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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · 14h

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · 3d

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/14th-annua...

14th Annual Tufts Neuroscience Symposium & Shucart Lecture

Please join us in person for the 14th Annual Tufts Neuroscience Symposium and William Shucart Lecture on Thursday, October 16th, 2025.

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · 3d

The 14th Annual Tufts Neuroscience Symposium & Shucart Lecture is this week (Thursday, October 16th), featuring an outstanding lineup of speakers related to the theme of "Neural Mechanisms of Emotional Processing: From Synapses to Circuits":

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · 8d

Mesa, AZ mentioned

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Mark Laubach @marklaubach.bsky.social · 11d

I'm recruiting a PhD student to study how enkephalins affect cognitive processing in the rodent frontal cortex. The project uses pharmacology, multi-electrode recordings, and fiber photometry, and is funded by NIDA. Please share with trainees applying this cycle. Thanks!

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · 12d

OAN, Newsmax, CBS News

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 12d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · 12d

Congrats!

Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · 20d

My response to a reviewer that said I’ve been a postdoc for too long

Phoenix Suns @sunsphx.bsky.social · 20d

Focused on the Valley.

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · 22d

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · 27d

It’s time to make acetylcholine great again

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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · Sep 8

Good morning everyone!
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*

www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...

How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past

Buy How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yet another testament to the Mediterranean diet

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · Aug 27

Swollen feet and ankles you say?

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · Aug 25

Congrats!

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · Aug 22

Being a scientist during this regime

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · Aug 21

Must be getting close to successfully hacking his dopamine

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · Aug 16

The Friday news dumps of all news dumps. Emphasis on dump 💩

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · Aug 8

Can’t wait! Huge thanks to ACNP and congrats to all the other awardees!

ACNP @acnporg.bsky.social · Aug 8

Join us in Congratulating the 2025 ACNP Travel Award Class! 🙌🎉

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Eric Garr @garrface.bsky.social · Aug 5

I’m excited to share my latest paper, in which we used latent state modeling to reveal how fentanyl shapes decision-making dynamics in rats.

Here’s a summary of what we found (thread).

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Modeling hidden cognitive states reveals acute and chronic effects of fentanyl on decision-making

The cognitive mechanisms underlying behavior are often dynamic, shifting gradually or abruptly over time scales spanning years, to weeks, to minutes. Whether drug-induced changes in learning and decis...

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Mark Laubach @marklaubach.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15:
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#FacultyJobs #AcademicJob #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #AI #ComputationalPsychiatry

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · Aug 1

Terrible. I’m so sorry.

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · Aug 1

They’re equal in my eyes as in there are undoubtedly horrors to be found there and I’m not sure I need to know about them

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · Jul 30

Time to call congresspeople

Liz Essley Whyte @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social · Jul 29

NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

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Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding

The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · Jul 28

Congrats to Jensen and the Laubach lab!

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