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Imogen Collier
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she/her | PhDing at the Centre for Preventive Neurology @QMUL. Interested in critical health psychology, inequalities, feminist approaches, and neurological conditions.
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runnymedetrust.bsky.social
This weekend we witnessed one of the most disgraceful and distressing demonstrations of racism in British history.

Speakers including Elon Musk directly incited racist violence, calling for British people to ‘fight back’ or die.

Read our full statement 🔗 www.runnymedetrust.org/news/stateme...
September 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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profnathandavies.bsky.social
Our Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health is now on LinkedIn - do go follow us for all the latest research and education updates
August 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics

https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
go.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
imogencollier.bsky.social
Curious why flowers were chosen to represent women’s heath on this cover @science.org? None of the other issues this year appear to use symbolic or decorative imagery. What exactly do flowers have to do with the science of women’s health and anatomy?
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Apr 7
In #ScienceAdvances, a special issue on #WomensHealth highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences.

Learn more on #WorldHealthDay: scim.ag/3R59fPe
Science Advances’ special issue on women’s health highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences. Articles cover a range of studies from the interplay between menopause and Alzheimer’s risk to the menstrual cycle’s influence on the brain-heart connection. It also describes the opportunities pregnancy provides to research aspects of both physical and mental health. By prioritizing women’s unique physiological and psychological experiences, research can expand the frontiers of knowledge in ways that benefit everyone.
April 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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hannahmayscott.bsky.social
Excited to be with @digestingscience.bsky.social at the @mstrustuk.bsky.social conference and looking forward to presenting my poster on families experiences of attending a Digesting Science event to learn about #MultipleSclerosis later in the speed dating session #MS
March 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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chris-noone.bsky.social
Join us at the 14th Conference of the International Society for Critical Health Psychology at the University of Galway this summer!

This conference will be of interest to anyone interested in the intersection of health and social justice. Rarely has this been of more importance!

www.ischp2025.ie
February 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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denpru-qm.bsky.social
🔄 Our second article in @natrevneurol.bsky.social reflects on the process of moving towards meaningful PPIE throughout the research cycle 👇

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Lead author @drruthdobson.bsky.social, with Dr Charlotte Kenten, Jo Brown, Dr Clarissa Giebel, Prof Sube Banerjee &
@claudiacooper.bsky.social
Moving towards meaningful patient and public engagement - Nature Reviews Neurology
Patient and public involvement and engagement is increasingly mandated in funding applications, yet often remain tokenistic and transitory. Working with patient and public contributors requires invest...
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February 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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laurajsmith.bsky.social
🔊 Thrilled to share our article reviewing nitrous oxide-induced public health harms published in The Lancet Public Health. We highlight the need for preventative educational campaigns and tightening regulations on suppliers to mitigate nitrous oxide-related health harms. 🔊

doi.org/10.1016/S246...
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February 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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maritahennessy.bsky.social
"It’s particularly egregious as a women’s health product to be deceiving about what it can and can't do and could prevent women from getting proper treatment."

#FemTech #WomensHealth #COI #CDoH

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Procter & Gamble’s Menopause Test Kit Is A ‘Fraud,’ Lawsuit Claims
A urine stick test isn’t the best way to determine a woman’s menopausal status.
www.forbes.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Read the whole thread. Most of my research would be airbrushed out of all funding and publication in USA right now. NB good luck doing epidemiology research without the word 'bias'. #academicsky #episky
darbysaxbe.bsky.social Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4
🚨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.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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drruthdobson.bsky.social
A lovely review of some of the things that we have done over the past 7 years @preventiveneur1.bsky.social It’s been a real privilege and joy to do this with our team. Huge thanks to Bart’s Charity for the belief and support. www.bartscharity.org.uk/our-news/gro...
Ground-breaking research at the Centre for Preventive Neurology
In 2017, we funded the Preventive Neurology Unit, which has since expanded to become a Centre - the first of its kind in the UK.
www.bartscharity.org.uk
January 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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drruthdobson.bsky.social
It's been a busy time in the MS group in the Centre for Preventive Neurology! We've put together a newsletter to update where we're up to, opportunities to input into and take part in research, and highlight some of our fantastic PhD students. mailchi.mp/4672ff6ce37d...
Centre for Preventive Neurology Newsletter
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January 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
imogencollier.bsky.social
Our #MS and #menopause @ukmsregister.bsky.social questionnaire will be closing soon - huge thank you to everyone who has taken part so far!

