Beth Lucas
@ewhizabeth.bsky.social
Neurobiologist, Hormone Enthusiast, Interneuron Aficionado, Music Lover, Outdoor Adventurer
Alexa Jo will be giving her ✨very first✨ conference presentation from the lab at this morning's poster session - go say hi and check out her super cool project! Then, pop over to Nina's talk at the "Circuit Regulation of Fear and Extinction Learning" Nanosymposium this afternoon. #SfN25
The lab is presenting at #SfN2025 Come check out the amazing science being conducted by postdoc Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social and grad student Alexa Jo Tellez! I am also recruiting a postdoc so please spread the word. #neuroskyence
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Alexa Jo will be giving her ✨very first✨ conference presentation from the lab at this morning's poster session - go say hi and check out her super cool project! Then, pop over to Nina's talk at the "Circuit Regulation of Fear and Extinction Learning" Nanosymposium this afternoon. #SfN25
Be sure to check out Nina's poster at the Early Career Poster Session today! She was awarded the Trainee Professional Development Award, generously supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social! She's got a 🔥🔥🔥 scientific story that we are sending off for publication soon. #SfN2025
The lab is presenting at #SfN2025 Come check out the amazing science being conducted by postdoc Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social and grad student Alexa Jo Tellez! I am also recruiting a postdoc so please spread the word. #neuroskyence
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Be sure to check out Nina's poster at the Early Career Poster Session today! She was awarded the Trainee Professional Development Award, generously supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social! She's got a 🔥🔥🔥 scientific story that we are sending off for publication soon. #SfN2025
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Come by my poster and nanosymposium talk if you'll be at SfN this week!
The lab is presenting at #SfN2025 Come check out the amazing science being conducted by postdoc Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social and grad student Alexa Jo Tellez! I am also recruiting a postdoc so please spread the word. #neuroskyence
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Come by my poster and nanosymposium talk if you'll be at SfN this week!
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🎉 Join us on Monday for the best party of the year!
The Cai-Tye Collective is throwing a bash at #SfN25 and everyone is invited!
🎉 November 17, 9pm at Parq Nightclub in San Diego. See you all there!
The Cai-Tye Collective is throwing a bash at #SfN25 and everyone is invited!
🎉 November 17, 9pm at Parq Nightclub in San Diego. See you all there!
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🎉 Join us on Monday for the best party of the year!
The Cai-Tye Collective is throwing a bash at #SfN25 and everyone is invited!
🎉 November 17, 9pm at Parq Nightclub in San Diego. See you all there!
The Cai-Tye Collective is throwing a bash at #SfN25 and everyone is invited!
🎉 November 17, 9pm at Parq Nightclub in San Diego. See you all there!
The lab is presenting at #SfN2025 Come check out the amazing science being conducted by postdoc Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social and grad student Alexa Jo Tellez! I am also recruiting a postdoc so please spread the word. #neuroskyence
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The lab is presenting at #SfN2025 Come check out the amazing science being conducted by postdoc Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social and grad student Alexa Jo Tellez! I am also recruiting a postdoc so please spread the word. #neuroskyence
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ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline.
Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921
Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921
October 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline.
Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921
Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921
My lab trainees are excited to present at the SBN Online Research Symposium - hope to see you other hormone enthusiasts there too!
Last chance to submit to SBN's second annual Online Research Symposium! Today! Well, midnight tonight, technically...
Today is the day! Submit your abstract for poster and talk considerations by the end of the day! We would be delighted to see everybody’s super awesome science, so please submit your abstracts!
@sbn-bsky.bsky.social
@sbn-bsky.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My lab trainees are excited to present at the SBN Online Research Symposium - hope to see you other hormone enthusiasts there too!
My promotion is officially official today! Many thanks my trainees who make science so fun and rewarding, to my colleagues for their mentorship and camaraderie, to my letters writers for their time and support, and to my husband for continuous support in this often crazy career.
October 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My promotion is officially official today! Many thanks my trainees who make science so fun and rewarding, to my colleagues for their mentorship and camaraderie, to my letters writers for their time and support, and to my husband for continuous support in this often crazy career.
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Someone at the power hour brought up peak science twitter. I miss that too. Towards building/maintaining the GRC-Amygdala community, here is a starter pack with attendees. Please add folks who are attending!!
go.bsky.app/13BbBW9
go.bsky.app/13BbBW9
July 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Someone at the power hour brought up peak science twitter. I miss that too. Towards building/maintaining the GRC-Amygdala community, here is a starter pack with attendees. Please add folks who are attending!!
go.bsky.app/13BbBW9
go.bsky.app/13BbBW9
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Everything Abby says here is spot on. It is hard to explain to people outside science how deeply existential this all is for us, what it feels like to have your whole world turned inside out. Check on your friends and colleagues, folks. We are not OK.
I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason
May 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Everything Abby says here is spot on. It is hard to explain to people outside science how deeply existential this all is for us, what it feels like to have your whole world turned inside out. Check on your friends and colleagues, folks. We are not OK.
