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The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative
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The Ann S. Bowers WBHI is driven by a radically simple idea: progress in neuroscience will flourish when the health of men and women are valued equally.

Our Website: https://wbhi.ucsb.edu/
Join the Monthly Seminar Series: https://bit.ly/3WPvLPD
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Join us on Monday, December 8, 2025 at 8am PST/11am EST as Dr. Rebecca Thurston, PhD, FAMBR, FSBSM Professor in the Department of Psychiatry @University of Pittsburgh presents “Menopause, Its Symptoms, and Implications for Women’s Heart and Brain Health.” Register at tinyurl.com/bowerswbhi-s...
Promotional poster for a lecture titled 'Menopause, Its Symptoms, and Implications for Women's Heart and Brain Health' presented by Dr. Rebecca Thurston, PhD, FAMBR, FSBSM, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Pittsburgh. The poster features a professional headshot of Dr. Thurston, a woman with long dark wavy hair wearing a dark blazer, smiling with arms crossed against a light blue geometric background. Event details show Monday, December 8, 2025 at 8am PST/11am EST, with instructions to register for the virtual lecture and Q&A. Institutional logos appear at bottom: University of California, University of Pittsburgh, Weill Cornell Medicine Radiology, and Cornell Bowers CIS College of Computing and Information Science. The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative logo appears at top.
December 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Our story about The Krakencoder - a new AI tool to analyze brain networks - is out in Weill Cornell's Impact magazine.

Support from NIMH and @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social

Led by Keith Jamison, with @msabuncu.bsky.social, @cerentozlu.bsky.social, Zijin Gu, Qinxin Wang

Full story: tinyurl.com/mryjbzfk
Unleashing the Krakencoder
Mapping the connections between the brain’s structure and function.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Thrilled to see HerBrain on #TIME Best Inventions of 2025!

It shows how the anatomy of the brain changes week-by-week through pregnancy and postpartum 🧠

