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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · Aug 8

Serotonergic modulation of the BNST–CeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning in mice

@friedmanlaboratory.bsky.social, @beckyravenelle.bsky.social, @elikhtik.bsky.social, @neshaburghardt.bsky.social

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Serotonergic modulation of the BNST–CeA 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...

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Dr. Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · Jul 4

💔💔💔

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t 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 what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Debbie Bangasser @bangasserlab.bsky.social · Jun 30

🎉Celebrated @thefortylab.bsky.social’s move to her assistant professor position at University of Michigan

I love ❤️ this photo of Amelia with her mentees!

She’s had such a huge impact in the lab! We will miss her tons!! But we’re thrilled to see her in her new role 🧠🧬🔬

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Jun 23

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.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 23

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 — Mexicans to South Sudan, Vietnamese to Libya, Venezuelans to Kosovo —and those people will have no right to challenge that decision.

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · Jun 23

Uncle Reggie and Larry Legend are out here trying to help me beat my Pacers sadness today #NBAsky #Cers

Reggie Miller and Larry Bird figurines hanging from an office basketball hoop in Ames' office

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · Jun 23

My Cers 💔💔💔

Michael Pina @michaelvpina.bsky.social · Jun 23

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.

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Lex Kravitz @kravitzlab.com · Jun 19

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 ob…

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · Jun 18

💔😔🏳️‍⚧️

Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · Jun 18

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.

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Mark Rossi @markrossi.bsky.social · May 14

Excited to share our latest paper led by Kuldeep Shrivastava out now in @natcomms.nature.com
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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...

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · May 6

🫥🫥🫥 ....yes.

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · May 1

We know ‘conversion therapy’ doesn’t 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 or…

"Reparative" or "conversion" therapy is a dangerous practice that targets LGBTQ youth and seeks to change their sexual or gender identities.

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · May 1

Somehow, in some way, it keeps hurting, more, and more, and more.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · May 1

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.

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · Apr 27

WHAT that just blew my mind

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · Apr 18

The only vibes that matter these days are Ola on zoom call vibes.

Ames sitting on a zoom call on her back patio with her cat looking ahead in the same direction

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · Apr 18

WATCH: Dr. Kevin Hall is departing NIH after 21 years at his “dream job.” 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?"

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · Apr 18

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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Mark Rossi @markrossi.bsky.social · Apr 12

The new Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism is officially hiring faculty at all levels! Come be my colleague!

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...

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · Apr 9

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Apr 8

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist

"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · Apr 4

We are (sadly) replacing our wonderful research tech who is headed to grad school in the fall. If you, or anyone you know, may be interested, please consider applying! Please RT. @latinasinneuro.bsky.social @blackinneuro.bsky.social #LGBTQInNeuro

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Research Technician

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · Feb 2

I don’t know how it’s possible, but my heart keeps breaking. 💔🏳️‍⚧️ Sending love to my trans and queer community. Rest and recover, and then resist. 🚫

Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Feb 2

CDC censors papers submitted to journals. "Researchers instructed to remove references to forbidden terms [including] transgender, LGBT, non-binary, assigned [fe]male at birth" insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

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Claire Horner-Devine, PhD @chdcoaching.bsky.social · Jan 31

Program opportunity

Applications for the 2025 STEM Faculty Launch Program are open!

I don't have many of followers here (YET!), so please help me spread the word.

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · Jan 31

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · Jan 29

Vibes.

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Ames Sutton Hickey @specificames.bsky.social · Jan 26

A poem for now.

An image of a poem by Terrance Hayes titled “American Sonnet for the new year”

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