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Dr. Michelle Bedenbaugh @drmbede.bsky.social · 15d

Congrats Sam!!!

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Dr. Michelle Bedenbaugh @drmbede.bsky.social · 21d

My department is hiring! Come join a cutting-edge and collaborative environment. Details below:

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Dr. Deborah Luessen @luessendj.bsky.social · Aug 9

It’s official! Luessen Lab will be opening its doors this Fall in the Department of Pediatrics at @emoryuniversity.bsky.social School of Medicine. Thrilled to be joining a team of awesome researchers as part of the Children’s Center for Neuroscience Research 🧠

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Suzanne Nolan @suzannenolan.bsky.social · Jul 28

Happy to announce that the Nolan Lab will open this fall at Illinois State University! We are looking for motivated undergraduates, graduate students (both MS/PhD options available) as well as technicians to join our group. Please repost and check our website for more info!

nolan-lab.com

Home | Nolan Lab

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Cherish Ardinger, PhD @cherishardinger.bsky.social · Jul 10

Public comments have been opened back up!

Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!

FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing

The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

www.fda.gov

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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · Jun 20

Science article about how grad students are writing editorials in hometown papers to celebrate Barbara McClintock, the only lone woman to win a Nobel Prize. We are reminding readers that science is here, quietly saving your life. 🧪🧬🌽🔬
@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers

Through two grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets across the country

www.science.org

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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · May 27

This program means a lot to me. We selected students that largely didn’t have research experience & they are presenting, publishing & going on to postbac/grad/prof programs. This was what made me realize where I wanted my efforts to be. In supporting & developing programs to train future scientists

Scientists of all stages, genders and backgrounds stand in front of a research building. The inaugural class of NEURON-Aging undergraduate researchers, near peer mentors, Pls, and NEURON-Aging faculty.

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Mark Rossi @markrossi.bsky.social · Apr 12

The new Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism is officially hiring faculty at all levels! Come be my colleague!

jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/248...

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor

The newly launched Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism (CNM), in collaboration with the Child Health Institute of New Jersey (CHINJ), the Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology (NCB), and the Rutg...

jobs.rutgers.edu

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Science Magazine @science.org · Apr 3

A new method reported in Science allows the generation of 3D ultrasound images of gene expression and 2D ultrasound images of capillary vessels. The approach enables fast, deep, and volumetric imaging of living opaque organs labeled with echogenic reporters.

Learn more this week: scim.ag/4jf4rDa

A cross-propagating ultrasound wave exposes a thin tissue section that contains blood vessels feeding a tumor. The wave interacts with sound-scattering probes (displayed in orange gold) that are genetically expressed in cancer cells or are injected in the bloodstream to reveal capillary vessels. White contour lines indicate previously scanned tissue sections and the total volume explored by this sound-sheet microscopy technique.

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Dr. Michelle Bedenbaugh @drmbede.bsky.social · Mar 29

Congrats!🍾

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Mar 19

Issue 5 is complete!

On the cover: A 3D reconstruction from a light-sheet fluorescent microscopy image stack depicts parallel networks of vessels (PECAM1+, CD31, magenta) and nerves (PRPH+, yellow) in a human heart at 10.0 post-conceptional weeks. See De Bono et al.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Cover of issue 5: A 3D reconstruction from a light-sheet fluorescent microscopy image stack depicts parallel networks of vessels (PECAM1+, CD31, magenta) and nerves (PRPH+, yellow) in a human heart at 10.0 post-conceptional weeks. Whole-organ immunofluorescence was used to examine the spatial arrangement of blood vessels and peripheral nerves during human heart development. See Research Article by De Bono et al.

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Dr. Michelle Bedenbaugh @drmbede.bsky.social · Mar 17

I joked that answering the kids questions felt like a second qualifying exam, but I had an absolute blast during this event last week! Teaching local communities about science has always filled my cup, but it felt particularly important and gratifying this year.

mbi.ufl.edu/2025/03/12/u...

