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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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nikaradziun.bsky.social
Looking forward to contributing a workshop at this year’s International Women’s Day at Radboud 💜

In “Caring, coping, and carrying on?” we will explore what constant caring does to the brain, and how resilience is learned, and sometimes stretched too far.
halkesnetwork.bsky.social Halkes Women+ Faculty Network (Radboud) @halkesnetwork.bsky.social · 5d
Join us on Tuesday, 10 March 2026 (12:30–17:00) at Chapel Berchmanianum to celebrate International Women’s Day ✨

An afternoon of inspiration & connection:
• Keynote on resilience & agency
• Theatre performance
• Interactive workshops (EN/NL)
• Networking drinks

Register: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
February 13, 2026 at 6:51 PM
halkesnetwork.bsky.social
Join us on Tuesday, 10 March 2026 (12:30–17:00) at Chapel Berchmanianum to celebrate International Women’s Day ✨

An afternoon of inspiration & connection:
• Keynote on resilience & agency
• Theatre performance
• Interactive workshops (EN/NL)
• Networking drinks

Register: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
February 13, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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wicseurope.bsky.social
To celebrate #WomenAndGirlsInScienceDay #11F, we warmly invite you to our upcoming online panel!
Great speakers will discuss how to build inclusive, accessible, and empowering computational skills

Co-hosted by @psychopy.org

🗓️ Monday, February 23
🕐 13:00–14:30 CET
🔗 Register here: shorturl.at/Jqm4M
February 11, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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wicseurope.bsky.social
To commemorate Women's Month, we want to invite you to our upcoming online panel:
Building Inclusive Computational Skills 🛠️
🗓️ Monday Feb. 23
🕐 13:00-14:30 CET
🗣️@palencianoap.bsky.social @hailina.bsky.social @cecibaldoni.bsky.social

Registration here: shorturl.at/Jqm4M

Co-hosted by @psychopy.org
January 30, 2026 at 2:53 PM
halkesnetwork.bsky.social
How do we navigate academic freedom, sustainability & gender justice in the university?

Join a roundtable to share experiences on:
• academic freedom & safety
• job insecurity
• invisible academic labour
• caregiving & life events

🗓 Thu 19 March 2026 | 12:20–13:20
📍 Refter Corner, Erasmus Building
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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mothersinsci.bsky.social
📣Deadline extended! Applications are still open for the 2026 cohort of our Mentoring Program. Apply now to receive support and tailored career guidance from experienced mothers in STEMM on how to thrive in both your career and motherhood. Apply 👉 https://tinyurl.com/vshb3878
#MentoringProgram
January 27, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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npariente.bsky.social
So much work still to do to break the glass ceiling!

Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones
@plosbiology.org

🧪 plos.io/4658FZN
Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review
Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...
plos.io
January 23, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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LNVH is proud partner of NWO Insight Out, the national career event for women+ in STEM. Join us on February 12 for sessions on career development, leadership, visibility, and equity. Register now to connect through keynotes, workshops, and networking. www.nwoinsightout2026.nl
January 23, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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plosbiology.org
#Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in #STEMM fields, top institutions & in senior positions. Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4658FZN
Evolution of the median time under review of articles with female first authors, male first authors, female corresponding authors, and male corresponding authors.
January 21, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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nature.com
Book review 📚 These women helped to shape quantum mechanics — it’s time to recognize them

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These women helped to shape quantum mechanics — it’s time to recognize them
An astute book redresses our collective perception of a field that became known as ‘boys’ physics’.
go.nature.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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ec.europa.eu
#EUEqualPayDay marks an unfair truth: the EU gender pay gap is still 12%.

Our Roadmap for Women's Rights reinforces our commitment to:

🔹Equal pay
🔹Equal employment opportunities & adequate working conditions
🔹Work/life balance

🔗 link.europa.eu/FgwFK3
Split-screen image showing two hands (man’s hand on the left and woman’s hand on the right) holding a payslip labelled ‘PAYSILP 2025.’ The left side, with a beige background, represents ‘For Him’ and shows ‘Paid up until 31 December’ with a green ‘PAID’ stamp. The right side, with a gray background, represents ‘For Her’ and shows ‘Paid up until 17 November’ with handwritten text ‘Thanks!’ Both sides list the same work position and same days worked, highlighting a pay gap.
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
halkesnetwork.bsky.social
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...
www.ru.nl
September 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
halkesnetwork.bsky.social
🌍 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
halkesnetwork.bsky.social
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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natrevneurol.nature.com
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