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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · Jul 18

Job alert: We're looking for someone to help us produce a female-specific risk calculator for Alzheimer’s disease! 🧠 Key qualifications are experience w/ large databases, project management, and women's health research. See posting for more info: shorturl.at/zkO8V

Research Analyst - Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology-camh

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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · May 29

Always a good day when you get good news on funding. I am thrilled on many levels but also because I really believe in this call & the project! My eternal thanks to our group @mcgovernaj.bsky.social @matejaperovic.bsky.social @jennyrabin.bsky.social S Frangou L Gravelsins
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CARE Program Details | Wellcome Leap: Unconventional Projects. Funded at Scale.

NEW $50M Program in Women's Health care Cutting Alzheimer's Risk through EndocrinologyWe are pleased to announce the selected performers.Kaarin Anstey & Kristine Yaffe: University of South Wales...

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Sheila Shanmugan @sheilashanmugan.bsky.social · Apr 28

We’re hiring a clinical research coordinator to lead a neuroimaging study on brain changes across pregnancy and perinatal depression.

wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

Please RT.

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Mateja Perović @matejaperovic.bsky.social · May 4

New open access paper with @drmack.bsky.social! 🎉 The menstrual cycle has non-linear effects on pattern separation as measured by the mnemonic similarity task (MST). Perceived stress facilitates pattern separation performance independent of the menstrual cycle.
t.ly/k6Pul

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Matt Dougherty @matthewdougherty.bsky.social · Mar 30

Super excited to share the preprint we've been working on, "On a roll: Recent familiarity primes the brain to retrieve other memories via dopaminergic nuclei responses"! Check it out, and come see us at CNS if you're around this afternoon! drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...

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Mateja Perović @matejaperovic.bsky.social · Feb 28

Happy birthday!! 🎉

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Feb 11

GovWayBack.
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GovWayback
Access historical versions of U.S. government websites from before January 20, 2025 with a simple URL change.

How it works: Take any .gov URL and add wayback.com right after .gov, and you'll be redirected to the Wayback Machine's archived version of the page.
Examples:

Simple domain:
www.epa.gov → www.epa.govwayback.com

Specific page:
www.whitehouse.gov/administration → www.whitehouse.govwayback.com/administration

Complex URL:
www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2 → www.congress.govwayback.com/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2

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Bonnie Lee @bonniee-leee.bsky.social · Feb 11

New publication from my PhD research looking at influences of sex on brain health outcomes in a rodent model of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk 🎉: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Big thank you to the best co-authors, @liisagalea.bsky.social, Melike Cevizci, and Stephanie Lieblich 🙏

Sex-specific influences of APOEε4 genotype on hippocampal neurogenesis and progenitor cells in middle-aged rats - Biology of Sex Differences

Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) disproportionately and uniquely affects females, and these sex differences are further exacerbated by the presence of Apolipoprotein (APOE) ε4 alleles, the top gene...

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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · Feb 20

So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes

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 🧪🔬🧬 🏠

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Science Homecoming

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Rick Huganir @rhuganir.bsky.social · Feb 20

Reaching out to all Americans through the media to explain how decreasing funding of the NIH will have irreversible harm for developing therapies for all diseases. Please spread the word to your families and friends and contact your congressional representatives.
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research

Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.

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Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · Dec 27

Thrilled to share our latest work on the importance of considering social identities in brain imaging research, now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social.

rdcu.be/d4XWM

Visual highlighting how sociodemographic identities influence brain, behavior, and brain-behavior relationships.
Figure caption: key goal of research in the brain sciences is to capture relationships between the brain and behavior. When studying these brain–behavior relationships, it is crucial to recognize that sociodemographic factors, such as sex, gender, race, ethnicity, education, religion, spirituality, health, language, environment, age and socioeconomic status (among others), can independently and interdependently influence these reciprocal associations.

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Dec 17

V interesting study in @bmj.com
USA Taxi drivers & ambulance drivers are less likely to die of Alzheimer's disease than people of other professions

Links made to Eleanor Maguire's famous discovery that the posterior hippocampus of London taxi drivers was larger than controls.

My thoughts in🧵

Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Dec 17

Alzheimer’s disease deaths lowest among taxi and ambulance drivers. #BMJ

"Findings raise possibility that frequent spatial processing tasks might offer some protection against Alzheimer’s disease"

Fulltext:
press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/december....

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · Dec 2

#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀
Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to?

Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)!

Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9

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Amy Kuceyeski @amykooz.bsky.social · Nov 21

Only 0.5% of neuroscience research focuses on issues exclusive to the female body. Let’s be the change. 🧠💪

Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Nov 15

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX5u...

"What if...?"

YouTube video by Ann S. Bowers WBHI

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Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · Nov 22

Here is a starter pack with research tools for cognitive (neuro)science! This is still very preliminary, so please repost widely and let me know what else to add, so we can rebuild a helpful community over here!

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Mateja Perović @matejaperovic.bsky.social · Nov 22

Yes please 🙋🏻‍♀️

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Nov 21

So here is a starter pack of African scientists and researchers across disciplines. It will continue to grow as I find more people and more migrate to this platform but gotta start somewhere 😊.
go.bsky.app/GixA4xP

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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · Nov 21

A thread...
Lab’s latest at PLOS Comp Biol, led by
@carrisacocuzza.bsky.social: “Distributed network flows generate localized category selectivity in human visual cortex”. This one changed how I think the brain works! Even "localized" functions are likely generated by distributed processes [1/N]

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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · Nov 22

Here’s our new review lead by @rominagl4.bsky.social on the roller coaster of central & peripheral inflammatory signalling during pregnancy & the postpartum & it’s relation to psychiatric disease risk in short term & neurodegenerative in long term www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Inflammatory signalling during the perinatal period: Implications for short- and long-term disease risk

During pregnancy and the postpartum, there are dynamic fluctuations in steroid and peptide hormone levels as well as inflammatory signalling. These ch…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · Nov 11

(reposted 🧵 from the Bad Place)
My and @clearlab.bsky.social's Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones across the Menstrual Cycle (DASH-MC) framework was published in Mol Psychiatry! We aim to reshape how we study and treat #PMDD, #PME, and other forms of hormone sensitivity.
rdcu.be/dQYfU

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Tory Eisenlohr-Moul (CLEAR Lab) @clearlab.bsky.social · Nov 17

Nice review of progestogen effects on mental health— highlights the need for more well-designed experimental studies! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Progestagens and progesterone receptor modulation: Effects on the brain, mood, stress, and cognition in females

Progesterone is a highly lipophilic gonadal hormone that can influence behavior and mental health through its receptors in the brain. Fluctuations in …

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Dr. Rebecca Hirst @hirstrj.bsky.social · Nov 17

If this exists already.. I feel you can never have too many pet packs.

Please let me know if you'de like to join.

go.bsky.app/4TA4G8D

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Mateja Perović @matejaperovic.bsky.social · Nov 17

Would also love to be added 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️

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Mateja Perović @matejaperovic.bsky.social · Nov 17

@nikigervais.bsky.social would make a great addition to this pack!

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · Nov 16

Looking for people you used to follow on Twitter/X? The Sky Follower Bridge browser plugin (Chrome and Firefox) helps you easily transition to BlueSky!

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#AcademicSky

Sky Follower Bridge: Connect Your Twitter Follows to Bluesky

Sky Follower Bridge | Instantly find and follow your Twitter connections on Bluesky. Streamline your social network transition effortlessly.

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