Kristen Montgomery
@kristenmontgomery.bsky.social
neuroscientist interested in stress, sex differences, neurodevelopment, and women’s mental health | postdoc @camh | she/her
https://www.galealab.com/kristenmontgomery
https://www.galealab.com/kristenmontgomery
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Are fear 😱 and emotional pain 💔 characterized by shared or unique symptom networks 🕸️ and neural signatures 🧠 in PTSD?
Dissecting Fear and Emotional Pain in PTSD: From Symptom Networks to Neural Signatures
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a heterogeneous condition with diverse symptom presentations and emotional experiences. While fear is traditionally viewed as central, growing evidence…
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Are fear 😱 and emotional pain 💔 characterized by shared or unique symptom networks 🕸️ and neural signatures 🧠 in PTSD?
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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New lab paper drop, this one has been a long time coming! Driven by Rob Aukema (now a postdoc with Kerry Ressler) this paper in Science Advances answered the lingering question of what role the amygdala plays in stress-induced neuroendocrine responses.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A network of basolateral amygdala projection neurons contributes to stress-induced activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
A network of basolateral amygdala neurons, but not singular projections, contributes to the neuroendocrine response to stress.
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
New lab paper drop, this one has been a long time coming! Driven by Rob Aukema (now a postdoc with Kerry Ressler) this paper in Science Advances answered the lingering question of what role the amygdala plays in stress-induced neuroendocrine responses.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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In 48 other states, new moms have access to Medicaid for up to one year after they give birth. Not in Wisconsin.
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms.
Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving ...
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
In 48 other states, new moms have access to Medicaid for up to one year after they give birth. Not in Wisconsin.
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
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Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions
NYT obituary of Jim Watson.
A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions
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While you are all waiting for treat or treaters & the blue jay game … take a look at our newest from
@bonniee-leee.bsky.social where we look at neural networks in middle aged female rats based on APOE genotype and parity history www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@bonniee-leee.bsky.social where we look at neural networks in middle aged female rats based on APOE genotype and parity history www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sex-specific factors and APOEε4 genotype alter functional connectivity at middle age
Cognitive aging is influenced by sex and sex-specific factors. Indeed, research has shown that parity (pregnancy and parenthood) uniquely alters bioma…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
While you are all waiting for treat or treaters & the blue jay game … take a look at our newest from
@bonniee-leee.bsky.social where we look at neural networks in middle aged female rats based on APOE genotype and parity history www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@bonniee-leee.bsky.social where we look at neural networks in middle aged female rats based on APOE genotype and parity history www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Currently building a patch ephys rig and agonizing over camera selection. Do any patchers have any advice on what specifications I should be prioritizing? Also, has anyone used the Thorlabs Kiralux sCMOS cameras? 🧪
October 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Currently building a patch ephys rig and agonizing over camera selection. Do any patchers have any advice on what specifications I should be prioritizing? Also, has anyone used the Thorlabs Kiralux sCMOS cameras? 🧪
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Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
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Just dropped Episode 1 of our new Season (my first time hosting). Up first the incredible Dr Cat Bohannon author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 M years of Human Evolution. Let us know what you think.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
How Medical Research Ignores Half the Population with Dr. Cat Bohannon
Podcast Episode · Women's Health Interrupted with Dr. Liisa Galea · 2025-10-15 · 51m
podcasts.apple.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Just dropped Episode 1 of our new Season (my first time hosting). Up first the incredible Dr Cat Bohannon author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 M years of Human Evolution. Let us know what you think.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
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Masterclass in decisions-based evidence making
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Masterclass in decisions-based evidence making
So worth the struggle to finally see these hungry guys 🫡
Happy #FluorescentFriday everyone. New image from @kristenmontgomery.bsky.social of hungry microglia cells in the hippocampus with our new confocal (thank you CFI!!). Green=Iba1, red=CD68. And kudos to Kristen for perseverance!
August 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
So worth the struggle to finally see these hungry guys 🫡
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Excited my PhD work in @brianmathur.bsky.social’s lab is now published and available!
Serotonin and psilocybin activate 5-HT1B receptors to suppress cortical signaling through the claustrum
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Serotonin and psilocybin activate 5-HT1B receptors to suppress cortical signaling through the claustrum - Nature Communications
Our basic understanding of neuromodulation in the claustrum remains limited. Here Madden et al., identify a key mechanism by which serotonin and the psychedelic psilocybin modulate cortical signalling...
doi.org
August 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Excited my PhD work in @brianmathur.bsky.social’s lab is now published and available!
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Excited to see our most recent project published in @npp-journal.bsky.social !
We show that the timing of THC exposure during development—prenatal vs. postnatal—leads to opposite effects on social behavior and microglial function in the amygdala. Timing matters!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that the timing of THC exposure during development—prenatal vs. postnatal—leads to opposite effects on social behavior and microglial function in the amygdala. Timing matters!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Timing matters: modeling the effects of gestational cannabis exposure on social behavior and microglia in the developing amygdala - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Timing matters: modeling the effects of gestational cannabis exposure on social behavior and microglia in the developing amygdala
www.nature.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Excited to see our most recent project published in @npp-journal.bsky.social !
