🚨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Final days to submit applications for these or other PhD positions within @genderinsight.bsky.social. Reach out if you have any last minute questions.

David Matthew Doyle@dsquared.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨Now recruiting 2 PhD students as part of Gender Insight MSCA doctoral network! My fabulous team at the Department of Medical Psychology at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social is growing. See link below or visit www.genderinsight.eu. Apply by end of February. werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/publicati...

🚨 Exciting news: the protocol paper of our prospective cohort study has just been published! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A short thread about the background, aim and methods of our study 🧵:

The coffee read: #Nederland #Universiteit #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #HogerOnderwijs www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Opinie: De universiteit is geen talkshowtafel

De druk op academische vrijheid komt niet vanuit studenten, maar vanuit politieke partijen die zich willen bemoeien met de inhoud van colleges. Ook media dragen daar aan bij door onvoldoende kritisch ...

volkskrant.nl

Exciting news: the TIDE study, my study about premenstrual exacerbation (PME) of depression, has started! In the coming year, we aim to include 60 participants with depression and a regular menstrual cycle to examine the prevalence and trajectories of PME in depression. 📈👩🏼‍🏫

This paper is a great read! It addresses the overlap between mental health and reproductive changes in women/females thoughout the lifespan, while addressing the role of biological factors, stigma and social factors. Very necessary in the current climate📄👏🏻! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Women's reproductive mental health: currently available evidence and future directions for research, clinical practice and health policy

Sex and gender differences in the epidemiology of mental disorders are well documented. Less well understood are the drivers of these differences. Reproductive health represents one of the gendered d...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

A very fun discovery today: while ago I contributed to a local newspaper article about contraceptive choices, and apparently the newspaper printed the article with its (gorgeous) cover art as part of a promo on an Amsterdam tram! Love to see it @parool.nl

Our talented interns turned one of our recent papers into this nice infographic🤩. Check it out!

AFFIRM Relationships project@affirmrelation.bsky.social · last yr.

Exciting news: We translated one of our recent papers into an infographic post! Scroll though the images to see the paper explained in our infographic:

On 15 April we delivered our petition and letter to Dutch parliamentarians: stand up against censorship of sex, gender and diversity in health research and education, and protect gender- and diversity-sensitive healthcare! #Science4EveryBody @smoertelt.bsky.social @hormonogo.bsky.social

Our project is now on BlueSky @affirmrelation.bsky.social! Be sure to follow so you can stay up to date on our projects on gender-affirming hormones, social health and well-being🥳🏳️‍⚧️

AFFIRM Relationships project@affirmrelation.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi BlueSky, we moved! We're an ERC-funded (erc.europe.eu) research project led by David MatthewDoyle (dsquared.bsky.social). We aim to study gender-affirming hormones and social health in trans and gender diverse people. Here's a short recap of what we have done in the project thus far 🧵:

Inexplicably, US administration has launched an unprecedented assault on science, on research institutions & on vital international organizations & initiatives. An assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere; the global community must unite 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

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We did a thing today….have a look at our opinion piece in @volkskrant.nl today with a lost of more than 300 first supporters. We need to protect the focus on #sex and #gender in #healthcare everywhere! #WomenInStem @radboudumc.bsky.social

de Volkskrant@volkskrant.nl · 2y ago

Opinie: Bewaak de kwalitatief goede en inclusieve gezondheidszorg tegen censuur uit de VS

We (a group of Dutch researchers) wrote an opinion article calling to protect academic freedom and research on sex and gender. The article was co-signed by over 300 academics, healthcare professionals and stakeholders, and it was published in a national newspaper (de Volkskrant) today!

ATTENTION: ALL JOURNAL EDITORS. Have the courage that Jocalyn Clark and Kamran Abbasi at the BMJ have displayed here. Call all this out for what it is. And then refuse to comply. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology

The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...

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Hi all, I finally moved to Bluesky 👋! I am a Postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam UMC, at the Department of Medical Psychology, with a specific interest in the effects of gonadal hormones on well-being. I'll introduce my research and work 🧵: