Laura
@LauraSymul
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Assistant Prof in biostatistics @UCLouvain_be. Women's health research, data viz lover, prev. @EPFL & @Stanford
United States
Joined February 2013
Totally overwhelmed by the incredible feedback I received regarding my talk at #OSSD2023 . It was so successful thanks to an amazing & receptive @OSSDtweets audience. Thank you all! And, since many have asked, here's my estrous cycle meme from the talk. Feel free to share away!😀
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The most efficient way to write 8 pages is to write 16 pages and then trim half of them
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Just had the last class of the quarter with my students today 🥲 It was my first time teaching, and I loved it (also now fully believe anyone who says it’s exhausting 😮💨). I hope they do well at the exam, that’d be the best reward 🙏
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(please retweet) I am taking CS PhD students! If you are interested in ML, data science, health, or inequality, please apply to Cornell :) We have an island campus in New York City and a fantastic group of students I feel lucky to collaborate with every day. Join us!
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In case anyone else I know here also just created an account on #Mastodon, this is where to find me:
mastodon.social
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This came out earlier this month and highlights how, despite 60 y of research, the pill's effects on mood are still poorly understood. Somewhat a consequence of our lack of understanding of the variability in hormone sensitivity (itself due to a lack of funding). 🙏@rebeccaga0
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Was explaining the estimand/estimator/estimate distinction to a colleague earlier today and this meme came up so now you suffer too
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More coming soon! We're looking forward to transforming the study of women’s brain health with @emilyjacobs @caitaylo @russpoldrack @Craig__Stark @mtdespo . Stay tuned! @bioshape_lab @ucsantabarbara @UCSBengineering @ucsbcs
We can't wait to share more news soon. Our goal is to build the most comprehensive multi-center open-access brain imaging data consortium dedicated to advancing women’s brain health. Let's go. w/ @caitaylo @ninamiolane @russpoldrack @Craig__Stark @mtdespo
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Check out this new article on #pmdd from @washingtonpost-- they included lots of quotes from me and, more importantly, PMDD patients! @IAPMDglobal
https://t.co/HZ4sje4P6E
washingtonpost.com
Many said it was a long journey to learn about the disorder, in no small part because of the stigmatization of reproductive health and menstruation.
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I wrote a thing for @Nature outlining 3 common workplace gender equality mistakes: 1 Focusing on quantity rather than the quality of women’s experiences 2 Initiatives that try to fix women rather than change systems 3 An overestimation of progress
nature.com
Nature - These are three mistakes universities make when they attempt to improve gender equity.
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The 2022 submissions are open! Send us your scientific art at https://t.co/NlbD85mTaB. For the first time, our competition is open to both scientists and artists! The deadline is April 30th. We are beyond excited to see what your creativity and talent will produce this year!
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It's thread time🧵! As we head into the last week of #PMDAwarenessMonth2022, I'd like to break down our recent paper on #suicide thoughts and attempts in patients with #PMDD. https://t.co/xScX9ByN5N
link.springer.com
BMC Psychiatry - Suicide is the second leading cause of death among Americans ages 10 to 34, with alarming recent increases in suicide rates among those assigned female at birth. A large body of...
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Thrilled to share our work on Lactobacillus iners, its growth requirements, role in the vaginal #microbiome, and a potential approach to target it to improve therapies for #bacterialvaginosis (BV). Exciting potential to translate from bench to bedside for #ReproductiveHealth
OUT NOW: Cysteine dependence of Lactobacillus iners is a potential therapeutic target for vaginal microbiota modulation By Kwon & co @kwonlab @SethMBloomMDPhD @ragoninstitute @mgh_id @bostonvaginadoc @BalskusLab read it here: https://t.co/BqSK8QlqPC
https://t.co/FYDoljv1jt
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with all of their participants, it's unlikely that this study could assess that. 💫Ideally, the vaccine efficacy studies (prospective, randomized, double-blind) would have requested information about menstrual cycles, fertility, and contraception so we would know better. 22/23
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