We spoke to some of the #pwMS involved in the study about why research into MS and menopause is so important. See our MS Society blog: tinyurl.com/587h9tez
We’re running a study about MS and menopause. People with MS helped to shape our research questions and to develop and test our new questionnaire about menopause and MS. Slide is a quote from Jenny, a person with MS who was involved in the research. She said: “An occupational therapist once told me that she didn’t realise Black people had MS. I would hate to think that the same type of ignorance existed around menopause. It’s important for Black women’s voices to be included in this study” Slide is a quote from Francine, a person with MS who was involved in the research. She said: “I think this research is really important because menopause can have a big impact on women’s lives. It could really help other people that are going through similar symptoms, and help everybody understand what we are going through as people with MS and menopause.” Find out more in our new MS Society blog post, written with Maria and Úna who helped to shape the study. There is an image from the blog post which reads: Improving care for people with MS through menopause and beyond”
December 16, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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ginnybraun.bsky.social
One of my favourite (2-yearly) conferences - International Society of Critical Health Psychology - will be in Galway at the start of July next year... Great speakers, great community, great chance to learn what's at the cutting edge of (critical) health psychology!
December 13, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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qmuldementia.bsky.social
Can life changes like divorce or widowhood influence brain health? 🧠 New research led by Dr. Avinash Chandra shows marital dissolution is linked to worse memory, and this may be influenced by increased amyloid-beta in the brain.

Curious? ➡️ alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Marital dissolution and cognition: The mediating effect of Aβ neuropathology
INTRODUCTION Widowhood and divorce are extremely stressful life events that are associated with dementia, but the neurobiological underpinnings of this risk remain unknown. Amyloid beta (Aβ) load ma...
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December 10, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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dementiaresearcher.bsky.social
Professor Dame Louise Robinson at Newcastle University is seeking a PhD Student to explore Diagnostic Delays in Lewy Body Dementia; Exploring the Primary Care Perspective using a Mixed Method Approach. Closing date: 31st January

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/phd-diag...
PhD: Diagnostic Delays in Lewy Body Dementia
Professor Dame Louise Robinson at Newcastle University is seeking a PhD Student to explore Diagnostic Delays in Lewy Body Dementia; Exploring the Primary Care Perspective using a Mixed Methods
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
December 9, 2024 at 2:13 PM
imogencollier.bsky.social
There's still time to take part in our #multiplesclerosis and #menopause questionnaire with @ukmsregister.bsky.social! Help us learn about the impact & experience of menopause for #pwMS

See what pwMS who helped to shape the study have to say about it 👇

Find out more here: tinyurl.com/sja8bbwb
The image is a slide titled “MS & Menopause”. The slide reads: There is still time to take part in our questionnaire! Find out what people with MS have to say about our ongoing study… There are logos for the UK MS Register and the Centre for Preventive Neurology We’re running a study with the UK MS Register. We want to find out whether MS gets worse faster after menopause [image of a graph showing a red line getting steeper after a point labelled “menopause”]… and whether the severity of someone’s menopause symptoms can affect their MS. A quote from Jenny, a person with MS, reading “A huge number of women with MS are now at an age where they are either approaching menopause, going through it, or have already been through it. It will affect a high percentage of us. Taking part in research is about helping others with MS. Sharing is caring” A quote from Una, a person with MS, reading “By taking part in this study you will be helping to improve the knowledge of medical and nursing staff who advise and support people with MS, but also your own knowledge as a person with MS who might go through menopause. This is really valuable.”
December 8, 2024 at 2:40 PM