Gemma Sharp
@gemmasharp.bsky.social
Women’s Health research 🚺| 4M consortium 🩸| Epidemiology 👩🏻💻| Cats 🐈 | Otters 🦦
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Unpopular maybe, but we should firmly resist this kind of banal medicalization of cultural and aesthetic experience. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Picture of health: going to art galleries can improve wellbeing, study reveals
Viewing original works of art can relieve stress, cut heart disease risk and boost immune system, first study of its kind finds
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Unpopular maybe, but we should firmly resist this kind of banal medicalization of cultural and aesthetic experience. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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One of the greatest two minutes of television ever broadcast.
Sooty & Co (28th October 1996). Sooty and the gang round off their Spanish holiday by going clubbing.
October 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
One of the greatest two minutes of television ever broadcast.
I’m off sick. In related news, I’ve made a Shiny app that displays random pictures of my cat. I’ve also styled it (accidentally) on how the internet looked in 2001. Thanks for your time. gcsharp.shinyapps.io/is-it-beans/
gcsharp.shinyapps.io
October 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I’m off sick. In related news, I’ve made a Shiny app that displays random pictures of my cat. I’ve also styled it (accidentally) on how the internet looked in 2001. Thanks for your time. gcsharp.shinyapps.io/is-it-beans/
This is going to be SO useful… I love this sort of academic work. Repositories that make data accessible all in one place are 👌 And there’s even a bloody R package too! 🙏
We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This is going to be SO useful… I love this sort of academic work. Repositories that make data accessible all in one place are 👌 And there’s even a bloody R package too! 🙏
Are your periods too heavy, long, unpredictable, frequent/infrequent, or involve bleeding in between? Or do you care for someone with this issue?
Please consider filling out our survey: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... to find the most important research questions on Problematic Menstrual Bleeding
Please consider filling out our survey: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... to find the most important research questions on Problematic Menstrual Bleeding
October 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Are your periods too heavy, long, unpredictable, frequent/infrequent, or involve bleeding in between? Or do you care for someone with this issue?
Please consider filling out our survey: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... to find the most important research questions on Problematic Menstrual Bleeding
Please consider filling out our survey: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... to find the most important research questions on Problematic Menstrual Bleeding
Do you have heavy or painful menstrual periods? If so, please consider filling in our short survey so that we can better understand how these symptoms interact with mental health and wellbeing. exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Is There a Link Between Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, Menstrual Pain, and Mental Health?
We are exploring how people experience heavy menstrual bleeding and menstrual pain, and how these experiences interact with their mental health. We want to better understand how these issues affect ea...
exe.qualtrics.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Do you have heavy or painful menstrual periods? If so, please consider filling in our short survey so that we can better understand how these symptoms interact with mental health and wellbeing. exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Epidemiology
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Hybrid/On-site
Exeter, United Kingdom #Epijobs
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Hybrid/On-site
Exeter, United Kingdom #Epijobs
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
August 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Epidemiology
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Hybrid/On-site
Exeter, United Kingdom #Epijobs
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Hybrid/On-site
Exeter, United Kingdom #Epijobs
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Quite proud of this actually. Since I deleted my Twitter account, I haven’t had a place where I can be told off for colluding with other academics to erase women. It looks like this article in the Conversation about periods and GCSEs has now filled that gap. 👏
August 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Quite proud of this actually. Since I deleted my Twitter account, I haven’t had a place where I can be told off for colluding with other academics to erase women. It looks like this article in the Conversation about periods and GCSEs has now filled that gap. 👏
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Researchers from the #GW4Alliance unis of @exeter.ac.uk and @bristoluni.bsky.social have been awarded $4.5million to drive new research into heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) and its causes:
Read the latest: gw4.ac.uk/news/groundb...
Read the latest: gw4.ac.uk/news/groundb...
August 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Researchers from the #GW4Alliance unis of @exeter.ac.uk and @bristoluni.bsky.social have been awarded $4.5million to drive new research into heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) and its causes:
Read the latest: gw4.ac.uk/news/groundb...
Read the latest: gw4.ac.uk/news/groundb...
We’re looking for people aged 30-55 who experience heavy menstrual bleeding or dysmenorrhea (menstrual pain) to help us design a new research study around menstrual health
June 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We’re looking for people aged 30-55 who experience heavy menstrual bleeding or dysmenorrhea (menstrual pain) to help us design a new research study around menstrual health
Our study is in the news: Heavy and painful periods are linked to missing school and lower GCSE results - something that anyone who menstruates could probably already tell you, but that is largely not discussed or ignored.
Well done to Gemma Sawyer @uob-ieu.bsky.social who did all the hard work
Well done to Gemma Sawyer @uob-ieu.bsky.social who did all the hard work
Heavy periods affect school attendance and exam scores, study in England finds
Heavy periods affect school attendance and exam scores, study in England finds
Charities say more should be done to support girls who experience prolonged bleeding and severe menstrual pain
Heavy, prolonged periods and severe menstrual pain are linked with lower school attendance and poorer GCSE scores, according to new research.
The England-based study found that more than a third of girls (36%) who participated experienced heavy or prolonged menstrual bleeding, which was associated with missing an additional 1.7 days of school every year. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Our study is in the news: Heavy and painful periods are linked to missing school and lower GCSE results - something that anyone who menstruates could probably already tell you, but that is largely not discussed or ignored.
Well done to Gemma Sawyer @uob-ieu.bsky.social who did all the hard work
Well done to Gemma Sawyer @uob-ieu.bsky.social who did all the hard work
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🚨Job Alert!🚨
We're launching a funded study on how period pain impacts adolescent girls’ lives & school engagement. Join our team.
🔹 Research Associate 👉 (www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...)
🔹 Research Assistant 👉 (www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...)
Please share! #PeriodPain #PainResearch
We're launching a funded study on how period pain impacts adolescent girls’ lives & school engagement. Join our team.
🔹 Research Associate 👉 (www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...)
🔹 Research Assistant 👉 (www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...)
Please share! #PeriodPain #PainResearch
ED12537 Research Associate in Paediatric Pain (fixed-term) - Jobs at Bath
www.bath.ac.uk
March 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🚨Job Alert!🚨
We're launching a funded study on how period pain impacts adolescent girls’ lives & school engagement. Join our team.
🔹 Research Associate 👉 (www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...)
🔹 Research Assistant 👉 (www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...)
Please share! #PeriodPain #PainResearch
We're launching a funded study on how period pain impacts adolescent girls’ lives & school engagement. Join our team.
🔹 Research Associate 👉 (www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...)
🔹 Research Assistant 👉 (www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...)
Please share! #PeriodPain #PainResearch
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Do you experience problematic menstrual bleeding? Or do you treat or care for someone who does?
4M members Jackie Maybin, Gemma Sharp, and Lucky Saraswat are leading a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership to identify the most important questions for future research to address.
4M members Jackie Maybin, Gemma Sharp, and Lucky Saraswat are leading a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership to identify the most important questions for future research to address.
March 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Do you experience problematic menstrual bleeding? Or do you treat or care for someone who does?
4M members Jackie Maybin, Gemma Sharp, and Lucky Saraswat are leading a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership to identify the most important questions for future research to address.
4M members Jackie Maybin, Gemma Sharp, and Lucky Saraswat are leading a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership to identify the most important questions for future research to address.