Misty Pratt, Author
@mistypratt.bsky.social
ALL IN HER HEAD (@greystonebooks) is out now! A feminist call to action to reframe and reclaim our mental health. Health communications by day. She/Her.
Did you know that 1 in 4 deaths in pregnancy (or within 1yr of pregnancy) involved opioids? Today is International Overdose Awareness Day. Learn more about how ICES data is being used to study pregnancy-associated opioid toxicity and deaths in Ontario: cpoproject.ca/resour...
What a Trump presidency might mean for women’s health and health research in general. Canadians have past experience that we can leverage to prepare for our next government. mistypratt.substack.com/p/goodbye-sc...
Goodbye science, my old friend
Hello to the dark ages and welcome to The Resistance
mistypratt.substack.com
This is where collective action is needed if we all include diversity and its relevance to are research in grants& biosketches will they defend all of us? Complying in advance is harmful. Some people can delete diversity from biosketches and grants I can't delete that I'm a black woman scientist.
Michael Wong@miquai.bsky.social · 2y agoToday I was told to take out a line about being a mentor to students from diverse backgrounds and historically underrepresented groups from my biosketch for a proposal, because it might damage our chances of getting federal funding. How has it come to this? I feel absolutely sick.
Devastated to learn from my colleague Don Romesburg that the Sonoma State University Women’s and Gender Studies Department is being eliminated, and all its tenured faculty are being fired, as part of “budget reductions”. wgs.sonoma.edu
Mark Zuckerberg: I built this platform to give the people a voice Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were
hello and welcome to the 1M people that have joined Bluesky in the last week!!!
Headline: "COVID-19 pandemic impacts rich people less" Epidemiologists everywhere: yes, this is true of ALL HUMAN DISEASE. WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU FOR YEARS
This is about where I am this week, on the Inspirational Quote front.
Never thought I cared so much about hair until I started losing it all.
My book is done, done, done. No more edits! Is this when I celebrate? Or when I get the book in my hands? 🎉 🥂
Phew, thank god the weather network app is back. I was in severe withdrawal
Writing an 80,000 word book was tough but doable. Writing a 300 word bio about myself is torture 🤪
And the best headline writer today goes to: “What a blow! Kleenex pulling out of Canadian consumer market”🥇 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6947410
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the secret to male loneliness is for men who are lonely to become more pleasant to be around. i hope this helps anyone who is still searching for the answer.
I haven’t totally figured out how to use this platform yet! Is there a handy guide?
Looking to follow folks writing/talking about/working in the #mentalhealth field. Where my people at?
Warning: I’ll post a lot about my upcoming book, but I’ll also post too many pics of this cutie:
We tend to think of hysteria as kooky medical history (like blood letting🩸) But hysteria is very much alive today in our cultural and medical conversations about women’s #mentalhealth. Where once it was our uterus, ovaries, or “nerves,” now it is our imbalanced brains and hormones 🧠
