Ames Sutton Hickey
@specificames.bsky.social
Asst. Prof @ Temple Psych & Neuro. interests: neural circuits of food-related decision making, queer visibility, racial justice & π
www.theashlab.org
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Ames Sutton Hickey
@specificames.bsky.social
Β· Nov 15
The ASH Lab is headed to rainy San Diego! Drop by to see our work both tonight at the Early Career Poster Session and in Monday's poster sessions. See below for our lineup!
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Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are π₯ π
"Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
"Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 4, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are π₯ π
"Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
"Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I LOVE this!!!! ππππ
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I LOVE this!!!! ππππ
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Building a strong neuroscience community means actively supporting emerging researchers.
Tonightβs Early Career Poster Session offers the perfect opportunity to connect, encourage, & invest in the scientists who will carry the field forward.
Drop by! π sfn.org/ecps
#neurosky #SfN25
Tonightβs Early Career Poster Session offers the perfect opportunity to connect, encourage, & invest in the scientists who will carry the field forward.
Drop by! π sfn.org/ecps
#neurosky #SfN25
November 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Building a strong neuroscience community means actively supporting emerging researchers.
Tonightβs Early Career Poster Session offers the perfect opportunity to connect, encourage, & invest in the scientists who will carry the field forward.
Drop by! π sfn.org/ecps
#neurosky #SfN25
Tonightβs Early Career Poster Session offers the perfect opportunity to connect, encourage, & invest in the scientists who will carry the field forward.
Drop by! π sfn.org/ecps
#neurosky #SfN25
In the Monday PM session, postdoc @taymccork.bsky.social is updating y'all on our findings about dietary fat sources driving obesity (teaser: those plant-based diets are just as bad!) in the late-breaking posters (LBP171). π
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
In the Monday PM session, postdoc @taymccork.bsky.social is updating y'all on our findings about dietary fat sources driving obesity (teaser: those plant-based diets are just as bad!) in the late-breaking posters (LBP171). π
In the Monday AM poster session, PhD trainee Sushma Hegde will show sex-divergent baseline behavioral predictors to weight loss susceptibility in activity-based anorexia in the late-breaking posters (LBP144). π
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
In the Monday AM poster session, PhD trainee Sushma Hegde will show sex-divergent baseline behavioral predictors to weight loss susceptibility in activity-based anorexia in the late-breaking posters (LBP144). π
Tonight, MiNDS scholars Ava Bellino and Dami Adeyemi are demonstrate how we are leveraging SLEAP to quantify mouse behaviors across activity-based anorexia and food aversion paradigms, respectively. π
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Tonight, MiNDS scholars Ava Bellino and Dami Adeyemi are demonstrate how we are leveraging SLEAP to quantify mouse behaviors across activity-based anorexia and food aversion paradigms, respectively. π
The ASH Lab is headed to rainy San Diego! Drop by to see our work both tonight at the Early Career Poster Session and in Monday's poster sessions. See below for our lineup!
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The ASH Lab is headed to rainy San Diego! Drop by to see our work both tonight at the Early Career Poster Session and in Monday's poster sessions. See below for our lineup!
Reposted by Ames Sutton Hickey
Serotonergic modulation of the BNSTβCeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning in mice
@friedmanlaboratory.bsky.social, @beckyravenelle.bsky.social, @elikhtik.bsky.social, @neshaburghardt.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@friedmanlaboratory.bsky.social, @beckyravenelle.bsky.social, @elikhtik.bsky.social, @neshaburghardt.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Serotonergic modulation of the BNSTβCeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning - Nature Neuroscience
Ravenelle et al. show that systematically increasing serotonin has sex-specific effects on fear learning in mice. In females only, increasing serotonin in the BNST enhances fear memory by promoting co...
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Serotonergic modulation of the BNSTβCeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning in mice
@friedmanlaboratory.bsky.social, @beckyravenelle.bsky.social, @elikhtik.bsky.social, @neshaburghardt.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@friedmanlaboratory.bsky.social, @beckyravenelle.bsky.social, @elikhtik.bsky.social, @neshaburghardt.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Ames Sutton Hickey
Future of NIH in the hands of five senators.
Write to them if you are in
PA -McCormick
WV - Moore Capito
ME - Collins
AL - Britt
LA - Cassidy
Write to them if you are in
PA -McCormick
WV - Moore Capito
ME - Collins
AL - Britt
LA - Cassidy
July 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Future of NIH in the hands of five senators.
Write to them if you are in
PA -McCormick
WV - Moore Capito
ME - Collins
AL - Britt
LA - Cassidy
Write to them if you are in
PA -McCormick
WV - Moore Capito
ME - Collins
AL - Britt
LA - Cassidy
πππ
I donβt think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make whatβs happening now look like childβs play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make whatβs happening now look like childβs play. And people are disappearing.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
πππ
Reposted by Ames Sutton Hickey
πCelebrated @thefortylab.bsky.socialβs move to her assistant professor position at University of Michigan
I love β€οΈ this photo of Amelia with her mentees!
Sheβs had such a huge impact in the lab! We will miss her tons!! But weβre thrilled to see her in her new role π§ π§¬π¬
I love β€οΈ this photo of Amelia with her mentees!
Sheβs had such a huge impact in the lab! We will miss her tons!! But weβre thrilled to see her in her new role π§ π§¬π¬
June 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
πCelebrated @thefortylab.bsky.socialβs move to her assistant professor position at University of Michigan
I love β€οΈ this photo of Amelia with her mentees!
Sheβs had such a huge impact in the lab! We will miss her tons!! But weβre thrilled to see her in her new role π§ π§¬π¬
I love β€οΈ this photo of Amelia with her mentees!
Sheβs had such a huge impact in the lab! We will miss her tons!! But weβre thrilled to see her in her new role π§ π§¬π¬
Reposted by Ames Sutton Hickey
It is worth reminding every American today that the people who hid Anne Frank were outlaws. The people who sent her to die in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were law-abiding citizens.
It is hard to express enough how terrible today's decision is.
ICE will now send people to countries they've never been to or even heard of β Mexicans to South Sudan, Vietnamese to Libya, Venezuelans to Kosovo βand those people will have no right to challenge that decision.
ICE will now send people to countries they've never been to or even heard of β Mexicans to South Sudan, Vietnamese to Libya, Venezuelans to Kosovo βand those people will have no right to challenge that decision.
June 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It is worth reminding every American today that the people who hid Anne Frank were outlaws. The people who sent her to die in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were law-abiding citizens.
My Cers πππ
The 2024-25 Indiana Pacers forever. I don't know what else to say about that group. I'm going to miss watching them. One of the all-time gutsiest, most resilient basketball teams in NBA history.
June 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My Cers πππ
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This was a really fun project: We blocked obesity in mice by making them do a tiny bit of work for their food. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A simple action reduces high-fat diet intake and obesity in mice
Diets that are high in fat cause overeating and weight gain in multiple species of animals, suggesting that high dietary fat is sufficient to cause obβ¦
www.sciencedirect.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This was a really fun project: We blocked obesity in mice by making them do a tiny bit of work for their food. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is right: Trans and gender-expansive youth are not political pawns. Now, more than ever, we must show up for trans kids and their families.
June 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Reposted by Ames Sutton Hickey
Excited to share our latest paper led by Kuldeep Shrivastava out now in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Energy state guides reward seeking via an extended amygdala to lateral hypothalamus pathway - Nature Communications
The lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) mediates reward seeking. Here, the authors show how LHA afferent connections promote reward seeking by shaping synaptic strength according to energy state, processe...
www.nature.com
May 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Excited to share our latest paper led by Kuldeep Shrivastava out now in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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π«₯π«₯π«₯ ....yes.
May 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
π«₯π«₯π«₯ ....yes.
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We know βconversion therapyβ doesnβt work because many of us have been subjected to it and still bear the consequences of it today. We will not allow another generation of young LGBTQ+ people to bear this burden. Learn more: www.hrc.org/resources/th...
The Lies and Dangers of Efforts to Change Sexual Orientation orβ¦
"Reparative" or "conversion" therapy is a dangerous practice that targets LGBTQ youth and seeks to change their sexual or gender identities.
www.hrc.org
May 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We know βconversion therapyβ doesnβt work because many of us have been subjected to it and still bear the consequences of it today. We will not allow another generation of young LGBTQ+ people to bear this burden. Learn more: www.hrc.org/resources/th...
Somehow, in some way, it keeps hurting, more, and more, and more.
Lol. They released their 400 page US version of the Cass Review and refused to even name who the authors were. It's a glorified book report.
Anyway, this is out now y'all. I'll be looking it over today.
opa.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
Anyway, this is out now y'all. I'll be looking it over today.
opa.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
May 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Somehow, in some way, it keeps hurting, more, and more, and more.
WHAT that just blew my mind
April 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
WHAT that just blew my mind
The only vibes that matter these days are Ola on zoom call vibes.
April 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The only vibes that matter these days are Ola on zoom call vibes.
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WATCH: Dr. Kevin Hall is departing NIH after 21 years at his βdream job.β He says his research findings were being censored under RFK Jr.
"What is it going to be like if they want to start actually meddling in the research itself?"
April 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
WATCH: Dr. Kevin Hall is departing NIH after 21 years at his βdream job.β He says his research findings were being censored under RFK Jr.
"What is it going to be like if they want to start actually meddling in the research itself?"
Bummer - I am so sorry to hear this, Kevin. Thank you for standing up for your science and being such a wonderful mentor. Sending you strength!
April 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Bummer - I am so sorry to hear this, Kevin. Thank you for standing up for your science and being such a wonderful mentor. Sending you strength!
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The new Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism is officially hiring faculty at all levels! Come be my colleague!
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/248...
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/248...
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
The newly launched Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism (CNM), in collaboration with the Child Health Institute of New Jersey (CHINJ), the Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology (NCB), and the Rutg...
jobs.rutgers.edu
April 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The new Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism is officially hiring faculty at all levels! Come be my colleague!
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/248...
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/248...