Lise Eliot
@Lise_Eliot
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Professor of Neuroscience & author of Pink Brain, Blue Brain and What's Going On in There? I study neural plasticity; brain, child & gender development.
Chicago
Joined February 2011
1/š§µ Tweetorial on our new paper, āDump the Dimorphism: Comprehensive synthesis of brain studies finds few male-female differences beyond size.ā (. It's big (43K words, 616 refs) so I'll cut to the chase.
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Oh puhlease. just saw an interview with "CEO" Annis, who nonetheless presumed a "he" every time she mentioned a nameless CEO struggling to integrate women into the C-suite. And the neuroscience she purports to base her theory on is pure rubbish!!.
Equality doesnāt mean treating everyone the same, asserts Gender Intelligence CEO Barbara Annis, who believes embracing gender differences will help companies improve employee wellbeing, productivity and their talent base.
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No, binary #sexdifference in brain MRIs are not the key to #precisionmedicine or solving gender mental health disparities. I discuss the sordid history of this research in Am J Hum Bio:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Human brain imaging took off in the 1980s and has since flooded the zone in the analysis of gender differences in behavior and mental health. Couched in the aims of āprecision medicine,ā the vast...
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RT @ginarippon1: With many thanks to Hannah MacInnes for the great questions š
howtoacademy.com
Renowned brain scientist Gina Rippon reveals why medical science has long neglected women and girls with autism, and the new research thatās changing the story.
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RT @NewBlackMan: What Parents of Boys Should Know. Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. Butā¦.
theatlantic.com
Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the sons might need it more.
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RT @amydiehl: Investors at Costco, Apple, Levi's, John Deere, Goldman Sachs, etc are voting against anti-DEI proposals. Costco: Diverse empā¦.
cnn.com
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has been losing with corporate America, with one big exception: the people who actually own the companies.
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"It is not masculinity itself that makes men violent, but the sense of shame that they are not masculine enough.".
The idea that boys should be raised to be ātoughā is resurgent in American culture. But that attitude, @drjcoleman writes, conflicts with research showing that to thrive, boys really need more affectionate care:
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RT @EricTopol: The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence."implā¦.
nature.com
Nature - Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a...
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RT @DrNeilStone: Beautiful chart showing increased survival from childhood leukaemia over the years . But RFK Jr tells you science is failiā¦.
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RT @amydiehl: 400 people w/ doctorates read the same research abstract where the lead authors name was either male or female. Participantsā¦.
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What birds can teach us about the ābiological truthā of sex
thetransmitter.org
Part of our job as educators is to give students a deeper understanding of the true diversity of sex and gender in the natural world.
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'Unadulterated animus': Judge blasts DOJ about transgender military restrictions
abcnews.go.com
Federal judge blocked the Trump administration from enforcing executive order that was expected to lead to a significant curtailment of transgender service members.
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Better-than-most article about #boycrisis. Doesn't try to blame brain "hardwiring." Instead, it's the role models: The New Gender Gaps
harvardmagazine.com
What to do as men and boys fall behind
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Without rationale, "U.S. health agency purge includes 10 lab heads at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke"
thetransmitter.org
The reasons for selecting these researchersāwho have led work on neuronal migration, dopamine receptors in neuronal signaling and the structure of ion channels, among other areasāremain unclear.
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RT @Dev_Mitchell: !!! Iām going to be a neurosurgeon! so excited to share that Iāll be joining the @VCUNeuro family for my training [ withā¦.
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RT @Aiims1742: Pancreatic Cancer and Glioblastoma are together two of the most lethal cancers. This is not hype - itās reality. We should bā¦.
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RT @DrNeilStone: "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases" say Joe Rogan's guests . And he believes tā¦.
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PURGE ALERT: Acting NIH director dismisses 5 neuroscientists from advisory boards (without reason)
thetransmitter.org
The letters they received this week did not include a reason for their termination.
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