Romina Garcia de leon
@rominagl4.bsky.social
PhD student
University of Toronto
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Blog coordinator with the Women's Health Research Cluster
🔬 Postpartum depression, sex differences, immunology, neuroplasticity (she/her)
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University of Toronto
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Blog coordinator with the Women's Health Research Cluster
🔬 Postpartum depression, sex differences, immunology, neuroplasticity (she/her)
🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️🌈
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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.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
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
podcasts.apple.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
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We are live!!! Follow along for highlights!!
We’re just 1 week away!
Join Dr. Tory Eisenlohr-Moul on Oct 20 (9am PDT/12pm EDT) for our next Women’s Health Seminar:
🩸 “Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones across the Menstrual Cycle.”
💻 Register now: https://ow.ly/TtWA50X9fJ6
#WomensHealthResearch #WHSS #HormonesAndMood
Join Dr. Tory Eisenlohr-Moul on Oct 20 (9am PDT/12pm EDT) for our next Women’s Health Seminar:
🩸 “Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones across the Menstrual Cycle.”
💻 Register now: https://ow.ly/TtWA50X9fJ6
#WomensHealthResearch #WHSS #HormonesAndMood
October 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We are live!!! Follow along for highlights!!
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Did you know that APOEe4, a genetic risk factor late-onset sporadic #AlzheimersDisease (AD) affects brain aging differently in males and females? 🧠 👀
📲 Swipe to learn more about this new study led by @bonniee_leee and click here to read the full paper: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
📲 Swipe to learn more about this new study led by @bonniee_leee and click here to read the full paper: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
March 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Did you know that APOEe4, a genetic risk factor late-onset sporadic #AlzheimersDisease (AD) affects brain aging differently in males and females? 🧠 👀
📲 Swipe to learn more about this new study led by @bonniee_leee and click here to read the full paper: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
📲 Swipe to learn more about this new study led by @bonniee_leee and click here to read the full paper: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Join us for a Multidisciplinary Look at Menopause!
🗓️ April 28 – 1:00 PM EST
Hear insights from the next generation of menopause researchers!
🔗 Reserve your spot today for this hybrid event: ow.ly/T8g350VpOap
#MenopauseResearch
🗓️ April 28 – 1:00 PM EST
Hear insights from the next generation of menopause researchers!
🔗 Reserve your spot today for this hybrid event: ow.ly/T8g350VpOap
#MenopauseResearch
April 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Join us for a Multidisciplinary Look at Menopause!
🗓️ April 28 – 1:00 PM EST
Hear insights from the next generation of menopause researchers!
🔗 Reserve your spot today for this hybrid event: ow.ly/T8g350VpOap
#MenopauseResearch
🗓️ April 28 – 1:00 PM EST
Hear insights from the next generation of menopause researchers!
🔗 Reserve your spot today for this hybrid event: ow.ly/T8g350VpOap
#MenopauseResearch
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Tuesday we got to see @bonniee-leee.bsky.social transform into Dr.Bonnie Lee!! Many thanks to her committee, external examiner Kristen Zuloaga & university examiners Jessica Rosin and Wendy Robinson!!the second last UBC graduate student from the Galea lab to finish!! Thanks to UBC for the memories
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Tuesday we got to see @bonniee-leee.bsky.social transform into Dr.Bonnie Lee!! Many thanks to her committee, external examiner Kristen Zuloaga & university examiners Jessica Rosin and Wendy Robinson!!the second last UBC graduate student from the Galea lab to finish!! Thanks to UBC for the memories
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Congratulations to Sara Siddiqi for her hard work and perseverance on getting this out....It took so long for this paper to be published that I worried it would no longer be relevant to the audience.....I was very wrong....unfortunately! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Race and ethnicity matter! Moving Parkinson’s risk research towards diversity and inclusiveness - npj Parkinson's Disease
npj Parkinson's Disease - Race and ethnicity matter! Moving Parkinson’s risk research towards diversity and inclusiveness
www.nature.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Congratulations to Sara Siddiqi for her hard work and perseverance on getting this out....It took so long for this paper to be published that I worried it would no longer be relevant to the audience.....I was very wrong....unfortunately! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist
Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing
Many Democrats and activists are rallying to defend diversity programs, but others say they distract from deeper efforts to address inequality.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist
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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
February 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
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Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025:
1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.
www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...
1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.
www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...
2025: Keep democracy alive. FrameLab New Year's resolutions
Advice for defeating the authoritarian threat
www.theframelab.org
January 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025:
1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.
www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...
1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.
www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...
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Thrilled to share our latest work on the importance of considering social identities in brain imaging research, now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social.
rdcu.be/d4XWM
rdcu.be/d4XWM
December 27, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Thrilled to share our latest work on the importance of considering social identities in brain imaging research, now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social.
rdcu.be/d4XWM
rdcu.be/d4XWM
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Happy #FluorescenceFriday !
Sharing one of my favorite images I've taken of microglia phagocytosis featuring a neuron whose DAPI is all too happy to be eaten.
Sharing one of my favorite images I've taken of microglia phagocytosis featuring a neuron whose DAPI is all too happy to be eaten.
November 22, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Happy #FluorescenceFriday !
Sharing one of my favorite images I've taken of microglia phagocytosis featuring a neuron whose DAPI is all too happy to be eaten.
Sharing one of my favorite images I've taken of microglia phagocytosis featuring a neuron whose DAPI is all too happy to be eaten.
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Super proud of this one 🤩 Thank you to all my co-authors!
Read it here now: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read it here now: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 26, 2024 at 3:58 AM
Super proud of this one 🤩 Thank you to all my co-authors!
Read it here now: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read it here now: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
So happy our review is finally out!! 🔬 📝Had the best writing journey with Liisa Galea and Travis Hodges. Special thanks to Dr. Tamara Bodnar and Dr. Hilary Brown for sharing their expertise.
Here’s our new review lead by @rominagl4.bsky.social on the roller coaster of central & peripheral inflammatory signalling during pregnancy & the postpartum & it’s relation to psychiatric disease risk in short term & neurodegenerative in long term www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Inflammatory signalling during the perinatal period: Implications for short- and long-term disease risk
During pregnancy and the postpartum, there are dynamic fluctuations in steroid and peptide hormone levels as well as inflammatory signalling. These ch…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:05 PM
So happy our review is finally out!! 🔬 📝Had the best writing journey with Liisa Galea and Travis Hodges. Special thanks to Dr. Tamara Bodnar and Dr. Hilary Brown for sharing their expertise.