I was finishing the edits today on my infectious disease chapter for my next book on pregnancy loss, and when pregnant you really don't want flu, covid, CMV... And it's not only increased risk of miscarriage it's preterm birth, IUGR, preeclampsia.
Had my students rip up and frankenstein their final essays into art and it was so fun. Here’s mine. 💕
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For any women out there who experienced/are experiencing (sending 💜) severe nausea/vomiting in pregnancy pls consider filling in this anonymised survey for a research project led by Dr Melanie Nana. She is the clinical academic making real change re. HG here in the uk forms.gle/u6GNNAhX5WqS...
A Missouri Representative has filed a bill to track pregnancies in the state.
HB 807 will: "Maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child and make the same available to a prospective adoptive parent who has completed screenings."
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Young students brain not working as expected after COVID-19 infections.
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These symptoms sound horrific! Poor children. 🥲
They’ve finished blaming lockdowns.
Now they are blaming you.
(If you are a caregiver for a child.)
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This is the national threat to abortion access that I would be focusing on. The extremist judge in Texas who ruled to strip FDA approval from mifepristone (the first of two medications used for medication abortion) in 2023 just revived the case with new plaintiffs, and it's likely headed to SCOTUS.
I’m not saying this bill doesn’t matter because it does normalize abortion bans and spread abortion stigma + disinformation.
However, it’s important for folks to know that this particular bill has been introduced by every Congress since 2011.
Unnecessary panic and fear harms abortion seekers.
I’m A LOT more worried about the fact that Trump just released 23 anti-abortion terrorists and basically said that the DOJ will not enforce the FACE Act (which made violence against abortion clinics a federal crime) than I am about them removing a do-nothing website.
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nobody:
House MD:
It’s impossible not to be angry when people have been saying this was coming for years. We knew this was all coming. Why can’t we just do something about it for once? Why do we have to keep repeating the same warnings until it happens?
"The systemic neglect of menstruation and a restricted notion of evidence, which led to dismiss subjective symptoms, laypeople’s reports and mixed-methods research, contributed to eclipsing links between menstrual disorders and immunization...
I'm excited to see this paper, "Entangled evidence: epistemic injustice and systemic neglect in the assessment of menstrual disorders following COVID-19 vaccines" b/c it focuses on structural & epistemic issues, going beyond simple "women's health is understudied"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I'd also suggest listening to this episode of ACCESS, from 2020, to hear abortion providers and clinic escorts describe in their own words how terrifying this kind of violence can be, at the hands of a movement whose members have committed murder: www.apodcastaboutabortion.com/episodes/epi...
Our new research, drawing on interviews with patients, shows how telehealth mitigates structural abortion stigma @ansirh.bsky.social
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I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:
>run on making eggs less expensive
>withdraw from the WHO and hobble the CDC as a bird flu pandemic brews across the country
>eggs get more expensive
Studies note higher risk of long COVID in women, differences among minority kids
Overall, 21% of women and 16% of men reported long COVID.
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Oh yes OK! I’m always just left wondering when it comes to extra funky pregnancy stuff because I’m like… hmm the uterine lining and contents don’t stay put after
Birth and I never find explanations that include that fact 😂
This is so fascinating to me but I still wonder how it would be possible in humans as we shed our uterine lining, unlike most animals? Where would the embryo “go dormant”?
your number one threats for pregnancy criminalization:
health care workers
your loved ones, partners, and family
He looks like a Muppet who's going to do physical comedy with Rizzo
Vermont DCF accused of surveilling pregnant women and maintaining a “high-risk pregnancy calendar”—a standardless registry DCF uses to track people it deems unfit to parent effectively prior to the birth of their baby
#reprosky
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a picture of 4 insect valentines cards, including the cards up front with the rosy maple moth and the praying mantis. The rosy maple says "Are you a lamp because I wanna be around you" and the mantis says "You look good enough to eat". The image is superimposed with the words "Love bugs valentines" and then on the bottom, Skype a Scientist's logo and Michele's Logo and "Sales support Skype a Scientist"
Inject science into your Valentines Day with LOVE BUGS!
Each card has a fact about the animal AND something you can do to help the animal. They come in packs of 20 😎
Art by Michele Scott!
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Antiabortion advocates look for men to report their partners' abortions Boyfriends and husbands can have uniquely personal and specific information necessary to help surface new lawsuits in states with abortion bans.
This partner-focused approach will shift to a more public phase next month when Texas's largest antiabortion organization launches an advertising campaign on Facebook and X to reach the husbands, boyfriends and sex partners of women who have had abortions in the state - with the goal of recruiting them to file lawsuits against those who assisted the women in ending their pregnancies.
Anti-abortion advocates are running ads to find & encourage men to betray and sue their partners. This makes me sick. wapo.st/40nfmD2
Not all ovaries respond the same way to stressors - nor are the relationships between ovarian hormones and biomarkers always the same between populations. Find out why in the latest paper out of the Clancy Lab, led by Dr. Merri Wilson: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪
