Lucas Fowler (he/they)
@lucasffowler.bsky.social
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Graduate Student @ the Memorial University of Newfoundland (Swift-Gallant Neuro Lab) Naturalist & Inclusivity Advocate 🦉🏳️‍🌈 I study how the environment can impact neuroendocrine mechanisms, maternity, and offspring development 🧠🐁
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lucasffowler.bsky.social
Baby’s first, first-author publication! The work I led alongside my awesome co-authors is now published in Hormones & Behavior! This project kickstarted my Ph, and I will be expanding on these findings by investigating how plastic exposure can disrupt sexual differentiation in critical periods 🐁🧬
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gbosslet.bsky.social
The NIH prescribing what data points scientists can collect is not how science works now

Nor how it should work in the future

It is the political manipulation of science
stephaniemlee.bsky.social
SCOOP: The NIH is moving to prohibit funded scientists, inside and outside the agency, from collecting data about gender, according to a draft policy I obtained. It’s part of the NIH’s aggressive crackdown on gender-identity research. www.chronicle.com/article/gend...
Gender Data Would Be Off-Limits Under Proposed NIH Policy
A draft rule would bar scientists funded by the agency from collecting data about gender identity, following other steps the administration has taken to restrict research on LGBT topics.
www.chronicle.com
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ivancalcantara.bsky.social
How do animals decide if they should forage for food or stay home to take care of newborn offspring? Whose needs come first? For my PhD work now out in Nature, we examined how hunger and parenting neurons interact and are reshaped postpartum in mice 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A hypothalamic circuit that modulates feeding and parenting behaviours - Nature
Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of mouse hypothalamus and behavioural experiments show that specific hypothalamic networks regulate conflicting feeding versus parenting behaviours of female mice.
www.nature.com
lucasffowler.bsky.social
Better late than never… right? #SBN2025
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biotay.bsky.social
1/3 First evidence of anxiety in snails

They exhibit fear responses hours after the source of their anxiety is removed. These responses can be reduced with an anxiolytic, such as alprazolam. They have also demonstrated high-level learning.

(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
https://www.garnelio.de/spitzschlammschnecken-lymnaea-stagnalis
lucasffowler.bsky.social
Tell me about it! Especially when they are citing sources that don’t exist or don’t even support the claim! 🤦🏻‍♂️
lucasffowler.bsky.social
My first out-of-province conference! Looking forward to travelling to Vancouver and presenting my research on how environmental conditions can impact the brain and behaviour of mouse dams and their neonate pups, effecting the maternal-offspring dynamic! @sbn-bsky.bsky.social #SBN2025
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standupforscience.bsky.social
🚨HUGE SCIENCE WIN ALERT🚨

NIH Grants to be restored en masse!!! Thank you Judge Young for standing up for science!

#StandUpforScience
#SummerFightforScience
kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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munpsych.bsky.social
The CPA convention is happening this weekend!

For those attending, see this MUN-specific schedule so we can support our own students and faculty!
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munpsych.bsky.social
Join us for the next installment of our Sex and Gender Speaker Series, where we welcome Dr. Samar Rezq from the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Rezq will be discussing “The Role of Obesity in Androgen Excess-Mediated Renal Injury in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.”
lucasffowler.bsky.social
My new blog post for @memorialu.bsky.social graduate student blog discusses my perspectives as an early trainee in behavioural neuroendocrinology in a world where science (specifically that involving sex and gender) is being misconstrued and undermined.

Read it here: wp.mun.ca/studentblog/...
Against the Current: Building an Academic Career in Sex and Gender Science Today – my master plan
wp.mun.ca
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nature.com
Nature @nature.com · Apr 28
Universities must be frank about barriers to equity, devise clear metrics for what they are trying to achieve and measure progress transparently, says Keon West, visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

https://go.nature.com/3RF3qIW
Academia needs a more honest, scientific approach to DEI
Universities must be frank about barriers to equity, devise clear metrics for what they are trying to achieve and measure progress transparently.
go.nature.com
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munpsych.bsky.social
🎤🧠 Huge shoutout to our amazing grad students who shared their research at Research Day! So many thought-provoking ideas, meaningful questions, and cool projects in the works — such a great reminder of the passion and curiosity driving this field forward. Proud of all the work you’re doing! 🙌
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psyclelab.bsky.social
💬 New from the Psycle Lab!

Dr. Ashley Balsom’s latest op-ed in the MUN Gazette, “Infertility, Embryos, and EDI: Why Canada Must Take Medically Assisted Reproduction Seriously,” highlights how gaps in fertility care access reflect deeper equity issues in our health-care system.
Op-ed: Ashley Balsom
Infertility can affect anyone, but the ability to access reproductive care is anything but equal.
gazette.mun.ca
lucasffowler.bsky.social
Super cool!
stemfactually.com
This is the best paper I've read in years. Validating to see there's significant data to support that women do not return to "normal" after pregnancy as quickly as many doctors or medical resources say. I hope this changes guidance and support for women 🧪🥽👩‍🔬🧬🍎 #news
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Pregnancy and postpartum dynamics revealed by millions of lab tests
Analysis of 300,000 pregnancies shows detailed physiological changes at weekly resolution in health and complications.
www.science.org