@geometric-intel.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social @neuromaternal.bsky.social !
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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💊 🍸 Risk for substance use disorder (SUD) rises in adolescence. Family history and biological sex play major roles in a person's level of SUD risk. New evidence suggests neural markers of SUD may exist before substance use starts - yet how these markers differ across sexes is not understood.
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Headed to Santa Barbara for the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social summit! Excited to spend the week debating and refining recommendations for measuring reproductive factors in science!
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Excited to spend the week in sunny California ☀️working on this difficult but critical project!
bowers-wbhi.bsky.social The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social · Sep 5
Join us this Monday, September 8, 2025 at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT as Winnie Orchard, PhD and Scientific Program Director at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, dives into “Developing the Gold STANDARD: a Standardized Tool for Acquiring Reproductive Health Data” #BowersWBHI #Neuroendocrinology
This is a poster that shows a woman in a blue dress with shoulder-length brown hair speaking at a podium. Her name is Winnie Orchard, PhD and she's the Scientific Program Director at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative. The poster advertises a virtual seminar she's speaking for on Monday September 8th at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT: “Developing the Gold STANDARD: a Standardized Tool for Acquiring Reproductive Health Data.”
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Just dropped Episode 1 of our new Season (my first time hosting). Up first the incredible ⁦‪Dr ⁦Cat Bohannon author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 M years of Human Evolution. Let us know what you think.
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How Medical Research Ignores Half the Population with Dr. Cat Bohannon
Podcast Episode · Women's Health Interrupted with Dr. Liisa Galea · 2025-10-15 · 51m
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October 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Turn up the heat with us. We have ONE week to ask @cagovernor Newsom to sign California’s AB-432 Menopause Care Equity Act. Live in California, have 30 seconds, and want to support the bill? Go to tinyurl.com/AB432-suppor... to let @cagovernor Newsom know that women’s health is not an elective.
Photo of a thermometer showing high temperatures (over 80 degrees farenheit and 28 degrees celsius) against a backdrop of blooming white flowers and a blue sky. Overlaid orange text reads: ‘Turn Up The Heat. Pass AB-432: The Menopause Care Equity Act.’ The image connects rising temperature imagery to advocacy for menopause care legislation.
October 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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With the power of the people behind it, the California legislature just passed the Menopause Care Equity Act. This is history in the making—finally addressing a health gap that touches millions of women. Now, it’s down to one signature. @governor.ca.gov, the pen is in your hand. 🖊️
September 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Join us this Monday, September 8, 2025 at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT as Winnie Orchard, PhD and Scientific Program Director at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, dives into “Developing the Gold STANDARD: a Standardized Tool for Acquiring Reproductive Health Data” #BowersWBHI #Neuroendocrinology
This is a poster that shows a woman in a blue dress with shoulder-length brown hair speaking at a podium. Her name is Winnie Orchard, PhD and she's the Scientific Program Director at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative. The poster advertises a virtual seminar she's speaking for on Monday September 8th at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT: “Developing the Gold STANDARD: a Standardized Tool for Acquiring Reproductive Health Data.”
September 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Join us this Monday, September 8, 2025 at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT as Winnie Orchard, PhD and Scientific Program Director at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, dives into “Developing the Gold STANDARD: a Standardized Tool for Acquiring Reproductive Health Data” #BowersWBHI #Neuroendocrinology
This is a poster that shows a woman in a blue dress with shoulder-length brown hair speaking at a podium. Her name is Winnie Orchard, PhD and she's the Scientific Program Director at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative. The poster advertises a virtual seminar she's speaking for on Monday September 8th at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT: “Developing the Gold STANDARD: a Standardized Tool for Acquiring Reproductive Health Data.”
September 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Congrats, Dr. Magdalena @magdamartinezga.bsky.social on your 2025 BBRF Young Investigator Grant, and thank you to the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation @bbrfoundation.bsky.social! This grant will support her research on human brain changes linked to perinatal depression. #bowerswbhi
Woman standing at a viewpoint overlooking a beach. She is carrying a tote bag that says "Study Women" and lists out terms related to women's health. She is smiling.
September 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Help us turn up the heat! 🔥🔥🔥California has a bill heading to @governor.ca.gov that will improve menopause care for millions. Check out the Substack and sign here! turnuptheheatab432.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Congrats, Dr. Carina Heller, PhD @carinaheller.bsky.social & thanks to @bbrfoundation.bsky.social. Carina received the 2025 BBRF Young Investigator Grant, enabling her to further investigate the impact of hormonal contraceptives use in adolescence, especially for mental health. #Neuroscience
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August 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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📣 We’re recruiting 1-2 postdocs to the incredible WBHI team to lead projects mapping brain & behav’l changes across major endocrine transitions—from adolesc to pregnancy to menopause. Expertise in MRI & human subjects necc. Please reach out to info@wbhi.ucsb.edu and learn more at wbhi.ucsb.edu 🌊
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August 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Keep your eyes on this rising star:
magdamartinezga.bsky.social Magdalena Martínez-García PhD @magdamartinezga.bsky.social · Aug 7
Excited to share I’ve been awarded a 2-year @bbrfoundation Young Investigator Grant! This will support my work on brain changes linked to perinatal depression, building on my research in human maternal brain. Grateful to be at @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social with Dr. @emilyjacobs.bsky.social !
August 7, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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We’re hiring! Pls share widely:

In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred.

Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974
August 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Happy Friday, wherever your adventures take you today! PhD student Elle Murata spread the word “Study Women” from White Sands National Park in southern New Mexico.

@ellemurata.bsky.social‬

#BowersWBHI #Neuroscience #WomenInScience #Neuroimaging #Neuroendocrinology #WomensBrainHealth #Menopause
July 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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💪 ✅ You can take action today to increase women’s health equity. AB-432, California’s Menopause Care Equity Act, is on @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom’s desk. Here are 5 ways to move it forward.

#AB432 #Menopausecare #menopausematters #bowerswbhi #womenshealthmatters #brainhealth #womensbrainhealth
July 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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We’re thrilled to welcome @susanacarmona.bsky.social @neuromaternal.bsky.social to Santa Barbara as a Bowers WBHI Visiting Faculty Fellow to discuss the maternal brain

#bowerswbhi #maternalbrainhealth #ucsb @magdamartinezga.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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For too long, women have suffered in silence. We’re shining the spotlight on the need for menopause care.

Learn more about AB-432 here: bit.ly/ab-432menopa...

@emilyjacobs.bsky.social #AB432 #bowerswbhi #MenopauseMatters #Menopause #Menopausecare #womenshealthmatters #womensbrainhealth
July 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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July 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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On Monday, Ann S. Bowers WBHI Director Emily Jacobs, PhD, testified for AB-432, California’s Menopause Care Equity Act. Updates are coming soon! More info about AB-432 here: bit.ly/ab-432menopa... #womenshealth #brainhealth
July 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Save the date: the Seminar Series will be back on Monday, September 8, 2025 at 5pm Eastern / 2pm Pacific time. Please note, this time is different than usual since our speaker is based in Australia.

@emilyjacobs.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social #BrainMapping #WomensBrainHealth #BrainHealth
July 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM