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Halkes Women+ Faculty Network (Radboud)
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Connecting and empowering women+ scientific faculty at Radboud University and striving to improve the professional environment at the university.
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Are you interested in taking part in the Living Library? See the invitation below 👇
November 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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mothersinsci.bsky.social
#SciMomJourney from Rachel James - neuroscience researcher, science editor & mother of three. Rachel’s journey highlights the challenges of parenting while navigating fixed-term contracts, career breaks, and part-time work. Read her journey 👇https://www.mothersinscience.com/journeys/rachel-james
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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mothersinsci.bsky.social
Over a third of mothers in STEMM experience maternity bias, and fathers who share caregiving face stigma too. Follow our #BreakTheBiasSTEMM campaign to raise awareness & push for change–so no one has to choose between family or career. #MotherhoodPenalty #WomenInSTEMM #AcademicParents
October 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
halkesnetwork.bsky.social
Help make science more welcoming!

Join Pauline Gagnon for a hands-on Active Bystander workshop.
📅 Tue Oct 7 | ⏰ 9:00–14:00 | 📍 Huize Heyendael 00.18, Radboud University
🥗 Free lunch!

Open to all. Limited spots; register soon! 👉 www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
Becoming an Active Bystander | Radboud University
On Tuesday October 7, from 9:00 to 14:00, Pauline Gagnon, a retired particle physicist, public speaker and advocate for equity in science, will lead a lively training session on How to become an Activ...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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🌍 Join us Tue Oct 7, 9:00–14:00 for a hands-on training with Pauline Gagnon: How to Become an Active Bystander. Learn tools to address bias & make science welcoming to all.

📍 Huize Heyendael 00.18 De Salon
🥗 Free lunch, limited spots; register soon!

www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
Becoming an Active Bystander | Radboud University
On Tuesday October 7, from 9:00 to 14:00, Pauline Gagnon, a retired particle physicist, public speaker and advocate for equity in science, will lead a lively training session on How to become an Activ...
www.ru.nl
September 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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psypost.bsky.social
Students rate identical lectures differently based on professor’s gender, researchers find
Students rate identical lectures differently based on professor’s gender, researchers find
When philosophy students were asked to evaluate identical lectures assigned to men or women professors, their responses varied by gender. The study suggests gender bias plays a role in how teaching is perceived.
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September 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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We’re so proud of our former board member Mariana! 🎉 Wishing her all the best for her PhD defense and looking forward to the fascinating mini-symposium she’s hosting 🌟
marianapereira.bsky.social Mariana Pereira @marianapereira.bsky.social · Sep 3
From sleep 💤 to dreams 🌙 to daydreams ☁️ - what is the brain up to?

I’m excited to host a mini-symposium before my PhD defense! Join us in person or online, details in the flyer!

@sarahschoch.bsky.social @dresler.bsky.social @dondersinst.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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natrevneuro.nature.com
Rethinking women’s brain health — a Comment article by Julia Sacher & Ingo Bechmann

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rethinking women’s brain health - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Far from being a niche concern, women’s brain health is a global issue, affecting more than half of the world’s population. Despite this, the unique aspects of how the female brain adapts, reorganizes...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Why menstrual cycle irregularities belong in brain research www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Why menstrual cycle irregularities belong in brain research - Nature Medicine
The menstrual cycle requires tight orchestration between the brain and body, and irregularities can be both the cause and the consequence of wide-ranging health issues. Embracing this complexity, inst...
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August 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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nbkroemer.bsky.social
📣Call for applications

We are recruiting the 2nd cohort of PhD students for the international research training group on women's mental health. If you care about translational pharmacoimaging work integrating hormonal states, please apply #neurojobs
jobs.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/Job/6598/PhD...
PhD Researcher (f/m/d) Women’s Mental Health
jobs.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de
August 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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natureportfolio.nature.com
A Review in Nature Medicine explores the intrinsic returns that would stem from investments in the health of women, by allowing full access to education and fair labor force participation—and wider benefits for communities and societies. go.nature.com/3HlOopQ #medsky 🧪
This is figure 2, which shows evidence supporting priority areas for investment in women and health.
August 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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commspsychol.nature.com
New Collection and Call for Papers:

www.nature.com/collections/...
Gender equity in academia and research
This Collection invites research examining the intersection of gender identity and the academic research environment.
www.nature.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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eautoft.bsky.social
Over on LinkedIn, @radboudgender.bsky.social now also has a page 🤩 It is moderated by @garjan.bsky.social and myself. Go follow! www.linkedin.com/company/radb...
Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies | LinkedIn
Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies | Critically examining social inequalities and how to change them.
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June 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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eautoft.bsky.social
40 years of Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies 🥳 www.ru.nl/en/projects/...
40 years of Gender & Diversity Studies | Radboud University
Due to its 40th anniversary, the biggest events and milestones of Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies are documented.
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June 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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science.org
"Navigating academia as a young mother is hard, but it's also rewarding."

In this #ScienceWorkingLife, a #PhD student wrote that her daughters have benefited from her pursuit of higher education. #NationalHigherEducationDay scim.ag/3FEjXKu
Illustration of a scientist doing work while her two daughters pop out of her coat. Headline says: How I let go of my guilt as a mother in grad school.
June 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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cairosofie.bsky.social
🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social
👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.
May 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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klararaiber.bsky.social
Come work with us!
radboudgender.bsky.social Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies @radboudgender.bsky.social · May 7
Interested in how how migration reshapes fatherhood, emotional life, and gender performances?
@klararaiber.bsky.social and Francesco Cerchiaro are hiring a PhD candidate for an exiting project at Radboud University.

Find all information here: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Deadline: June 1st
PhD Position: Fatherhood, Emotions and Masculinity in Migration | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Fatherhood, Emotions and Masculinity in Migration at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
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May 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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radboudgender.bsky.social
Interested in how how migration reshapes fatherhood, emotional life, and gender performances?
@klararaiber.bsky.social and Francesco Cerchiaro are hiring a PhD candidate for an exiting project at Radboud University.

Find all information here: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Deadline: June 1st
PhD Position: Fatherhood, Emotions and Masculinity in Migration | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Fatherhood, Emotions and Masculinity in Migration at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
May 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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compcogsci.bsky.social
We are proud and happy to announce that our very own @olivia.science won the university-level Talent Award for her innovative and inclusive teaching.

www.ru.nl/en/staff/new...
Presentation of University Education Awards 2024 | Radboud University
The senior prize went to Angela Wigger. The talent award went to Olivia Guest and Jelle Hilbers. The winners received a certificate and a cash prize of €3,000.
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April 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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mothersinsci.bsky.social
Our research shows that ~50% of mothers globally decline at least half of opportunities to participate in conferences after becoming parents (N=3995). We understand the barriers and are offering Travel Grants to help overcome these challenges.
Apply now - deadline 31st March!
shorturl.at/gnCU2
March 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Diversity Lecture: Not Just One Woman at a Time

Join Yvonne Benschop as she explores the importance of solidarity, empathy, and care in academia and the need for collective action to address gender inequalities.

📅 31 March 2025, 12:30 PM
📍 Huygens HG00.304

More info: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
Diversity Lecture: Not just one woman at the time | Radboud University
During the Diversity Lecture, Yvonne Benschop reflects on the ways a postfeminist gender regime manifests in academia, while foregoing important values of solidarity, empathy, and care for others.
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March 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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How does feminist research shape policy? Can microbes fight climate change? Do hormones influence us beyond stereotypes?

Find out 10 March at Radboud’s IWD 2025! 🎉 Reflect on 40 years of Gender Studies, discuss feminist impact & honor female scholars.

Info & register: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/....
February 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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klararaiber.bsky.social
Radboud celebrating women's day together with @halkesnetwork.bsky.social who made it to this side (see this also as recommendation to follow Radboud University's women+ network) 🥳
radboudgender.bsky.social Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies @radboudgender.bsky.social · Feb 11
Monday March 10th, we celebrate International Women's Day. In the morning we discuss the relevance of Gender Studies: Playing our Part - Feminist thinking, social impact.
In the afternoon, the spotlight is on the work of woman researchers.
Register here: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
Celebration International Women’s Day 2025 | Radboud University
Every year, the interfaculty network Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies and the Radboud Network Female Professors/Halkes Women+ Faculty Network organise International Women’s Day. This year we celebra...
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February 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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radboudgender.bsky.social
Monday March 10th, we celebrate International Women's Day. In the morning we discuss the relevance of Gender Studies: Playing our Part - Feminist thinking, social impact.
In the afternoon, the spotlight is on the work of woman researchers.
Register here: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
Celebration International Women’s Day 2025 | Radboud University
Every year, the interfaculty network Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies and the Radboud Network Female Professors/Halkes Women+ Faculty Network organise International Women’s Day. This year we celebra...
www.ru.nl
February 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM