. Ending IPV, gun violence, and reproductive restrictions could save lives.

January is #CervicalCancerAwareness Month🌸 and the #WHUM team wants to support everyone eligible to attend their #screening appointment! 🦠 In 2019, #HPV caused an estimated 620,000 #cancer cases in #women and 70,000 cancer cases in #men

#announcement please share 📢 We're delighted to launch registration for the Annual Meeting 2025 'The Placenta at Term' bit.ly/annualmeetin... And, applications open for Placental Biology Course, returning in-person, in Cambridge bit.ly/placentalbio... 25 places, application deadline 21 March!

Here are a few ways to actively build up a culture of mutual respect within your organisation, but we would love to get your suggestions! The most important part is that it is genuine and heartfelt, coupled to a greater change strategy, and not simply performative and box-ticking 4/13

"If you are going to write a scientific paper for publication, you are also going to have to write a response to reviewers". Advice on "How to write a response to reviewers" from a group of editors who've ready many, many thousands of such responses. www.europeanurology.com/article/S030...

For anyone following here who's not seen this on our other channels, closing date for the Loke CTR Next Generation Fellowship is 31 Jan 2025, details here www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/next-generat... Feel free to share in your networks!

🚨 New research alert! 🚨 Led by our very own Dr Dafina Angelova @cambridgeuni.bsky.social from the WHUM team! #StemCells #PlacentaResearch #SingleCell #WHUM

Statisticians are unpopular in some circles because they slow research down and are a barrier to exaggerating results. statsepi.substack.com/p/everybodys...

1/4 The contraceptive pill was one of the defining inventions of the 20th century, but do you know how and why it was developed?  #womenshealth #contraception #thepill

The inimitable David Spielgelhalter, telling it like it is about uncertainty, upfront and personal www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Some great conversations at the EDI and Culture mini-conference today, looking forward to continuing these tomorrow. EDI is everyone's business! @cambridgeuni.bsky.social

This week in Science Without Anguish: Who is driving our bus? The importance of controlling the controllables in research life. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/who-is-...

Hi there, I look forward to connecting with people who have an interest in women’s health, pregnancy, epidemiology, biostatistics, equality, diversity, inclusion, wellbeing and/or research culture. Here a few photos from yesterday’s thought-provoking symposium on uterine fibroids.

A sparkling interview with dameanionwu.bsky.social today at Homerton College. The story of the Mary Seacole statue was terrific