Misty Pratt, Author
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ALL IN HER HEAD (@greystonebooks) is out now! A feminist call to action to reframe and reclaim our mental health. Health communications by day. She/Her.
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Did you know that 1 in 4 deaths in pregnancy (or within 1yr of pregnancy) involved opioids?
Today is International Overdose Awareness Day. Learn more about how ICES data is being used to study pregnancy-associated opioid toxicity and deaths in Ontario: cpoproject.ca/resour...
Today is International Overdose Awareness Day. Learn more about how ICES data is being used to study pregnancy-associated opioid toxicity and deaths in Ontario: cpoproject.ca/resour...
August 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Did you know that 1 in 4 deaths in pregnancy (or within 1yr of pregnancy) involved opioids?
Today is International Overdose Awareness Day. Learn more about how ICES data is being used to study pregnancy-associated opioid toxicity and deaths in Ontario: cpoproject.ca/resour...
Today is International Overdose Awareness Day. Learn more about how ICES data is being used to study pregnancy-associated opioid toxicity and deaths in Ontario: cpoproject.ca/resour...
What a Trump presidency might mean for women’s health and health research in general. Canadians have past experience that we can leverage to prepare for our next government.
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Goodbye science, my old friend
Hello to the dark ages and welcome to The Resistance
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January 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
What a Trump presidency might mean for women’s health and health research in general. Canadians have past experience that we can leverage to prepare for our next government.
mistypratt.substack.com/p/goodbye-sc...
mistypratt.substack.com/p/goodbye-sc...
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This is where collective action is needed if we all include diversity and its relevance to are research in grants& biosketches will they defend all of us?
Complying in advance is harmful. Some people can delete diversity from biosketches and grants I can't delete that I'm a black woman scientist.
Complying in advance is harmful. Some people can delete diversity from biosketches and grants I can't delete that I'm a black woman scientist.
Today I was told to take out a line about being a mentor to students from diverse backgrounds and historically underrepresented groups from my biosketch for a proposal, because it might damage our chances of getting federal funding.
How has it come to this? I feel absolutely sick.
How has it come to this? I feel absolutely sick.
January 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is where collective action is needed if we all include diversity and its relevance to are research in grants& biosketches will they defend all of us?
Complying in advance is harmful. Some people can delete diversity from biosketches and grants I can't delete that I'm a black woman scientist.
Complying in advance is harmful. Some people can delete diversity from biosketches and grants I can't delete that I'm a black woman scientist.
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Devastated to learn from my colleague Don Romesburg that the Sonoma State University Women’s and Gender Studies Department is being eliminated, and all its tenured faculty are being fired, as part of “budget reductions”. wgs.sonoma.edu
January 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Devastated to learn from my colleague Don Romesburg that the Sonoma State University Women’s and Gender Studies Department is being eliminated, and all its tenured faculty are being fired, as part of “budget reductions”. wgs.sonoma.edu
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Mark Zuckerberg: I built this platform to give the people a voice
Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were
Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were
January 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Mark Zuckerberg: I built this platform to give the people a voice
Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were
Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were
Too many social platforms and not enough time!!
December 29, 2023 at 7:45 PM
Too many social platforms and not enough time!!
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Headline: "COVID-19 pandemic impacts rich people less"
Epidemiologists everywhere: yes, this is true of ALL HUMAN DISEASE. WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU FOR YEARS
Epidemiologists everywhere: yes, this is true of ALL HUMAN DISEASE. WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU FOR YEARS
October 25, 2023 at 9:47 AM
Headline: "COVID-19 pandemic impacts rich people less"
Epidemiologists everywhere: yes, this is true of ALL HUMAN DISEASE. WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU FOR YEARS
Epidemiologists everywhere: yes, this is true of ALL HUMAN DISEASE. WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU FOR YEARS
My book cover! I loooove it!!! 😍
October 21, 2023 at 11:24 AM
My book cover! I loooove it!!! 😍
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This is about where I am this week, on the Inspirational Quote front.
October 12, 2023 at 11:57 PM
This is about where I am this week, on the Inspirational Quote front.
Never thought I cared so much about hair until I started losing it all.
September 30, 2023 at 11:52 PM
Never thought I cared so much about hair until I started losing it all.
My book is done, done, done. No more edits! Is this when I celebrate? Or when I get the book in my hands? 🎉 🥂
September 29, 2023 at 2:52 PM
My book is done, done, done. No more edits! Is this when I celebrate? Or when I get the book in my hands? 🎉 🥂
Winnie says good morning!
September 19, 2023 at 1:53 PM
Winnie says good morning!
Phew, thank god the weather network app is back. I was in severe withdrawal
September 14, 2023 at 5:17 PM
Phew, thank god the weather network app is back. I was in severe withdrawal
Writing an 80,000 word book was tough but doable. Writing a 300 word bio about myself is torture 🤪
September 12, 2023 at 2:09 AM
Writing an 80,000 word book was tough but doable. Writing a 300 word bio about myself is torture 🤪
And the best headline writer today goes to: “What a blow! Kleenex pulling out of Canadian consumer market”🥇 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6947410
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August 25, 2023 at 7:37 PM
And the best headline writer today goes to: “What a blow! Kleenex pulling out of Canadian consumer market”🥇 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6947410
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the secret to male loneliness is for men who are lonely to become more pleasant to be around. i hope this helps anyone who is still searching for the answer.
August 21, 2023 at 10:03 PM
the secret to male loneliness is for men who are lonely to become more pleasant to be around. i hope this helps anyone who is still searching for the answer.
I haven’t totally figured out how to use this platform yet! Is there a handy guide?
August 25, 2023 at 4:18 PM
I haven’t totally figured out how to use this platform yet! Is there a handy guide?
Looking to follow folks writing/talking about/working in the #mentalhealth field. Where my people at?
August 21, 2023 at 11:38 PM
Looking to follow folks writing/talking about/working in the #mentalhealth field. Where my people at?
Warning: I’ll post a lot about my upcoming book, but I’ll also post too many pics of this cutie:
August 21, 2023 at 11:35 PM
Warning: I’ll post a lot about my upcoming book, but I’ll also post too many pics of this cutie:
We tend to think of hysteria as kooky medical history (like blood letting🩸) But hysteria is very much alive today in our cultural and medical conversations about women’s #mentalhealth. Where once it was our uterus, ovaries, or “nerves,” now it is our imbalanced brains and hormones 🧠
August 21, 2023 at 11:46 AM
We tend to think of hysteria as kooky medical history (like blood letting🩸) But hysteria is very much alive today in our cultural and medical conversations about women’s #mentalhealth. Where once it was our uterus, ovaries, or “nerves,” now it is our imbalanced brains and hormones 🧠
Hi! 👋🏼 I finally got the invite code!
August 20, 2023 at 7:48 PM
Hi! 👋🏼 I finally got the invite code!