We show that the timing of THC exposure during development—prenatal vs. postnatal—leads to opposite effects on social behavior and microglial function in the amygdala. Timing matters!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that the timing of THC exposure during development—prenatal vs. postnatal—leads to opposite effects on social behavior and microglial function in the amygdala. Timing matters!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Really honoured to receive the @istaart.bsky.social Sex and Gender PIA Publication of the Year Award 🌟 Thank you to the PIA & @bucklr01.bsky.social!
And ofc a big thank you to my co-authors, collaborators, & importantly, my supervisor @liisagalea.bsky.social 🙌 #endALZ @alzassociation.bsky.social
And ofc a big thank you to my co-authors, collaborators, & importantly, my supervisor @liisagalea.bsky.social 🙌 #endALZ @alzassociation.bsky.social
July 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Really honoured to receive the @istaart.bsky.social Sex and Gender PIA Publication of the Year Award 🌟 Thank you to the PIA & @bucklr01.bsky.social!
And ofc a big thank you to my co-authors, collaborators, & importantly, my supervisor @liisagalea.bsky.social 🙌 #endALZ @alzassociation.bsky.social
And ofc a big thank you to my co-authors, collaborators, & importantly, my supervisor @liisagalea.bsky.social 🙌 #endALZ @alzassociation.bsky.social
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New paper from our group out in @npp-journal.bsky.social today on the effects of gestational cannabis exposure!
Excited to announce our latest production! @jwvanryzin.bsky.social @aemarquardt.bsky.social @um-mind.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Timing matters: modeling the effects of gestational cannabis exposure on social behavior and microglia in the developing amygdala - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Timing matters: modeling the effects of gestational cannabis exposure on social behavior and microglia in the developing amygdala
www.nature.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
New paper from our group out in @npp-journal.bsky.social today on the effects of gestational cannabis exposure!
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
The Republican package would slash taxes, boost spending on immigration and the military, and impose steep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy funding.
www.nbcnews.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
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It's been an awesome start to my first @canacn.bsky.social meeting at the Neural Circuits and Behaviour* satellite #CAN2025
*Stress and astrocytes
Thanks @franklandlab.bsky.social @markcembrowski.bsky.social !
*Stress and astrocytes
Thanks @franklandlab.bsky.social @markcembrowski.bsky.social !
May 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It's been an awesome start to my first @canacn.bsky.social meeting at the Neural Circuits and Behaviour* satellite #CAN2025
*Stress and astrocytes
Thanks @franklandlab.bsky.social @markcembrowski.bsky.social !
*Stress and astrocytes
Thanks @franklandlab.bsky.social @markcembrowski.bsky.social !
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"Academics tend to be averse to discussing mental health openly, and higher education’s mental health safety net is patchy—a forgotten footnote that all too often fails its students." #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth scim.ag/4m61iaU
May 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"Academics tend to be averse to discussing mental health openly, and higher education’s mental health safety net is patchy—a forgotten footnote that all too often fails its students." #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth scim.ag/4m61iaU
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One more from human 🧠 for #FluorescenceFriday. I totally love seeing how these highly specialized cell populations in the hypothalamus just pop when labeled. Here - CRH 🟡, OXT 🔴 and SIM1 🟣 in paraventricular nucleus. Image credit to Svitlana Bach and Yufeng Du. 🧪🔬👩🔬
May 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
One more from human 🧠 for #FluorescenceFriday. I totally love seeing how these highly specialized cell populations in the hypothalamus just pop when labeled. Here - CRH 🟡, OXT 🔴 and SIM1 🟣 in paraventricular nucleus. Image credit to Svitlana Bach and Yufeng Du. 🧪🔬👩🔬
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Beyond grateful to everyone who has been part of this incredible journey 🩷✨
Tuesday we got to see @bonniee-leee.bsky.social transform into Dr.Bonnie Lee!! Many thanks to her committee, external examiner Kristen Zuloaga & university examiners Jessica Rosin and Wendy Robinson!!the second last UBC graduate student from the Galea lab to finish!! Thanks to UBC for the memories
March 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Beyond grateful to everyone who has been part of this incredible journey 🩷✨
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I thought we were “defending women”?
The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) has removed from its website all information on current funding opportunities and directs visitors not to finalize any applications.
Federal Office on Violence Against Women removes funding opportunities from website
The office, part of the Justice Department, is a key source of grants for nonprofits that work to help victims of domestic violence.
19thnews.org
February 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I thought we were “defending women”?
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Here’s my statement as Lead for @whrcluster.bsky.social on the importance of studying women’s health- (& the importance of within & across sex & gender investigations) for our best chance at precision medicine womenshealthresearchcluster.com/learn/womens...
Statement from Liisa Galea, Scientific Lead of the Women's Health Research Cluster - Women's Health Research Cluster
We are so proud to have over 800 members across 32 countries in the Women’s Health Research Cluster. Our Vision is to achieve sex and gender health equity, and we strive for a future where women...
womenshealthresearchcluster.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Here’s my statement as Lead for @whrcluster.bsky.social on the importance of studying women’s health- (& the importance of within & across sex & gender investigations) for our best chance at precision medicine womenshealthresearchcluster.com/learn/womens...
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WOMEN and FEMALE are red flag words. (Men, male are not on the list). Let that sink in.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
WOMEN and FEMALE are red flag words. (Men, male are not on the list). Let that sink in.
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This.
You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.
February 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This.