Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social

Director Ann S. Bowers WBHI @Bowers_WBHI | Prof @UCSantaBarbara | Using neuroscience tools to shine a floodlight on women’s brain health

[Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @emilyjacobs]

Words can't describe the energy in the room at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative launch, so I'll leave the heavy lifting to this short film.

Humor can subvert, enrage, empower & educate. So take a look and then let's get to work.

https://t.co/DI5G6ozUAB

[University of California @UofCalifornia]

Good news: Neuroscience is having a moment.
Bad news: Only 0.5% of research focuses on women's brains...

The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, centered at @UCSantaBarbara, is driven by a radically simple idea: Progress in neuroscience will flourish when the health of men and women are valued equally. https://t.co/T98agrQahJ

[Marija Kundakovic @KundakovicLab]

Spent the day with the finest and my favorite #WomensHeath researchers here at #ACNP2026 . Grateful for having such great time and getting so much food for thought! ❤️ w/ ⁦@LiisaGalea⁩ ⁦@CognNeuroend⁩ ⁦@DemarchiLuisa⁩ ⁦@emilyjacobs⁩ ❤️

[The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative @Bowers_WBHI]

🚨Congratulations to the WBHI AI team, whose digital twin of the maternal brain is named one of the TIME Best Inventions of the Year 2025!🚨

HerBrain is an AI-driven app to model brain changes over pregnancy.

https://t.co/WPNuqFDw5z

[Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @emilyjacobs]

These datasets live on OpenNeuro, thanks to @russpoldrack and team's vision to build a data-sharing  platform that accelerates discovering and maximizes the ROI of painstakingly collected data.

More at: https://t.co/79sKMMRRLb

[Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @emilyjacobs]

When Laura Pritschet and Pavel Shapturenka set out to build the 28&Me and 28&He datasets, I don't think any of us could've predicted the spectacularly creative ways the datasets would be used years later. That's the power of open science. 👇🏼

[Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @emilyjacobs]

🌊 @HellerCarina and co explored brain volume changes across typical and atypical menstrual cycles. https://t.co/8i8BBVhUMR

[The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative @Bowers_WBHI]

With the power of the people behind it, the California legislature just passed the Menopause Care Equity Act. This is history in the making—finally addressing a health gap that impacts millions of women. Now, it’s down to one signature. @CAgovernor, the pen is in your hand. 🖊️

[The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative @Bowers_WBHI]

Join us today at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT as Winnie Orchard, PhD and Scientific Program Director at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, dives into “Developing the Gold STANDARD: a Standardized Tool for Acquiring Reproductive Health Data”

Register: https://t.co/kBmT1nVGnT

[Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @emilyjacobs]

@CAgovernor @halleberry Half of CA's population -20 million lives- could be improved with the stroke of a pen. Please share widely. We have a 6 week sprint to the finish line.

[Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @emilyjacobs]

Help us turn up the heat! 🔥🔥🔥California has a bill heading to @CAgovernor that will improve menopause care for millions. Check out the Substack and sign here: https://t.co/d1W2MKpkgX @halleberry

[Cognitive Neuroendocrinology @CognNeuroend]

We want to hear *your voice* on taboos in women's and gender diverse health! 💬🧠Your perspective will directly inform priorities in research and a women's health resource platform. Find survey link at our website: https://t.co/CWQz2vZAuH

[Hillary Schwarb @HillarySchwarb]

Seriously, if you’re in the market for a post doc or know someone who is, jump at this opportunity my friends.

[Susana Carmona @susanna_carmona]

I wish I was a postdoc! Don’t miss this opportunity!!

[Ina Stelzer @inannelies]

If I could be a postdoc again, I would join Emily’s incredible group. Highly recommend!

[Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @emilyjacobs]

📣 We’re recruiting 1-2 postdocs to the incredible WBHI team to lead projects mapping brain & behav’l changes across major endocrine transitions—from adolesc to pregnancy to menopause. Expertise in MRI & human subjects necc. Please reach out to [email protected] 🌊

[Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @emilyjacobs]

And learn more at https://t.co/OTioKecGGS

[Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @emilyjacobs]

📣 We’re recruiting 1-2 postdocs to the incredible WBHI team to lead projects mapping brain & behav’l changes across major endocrine transitions—from adolesc to pregnancy to menopause. Expertise in MRI & human subjects necc. Please reach out to [email protected] 🌊

[Damien Fair @DrDamienFair]

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see paper, thread
https://t.co/8bdB2pXxQa

[Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @emilyjacobs]

@MagdaMartinezGa @BBRFoundation @Bowers_WBHI 😍👏🏽