We have been conducting calcium imaging in Rspo2+ neurons in the amygdala, which are reported to encode negative valence. I am totally obsessed with the Rspo2-Cre mouse line! Look at the stream of axons leaving the amygdala to their final destinations! #FluorescenceFriday #Neuroskyence
May 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We have been conducting calcium imaging in Rspo2+ neurons in the amygdala, which are reported to encode negative valence. I am totally obsessed with the Rspo2-Cre mouse line! Look at the stream of axons leaving the amygdala to their final destinations! #FluorescenceFriday #Neuroskyence
So happy (and relieved!) to receive funding for a new project investigating estradiol regulation of inhibitory microcircuits for valence processing in the amygdala! Difficult to share when many of my colleagues' grants are being terminated, but maybe this news will bring some folks hope ✨
April 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
So happy (and relieved!) to receive funding for a new project investigating estradiol regulation of inhibitory microcircuits for valence processing in the amygdala! Difficult to share when many of my colleagues' grants are being terminated, but maybe this news will bring some folks hope ✨
New paper from the lab! Do you pay close attention to what your research animals are eating? If you are interested in behavior, development, or reproductive physiology – you should! 🧵 ⬇️ tinyurl.com/yc356mpr
Dietary phytoestrogens recalibrate socioemotional behavior in C57Bl/6J mice in a sex- and timing-dependent manner
Estrogens are potent regulators of socioemotional behavior across species. Ubiquitous in human and animal diets, plant-derived phytoestrogens (PE) bin…
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January 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New paper from the lab! Do you pay close attention to what your research animals are eating? If you are interested in behavior, development, or reproductive physiology – you should! 🧵 ⬇️ tinyurl.com/yc356mpr
Using #FluorescenceFriday to highlight a specialized population of neurons in the lateral septum that may comprise a hormone-sensitive memory engram to suppress conditioned fear responses when females are in the high hormone phase of the reproductive cycle. Interested? Come see my talk at #ACNP2024!
December 6, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Using #FluorescenceFriday to highlight a specialized population of neurons in the lateral septum that may comprise a hormone-sensitive memory engram to suppress conditioned fear responses when females are in the high hormone phase of the reproductive cycle. Interested? Come see my talk at #ACNP2024!
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In honor of this place livening up I'm going to do something scary and share some of my more recent #neuroskyence themed lino prints! This is a personal fave based off of a pun of mushroom dendritic spines I've had in my head for ages
November 13, 2024 at 2:36 PM
In honor of this place livening up I'm going to do something scary and share some of my more recent #neuroskyence themed lino prints! This is a personal fave based off of a pun of mushroom dendritic spines I've had in my head for ages
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I have begun to curate a list of #neuroendocrinologists (and allied research areas) on this site so we can begin to link up and form a community with critical mass. Let me know if you have any suggestions for additions or would like to be removed from the list. 🤓🧠
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November 11, 2024 at 1:48 PM
I have begun to curate a list of #neuroendocrinologists (and allied research areas) on this site so we can begin to link up and form a community with critical mass. Let me know if you have any suggestions for additions or would like to be removed from the list. 🤓🧠
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Lotta scientists moving over here today! Welcome! 🧪
November 8, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Lotta scientists moving over here today! Welcome! 🧪
Legal is making me take down this graphic from my website and also delete the words "our laboratory is committed to diversity, inclusion, and work-life balance" to comply with the new DEI ban going into effect October 1. Crestfallen - should I just delete the website? Feels like a no-win situation.
September 20, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Legal is making me take down this graphic from my website and also delete the words "our laboratory is committed to diversity, inclusion, and work-life balance" to comply with the new DEI ban going into effect October 1. Crestfallen - should I just delete the website? Feels like a no-win situation.
I could not let #PostdocAppreciationWeek conclude without giving due praise to @nbaumgar.bsky.social. She is a creative and rigorous scientist, patient mentor, and beautiful person. She makes the lab a better place, and I am so grateful that she chose me as her mentor.
September 20, 2024 at 3:22 PM
I could not let #PostdocAppreciationWeek conclude without giving due praise to @nbaumgar.bsky.social. She is a creative and rigorous scientist, patient mentor, and beautiful person. She makes the lab a better place, and I am so grateful that she chose me as her mentor.
Our most amazing summer student not only gathered exciting new data for a new research direction in the lab but also made this graphic about our lab’s research 😍
July 24, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Our most amazing summer student not only gathered exciting new data for a new research direction in the lab but also made this graphic about our lab’s research 😍
Celebrating our 2 year anniversary at UAB! 🥳
July 19, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Celebrating our 2 year anniversary at UAB! 🥳
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Fun fact: estrogen-havers experience migraines at about twice to 4 times the rate of people not running on estrogen.
Overwhelmingly, women are the ones who experience migraines, just like auto-immune disorders, and this explains why migraines are not considered a disability. SSDI does not list it
Overwhelmingly, women are the ones who experience migraines, just like auto-immune disorders, and this explains why migraines are not considered a disability. SSDI does not list it
June 14, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Fun fact: estrogen-havers experience migraines at about twice to 4 times the rate of people not running on estrogen.
Overwhelmingly, women are the ones who experience migraines, just like auto-immune disorders, and this explains why migraines are not considered a disability. SSDI does not list it
Overwhelmingly, women are the ones who experience migraines, just like auto-immune disorders, and this explains why migraines are not considered a disability. SSDI does not list it
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Every day the gap widens between the profound dignity and worthiness of women’s lives and the contempt and indifference with which the law treats them.
April 24, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Every day the gap widens between the profound dignity and worthiness of women’s lives and the contempt and indifference with which the law treats them.