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dr. Margot Morssinkhof
@hormonogo.bsky.social
PostDoc researcher @AmsterdamUMC | Neuroscientist | Studies sex hormones, depression and sleep 🧠🏳️‍🌈😴 | She/Her | PhD
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. 📈👩🏼‍🏫
June 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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
May 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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
May 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Our talented interns turned one of our recent papers into this nice infographic🤩. Check it out!
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:
April 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Reposted by dr. Margot Morssinkhof
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
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April 19, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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🥳🏳️‍⚧️
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 🧵:
March 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Reposted by dr. Margot Morssinkhof
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
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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.
www.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Reposted by dr. Margot Morssinkhof
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
February 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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!
February 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Reposted by dr. Margot Morssinkhof
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...
www.bmj.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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 🧵:
November 25, 2024 at 12:32 PM