UF neuroscience students share brain-research enthusiasm with schoolchildren » McKnight Brain Institute » University of Florida

In celebration of Brain Awareness Week, the MBI welcomed 35 teenage homeschool students and 40 more ages 7-12 on Tuesday for lab tours, brain-related crafts and a Q&A with a working scientist.

mbi.ufl.edu

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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · Mar 12

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

www.forbes.com

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Dr. Michelle Bedenbaugh @drmbede.bsky.social · Feb 28

The lightsheet is finally here! #fluorescencefriday #newpi

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Jason E. Osborne @jason-e-osborne.bsky.social · Feb 26

With syGlass #VR, students aren’t just learning about science: they’re stepping inside it. And in doing so, they’re shaping the future of education itself. #EduSky #VirtualReality #SciComm #HealthScience #Neuroscience #STEM www.syglass.io/blog/bergen-...

Bergen County Academy’s Vision for the Future of Education with syGlass — syGlass

In a classroom at Bergen County Academies, located in northern New Jersey , a group of students slip on VR headsets for the first time. Their faces lighting up as they immerse themselves in a world o...

www.syglass.io

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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · Feb 18

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠

sciencehomecoming.com

Science Homecoming

sciencehomecoming.com

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · Feb 9

Total NIH funding cuts by state. This can be helpful when talking to your representatives

www.datawrapper.de/_/Y0Pnk/

Funding cuts by state

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Feb 9

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

globalnews.ca

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Abby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · Jan 23

The United States built a publicly funded scientific enterprise that worked miracles. We went to the moon and mars, laid the groundwork for computing revolutions, turned AIDS from a death sentence to a chronic condition, drastically cut cancer deaths. And now we're just going to dismantle it?

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Steve Munger @stevenmunger.bsky.social · Jan 23

Want to see the numbers for how NIH funding impacts your state? Remind your Representatives, Senators, and fellow citizens how federally-funded biomedical research advances health, created jobs, and fosters innovation and economic growth.

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research

Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org

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Nick Petersen @nickpetersen.bsky.social · Jan 13

I’m pumped to share that our new paper in Biological Psychiatry is out! We dissected a novel astrocyte-neuron interaction in the ventral periaqueductal gray (vPAG) that maintains wakefulness involving norepinephrine and dopamine neurons🧵: www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Adenosine A2A Receptors Link Astrocytic α1-Adrenergic Signaling to Wake-Promoting Dopamine Neurons

Sleep and arousal disorders are common, but the underlying physiology of wakefulness is not fully understood. The locus coeruleus promotes arousal via α1-adrenergic receptor (α1AR)–driven recruitment ...

www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com

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Brad Stulberg @bradstulberg.bsky.social · Jan 12

Evidence based hacks:

Hack for strength: lift weights
Hack for speed: run
Hack for smarts: read
Hack for productivity: deep work
Hack for recovery: sleep
Hack for motivation: just start
Hack for happiness: build community

There is no replacing hard and smart effort.

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Seth Blackshaw @sethblackshaw.bsky.social · Jan 11

We begin the New Year with two preprints on hypothalamic development. The first, part of a long-term collaboration with Marysia Placzek’s group, investigates the organization of the developing forebrain, and show that current models are (mostly) incorrect./1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Resolving forebrain developmental organisation by analysis of differential growth patterns

The forebrain is the most complex region of the vertebrate CNS, and its developmental organisation is controversial. We fate-mapped the embryonic chick forebrain using lipophilic dyes and Cre-recombin...

www.biorxiv.org

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Dr. Michelle Bedenbaugh @drmbede.bsky.social · Jan 7

Thanks Hannah!

Dr. Michelle Bedenbaugh @drmbede.bsky.social · Jan 7

During the Holiday Break, I finally had some time to sit down and make my lab website! Looking forward to watching it grow and evolve with content over the next few years. #neuroskyence #newPI

www.bedenbaughlab.com

The Bedenbaugh Lab | neuroscience

Welcome to The Bedenbaugh Lab! We are a laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Florida studying neural circuits at the intersection of feeding and other motivated behaviors.

www.bedenbaughlab.com

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