Prof Bola Grace
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Prof Bola Grace
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Spot the difference 🎄 Our Christmas tree has arrived & decorations will be appearing this week, just in time for students to celebrate an early Christmas (aka Bridgemas) together before the end of term. Thank you to the many different teams at Catz who make sure we look our festive best!
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Interested in studying Women's Health? 🔬

Join @ucl-ifwh.bsky.social tomorrow at our Women's Health MSc online information session, where you’ll meet Programme Directors and find out what it’s like to study at a world-leading institution.

📆 27 November, 12:00-13:00 GMT

Secure your place now ⬇️
Graduate Open Events: Women's Health
Explore Master’s degrees in Reproductive Science and Women's Health. Join our virtual open events to meet Programme Directors and plan your next career step.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – but there have been so many women who helped shaped the field since its inception
The forgotten women of quantum physics
Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – but there have been so many women who helped shaped the field since its inception
www.newscientist.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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“Who holds the power? How is this product empowering women?”

Dr Bola Grace on why we must question who truly benefits from #FemTech innovation.

Part of The BMJ’s new Collection on women’s health innovation.
www.bmj.com/collections/...

#WomensHealth #Innovation #HealthEquity #GlobalHealth
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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“There is a lot of fear in doing research, particularly around pregnancy and reproduction, which has led to a stagnating of innovation around those conditions.”

Jane Hirst on why women’s health research needs innovation to be more inclusive.

Part of The BMJ’s Collection
www.bmj.com/collections/...
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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#ICYMI: our @bmj.com Collection on women’s health innovation, exploring how better data, leadership, and policy can drive equity in women’s health.

@jocalynclark.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social

Explore the full collection: www.bmj.com/collections/...
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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How is AI reshaping the clinician–patient relationship?

The BMJ’s new series examines what responsible, transparent #HealthAI use looks like in clinical practice.

@dafraile.bsky.social @crblease.bsky.social @sarariggare.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social

www.bmj.com/collections/...
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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“Innovations without equity can actually reproduce the same hierarchies and discriminations those innovations claim they wish to disrupt.”

Dr Ebere Okereke on why global health innovation must include women.

Part of The BMJ’s new Collection on women’s health innovation.
www.bmj.com/collections/...
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Our latest article 🎉 on #fertilityawareness in the age of AI: we conducted a comparative analysis of different #LLM platforms and information provided on various fertility topics #reproductivehealtheducation @ucl-ifwh.bsky.social
➡️https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14647273.2025.2584673
Ctrl + Alt + Conceive: fertility awareness in the age of Artificial Intelligence, how do large language models compare?
Technology continues to change how we manage our health, and recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence have increased the adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare. Since the lau...
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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NEW: The BMJ launches a series introducing “triadic care,” exploring how #AI has become a third party in the clinician-patient relationship.

www.bmj.com/collections/...

#MedTech
@dafraile.bsky.social @crblease.bsky.social @sarariggare.bsky.social @kamranabbasi.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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📣 BMJ Medicine is now on Bluesky 📣

Follow them at @bmjmedicine.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Documents discovered in 2023 revealed more about Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving DNA’s structure

go.nature.com/4hS2gpr
How Rosalind Franklin’s story was rewritten
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 26 April 2023
go.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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In this passage from the opening of Grace Chan’s sci-fi novel, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to her protagonists as they spend time in a virtual utopia which is becoming increasingly tempting in a dying world
Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of You by Grace Chan
www.newscientist.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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A mathematical model suggests that when a pair of black holes gets quantum entangled, this can give rise to a lumpy space-time tunnel between them
Lumpy ‘caterpillar wormholes’ may connect entangled black holes
A mathematical model suggests that when a pair of black holes gets quantum entangled, this can give rise to a lumpy space-time tunnel between them
www.newscientist.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Do you know a Year 12 student from a Black African, Caribbean or mixed race background who is thinking about applying to Cambridge?

Target Oxbridge is a free mentoring programme that has helped over 500 students to secure Oxbridge offers.

Apply at targetoxbridge.app.candidx.io/roles before 23 Nov.
October 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Huge pleasure presenting at the #ASRM annual scientific conference in sunny San Antonio. Presented our @ucl-ifwh.bsky.social research on #LLM #GenAI and #womenshealth evaluating #PCOS #endometriosis #fertility. Great conference, great city. Next stop, Boston for the digital implementation summit!
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Fibromyalgia, which causes chronic pain all over the body, is poorly understood, but two studies – made up of millions of participants – are helping us get to the roots of the condition
Unpicking the genetics of fibromyalgia sheds new light on its causes
Fibromyalgia, which causes chronic pain all over the body, is poorly understood, but two studies – made up of millions of participants – are helping us get to the roots of the condition
www.newscientist.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It’s great holding in my hands the first ever (and likely the only) printed issue of the @lancetobgyn-wh.bsky.social journal. It was a true honour to contribute to the first issue of this long awaited #womenshealtn journal.Online version can be accessed here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
October 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Are you thinking of studying Women’s Health? 🔬

Join us this November at our online information sessions where you’ll meet Programme Directors and find out what it’s like to study at a world-leading institution.

📅 25 Nov, 13:00-14:00 GMT
📅 27 Nov, 12:00-13:00 GMT

Secure your place now ⬇️
Graduate Open Events: Women's Health
Explore Master’s degrees in Reproductive Science and Women's Health. Join our virtual open events to meet Programme Directors and plan your next career step.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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"Women’s health is not only underfunded and under-researched—it lacks the political priority and urgency that only political solidarity and action can hasten." @jocalynclark.bsky.social via @bmj.com #womenshealth

Upending women’s health
www.bmj.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research

go.nature.com/4hriohE
What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.
go.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Experiencing severe hardship in childhood can have a lasting impact. Understanding this better could open the door to more effective treatments
We're starting to understand why childhood adversity leaves its mark
Experiencing severe hardship in childhood can have a lasting impact. Understanding this better could open the door to more effective treatments
www.newscientist.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Our bodies contain a ghostly web of thread-like vessels and bean-shaped nodes, called the lymphatic system.

My latest cover story looks at how it could be a secret ingredient in treating some major health conditions from Alzheimer's disease to cancer.

www.newscientist.com/article/2499...
The extraordinary influence of the lymphatic system on our health
It has remained mysterious for millennia, but we’re finally uncovering the profound role the lymphatic system plays in everything from preventing dementia to fighting cancer
www.newscientist.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Join us online Tuesday 21 October at 14.00 BST for the official Launch Event of the The BMJ and @gatesfoundation.bsky.social Collection on #WomensHealthInnovation

#GlobalHealth #WomensHealth
bit.ly/3WFaM1k @ucl-ifwh.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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We asked 3,785 PhD students across 107 countries about their experiences. Where do you think the happiest doctoral candidates were?

go.nature.com/3Wzz2lL
Are these the happiest PhD students in the world?
Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey — but are these nations really the best places to do a doctorate?
go.nature.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM