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Our mission is to promote inclusivity and scientific rigor in the study of sex variability and women's health.

Sex contextualism in laboratory research

In a Focus Issue of Cell, we discuss how to analyze and interpret sex-related variation in ways that minimize harm while upholding standards of rigor. Read the explainer here.

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Training materials on how to consider sex and gender: Are they up to the task?

We evaluated publicly available online courses on how to incorporate sex and gender as a variable in research, including NIH's "SABV Primer." We found that there is room for improvement.

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Best Practices to Promote Rigor and Reproducibility in the Era of Sex-inclusive Research

Janet Rich-Edwards and I use the "4 C's" framework to discuss how to best test for and report sex variability.

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Dr. Maney heads to Harvard as a Radcliffe Fellow

 

I'm thrilled to have had the opportunity to spend a full academic year 2023-2024 collaborating with colleagues at Harvard. I worked with them on resources to make biomedical research more sex/gender inclusive while at the same time more rigorous.

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Identifying Barriers to Implementation of SABV policy 

 

With my collaborators Katrina Karkazis and Kimbi Hagen, I examined the implementation of the NIH policy on Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV). This project was funded by the Emory Specialized Center for Research Excellence on Sex Differences.

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Why and How to Account for Sex and Gender in Behavioral Research

Lise Eliot led this how-to article, based on our workshop at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in 2022.

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Sex-Inclusive Biomedicine: Are New Policies Increasing Rigor and Reproducibility?

My collaborator Janet Rich-Edwards and I weigh in on common analytical errors in the study of sex variability and what we can do to prevent them.

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Rigor and Reproducibility in the Study of Sex Differences

Click to watch my presentation at the UCLA Lab of Neuroendocrinology. 

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March 17, 2023

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What is a Sex Difference?

Click to watch my keynote address at the Connors-BRI Symposium: Incorporating Sex and Gender as Research Variables to Advance Health. 

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May 9, 2022

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Sex-based Data in the Spotlight

What counts as evidence for a sex difference? Our study in eLife shows that claims of sex differences in the biological sciences are often not backed by sound statistics. 

See Emory's press release here.

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A Beginner's Guide to Sex Differences in the Brain

 

An opinion piece published in The Conversation

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SexDifference.org

 

We developed sexdifference.org to visualize overlap between two sexes. The tool generates graphs and calculates effect sizes. For a more general tool you can use to visualize any difference, head to effectsize.science.

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